Voting for or against Donald Trump is not about politics. It is about morality. Voting for Trump is not a political choice. It is a moral choice.

To state it clearly: if you are mentally competent and you vote for Donald Trump, you have done something of which you, your children, and your grandchildren should be ashamed. And you certainly can’t believe in the teachings of Christ. In terms of “knowing Jesus,” there isn’t a MAGA cult member who could pick Jesus Christ out of a lineup of Mob bosses.

To make my point, I will list one hundred and one somewhat randomly chosen reasons why Trump is clearly the wrong choice for any honorable American to make. Most of these reasons stand alone as examples of why all moral voters should and will vote for Kamala Harris. I could easily have listed a thousand and one reasons, but the election is fast approaching and I have run out of time.

TO BE CLEAR: Not every reason on this list is a matter of morality. Some are a matter of logic, opinion, or political persuasion. The vast majority of them, however, are simply based on the difference between right and wrong.

Here they are:

1. I don’t want a President or Vice President who spreads unbelievably stupid and deliberately cruel, vicious, racist lies that no intelligent, informed, non-racist could believe, lies that destroy communities and do permanent harm to people in them, people across the country, to the country itself, and to the ideals that good people continue to try to uphold. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris
2. I don’t want a President who will enter the Oval Office as a convicted felon awaiting multiple trials on dozens of other felony indictments. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
3. (By the way, it’s rude, disrespectful, and, under these circumstances, probably racist and misogynistic to deliberately mispronounce your opponent’s name. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.)
4. I don’t like racists or candidates supported by the most virulent racists in our country, including the likes of David Duke and Nick Fuentes, as well as groups like the Proud Boys, the Blood Tribe, and the Ku Klux Klan. Trump has regularly received significant support from a number of other Neo-Nazi and fascist individuals and groups. As the saying goes, regardless of what I think, “the racists believe he’s a racist.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
5. I don’t want a President who spreads conspiracy theories such as that his former opponent, a black man, was born (where else?) in Africa, home of “shithole countries,” and who disparages people simply because they come from “the Congo.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
6. I don’t want a President whose Vice Presidential nominee has called him “villainous,” “unfit for our nation’s highest office,” “a total fraud,” “noxious,” “reprehensible,” “cultural heroin,” “an idiot,” “reprehensible,” “a moral disaster,” a “thug,” someone who commits “serial sexual assault,” “a cynical asshole,” and “America’s Hitler.” Vance has also said, “I’m a never Trump guy,” “never liked him,” “terrible candidate,” “you’re an “idiot if you voted for him,” and on economic policy, Trump has “thoroughly failed to deliver.” At last, I’ve found some things I agree with Vance on. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
7. I don’t like Vice Presidential candidates who use the phrase “childless cat ladies.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
8. I don’t like Vice Presidential candidates who say that childless women have no stake in our country and no right to have their votes count as much as the votes of people with children. And when these candidates double down on their comments, and then, after doubling down and being publicly excoriated from all sides, they lie and say they were being sarcastic, I really don’t like them.  I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
9. I don’t like Vice Presidential candidates who say not having children “makes people more sociopathic and ultimately our whole country a little bit less mentally stable…you go on Twitter and almost always the people who are most deranged and most psychotic are people who don’t have kids at home.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
10.  I don’t believe that teachers without children at home are trying to “brainwash and destroy the minds of our children.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
11.  I don’t like Vice Presidential candidates who say things like, “I think that what Trump should do, if I was going to give him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people…and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say, the Chief Justice has made his ruling; now let him enforce it.” NOTE ONE: In ignoring the ruling of the Supreme Court Jackson took the illegal liberty of committing genocide, a popular activity throughout our history by people who had the same level of compassion, sympathy, empathy, and decency that Trump and Vance have now. (Breaking up millions of families comes to mind.) NOTE TWO: Trump has said he has a right to “suspend the Constitution” when he thinks it is necessary and to become “a dictator on day one.” Vance has endorsed “extra-constitutional” (read, “unconstitutional and illegal”) means of grasping and retaining power, and he has endorsed the ideas of a man who exhorts the extreme right to get over their “dictator phobia” if they are to, again, grasp and retain power. NOTE THREE: These ideas are pure, unmitigated, unadulterated fascism. Or if they ain’t, they’ll do till the New Third Reich gits here. I will get granular on this in another post, and I’ll damned straight vote for Kamala Harris.
12.  I don’t like Vice Presidential candidates who say that without a national abortion ban “every day George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately Black women to get them to go have abortions in California.” Or compatriots of this VP candidate running for governor of a southern state saying that abortion is about “killing a child because you weren’t responsible enough to keep your skirt down.” Let’s be clear and brutally honest about what these people are actually communicating to their racist, anti-Semitic base: Anything short of a national abortion ban will allow Jews to transport n*****s who can’t keep their skirts down to the Left Coast to murder babies. If you don’t think this is exactly what they mean, you haven’t been reading the paper. Again, this is pure, unmitigated, unadulterated fascism. Or if it ain’t, it’ll do till the New Third Reich gits here. I will get granular on this in another post, and I’ll damned straight vote for Kamala Harris.
13.  I don’t agree with J. D. Vance and his friends that liberals are subhuman. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
14.  I don’t like hillbilly fascists who write books about how poor people are responsible for their own problems. Nice for him that he became a paid puppet of a rich weirdo and got out and is now an Ivy League snob so he ain’t poor no more. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
15.  I do like the old saying, “You can take the hillbilly out of the hills but you can’t take the hills out of the hillbilly.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
16.  I don’t like liars, cheaters, fraudsters, or con artists.  I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
17.  I don’t like people who run fraudulent businesses and fraudulent charities. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
18.  I don’t like people who run fraudulent “universities.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
19.  I don’t like people who cheat on their taxes. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
20.  I don’t like people who commit bank fraud. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
21.  I don’t like people who commit insurance fraud. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
22.  I don’t like people who have a lifelong record of not paying their bills and thus destroying businesses people have spent their lives creating. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
23.  I don’t like people who don’t pay poor people the wages they owe them. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
24.  I don’t like people whose henchmen and supporters send rape threats and death threats to anyone who disagrees with them. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
25.  I don’t like convicted criminals. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
26. I don’t like people who surround themselves with other criminals like the ones I list below, only a sampling, but you get the picture. Ask yourself if any mob boss in our history has surrounded himself with such a crew. It’s as though Trump presided over less of an administration and more of a criminal organization. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris. (NOTE: PLEASE EXCUSE THE FORMATTING BELOW. I’M A LOW-TECH PUPPY IN A HIGH-TECH WORLD!)
    1. Roy Cohn: Trump’s first lawyer and his beloved mentor, a Mob consiglire, a brutally dishonest grifter, and a spectacularly cruel thug who was indicted four times and disbarred for massive misconduct.
    1. Michael Cohen: Trump lawyer who did prison time.
    1. Rudy “Too Toothy” Giuliani: Trump lawyer who championed racist, unconstitutional, thuggish policing, was found guilty of defamation after he lied about and ruined the lives of multiple innocent people, had his law license suspended, was indicted in at least two states, was named as a “co-conspirator” in another case, was sued for sexual assault, was sued for digital tampering, was sued for spreading false election fraud claims, filed for bankruptcy, and who generally has seemed to look for ways to shame himself and his most famous client.
    1.  Sydney Powell: Trump lawyer, conspiracy theorist, cooperated and pleaded guilty to reduced charges of election interference on behalf of Trump.
    1. Kenneth Chesebro: lawyer who pleaded guilty to a felony for conspiring to commit filing false documents supporting fake electors which would have replaced the official electors the voters chose with a fake and illegal slate selected by him and other Trump supporters.
    1.  John Eastman: lawyer who faces eleven disciplinary charges brought by the State Bar in California with a preliminary finding of culpability of conspiring with Trump to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. The California Bar’s closing brief accuses Eastman of “fraud,” “illegality,” “bad faith,” and “dishonesty.” Charged with a felony in Georgia and a felony in Arizona as part of the same plot.
    1.  Jenna Ellis: Trump lawyer who pleaded guilty in Georgia of helping Trump to overturn the 2020 election; barred from practicing law in Colorado for three years.
