Our Supreme Leader is waging a Twitter war against a dead man:
Last weekend, Trump attacked the late senator in several tweets that targeted McCain's ties to the controversial Russia dossier and his vote against repealing Obamacare. He also referred to McCain as being "last in his class" at the US Naval Academy.
On Tuesday, he continued his criticism of McCain, telling reporters at the White House that "I was never a fan of John McCain and I never will be."
If Trump wasn't the leader of what used to be called the free world* before he ran it to ground, this would be the funniest thing since American cheese was invented.
And forty-five percent of registered voters approve the way Trump carries out his job!** That would be hilarious, too, if we could watch this comedy from another planet.
All humor aside, fighting to get Trump out must be our first priority, if we wish to save democracy and some scraps of the environment.
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* Whether it was free or not, at least its leaders used to pay lip service to human rights and pushed a little in that direction. Now our Supreme Leader pushes in the opposite direction and adores dictators. The new trend toward "strongmen" in this world does not bode well for democracy or for human rights, and Trump is the prime example of that trend.
** Because almost all the political shit is tribal, these days. It's as if people are saying "Trump is an asshole, but he is our asshole."
And, sadly, I see that tribalism rearing its ugly head among the Democrats, too, where the primary fights will solidify those nasty tribal borders. If we don't earnestly try to be less tribal, Trump will win again, because his tribe consists of almost all the Republicans, while the lefty tribes a multitude.