Thread by @l78lancer

BUILD THE WALL

That’s something I though I’d never say. But with each passing day I believe in it more and more. Here’s why.

I never wanted Trump to be president. He didn’t earn it and
doesn’t deserve it. I still feel that way.

I despise him as a human because he is incorrigible, and I always will. Yet I could not afford for him to fail. Too much was at stake. And despite the accusations to the contrary from the rightwing, most Americans needed for him to succeed because too much was riding on him.

Nevertheless, he promptly and efficient proceeded to do just that and he failed in spectacular fashion.

It’s not that the degree or scope of his failure had to be so enormous. It didn’t. However, he succeeded in firing or forcing individuals to quit who would otherwise have been able to help. That ensured that his failure would be certain and absolute.

But he didn’t want help. Retribution, recriminations, and revenge are the order of the day every day. So, he is left with the dead weight of functionaries, flunkies, yes men, cheerleaders, and hanger-ons,...

...and conmen like him who covet closeness to power, influence, and whose only agenda is their own, not even his. Yet despite the magnitude of his continuous failures, his top priority and greatest concern is to search perpetually for others to blame.

But for a moment, let’s set aside his malevolence, malfeasance, mismanagement, failure of fiduciary responsibility, poor judgment, worse decision-making, impoverished intellect, nepotism, attention seeking, narcissism,...

...sexism, racism, ethnobigotry, innate cruelty, venality, vindictiveness, pettiness, bad behavior on the international stage, willingness to extort and manipulate allies, greed, and the maintenance of a corrupt and criminal enterprise for-profit run out of the Oval office.

The unchangeable reality is that the Trump presidency is built on a mountain of dead Americans that makes the unimaginable losses from Hurricane Maria look like a molehill. And that is not to minimize the victims in Puerto Rico.

On the contrary, they were the canaries in the coal mine and martyrs for the horror that was to come. And while people of good faith and shred humanity recognized the danger signals and shouted warnings about the danger of this presidency,...

Trump’s enablers were deaf and dumb to the message because they have been insulated in an impermeable shell that keeps out all unwanted information while they fleece the public and pillage the treasury.

They do this because they know Trump is too incompetent to do anything about it and too corrupt to care. It's as if they are digging for treasure on the train tracks and can't hear the express barrelling towards them, until now.

Suddenly it appears that the criminally incompetent juggernaut is having a collectiverecognition that they are coming to an end. That end will occur in November 2020. When it comes, a multitude of republican enablers, accessories, and coconspirators will be flushed out, too.

They sold their souls while they sold out their nation on a transactional basis to a hollow individual in an effort to achieve their petty, mercenary and power hungry ends.

However, for as much as I want and hope for justice, I can’t say that I'm confident that it will ever happen. In two successive administrations we saw where people should have gone to prison for torture, illegal activities in the justice department, and massive theft by banks...

...and financial institutions. But for political reasons that superseded governance no one went to prison.

However, because governance serves the people while politics serves itself, we have yet to see which of those institutions will win out and which has agency...

...to maintain our democracy.

But when I think about the trump presidency, I get an image of a man who stole a ship, threw the crew overboard, kept behind the stowaways and has run it into the rocks within distant site of land.

And while he still pretends to be in command of the sinking boat, deep inside he knows he never knew how to be the pilot, that no help is coming for him, and that he doesn’t know how to swim.

But he was too ashamed of his own inabilities and too weak to accept help from those who could.

When I see the confusion, panic, and the flop sweat terror at the inevitable doom for his presidency, somehow that is pleasing in a cathartic, righteous sort of way.

The knowledge that he can’t stand failure but has always been a failure and is built for nothing other than that will go with him to his grave.

So, while I hope for justice, I suspect that he is in for a perpetual fate that’s far heavier and darker than any court of law could impose. And, I can live with that.

So, with that in mind, when Trump’s presidential library is built, wherever it is located, directly across from it should be built a wall. That wall should contain the names of every person who died in Hurricane Maria,...

...who died or was separated from their family at the border, who died in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan as a result of poor decisions, dithering, and grandstanding, and every person in America who died from #coronavirus. It's Trump's legacy. He owns it.

That wall should be the monument to what Trump accomplished because his presidency was built on their lives that he and the republicans determined through politics were expendable. Trump always wanted a wall. That wall monument should be the epitaph to his failure and ineptitude.

Trump’s acolytes will always attempt to rewrite history. We
can’t let them. Therefore, that wall should be a physical maker in time, space
and history to forever remind future generations to never pass this way again.

So hell yes, build that wall.

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