by NoahFor decades now, Republicans have campaigned on their hate for government and gullible, foolish, and willfully ignorant voters have supported them by voting against their own best interests time and time again. Now, the chickens have come home to roost like a bloody scene from The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock. Despite any laughable claims about giving a damn, under Trump their wet dreams are coming true as they rub their hands in a frenzied state of sociopathic glee.
• Air traffic controllers are calling in sick or getting dangerously fatigued by having to get a second job. Those who are on the job are not only exhausted but are being increasingly distracted by the growing financial problems of their families. What could go wrong?• The TSA staff is increasingly short-handed. Waits at airports are beyond absurd and the chances of a bad guy getting on a plane are growing every day.• Citizens being told to hold garage sales, sell their belongings on ebay, sell the wife's car... Hey, why not sell one of your kids, too! China does it! Now that's what I call pro-life!• The Homeland Security Department is understaffed as our alertness heads down to pre-9/11 levels.• Trials delayed depriving defendants of due process. Hey, the Constitution is just a piece of paper to people like Trump and Pence. Toilet paper.• Courts are in chaos, endangering us all. What else would you expect from a president and party who hate the rules of law and human decency.• Witnesses against a wannabe dictator mobster-style president are being intimidated. What's next? Mysterious car crashes? Fire-bombings?• Natural disaster readiness is being strangled even more than usual.• FBI Investigations and the surveillance programs of possible terrorists are being hindered and delayed.• Carcinogens being dumped into our waters at an ever-increasing rate. No one's watching. Now, that's what I call deregulation!• Food supplies are being endangered. Salmonella and e.coli in every pot!• Federal workers going to food banks and homeless shelters. Let them eat soup!• Organized crime and street gangs having a field day.• Watching the Trump White House is like watching an episode of AMC's The Mob's Greatest Hits live and in color (with a decidedly orange tint).• Our economic growth is being pounded into dust. The rich see recessions as a great time to buy cheap.• Citizens being told by Trump family members that the forced hunger of their children is worth a mentally ill president's agenda.• Citizens being told by Trump administration officials to take out loans that will increase their debt and bring profit to laughing banksters.• Citizens being forced to choose between their chemo treatments and their rent payments.• Citizens being evicted from their homes; in the dead of winter, no less.• Trump planning on continuing his I Hate Americans Shutdown into at least March. It's just a big vacation anyway.
All of the above and more is horrendous enough. Trump and his henchmen are playing with real fire. They are a living, breathing attack on America; enabled, endorsed and supported by international adversaries and fanatical Trump voters. If/when an even more horrendous reality hits us because of the Trump Shutdown, remember the man, who took Russian money and buried news of their cyber attacks on the 2016 election. He is pictured above. He is Trump's Number One Henchman and the best $enate Majority Leader Russia, and China, have ever had.