Happy 4th of July, America

Nearly 43 percent of American citizens continue to support a bully who is contemptuous and ignorant of the Constitution of the United States of America; a bully who wondered why the U.S. can't use nuclear weapons; a bully who was endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and other white extremists and populists; a bully who has empowered fascists and white nationalists; a bully who appointed Wall Street bankers, industry insiders and special-interest lobbyists to plunder this country’s resources and money while many members of the Republican Party are complicit; a bully who has violated the emoluments clause; a bully who praised Wikileaks and called on Russia's help with his election; a bully who appointed a supreme court justice who was accused of sexual assault; a bully who withdrew the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council; a bully who has enriched the super-rich at the expense of the working people; a bully who has rolled back protections for workers and consumers to benefit corporate interests and donors; a bully who sided with Vladimir Putin over the U.S. Intelligence Agencies on the world stage in Helsinki; a bully who helped the Saudis cover-up a murder of an American journalist; a bully who disparaged Gold-Star parents; a bully who attacked John McCain for being captured and a judge for his Mexican descent; a bully who called immigrant Mexicans "rapists" that "bring drugs and crimes"; a bully who proposed banning Muslims from entering this country and killing the families of terrorists or suspected terrorists; a bully who bragged about his genitalia and grabbing women's genitals; a bully who denies the reality of climate change, lifts restrictions on fossil fuel production, and dismantles environmental regulations; a bully who is responsible for the largest reduction of protected lands in the U.S.; a bully who attacks American media; a bully who extols Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, Rodrigo Duterte, and other despots and attacks American allies; a bully who constantly attacks the U.S. Intelligence Agencies and the Rule of Law; a bully who ignores the legislative and judicial branches of government and their Balance of Power; a bully who exacerbates hatred toward Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Muslim Americans and degrades veterans, women, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and the disabled; a bully whose policy has taken children from their parents and placed them in cages…

Nearly 43 percent of American citizens continue to support his malignant narcissism, his moral relativism, his white nationalism, his perfidious nationalism, his hateful racism, his infectious nihilism, his outrageous iconoclasm, his ruthless competition, his constitutional ignorance, his puerile dereliction, his embarrassing idiocy, his provocative transgressions, his mocking disrespect, his impetuous vulgarity, his belligerent intimidation, his pathological lying, his obsessive vindictiveness, his hypocritical cowardice, his compulsive xenophobia, his callous misogyny, his lawless demagoguery, his insufferable bigotry, his disgusting buffoonery, his histrionic rallying, his dangerous idiocy, his droning voice, his repulsive self…

-Glen Brown