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Goodbye Kayleigh McEnany — You Should Be Ashamed of Yourself and You Will Not Be Missed

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Over the next month, we’ll write a series of summations about the people involved in the entire term, we’ll shoot for at least two a week and always one on the weekend. Obviously, we have to start with a big one, one of the most we’ll be glad to have out of our lives and the White House.

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Goodbye, Kayleigh McEnany, “K-mac,” as you’ve become unofficially known to this site, and not warmly or endearingly.

You were one of the worst. During one of the single saddest periods in recent United States history, you were one cold cold woman who should know better. We don’t recall you once stating, with any feeling, that this is tragic, hard, depressing, and that the country needs to rally behind the science and each other. George W. Bush shed some tears on camera after 9-11, like a human being. In his gut, he understood and felt horrible. He asked everyone to rally around each other as a nation. Meanwhile, you guys were too busy telling us how proud you were of yourselves, never once asking everyone to support each other. You were one of the ones to lead the way, the cheerleader for an arrogant team.

We are fully aware that this is what you are, who you are, and have always been.

This is you, Kayleigh, this is how you started out and from this, you never really grew up. This was you “back then,” as a young student who didn’t know shit. You were so proudly racist and clueless, we suppose that’s redundant if we add “cruel, dangerous, entitled, proud of being born white, and just dumb. “Kenya.” You were from Florida from some family business that … wait, for the love of God we don’t do that, no matter what you might deserve. We’ll scorn you solely on what you said.

We need one more from “back then,” one that can sort of be laughed at given what you became. This, Kayleigh, took away any credibility you might have had. We remember the tweet almost verbatim. You tweeted “to” President Obama “Don’t you have any work to do, son, like governing?”

“Son.” Did you really want to say “boy,” but worried it might cost you all your friends at the time? “Son,” you think it was just hidden enough that it wasn’t racist, just “funny?” What is funny is that you got indignant at someone saying “Trump” rather than “President Trump.” You got angry about Trump’s title, Kayleigh, no put-down like “son,” derelict, dickhead, dictator, …

“Trump,” versus “Son.” That is you, Kayleigh McEnany, and it’s black and white. Those tweets come from when you were young, 24, and pretty reprehensible. However, at the very least, some people can show some growth and maturation. Kayleigh, this is one of the things you need to hear, whether you’ll ever believe it or not. You simply never grew up. You’ll hear that a lot as we go, Kayleigh, but you’ll need it.

Here you are, Kayleigh, after you should have grown up and before you became press secretary. This is heinous, Kayleigh, but again … damn, we’re not giving you the pleasure of us chewing you out again, let’s get to you. From USA Today:

In social media posts and interviews resurfaced on Twitter, McEnany, who previously served as President Donald Trump’s campaign spokesperson and a CNN contributor, questioned Obama’s birthplace and said Democrats were almost “rooting” for the coronavirus pandemic to spread through America. 

Now, as we reach over three hundred thousand dead, many might feel like this was the lowest point in their lives, at least until that time. We’re wary that your robotic nature was programmed at GOP research labs, or you were just hit upside the head so badly it just …, a real human being would at least be humiliated and desperately need to put out a statement as to how tremendously sorry you were, as the deaths went on and on. They’ve not let up, accelerating now.

You might not have even needed to admit that some of it was due to Trump policies, only said it was totally inappropriate and you truly didn’t understand the danger at the time. Had you done that, it would have at least proven that you’d matured a fraction and you could look at yourself with a fraction of pride and feel somewhat redeemed, as you then went into a corner and committed seppuku.

Sick humor? We are sick of you. That’s the entire point. We’re saying good-bye and if we’re a little sick it’s not even on the same planet as not caring about the 300,000 (close) dead and a lot more who got very sick. That’s “sick,” Kayleigh.

We’ll move to the worst. As press secretary for Trump, you had already climbed the ladder, the one for which you had sold your soul long ago. You made it. You “made it” so much that you had a duty to the American people. But instead of a higher calling or duty, instead of “growing up,” you dug in, during the worst epidemic in American history, and seemed to commit yourself to saying things that continued to shock people, even as people expected the worst. Your only talent, you always surprised, more awful each time while wearing that cross outside your clothing and tweeting about your prayerful soul.

