27 II 2020: Which is worse?

I read that Trump takes the stockmarket’s plunging as a personal affront. He is doing his best to silence the public health community so neither he nor we will hear anything about corona virus from the people most competent to direct our country through this crisis.

I am left wondering which is worse for Trump? Hearing truths that make him uncomfortable or having a real grown-up tell him “No.” He deals with painful truths by trying to silence them or to conceal them in a fog of lies and rumors.. This is learned in Totalitarianism 101, of course, but these behaviors also coincide perfectly with the coping mechanisms that Trump learned as a child. 

Another coping mechanism left over from his childhood is “Don’t take NO for an answer!” Just he uses temper tantrums to make people give him his way, and he is a whiz at getting around prohibitions with the sneaky, amoral, antisocial tactics he learned from Roy Cohn, his mentor. He respects neither God nor man.

Not so with Mike Pence who is going to tell the corona virus to “halt in the name of the Lord and keep away from the Lord’s chosen people.” If that doesn’t work, he will lead the evangelicals in claiming that the corona virus, like HIV, is a plague sent by the Lord to rid our country of sinners. 

As for the views of scientists and experienced administrators, views that contradict the Regime’s placebos about the virus … “well, what do these over-rated elitists know? These experts were wrong about cigarettes, wrong about HIV, and now they are wrong about that virus. Moreover, they are trying to hurt the Economy with talk of “pandemic,” with talk of climate change and global warming, with talk of the minimum wage. They are enemies of prosperity, enemies of the white race, enemies of true religion, enemies of God!!” 

23 II 2020: Trump the trash collector

I read about Trump’s panicked appointment of one Richard Grenell as “Acting Director” of National Intelligence. From what I read, this Grenell is a chronic screw-up, ass-kisser, and so I am surprised that Trump hasn’t appointed him so some sensitive position much earlier. He is like Trump a compulsive liar and a gynophobe. Where does Trump find these people who are so like him? I guess he can smell them.

Where did we find Trump? Our President is a 5-year-old who cannot endure being told No, cannot endure being criticized, cannot endure hearing other people praised. His knowledge of law and politics seems to shrivel by the day while his craving for absolute power is bulging like the Hulk’s muscles.

20 II 2020: Deep state?

The reactionary propaganda mills bring up a “deep state” when they haven’t any other explanation for the fact that honest people will not let them have their way. The only “deep state” conspiracy of which I know is the one that controls the U.S. Senate and the White House.

19 II 2020: Charity begins at home

Trump has been busy pardoning his fellow crooks. A thread of cynical corruption runs through all their cases, and Trump believes corruption makes good business sense. 

Now that he has pardoned a star cast of white-collar criminals, who will next be blessed with his mercy? My guess is that it will be sex offenders. Trump has himself been the victim of cruel misunderstandings in this sphere, so he’s bound to have sympathy for passionate rich men who have been prosecuted by the “Me-too” movement.

18 II 2020: Let’s give Bob a break

Robert Philip Hanssen spied for the Commies for five or more years and provided them with tip-top secret information. He got a pass on the death penalty in return for cooperating with authorities, but even so was sentenced to 15 life terms with no possibility of parole. Can’t the President do something for Bob?

Trump has shown repeatedly the depth of his compassion. He got the murderous Seal off the hook for murder, he stands ready to pardon any of his flunkies who is convicted, and only today we read that he will grant clemency to Eddie Debartolo, a football criminal from a prominent familly.

Look here. Bob Hanssen gave up spying in 1991, that’s almost twenty years ago. He was a devout member of Opus Dei and sent his kids to Opus dei schools. He urged his pals in the FBI to attend Mass.

Obviously his ten-year career in espionage was a case of temporary insanity, a factor that was surely not taken into account at the time of his lynch-mob sentencing. The President of the United States could easily shave off a few life terms for Bob, or, though he would face criticisms from the pinko press, he could grant Bob a pardon, and return him to his loving family and to a nation that is always prepared to forget.

12 II 2020: Birds of a feather are crooks together

So Al Capone thinks the D.A. and Judge are being too hard on Frank Nitti. So he gets word out that he wants they should ease up and like magic the proposed sentence is reduced.

I read about something like this in today’s paper. Who says there is no honor among crooks? Trump has issued a back-door pardon to his faithful fixer, Roger Stone, and the so-called Justice Department welcomed this as another instance of the Dictator’s magnanimity and compassion and has caved in altogether. The government prosecutors have left the case so as not to have to participate in a total fraud. Trump says that Stone’s “is a horrible and very unfair situation.” Well, I guess Trump knows all about horrible, but how would he ever know, or care, what is unfair.

11 II 2020: Enlightened despot?

I read an article in the NY Times Magazine of 12 January about Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates. It reports: “Foreign diplomats have occssionally confronted MBZ (sc., Mohammed bin Zayed) about his country’s lack of democracy, and he has responded by saying something along the lines of ‘This isn’t California’: Lack of education and the prevalence of backward religious attitudes make autocracy necessary, he says.”

Lack of education and prevalence of backward religious attitudes in the U.S. led to the election of Donald Trump. It may be that the U.S. has regressed to the point that democracy has become unworkable.

5 II 2020: Can’t get the smell out so easily

There was no chance of ditching Trump. I knew it. Who didn’t know it? The fix was in. The majority of the “jurors” were either terrified or bought up or didn’t understand what was going on.

I was relieved that Nancy Pelosi did not have to shake Trump’s hand at the State of the Union address. Politicians often have to hold their noses momentarily, but Trump’s aura has the stink of an open grave that clings to anyone he touches for years. 

And the address showed Trump doing what he does best. It is really hard to tell the difference between the Super Bowl half-time show and one of Trump’s performances. If he’s re-elected, maybe the two events could be combined.

26 I 2019: Marsha shoots herself in the foot

Looks like Senator Marsha Blackburn took the gun she always carries in her purse and shot herself in the foot. I refer not only to her telling lies about Lt. Col. Vindman, but also to her “bad little girl” behavior at the impeachment hearings: bolting from the hearing for a television interview, acting out by pretending to read a book during the hearings, and tweeting from the Senate chamber. I guess her background in advertising isn’t working, so she is acting out “bad little girl” in a desperate attempt to win Daddy Trump’s attention.

This trashy woman is a true representative of the current Republican Party.