Happy one week anniversary of the treason summit. Due to the cascade of Donald Trump’s tweets and the media’s short attention span, the abomination that was Trump/Putin press conference is out of sight and out of mind.
As much as we’d like to pin it on him, this mess is not Trump’s fault. He’s doing the best he can with a very limited amount of intelligence and acumen. If he was a musician we would say that he is working with a damaged instrument. That’s not exactly true. It would be more akin to a first year piano student playing on an old out of tune upright with 20 broken strings.
The Republicans in Congress are the ones to blame. If they had an ounce of integrity we would be deep into impeachment hearings and a Pence administration would be imminent. (not that a Pence administration would be a day at the beach) Instead we have a few squeaky wheels who are not running for reelection, i.e. John McCain and Bob Corker, and a trove of servile, quiescent lackeys. These scoundrels are content to stack the courts with conservative judges, gut affordable health care, see that the American populous is armed, and rape the ecology.
The fix is in and has been for many years. Welcome to the endgame.
For the past several months social media has been rife with snark. Facebook and the Twitterati have turned the decibel level up to 10, gloating over Donald Trump’s poor approval ratings and the inevitable Blue sweep of the Congress in the November midterms. So why was I not surprised when CNN released a poll yesterday saying the the midterm races were in a dead heat?
Puke-faced millennial social media mavens can talk trash until carpal tunnel sets in, but that’s not going to change the fact that we live in an uneducated, racist society that could care less that a narcissistic dullard is president. Throw in the fact that the Republicans that *are* educated are making so much money off of this administration that they, too, are happy to turn a blind eye.
Folks, the fix was in long before Trump became president. Between gerrymandering, the gradual dumbing down of our nation through massive education cuts, and a gluttonous one percent, we have long been a lost cause. Time to batten down the hatches — we’re in for a rough ride.
Conventional thinking would be that this is a horrible time to be a Republican. President Donald Trump is a disgrace to the office – a detestable, incurious, narcissist who likely is suffering from some form of dementia. The Republican majority Congress has been ineffectual and, with few exceptions, unwilling to challenge the corrupt and incompetent executive office.
I will submit to you, however, that there has never been a better time to be a Republican. Thanks to decades of allowing our public education to go to seed the populace lacks the intelligence to understand relevant issues, and therefore are willing to vote against their interest. Racism is rampant and has not been this blatant since the 1950s – it’s not a stretch to envision a return to the days of Jim Crow.
This is a perfect storm. We have a population that is too stupid and racist to understand that what is holding them back is the divide between rich and poor, and we have a ruling party willing to exploit their ignorance. This is the outcome of years of capitalism run amok.
Trump Care, or to be more apt, Death Care, was withdrawn by a House that didn’t have enough Republican votes to get it through to the Senate. I can’t seem to wrap my head around the reason for its failure. Was it because of moderate Republicans who would have to face a constituency that would find itself either uninsured or paying up the wazoola for health care? Or was it because of hard-line, conservative Republicans who thought that the bill was too generous and will not be happy until there are bread lines.
Either way…phew!
It’s hard to believe that the Trump administration thought that they could ram this bill through Congress in a month’s time and move on to gutting the infrastructure of the country via a budget bill. Talk about hubris.
We’re less than a week into Donald Trump’s presidency and it’s clear that we have elected a madman. He continues, without a shred of evidence, to assert the lie that millions of people voted for Hillary Clinton illegally. He appears to want to make good on his promise to build a wall along our southern border even though it will cost billions and do little to prevent illegal immigration. It looks like he’ll do his best to gut the EPA and inhibit efforts to contain global warming. All in less than one week!
The folks for whom I reserve my greatest contempt, however, are the Republican Congressman and operatives. Unlike Trump, these people know what they’re doing. They’re gutting our countries natural resources, selling out the younger generation, feeding the rich, and taxing and imprisoning the poor. All for their own benefit. They can rot in hell as far as I’m concerned.
The election season will come to its merciful conclusion tomorrow with the assurance that the outcome will be utterly depressing. The most likely result, that Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman president, provides us with four more years of the status quo – rising income inequality, the continued use of drone warfare, and a government beholden to Wall Street and corporate interests.
Of course a Trump presidency throws us back into the stone age. I don’t believe that The Donald would be more than a figurehead, but when you consider the damage that a Mike Pence and a stasi-esque Cabinet could wreak the mind boggles.
I do not believe that Trump will win, but regardless, the damage has been done. He has exposed the racist underbelly of the United States and it is exponentially greater than was thought. The fact that nearly half of the electorate will cast their vote for a racist, homophobic, xenophobic, narcissistic dullard speaks volumes on the state of the American psyche.
Then you have the effete liberals, practically pissing their pants in fear of a Trump victory. I haven’t seen such pearl clutching since Zabars stopped carrying organic Camembert cheese. Man up! We lived through twelve years of the Bush dynasty and eight years of Reagan — we’ll make it through Trump.
