Middleboro Review 2: Trump accidentally tells the truth about his dumpster fire of a presidency

Monday, July 6, 2020

Trump accidentally tells the truth about his dumpster fire of a presidency

Trump accidentally tells the truth about his dumpster fire of a presidency
Oh my God, can you even imagine?

TRUMP: “We built the greatest economy in the history of the world, and we’re now doing it again, and I think we’ll do even better the second time than we did the first time, unless somebody comes along and says, ‘Let’s raise taxes on everybody.’ And they’re raising taxes not only on corporations — they’ll just go to another country, and they’ll do just fine — but they’re raising taxes on people and middle-income people and they’re losing jobs, so you can’t allow that to happen. That will be — all of this incredible job that we’ve done will go down like that. It will be a terrible, terrible sight. It might even be a 1929 situation. So you’ll have a chance at the greatest numbers in history. We’re almost there. We’re almost back to where we were from the standpoint of the stock market. Think of that. But you’ll have a crash like you’ve never seen before. If you put the wrong person in office, you’ll see things that you would not have believed are possible. They want to raise taxes, they want to raise regulations. A big part of what we’ve done is by cutting regulation. We’ve cut regulation more than any president in the history of our country.”

So how does one de-nuttify this much squirrel shit?

First and most obvious, “If you put the wrong person in office, you’ll see things that you would not have believed are possible.”

Uh, yeah. We know. Like I never thought I’d see an American president tear gas peaceful protesters so he could stand in front of a church with a Bible. Pure insanity. I never thought I’d see a president botch a crisis response so badly that the United States of America would become the joke of the planet. And I’ve got hard drives full of similar examples.

Secondly, not all regulations are bad, and they don’t necessarily hurt the economy. What they do is irritate the people who are forced to comply with them — people like Donald John Trump.

This regulation might have come in useful over the past few months, for example.

When President Trump took office in 2017, his team stopped work on new federal regulations that would have forced the health care industry to prepare for an airborne infectious disease pandemic such as COVID-19. That decision is documented in federal records reviewed by NPR.

"If that rule had gone into effect, then every hospital, every nursing home would essentially have to have a plan where they made sure they had enough respirators and they were prepared for this sort of pandemic," said David Michaels, who was head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration until January 2017.

But by all means, run as the small-government candidate during a health crisis that screams for big-government solutions.

Also, Trump did not build the greatest economy in the history of the world … or the country. Not even close. He didn’t even build the greatest economy in the history of the 21st century. That honor goes to Barack Obama. And the stock market has been propped up by financial illiterates (like Trump himself) and Wall Street shills who have banked on a V-shaped recovery forming as the coronavirus magically disappears. Not gonna happen.

Finally, with the economy already in tatters, Trump has been forced to dig deep for his scare tactics. Oh, no, we might have a second Great Depression! Unlike … whatever this is. And what will happen after that? The Nazis will return? White supremacy will resurge? The president will start throwing racial minorities in internment camps?

Impossible.
Neo-Nazi neighbor guns down Oklahoma woman for swiping his swastika banner
Alexander John Feaster liked to hang Nazi banners on his home in Hunter, Oklahoma, and shot a woman who tried to steal it.

Alexander John Feaster wasn’t terribly popular with his neighbors in Hunter, Oklahoma. An unrepentant neo-Nazi, he liked to decorate his home with bright red swastika banners, and would go out on the town dressed in full Nazi regalia, including the red armband.

Now he’s under arrest for shooting a 26-year-old woman who swiped one of those banners last weekend on a late-night dare. Feaster allegedly shot her four times with a rifle as she fled after having dropped the banner in his driveway.

After police arrested Feaster, they found a cache of 14 weapons and abundant ammunition in his home. Garfield County Sheriff Jody Helm told reporters the weapons were being examined with the help of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.

The woman had been attending a party across the street from Feaster’s home, and stole the flag at around 3 AM Sunday, June 28, but dropped it in the driveway because someone saw Feaster come out with a weapon in his hand.

