For 17 months and five days we have been lied to constantly by our right wing government. The truth for this administration would be ‘alternative facts.’ I am fed up with it. I am America, our elected officials are public servants, not royalty who rule over us. I write, my wife makes phone calls; we believe that bulls**t is not acceptable; we have a right to know all of the truth about our dysfunctional government.

A couple of events in the last few days exemplify what this Republican administration is capable of, and that is nothing more than lies, and hypocrisy.

In Virginia at a ‘Red Hen’ restaurant. The owner asked Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave. She said that her  morals and principles would not accept a woman who lies to protect the evil in the White House to defile her establishment.

The right wing erupted. Of course they cheered last month when the Supreme Court gave permission to a man who owns a bakery in Colorado to refuse service to a same-sex couple. Although I doubt his veracity, he claims his action was the result of his religious beliefs. I call bulls**t. Are these two incidents similar? Damn right. Religion has no place in politics, but morals and principles should.

After extreme pressure from tens of millions of Americans and some in his own party, Trump reneged on his plan to separate migrant parents and their children. His failed administration is now telling us that that they ‘know exactly where the children are.’ Once again, I must call bulls**t. ICE already admitted that there is no paper trail to identify all of the children which would link them with their parents. Some of the 2,500 young boys and girls have been dispersed across the nation.

The chant across America should be “No More.” No More will we accept lies and misdirection. No More will we accept white supremacy. No More will be accept corruption greater than at any other time in our history. No More will the people accept a fuhrer living in the White House. No More will we accept anything but the full truth. No More.

Op-ed by James Turnage

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