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After all is said and done, bottom line… what is your biggest take-away from the fact that Donald Trump is the President of the United States?

I'm a Republican, member of the NRA, fan of Charlton Heston…and a disabled military veteran..and I could not vote for this guy.

I had studied his rise from long before he was involved in reality TV and stories from the New York Times, how he would build a tower or casino, and soon declare bankruptcy, time after time.

I have never had the luxury of inheriting millions of dollars, or having a rich father to bankroll me.

I grew up on welfare and food stamps in Pittsburgh, in a time when the Southside was literally, a 27 block ghost-town of abandoned businesses, after the steel mills failed, and closed. Nobody was throwing money there. My city was seen as Not a good investment, “The gutted Rustbelt” Everyome’s unemplyment checks had run out. But people wanted to work, they were willing to strain their backs or get horrible burns in the mills.

But stories of Trump told of his contracts, promises to pay the people he hired, big promises, big stories, then using “The Art of Deal” later negotiate, paying anyone much less than he had agreed… and then hiring lawyers to cover any lawsuits. 40 years later, he is still doing this.

This is NOT! a guy that I want as president.

I was a very small boy in the sixties. And so I did not know Kennedy when he was alive but I was able to see speeches by him that said, “Ask not what your country can do for you… but what you can do for your country.”

I joined the Navy, to get a job. I was a volunteer. I did not get called for the draft. I wear glasses, I have flat feet. I got waivers from the Navy, I did not let these problems stop me.

I stepped up. wanted to travel, and see the world. But I had to work my way around the planet, as a Sailor, on a Cruiser. I was sent to the Persian Gulf. I carried an M60.

And it turns out his first week in office Navy SEAL Team 6 executes an Obama plan to do a raid on an Al Quaida stronghold that he forces to an issue that wasn't ready.

He was told that this was something that Obama could not accomplish… and if they could accomplish this it would be significant… and a Navy SeAL, Ryan Owens died when people at the Target were ready and waiting for them as soon as they landed at the Target site and the element of surprise was lost.

The mission was authorized to proceed anyway. Now I know that one of the models of the U.S. Navy Seals is “train as you fight, fight as you train” and one of the other ones is along the lines of “when the element of surprise is lost, it is time to leave.”

So all this was monitored, and even though surprise is lost and you have women with automatic weapons ready on the target, someone authorizes this mission to proceed.

Knowing that the target is already hot and they have to fight their way in, somebody has to make a Command Decision.

The ultimate Authority in cases like this is the president.

And so when good people … a Navy SEAL and civilian children … get killed, he blames it on the fact that this was Obama's plan, and his generals lost this man and an Osprey aircraft and civilian children were killed at the Target site.

Lesser ranked leaders of the US military fell on their sword and accepted responsibility but ultimately this is his call as Commander in Chief to authorize the mission.

I know Navy Seals, I have worked with Navy Divers. People close to me became Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians.

I myself was trained to work with explosives, by the Navy.

Early on he says his generals are the greatest in history. Until they disagree with his pull out of Syria with no notice or advice from those same generals, and then he claims that he fired them when really they resign.

He says he's better than the generals that he fires or that quit.

And he obviously has no concept of tactics, strategy, operational theater strategy, or geo-political Power Balance or negotiation or the basics… I mean the very basics of international statecraft.

He wants to break up NATO, which was for many decades the only thing keeping Russia at bay. The solidarity of saying Western Europe is safe because America will stand with them in case Russia decides to take over the continent as a leader of the Warsaw Pact.

He has pissed off the leaders of many of our past allies.

With this shutdown that he claims is for border security he has defunded the Coast Guard… such that the commandant of the Coast Guard is asking people outside the Coast Guard to donate to family relief organizations to help Coast Guard Junior enlisted service members to get by… and TSA agents are airports working with no pay.

Almost a million federal workers’ families face being homeless.

And this guy says “thank you for working without pay for me…I appreciate it. PS, if you need to pay your rent, you should hold a garage sale because this could go on for years.”

And then when asked what are people going to do make it through the shutdown, he would say “Americans are strong and resilient they will figure a way out - they always do.”

Except he's the one who's not paying them!

This is not conspiracy theory bullshit this is his Twitter postings. Recorded for all history.

He knows that the poorly educated can often be swayed by a charismatic demagogue combined with mass media.

You can open up Hitler's Playbook and replace Jews with immigrants, and his blaming the system labeling his opponents as the system that is broken and needs fixed and that he is the man to fix it…

Combined with the underclass of mostly rural White America seeing that their numbers are dwindling as they age out so that soon they will be a minority…Combined with Russia hacking social media and targeting swing voters with hate campaigns directed specifically toward each person's individual weakness as profiled by their social media profile.

So he's in the chair … OMG ... so he's in the same chair as Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Carter, Obama, and now, according to Karl L. Schultz: Admiral and Commandant of the US Coast Guard: "To the best of my knowledge, this marks the first time in our Nation's history that service members in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in government appropriations."

This is 43,000 at Shore stations, and aboard Coast Guard ships at sea defending us against threats, including Russian ballistic missile submarines … are not going to get paid …

Within a few months many of 800,000 federal workers will start losing their homes, and their families will start breaking up and little children whose parents were working for the American government, will be facing homelessness.

In winter, no less.

This man has broken up families of immigrants.

He has cast disparaging remarks against decorated military veterans, both in the halls of government and in private homes across America. Before and after the election.

Can we not remember that John McCain struggled as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for years and all that “sorry I can't serve in Vietnam due to bone spurs” Trump can say about him is that “losers get shot down.”

He certainly is hands-down the worst president of the United States and among the worst leaders on the national stage of world history.

What he does every day from the White House is much more effective at destabilizing and causing uncertainty in America and the economy than any thousand super Elite Spetznaz / KGB agents Vladimir Putin could send to America. To do the kind of damage Trump has done to the fabric of American society I estimate that a thousand KGB agents would have to be successful in subverting democracy, destroying the environment, ramping up racial tension, destroying the morale most pointedly of the U.S. Coast Guard … federal workers at airports … I could list what he's done for hours.

But the top … the absolute topper is the fact that there are severe ice and snow storms hitting the Northeast in mid-January, 2019, so bad that there are aircraft sliding off of runways in the ice,

and this guy gets on Twitter and jokes about “we could use a little bit of that global warming right now.”

The largest crisis facing Humanity in history… he's making jokes.

WHAT THE FUCK.

If my fucking CAT was President, she would do a better job than him because she would basically mind her own business, and sleep, and eat, and let the country run itself, letting Congress do their job of funding the Coast Guard, funding TSA and not wasting 5 billion dollars on a wall that drug dealers ALREADY routinely tunnel under!!!

As we saw in this movie The Great Escape made in the mid-60s these are real tunnels that they have … that would go under this planned wall that he wants to build … a complete waste of 5 billion dollars.

The sole mission for this presidency is to pay back Putin for Russian mob loans, and hand over the Ukraine on a silver platter …

Also he is in it to there aggrandize himself so that he looks good on the cameras for his own personal reality TV show, written produced and directed by him …

and he wants to undo everything Obama did it while he was in office for 8 years simply because Donald Trump was made the subject of ridicule at a past correspondents press dinner …

for being an “Obama is a secret Kenyan “ proponent which after so many years Trump later retracted.

That's my takeaway.

This cat for President… Make America Happy Again. She would not accomplish much legislation but she wouldn't do 1000th of the damage.