“On the way back someone hollered gun,” Helm said. “She dropped the flag at the end of the driveway and shots were fired.”

The woman is reported to be in good condition at a local hospital.

“No one likes the flags hanging over there but there’s not much you can do about it,” a neighbor told News 9. “But I’m not going to judge anyone for trying to go take them down either.”

Another neighbor told KFOR-TV: “Nobody wants to look at them is the problem.”

A woman who was a friend of the victim and comforted her while aid arrived told the Enid News: "I feel like these flags are a disaster waiting to happen.”

Gail Harrison Welch has reportedly been an election commissioner in Mississippi for 20 years, in Jones County’s first district. This November’s historic elections will include votes cast on people like Mrs. Welch and her position as a commissioner. On Monday, Welch reportedly went to her social media account on Facebook and made quite the comment about getting out the vote—for white people. Her comment which was screenshot and passed around by many—a response to one of her friend’s posts—read: “[redacted name] I’m a [sic] Election Commissioner in Jones county. I’m concerned about voter registration in Mississippi. The blacks are having lots (of) events for voter registration. People in Mississippi have to get involved too. Thank you fir [sic] all you do.”

Needless to say, when these comments came to light, from an elected official in charge of overseeing the state’s voting, many people were furious. According to the Clarion Ledger, Mrs. Welch’s defense of this blatant bit of racism was that "We've always in the past had whites really participating in registering to vote. So many people don't seem to be concerned about (voting)," and that she hadn’t realized her message wasn’t private, and that "This was an error on my part." Maybe most importantly, after this defense, which is a reiteration of her racism, she explained that "I was just trying to strike a match under people and get them to vote—to get everybody to vote. This was not intended to be anything." Once again, she was trying to “strike a match under” white people. Just a reminder. So we are all clear here.

Mississippi already has a Jim Crow-era amendment to its Constitution that was literally created in order "to secure to the State of Mississippi 'white supremacy.'" And while its repeal may be imminent, white officials have been working to make sure that its desired effect still remains. Mrs. Gail’s opinion isn’t new. Instead of her standing up and yelling it at some VFW Hall in the 1950s or 1960s, she posted it on social media. Sen. Juan Barnett gave a very diplomatic statement to the Ledger, saying "I don't know if she is racist or not. But it's the just undertone and stuff of what people say that gives the illusion that that's what you are, based on what was said."

WDAM7 reports that the Jones County Circuit Clerk’s offie and the Board of Supervisors have been receiving tons of calls complaining about Welch’s comments, but that they lack the authority to do anything about it. Jones County Circuit Clerk Concetta Brooks told the news outlet that she has “no authority over her, no legal authority, no statutory, no law, anything that gives me the authority to reprimand her in any way.” The Board of Supervisors said they do not share Wlech’s opinions but explained that she is an elected official who does not report to them. WDAM also reached out Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson’s office, only to get a long reply saying that while they found Welch and other elections’ officials statements and actions “derogatory,” they had no legal authority.

You can see how a conservative living in Mississippi might feel frightened that white people don’t seem engaged with the electoral process. Mississippi is a state where almost half of its population is Black and yet, the status quo in Mississippi has meant anything but representing the interests of any of its Black citizens. Republican officials and other racists have historically depended on generations of white supremacy, poverty, incarceration, and state sanctioned violence against people of color, to control a state in the face of its citizens’ best interests.

This is the great irony of racism and White Supremacy. White officials and (mostly) Republican operatives trying to “strike a match,” are cheerleading racism and bigotry and fear in the hopes of getting white folks to vote against their best interests. Since 1954, when there was considerably more shared prosperity for white folks in places like Mississippi, groups like the Citizen’s Council, a white supremacist group, have come into and out of fashion, their sole purpose to unify white citizens in a fight against integration and a more true democratic society.

The status quo in the country, the one that has always benefited only white folks, has failed not only Black people and Latino people, and women, and the LGBTQ communities across the country, it has failed most everybody—even the frightened and bigoted white people who desperately try to support it.

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