Dear New Employee Trump

Dear new employee,

Your 322,762,018 bosses welcome you and wish you well on your challenging new job.  Let me introduce you to those who you work for.

Half of us are women.  Please remember that more than 3 times the number of people that showed up to celebrate your first day came out to tell you that women matter.  Those same people told you that people with disabilities matter.  LGBTQ people.  People of color.  People that belong to the same church as you and people that don't.  People that believe in a higher power, and people that don't.

And you also work for people that didn't show up to march in the streets.  The people who just want a job.  The people that want unborn lives to be protected.  Some people that want to get richer, even if it means destroying the earth for their grandchildren.  You work for them too.

Please make wise decisions that will help all of people you work for, not just some that think like you, look like you, or are as rich as you.  Please remember that your words matter.  Evil dictators are listening and just might pick a fight with all of us because of what you say.

And more than anything, please remember the rules.  You have the freedom to speak your mind, but remember, we do too, and you work for us.  The press will be watching you - they have the right to report on what you say and do, honestly and fairly.  ALL the press - not just the media outlets that agree with you.  We, your bosses, have the right to performance reviews, and if some of us don't like what you're doing, we have the right to tell you.  That might take the form of removing some of your buddies and replacing them with new employees.  We also have the right to take to the streets if we disagree with you.

This is a temporary position, and we will be watching.

Trump – Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us?

It's no secret I'm not a Trump supporter.  Even if I was a conservative (I'm not), I would abhor his character.  As a frequent world traveler for work, I hear what other countries say about us; how we've become a laughing stock at best, and isolationists on the brink of nuclear war at worst.

But today, as I watched the hundreds upon thousands of people worldwide march in solidarity, peacefully, with love and grace, I felt hope.  Not because they were marching, but because they were awake and paying attention.  If this movement continues, perhaps people will start to believe that they too can make a difference.

This change isn't easy.  It isn't comfortable.  Friends you've known for years unfriend you because of your views.  Things get heated; fake news is treated as gospel if it fits your idea of how things are.

Today, while millions marched, Trump visited the CIA.  In front of a wall with stars signifying men and women who died in service of our country, Trump first praised Fox News.  Then he said how much he liked the Intelligence community, claiming that he was never against them, and nobody loved them more than Donald J. Trump.  The rest of his speech he spent talking about the dishonest media, and how reports of the low attendance at his inauguration were untrue.  And how many times he's been on the cover of Time.

This was day one.  Meanwhile, North Korea is planning to test us.  Meanwhile, ISIS is watching.  But let's focus instead on the HUGE crowds The Donald saw - had to have been 1.5 million cheering him on.

And Trump tweeted while Washington burned.

 

 

 

Getting Your Facts From Facebook Memes

I think I finally get it.  The otherwise lovely, sane, reasonable people who rabidly follow Trump get their facts straight from Facebook.  It's really the only explanation.  I see the memes - the ones that claim that President Obama is a Muslim, was born in Kenya, compared to a monkey.  Or the "news" stories on sites that claim to be reporting real news, but instead are slanted one way or the other.

When I posted something from FactCheck.org once (a legimate, non-biased site), my FB friend sent me an article claiming something different.  Rather than just accepting it, I checked it out.  Turns out the site was a DATING SITE!

So this is where you're getting your news from?  I get it; if you have certain beliefs, you're not going to alter those beliefs.  I'm not going to try and change your mind, even when I disagree with you.  But for Pete's sake, do some research on the candidates, one of which will be the leader of the free world.

Trump finally admitted today that Obama was born in the USA.  No apology for dragging the entire nation through the mud with him for the last 5 years; instead he tried to take credit for finishing what Hillary Clinton started.  If he says that often enough, people believe it.  The fact is that Clinton never said such a thing.  Ever.

So go ahead and believe in conservative principles.  But don't try and explain away the fact that you support this clown.