America, Can Someone Please Explain to Me.......

 Saturday, November 07/20

America, can someone please explain to me.....

How the presidential election results were not confirmed until today, four full days after the nation took to the polls to democratically elect a leader?

How is it that someone who:

• Started off his presidency by flat out lying about the turnout, vastly overstating the numbers, for his inauguration back in 2017;
• Told the world he was going to build a wall between the United States and Mexico and expect Mexico to pay for the said wall;
• Implemented an immigration policy that literally tore children away from their parents and, at last count, managed to lose the parents of almost 500 kids in the system to such an extent that they can't guarantee the ability to reunite these children with either a mother or father;
• Surrounded himself with family members who were completely unqualified to advise him with anything remotely resembling expertise - Yes, I'm referring to Ivanka, Jared, Donnie Jr, Eric, and the spouses and girlfriends to Donnie Jr. & Eric;
• Shut down the National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the United States in 2018;
• Claim the economy was roaring based solely on the rise of the Dow and S&P Indexes without ever realizing that a rising stock market does not impact citizens equally, that in fact, literally tens of millions of Americans don't earn enough to partake of the stock market;
• Claimed the previous president spent far too many days away from the White House golfing to end up actually playing more rounds of golf in his first two years in office than Obama did in his eight years;
• Argued the prior administration left his administration with empty cupboards in regards to PPE to use in battling the Covid19 pandemic when his team had over 3 years to rectify any shortfalls, if there were any to even begin with, so crying foul seems a little disingenuous to this blogger;
• Was the most racist president bar none to reside in the White House in the last 100 years;
• Claimed there were good people on both sides of a riot in Virginia protesting statues and buildings honoring Confederate leaders - how does being a racist make you a good person?;
• Defended the actions of 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse who drove from Antioch Illinois to Kenosha Wisconsin to exercise his right to bear arms, his attorneys' words, in the aftermath of the Jacob Blake shooting. Now for those of you not familiar with the geography of the midwest, that means our little hero drove across the state border to a community in which he had no legal claim;
• Ordered the use of federal officers from various departments to deploy to Portland, Oregon and use tactics reminiscent of the KGB in Moscow to snatch people off the streets if they thought they might be persons of interest to the ongoing civil unrest;
• Suggested he would be sending these federal officers to other cities if they did not get control over the people protesting, usually referring to them derisively as democratic cities, conveniently forgetting that few if any cities are 100% of any one particular political party.
• Ignored the civil unrest generated by the rash of police killings of black men over the span of several months, not once making a statement to try and reassure the people that he understood how they felt and would put the full might of the U.S. government behind finding out the causes, punishing the wrongdoers, and putting into play steps to make sure these kinds of things didn't happen again;
• Used his personal toady U.S. Attorney General William Barr to clear out lawfully protesting individuals in front of the White House so he could have a photo opportunity of himself holding a bible in front of St. John's Episcopal Church;
• Offering up non-medically proven treatments for Covid19, like taking an anti-malarial drug that was untested or even sanctioned by the FDA;
• Argued that if we just quit testing people for Covid19 we would see a decline in the number of reported cases - just because you don't test doesn't mean people aren't still getting sick, his analogy is like saying if I take the speedometer out of my car it'll mean I'm not going over the stated speed limit if I floor the gas pedal;
• Placed his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in charge of the White House Covid19 response task force, after arguing there was no pandemic, claiming it was caused by China in an attempt to destabilize the world. I'm still trying to understand how old JK was qualified to head such a critical task force given he has literally no background in infectious diseases or managing a supply chain for a pandemic;
• Claimed that his own recovery from a bout of Covid19 made him an expert in the disease and how to beat it, never mind his unconscionable action of dragging part of his secret service detail into a closed vehicle so he could drive around maskless and wave at his delusional fans;
• Mocked veterans as losers, refusing to visit a military Cemetary in France to honor marines killed in WWI because they were suckers for getting killed and laying the blame on the secret service, saying they nixed it due to poor weather for a helicopter sortie, ever hear of a thing called the car Donnie?
• And last but not least, did nothing while over 225,000 of his citizens died from the Covid19 pandemic, well he did claim it was a hoax, created by the media and left to frighten people away from voting for him. I think what frightened a lot of people away Donnie was the pictures of refrigerated trailers with corpses stacked inside from the people who were killed by your ineptitude. 

Explain to me how over 65+ million of you voted for this man?

I can honestly say that waking up Wednesday morning to see the election was still in doubt left me speechless, dumbfounded, angry, and dismayed.

America is supposed to stand for what is right in the world, to be a shining beacon of hope, held to a higher standard than the rest of the world.

Joe Biden has his work cut out for him in healing the wounds and rift generated by Donald Trump over the last four years, but I pray he succeeds for the alternative does not bear thinking.

Now before anyone accuses me of being a left-leaning socialist democrat, know this, I have been and continue to be a conservative, but I'm also a person who doesn't just blindly follow any idealogy, no, I ask questions and if the answers don't make sense or leave me with a feeling of unease, then I vote my conscience and not my party affiliation.

My name is Marcus and while this blog isn't really about being a single man, it still stands to be published as my goal has been, and shall continue to be, to get people to think about things.

Agree or disagree with me, I'm still willing to listen to you with an open mind and clear heart, so reach out to me at ooasm2018@gmail.com and let's have an honest discussion.