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Presidents' Day
17 February 2025
It's pushing it to celebrate Presidents' Day with a felon in the White House. And let's be honest, he hasn't shown any new-found respect for the Constitution since he moved back in. In fact he seems to be wielding the Supreme Court's immunity grant as a Constitutional condom.
A Red Tie. AI-generated image of a long red tie abandoned on the floor.
It would be embarrassing to have such a, well, convicted creep as president if it were not so damaging. Everyone in the world (with a few favored exceptions) is already suffering from his peculiar mix of failing mental capacity, persistent incompetence and blissful ignorance.
As Margaret Renkle put it in Tenderness as an Act of Resistance (gift link):
What kind of president dismantles and threatens to shut down an agency that feeds hungry children? Or appoints as health secretary a crackpot vaccine skeptic at a time when avian influenza may be on the verge of human-to-human transmission? Or abandons efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even those that are more cost-effective than fossil fuels, just as climate-driven weather disasters are worsening?
What kind of president targets religious groups urging compassion toward immigrants and working to resettle refugees? Or rounds up people who came here to find work and puts them in a prison camp built for terrorists? All while blocking pathways to legal migration?
To say nothing about his attack on the arts.
We have seen what kind as he cripples the government that protects this country, the people who live in it and those around the world who depend on it. America's enemies could not have wished for a better agent than this charlatan. Today was never intended to honor such a presidency.
Nor can we be content to simply remember the men who honorably served this country as president.
Instead we look forward to the kind of person who will one day restore respect to the office -- and, for that matter, the country that, before the Republican Party became the Donner Party, used to call itself the land of the free and the home of the brave.