(not) My President in Distress

If we’re going to fight this Cheetos-Colored, tiny-handed, pussy-grabbing fucktard, we need to start by coming to terms with some things. We need to be united in our protest and we need to be on the same page.

One of the most disappointing sayings or lines of thought that has come about post-election is the idea that Trump is #NotMyPresident. The only people who can say that are those who don’t live here in the U.S. and aren’t citizens of our country. If you are a citizen of these United States of America, then, like him, or not, Donald Fuckwad Trump is, in fact, your president.

This is important.

It’s important because of who and what we are and more importantly, what we are not. What we are is a constitutional republic. At it’s inception, our forefathers chose not to have a strict democracy where the popular vote elected our federal offices. We chose to be a republic where weight and power were given to less-populated states so that the more populated states couldn’t bully them.

This is the system that has been in place since the beginning and it’s the system we’ve all been a part of for our entire voting careers. If you didn’t already know it, shame on you for not studying harder in history and social studies classes. If you did, then you if you wanted to do something about it, the time was then–not now.

People we have elected have done their best to corrupt this system. Based on who is in power, they re-draw district lines to make things more beneficial for their own party. This happened and continued to happen throughout both Bush II and Obama’s administrations. It was on the news. It was alarming then. The consequences have very likely already been felt.

The next time a lion walks into your home, don’t wait until he starts eating you to try to get him back out again. Your responsibility as a citizen goes far beyond voting once every four years.

The system we use is very likely outdated. Conservatives are not going to like the idea of changing the very type of government we have. This one offers them room to manipulate it. A pure democracy where popular vote was the determining factor would not. Trump won using the system in place. He won fair and square. Hillary lost. Don’t like it? Fight to change it before it bites you in the ass again. Just remember–it’s a double edged sword.

Trump is our president. You can’t simply say that because you didn’t vote for him that he’s not. You can call them racist. You can call them ignorant. You can call them stupid and backwards and whatever you like but there were enough of them to win. That’s important–because that many people deserve to be heard, just like we do. We need to figure them out. We need to understand them. We need to embrace them and bring them to our side.

Nothing good comes from Trump’s failure. You can’t just choose to live your life separately of him. You don’t get to ignore the fact that he’s doing harm to the environment and future generations by saying “he’s not my president.”

It’s better to own him. He is our president. That job comes with a lot of accountability. He’s not accountable to people who deny him though. He’s only accountable to citizens who participate in the process. It’s not about you. Put your silly ego aside. It’s about us. All of us. And we need to claim him to beat him.

As a country, we have to be able to do two paradoxical things at once. We need to accept that he is our president and hope for his success, while simultaneously standing up to him, holding him accountable and eventually trying to remove him–IF he gives us the proper legal cause.

He is our president…but.

Maybe, just maybe…he’s not. The only true path to Trump not being our president is if we can prove that Russian hacking had some true and real impact on the election. That’s not as easy as it seems. It’s hard to say what people would have done if they hadn’t had this email issue thrown at them. It’s hard to say what would have happened if there had been no Russian hacking.

That they did it is a certainty.

What we can do about it? I’m not sure. I’m not sure anyone really is sure.

Let me ask you this though: Imagine there’s a country out there and we send in the CIA to covertly influence the election to get a particular leader installed that benefits the U.S. more than the other one would have.

Now stop imagining. We’ve done it. Countless times. Is that an act of war? We just got a taste of our own medicine. A foreign country, for their own gain, and to our detriment, influenced our election process, to ensure the leader who would make our country weaker and easier to manipulate won.

More: The man they helped put into office may, or may not, be someone they feel they can further control based on information they have on him. Ladies and gentlemen, if you think hookers pissing on each other for Donald Trump’s viewing pleasure is the worst they have on him, I think (and this is opinion, not fact)–I think–that will be proven to be tragically wrong.

So. We could be in a situation where, in order to keep certain pieces of information from the public that would make him a laughingstock, he might bend to Russia’s will. This is a country that is killing it’s own people. This is a leader who is dangerous. This is a serious thing.

But…and this is a big but: We need to prove it. We can know it and still have to claim him and live in a country where he has power. If we can prove it–we can impeach.

And that seems like a good place to finish up. It really bothers me that more people don’t understand that impeachment is a process. Impeachment is a charge of misconduct made against an elected official. Impeachment does not mean removal. Impeachment is the charge and adjudication of that charge by–the legislature (under Republican control).

So to all of the ignorant saying we have to impeach Trump, you might want to start by figuring out what crime he’s committed. If we can find out that he’s in Russia’s pocket, we can charge him with Treason. If a video surfaces of him having a piss party in the oval office with a bunch of hookers, we can impeach on moral grounds, as they did to Bill Clinton, unsuccessfully.

It is possible or even likely that Trump will get frustrated with the process and procedure of government and do something that he’s not empowered to do and in doing so violate the trust of his office? Yes. Do we have to wait for it? Yes. Is taking down the LGBTQ and Climate Change pages on the website enough? No.

Donald Trump is my president. I don’t like it. I don’t like him. I find it to be embarrassing and hard to swallow, but our government and way of life are bigger than any one person. It’s bigger than just me and my opinion. It’s bigger than Trump. He won office playing by the same rules every other president who has been elected to that office did.

I read a great quote on Twitter about it. I’ll have to paraphrase for our purposes here though. It was something along the lines of: America did not just elect a new king. We took on a new temp worker and we are his boss.

Being his boss starts with accepting what we don’t want to accept. The Vladimir Putin’s bitch and favorite piss pirate is our president.

Let’s claim him and then be a harsh, harsh boss.

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