Disgruntled delusional Trumputin fanboys (such as your recent correspondent from Great Neck) just can’t get over the fact that Joe Biden (not MY first choice, by the way) and the Democrats have, despite the best efforts at total obstruction by the Trumputin insurrectionists, managed to repair a great deal of the damage done to our nation by the criminal Trumputin regime.
Apparently, content to be a slave to the fossil-fuel global market, the Trumputin fanboy base bemoans the cancellation of the misbegotten, ill-conceived Keystone pipeline and the temporary jobs it may have created. The path to freedom from the tyranny of the global fossil-fuel industry is through the rapid implementation of alternative, renewable, energy sources on a smart grid, not “drill-baby-drill!”
Babies-in-cages might seem like a cure for our border issue to the Trumputin fanboy base, but the demonstrated cruelty of separating families was unforgivable and accomplished very little if anything in reducing the immigration pressure at our southern border. A more rational approach would have been to address the social and economic conditions that create the migrant “crisis.”
Trumputin’s silly steel wall, wherever it was actually built, was easily cut and penetrated by migrants. The FACTS are that immigrants of ALL varieties commit less crime than non-immigrants, but facts are problematical for the Trumputin base. Babies-in-cages are still apparently more satisfying to the Trumputin fanboy psyche than a real solution. By the way, some of those “Help-Wanted” signs for entry-level jobs that might have been filled by aspiring legally processed migrants who are subject to the same Covid protocols as everyone else, there’s a connection.
Which brings us to inflation. The absolute ignorance and malfeasance of the Trumputin regime in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic (the Trumplican Pandemic) brought our economy to its knees. Russia and China poisoned our social media with anti-vax conspiracy theories in an attempt to level the playing field with their own, significantly less-effective, vaccines, lest we be more successful than they were/are in combating the virus. The resulting global dislocations to the supply-chain and the production of goods and services laid the groundwork for inflation.
Prices were depressed. Gas prices were especially depressed, due to the lack of demand because of the pandemic. That there would be inflation as the economy came back did not take a crystal ball to predict. This has, of course, been aggravated by the vicious Trumputin invasion of Ukraine and the necessity to progressively ratchet-up sanctions, including those on oil and gas. The continued lockdowns in China (remember, poor-performing vaccines) continue the inflationary pressure on the supply chain. Despite inflation, as well as supply-chain and labor supply issues (see above), the economy is healthy and vibrant!
Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, passed by Democrats, the economic wounds caused by the Trumplican Pandemic are healing (albeit slowly due to Trumplican obstruction). As we recover from the economic crisis, corporate bottom lines are getting healthier. Job growth month by month has far exceeded any growth during the disgraced Trumputin regime, wages are up, and unemployment is at historic lows! Perfect? No. Uneven, yes, but it represents an historic recovery from the mess that Trumputin left us in.
The disgraced ex-president set the stage for the butchery in Ukraine with his abject subservience as he received his marching orders in Helsinki. Those orders were to dismantle NATO and disable any potential Ukrainian resistance. Trumputin felt no compunction in trying to extort President Zelenskyy. Fortunately, President Joe Biden, an experienced and respected international figure, was able to repair and restore the alliance in time to support Ukraine in its valiant resistance to Russian butchery. It was Trumputin who stood by silently while his “Good Friend President Xi” was turning sand pits in the South Chine Sea into heavily armed naval-aviation bases. His other “bestie,” his pen-pal in North Korea, was at the same time perfecting his nukes and missile delivery systems.
It was also the disgraced ex-president who set the timeline for the Afghanistan withdrawal, which resulted in the unexpectedly rapid collapse of the Afghan regime. Biden administration defense officials were fortunately able to render useless the advanced military equipment that Trumputin planned to leave there for the clearly collapsing regime.
All this corruption and incompetence came to a head with the Big Lie and the attempted coup. We are indeed fortunate that the utter incompetence of Trumputin extended to his ability to stage a successful coup. We must, however, remain vigilant, as the Neo-Fascist Trumputin personality cult remains as a toxin to the body politic, be it in the form of a Cotton, a Cruz, a Hawley, or a DeSantis.
Eric Cashdan
Sands Point
