By SJ Otto
As much as I wanted to ignore President Donald Trump and his
state of the union speech, I eventually had to look over the transcript and I
have had to comment on it.
To be fair, Ronald Reagan and both George Bushes held
political views that are almost identical to Trump's. They were just as
conservative and obnoxious. If there is one thing we can say for Trump, he
follows his precedent Republicans with out cluttering up the political landscape
with new ideas or original thoughts. Trump has none of that. Also with the new
modern Republican ideology, Richard
Nixon and Gerald Ford seem like flaming liberals compared to those other
presidents.
There is something obnoxious about Trump. Not only does he
hold on to a lot of bad policies and ideas, he is a crude, undignified brute.
I looked at a few highlights of his speech.
On Health care:
"We eliminated an especially
cruel tax that fell mostly on Americans making less than $50,000 a year -- forcing
them to pay tremendous penalties simply because they could not afford
government-ordered health plans. We repealed the core of disastrous Obamacare
-- the individual mandate is now gone."
This
man had a look of glee on his face when he gloated about killing the
"disastrous
Obamacare (AKA Affordable Care Act)." The reality is
that for the first time, many poor and working poor Americans had health care.
The didn't
have to worry about dying off early because they can't just go to the
doctor when they are sick. Obamacare was inadequate, but it was better than
nothing. So Trump is bragging that he cost many working Americans their health
care. They had it for a while and now they will die early because they have inadequate
health care. It is almost like listening
to Jack the Ripper
brag about killing women.
Originally Trump and company said they would "repeal
and replace." The replacement never came. Trump and his buddies lied.
On his tax cuts:
" Since we
passed tax cuts, roughly 3 million workers have already gotten tax cut bonuses
-- many of them thousands of dollars per worker. Apple has just announced it
plans to invest a total of $350 billion in America , and hire another 20,000
workers.
This is our new American moment.
There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream."
He is proud of his new tax cuts. He and his supporters brag
about these cuts when ever possible. But these cuts went mostly to the people
at the top of the political ladder. It is wonderful for the 1 percent of Americans
who own almost half the country's wealth. Those folks came off like bandits.
But middle class workers got a temporary tax cut. Many
people at the bottom of the economy actually lost deductions and their
taxes will go up. This is typical of the Republicans over the last 40 years
today as they seem to take and take and take benefits from poor people. As with
many of their policies they seem to want to punish people for being poor.
On the "me
too" movement:
Trump was strangely silent on the women
who have come forward to complain of sexual harassment. That is not
surprising since he was accused of sexual harassment while he was running for
president. It is as if being president protects a man from being held accountable
for his wrong doings.
On foreign affairs:
" When the
people of Iran
rose up against the crimes of their corrupt dictatorship, I did not stay
silent. America stands with
the people of Iran
in their courageous struggle for freedom.
I am asking the Congress to address
the fundamental flaws in the terrible Iran nuclear deal.
My Administration has also imposed
tough sanctions on the communist and socialist dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela .
But no regime has oppressed its own
citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea .
We are waging a campaign of maximum
pressure to prevent that from happening.
Past experience has taught us that
complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. I will not
repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this dangerous
position.
We need only look at the depraved
character of the North Korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear
threat it could pose to America
and our allies."
He
accused Venezuela of
being communist. That shows us how ignorant he is politically. That country
has an elected socialist, not a communist. The system has not radically changed
that much, it has simply gone to the left. Trump and the Republican Party
equate any kind of leftist leaders, elected nor not, to be a communist dictatorship.
He has almost been obsessed with North
Korea (AKA Democratic People's Republic of Korea ).
His latest antics are very dangerous and just plain reckless. According to Business
Insider:
"Both The Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal have reported that President
Donald Trump's administration is weighing a "bloody nose" strike designed to batter and humiliate
North Korea as it illegally advances its weapons programs. The strategy calls
for a limited strike on North
Korea in response to a provocation like a
missile or nuclear test."
What could be more dangerous than launching a military
attack on a nation that can launch a nuclear attack on the US or an ally such as South
Korea or Japan ?
The world should be terrified. This is the same Donald Trump he authorized
military aid to Saudi
Arabia, one of the world least democratic governments- an absolute
monarchy.
"So today, I am keeping another
promise. I just signed an order directing Secretary Mattis to reexamine our
military detention policy and to keep open the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay .
I am also asking the Congress to
ensure that, in the fight against ISIS and
al-Qa'ida, we continue to have all necessary power to detain terrorists --
wherever we chase them down.
Our warriors in Afghanistan
also have new rules of engagement. Along with their heroic Afghan partners, our
military is no longer undermined by artificial timelines, and we no longer tell
our enemies our plans."
Another part of his foreign affairs agenda is his plan to
throw out all vestiges of civilization and all rights to prisoners of war,
especially at Guantánamo Bay ,
Cuba .
Torture and mistreatment are the modern rule of US imperialism. No more caring
about the rightist of prisoners or the accused. Trump is a brute and this
attitude proves it. There may be one problem for him. In the war against ISIS , Iraqi troops don't take prisoners. They execute
them after they surrender. Where is Trump going to get any prisoners?
As I said before, I'd rather not hear from that obnoxious President
Donald Trump. He is one of those far-far-far-far-far to the right presidents.
He is clearly a punk for the wealthy elites who rule the US . He has served
them well. He has destroyed life for the poorer Americans. The economy may be
picking up, but I already have a job. I need health insurance. Trump is an
enemy of the working people. And on top of that, he seems to relish it when his
opponents get screwed over. Few people are as despicable as Donald Trump.
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