Wake up! You hit the snooze button one too many times. It’s time to yank the kids out of bed, get them off to school, brush your teeth in the car on the way to work, and absorb the latest Trump nonse
nse. What did he do this time? Does it really matter? It was probably a tweet, something blatantly false in an interview, or a rally where he said something stupid just to hear a crowd of morons repeat it back and chant his name. No matter what Trump has done this time, there will be something equally stupid to replace it tomorrow. Enough people (I refuse to use the word “we”) voted for him that Trump’s our President, like it or not, and an increasing number of people are choosing “not”. It’s been established, by no less than Trump’s own autobiographer Tony Schwartz, (ghost writer for Art of the Deal) that Trump is a raging narcissist, with a dangerous need for constant attention. As if he wasn’t getting enough as a seemingly filthy rich businessman or a cheesy reality TV star, he had to up the ante and become President, despite having no idea what to do once he won. It should be no surprise to us at this point that the news is dominated every day by the Great racist Pumpkin. What is surprising is how Republicans continue to stand by him, pretending that nothing’s happening. What do you mean “embarrassing the country”? You hateful Liberals! The sad truth is, by offering a mostly united Front, Republicans are doing a better job of showing solidarity than we Liberals.
If there’s one thing that I hate, it’s a trend that I’m seeing on social media lately where some “genius” points out that Donald’s distracting us from the “real story”. Frankly, this is pretty insulting. There’s an assumption here that most liberals are like Odie from Garfield, or babies who don’t even understand object permanence, only able to concentrate on one thing at a time. There’s no reason we can’t have two or more stories at once on the news. There’s so damn many channels it’s okay if a few of them actually provided different information from one another. The assumption seems to be that we’re all stupid, and we’ll look over there at the Silly Clown while Congress writes real legislation over in a darkened corner. (more…)