    1. Jeffrey Clark: Trump administration lawyer indicted as a Trump co-conspirator for racketeering felonies in Georgia; facing disbarment hearings.
    1. There are about two dozen lawyers who are currently involved in disciplinary proceedings, sanctions proceedings, criminal indictments, or who have already pleaded guilty to crimes on behalf of Trump.
    1. Paul Manafort: Trump campaign manager who shared internal Republican polling with the Russians and who has been convicted of a multitude of felonies, including conspiracy against the United States. Served prison time. Pardoned by Trump.
    1. Rick Gates: Trump deputy campaign manager convicted of false statements and conspiracy against the United States. Sentenced to prison but had the sentence suspended due to Covid protocols.
    1. Steve Bannon: Chief advisor to Trump. Charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud, money laundering,  and conspiracy in connection with the Trump campaign. Pardoned by Trump. Later convicted on two counts of contempt of Congress. Currently in prison.
    1. Allen Weisselberg: CFO of the Trump Organization, the organization found guilty of massive fraud. Convicted of multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying tax records.. Currently in prison for the second time.
    1. Roger Stone: Top Trump operative and lifelong scumbag convicted on seven felony counts and sentenced to prison, but never served time because Trump first commuted his sentence and then pardoned him.
    1. Peter Navarro: Top Trump appointee convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress. Currently in prison.
    1. Other Trump operatives involved in criminal activity include Michael Flynn, George Papadopoulos, and scores of lesser-known enablers.
    1. Finally, what about the hundreds of insurrectionists arrested and sentenced for supporting Trump’s coup attempt? People were maimed. People died. We lost, forever, our reputation around the world as an example of a country that could transfer power peacefully. This stain cannot be washed or bleached away. It is a scar on the face of our democracy. In so many ways Trump has disfigured the avowed ideals of our imperfect union, making their realization immeasurably more difficult. In the same way that we can’t measure the damage to our national security that his lawlessness has inflicted, neither can we measure the damage he has inflicted, as the current President would say, to the soul of our nation.
27.  I don’t like cruel, insolent bullies. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
28.  I don’t like anyone who is supported by and who follows the reprehensible, inhumane advice of the monster John Yoo. Torture and the mass slaughter of civilians are not on my bingo card. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
29.  I don’t like people who ridicule the handicapped. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
30.  I don’t like people who call our troops “suckers’ and “losers.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris. (Aren’t Presidents supposed to support our troops?)
31.  I don’t like people who hang the American flag upside down. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
32.  I don’t like people who fly the Confederate flag. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
33.  I do respect the flag, the Constitution, the rule of law, and our troops and their sacrifices. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
34.  I don’t like people who stage coups. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
35.  I don’t like people who lie and claim to have won an election they clearly and obviously lost. Nor do I like the fact that the Republican party has spent decades cheating the American public out of the people and policies a clear majority of them preferred. These policies include action on climate change, wiser environmental regulations, more just income distribution, a higher minimum wage, strong support and increased benefits for Social Security, better health care, checks on predatory financial institutions, less institutionalized racism, more medical research, the right of women to control their own bodies, and on and on and on. These are topics for other conversations, but I list a few of them to demonstrate how out of touch the Republican party is with the American people. As far as the candidates the people prefer but who are unable to win elections, I must note the fact that since 1992 only one Republican President has entered office by winning the popular vote. Democracy??? The same goes for a frightening number of down-ballot candidates. Massive, surgical, increasingly sophisticated, and “Supreme” Court-approved gerrymandering, draconian voter suppression and nullification, and voter intimidation are but a few of the ways Republicans subvert the democratic process. Democrats often have to garner many more votes than the Republicans just to break even. On top of all of that, the allocation of Senate seats, two to a state, vastly favors the Republican party, as does the fact that there are no Senators allocated to Washington, D.C. or to Puerto Rico. The Electoral College, a vestige of undemocratic elitism and a distrust of democracy itself, also favors the Republicans. You will notice, however, that, unfair as all of this is, the Democrats do not and have not refused to concede or staged a coup. Democrats believe in the rule of law, unjust as it may be, and work within its strictures to attempt to create a more perfect union. With all this in mind, I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
36.  I don’t like former Presidents who run on the promise that soon voting will no longer count in this country. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
37.  I don’t like people who steal our most important national secrets, lie about it, obstruct justice, and share these most guarded secrets with an unknown number of others. (By the way, it will be decades before this damage is repaired, if ever.) I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
38.  I don’t like people who trash our allies and praise our enemies. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
39.  I do support NATO. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
40.  I do support Ukraine over Putin and Putin’s Russia. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
41.  I don’t like the child-killing, child-trafficking, cruel, torture-friendly, genocidal Russians. The Russians have supermarkets, Tucker, but they emasculate the young men that they capture. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
42.  I also don’t like the fact that Russia is again interfering in our presidential election in favor of Donald Trump. Again, we have indicted Russians for this interference. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
43.  Nor do I like Trump and his cohorts such as Tucker “Russia Has Shopping Carts” Carlson and many others fawning over Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and a panoply of other autocrats and brutal dictators. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
44.  I don’t like deficits and unemployment. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
45.  I do like that the average wage made by Americans is now rising faster than inflation. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
46.  I don’t like giving tax breaks to the obscenely wealthy. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
47.  I do like having the best economy on earth. Let’s look at the facts: During his tenure Trump lost 2.7 million jobs. During his tenure so far Biden has added 16 million jobs. Under Trump, the unemployment rate rose from 1.7% to 6.4%. Biden dropped Trump’s unemployment rate to the current level of 4.1%. Inflation-adjusted income has risen 1.5% over the past year; during the Biden administration the income of the average American has risen higher than inflation for the first time in decades. Inflation is now at 2.5%, though prices are still too high in large part as a result of Trump’s gross mishandling of the pandemic and the Republicans’ policies of allowing corporations to price gouge with impunity. If Trump is elected, this corporate greed will grow, and the average American will pay higher taxes to make up for the corporate welfare the Republicans are so fond of. The Federal Reserve has slashed interest rates, and Biden has added 254,000 jobs in September alone. The stock market continues to smash records, putting Trump’s gains to shame. Biden has kneecapped OPEC with a series of absolutely brilliant maneuvers, and we now produce more energy than ever, contrary to MAGA lies. And now, for the first time in decades, we have the control we have sought over the world energy markets. The GDP is currently growing at 3%, which is amazing. Wages have grown 4% in the past year alone. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris
48.  I do like the fact that Goldman Sachs has come out publicly to support Harris’s economic plan over Trump’s. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
49.  I do like knowing that sixteen Nobel prize-winning economists have written, “…we all agree that Joe Biden’s economic agenda is vastly superior” to Trump’s. I’m pretty sure Harris’s agenda will be a lot closer to Biden’s than to Trump’s. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris. 
50.  I do like health care. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
51.  I don’t like Presidents who make pandemics much worse than they already are and who have son-in-laws who say about a Democratic governor of a Democratic state whose people are dying of Covid by the thousands, “His people are going to suffer and that’s their problem.” Nor do I like Presidents who consistently, deliberately, and disproportionately  funnel aid to areas of the country that support him while blocking aid to areas that don’t. I don’t ingest bleach. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
52.  I believe in vaccines. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
53.  I do  like Social Security and Medicare. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
54.  I don’t like dictators, kings, or fascists. (I have “dictator phobia.”) I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
55.  I don’t like traitors. I’ll vote for Kama Harris.
56.  I don’t like candidates supported by homophobes. Especially avowed homophobes who preach to an admiring congregation that homosexuality is “filth” on Sunday while watching trans porn on other days that end with “y.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
57.  I don’t like politicians who call the Democratic nominee a “DEI hire” just because she’s a black woman. What is it about these folks that they are triggered by diversity, equity, and inclusion? Kinda like the concepts myself. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
