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Contempt Writ Large -- For the U.S. Constitution

To the Congress of the United States:

Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow citizens:

Three years ago, we launched the great American comeback. Tonight, I stand before you to share the incredible results. Jobs are booming, incomes are soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is surging, and our country is thriving and highly respected again! America's enemies are on the run, America's fortunes are on the rise, and America's future is blazing bright.

The years of economic decay are over. The days of our country being used, taken advantage of, and even scorned by other nations are long behind us. Gone too are the broken promises, jobless recoveries, tired platitudes, and constant excuses for the depletion of American wealth, power, and prestige.In just 3 short years, we have shattered the mentality of American decline, and we have rejected the downsizing of America's destiny. We are moving forward at a pace that was unimaginable just a short time ago, and we are never going back! I am thrilled to report to you tonight that our economy is the best it has ever been. Our military is completely rebuilt, with its power being unmatched anywhere in the world -- and it is not even close. Our borders are secure. Our families are flourishing. Our values are renewed. Our pride is restored. And for all these reasons, I say to the people of our great country, and to the Members of Congress before me: The State of our Union is stronger than ever before! The vision I will lay out this evening demonstrates how we are building the world's most prosperous and inclusive society -- one where every citizen can join in America's unparalleled success, and where every community can take part in America's extraordinary rise.    U.S. President Donald Trump

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi extended her hand. President of the United States Donald Trump kept his by his side. Ms.Pelosi's gesture a mockery of civility and of institutional ceremony. Mr.Trump's a wholly human reaction to the fomenter of a highly controversial movement to remove the man from public office as the duly elected President of the United States of America whom a majority of U.S. citizens voted into that office.

 

This is a man whose human characteristics and personality are not endowed with the best that human nature can achieve. He is endowed with elements of human nature that run contrary to social decorum and decency. He is a braggart whose truth is not that of reality but of egoistic function. His verities are his alone, and his perceptions owe more to the shady side of the street than that which the bright aura of sunlight reveals. A cranky bully and a venal blackguard.

 

A legitimately elected president of the most powerful, prestigious, influential country of the world. Whose election success as a Republican president resulted in a Democratic revolt which translated immediately to its vast civic supporters mounting an unheard-of public resistance in the form of marches, demonstrations, accusations and refusals to regard the man whom a majority of their fellow citizens felt epitomized the best candidate for the office. By rejecting that choice they chose to insult the electorate and to damn their Republic's constitution.

Through the medium of one imagined conspiracy after another the stringently partisan Democrats invented reasons why this man should be deposed, removed from office, charging him not merely with improprieties but with betrayal of American values and verities, of consorting with the 'enemy', of illegally plotting to gain the presidency, of corrupting politics, of disrupting American institutions for his own accommodation. President Trump appeared by many of his actions to bolster some of those claims.

His term of office runs to the fall of 2020, when a general election is slated for November, and he plans to run for the same office again, while the Democrats, disappointed that none of their previous accusations held up under scrutiny, manufactured another that they planned to use to remove him from office and invalidate his intentions to achieve another four-year presidential term. The Democratic Party has distinguished itself latterly in hysterics and a hard swing to the left.

Their impeachment effort to remove Donald Trump from office and relieve the United States of his governmental presence in the White House in favour of installing a presumably interim caretaker government until the November election failed. Joe Biden, running for the Democratic presidential candidate for the general election, appears to be taking the brunt of the public's suspicion of his and his son's misuse of his vice-presidential office for personal enrichment.

Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the fifth Democratic primary debate [File: Saul Loeb/AFP]

In lock-step with the outrageous behaviour of too many of her party's youth wing, along with the yank-to-the-left of candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren who advocate for an America that would become even more dysfunctional than it currently is, Speaker Pelosi outdid herself in a pique of contemptuously vile behaviour unbefitting an intelligent, civil member of Congress whose influence and integrity has been suborned by members of a youthful clique whose vindictive hatred for the America they represent is venomous.

 

Perhaps what is most infuriating to these inveterate plotters is the reality that most of the President's claims of success are borne out by the solid economic state, low unemployment, larger visibility on the world stage albeit on the President's terms, a more robust military to offset any challenges that appear on the horizon, and a recent poll that places the President's approval rating at 49 percent. His firm control of the government appears on the surface, confirmed. Whether the chaos underlying it is as real as the media portray it to be, another matter altogether.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempts to shake hands with President Trump at the start of the State of the Union address on Tuesday.  (Getty Images)

 

Labels: Congress, Government, Impeachment, United States, White House

posted by Pieface @ Friday, February 07, 2020