Widespread protests against the Trump Inauguration are growing day by day.
No significant entertainers are willing to perform at his inauguration in Washington DC on Friday, January 20, 2017.
The Rockettes are divided over performance, with some dancers refusing to do so, although under pressure to follow orders.
Some members of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir are also reluctant to sing for the incoming President, on moral and ethical grounds.
This is all perfectly understandable, as many see performing for Trump as equivalent of performing for Adolf Hitler, right or wrong.
The fact that Trump consorts with other dictators, including Vladimir Putin of Russia, and the leaders of such nations as Turkey, and the Philippines, and even has had praise for North Korea’s leader Kim Jon Un as a “strong leader”, is indeed alarming.
One gets the feeling that Trump’s willingness to ignore security information that shows Russia hacked our election process, and therefore helped Donald Trump, and seems to be engaged in a “bromance” with Putin disgusts and alarms millions of Americans, does not phase him one bit.
The Republican Party is starting to split with Trump on this, with Senator John McCain calling for hearings on Thursday, January 5.
So there are fireworks ahead, and it is expected that there will be widespread protests against Trump centered around Inauguration Day, totally appropriate freedom of assembly and nonviolent civil disobedience, and it is all a harbinger of the next four years!
So we can wish for a Happy New Year 2017, but there are warning signs ahead of a very difficult, tumultuous year!
Many voters are lamenting, of course,
With thoughts of buyers remorse,
We think of an ass of a horse,
With the power that he holds and the force
He’s holding what he thinks is our fate,
With his phony claim of mandate,
It may seem too awkward and late,
To bow out of this blind date
You’re darn tootin’
He loves that guy Putin
But it won’t be long before he’s shootin’
Our lost liberties-we’ll be hootin’
I like your poetry, Paul, but this is, of course, not a laughing matter.
Thanks, however, and Happy New Year to you!
It is not a laughing matter, Professor.
But, the fact we have two other branches of government to fight this nimrod-and John McCain is a prime example -makes me still feel that this megalomaniac will be more than “trumped” in his efforts.
As the days count down after January 20th, more and more will claim that they didn’t vote for him. THAT, will be the laughing matter.
You are correct, and it is clear to me that McCain, Lindsey Graham, Marco Rubio, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and a few others, most of which I listed in an entry in the last couple of weeks, WILL step up, and if they do, a lot of the Trump nominees will be defeated in cooperation with Democrats.
Watch Trump go nuts when that happens, and I can sense the kind of battleground of two other Presidents who were not elected (just as I feel Trump was not elected in reality)–namely John Tyler 1841-1845 and Andrew Johnson 1865-1869, who were in constant war with the party they ran on–neither a Whig in Tyler’s case, or a Republican in Johnson’s case, and Trump, of course, not really a Republican, and having only 46 percent of the vote in a multi candidate race with only two people having electoral votes–not true of JQ Adams, Lincoln, Wilson, Clinton, Nixon or Buchanan, all who had lower percentage, as I wrote about in an entry, but each having a third and or fourth candidate getting electoral votes that affected the race!