The golden age of ......

Don’t you feel it, America, don’t you feel it?

As I understand it, as of 12:01 p.m. Monday, January 20th, America entered “the Golden Age.” We’re back in “capable” hands (and we all know from experience what those hands are capable of).

The tortuous life under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris is over, and the glorious living under Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance is just beginning.

“The golden age of America begins right now," Trump bellowed right after his inaugural swearing in. "From this day forward, our country will flourish."

He called it, “Liberation Day!”

Boy oh boy oh boy! You can’t get more hopeful than that! Trust me, I know the value and power of optimistic speech, and for 30 minutes, our new/old 47th POTUS left nothing to the imagination. According to his inaugural address, Americans are going to be swimming in wealth and good fortune sooner than later. You can bet on it (I wouldn’t, but some of YOU can)!

I’m shocked he didn’t promise to throw in a case of his famous Trump steaks to go with the deal, or maybe free tuition to Trump University.

And get this! Not only will we all be filthy rich, but in fact, we’ll be, how’d he say it, “the envy of the world.” Everything’s going to be alright. Wait and you’ll see.

You and I are just a signed-Executive-Order-away from an abundance of happiness “like you’ve never seen before.” Heck, who needs both houses of Congress anymore, even if they’re run by Republicans who’ve been suckered into believing they’re going to help run the country with Trump.

Same with the Supreme Court. The right-wing majority there has earned its place in history, thanks to ruling that no handcuffs in the world can touch President Convicted Felon Man’s wrists, because he can’t be held liable for breaking the law while in office.

         I mean the Congress, the courts, and now he’s promising to slap so many tariffs on other countries, he’ll have to create the Dept. of External Revenue just to make sure America is collecting all of the foreign money it’s owed.

And of course, all that tariff revenue coming to the United States is going to help drive the cost of energy down, along with a renewed vision towards energy independence that will drive the cost of groceries down too, he promises.

"My top priority will be to create a nation that is proud, prosperous and free," Trump bellowed as the inauguration crowd, including a couple of billionaires in the Capitol’s Rotunda, cheered.

Let’s not forget what issue most Americans hail Trump for the most - stopping the flood of illegal immigration at the Southern border. Trump has promised to keep all of the new “illegals” out, and show all of the ones already here the door.

Gee, I’m feeling exuberant already. I think he’s calling it “mass deportation.”

The highly skeptical among us however call it “mass inhumanity,” especially his vow to cancel the American birthright citizenship of constitutionally protected children of immigrants born here. 22 states and two cities are already suing Trump over this, as they should.

And all of you gender-ambiguous folks, listen up - Pres. Trump says no more, forget about it! Either you’re a man or a woman - nothing in between. Forget what the flag and the Constitution says about your freedom to be you as long as you’re not hurting anybody else. From now on, President Trump says if you wear a skirt and makeup, your name better not be Bob or Joe. He’s just not having that. 

Ahhhhh, the Golden Age, can’t you feel it? No more diversity, equity or inclusion in the federal government, or anywhere else for that matter. I mean, if you want to get rid of woke-ism, if you want to cripple that white-people-hating CRT (critical race theory), then you’ve got to start somewhere, right?

        From now on, America will be a meritocracy, no more of this seeking equality crap. No more federal contracts for minority businesspeople who can do the job, but somehow always found themselves locked out of the bidding process before affirmative action changed things. Now, under Trump, the rules go back to being unfair. Well aren't we fortunate?

        There was more to Trump's blizzard of  "good" news.

How did Politico report it? 

“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump said, promising to “very simply put America first,” relishing his having swept all seven swing states over Vice President Kamala Harris. He promised to end inflation, to “drill, baby, drill” for oil and gas, end subsidies for electric vehicles and eliminate genders besides male and female. He vowed to end diseases, wars and Panama’s control of the Panama Canal."

Damn Politico! You forgot to report he promised to walk on water, and multiply the fish and baskets of bread too!

There was so much more to Donald Trump’s inauguration speech that we could have applauded…come to find out it really wasn’t the inauguration speech he wanted to deliver.

Apparently his staff “sanitized” what Trump actually wanted to say, as not to scare everybody to death. How do we know this? Trump himself told us for 32 minutes during his second remarks of the day at the Capitol. That’s where there was no semblance of the Golden Age uttered.

Instead, that’s where the true Donald J. Trump muttered what he really wanted to say earlier.

His order to pardon at least 1500 convicted traitors who attacked their own nation’s US Capitol at his urging. 140 police officers were injured, five of whom eventually died. He also gave clemency to six of those rioters who attacked those officers.

Gee, wonder how the surviving Capitol police officers now feel about that? Betrayed by their country for reelecting this nut job?

By the way, he still insists that the 2020 election had been “stolen” from him.

Trump's hatred for the Congressional Jan. 6th Committee that nailed him for his actions and inactions during the Capitol insurrection is ever-present.

And that the “scales of justice will be rebalanced,” he promises, apparently to give convicted felons like himself more of an even shot at getting away with committing more crimes.

        Don't forget his feeble attempt to blame former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not calling in 10,000 National Guardsmen to quell the violence on Jan.6th on a day he otherwise calls "a day of love," even though she never had the authority. He did, but didn't.

        Glad Nancy wasn't at his inauguration to hear that lie! She might have thrown a shoe at him.

There was so much more I won’t bore, or outrage you with, except that President Clown Show promised "My legacy will be as a peacemaker and unifier. That's what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier." Yeah, like he was during his first term.

And so, ladies and gentlemen, fellow citizens and MAGA suckers, begins the Golden Age …

…of More Lies and Ever-mounting Bullcrap!

That’s what Trump wants us to wallow in, and now his return to power gives him every opportunity to do so. And anyone who doesn’t like it runs the risk of prosecution, if not persecution, because neither this man nor his followers suffer honest people. He punishes perceived enemies.

I just hope Rev. Franklin Graham knows what he was praying for at the inauguration. I can’t say I’ve even heard a man of God pray that a proven criminal be more successful before.

Now that we have the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, openly giving Nazi salutes in public to celebrate his friend Trump’s electoral victory, we need to keep our eyes on things. "My legacy will be as a peacemaker and unifier," Trump says "That's what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier."

Not with the boldfaced lies you tell, Clown Show! Not hardly!

And Lord have mercy, Trump had the absolute gall to utter the following -

“I was saved by God to make America great again.” 

Don’t get me wrong, maybe he was saved by God, but where is it written that the devil doesn’t save folks too for his own evil purposes, especially folks who are always up to no good? Besides, Trump wouldn't even place his tiny hand on the two Bibles wife Melania was holding during the oath of office.

        Now why would such a "devout" man forget a little thing like that?

My sincere hope is that we survive this serpent before he truly craters the nation. And I sincerely pray that we find some way to democratically replace him before his “Golden Age of Lies and Ever-mounting Bullcrap” runs its course.

Our children deserve better! Their children deserve better. Hell, us old folks deserve better, before we go.

Saving our country…warts and all….there can be no greater mission now!

        No greater mission!