Or not. Who cares at this point? In a country that doesn’t provide health care, wages perpetual war, rewards corrupt, predatory CEOs, punishes its working class, sentences its college goers to a life of crippling debt, and leaves its poor to scramble for minimum wage jobs, what’s the difference?
As we close in on the Republican convention, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the clown car, let’s take a moment to reflect.
That’s enough.
What upsets me the most about the Trump phenomenon is the way the media covers it. To be more specific, what the media doesn’t say about him – that he is an incurious megalomaniac that is as qualified to be president as Pete Rose is to direct a remake of Citizen Kane.
It drives me crazy when pundits break down Trump’s foreign policy or analyze his position on supply side economics. Folks, there is an elephant in the room here: The candidate is a moron. What’s more he is a self-serving, narcissistic moron.
The lifer Republicans know this and they are mortified, but what can they do but fall on their swords and back this shell of a human being? It’s the media that is doing a shameful job. I realize that ratings are up and it’s in the networks and news industry’s interest to ride the cash cow, but is there one iota of integrity left in the business?
For now let’s pull up a chair and enjoy watching the Republicans twist in the wind as they struggle to feign enthusiasm for the potential buffoon-in-chief. Bring it on!
Our long national nightmare — primary season – is finally over and the Republicans now have a giant, orange, self-aggrandizing boob as the face of their party. Kudos.
I believe that Donald Trump is unelectable. Demographics are against him and even his own party is not crazy about him. Paul Ryan, that simp of a man, finally endorsed him, with caveats, but both Bush’s are not. This week Illinois senator, Mark Kirk withdrew his support in the aftermath of the furor of Trump’s having attacked Mexican-American Judge, Gonzalo Curiel. Most prominent Republicans will likely congeal around their nominee in the coming weeks, but it’s obvious that they’re embarrassed to do so.
Just about the only way Trump could win would be if his opposing candidate had to endure some kind of scandal. Or possessed an unlikabilty factor. Perhaps someone with a history of being in the center of a maelstrom of controvers…oh…
At least Hillary Clinton didn’t have an exclamation point at the end of her campaign posters like Jeb! That’s about the only good thing I can say about her. On Tuesday night, after the day’s primarys, the party line was that we were supposed to feel as if history was been made with the first female presidential nominee. If the nominee had been Elizabeth Warren I would have been thrilled. Clinton has been on the wrong side of many issues that are important to me – the Iraq war, gay marriage, and marijuana legalization, to name a few. Furthermore, she’s way too hawkish for me. She even name-checked Henry Kissinger as a way of asserting her foreign policy bona fides. That’s right, she used one of the great war criminals of our time as a way of assuring the American people that we’re in good hands.
Of all the presidential elections I’ve voted in — this is my 9th – I’m least enthusiastic about this one. I even felt more passionate about Michael Dukakis, for God’s sake! Come the second week of November, however, I’ll hold my nose and cast my vote for Hillary. My motivation: Fear of the Yuge one possessing the power to appoint Supreme Court Justices.
I’ve posted before about my ambivalence, nay, my antipathy towards these political videos that are currently running rampant in the wake of the Trump storm. My politics are to the left of most people I know, (although in the Bay Area I’m a centrist) but these videos offend me.
How is it helpful to portray Trump supporters as moronic backwoods yokels? Sure, they are a strong demographic for him, but I know he must have supporters who are intelligent and can articulate what they like about him and dislike about the Democrats.
In the case of this particular video it seems the filmmaker has gone out of his way to find the least intelligent people possible. I don’t see how shaming the right is going to sway a voter who is on the fence. It’s more likely it would have the opposite effect.
I saw another video in which a reporter interviewed college students asking them who won the civil war. Of course the video showed 5 people in rapid succession answering ‘The South’ or ‘I don’t know’ but who’s to say the interviewer didn’t ask 90 people and edited in the morons?
I’m not buying this video-happy society we live in. Yes, folks are generally less intelligent than they were 30 years ago — how could they not be with all the de-funding of education. But they’re not that stupid!
You can’t deny — this Trump stuff is gold. I just woke and wondered if I dreamed that in one news cycle Trump insinuated that Mitt Romney would have blown him for an endorsement – AND – bragged about his penis size on national TV at a debate. You can’t make this stuff up!
Trump is actually causing the Republican party leadership as much angst as Democratic voters. You have people like Peggy Noonan talking about the breakup of the Republican Party. That’s extreme, but even to broach something like that is remarkable.
If Trump were to win the presidency the worst damage he could do would be via Supreme Court Justice appointments. Don’t get me wrong, this is, in and of itself, pretty bad, but it’s no worse than if Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio were making the appointments. The Congress would not allow him to build a wall on the Mexican border, or deport Muslims. They would be just as divisive under him as they are under Obama.
Now if only the Democrats would realize that Bernie Sanders has a much better chance of defeating Trump than Hillary Clinton. Imagine a Sanders-Trump contest. All the center-right Republicans would threaten to move out of the country. Soar-ry, Canada!
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