58.  I don’t like campaigns selling T-shirts showing Trump pissing on the letters “FBI.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
59.  I don’t like campaigns selling T-shirts saying “KNOW YOUR PARASITES.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
60.  I don’t like Presidents who rip infants out of their mother’s arms, 1,400 of whom have, after six years, still not been reunited with their parents, and probably never will be. If this is what the Republicans tout as “family values,” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
61.  I don’t like people who want to deport fathers and mothers who have been here for decades contributing to our society. I do believe in the family, even if their skin color isn’t white. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
62.  I don’t like candidates who complain incessantly about the border but who command their sycophants to kill a bill which would have immensely improved the situation because they don’t want their political rival to get any credit for anything. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
63.  I don’t like people who want to abolish birthright citizenship. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
64.  By the way, I don’t think a migrant fight club is a great idea. In fact, this suggestion alone disqualifies Trump from inclusion in any group of civilized human beings on the face of the earth. And all of the MAGA morons who cheered at this idea should be beamed back to the Roman Coliseum to fight lions. (I’ll root for the lions.) I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
65.  I don’t support QAnon. I don’t think Hillary Clinton drinks the blood of babies or runs a child sex ring out of a pizza shop. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
66.  I don’t think Jewish space lasers or a lack of raking the woods caused the California forest fires. Nor do I think Trump lost the Harris debate because his black, female opponent used “witchcraft.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
67.  I don’t like Presidential candidates who have to lie and say, “I didn’t have sex with a porn star.” (Kept him entertained while his wife was home with their new baby.) I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
68.  I don’t like people who abuse their power or celebrity to “grab ‘em by the p**sy.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
69.  I don’t like people who used to pal around with the child rapist Jeffrey Epstein, called him a “terrific guy,” and joked that, “…he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” In other words, like the girl Matt Gaetz was accused of trafficking and abusing, minors – children used to gratify the sick sexual impulses of these degenerates. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
70.  I don’t like people (to be clear, I’m referring to Trump) who call their daughter “a beautiful piece of ass.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
71.  I don’t like rapists. (The judge who presided over the case where Trump was found liable for sexual abuse said that what Trump did was in fact rape, as commonly understood. Brett Kavanaugh was credibly accused of attempted rape. I am biased, but I found it impossible not to believe Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony. If you haven’t listened to it, do so, and you decide. More than a perfunctory investigation of Kavanaugh’s checkered sexual past was called for before he was appointed as one of the nation’s most powerful and unaccountable officials. (And what about Clarence Thomas? Do you believe him, or Anita Hill?) I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
72.  I don’t like presidents and parties who cheat to appoint corrupt radicals to a “Supreme” Court hell-bent on ripping rights away from all of us while giving more power to corporations, big money, polluters, and climate destroyers while simultaneously spitting in the face of the Founders, our Constitution, and the rule of law by making the President a king and dictator. Did any of these corrupt fools ever read one word about why we broke away from England? I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
73.  Again, I don’t like Presidents who appoint a “Supreme” Court that declares the United States Constitution unconstitutional. Talk about originalism! I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
74.  I don’t like living in a country where six members of the current Supreme Court are either blatantly partisan, blatantly corrupt, or both. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
75.  I don’t like Presidents whose policies (see Project 2025, etc.) will soften clean air and clean water regulations, allow national parks to be despoiled, allow deadly poisonous chemicals to be used at the discretion of corporations, slash green energy initiatives, expand drilling in ecologically sensitive areas, withdraw (again) from the Paris Agreement, open federal lands to development, and repeal the Inflation Reduction Act, which no Republicans voted for but which they all take credit for when the money comes to their district. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
76.  I do like Title IX because I think our schools should not treat girls as second class students. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
77.  I don’t like book banning. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
78.  I do want our schools to teach about race, racism, slavery, gender, and sexuality. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
79.  As I said above, I do want our schools to be concerned about diversity, equity, and inclusion. I’m old enough to remember some words I read somewhere that said something about “liberty and justice for all.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
80.  I DON’T want our schools to be forced to teach some fascist group’s idea of “patriotic education.” TO BE CLEAR, this is, again, pure, unadulterated fascism. Or if it ain’t, it’ll do till the New Third Reich gits here. I will get granular on this in another post, and I’ll damned straight vote for Kamala Harris.
81.  I don’t want the Ten Commandments, the first four of which demand submission to a god millions of Americans don’t believe in, posted in schoolrooms. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
82.  I don’t want the clearly fascist 1776 Project or Project 2025 anywhere near our democracy. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
83.  I don’t want to execute the heads of media organizations for expressing their opinions and reporting the news. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
84.  I don’t want to execute members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for speaking the truth. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
85.  I’m not all in on using political power to obtain special permits to shoot animals whose species are endangered. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
86.  I don’t think women should be pressured into staying in violent marriages. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
87.   I do think birth control is a good thing. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
88.  I do think IVF is a good thing. I don’t think releasing a woman’s medical records to law enforcement so they can track her if she leaves one state to travel to another state where abortion is legal and then arrest her is anything but, once again, fascism – pure, unmitigated, unadulterated fascism. Or if it ain’t, it’ll do till the New Third Reich gits here. I will get granular on this in another post, and I’ll damned straight vote for Kamala Harris.
89.  I don’t like former Presidents who brag about overturning Roe v. Wade but can’t answer the question, “How many abortions have you paid for?” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
90.  I DO respect a woman’s right to control her own body. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
91.  I don’t like candidates whose most ardent and well-known public supporters say things like, “When a man votes for a woman, he actually transitions into a woman.”
92.  I don’t vote for a party whose members say things like, “When can we use our guns?,” “Victory or Death,” “I’m afraid if we lose (this election) it’s gonna take a civil war to save the country,” “Some folks need killing,” and so on. And it frightens me that these violent ideas are regularly encouraged and even initiated by the man at the top of the ticket. NOTE: The “Some folks need killing” remark was made in a “sermon” to the applause of the “Christian” congregation. Somehow, Christ’s admonition to “Love your enemies” seems to have undergone a slight twist in its translation from the Koine Greek. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
93.  I don’t like it when a candidate for President keeps using the words “bloodbath,” “bloody,” and other violent and apocalyptic terms to describe what will happen in America if he loses the election. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
94.  I don’t want a President who asks his crowds to commit acts of violence and promises to pay their legal bills. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
95.  I don’t want a President who takes out a full-page ad asking for innocent, non-white people to be executed and never walks his request back even after they have been proven innocent. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
96.  I don’t want a President who has told his nephew that the care of his handicapped child is “too expensive” and that he should stop spending money on the child and “let him die and move to Florida.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
97.  I don’t like to hear candidates for President and Vice President say, after children have been shot to death in a school, that this is just a “fact of life” and that we just need to “get over it.” I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
98.  I do support the rule of law, truth, justice, decency, and American democracy. I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.
99.  I do like the fact that crime has dropped precipitously under the Biden administration, contrary to the vicious, malicious, boldfaced lies promulgated by Trump, Vance, and their Fox news puppets. According to the most recent FBI Quarterly Crime Report, violent crime is down 10.3%, aggravated assault is down 8.1%, robbery is down 13.6%, rape is down 17.7%, and murder is down 22.7%. This continues the ongoing pattern of crime dropping throughout the Biden administration, including during the period when we had the highest number of border crossings. Also, I am educated enough to understand that migrants, “legal” or “illegal” (to use Trump’s racist labels), commit crimes at a significantly lower rate than native-born Americans. If you want to be safer, go to a neighborhood populated by documented or undocumented migrants.

