The Biggest Hoax on Earth—and the Stakes Couldn’t be Higher
People familiar with the Circus might recall the balancing plate act where a performer gingerly sets and spins plates on a stick one at a time. In the end, there could be as many as 20 plates spinning at once that mesmerizes an audience so much that they can find it hard to keep track of individual plates. The origins of this act are believed to be from Asia, however, its safe to say that given the events of the past four years, the act has been perfected by President Donald Trump and his Republican handlers. The Biggest Hoax on Earth. Unfortunately, to his credit, it is working, and it’s not an act, its policy. By constantly keeping the news cycle fresh, and barraging the media with outlandish quotes, threats, and press conferences that are filled with lies and bombastic comments, the general public not only can’t keep up with his nefarious behavior, they get numb to it.
During the past four years of the Trump Presidency, we have seen more controversy, blatant disregard for the Constitution, and corruption than perhaps in our lifetime. The first plate that Trump spun happened even before he stepped foot in the Oval Office when his first stop after the inauguration was to his hotel instead of the White House, sending a message to all lobbyist and foreign dignitaries seeking his favor that if you want to do business with Trump, stay at his hotel. Soon after, the avalanche of malaise started, and after four years, it hasn’t stopped, in fact, it is stronger than ever. No sooner than we heard about the child separation policy, we found out about the Russian investigation, which according to the still heavily redacted Mueller Report, ‘did not exonerate the President’. This is not normal. Thanks to a rabid base that gets its news from the Fourth Branch of Government (Fox News), the worst Attorney General in US history who acts like the President’s fixer, and a ‘See No Evil’ Republican led Senate, our country is divided, weak, and hurting. Which is why Trump has to go.
Now, less than 2 months before the election, in what should’ve been the biggest outrage in our nation’s history, we are learning (confirmed by Fox) that President Trump has demeaned the service of fallen soldiers by calling them ‘losers’ and ‘suckers’. Coming from a President who is on film as saying that he likes soldiers’ who weren’t captured and began his Presidency by settling a $25m class action suit for a fraudulent university, nobody should be surprised. This has taken center stage from another ‘plate’ that he spun by saying that voters should vote twice to make sure that that system works. His comments are dangerous, unpatriotic, and threaten everybody’s welfare, Red or Blue.
By lowering the bar every day, coupled with his all-out assault on the environment, which may never recover, the experiment with Democracy will be over if Trump wins reelection.
But if there is one incident that stands out the most that sums up the Trump presidency, and for whatever reason, didn’t get a lot of attention, it was during a routine Q&A in the White House a few months ago when Trump was asked by a reporter about the Summer School teacher in Arizona who came down with Covid-19 in the classroom and died. Trump’s reply ‘Get back to school’. This tells us everything we need to know about him, his leadership style and where we are today. In other words, he’ll trade our health for votes. We can’t let that happen. The ‘new hoax’ that he called back in March did not go away in April, and those first original 15 cases didn’t just vanish like a ‘catch and kill’ story from his fixers at the National Enquirer. As we are now north of 200,000 deaths, one has to wonder, what happens if Trump wins and there is another pandemic in the near future?
Lifelong Republicans who were once the brains of the GOP and are now anti-Trump have come out and said that if he wins re-election, Democracy as we know it will collapse.
Anybody who saw the events in Lafayette Square where chemical agents were used on peaceful protesters for the sake of a photo op shouldn’t be surprised. With Bill Barr, Mitch McConnell, Jared Kushner and proven white supremacist and Senior Advisor Stephen Miller pulling the strings in the White House, I fear for our nation’s future if President Trump wins in November.
Travis Roland
