War is looming, thanks to Trump’s selfishness
By the time you read this, the U.S. may already be at war with Iran, and/or World War III may have begun — because we have the dumbest, most impulsive and most selfish president in the history of America.
Happy New Year.
It’s hard to understate how we are deep into Trump Presidency: Worst Case Scenario, a movie that most of us never wanted to see but are now trapped inside of against our will. Trump has been impeached, and he’s very mad about being held responsible for his actions, because he’s not used to that.
And so, he’s starting a war with all the planning, care and expertise of a toddler throwing himself to the floor in Target because he’s tired and wants to go home RIGHT NOW!
Charlotte Clymer put it best on the day Trump ordered the assassination of an Iranian leader in between rounds of golf: “Tonight, you will see spineless cowards who never served a goddamn day in uniform wave a flag and cheer on the possibility of sending young people to die in a war against Iran that they would never serve in, started by another coward who watched others sent to die in his place.”
Clymer is an Army veteran, an advocate for LGBTQ rights and also the press secretary for the Human Rights Campaign. And if you’re not following @cmclymer on Twitter, you’re doing Twitter wrong.
If we had a decent and honest person as the president, then perhaps we’d see Clymer as an advisor in said president’s cabinet. Alas, we have a dishonest creep for president, and Clymer is instead subjected to invective against transgender servicemembers.
Let’s turn the time machine back to Aug. 10, 2017, when Trump said of his plans to ban transgender people from serving: “I think I’m doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying it. As you know, it’s been a very complicated issue for the military. It’s been a very confusing issue for the military. And I think I’m doing the military a great favor.”
If Trump really wanted to do a lot of people a favor, he would resign. That said, he, in fact, was not doing the military a favor, as he apparently didn’t even run the transgender ban by the Pentagon before tweeting about it.
As Clymer points out, Trump has never served in the military. He lied about having bone spurs to get out of serving. His oldest sons, as much as they love guns and killing, have also not served in the military. Nor have his daughters. His youngest son probably won’t, either, even if Trump leads us into WWIII, because rich people don’t fight wars, they just start them.
And people are cheering.
If you turn on Fox News (don’t), it’s a nonstop celebration with everyone screaming, “Happy New War!” It’s amazing how little these people care about human lives — not the lives of American troops, not the lives of Iranian civilians. To them, war is a video game.
Trump is making all of us less safe, but he is especially jeopardizing the lives of transgender Americans.
Monica Roberts, who describes herself on her blog as “a proud, unapologetic black trans woman speaking truth to power and discussing the world around her,” was interviewed on MSNBC about the murder of Dustin Parker, an activist for LGBTQ rights in Oklahoma. According to HRC, “Parker is believed to be the first violent death of a transgender or gender non-conforming person in 2020.” Sadly, he will not be the last; 2019 was a particularly awful year for transgender people.
When asked about the increase in violence against trans people, Roberts said, “What’s going on is the result of several years of anti-trans rhetoric that has been spread by not only the Trump administration but by trans-exclusionary radical feminists, also the Republican Party at the national, local and state level. That rhetoric just doesn’t go out in thin air. It is resulting in violence being directed at trans folks, which in a lot of cases turns fatal.”
When the president tells the country that he’s doing them a favor by booting transgender troops — especially a president who is worshipped as a god by the anti-LGBTQ right — that inevitably leads to violence.
And now Trump is ordering the troops to do him a favor and distract from his impeachment by starting a war with Iran. He may hate trans troops, but he certainly doesn’t care about any of them. He only cares about himself, and he is willing to start a war to save his own draft-dodging ass. █
D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski.
I am sure I will not change your mind, but you’re sure as hell not going to change mine.
So, let us talk FACTS about the top Iranian military leader Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
FACT: Several days of escalating tensions between the United States and Iran started with the killing of an American contractor, at the order of Soleimani. He also orchestrated the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
FACT: The term of the Iran Nuclear Pact, which Obama gave $1.7 BILLION in cash to Iran, which in turn they have been using to spread terrorism worldwide. They also continued to break the agreement set by the Obama Administration. Even Sec. of State John Kerry said shortly after the money given to the Iran Islamists (again Soleimani was in charge) would probably use some of the money to continue terrorism….and he was right.