100. I do like the fact that Liz Cheney, ultra conservative Republican, and her father Dick Cheney, as conservative and iconic a Republican as there is in the country, are both voting for Kamala Harris. They are also supporting Colin Allred, the Democratic opponent of Ted Cruz. This is earth-shaking. Wake up and smell the coffee, MAGA world, cowardly members of the Republican cult, and Fox News serial liars. Liz and Dick and I, disagree as we do on many, many things, do love the things mentioned in number 98, and we live on Earth One, so we are voting for Kamala Harris.

101. And for a thousand and one other reasons, including the fact that I’m a decent human being, I’ll vote for Kamala Harris.

Or maybe not. Maybe we should just ignore everything we have seen and heard for the last ten years and pretend none of it has happened. Maybe we’re better off with a President who is a liar, a grifter, a fraud, a sexual predator, a narcissistic psychopath with not an iota of concern for anyone but himself, a man for whom cruelty is the point, who ridicules others like an eighth grade mean girl or a high school bully, a lover of autocrats, autocracy, and fascism, a man who surrounds himself with serial liars and convicted criminals, a twice-impeached, five-times indicted, convicted felon who stole our most sensitive national secrets and shared them with random supporters and God knows who else, who damaged our national security beyond repair, a man responsible for attacking our allies and supporting our enemies, a man who wants to destroy NATO and watch the earth heat to the boiling point, the leader of a coup and destroyer of our proud, American tradition of transferring power peacefully, a man who pretends to pray but does the exact opposite of everything Jesus Christ exhorted us to do, the worst, most dishonest, most corrupt President in the history of the United States of America. A man who has always and continues to surround himself with thoroughly damaged, thoroughly disgusting people who will, to satiate their own greed, power lust, and ego needs, commit any outrage, any despicable act that Trump’s pathologies can conjure. And, perhaps as importantly as anything, a narcissistic psychopath who revels in cruelty, who enjoys demeaning, humiliating, degrading, and punishing others just to gorge himself on their pain. Maybe we should close our eyes, hold our nose, and put him in office again.

I don’t know. I’m just a puzzled puppy. 

PS: While I was working on this post, the junior senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, Trump supporter and MAGA adherent from top to bottom, gave the world a perfect example of the meaning and impact of Trumpism. Kennedy, who loves doing his best impression of Sam Ervin but who comes across instead much more like the reincarnation of Foghorn Leghorn, loves to spit (literally) backwoods clichés, childish epithets, lies, nonsense, and invective out of a swamp mouth Trump hasn’t yet drained. His pathetic narcissism seems to drive him to showboat his crude, underdeveloped “wit” at the expense of the decency and decorum expected of a United States senator.

In this case Kennedy was questioning Maya Berry, Executive Director of the Arab American Institute, in a Senate hearing on hate crimes in the U.S. Ms. Berry, a brilliant, respectful, restrained, compassionate advocate for human and civil rights possesses two characteristics anathema to “Senator” Kennedy: she is of Arabic descent and she is a woman. After she managed to convey to him that she was clearly not pro Hamas, he lied and said she had refused to do what she had just done. Frustrated that his bucolic attempts at wit were put to shame by responses far more intelligent, measured, and decent than he could ever proffer, “Senator” Kennedy answered with the most ignorant, backwoods, despicable, reprehensible, racist, misogynistic, vulgar, swamp-mouthed statement I have ever heard uttered on the floor of the United States Senate.

He said to her, “You should hide your head in a bag.”

This is part of an ongoing pattern of lewd, indecent remarks made by this bumpkin of a buffoon in public hearings.

“Senator” Kennedy’s lies, nonsense, and crude, cruel invective are a disgrace to the United States Senate and to the United States of America. He should resign in shame.

The point I am taking so many words to make here, however, is that he was in large part created by and has become a representative and spokesman and symbol of MAGA, which, because of Trump and sycophants like him, will remain far into the foreseeable future as a cancer on our republic.

Why? Because Donald Trump has, with much help and support from a party that has morphed from something normal into something sinister and malevolent, has called upon sycophants and cowards like “Senator” Kennedy to represent and enable the worst of America in order to choke out honesty, justice, fairness, respect, compassion, courage, kindness, empathy, tolerance, good will, sacrifice, altruism, generosity, and just plain decency from the heart, soul, and spirit of our land.  The leaders of fascist cults know no other way to scrabble and survive.

The only legitimate power we have to destroy this monster is our franchise. Every decent American of voting age needs to make her or his voice heard in this election. We have never had such a clear and present duty or a better chance to show who we really are.

July 1, 2024

This is my first post in almost three years, since I quit posting in frustration. I realized that there was almost no hope, which I still believe, but I have to do something, whether futile or not. And given what has been happening recently and what just happened, I can no longer remain quiet.

Today, at 10:30 A.M., we received the news that American democracy has been run over by a train and is lying in intensive care in a coma. The most corrupt “Supreme” (read, “Kangaroo”) Court in the history of our country, a court which is fully owned and controlled by right-wing billionaires, did their bidding and the bidding of the cult leader these billionaires have installed and ran over the American experiment with a freight train.

In the future I would like to explain what has been happening, what is happening, who is responsible, who the good guys are, and the only thing left that we can do that has any hope of waking the patient from her coma.

