As I sip my coffee this morning, I believed that I was finished doing my morning coffee shtick anymore. It has pretty much run its course and I have vented enough until the election is over. However, when a 'target of opportunity' presents itself, it is too difficult for me to restrain myself.
I was taken by Portland, OR, Mayor Ted Wheeler's news conference last night and I felt I had to add my support to his perceptive and biting comments. Addressing Cheeto directly he asked, "Do you seriously wonder, Mr. President, why this is the first time in decades that America has seen this level of violence?" "It's you who have created the hate and the division. It's you who have not found a way to say the names of Black people killed by police officers even as people in law enforcement have. And it's you who claimed that White supremacists are good people. " He continued. "Your campaign of fear is as anti-democratic as anything you've done to create hate and vitriol in our beautiful country."
His comments came one day after a person was shot and killed in downtown Portland after an evening of violent clashes between Trump supporters and protesters denouncing police brutality.
His comments continued when he lamented that, "for four years we've had to live with you and your racist attacks on Black people. We learned early about your sexist attitudes toward women. We've had to endure clips of you mocking a disabled man. We've had to listen to your anti-democratic attacks on journalists. We've read your tweets slamming private citizens to the point of receiving death threats, and we've listened to your attacks on immigrants," he said.
"We've listened to you label Mexicans 'rapists.' We've heard you say that John McCain wasn't a hero because he was a prisoner of war. And now, you're attacking Democratic mayors and the very institutions of Democracy that have served this nation well since its founding."
I could add nothing more to his comments which size up this administration as accurately as anyone can. Of course, as you would expect, Cheeto launched a series of sophomoric insulting tweets, which i won't even dignify with a comment in this post. Cheeto has the power of his office to heal and bring a nation together which he has chose to squander on his narcissistic rantings which only further exacerbate a troubling time in this country. He needs to go and preferable before November.
On that note I am making more coffee.