There is nothing quite like a hot shower, whether you are feeling under the weather and want to breathe clear, steam into your lungs, or you simply are an individual that enjoys the little things in life, a hot shower is just delightful. Now, the mere temperature of the water is not what makes a hot shower an enjoyable experience. If you believe this to be true, you are a sham and a charlatan and have no business in this conversation. The perfect bathing experience combines water that is hot, just before the point of no return, with hard enough pressure that you feel as if the water is massaging your very being. This, dear friends, is what it means to take a hot shower. I will admit that a situation may present itself where a cold shower is quite nice as well, but these instances are few and far between.
I wish you well on your way, and here’s what you missed in the news yesterday.
Bring Our Troops Home, Wait, Maybe Don’t?
No parent wants to see their child dress in army uniforms and leave home to defend their country, but there is an element of pride associated with joining the military. I can imagine that soldiers are even more prideful when they feel as if they are doing what is just for their homeland. From a bipartisan perspective, the United States has supported our country’s military presence in Syria because we have, reportedly, been fighting ISIS. Be that as it may, in a move that some journalists have referred to as divisive and harmful to growing tensions in the region, President Trump ordered a rapid withdrawal of some two-thousands United States armed forces members from Syria, to be completed within thirty days. Remaining true to his absence of subtlety in the slightest, President Trump declared that his removal of said troops was due to the celebratory notion that after four, hard-fought years against the Islamic State, (ISIS) the US has emerged largely victorious.
“We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency.”
–President Donald Trump on Twitter
Aside from several concerns relating to the president’s third-person reference to his own administration, many members of the US government, including Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, attacked President Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from Syria. When former president Barack Obama decided to withdraw American troops from Iraq in 2011, people were furious. Mr. Graham expressed similar frustrations regarding Trump’s similar course of action on Wednesday. Mr. Graham claimed that “if Obama had done this, all of would be furious. If Obama had done this, we’d be going nuts right now: How weak, how dangerous.” Somewhere, in an undisclosed location, Barack Obama felt a tinge in his side, as if someone had unsullied his name. Ignoring it, Obama returned to whatever he was doing prior, which, I assume, was enjoying time with his wife and family.
I Thought There Was No Such Thing As Bad Press?
While her husband is off doing whatever he believes it means to be President of the United States, first lady Melania Trump was tasked with decorating the White House for the holidays. When Melania decided to take some creative liberty and place red Christmas trees all over the building, the media vilified her decision, essentially saying that she had one, fairly simple job, and she couldn’t do so. Several columnists from Vogue Magazine shared their opinions on a recent photo of the President and first lady, saying that their holding of each others’ hands is “famously out of character for them.”
“As former Trump White House associates continue to fall like snowflakes on a winter day in the Mueller investigation, the wildly sunny White House Christmas portray might be another attempt to keep spirts looking bright.”
-Vogue on Trump Christmas photo