Or maybe I should just hibernate again. I don’t know, I’m just a puzzled puppy

A belated thank you to all who helped us do the second most important thing that needed to be done at the ballot box.

The first was to get rid of the walking nightmare, the evil, incompetent, lying, corrupt, unimaginably destructive Donald Trump, by far the worst and most deleterious President in the history of our country.

The second thing, which we did on January 5^th,  was to get rid of Moscow Mitch, the K Street Bitch, the worst Senate majority leader in the history of our country, a corrupt, scheming cheater who has completely destroyed the Senate as a deliberative body. (It used to be called the “world’s greatest deliberative body.” That phrase, under McConnell’s leadership, has become a cruel joke.)

“The Grim Reaper,” as he calls himself, serially refused even to consider legislation which would appropriate funds or in other ways help struggling Americans. He did, however, manage to focus on the things that would help his donors and Russian investors and thus his own political future.

In the past four years at least, McConnell has done only two things:

1. He passed the biggest tax cut in American history, the majority of which went to the top of the income and wealth charts – that is, to the obscenely greedy. The money that went into their pockets did not and will not “trickle down.” They used their corruptly unjust allocation not for R&D or productive investments, but rather merely to line their already bulging pockets and to feed their insatiable greed. What little was left after they snatched most of it was divided among the middle class and the economically vulnerable. The Grim Reaper’s legislation blew an unprecedented hole in our budget, making funds for Covid relief and other necessary federal expenditures much more difficult to find.
2. He gave lifetime appointments to a horde of young, unqualified or underqualified radical, right-wing judges who will tilt the judiciary radically to the right for decades. After refusing even to consider Merrick Garland in 2016 because the nomination was “too close to the election” (eleven months out), he rammed through Amy Coney Barrett during early voting in 2020, beginning the process before Ruth Bader Ginsburg had even been buried. We now have a 6-3 radical right Supreme Court which is so politicized that every future decision it makes will be looked at with suspicion, particularly in light of the fact that another of McConnell’s appointments is a man credibly accused of attempted rape and public exposure, a known blackout drunk possessing a blatantly political, constitutionally privileged and abusive, vengeful nature. Good work, Mitch.

Even after losing, McConnell tried a peaceful coup as opposed to the violent one Trump was planning. He tried (using his favorite, subtle, parliamentary maneuver of cheating) to force Chuck Schumer to pledge to give up his rightful power to decide whether or not to call for an end to the filibuster. This would have severely limited Schumer’s options as the majority leader. McConnell, on the other hand, had always clung tightly to his power and even created a few new prerogatives out of whole cloth.

In the end Schumer, forced to eschew deliberation and to resolve the issue using raw power, the new modus operandi of the Senate, prevailed. Now maybe the “world’s greatest deliberative body” can get a few things done for the American people

About time! Or maybe not. Maybe we should continue paying our Senators for spending most of their time either campaigning or simply doing nothing at all. I don’t know. I’m just a puzzled puppy.

I’ve been working full-time on my book, but I will still post when I can. Soon, I hope!

STOP THE LOEFFLER / PERDUE CORRUPTION COALITION!!!

LOEFFLER AND PERDUE’S POCKETS ARE FULL, BUT…

WHERE’S THE FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR GEORGIA BEEN???

(Maybe they’ll arrange to toss some crumbs just before the election.)

How stupid do they think Georgians are?

VOTE FOR JON OSSOFF and RAPHAEL WARNOCK.

THEY WILL WORK FOR YOU.

• DECEMBER 7             VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE!!!

• DECEMBER 14           EARLY, IN-PERSON VOTING BEGINS

• JANUARY 5                 ELECTION DAY

First of all, thank you for being a part of the successful effort to remove the worst, most corrupt, and most dangerous and destructive President in the history of our country. It is impossible to describe the importance of what we have done. For me, even thinking about the alternative is terrifying to contemplate.

On November 8, 2016, we went into a state of shock. For four years we have watched our worst nightmares unfold as Trump looted, raped, and burned everything and everyone he encountered. For that obscene violation and unfathomable destruction to have continued beggars comprehension.  

For some people, however, the importance of what we have just done may never sink in because they simply don’t have the moral fiber to try to understand. As Tim Miller recently said, such a deliberate abstention from moral apprehension “just betrays a lack of judgement that I’m never going to be able to forgive.”

I’m not sure I will, either, in light of the thousands of human bodies piled on top of the remains of our democracy –  in light of the hegemonic stranglehold the Father of Lies continues to have on our drowning dialectic and our despoiled souls.

For those of you who don’t understand this, look into your heart. Someday, maybe you’ll join us.

Of a list that could take pages, here are just a few examples of what we have done:

• We have defended democracy.
• We have protected tens of thousands of American lives.
• We have ensured the removal of Scott Atlas so that he will cease facilitating Trump’s coast to coast Make America Grieve Again campaign. Let’s be clear: He is assisting Trump in murdering tens of thousands of Americans.
• We have ensured the removal of one of the most evil human beings in America, Stephen Miller.
• We have ensured the removal of the most corrupt Attorney General since John Mitchell, William Barr.
• We have given honesty and the rule of law a chance.
• We have given truth a chance.
• We have given decency a chance.
• We are now committed to compassion rather than cruelty.
• We have taken the first step in restoring our standing in the world order.
• We now have a President-elect who is qualified for the job.
• We now have a President-elect who is committed to the job.
• We now have a history-making, incredibly well-qualified Vice-President-elect.
• We now have a decent human being in the White House.
• We have taken the first step in redeeming the soul of America.
• We have given the planet and the human race a chance to survive.

What Must Be Done NOW!!!

We have taken the first step. Now we need to flip the Senate by electing Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock. If we don’t do this, Joe Biden will be running a marathon waist deep in mud. Among other catastrophes, the following will happen:

• Mitch McConnell, the self-proclaimed “Grim Reaper,” will continue to obstruct every decent, moral, and compassionate initiative passed by the House. His priorities will continue to be to pay off his elite, obscenely greedy donors with legislation which benefits them and ignores us and to confirm young, radical, right-wing, often shockingly unqualified judges who will work to consolidate the power of the oligarchs who own him.
• The lying, treasonous, repugnant hypocrite Lindsey Graham will continue his attempts, in Washington, South Carolina, and even in Georgia, to corrupt the election process, to ignore the rule of law, and to use his power to pursue brazenly political vendettas while ignoring the needs of his constituents. He will not be investigated for criminal election tampering. This pasty-faced little troll will continue to creep from under his bridge to laugh at and spit in the faces of the people who elected him and in the faces of Americans in all fifty states. He will wear his smirk like a badge of honor because he knows the suckers who voted for him will always swallow his con and will never find out how he snickers at them behind their backs. All Americans will suffer for his self-indulgent arrogance and reprehensible hypocrisy.

To the people of Georgia: If you want Senators McConnell and Graham to remain in power and continue to work for their elite donors, vote Republican. If you want people who will ignore you and fight for their own greed, vote for Loeffler and Perdue.

If you want honesty, decency, and respect, vote for Jon Ossoff and Rev. Raphael Warnock on (or, preferably, before) January 5, the day of the election. Early voting begins December 14. If you are going to mail in an absentee vote, check the rules and do so immediately.  Please go to electjon.com and warnockforgeorgia.com.

