Dear President Trump, Today seems like a good day to start with a blessing; May you be safe. May you be happy. May you be healthy. May your life unfold and intersect peacefully. We've all known it was coming but having Director Comey definitively say that the FBI is investigating whether your campaign worked with … Continue reading It won’t work to just impeach you and install Pence
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Your hypocrisy is a craven wonder
Dear President Trump, I'm guessing you are having a tough day today waging damage control efforts in response to the FBI/NSA congressional testimony. Must be tough hearing there were no wiretaps on you while there is an ongoing investigation of Russia's election tampering and an ongoing investigation into whether your campaign collaborated with Russia in … Continue reading Your hypocrisy is a craven wonder
Your karma needs all the help it can get
Dear President Trump, I think others have tried to explain how you use fake news to us before, but it wasn't until I was puzzling (again) over the apparently irrational and stupid claim that the British secret service was involved in wiretapping you that I finally understood what you are doing. Basically, no matter how … Continue reading Your karma needs all the help it can get
Ordinary is inordinately confusing
Good morning President Trump, Just over 20 years ago when we drove home from the hospital without our son, I was ill and devastated, and struck by the ordinariness I was seeing. The sun was shining, traffic was moving, people were going about their business. The juxtaposition was confusing and felt insanely unfair and wrong. … Continue reading Ordinary is inordinately confusing
Negative attention is attention
(reconstructed since I accidentally sent it without copying it) Dear President Trump, You may be familiar with the standard parenting reminder that even negative attention is attention and attention reinforces behavior. I bring this up because you are getting a lot of attention for negative behavior and I am adding to it. Yet, like the … Continue reading Negative attention is attention
Russian shadows
Dear President Trump, I've said much the same thing before but it bears repeating; I'm tired of lurching from one crazy disastrous thing to the next that you and your administration are doing or saying each morning and then again each evening. There was a bit of a reprieve on Tuesday when it seemed like … Continue reading Russian shadows