TODAY IS THE WORST DAY IN OUR HISTORY
Today, the “American Century” ended, after only 80 years. Today, the country that liberated the world 80 years ago stabbed in the back people who believe in what we claim we believe, who depended on us in t heir struggle against what can only be called the forces of darkness.
Today, an American president announced he had called America’s enemy and had joined hin in betraying the people of Ukraine. An American president celebrated an attack on all the things that made America great, that brought people into the streets to welcome the American soldiers who had liberated them from fascist oppression. Today an American president took a shit on the Statue of Liberty, the first best sight my late wife, who arrived here aged 3, as a child born in a refugee camp after her family escaped both the Red Army and the Wehrmacht, who never forgot looking out the porthole of the troopship that brought them here and saw her first sight of America, the Statue of Liberty and thought “America!” as she remembered.
Today the American president and the fools, tools, villains, opportunists, jumped-up traitors, blackguards, and goons who support him took a shit on what my eighth great grandfather Isaac Cleaver and his brothers James and Ezekiel, and Ezekiel’s son, Ezekiel Cleaver Jr., who all joined Captain Tench France’s Company, 1st Battalion, Philadelphia County Militia in 1776 and served from then to 1782, among other things crossing the Delaware with General Washington and saving the Revolution, who were friends and business associates with Betsy Ross (something I only recently learned) sacrificed to create: this country. My ancestors were described by their contemporaries as “His word was his bond.” A reputation takes decades to create and minutes to destroy, and today we cannot say of ourselves any more as a country that “our word is our bond.”
Today we stabbed Ukraine in the back as thoroughly as Neville Chamberlain stabbed Czechoslovakia in 1938. To the same end. Our enemies who this worthless moron the fools of this country made president a second time after knowing him to be a traitor thinks are his friends see him only as a fool, and us as fools for allowing this.
This is the worst day in the history of America. This is the day we ceased to be the country we say we are.
After Donald Trump’s phone call of surrender to Vladimir Putin, in which the two criminals decided the future of Ukraine with Trump conceding Ukraine’s territory that Russia has illegally seized since 2014. He gave away any hope that Ukraine could join NATO. And his worthless drunkard white supremacist scum masquerading as the American Secretary of Defense told Europe to go defend themselves, that we will not provide any support for any eventual NATO involvement in future "security guarantees" for Ukraine, along with continuing American military support for Ukraine including helping to rebuild the country.
We have just given every person, every government, every country, that ever thought well of us reason to hate us for our spineless betrayal of our word.
What the “most determined ignoramus I ever knew,” in the words of John Kelly, did today was a total and unmitigated defeat; it is a "disaster of the first magnitude." What Trump has done today will not satisfy Putin or any of the other enemies of America, but he has now told them they can act with impunity and never worry about the reaction of America. Their further aggressions are now guaranteed. And no one will ever look to us for support in the face of the demands to come, knowing our word cannot be trusted.
Today, America stopped being the America I know and love. The America my ancestors knew and sacrificed to create.
I’m too ashamed of my country to continue. That it has come to this.
This country, once a grand, teetering beast, has been gutted like a prizefighter on his last legs—spitting blood, staggering, barely aware the fight was rigged from the start. The coup didn’t come in the dead of night with tanks in the streets; it slithered in through the front door, grinning like a used car salesman with a Bible in one hand and a ballot shredder in the other.
And now, here we are—sitting in the wreckage, wondering how the hell it happened while the architects of the fall feast on their spoils. The ballot box was abandoned, democracy left to rot like a carcass in the desert sun. The fools who cheered it on, who stood idly by, will choke on the ashes of what they let burn. And they should.
Let it sink in. The republic is gone, snuffed out with a whimper and a Fox News banner. The only question left is how deep the wound goes—and whether there’s any goddamn way to sew it back together before the infection sets in.
I’m willing to fight for my country. Are you? Or will you stand there, slack-jawed and docile, watching as they carve up what’s left of the American experiment like a hog at slaughter?
Tom, It’s been a long time since I cried as hard as I have today.
Keep writing. I’ll keep reading. ❤️
Thank you for your powerful writing. My dad was in the Air Force in WW2. I am a student of the American Civil War. The sacrifices that these stooges dishonor cannot be measured.