Thank you.

Or maybe you should vote for more greed, cruelty, and corruption. (The Make America Grift Again campaign?)  I don’t know. I’m just a puzzled puppy.

First of all, I stand by every fact in the following list, and I invite any reader to fact check any item. My opinions attached thereunto are exactly that – opinions. I plan to deal with each of  these items in detail in my next book.

More importantly, virtually every elected Republican backed up Trump on almost all of these outrageous behaviors and actions. I agree with several of the most prominent Republicans since World War II when they say that it’s time for all of them to go. Please vote!

Why Donald Trump Is an Existential Threat to Us All

1. Is utterly unqualified and unfit for office – has no experience and few skills; is ignorant, dishonest, and deceiving; has a horrible temperament; is dangerously impulsive, angry, resentful, vindictive, selfish, uncivil, arrogant, and cruel; has a serious deficit of attention and focus; is heedless and uncompassionate; is a classic, cowardly bully; is illiterate about history, geography, and American government as well as foreign affairs; is a non-reader; is spectacularly lazy; is unfocused; is self-serving; is absolutely corrupt. QUESTION: Would you hire me to repair a Boeing 747? Why not? You hired him for a much more complicated and important job. Forgive my vulgarity, but the Boss wouldn’t have hired him to clean his shitter. But Trump says, “Experts are terrible.” He ought to know about terrible. He’s an expert.
2. While most politicians are embarrassed when they are caught lying, Trump tries to make major news stories out of the rare times he tells the truth.
3. Consistently ignores our norms and traditions, any semblance of ethical conduct, the constraints of the Constitution, and the rule of law.
4. Appears, almost undeniably, to prefer autocracy over democracy – doesn’t understand that we are a constitutional republic and a representative democracy.
5. Calls one of the pillars of our democracy, the free press, “the enemy of the people.” His favorite quote is from Mussolini, but he got this one from Stalin.
6. Calls Tony Fauci “an idiot.”
7. Had no science advisor for 19 months.
8. A massive number of his appointments are unconfirmed. This is one of  his ways of ignoring the separation of powers as clearly outlined in the Constitution.
9. Has had four chiefs of staff, four national security advisers, and five Homeland Security secretaries.
10. Has absolutely gutted the State Department and appointed a partisan liar to lead it.
11. Many trustworthy observers have called him the most lawless President in our history. I agree.
12. Few decent people would want him around their children.
13. Has essentially never set a good example for any man, woman, or child in this country or anywhere else in the world.
14. Said, for example, “When someone attacks me, I always attack back…except a hundred times more.” Apparently his sons are not prodigal. (Laughed at Michelle when she said, “When they go low, we go high.”)
15. Committed several impeachable offenses, including the one about which the Founding Fathers were most concerned, using (in this case bribing and extorting)  a foreign power to help him politically. (See # 91.)
16. Is a pathological narcissist. (“I alone can fix it.”)
17. Displays all of the clinical characteristics of a psychopath.
18. Appears to this puppy to be criminally insane. Pressthink says about Trump, “There is no genius there, only a damaged human being playing havoc with our lives.”
19. Has access to the nuclear codes. This should terrify every human being on Earth. (Read the first chapter of my book.)
20. Has taken actions that may start a new arms race.
21. Tweeted “when the looting starts, the shooting starts,” a tweet that was flagged by Twitter for “glorifying violence.”
22. Often glorifies violence against those who don’t support him. Calls for them to be arrested, prosecuted, and imprisoned. Has specifically asked the police to engage in illegal brutality.
23. Is supported by The Proud Boys, The KKK, and other racist and Neo-Nazi organizations. To steal a phrase, he may not be a racist, but the racists think he is. (Actually, he is.) Or, if he’s not a racist, he’ll do ‘till one gets here.
24. Asked the Proud Boys to “stand by.”
25. Sent unbadged federal thugs to violently clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op in which he held a Bible upside down in front of a church whose celebrants were insulted by his actions.
26. Asked for the innocent children referred to as the Central Park Five to be executed. Never backed off, even after they were proven to be innocent. Cannot admit when he is wrong.   
27. His son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is convinced, as Trump is, that blacks are lazy. When discussing a topic having to do with initiative, Kushner said about blacks, “…he (Trump) can’t want them to be successful more than they want to be successful.” Please read this one again!
28. Completely mishandled the pandemic response by the federal government, resulting in over 225,00 deaths.
29. Led a country with about 4.25% of the world’s population to a place where we have averaged about 25% of the world’s deaths. We currently have the most daily new confirmed COVID-19 deaths, even more than China and India, which each have more than four times our population. The clear consensus among experts is that we are undercounting. These facts point to our response as being the worst in the world, even though we have the world’s best medical infrastructure (but an inadequate health care system). We are the ninth worst country in the world in deaths per million, though our population is generally younger and less dense. Most of the countries with more deaths per capita are not places most Americans would choose to live. On the other hand, Cuba, Ethiopia, Venezuela, Greece, the Philippines, Libya, Kazakhstan, El Salvador, Russia, Switzerland, Iraq, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Ukraine, and Denmark, for a few examples, are doing better than we are by this metric. Every country in Europe except Spain is also doing better than we are by the same metric. South Korea, which had its first case the same day we did is doing, per capita, 100 times better than we are. Trump brags about his famous China travel ban, but it may have exacerbated the problem. More importantly, it ignored Europe, the source of most of our infections, until it was too late. After these feeble attempts by Trump, he gave up on anything significant except for actively making things worse. He has been and currently is actively spreading the virus. He has accelerated the outbreak by holding dozens of super spreader events in Washington and around the country with no social distancing and few masks. He has encouraged the breaking of most of his own administration’s guidelines. Yesterday he mocked a reporter for wearing a mask. He has created a cohort of people who will never adhere to guidelines which, if followed, would save thousands of lives. I would need a massive volume to enumerate the ways Trump has made things worse. It’s no stretch for us to call this the Trump Virus. Other than herd immunity (which he calls “herd mentality”), a plan which would probably kill millions, and just like with health care, Trump has no plan. (An extremely comprehensive and intelligent strategy, based on research by multiple administrations, was discarded. At about the same time Trump disbanded the Global Health Security and Biodefense unit. Their mission was to combat outbreaks of infectious disease.)
30. Inherited the Obama-Biden economy and slowed down its growth slightly before devastating it as a result of his criminally negligent response to the pandemic.
31. Never took any responsibility for his failure but said that Andrew Cuomo “killed 11,000 people.”
32. Carl Bernstein calls his response “homicidally negligent.”
33. His Chief of Staff just said, “We’re not going to control the pandemic.” 
34. Told a litany of dangerous lies about the pandemic.
35. Politicized the CDC.
36. Politicized the FDA.
37. Vanity Fair reported that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said, “Cuomo didn’t pound the phones hard enough to get PPE for his state… His people are going to suffer and that’s their problem.” (My emphasis.) Kushner soon  lost interest in helping blue states because he began to believe that this wouldn’t be politically advantageous for Trump.
38. Is anti-science. Says science doesn’t know, but he does. One of hundreds of examples: Found the Economic Research Service of the Department of Agriculture inconvenient to his narrative so he gutted it. Check out what this department does (did). You won’t be happy.
