Dear editor,
I quote Abraham Lincoln: "All the armies of Europe and Asia could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will forever or die by suicide."
In Congress and the White House, the "authors and finishers" are standing at the brink of confirming Lincoln's prophetic words, thanks to media bias, the money-powerful status quo and the decades-long absence of sworn responsibility.
A salient example of the latter is our $27.8 trillion debt and the $392.8 billion annual interest payments, which are still increasing. Interest payments have become the third largest obligation in our budget.
A few days ago, former President Donald Trump and shunned First Lady Melania boarded Marine One and flew away in the morning sky, unrecognized and thankless for their decades-needed, exemplary job achievements that have already been reversed or canceled outright.
The frightening aspect of those senseless changes is the millions of citizens who apparently do not or cannot appreciate what they have until they lose what they had.
Shafter Bailey
Lexington
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I agreed with the first three and a half paragraphs of Mr, Bailey’s soliloquy, but it fell apart after that with conspiracy theory and “Alternative facts”. Like the Qanon folks said after the inauguration, “We’ve been had!”
You see, these gullible followers of QAnon, the pro-Trump conspiracy theory, spent weeks anticipating that Wednesday would be the “Great Awakening” — a day, long foretold in QAnon prophecy, when top Democrats would be arrested for running a global sex trafficking ring and President Trump would seize a second term in office.”
It didn’t happen...it isn’t gonna happen either. Trumperublicans need to hold their breath waiting for it to happen, like they did as kids waiting for Santa to bring them a pony!
When the SOON-TO-BE former president Trump boarded Marine One it was to run away from his embarrassment and his pathetic attempt to pretend he was still (or ever was) in charge.
He raised approximately $429 MILLION from people like you AFTER the election ostensibly 'to help him fight voter fraud.'
Now, he's gone... Your money is gone... and many of his followers are facing felony charges for storming the Capital... which he watched from a heated tent on big-screen TVs.
And he still didn't pardon a single one of YOU, but he DID pardon Steve Bannon who ripped off even more of you..
The most telling photograph of his presidency is the shot of Marine One with the press behind the ropes on one side, and the VERY EMPTY SPACE on the other side that in previous administrations was where the outgoing Commander-in-Chief was cheered by his staff and advisors. AGAIN, THERE WERE NONE!
Ha! I liked that BL ! Shaft ( who is the man? )Must of closed his eyes on the parts he didn’t want to see?
Excellent.
I'm just not sure what his accomplishments are, Mr Bailey.
None worth saving, I assure you! Mr. Bailey does’t even know when he’s been Shaftered! He is not alone around these parts.
Let’s see Shafter, Trump stared with a roaring economy, and in four years he: lost 5 million jobs, added 9 trillion $ to the deficit, lost the senate, lost thr Whitehouse , killed more Americans than Hitler, attempted a coup,got banned from social media and got impeached twice. You want to thank him for that or your propaganda?
Well, at least Trump praised our military for taking over the British airports in the Revolutionary War.
Bout time... he was a bit late in praising Frederick Douglass too! What an ultra maroon!
Agree, Mr. Jones.
Right! You can’t argue with success! Dooh!
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