President46

On the eve of the inauguration of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States, one can’t help but wonder about these last four years. Like the whole time, could there have a been a worse person to be the leader of the US? And can you imagine how much we regressed as a society? Not to mention the untold hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive with a person who actually cared.

Well, Joe Biden cares. He is not a black-hearted, ugly person like Donald Trump. It is a low bar to clear to be more decent than Trump, but I think Biden will. He’s already shown too much sympathy for the other side.

Perhaps, all the fears of the right should be realized. We do need a healthy dose of socialism around here. Let’s start today.

One final “FUCK OFF” for Donald Trump. Let’s not hear about that guy until the day he dies.

Are we still there?

So President Fucktard had his State of the Union Speech last night. I didn’t watch or read it. It would just make my blood boil. All I can think about is that we are left with 2 more years of this fuck. And we’ll still be in Iraq.

What was it he said in the 2000 presidential debates?

MODERATOR: New question. How would you go about as president deciding when it was in the national interest to use U.S. force, generally?

BUSH: Well, if it’s in our vital national interest, and that means whether our territory is threatened or people could be harmed, whether or not the alliances are — our defense alliances are threatened, whether or not our friends in the Middle East are threatened. That would be a time to seriously consider the use of force. Secondly, whether or not the mission was clear. Whether or not it was a clear understanding as to what the mission would be. Thirdly, whether or not we were prepared and trained to win. Whether or not our forces were of high morale and high standing and well-equipped. And finally, whether or not there was an exit strategy. I would take the use of force very seriously. I would be guarded in my approach. I don’t think we can be all things to all people in the world. I think we’ve got to be very careful when we commit our troops. The vice president and I have a disagreement about the use of troops. He believes in nation building. I would be very careful about using our troops as nation builders. I believe the role of the military is to fight and win war and therefore prevent war from happening in the first place. So I would take my responsibility seriously.

(Bold italics mine)

Read it and weep. He’ll use it to fight a war, but when it comes time for peacekeeping missions, not so much. The fucktard can say all he wants, but everyone should’ve known that he would never have been serious about putting a nation back together again. And he did it twice.

He viewed peacekeeping as an inessential aspect of our military. We can blow it up real good, but someone else should clean the mess up. And that is why we’re here today. And will be there tomorrow and the next.

His exit strategy was always blow it up and leave. Why do you think he abandoned the Afghanistan front quickly? And why do you think he pushed quickly through to Baghdad? To get it over and done. “Mission Accomplished?” Yes, since his mission was to break stuff and leave.

That’s all you really needed to have read before the war — his anathema to securing the peace straight from the horse’s mouth. To believe that he would be able to create a stable, democratic state in the middle east is to believe a lie. This fucktard president has always been lying to us. Presidents have been impeached for those kind of shenanigans.

He goes on later in his rebuttal of VP Gore:

BUSH: (snip)… If we don’t have a clear vision of the military, if we don’t stop extending our troops all around the world and nation building missions, then we’re going to have a serious problem coming down the road, and I’m going to prevent that. I’m going to rebuild our military power. It’s one of the major priorities of my administration.

He’s destroyed it. Our military is spread thin and it’s hard to find the soldiers to carry on in Iraq. We are already in that serious problem. Why couldn’t he have listened to his own self?

We are a poorer nation for having him as our president.

Four Score

Once every so often in grade school we would have a field trip out to Gettysburg. The battlefield being relatively close, we would spend an afternoon looking across the Wheat Field, looking down into Devil’s Den, peering through the Peach Orchard or surveying the Union’s advantage from the top of Little Round Top. All very majesterial and very much a part of this Nation’s collective historical unconscious. Our field trips there were a highlight in the school year. We learned something about our country and we got to spend some time out of doors.

Today’s an anniversary of the Gettysburg address. It’s probably the most famous of Lincoln’s speeches. Very powerful and moving. Here’s a way to invert the speech’s succinct narrative. It could’ve been better using Apple’s Keynote.

FactCheck.com

Last night during the VP debates, the Vice President mentioned a website, factcheck.com in order to present the straight facts. It wasn’t where he had wanted them to visit. If you click the link, you’ll see that it takes you to George Soros’s website. Splashed on the page in big bold letters is “President Bush is endangering our safety, hurting our vital interests, and undermining American values.” Geeze. It couldn’t get anymore comical than that.