39. Gave far more money to the obscenely wealthy and to himself than to the people who voted for him.
40. Set a record for increasing the national debt, even before the pandemic.
41. Slashed the EPA and scores of environmental regulations.
42. Has said climate change is a “hoax.” Said the same about the pandemic.
43. During his tenure greenhouse gas emissions, which had been going down for three years, rose significantly.
44. Got out of the Paris Agreement on climate which, though flawed, is the world’s best hope for sustaining viable human life on the planet.
45. Announced our withdrawal from the WHO, another flawed but existentially important organization. Fun facts: 1.) In an almost inconceivably prodigious effort, the WHO eliminated smallpox, which was killing thirty to fifty million people a year. 2.) The WHO is close to eliminating polio, and will struggle to finish the job without our help.
46. Is the most corrupt President in the history of our country. Has used the Presidency as a cash cow. Grossly overcharges for his entourage, including the Secret Service, to book rooms in his hotels, obtain meals, use golf carts, etc. Funnels money to his and his family’s economic enterprises around the world, regardless of the excess money it costs the taxpayers. What he does with Trump International Hotel in D.C. is an outrage and a subject of extremely serious investigations and litigation. It should be. Finally and obviously, Trump has raised nepotism to a whole new level.
47. Paid a twenty-five million dollar fraud settlement over Trump University.
48. Had the Trump Foundation dissolved over “a shocking pattern of illegality.”
49. The Trump Organization itself faces multiple investigations.
50. Is currently under legal scrutiny in multiple criminal and civil investigations in multiple jurisdictions, including several relating to his inauguration committee as well as multiple Congressional probes.
51. Has fired almost everyone who seriously opposed him. In addition to being fired, many were also viciously punished in other ways. Marie Yovanovitch and Alexander Vindman (and his brother), for just two examples.
52. Regularly tampers with witnesses and obstructs justice. (See # 93.)
53. Has had an enormous and shocking number of members of his campaign and administration resign in disgust, resign amidst egregious scandal, or face prosecution for felonies. “Drain the swamp!”
54. Has interfered in the prosecutions of these criminals.
55. Has talked about delaying the election.
56. Refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election.
57. Has made multiple, widespread, often successful attempts to suppress the vote of those inclined to support his opponent. This cheating has been a hallmark of the Republican Party for decades. Currently they have removed hundreds of polling places, overwhelmingly in minority neighborhoods which tend to vote for Democrats. The Postal Service has been corrupted to depress mainly Democratic voters. Republicans in California have put out fake, illegal ballot drop off boxes, taking advantage of what they will litigate as an ambiguity in the law. Even a puppy knows that this is simply cheating.
58. Has thugs on standby to intimidate voters.
59. Lied repeatedly about the reliability of mail-in voting, which is literally a long-standing, time-tested American institution.
60. Lied repeatedly about Hunter Biden and falsely accused him and his father of crimes they never committed. Multiple investigations have turned up no evidence. Trump’s source for his accusations is Russian state propaganda.
61. Repeatedly parrots Russian state propaganda.
62. Used the Attorney General of the United States to support his political agenda.
63. Asked the Attorney General to prosecute his political opponent multiple times, even making such requests weeks before the election.
64. Has lived a vulgar, promiscuous life during which he has demonstrated extreme misogyny and a gross disrespect for women.
65. Has been a party buddy and an apparent friend of rapist and sex trader Jeffrey Epstein, one of the most evil humans one can possibly imagine. Recently said of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer (pimp) of female children for abuse, rape, and trafficking, “I wish her well.”
66. Put children in cages. And NO, people who get their news exclusively from Fox or their crazy uncle, OBAMA DID NOT DO THE SAME. He built some of the cages for legitimate purposes, not for terrorism, abuse, cruelty, and torture. He was, in this puppy’s opinion, too harsh in a number of ways, but to compare what he did to Trump is like comparing a father who shouts at his children to Rodrigo Duterte (someone Trump admires). There are currently 545 children who, years after they were kidnapped and separated from their parents, will probably never see their mothers and fathers again. And this number is a severe undercount, not including those from the largest group of separations. By the way, Trump was warned this would happen, but he didn’t care. He wanted to commit these acts of statutory terror (check the law) against the parents so that others would stop trying to legally seek asylum. Trump broke the law to keep them out, floating pardons for those of his agents who got caught doing any of the illegal things he asked them to do. He began forcing these children into Mexican camps in and from which many of them were and are being abused, raped, and trafficked for sex. And those who entered illegally, often because Trump had closed legal crossings, were just trying to survive. At the debate one of Trump’s lies was that they came with coyotes. No, they came with their parents. They weren’t separated from coyotes, who don’t normally nurse children. (Does Trump understand how stupid his excuses are?) The Physicians for Human Rights called this policy “torture.” The American Academy of Pediatrics called this “government sanctioned child abuse.” Anyone who could support Josef Mengele Trump after this needs to look deeply into his or her soul, if one is there.
67. Appointed Jeff Sessions, a lifelong racist, to aid and abet him in this abuse.
68. Appointed the ghoul Steven Miller to cook up these and other cruelties as fast as his twisted mind could turn.
69. Referred to sanctuary cities as “breeding” places.
70. Never reads a full daily briefing. Only reads the comic book version a couple of times a week, and ignores whatever is in it that displeases him. Asks for certain vital topics to be avoided because of his anger management problem. This makes him a clear and present threat to our national security.
71. Has consistently alienated our allies and coddled our adversaries.
72. Has unwaveringly supported Vladimir Putin, even over our agencies, our interests, and our security.
73. Opposed, slow walked, or ignored a series of sanctions against Russia.
74. Has done nothing about Belarus.
75. Trashed NATO.
76. Trashed Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau, Theresa May, and on and on and on. Physically pushed a foreign head of state aside so that he could get into a photo op.
77. Withdrew troops from Germany, a gift to Putin.
78. Called Xi Jinping a “brilliant leader” and “a great man.”
79. Has ignored and even encouraged (!!!) the Chinese oppression of the Uighurs, an indescribable tragedy of brutal genocide.
80. While coddling China, he and his family have actively pursued economic interests there. (And in other places around the world. A plethora of quid pro quos.)
81. For a long time failed to speak up on the suppression of Hong Kong’s movement toward democracy.
82. Has completely ignored China’s harrowing, high tech ( including AI) surveillance, one of the most terrifying tools of repression ever devised.
83. Pulled CDC observers out of China before the pandemic.
84. Invited and welcomed Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, Viktor Orban, Jair Bolsonaro, Andrzej Duda, Rodrigo Duterte, and other thugs to the White House. Duterte, a Trump favorite, refused the invitation.
85. Has fallen in puppy love with Kim Jong-un.
86. In the meantime, has enabled North Korea to fast track their nuclear program and has spit in the face of South Korea.
87. In general, he has made us the laughing stock of the world. In many countries that detest Putin, he is nevertheless more popular than Trump.
88. He got out of the JCPOA with absolutely no plan except risking war with Iran.
89. Has massively enabled Russian aggression and hegemony.
90. Has done nothing about Venezuela.
