January 23, 2017 (Day 4 - OMG, has It Only Been 4 Days!?)
Dear Diary, in today’s sh*t-blizzard known as the Trump “Presidency”...
Under increasing pressure to respond to the over 200,000 signatures on a WhiteHouse.gov petition demanding that the P-word release his tax returns, Minister of Propaganda Kellyanne Conjob angered the public and Wikileaks (1) by telling ABC News "The White House response is that he’s not going to release the tax returns. We litigated this all through the election, people didn’t care, they voted for him." (1) A recent poll by Washington Post and ABC News found that 74% of Americans do, in fact, "care” about Trump’s tax returns.
In his first “official” press briefing, having been challenged on the “alternative facts” (3) he presented about the P-word’s crowd size, the Orwellian Sean Spicer defended the debacle of Saturday afternoon, insisting “sometimes we can disagree with facts”. (4) Actually, my good man, no. Facts are provable, so disagreement is what’s known as “being wrong.”
Surrounded by a group of smiling white men, the P-Word reinstated the Reagan-Bush era Mexico City policy, which prevents American assistance to organizations which offer abortion services (including counseling). This policy will do the most harm among women of sub-Saharan Africa, since the funding provides “critical health treatment, including HIV testing and neonatal care.” Once again America’s Christians-so-called show the world how very, very much they care about life.
The P-word issues a hiring freeze on the federal workforce, the exceptions being jobs with national security or public safety implications. The perception created by The Right Wing Propaganda Machine (TRWPA) during the Obama presidency has been that of a massive increase in the federal workforce. The truth of the matter is that the federal workforce has remained stable at between 2.7 and 2.8 million workers since President Obama took office.
(1) The majority of Americans did not, in fact, vote for Donald Trump. A majority of those who had the sense to make it to the polls also had the sense to select the imminently qualified and “fundamentally honest” Hillary Clinton. “The Democrat outpaced President-elect Donald Trump by almost 2.9 million votes, with 65,844,954 (48.2%) to his 62,979,879 (46.1%), according to revised and certified final election results from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.” (Note: The P-word nurses his own “alternative fact”to explain his puzzling lack of popularity, and it involves “millions of illegal voters.” Way more than 2.9 million. Probably like 5 million. Or maybe even 65.84 million.)
(2) WikiLeaks, the Trump campaign’s election ally, subsequently invited all comers (cough-Anonymous-cough) to have at it and see who could provide the Trumpster’s taxes to the American people. The hacker group Anonymous has already promised that Donald Trump will “Regret the Next 4 Years,” pointing out that he had “shocked the entire planet with [his] appalling actions and ideas.” Those kooky tricksters provided a date for the commencement of the shenanigans, so I for one will be marking my calendar - April 1st!
(3) See also: “lies” or “rejecting the evidence of your own eyes and ears” as in “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 1984, George Orwell
(4) See also: “Being wrong.”
