NO MANDATE
December 29, 2016 James Schlarmann
I should start this off by saying that I actually don’t subscribe to the “not my president” shtick about Trump. I believe he is my president, not because I voted for him, but because him being my president makes him like every other president to every other American has been — my employee. That means I get to hold him accountable as a boss does with his direct report. I plan to spend however long his ego can handle the job being the fly in his ointment, and calling him my president gives me the intellectual headway I desire to be as ribald, blunt, irreverent and disrespectful as I can be, thanks to the beautiful First Amendment. That being said, I came across a meme that perfectly distilled why people would choose to embrace the #NotMyPresident hashtag, and I thought I’d pass it along. The gist of it is really, quite simply, “math.”
Full Article via Modern Liberal
December 29, 2016 James Schlarmann
I should start this off by saying that I actually don’t subscribe to the “not my president” shtick about Trump. I believe he is my president, not because I voted for him, but because him being my president makes him like every other president to every other American has been — my employee. That means I get to hold him accountable as a boss does with his direct report. I plan to spend however long his ego can handle the job being the fly in his ointment, and calling him my president gives me the intellectual headway I desire to be as ribald, blunt, irreverent and disrespectful as I can be, thanks to the beautiful First Amendment. That being said, I came across a meme that perfectly distilled why people would choose to embrace the #NotMyPresident hashtag, and I thought I’d pass it along. The gist of it is really, quite simply, “math.”
Full Article via Modern Liberal