91. Was impeached for attempting to bribe and extort Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine for illegal and unconstitutional help in the 2020 election.
92. Clearly and obviously colluded with Russia. However, in large part because he ignored legal Congressional subpoenas and requests for depositions and lied repeatedly, as did those around him, Mueller did not have time to establish any criminal conspiracy or conspiracies. If you are stupid enough to think that he did not collude, read the Mueller report and occasionally the newspaper. Take a break from Trump TV.
93. Committed multiple counts of obstruction of justice in order to hide his malfeasance. Were he able to be indicted, he would be convicted in any court in America, according to hundreds of formal federal prosecutors who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations.
94. Now, as opposed to the way he felt – no, talked for most of his life, opposes a woman’s right to sovereignty over her own body. Would prefer that he and his old, overwhelmingly white friends and co-conspirators make one of the most personal, intimate, and difficult decisions of someone else’s life, not knowing or caring who they are or what their situation might be. Having shown a complete lack of sympathy, empathy, caring, or compassion, these devious dotards want to pretend that they care about life. I would suggest that their stances on the border, the pandemic,  health care, a social safety net, and prudent policing render these pretensions preposterous.
95. Put Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court. Kavanaugh is a liar. He obviously has an anger management problem. He’s vindictive. He’s whiney. He cried during his confirmation hearing!!! (This was because he couldn’t believe that with all the white, preppy, silver spoon, Ivy League, Georgetown-friendly privilege he brought to the table, there was any question about the confirmation.) Yes, he is very intelligent. Yes, he worked relatively hard. The problem is simple: With all of his lies, misdeeds, alleged crimes, and character flaws, he expected it. He expected it. I know many puppies more intelligent, harder working, and more honest and under control than he is who just hope to pay the bills. They expect nothing. They hope for the best. This is what privilege, white or wealthy, is all about. This is a massive, systemic problem that Trump and the Republicans have chosen and continue to choose not to address. I don’t say the privileged should not have a place at the table. I simply ask for “justice for all.” Mr. Trump and your fellow Republicans, have you seen these words somewhere? Oh, and by the way, Kavanaugh stands more-than-credibly accused of attempted rape. If you didn’t hear all of Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony, you have no right to an opinion on this.
96. Added Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The Republicans lied, cheated, and engaged in the most blatant hypocrisy I have ever encountered to steal this seat. Trump and any of the Republicans would cheat their grandmother out of a bowl of Jello. Opinion: Barrett is a sarcastic, cynical, sycophantic, right-wing ideologue who cloaks partisanship in the tarnished, motley garb of “originalism.” She is out of touch with the American people and with the Constitution as the Framers intended it, though she disingenuously claims the opposite. Philosophically, she lives in the 18^th century. She sees the Constitution as a stone-chiseled club available to beat Democrats and liberals over the head. She must be William Barr’s sister. Finally, the confirmation process was a breathless, lurid joke. The Supreme Court has little credibility or gravitas left. It needs to be expanded.
97. As he always does when he believes it will benefit him, Trump broke the agreement with CBS to complete the 60 Minutes interview and to give them exclusive rights to air it.
98. He and the Republicans are completely out of touch with the majority of American people. Essentially, both Trump and the Republicans work for the obscenely rich and their corporations and enterprises. They work for Wall Street, not Main Street. A few examples:
    1. 65% of Americans support Biden’s climate plan. Trump and the GOP oppose it.
    2. 72% of Americans support a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package. Trump and the GOP have blocked it, but with the election in mind and knowing it wouldn’t pass anyway, Trump recently got squirrely about his opposition.
    3. A majority of voters prefer Biden over Trump and the Republicans on law and order.
    4. By 49% to 43%, more Americans prefer Biden over Trump on selecting Supreme Court justices.
    5. By 55% to 36%, more Americans prefer Biden over Trump on uniting the country.
    6. By large margins more Americans prefer Biden over Trump on the COVID-19 response.
    7. A majority of Americans think climate change is a threat that must be dealt with immediately. The Republicans and Trump have never taken it seriously. For example, since 2016 the Trump administration has removed quarter of all climate change references from government websites.
    8. A majority of Americans support a robust social safety net. The Republicans have a long history of routinely and systematically attempting to weaken it.
    9. A 2016 Republican survey found that “increasing funding for veterans’ mental health services, strengthening and preserving Medicare and Social Security, and reforming the student loan system all scored higher than Trump’s favored subjects of tax cuts, border security, and preserving the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.”
    10. A majority of Americans are not racist.
    11. A majority of Americans support Black Lives Matter
    12. Had I time, I could add many more critical items to this list. The point is that Trump and the Republican party are spectacularly out of touch with the American people. They are the out-of-touch radicals they accuse the progressives of being. At their rallies, instead of shouting, USA!, USA!, USA!, they should be shouting, K Street!, K Street!, K Street!
99. Because the Republican party has gotten so out of touch with the American people and with the foundations of American Democracy and American values and ideals, droves of former prominent Republicans have voiced their opposition to the party as it currently exists or have, in many cases, even formally left the party. All of these moral heroes utterly oppose Trump. A few examples:
    1. George F. Will
    2. Charlie Sykes
    3. Steve Schmidt
    4. Michael Steele
    5. William Kristol
    6. David Jolly
    7. “Sully” Sullenberger
    8. George Conway
    9. Tom Nichols
    10. Joe Scarborough
    11. Jennifer Ruben
    12. Max Boot
    13. S. E. Cupp
    14. Stuart Stevens
    15. Colin Powell
    16. Meghan McCain
    17. Cindy McCain
    18. Lincoln Chafee
    19. Joe Walsh
    20. John Kasich
    21. Christine Todd Whitman
    22. Rick Wilson
    23. Justin Amash
    24. David Frum
    25. Nicolle Wallace
    26. Rick Tyler
    27. Anthony Scaramucci
    28. Peter Wehner
    29. Ana Navarro
    30. Ray LaHood
    31. William McRaven
    32. Jim Mattis
    33. John Negroponte
    34. Jeff Flake
    35. Charlie Dent
    36. Bill Weld
    37. Mitt Romney, the only Republican Senator who is not a complete coward, voted to remove Trump from office.

100.  Is a damn liar. Barack Obama lied 108 times in eight years. In four years, Trump has lied over 20,000 times. This alone has shredded the moral fabric of America. It is the main reason that true and reliable communication, in all forms and at all public levels, is now nearly if not completely impossible. Even our homes and our schools have been violated. Question to evangelical Christians: Is he the Father of Lies?

101.  None of this is new. I wrote a book about it in 2016. Donald Trump has spent a lifetime bullying, extorting, bribing, employing thugs, benefiting from ties to the American and Russian Mobs, cheating as a way of life, and conning everyone who would listen. He has been described as a “walking crime wave.” He has brought this corruption to the White House. His has injected it into our veins. He has made all of us worse. Including me. Including you.

I could easily double or triple this list but I’m exhausted, and if you’ve read this far you must be also. Take a bow! And if this doesn’t get you to vote, God help us!

Now we must remove Donald Trump and all of his Republican enablers, at all levels, if we are to heal our nearly mortally-wounded nation.

PLEASE VOTE!

Or maybe not. Maybe we like it in the shitter. Maybe we belong there. I don’t know. I’m just a puzzled puppy.