Dear President Trump, I’ve got at least one more letter coming about your plan to allow healthcare providers to discriminate against LGBT people and those needing abortion care, but today I want to focus on the Davos conference. This lofty gathering includes our most influential business leaders, politicians, and thinkers who annually address the world’s … Continue reading Darling of Davos
Baggage
Dear President Trump, Since I was a little girl my mom has frequently gotten frustrated with me because I tend to jump into a conversation in the middle of whatever topic is at hand, forgetting that the person I’m talking with isn’t in my head and privy to all my background thoughts about whatever it … Continue reading Baggage
In the eye of the beholder
Dear President Trump, Lately I’ve been a bit all over the place, one day accusing you all of prideful incompetence and the next lamenting at how effectively you’ve installed stunningly conservative federal judges and dismantled key environmental and consumer safeguards. I do think both extremes fairly represent your administration, though the former likely serves as … Continue reading In the eye of the beholder
The Lure of Complicity Lane
Dear President Trump, I thought I’d share a conversation with you that I had the other day with a straight, white, male, cisgender colleague that I don’t think would have happened had you not been elected president. We were talking about some issues pertaining to inviting an outside consultant to work with him on a … Continue reading The Lure of Complicity Lane
“Kick the Can”
Dear President Trump, Writing to you every day has inspired me to look into so very many random, obscure things and today is no exception as I just learned about the likely origins of “kick the can down the road.” I went after the basic phrase “kick the can” in Google to see what I … Continue reading “Kick the Can”
A plague on us all
Dear President Trump, At this point, if the cameras hadn’t been rolling on January 9th no one would believe you ever talked about a “love bill” for the Dreamers. When I heard the recording of the outgoing message on the White House contact line blaming the Democrats for the government shutdown and claiming it’s because … Continue reading A plague on us all
Prideful Incompetence
Dear President Trump, Well, here we all are with the government officially shutdown. There are obviously significant differences between the camps that aren’t easily bridged, but I don’t think we are shutdown because of them. No, I think the shutdown is because of prideful incompetence. Maybe this is part of some grand plan to further … Continue reading Prideful Incompetence
Anniversary Present
Dear President Trump, I had a really hard time concentrating today and had to force myself to focus and resist checking the news. It helped to remind myself that me checking the WP obsessively was not going to influence whether there is a government shutdown one tiny iota. I know, though, that I’m fortunate to … Continue reading Anniversary Present
Angry Tears
Dear President Trump, I’m going to pivot away from current events this morning because the landscape will likely have shifted so much by this evening that whatever I focus on now will be irrelevant. You must be driving everyone in congress completely crazy, messing with them like a cat does a mouse, pretending they should … Continue reading Angry Tears
A Positive Campaign
Dear President Trump, Do you know who Patty Schachtner is? I didn’t until this morning when the WP ran an article about how she just won a seat for the Democrats in the Wisconsin 10th District State Senate special election. Key here is that you won in that District (dang, I just typed “Distract”…) by … Continue reading A Positive Campaign
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