OK, GOP - Are You Embarrassed Yet? [View all]

[NanceGreggs]

I can’t imagine that you’re not totally humiliated by the Idiot you put in the White House – but then, one has to have some kind of scruples, some set of core principles that supersede all other considerations in order to feel shame – and you apparently have neither.

I had no hand in supporting Trump, and I most assuredly did not vote for him. And yet I find myself cringing every time he opens his mouth. I cannot begin to imagine the shame I would feel if I had actually contributed to his being elevated to any position of power or influence, no less the office of the presidency of the United States.

I keep wondering when you will determine that a line has been crossed, when you will decide that this foul-mouthed, totally incompetent asshole has gone too far. Sadly, it seems obvious that your party and its members are devoid of common decency, and unable to distinguish between behaviour that is appropriate for a man in Trump’s position and the words and actions of a bullying schoolyard brute.

Despite your alleged good Christian values, you sat in silence as a self-declared “pussy-grabber”, with your oh-so-eager help, rose to the highest office in the land. Despite your claims that he was equipped to handle the responsibilities of that office, you sat in silence as he repeatedly demonstrated his complete ignorance of what those responsibilities entailed, along with his obvious inability to fulfill them.

Despite eight years of endless criticism of Obama – eight years of governance that actually did make America great again after the ineptitude of George W. Bush and its consequences – you cheered as a classless, clueless buffoon sat his lard-ass in the Oval Office, and immediately proclaimed his intentions to un-do everything that Obama had accomplished for the betterment of the citizenry, and the nation as a whole.

When Trump “tweeted” nonsense aimed at demeaning anyone he perceived as having crossed him, you ignored it. When he made statements that amounted to incoherent gibberish, you looked the other way. When he repeatedly lied about everything from his electoral “win” to statistics he clearly pulled from his own behind, you twiddled your thumbs and stared off into space. When he praised Putin and disparaged our allies, you kept your fingers in your ears and your mouths firmly shut.

And now, on top of everything else this deranged idiot has already done to tarnish our nation’s standing in the world, he has accused President Barack Obama – without any evidence whatsoever – of having used illegal means to spy on him.

Exactly where do you draw the line? Precisely when do you stand up to this ridiculous excuse of a POTUS, and hang your collective heads in shame at the thought of having placed him in a position where he is free to so blatantly disrespect the office of the presidency by making such ludicrous accusations?

Your boy, Trump, has already made our country a laughingstock by virtue of the fact he could ever have attained the presidency in the first place. While our global neighbours shake their heads in disbelief at the unreality of it all, you continue to make excuses for a lying, vengeful, self-serving prick who has no business defiling our White House, and everything it represents, with his never-ending displays of foolishness, abject stupidity, and behaviour that is unbefitting a decent human being, no less the supposed leader of the free world.

Throughout the presidential campaign and now Trump’s time in office, I have awaited that moment when someone, anyone, on your side of the aisle says enough is enough, we can no longer hide behind the pretense that this madman is somehow suitable for the office of POTUS. I have waited for that time when your embarrassment takes hold, when your humiliation is so great that you can no longer live with your own guilty conscience in having kept silent for so long.

Will that day ever come? Will you ever have the guts to muzzle the rabid dog you have unleashed on the nation, and admit your complicity in allowing it to literally shit all over everything our country stands for?

Given your silence thus far, I doubt you are capable of doing anything that requires something more than standing on the sidelines while Putin’s pooch destroys us all. Your unwillingness to end the disaster that is this Trump "presidency" is no longer simply a matter of standing back and allowing the chips to fall where they may - it is aiding and abetting an insane criminal in his quest to reshape our country into something abhorrent to every conscientious American, and every thinking member of the global community.

You should be ashamed of yourselves, and what you have wrought. But that takes a conscience; it takes patriotism, it takes courage, and it takes decency – all qualities which you clearly lack. It takes those whose love of freedom outweighs the idea of political victory. In other words, it takes more than lip-service to an idiot who has absolutely no concept of the duties of his office, and no regard for the well-being of people he pretends to lead.

At least we now know where you stand - at the back of the room, cowering in silence and completely uncaring about your country, your fellow citizens, and your commitment to the furtherance of our democracy.

Your lack of embarrassment says it all. You, the GOP, are devoid of principles. I can only hope that the citizenry remembers your cowardice in the days to come, and vote accordingly in future - and I have a feeling that they will do exactly that.