"Democrat" President Joe Biden is loved worldwide

"republican" trump is despised worldwide

Again, this is who the Republican party and right-wing American billionaires present to Americans and to the world as worthy of being President of the United States.

At first you would smell the smoke every time you stepped outside. You would notice the haze hanging in the distance and the way the sky looked different than it used to. You would talk about it with neighbors. You would check the weather. You would wonder when it would finally end.

But now imagine the fire keeps burning for so long that life begins reorganizing itself around it. The smoke is still there every morning. It is still there when you leave for work. It is still there when you come home. Days turn into weeks. Weeks turn into months.

After a while, the smell follows you home. It settles into your clothes, your furniture, your hair, and the spaces where you are supposed to feel comfortable. Eventually there is less discussion about the fire because there is no point. Everyone already knows it is there. Everyone is already living with it.

The abrupt firing of an important Pentagon officials and the news that a top pentagon official has quit, and that Trump ‘loyalists’ are trading places with them, combined with the news that the Trump administration has green-lighted plans for their 2021 budget---for the entire year--- is chillingly foreboding to me.