FACT: Subsequent sanctions President Trump imposed on Iran has been to make them come to a new deal, since their end goal is to have a nuclear weapon…you really need to do your homework better, before spreading lies, and fear-mongering readers.
FACT: The U.S. renewed a war of words on Friday with Iran vowing a “harsh retaliation” and Trump sending a taunting tweet (FINALLY a President that isn’t afraid to draw a line in the sand, and keep his word that any American killed would be met with great force. You must realize that to a radical Muslim…they would see weakness from a president who allows them to continue on their plan for nuclear war (just ask Obama…who the Islamists changed ‘Death to the Great Satan, the U.S.A., and to Little Satan, which is Israel).
FACT: Here’s how the two countries arrived at this point in tensions:
One U.S. civilian contractor was killed and several service members were wounded in a 30-plus rocket attack targeting a military base near Kirkuk, Iraq. The attack took place at approximately 7:20 p.m. local time at Iraq’s K1 military base — which houses U.S. and coalition forces — outside the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Several Iraqi personnel were also wounded. The Pentagon withheld the names of the Americans. The attack was attributed to Kataeb Hezbollah, or Hezbollah Brigades, which the Pentagon said was related to Iran’s Quds force 9, an elite unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (which Soleimani was commanding) and received “lethal aid and other support from Iran.”
FACT: NOBODY at ANY of the Fox stations anywhere ever did as you said about celebrating with everyone screaming “Happy New War!” You probably don’t ever watch Fox News, which is why you are like the fake news.
FACT: You are a fear-monger. You do not have your FACTS, only your political angst against President Trump. I hate to break the news to you my dear, but President Trump will be re-elected, because we have a stellar economy, people are being lifted from poverty, unlike those of us who were having to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet.
FACT: There was NOTHING President Trump did wrong as far as your ‘impeachment’ comment. You must be listening to Pocahontas.
Finally, the democrats that I grew up with are NOT the democrats now running for a presidential election. They have been hijacked by Socialists / Communists like Sanders and Warren to name a few. Also, Mayor Pete has stated that he is going to take back the TAX break (average 2K for a family of four) if he gets elected. I guess you want your hard earned tax money to go towards a Socialist Government.
For me and my house…we will VOTE TRUMP 2020!
Please wake up. There will be NO WAR with Iran.
Remember North Korea when Trump first came into office? The media was telling us 24/7 that we were going to war; that NK was going to nuke the US. What actually happened? Trump became the first US President to walk across the DMZ.
Who was actually in control of NK? (Really in control?).
Who is (soon not-to-be) actually in control of Iran?
What happened in Iran in 1953? What was it really about?
What was the hostage crisis in 1979 really about?
Who orchestrated both events?
Yes, you are in a movie – but not the one you think you are – a movie designed to wake up the masses to the lies that have been perpetrated on the American public for the last 120 years.
Did Obama serve in the Military?
Did Obama order missile strikes in Libya, Syria, Iran, and Iraq? How many times? (hint – nearly 3,000). How many civilians died?
Where was the outrage then?
Why did ISIS and the Islamic state thrive under Obama (with Hillary as Sec of State)?
They said it would take *years* to abolish – get used to it.
Why did Obama fire so many top generals in the armed forces?
Where is ISIS now? What happened to the Caliphate?
How long did it take Trump?
What happens when the military is allowed to do their job?
Who created and funded ISIS?
Who really created and funded ISIS?
If there’s such an iron-clad case of wrong-doing against Trump, and if his removal from office is so urgent, why won’t the house democrats submit the articles of impeachment to the senate? It’s been nearly a month.
They say they want a fair trial.
Fair for who? The accused?
That’s how it’s supposed to work.
Are they afraid that an actual fair trial will expose their own corruption and treason?
Wake up, learn your history, and quit pushing misinformation. The media truly has become one of the worst enemies of the people.
Sedition. Look it up.
Well this didn’t age well.