We the People
These last images before 2024 nation-state
election illustrate a boding preface to another and more destructive t’RUMp maladministration
that at this point is nothing short of an omen of death in ways that will manifest
in further shallow, flat, small and weird and down-right evil manipulation,
micro-management, and hegemonic decision-making that will further divide and
weaken the union and constitutional valuation, sending millions in distressful
scenarios that will take years to recover from while many will die at his hand.
t'RUMP at his best, projecting
himself unknowingly [smart—right?]
After colossal negligence of the Covid Pandemic when t’RUMP demonstrated
significantly underperforming leadership capacities proved conclusively his deficits
on the mismanagement of government resources, messaging, and plain old get over
your addicted ego and let the big hitters run the program.
In the final year of t’RUMP presidency, over 450,000
Americans died from COVID-19, and life expectancy fell by 1.13 years, the largest
decrease since World War II. Many of the deaths were avoidable;
COVID-19 mortality in the U.S. was 40 percent higher than the average of the
other wealthy nations in the Group of Seven (G7).[1]
–Exceptional, Right?[2]
He suppressed scientific
data[3],
delayed testing, mocked and blocked mask-wearing, and convened mass gatherings
where social distancing was impossible. Despite the mounting threats of
COVID-19 and global warming, he pulled the U.S. out of the World Health
Organization and the Paris climate accord. He installed industry insiders in
regulatory posts tasked with protecting Americans from environmental and
occupational hazards; their regulatory rollbacks resulted in 22,000 excess
deaths from such hazards in 2019 alone.[4]
He pushed through a $1.9 trillion tax cut for the wealthy,
creating a budget hole that he then used to justify cutting food and housing
assistance for the needy.[5]
He tried, but failed, to repeal the ACA, then bent every effort to undermine
it, pushing up the number of uninsured Americans by 2.3 million.
He denied entry to refugees fleeing violence, abused immigrant
detainees,[6]
and penalized immigrants for accessing basic social services.[7]
The pattern of government neglect set the stage for racist
and nativist appeals Trump has and will probably resume, thus adding to longstanding
policies that contributed to persistent
race-based health gaps bequeathed by the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow
segregation and Native American genocide, and widening gaps by income[8], education[9] and geography[10].
In 2016, Trump gained his largest electoral margins in counties with
the worst
mortality trends. [11]
An ancient epistle of St Paul to the exiled and distressed
people living in the current Empire (57CE), serves as a fitting
historical political context for comparison, especially we who in praxis have taken
on a form of resident aliens. [kenosis] and are awoken. 12]
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| t'RUMP at his best, pumpkin complexion, white orifice and piss-colored hair |
they use their tongues to deceive.
The venom of vipers is under their lips.
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood; ruin and misery are in their paths,
and the way of peace they have not known.
There is no fear of God before their eyes.
[2]
Study: More Than 335,000 Lives
Could Have Been Saved During Pandemic if U.S. Had Universal Health Care <
Yale School of Public Health
[4] Lancet report details devastating impact of the Trump
administration's health-harming policies, calls for reforms
[8] The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the
United States, 2001-2014 | Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion | JAMA | JAMA
Network
[10] US County-Level Trends in Mortality Rates for Major Causes
of Death, 1980-2014 | Oncology | JAMA | JAMA Network
[11] Diverging Life Expectancies and Voting Patterns in the
2016 US Presidential Election | AJPH | Vol. 107 Issue 10
[12]
See—read Hauerwas, Stanley; Willimon, Willimon H. (1989). Resident
Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony. Nashville, Tennessee: Abingdon
Press. ISBN 978-0-687-36159-5
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