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Good luck with Trump

What is wrong with President Barack Obama? I’m left here watching what is happening in Standing Rock knowing that he holds the power in his hands to stop the use of military-grade weaponry against unarmed civilians. He has no political capital left to worry about. The only rational conclusion one can come to is to realize that Obama is and has been a corrupt warmongering villain who out Bush-doctrined George W. Bush and turned the Patriot Act into a parking ticket compared to the level of constitutional offense against civil liberty that his NSA was revealed to have become. Your insurance premiums are going up because your good buddy Obama took a Heritage Foundation response to Hillarycare in the 90s and made that the progressive answer to our health care crisis. I guess that’s why you really shouldn’t let paid lobbyists write legislation.

I would act surprised, but should we really be shocked that a man who gave Warren Buffet the Medal of Freedom is now embarrassingly silent as treaties are wantonly violated in the name of corporate profit?

Let’s see: Five wars, bombing seven countries; torture of whistle blowers; record weapons deals to known state sponsors of terror; backing of a Honduran coup committing native genocide; assassinating Qaddafi and destabilizing an entire region so that nations we send foreign aid to, and sell weapons to, can use those resources to fund a mercenary army of jihadists to start a civil war and give us the excuse we need to install a government friendly to the multinational oil corporations that want to build two pipelines through Syria; deporting more people than Bush; failure to relax federal marijuana laws regardless of empirical data to support such action; rescuing an economy that has further enriched the people who wrecked our economy as he tries to ram through the worst trade deal since NAFTA while the middle class erodes into poverty; effectively discarding habeas corpus.

Before this, we had Bush 2.

Let’s see: No Child Left Behind dropped as a bomb on our education system; Patriot Act … (do I really need to explain this one?); the greatest foreign policy blunder in modern history that was the Iraq war, also known as international war crimes; caught manufacturing evidence for the aforementioned illegal war; lying to children about knowing how to read while 9/11 happened.

Oh, those wonderful Clinton years: NAFTA; a crime bill that decimated minority communities and began an era of mass incarceration; helping Republicans gut welfare; Bosnian snipers; no, I don’t care about his sex life; repealing Glass-Steagall so Wall Street could turn the economy into a roulette wheel where the house never loses (also brought to you by Republicans); deregulation of the FCC leading to an oligopoly of our corporate- owned media; Janet Reno.

I’ll skip to Reagan, because Bush 1 was just a bad sequel: Iran-contra; trickle-down and calling it rain economics; the savings and loan scandal; turning the war on drugs into a full-scale war on the poor that humbles the opium wars by comparison; property can now commit crimes. (Hey, if corporations can be people, why not?); we defeated another world super-villain and turned war for profit into “spreading democracy.”

I’ve painted a road map here for you to follow so that you might, by chance, read all this and realize you’re being screwed over by a government that no longer represents you and is run by corporate puppets that are owned by the psychopaths destroying the planet for their own greed. Oh, and if you think Trump is your buddy, you can easily Google images of him palling it up with the Clintons.

As George Carlin once said, “It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.” Good luck with Trump, Republicans. You just elected the same brand of change Democrats did eight years ago. You just don’t know it yet.

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