POTUS's pathetic little sharpie
Some DUers might remember the incident in Drumpf's last term when out of nowhere, pesky scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration failed to accurately predict Drumpf's extension of a warning area to Alabama. POTUS took his sharpie and comically drew a circle around the unaffected area.
GOP presidents ever since Lincoln have faced this tiny obstacle: they continue to be hamstrung by the facts.
Some among us may recall Karl Rove's famous dismissal of the reality-based community : "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality."
For those of us not around during Rove's 2002 midterm election campaign (9/11 means we can do any crazy thing we want), it is useful to remember that on the day Jethro Bush intended to put forward a vote to allow US to invade Iraq unilaterally, a snow storm blanketed Washington D.C., preventing all but essential travel in our nation's capitol. Mother Nature gave the media almost two more weeks to talk about the pending invasion.
Sometimes empire builders need to deal with actual reality, especially since today there is no mainstream media to hold them accountable. In the runup to invasion, Rove fired generals who accurately predicted America was going into Iraq without sufficient manpower to win the peace afterwards. Later, the same Bush's brain demanded that everyone accept "The Surge" as the greatest victory since Waterloo.
So Drumpf may wave his sharpie like a sword, may pardon criminal gang members engaged in actual rebellion against our country, may incite death threats against congresspeople in his own party, may sign dozens of EOs which a threatened congress would not pass, and may even authorize the arrest and prosecution of his political opponents.
But POTUS must face the fact that America is more than his pathetic little pen. He will ever be America's most hated president. The idiocracy may feel overwhelming today, but the reality of NOAA's 6/14/25 weather predictions demonstrate how truly powerless our POTUS Drumpf remains.
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