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Write Me If You Can...!
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
Dear readers: By the time you read this column I will
have voluntarily removed myself to the Panama Canal Zone to
establish residency there as my protest against America
voting into the White House a certifiable lunatic!
For me to stay in America during such a soon to be
turbulent presidency would be my acceptance of this moron as
my president and that is something I could not live with
under no circumstances.
Without citing chapter and verse, America has lost
itself with the election of Donald Trump as president. You
might as well have elected Bozo The Clown or the Three
Stooges to serve in that capacity.
That is the category in which I would place Donald as
far as his ability and capacity to be president. His
gaffes, intentional and otherwise, are legendary as to being
the
antithesis of present-day requirements to be remotely able
to be president.
So, from the warm climes of the Panama Canal, I will be
watching cable television from my veranda, observing the
circus acts of Trump and a Congress that will either implode
due to its inability to do the basics of governance or their
appalling lack of control over the political and farcical
acts of Trump and his appointed right wing cabinet members.
For anyone who chose not to vote in this election of
the century, shame on you and your apathy because when
"things" happen and those "things" are policies that
directly kick you in your hiney, please do not complain but
simply turn your hiney to the unkicked part so Donald can
complete his task.
To see the rabid support for this buffoon that he
generated in spite of his
mind boggling derogatory statements about practically
everyone, including his own daughter (affirming with radio
shock jock Howard Stern that she is a pretty piece of ***),
it makes one wonder that the political discourse in this
country has been reduced to a full body contact sport.
In spite of the concerns the electorate had, and
rightly so with Hillary C., the election of the carnival
barker Trump to the Oval Office is an effrontery to human
decency and hastening of the demise of civility in the
political arena.
If Trump has not and will not bring back to the shores
of the USA the jobs that he has in about 12 countries and
which make his products, why are the voters clueless in
thinking that Donald will bring jobs back to America?
If Donald has any reserve for promoting a white
nationalist agenda (The KKK under the auspices of David Duke
of Louisiana strongly and happily endorsed Trump and
his racial/immigration policies), that reserve or patina
will come off while he is in the White House and that house
will only get whiter and whiter and whiter.
Sadly, too many so called white evangelicals sold their
soul to the Devil when they
jettisoned any semblance of a "moral majority" and, like
sheep to the slaughter, they
voted, "Trump!"
So, from a safe distance I will be watching the
political drama as Donald sticks it to
America and tries to foist his vision of a divided America
(both race and class) on a gullible and naive voting
population who thought Donald was their Second Coming of
Christ.
American politics has sown to a whirlwind and now it
must reap the harvest. No recount. No second thoughts. No,
"what have I done!" statements allowed. You were determined
to bring Donald to the dance, so now dance with him!
Lafe Tolliver, Attorney
comments to tolliver@juno.com
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Lafe
Tolliver, Esq
Limping Across The Finish Line....
By Lafe Tolliver, Esq
Guest Column
By the time you read this column, Hillary Clinton just
tallied enough electoral college votes to become the first
female president of the USA.
The only thing good about it, is that she kept that
maniac Donald Trump from the nuclear codes and his blooming
bromance with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
So, with Hillary in the White House, she will have to
first execute on the following three items before she will
be able to govern effectively:
(1) Keep the First Man, Bill Clinton, away from any shapely
female interns.
(2) Have Bill Clinton wear an ankle electronic monitoring
bracelet so that it sets off a high pitched alarm when Bill
Clinton comes within one hundred feet of an unsuspecting
female intern.
(3) Have a frank discussion with Bill Clinton on he
voluntarily becoming an eunuch and thus saving Hillary a lot
of time of not being distracted with the Secret Service
constantly ringing her cell phone during important cabinet
meetings that husband Bill, "is on the prowl again!"
Other than those worries, Hillary will be stymied with
pushing an aggressive and progressive political agenda
during the first critical one hundred days because it has
already been said that certain factions of the Republican
Party are planning to investigate her about the email
scandal or Benghazi or the doings of the Clinton Foundation.
In other words, America could be facing more political
gridlock for years as certain Republicans are not yet
finished with their on going 30-year war against anything or
anyone called, "Clinton."
The email scandals were self-inflicted wounds to say the
least. Anyone with two functioning brain cells would have
come to the conclusion that having a private server in your
closet at your home or office that could send and received
classified information was not a bright idea.
Let's face it. Hillary won this narrow election because
her former boss, President Obama, and Michelle lent their
credence and popularity to a candidate who was seriously
flawed.
Also, the Latino vote came out for her big time and, as
president, Hillary has some whopping IOU's to pay to that
constituency. Let's see if she does or simply gives lip
service to those voters.
If only lip service, I can assure you that if she tries
to run again in four years, she will be lucky to find a
minority of minority voters rooting for her. Bet on it!
The Black Congressional Caucus should hold her hands,
feet and eyeballs to the fire and gave her no breaks and
insist on meaningful changes regarding criminal code
reform, incarceration reviews, money to black colleges and
universities, an appointment of a black woman to the US
Supreme Court and appointments in both her cabinet and with
federal judgeships that bespeak of the tremendous black and
brown support that got her to the White House.
Anything less would be a slap in their faces. Hillary
knows that the margin of victory was from the Garcias and
the Washingtons and the Diegos and the Johnsons who pulled
the levers for her win.
This was a dirty election. Sometimes, I had to take a
shower simply after listening to the evening news! Will her
four years be mired in acrimony and bitter charges from the
losing party? I hope not. My water bill is high enough!
Lafe Tolliver, Attorney
comments to: tolliver@juno.com
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