My friends tell me that I am obsessed with the stupidity of the Trump fanatic. I can’t argue. Then I see two pieces of footage like the ones on Friday morning and they confirm why I feel as I do.
One sequence showed Joe Biden telling his audience that he feels their pain, that they are not alone and that he will have their backs. The other shows a reporter, asking Trump about the suffering of the people affected by the virus and Trump attacking him and calling it a nasty question. There cannot possibly be a more obvious example of the two men, of how one is mentally and emotionally stable and tuned in to the problems of those he is looking to serve and how the other is a sociopath who only hears that which directly impacts him and who has no regard for those he has been elected to serve. The contrast is so glaring, so blatant that anyone with any kind of logical ability must be able to discern the difference and understand how such a difference makes one better suited to the job of president of the United States than the other. And yet there are those who cannot or will not see it.
I watched some footage this week of a Jordan Klepper interviewing Trumpets at rallies in 2016 and 2020. The ignorance of those being interviewed was staggering. I’m not going to try to quote any of the interviews here because the ignorance of Klepper’s foils made them all but unintelligible; I suggest you look them up on YouTube if you want some real laughs.
But laughing at these idiots isn’t the point. The point is they are so ignorant that they each become a detriment to our system of electing our leaders. The situation is so bad, almost 1/3rd of voters being too stupid to think logically, that I have seriously considered promoting legislation that would require an intelligence test be passed before one is allowed to register.
I haven’t done that because I am basically a constitutionalist and that document doesn’t state that the one man that has the one vote has to be smart. It just implies he has to be alive. Even then I wonder about some of them. Does brain dead count?
So all my PC friends will just have to stand back while I excoriate the Trumpets for being the largest group of dumbest people ever to be assembled in various sites by a cult-like sociopath who takes these occasions to lie to them and then bask in their approval of his lies.
Hopefully this will be over come November but those of us who are not susceptible to Trumpian bullshit had better remember this. The nation can’t handle eight years of these disasters in the same century.
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Watched a discussion between Nicole Wallace and Kamala Harris in which Ms Harris spoke of a bill she is sponsoring to deal with the police and general inequality. At the end of Harris description of the bill, Wallace asked what chance such a bill had of a Trump approval? Harris shrugged, smiled a cynical smile and laughed. We all know what that means. But it’s okay. Elizabeth Warren has just produced another bill on similar subject matter that is just what the nation needs but also will never get a Trump vote and that’s okay too because all over congress Democrats are working on bills that when taken together, will ultimately change this country into the America we will all be proud to live in.
It won’t happen as long as Donald Trump’s fat ass is sitting in he Oval Office, but it can happen if we do the right thing and deliver the vote that leads to a Trump indictment in January.
Those who expect something to happen now are being unrealistic. If they had the intelligence or hindsight to look at what has been happening in this country since the Fat Liar was elected, they would know that nothing necessary to the nation is going to happen until he is kicked unceremoniously out of office. That’s our job and if we don’t do it, we will have no one but ourselves to blame.
In 2016 too many people did the dumb thing and voted for Trump. Clearly it was not a majority of Americans, but given our broken electoral system, it was enough, to allow Trump to steal the presidency. We have to make sure that this time it’s a complete drubbing. This time we have to brutalize him. This time we have to beat Trump so badly that even an egomaniac like The Fat Liar, is destroyed by the depth of his failure.
And in so doing we have to do the same in the Senate and the House so that our new president can move on making the changes necessary to rejuvenate the nation.
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On 4th of July our clown of a president stood before a packed in crowd at Mt. Rushmore and lied to the American people once again. His racist speech, a plea to save the Confederate statuary, lauded the traitors that led the Confederate army against the United States in order to continue to keep human beings in chains.
He claimed that those who are for the removal of the statues are denying history. That just proves he is as ignorant of history as he is of just about everything else and that includes everything necessary to make him a functioning president.
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Then, of course, there’s the president’s opinion on masks. After denigrating them for months he has now come out and stated that he likes masks; that he tried one on and thought it made him look like the Lone Ranger. That’s the intelligent Trump putting the mask on over his eyes instead of over his mouth. In the words of Henry VIII, “Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
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You can’t fix stupid. Last week Asa Hutchinson Governor of Arkansas, stood up for the dumbest sentiments about the virus and proved that he is a super moron. Then this week he retracted much of what he said last week and made an admirable speech about wearing masks but when Andrea Mitchell asked him what he thought about Trump’s position on masks and the rallies where all Trump’s fools arrive unmasked, he refused to condemn the stupidity and uncaring behavior of the Liar in Chief and babbled on about nonsense. I’m assuming that after the interview he borrowed the model of Trump’s ass from Mike Pence so he could get a little kissing in on his own.
Pictures of the crowd at Mt. Rushmore show an almost 100% white audience, 100% unmasked, jammed in shoulder to shoulder. This is the classic description of a SUPER SPREADER. So, acknowledging the sentiments of these ignorant, selfish fools, we are forced to hope that they succumb to the virus before they get home and spread it to all the unfortunate people who may be forced into innocent contact with them.
The Internet and the tube are overflowing with interviews and debates about what is going on, what is safe and what is not. With this huge plethora of information, 90% of it with the same conclusions, it is impossible to believe that people are uninformed. Any lack of knowledge about what the virus does and how it can be fought is an avoidance of the truth.
It’s the same basically ignorant approach that every Trump lackey displays in dealing with his dismissal of the charges that Russia is paying the Taliban for American heads. Anyone who has any hint of sophistication says he had to know. Still he denies it, just like his idiot followers deny the need for masks. *****
Watched an unbelievable response by Danielle Pletka on the revelation of the fact that Trump knew about the Russian bounty charge. Instead of condemning Trump, or at the very least his lackey’s in the White House for not making sure the information reached him, she attacked the whistleblower that revealed the fact that this information was going unanswered. What the hell is the matter with this woman? Yes, we all know she’s a conservative Republican but does that completely remove her powers of thought, does it eliminate her objectivity all together? Does anyone with any intelligence really feel that the security leak is more important than the fact that the president of the United States did not react to news that the Russian intelligence agency GRU had inaugurated a direct attack on American lives? It appears that it’s well past time for Pletka to be put out to pasture.
Then Pletka tries to revive Trump through his racist comments that she interprets as rule of law sentiments. If Trump has any respect for the rule of law he wouldn’t have done 90% of what he’s done in his lifetime. This guy is a crook and a con man that has flaunted the constitution whenever it suited his wants and has operated outside the laws of this country all the time he has occupied he White House.
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In his racist speech on July 4th, Trump railed against the removal of Confederate statues because, he said, “it will destroy out heritage.” Trump was born in Queens, NY and lived in Manhattan. I don’t know about his heritage but I don’t think too many Confederate generals hailed from Queens. So I guess that means that like everything else Trump says, the whole speech was pure bullshit!