Monday, November 13, 2017

I Love You Tom Steyer but I Cannot Sign Your Petition

I love you Tom Steyer but I cannot sign your impeachment petition.

Every time I see Tom Steyer's commercial (and the CNN "this is an apple" commercials too, btw), I smile. Calm, rational, thoughtful defiance. Amen.

Yes, I love you Tom Steyer. You're making a concerted effort to unite the opposition based on morals and values and ethics. You fear for our country for all of the same reasons I do. In fact, I agree with all of your arguments to the point where I find myself nodding my head so hard it's in jeopardy of falling off my shoulders. And I do desperately want to be able to sign that petition. How sweet it would be to dispatch this level of ineptitude, divisiveness and downright hatred. To stop waking up each day with a feeling of dread and a fear of checking twitter. Or turning on the news.

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Caramel Studded Popcorn Treats
Caramel Studded Popcorn Treats, made with toasted coconut marshmallows, crunchy popcorn and studded with caramel candies, this treat is quick and easy to make and fun to serve. | Recipe developed by www.BakingInATornado.com | #recipe #treat



Let me just say that I long for the days when there were administrations in power in the United States with which I fundamentally disagreed. This is decidedly not that. Politics was politics and beliefs were beliefs and whatever party was in power was there because of the will of the people. I may not have liked the agenda of the party in the White House, controlling the Senate or the House, but I would defend to the end their right to be there. It's called democracy.

So much for naivete. Exit democracy, enter 2016. Politics became a no-holds-barred dirty fight. He who has the brass knuckles wins. Even if it turns out that it's Putin with the brass knuckles.

As a result, what we've ended up with is a "president" who is not only uninformed about our history and our laws and our system, but he deliberately chooses to be so. He is not just archaic in his views about diversity and dignity and human rights, he's determined to undo equality. He doesn't only disrespect the scientific community and the intelligence community, he's out to discredit them all. He's destroyed longstanding global relationships. He's a bully, an admitted sexual assaulter, a persistent liar, a narcissist and a bigot. Most frightening, he's incapable of self regulation. Actually, even more frightening, he sees no reason to have to exhibit self control. Yes, he is a clear and present danger. As is the House and Senate who not only support him, but look at him with a puppy dog like adoration.

The problem, Tom, is not your rationale. It's your conclusion.


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Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse, I find myself between an impeachment petition and a hard place. 

Don't get me wrong, I don't blame you for putting me in this position. Your heart and your head are both in the right place. Your morals and values are mine, your fear is my terror. 

And yet I cannot sign that petition. Because as bad as this is, as unthinkably harmful this administration's agenda, the damage being done to our reputation, both globally and domestically, I can't support impeachment.

Because what I see as the saving grace of this "presidency" is, in fact, the personality disorders, the ignorance, the absurd lies, the constant and consistent attacks on himself and the incompetent people put into positions of power to carry out this hateful and harmful agenda. The uncanny propensity of our "president" to shoot himself in the foot.

Let me ask you this: if you take Trump and remove the inability to play with others, the insistence on attacking his own allies, the constant torpedoing of his own side, the undermining of his own people, the laughable implausibility, the refusal to learn and grow, what would you have? You'd have an administration not only determined to revert human rights and diversity back to the dark ages, but one with a clear path to do so. 

I love you Tom Steyer, but I cannot sign your impeachment petition. 

Because . . . Pence.



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Caramel Studded Popcorn Treats        
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Ingredients:
1/2 stick butter
1 cup mini marshmallows 
1 package Toasted Coconut marshmallows
2 bags (3.29 oz) microwave popcorn, popped
1 box (6 oz) Sugar Babies caramel candies


Directions:
*Spray a large bowl, a spatula and an 8 X 10 baking dish with non-stick spray.
*Sift through the popcorn carefully to remove all remaining seeds.
*Melt the butter with the mini marshmallows and Toasted Coconut marshmallows in a large bowl in the microwave for 2 minutes. Stir. Continue to microwave until all of the marshmallows are completely melted.
*Carefully fold in the popped popcorn, then the candies. Pour into the prepared pan and press evenly into the pan. 
*Allow to set completely. Spray a knife with nonstick spray to cut into squares.

14 comments:

  1. Even though I did sign the petition, Karen, I did so with trepidation because....Pence. What I truly want is for the entire Republican party to go down in flames, en masse! I believe Pence is also in trouble but we have to start somewhere. Actually I can't write what I'd really like to happen to that 385 pound orange-faced SOB. I agree totally with your assessment. I just hope that damage done to the American people isn't reversible.

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    1. I have to hope that the damage in reversible. It will take time as there has already been a lot of it, but I have to believe that America can and will recover from this administration.

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  2. Yes Pence is not a winner that's for sure. It is scary times.
    Regarding your Treats Recipe, yum yum. But as the recipient of 2 implants I am off taffy, caramels including Sugar Babies and any other foods that may want to pull on my fillings/crowns/teeth!

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    1. Yeah, those Sugar Babies can be tough on the teeth but I sure do love them.

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    1. You Canadians are so lucky. I'd take Trudeau as my governmental representative in a heartbeat.

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  4. Not something I know anything about maybe because I am down under or maybe because I live in a cave down under, I don't know

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    1. I know you don't live in the US, but you would definitely have to live in a cave not to know what's going on here!

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  5. My husband is in the midst of getting a dental implant, so I'll have to pass, too. Just like passing on the petition. I agree with you and do not plan to sign it. I think about where our country would be right now if 45 wasn't the way he is....we have a small window of opportunity to review why he was elected, and what we can do to truly face and resolve some of the harm that has been done but will we take the opportunity? I am not optimistic. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com

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    1. I'm not sure we'll take the opportunity. I had more hope before I saw just how much both political parties are fracturing.

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  6. I haven't signed the petition; I stopped doing so because it seems like a way to harvest personal information without actually effecting change.

    I want the Twitterbeast, and all his enablers, including Pence, Ryan, and McConnell arrested if evidence is found they have subverted the will of the American people and violated their oaths to the Constitution. Maybe we can send them to Guantanamo.

    Impeachment is too good for him.

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    1. I'm waiting patiently to see what Mueller comes up with, I'm betting he'll come up with quite a lot.

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  7. Well said. I have very deep concerns about Pence being in charge - he's possibly less likely to start a nuclear war in Asia (can't imagine what it must be like being a South Korean watching his antics) but I think he'd have the political skills to roll civil rights of all sorts back by decades. Don't want a rumoured Christian Dominionist in charge!

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    1. Yes, I think he'd set civil rights back to the dark ages. They're one as bad as the next when it comes to equal rights.

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