An interesting reaction from Trump country!
This column today would be devoted to just sharing with my readers a series of responses exchanged between a reader and my good self in reaction to my last epistle.
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As I write today, I do not know if my correspondent is based in Ghana here or not. But she is certainly an American who reveals a lot through her writing, the idiom of American politics that Ghanaians would immediately recognise as similar to ours in some respects, and also rather disturbingly, a comment or two which expose her racialist thinking on issues.
In addition, the very fact of our communication reveals the power of the Internet and the social media it has spawned.
The quotation from Henry Louis Mencken at the top of this column today encapsulates the tenor of my exchanges with my American reader and appeals to me on more than this level. The ‘’Sage of Baltimore’’ as he was known when alive, was a famous journalist and scholar of American English. My personal association with Baltimore makes him a special favourite of mine. As a former student of American history, I do recognise that Mencken was a controversial character in life and even up to today.
The exchanges
My American reader is Kathleen Gibbs, KG for short here in this narration and CE refers of course to me.
‘’KG: Subject: "Opinion: Is there too much confusion..."
Your opinion re: President Trump is shaded [sic: shared] by the lying media. On three occasions, President Trump publicly denounced and condemned the white supremacists ...
Only the lying media would refer to them as "his" ...
Wake up! IGH, Kathleen
CE: Sorry, I am not a Trump dupe. I went to school in America and he is one modern politician who doesn't even bother with coded language. He is a total disgrace to decency, morality, civilisation and the equality of all men and women.
KG: So you drank the Kool Aid....he is stirring up the scum in Washington and they don't like it one bit. They can't believe they didn't control the election like they thought they could.Take another sip.
CE: I don't drink Kool Aid. I am not a dupe. Sorry.
KG: JULY 30, 2017 SINCE PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS BEEN IN OFFICE.
Hey!! What has Donald Trump done since he has been in office!!!
Maybe you should READ! What are you resisting?
1.Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2.Fifty-nine missiles dropped in Syria
3.He took us out of TPP
4.Illegal immigration is now down 70 per cent ( the lowest in 17 years)
5.Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index125.6
6.Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7.Arranged 20 per cent Tariff on soft lumber from Canada
8.Bids for border wall are well underway
9.Pulled out of the lopsided Paris accord
10.Keystone pipeline approved
11.NATO allies boost spending by 4.3 per cent
12.Allowing VA to terminate bad employees
13.Allowing private health care choices for veterans
14.More than 600,000 jobs created
- Median household income at a seven year high
- The Stock Market is at the highest ever in its history
- China agreed to American import of beef
- $89 Billion saved in regulation rollbacks
- Rollback of a regulation to boost coal mining
- MOAB for ISIS
- Travel ban reinstated
- Executive order for religious freedom
- Jump started NASA
- $600 million cut from UN peacekeeping budget
- Targeting of MS13 gangs
- Deporting violent illegal immigrants
- Signed 41 bills to date
- Created a commission on child trafficking
- Created a commission on voter fraud
- Created a commission for opioids addiction.
- Giving power to states to drug test unemployment recipients.
- Unemployment lowest since may 2007.
- Historic Black College University initiative
- Women In Entrepreneurship Act
- Created an office or illegal immigrant crime victims.
- Reversed Dodd-Frank
- Repealed DOT ruling which would have taken power away from local governments for infrastructure planning
- Order to stop crime against law enforcement
- End of DAPA programme
- Stopped companies from moving out of America
- Promoted businesses to create American Jobs
- Encouraged country to once again
- 'Buy American and hire American 44. Cutting regulations 2 for every one created
- Review of all trade agreements to make sure they are America first
- Apprentice programme
- Highest manufacturing surge in three years
48 $78 Billion promised reinvestment from major businesses such as Exxon, Bayer, Apple, SoftBank, Toyota...
- Denied FBI a new building.
- $700 million saved with F-35 renegotiation
- Saves $22 million by reducing white house payroll
- Dept of treasury reports a $182 billion surplus for April 2017
(2nd largest in history)
- Negotiated the release of 6 US humanitarian workers held captive in Egypt
- Gas prices lowest in more than 12 years.
- Signed an Executive Order to Promote Energy Independence and Economic Growth
- Has already accomplished more to stop government interference into people's lives than any President in the history of America
- President Trump has worked with Congress to pass more legislation in his first 100 days than any President since Truman
- Has given head executive of each branches six month time frame dated March 15, 2017, to trim the fat, restructure and improve efficacy of their branch
- Moved ISIS out of Mosul.
Observe the pushback, the leaks, the lies as entrenched power refuses to go silently into that good night! This is why he was voted in! And who could possibly vote for Hillary who played politics with Africa's resources (and lives).
CE: I am not a Trump dude I repeat. I didn't think much of Hillary either for your information. Obviously you have a dualistic world view. I don’t. Trump would be the end of American exceptionalism i.e. a beacon of democratic moral leadership. His crude nationalism will consign your country to the backwaters of history.
KG: So are you saying you won't accept money from the US? After all, you are known by the company you keep...you must be above all that, right? I didn't vote for a pastor. I voted for someone who returned his salary...cannot be bought. Someone who gave up an exceptional lifestyle to be berated and accused because he has a purpose. Sixty-five million people are standing behind him. Just not the lying media. They've been bought and everyone knows it.
But then it doesn't matter. I got what I asked for. Living in the US is not the same as being an American.‘’ The end.
When dropping the Mother of all Bombs [MOAB] is considered an achievement, and reveling in the racist aside that I drink Kool Aid, then narcissism is now a fine art for the millions to admire. I think that is a pity.
