Scrolling through Hillary Clinton's Twitter
feed, looking for respite from the relentlessly depressing news, I found the above.
Pretty appropriate, given Trump's latest
ranting and raving about China. I don't know what's more irritating; the
stupidity of the man or how many people endlessly debate what he's done or said
as if he were a sentient being when in fact most of the time there's nobody
home. Evidenced by his tweet that he won by a landslide because the elections
were rigged and millions voted illegally but he tried to stop the recount
instigated by Jill Stein.
Time Magazine named him 2016 Person of the
Year, opting for a portrait of Trump in a remarkably similar pose to that of
Hitler when he won the dubious honor. The magazine had this to say about their
choice:
"It’s hard to measure the scale of his disruption. This real estate baron and casino owner turned reality-TV star and provocateur—never a day spent in public office, never a debt owed to any interest besides his own—now surveys the smoking ruin of a vast political edifice that once housed parties, pundits, donors, pollsters, all those who did not see him coming or take him seriously. Out of this reckoning, Trump is poised to preside, for better or worse."
William Saletan, writing for Slate, said of
Donald Trump that he's "virtually lobotomized".
I agree. I believe that Trump is literally
too stupid to understand what an average toddler can. It could explain his
avoidance of intelligence briefings.
Trump ran his campaign on emotive issues
which needed the intelligence of a pea-brain to see through. He's massively
entitled, has a kind of lizard-brain ability to con people, and doesn't care
about consequences because he's always been able to slither away from them
himself and make other people pay.
Astonishingly, TV anchors, panels, some
journalists, are still talking about him as if he's a normal human being,
'giving him a chance'.
You give peace a chance. You don't give a
serial predator one. And it's dangerous to interpret Trump's stupidity as
meaning he's ultimately harmless. He's not. His need for wealth, power and
attention is the craving of an addict. He'll sacrifice the country and feed his
supporters what they want to hear so they take the poison he's feeding them. He
and his lovely family of mindless, soul-less daddy-clones will make a killing
and when the economy tanks and the middle class disappears they'll blame Obama
or Hillary Clinton.
Trump won't care. He has already broken all
his campaign promises and his fans don't seem to realize it, perhaps because
the reporting of it comes from the snobby elitist liberal media.
For the next four years Trump will play
Republican politicians off against each other, and capitalize on their desire
to have positions of power. He's already doing that. Look how he yanked
Mitt Romney's chain, meeting him for dinner and getting together for talks then
adding to his list of potentials for the position. As if he understood the
first thing about what's needed in a Secretary of State.
Or how to govern, come to think of it. Or
how to finish a sentence articulately. How to start it. How to hold a decent
conversation. Or how to run a business without breaking laws, screwing decent
people's lives up and going spectacularly bankrupt, there's that.
His whole life this nasty piece of work has
abused people and manipulated their greed. He's also created chaos around himself
so nobody gets power over him. He mindlessly hurls accusations at whomever
he feels like whenever he feels like it. He'll try to do the latter with
foreign leaders, as he has with China, his latest stunt, of which there are so
many it's hard to keep up. He'll destroy international trade agreements that
benefit everybody, put his weight behind leaders guilty of horrendous crimes
against humanity, incentivize and legitimize white supremacy, sexism,
inequality, injustice, bigotry and lies.
America's governing business will be
conducted by denizens of the swamp. 2017 will march in a new pre-Civil Rights era. The Administration and the way that the president
operates will promote stupidity as an admirable trait and fake news as a
mainstream source of information. Progress on climate change will be
incinerated. Scorched earth policy will come to have new meaning.
And truth? The real meaning of it and its
importance to how we live our lives is already so frayed at the edges that it wouldn't be a surprise to find in four years time that it's a forgotten concept.
In conclusion to their piece about the 2016 person of the year choice, Time had
this to say:
"For reminding America that demagoguery feeds on despair and that truth is only as powerful as the trust in those who speak it, for empowering a hidden electorate by mainstreaming its furies and live-streaming its fears, and for framing tomorrow’s political culture by demolishing yesterday’s, Donald Trump is TIME’s 2016 Person of the Year."
Hardly an accolade. A warning, more like. But we're not so good, as a race, at heeding warnings are we?
I’ve marched, protested, been beaten and arrested--all for the right to vote. Friends of mine gave their lives. Honor their sacrifice. Vote. pic.twitter.com/1lYp99RaOe— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) November 3, 2016
