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Dear Mr. President
Dear Donald, President Trump, sir, I’m not sure I can find the words to properly convey my thoughts and feelings towards you. But first, I want to say, thank you. Thank you for being the President that this country needs, and obviously the President that 62 million+ people wanted. For eight years under the Obama administration, I watched in sadness and horror as my country started deteriorating before my eyes. Racial divide became greater than it has been since before the 60s, women’s empowerment gave way to neo-feminists waging war on all things masculine, everyone became a victim for one reason or another, honesty and transparency became political correctness and being careful so as not to offend anyone. A nation that was once proud and thriving became the laughing-stock for the world to see. With great failure to enact even the smallest change for the good of the country, apology tours, race baiting, and teaching the nation that if you play the victim then you are entitled to reparations, Obama slowly led this country down the toilet. I couldn’t think of anything worse happening to the greatest country in the world... and then I learned that Hillary Clinton would be running for President in 2016.
By Gretchen McGregor7 years ago in The Swamp
Congratulations
To Donald Trump, I would have normally used the prefix "Mr." or even started the salutation with "Dear;" however, I feel it unnecessary and inappropriate in this context, especially considering whom I'm addressing. On that note, I'll get to the point.
By Madison Page7 years ago in The Swamp
Colin Kaepernick, Misunderstood Genius
Colin Kaepernick is a name that many American Football fans have known for years, but he has become a much more important figure in the past few months. He has polarized the country and has even brought other countries’ attentions to the issues that he sees important. His actions of kneeling during the national anthem in the pregame of NFL games have brought global attention to a national issue. His statements made shortly after he began his protests told the world that he was protesting a country that “oppresses black people and people of color.” He was not the only one protesting this way and was joined by many of the league’s other athletes shortly after. Many of the league’s officials were upset by this, and it even got the attention, and comments, of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. A few months after these actions, Nike unveiled their newest advertising campaign with Kaepernick as the face. This caused even more debate and created an even bigger divide between the two sides either supporting him or calling for him to be axed as a sponsor.
By Kyle Clayton7 years ago in The Swamp
The Kavanaugh vs. Dr. Ford Dilemma
Unless you’ve had your head under a rock these last few weeks, you’ve probably heard some of the commotion surrounding Brett Kavanaugh becoming the next Justice on the Supreme Court. He has been accused of sexual assault by Dr. Blasey Ford, and there have been rallies and protests and demonstrations against him all over the country. And Kavanaugh isn’t the first white male to be accused of such heinous acts in the last few years—he is only the latest on a very long list.
By Kimberly Alcorn7 years ago in The Swamp
The Wrong Kind of Poor
The inability for large portions of the developed world’s populations to understand the actuality of those living in poverty having nothing or no one to help them, had once appeared to me to be a defect of privileged circumstance. The past ten years has changed the sympathetic opinion once held for the practically ignorant, to the conclusion they are willfully arrogant. It isn’t ignorance of the realities in poverty that fuels the societal idiot to make asinine proclamations such as, “If they don't want to be poor, why don’t they get better jobs?” It is narcissism that pollutes and avoids serious conversation. The statement (almost) always comes from someone who was fully supported by their parents until the end of adolescence, then presented with a high paying job right out of college due to various connections and recommendations that have no concern with ability. While these overgrown toddlers continue to dominate the highest paying jobs, it is my experience they are the least problematic people affecting the upward mobility of the working class and poor.
By G.M. Kidder7 years ago in The Swamp
Trump Is Hurting the Economy
Let's review the current situation. Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's campaign manager, was locked up in jail and has pleaded guilty to crimes and made a plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office. Hillary Clinton is a respected former U. S. Secretary of State, U.S. Senator, and first lady. America is finally sobering up and facing reality. How many subpoenas were issued in the four year investigation into the Benghazi episode aimed at hurting Hillary Clinton's political chances? Zero, that's how many. How many subpoenas have been issued in the current FBI investigation into Russian collusion? There have been more than thirty issued, that's how many. Wake up America, Donald Trump is a train wreck, a political disaster who will be impeached. Let's all hope that happens soon, because don't underestimate his power to completely mess up this great economy. You can argue that he poured fuel on the fire to get the economy going even better than it was already going by advocating for and getting the tax cuts passed, but ever since then he has repeatedly done things to hamper the markets. He has done so repeatedly in the middle of the day with tweets threatening to impose tariffs on various nations. In fact, the man makes a comment almost every other day that kills the rising market gains for the day! The notion that Hillary Clinton would have hurt the stock market is RIDICULOUS. If you look at Dow gains during the first five hundred days of presidencies, Trump ranks behind Clinton, Bush, and Obama. The stock market was roaring for seven of the eight years under Obama, and Hillary Clinton was also promising a tax cut package, albeit it a much more responsible one. She also would not be saying things to suddenly give the markets jitters every other day.
By Scott Bowen7 years ago in The Swamp
Trump's Tariff War
The last week of September marked a troubling trend in American politics. First, we have the Kavanaugh hearings where several women now accuse him of misconduct. And all the news seems to focus around whether what he says or she says are the actual facts. Meanwhile, with the President speaking at the United Nations, one has to wonder about the mentality of this President when he went on a boastful tirade on what he and he alone has accomplished as President. What was he thinking? The General Assembly is not the place where one goes on a self embellishment speaking tour. It is pretty apparent that this President, when it comes to interacting with other foreign dignitaries, has not one ounce of decorum befitting respect from world leaders. Yet he continues to antagonize heads of state with his go-it-alone approach in foreign affairs. All this was very obvious in his remarks at the UN recently. In his usual undiplomatic approach in dealing with other leaders of the world, he has made America look like a Banana Republic. The Trump Administration has indeed made a mockery of the Office of the President.
By Dr. Williams7 years ago in The Swamp
Recontextualizing an LGBT+ Narrative
Let me start by saying that the target audience of this article is not those who agree with me; it is not young liberal students, social activists, or LGBT people. It is red-voting Americans who value tradition, constitutionalism, military prowess, and other tenets of conservatism. This article also does not seek to bash conservative values but to rather engage them in a way that allows red-voting readers to perhaps understand LGBT issues today in a context that better speaks to them. Liberals and conservatives speak very different languages, and the issues they care about are often encased with jargon that scare off readers of the opposing political persuasion. For example, liberals shy from conservative buzzwords such as liberty, military, and lower taxes. Conservatives in-turn recoil from the liberal counter-parts of trans~, social welfare, and racial inequality. If you rolled your eyes at any of the latter three nouns, then I am happy you're reading this.
By Darragh Joyce7 years ago in The Swamp
