Dear President Trump, It was a mistake, I know. I’ve advised my patients to stop watching/reading/listening to news well before bedtime for years and years, long before this unhealthy mono-news diet featuring all you, all the time. But last night after the last dog walk at the tail end of the day, I took one … Continue reading Campaign tactic: spewing racist hate
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A sign
Dear President Trump, Laura is so good to me. During the after lunch lull as we were each trying to motivate ourselves for the afternoon’s activities, she turned to me and said “Do you want to make an “Impeach” poster? We have some poster board in the basement and lots of duct tape. We can … Continue reading A sign
A good-ish day for the US
Dear President Trump, Not such a great day for you and yours, was it? Between Acosta stepping down (voluntarily, my ass!) and you calling ‘Uncle’ on the census citizenship question, it was a banner day for the US, relatively speaking. I’m sure you piled on dozens more nefarious, crappy things today to undermine the environment, … Continue reading A good-ish day for the US
The weight of the world is heavy indeed
Dear President Trump, This morning I read a piece in the HP, which led me to another in the WP, and I’ve been thinking about the pair of them off and on all day. The headline of the HP article is incredibly provocative: “Ocasio-Cortez Aide Calls Democratic Party ‘Cowardice’ The ‘Greatest Threat To Mankind.’” Corbin … Continue reading The weight of the world is heavy indeed
Ramming ramparts, airports, and Article 25
Dear President Trump, It appears we both had very long nights last night. I know mine was long because I lived it. We were awake until well after 2am because that’s when the wildly illegal fireworks finally stopped and our poor dogs could settle down. The firework situation here was off the hook out of … Continue reading Ramming ramparts, airports, and Article 25
Buffalo bone china and moon toddlers
Dear President Trump, I would wish you a Happy Independence Day, but it would be absurd to do so under the circumstances. We are anything but independent with you, our POTUS (and who knows how many GOP Congress people, Governors, State Legislators, etc.), having been installed with a hefty assist by an adversarial foreign government … Continue reading Buffalo bone china and moon toddlers
The dictator-magnet
Dear President Trump, You and Kim Jong Un have been doing some serious fawning over each other lately, touting your terrific relationship and how it’s bound to lead to wonderful things (or the more syllabically manageable “very good things” that you offered). Here are a couple of highlights I pulled out of the WP yesterday: … Continue reading The dictator-magnet
Plausible ignorance
Dear President Trump, I just looked up “plausible deniability” again because I can’t keep the concept straight in my head and wanted to see if it might be a way of understanding what you said the other day about happily taking opposition information from foreign sources. It isn’t. It almost certainly does apply to other … Continue reading Plausible ignorance
Time is critical here
Dear President Trump, The other day I wrote in reference to you: “We’ve got to focus on damage control, removal, and renewal and we can’t do all this incredibly hard work if we exhaust ourselves worrying about dumb shit.” I still think this is correct, but after further consideration I’ve come to the conclusion that … Continue reading Time is critical here
Damage control, removal, and renewal
Dear President Trump, While Laura appreciated me sending you the suggestion that you resign for her birthday, she would have been much happier had you actually done it. In fact, there would be rejoicing the world round if you and your illegitimate lackeys were to slink off with your tails tucked. So how about it? … Continue reading Damage control, removal, and renewal