Question: How many among us have noticed that our nation has become a cesspool? Have the schools in your area shut down? Pharmacies run out of medicine? Garbage pick-up unavailable? Clean water, gone?

Or, does that extra $300-250 a month for parents with kids kind of help? How about the stock market near all-time highs? Does the fact that half the country is fully vaccinated make you feel a bit better, with the other half either being too MAGA or too young to get it? How about the promise of an entirely new infrastructure project, long overdue, including taking care of our elders who’ve always taken care of us?

Which one?

Well, if you’re Trump, the country has taken nine months to go from the perfect country with a Capitol under siege in an attempt to overthrow the elected president, and a COVID overrun nation with little money going to the poorest of our people to now. The cesspool, with green grass and relatively clean air.

Well, that and the fact that Trump is primarily calling our border a “cesspool” (along with other things, we’re sure), and it was much better when Trump was committing crimes against humanity and taking children to scare people away:

Today, Trump put out a statement (Tweet Light):

ICYMI: "Trump says US becoming a ‘cesspool of humanity’ amid border crisis"

"America under Biden!" – President Donald J. Trump https://t.co/wN44j0sb1X pic.twitter.com/k8TgdeKhux

— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) September 21, 2021

Trump links his article to a quote in the New York Post. Try to discern whether Trump is calling the United States a cesspool, or whether the people that have sought refuge have made it a cesspool.

“​Our Country is rapidly becoming a cesspool of humanity. M*rderers, dr*g dealers, and criminals of all shapes and sizes are a big part of this massive migration​,” the former president said. 

More than 14,000 Haitians have been camping out in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, since last week waiting to be arrested, leading the Biden administration to close an entry point, reroute traffic, deploy more Border Patrol agents and arrange flights, which could begin as soon as Sunday, to return them to the Caribbean nation.​

“Tens of thousands of people are coming from Haiti, and many now from countries in Africa, even more so now than South America. Nothing is done and the corrupt Mainstream Media is giving almost no attention to what will be perhaps the greatest Crisis in the history of our Country​,” said Trump, noting that it’s not only a crisis at the border, it’s a “Crisis Crisis.”​

We have lost 660,000 people to a disease that could have been managed significantly better and practically stomped out. We went through World War II, the Great Depression, Reconstruction, the Civil Damned War, and the transition from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution. Trump calls this “perhaps” the greatest Crisis (his capitalization) in the history of our country.

Our border is in a crisis and there are a lot of good people working on that crisis. The crisis is a direct result of Trump’s policies, policies so draconian that any president following Trump, Republican or Democrat, would face a mad rush to the border by people waiting until the real laws would be put in place again.

This country is not a cesspool and we note that he named nearly every area of the world from which brown people come.

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