The Shit World Before Drumpf and Blog Purpose Clarification

Some day Drumpf will no longer be in office. Perhaps a Democrat will be back in office. It seems worth noting that the end of Drumpf will not be the end of the very serious problems of the world as many of them are well-entrenched. We are concerned about him because he is probably going to make many of those problems worse. But they persisted heartily under the watch of Barack Hussein Obama.

Militarism Abroad:

-Yemen
"Yemen: A Calamity at the end of the Arabian Peninsula" (The Independent)
"Yemen: The Graveyard of the Obama Doctrine" (The Atlantic)

-Pakistan
"Living Under Drones," a Stanford study detailing the horror of life in Pakistan under U.S. drones.

Healthcare
-Even with Obamacare, it is too easy to find people in desperate financial straits as a result of medical bills. See, for example, this Fusion article:

it is impossible to spend much time browsing GoFundMe without wondering about the sheer uselessness of our already thin social safety net.

Immigration and Deportation
Obama deported more people from the United States than any other president in history. The preceding link is to an Al Jazeera story about the "deportation machine" Drumpf will inherit from Barack Obama. It reports that possibly up to 2/3rds of Obama's deportees were deported for minor legal infractions or had no criminal record. It mentions the stories of Jose Marvin Martinez and Giovanni Miranda, both of whom were deported for rather meager infractions and then murdered after being returned to their "home" countries. "Home" in quotation marks because, in the case of Miranda, he had come to the United States as a child and barely knew the country to which he was deported.

Why did these things happen under Obama? Isn't he supposed to be progressive and aren't progressives the peace-loving, inclusive party offended to its core by the idea of Drumpf and his plans to deport so many undocumented immigrants?

It seems a stretch to exculpate Obama's responsibility for things like his highly-problematic drone program. It seems a stretch to exculpate him for anything. He was in charge of the U.S. government's executive office.

But, especially on issues like immigration, I can already hear his liberal defenders identifying Republican obstructionism is the major impediment to Obama's progressive accomplishments. Regarding immigration, Obama protected millions of DREAM ACT people against deportation, a move he performed to fierce Republican opposition.

But I really do not know much about the episode. And that gets to my purpose for this blog. I want a repository of information on Drumpf's administration for my own reference. A record that can be reviewed when the things he does, and the major political actions of others in the time of his administration, are inevitably discussed in hindsight, and people attempt to pass moral judgements and take future actions based on those judgements.

Obviously the internet itself is a repository. Wikipedia, Google, etc. There are plenty of sources of exhaustive information. I am not sure what special contribution this blog will have other than my own selfish reasons, so I do not know if it will ever be a useful project to anyone other than me. I am not doing it professionally so the kind of time I have to devote to it is severely limited. So its focus will be necessarily limited. If my own personal history is a good indicator, I may keep it up for about 3 months before abandoning it, as I do with so many personal pet projects. We'll see. I hope not.