If one reads about the actual Jesus, he sure sounds like a good guy if absolutely nothing else. And we’re not putting down those who believe fully that he remains the son of God, we just want to include everyone. Jesus said stuff that truly mattered, all of it. There’s nothing in the Bible about him shooting the shit with the guys, laughing about not catching a damn thing that day. Jesus made it a point to really get on the type that could only say a prayer if the world was watching, for their own gain. We cannot quote him directly but he said something about “For the love of God, (see?) please, STFU when out in front of 200 people, say your prayer when scared, at night, humbly.” You tweet your prayers.

Additionally, the only time Jesus went shit storm insane was with the money lenders at the temple, your type, the biggest hypocrites, and the richest. Make of that what you will, Kayleigh, undoubtedly, “nothing.”

Do we sound sacrilegious? Pfft, please. We at least respect that whomever Jesus might have been, that was a rock-solid point and he had his reasons. He had a beautiful message that everyone should consider. We take it as critical advice and it applies to prayer and so so much more. We try to follow that kind of leadership. We’re at a loss to explain why you toss it away.

At one point you said that you were surprised that so many reporters wanted to keep people out of church.

Well.

We’ll say one thing. You were kind of right in that we wanted to keep people out of church. To us, we figured that keeping people alive was more loving, and you can bet your nautilus sculpted … bet your ass (and that matters on Fox) that we’ve sorta noticed that as more and more suffered and died, we didn’t hear much from you, which doesn’t seem very Christian-like and sort of ruins the whole point of going to church.

We would be sad if the people who insisted upon going to church just killed themselves. But no one on the right noticed that as people kept getting it, they’d give it to three others, any of whom might die, and at least get ten more sick.

And the band played on. One doesn’t get to 300,000 with this disease by accident, Kayleigh. It took work and this was something y’all were willing to grind on, unlike your real jobs. It was almost as if letting people die was a necessary thing to own the libs and promote Trump.

Wow, thinking on it, that’s not by accident, either. That’s planned.

We could go on and on and on, but we need to get to finish this off with some terrible stuff you’ve said post-election.

Someway, somehow, you called this the “Trump vaccine” without an ounce of shame. Jesus, Kayleigh (wow, we keep bringing that guy up, must be important), you already got your ass kicked and no matter how much Trump wanted that title, it didn’t need to come from you. That’s pathetic. Here is what you should have said and just left it at that. “This was an effort that required a lot of people internationally, no one person deserves the credit. This is what science is about. We’re proud to have done what we could.” That’s it, that’s what a professional says. That is literally the only message a real pro could ever say in that situation. It is so easy, Kayleigh.

IF Trump instructed you to say it, and we suspect he did or didn’t need to, you could easily have said, “No, not on that one. That’s going to sound cold and unfeeling to the people who worked on it.” You could have stood your ground. Remarkably, you would have enhanced your career had you done it, even at that point. It is amazing how little it would’ve taken to be somewhat redeemed.

And so, Kayleigh, we say good-bye. It will be nearly impossible to avoid you entirely, we understand that. But at least you will not be able to be part of an operation that literally didn’t care. You cannot enhance the government’s ability to avoid the critical issue, the biggest issue our nation has faced, certainly since the ’60s, maybe back to the ’40s. It is not like we hope you get sick or get crushed in some major “thing,” we’re just not like that. But have no doubt, if it happens, we’ll care as much as you cared while all this happened. None. Amazing to say but that’s where we are.

Last thing. the worst part is that you had potential. You’re not dumb. You could have widened your view and grown-up. So many of us make terrible mistakes in our early 20s. But the entire point of life is to mature, to learn, to see more, care more, and be more of a person for others. There are some people that are hopeless. One out of every four has to be in the bottom 25%. You were not one of them. You really could have put what you have to good use while also being a conservative Christian. Wasted gifts, Kayleigh. Faith without deeds.

And we doubt you’ll ever get it. That is kind of sad.

Good-bye to all that, and you, Kayleigh.

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Peace, y’all
Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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