Whale On the Beach! Whale On the Beach!

After a week, Trump has done more damage than most Presidents have done in a year.  And he has three years and 51 weeks (more or less) to go.

He just pardoned every January 6 insurrectionist rather than just pardon the non-violent ones (both of them), and he's stopped research and reporting on fatal diseases.  He's already sicced ICE on migrants, beginning with a fish market in Newark, New Jersey, in my backyard (actually, as an Essex County suburbanite, I'm in Newark's backyard, but given that suburbs are held in greater value than cities in These States, let it pass).   And in case you thought he was bluffing about tariffs, he just slapped import taxes on Colombia, so be prepared to pay more for coffee, which has long been a necessity and will be even more of one so we can remain alert.

Some of the fears over Trump are, to be sure, overblown, like the increased likelihood of nuclear war, but I don't believe Trump will let that happen.  He's a real estate developer at heart, and he knows that nuclear fallout is bad for business.  But we might be hoping for Armageddon to bring us some badly needed relief.  The good news regarding Trump is that people who voted for the bastard are wising up to his lies and they've come to realize that he'd rather help Big Pharma raise prices on prescription drugs than reduce the price of eggs.  The bad news is that it's too late.  He's in power and there's pretty much nothing we can do about it.  I watch folks like Cheri Jacobus on YouTube telling people to fight back, and I recall that line in National Lampoon's Animal House in response to Bluto's complaint about his fellow Delta frat boys just "lying around" after being expelled from college - "Well, what the hell are we supposed to do, you moron?"

America is washed up, just like a beached whale.  But there is a difference between These States and a beached whale.  You can save a beached whale.