Fond hopes of Americans coming together in this season of thanks were dashed last week when the Governor of California said this of the 47th President of the United States:
“He's an INVASIVE SPECIES. He's a WRECKING BALL.”
Yikes!
An invasive species, like zebra mussels that invade our lakes, or those crazy flying Asian carp that crash into fishing boats on rivers back east.
A wrecking ball, like the equipment used to “tear down the White House,” according to our more hysterical Trump Derangement Syndrome friends, about construction of a $300 million ballroom at the White House, at no expense to taxpayers.
That's the way California Gov. Gavin Newsom – known as “Newscum” to our hit-'em-back-twice-as-hard president – sees the guy half the nation put back in the White House.
This is not the sound of a nation coming together, friends. This will not help discussion around the Thanksgiving Dinner table next week, with relatives ranging from Limbaugh Right to Mamdani Left.
Newsom launched his attack on Trump at climate talks in Brazil last week. “He’s trying to roll back progress of the last century,” he said. “He’s doubling down on stupid.”
To which Trump responded, “The governor is incompetent. I know Gavin very well. He’s an incompetent guy with a good line of (uh, let's say BS) — and he doesn’t get the job done.”
Gone are the days when Newsom met Trump on the tarmac in Los Angeles seeking federal help after the disastrous Pacific Palisades wildfire. Few of the thousands of homes destroyed by that fire have even started to be rebuilt, to the disgust of our impatient builder/president.
Can this marriage be saved? No. Not a chance.
Meanwhile, a Washington, D.C., jury found the man who threw a submarine sandwich – dubbed “Hoagie Man” by wags in the media – at a National Guard member last month NOT GUILTY of assault. So, in our nation's capital, throwing your sub sandwich at a uniformed member of the military is apparently considered free speech, not assault.
The good news is that Hoagie Man worked for the Department of Justice, and was fired the next day. Let's see if he stays fired – never a sure thing, these days.
Hoagie Man was furious over Trump's decision to bring in the National Guard to quell crime in D.C. He apparently agrees with mayors in Chicago, Portland, Ore., and elsewhere in favoring street crime over anything Trump has anything to do with.
Textbook Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Joining in the thrill of the hunt, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in an interview last week (the week she announced her retirement) that Trump is “the worst thing on the face of the earth,” and a “vile creature.”
This, remember, is the Speaker who in 2020 ripped up her copy of Trump's State of the Union Speech, as the nation looked on. She called it "a dirty speech" and ripping it up was was a "courteous thing to do, considering the alternative."
Pelosi refused Trump's offer of National Guard troops prior to the January 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol Building, then hand-picked the committee that would investigate the riot.
Reacting to Pelosi's retirement announcement, Trump said she is “overrated,” an “evil woman,” and is “doing the nation a service” by retiring.
This whole “coming together” thing is a pipe dream anyway. Last time it happened, after 9-11, the togetherness only lasted a couple months before we were back at each others' throats. The gulf between us is too big.
I don't know about you, but I'm not interested in coming together with people who think Charlie Kirk “had it coming.” I'm not about to buddy up to people who ridiculed Elon Musk for trying to root out some of the massive waste of our government, and keyed Teslas to make their point.
I don't want to come together with people who want to run up our nation's debt even higher than the despicable $38 trillion it stands at today, and expect our grandkids to pay the bill (or face an economic crash) for our selfish fiscal promiscuity.
I don't want to come together with people who hate everything about our president.
And I'm not about to break bread with people who throw hoagies at National Guard troops.
Kind of sad, but I believe that in court, they call this “irreconcilable differences.”
Dave Simpson can be contacted at DaveSimpson145@hotmail.com
