Good Riddance 2017!

Okay Rightos, take your 2017 victory lap, but let's be honest; even you know this year sucked.

You loved the idea of a COMPLETELY unqualified man as President to shake things up.  It started almost immediately when he and Sean Spicer began screaming about 'most attended and most watched Inauguration ever.'  Even you couldn't defend that outrageous lie, so you suddenly adopted your fall back position for most of the year, you said nothing.  We already know 30% of this country will always think Trump was a divine bowel movement from God himself, payback to the racist Republican right in America for having to 'endure' an African American President.

(Quick sidetone - CLEARLY most of you hated Obama for the color of his skin.  All the things you said he did either he didn't do, or Trump has already exceeded his standards [Golf outings, deficit spending, embarrassments].  Stop acting like you're nuanced; the truth is obvious.  Race was your biggest problem with President Obama!)

Crap sandwich after crap sandwich after crap sandwich was served on a daily basis from Trump, and you fools gobbled it up, solely because it seemed to outrage Democrats.  You loved that.  It was your only standard on Trump's success gauge.  You didn't care if the ship was sinking, just that the Democrats were closer to the water line, so your pathetic Christian Right asses could laugh as they drown, stupefyingly ignorant of your own impending doom.

There are SO MANY THINGS I could post, from the comedic (covfefe, giant orbs in Saudi Arabia, matching shirts with Putin, the insane 'alternative facts' defense), to the terrifying (threatening Nuclear war with North Korea, turning ICE agents into modern brown shirts, handing off our national monuments to corporations, an insane tax bill hand out to the wealthiest people/corporations).  AND Trump and the Republican party embraced an alleged SERIAL child sex abuser.

In my opinion, here are the three worst things Trump has done in 2017:

3) The Trump Russia scandal.  You may be shocked I have what will likely be the downfall of this disgusting turd at #3, but trust me, it gets worse.  I could focus on the insane amount of meetings which seemed to be happening on a weekly basis between the Russians and the Trump Campaign/Administration, meetings they never disclosed.  I could focus on how all the pieces were in place for the Trump Campaign/Administration to orchestrate the leaking of the emails.  I could focus on the potential that Trump is compromised, actually an agent of the Russians.  I could focus on how the Russians created thousands of false Americans, and manipulated the American people via our social media.

I'll focus on the irreparable damage which has been done to the US's election system.  We now know the Trump Campign knew the Russians had hacked the DNC months earlier than they implied, and yet they never contacted law enforcement to tell them a foreign country was trying to break the US.  This means Trump and the Republicans have come to the point where they will back up a foreign entity, over country, as long as it means the Democrats will lose.  That's crazy to think about.  They have used the USA itself as a poker chip to win an election.  And we have strong evidence the voting tallies in multiple states, along with the voting machines in multiple states, were attacked by the Russians on election day, but the Republicans are refusing to even address the potential the Election of 2016 could be a complete fraud.

2) Trump's undeniable racism.  The way Trump has coddled the white supremacists, the KKK the Nazis, the alt-right and all bigoted scum is unforgivable.  When the racists were beating clergy and killing a woman in Charlottesville, he said there are 'good' racists.  When racists vandalized Jewish cemeteries, he said nothing.  Trump has put forward undeniable racist immigration bills, sold to his followers in racist language.  He's also had numerous racists welcomed into the White House, who then proudly brag about their 'friend to the white race,' Trump, a title he has warmly embraced.  They just had another racist intern caught flashing the 'white power' symbol.  Reminder - MOST REPUBLICANS, POLITICIANS AND VOTERS, STILL HAVE YET TO CONDEMN TRUMP'S PRO-RACIST STANCES! Trump's actions have emboldened the worst of America.

1) Puerto Rico.  In my mind, the basic function of a operational Federal government is to help it's citizens when the local, regional, municipal, and state authorities are powerless to help.  The fact over 100 days have gone by and American citizens in Puerto Rico are still without power and clean water, the fact the medical and distributional systems are still not operating correctly, the fact the Administration only looked at Puerto Rico as an opportunity to make a few of their supporters wealthy without actually requiring the supporters to deliver promised aid to the hurricane ravaged island, the fact they lied repeatedly about the death toll of the disaster, a death toll which is not in the tens, but possibly in the thousands, the fact Puerto Rico was only a photo op for Trump, where he threw paper towel rolls at needy people, and acted like he saved them himself; all these things are proof the Federal government is incapable of functioning on a basic operations level.  That's Government, Trump style.

Nearly half of Puerto Rico will ring in the New Year without power.  Please help Puerto Rico.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/world/americas/hurricane-maria-donate-charity.html?_r=0

So lap up my outrage as 'liberal tears,' Rightos.  I know what will happen in 2018.  You're going to watch your economy and our country get worse, as your screams of 'Crooked Hillary' don't explain your golden calf's failure.  And Republicans are going to get their asses handed to them in November.

Goodbye 2017!  You will not be missed!