THE REAL NEO FASCIST SEXIST SOCIOPATH SURFACES
As the Presidential campaign enters its final stretch, this seems like a good time to ask: Will American voters allow themselves to be insulted, taken for granted and made fools of? Donald Trump seems to be betting that the answer is yes. How else to judge his assumption that he can be elected without sharing basic information? He has released no meaningful health records. He has put forward virtually no serious policy proposals. Unlike every other major-party nominee of the modern era, he refuses to release his tax forms.
All of these would be essential reading material from any candidate, but the need for disclosure is especially urgent from Mr. Trump.
He would be the oldest president ever elected, so his medical history is relevant. Unlike Hillary Clinton and, again, every other modern major-party candidate, he has no record of service in politics or public office by which he can be judged, so his policy intentions take on added significance.
He has been on so many sides of so many issues that even serious position papers at this point would have limited credibility. But would they would be better than nothing? Not really, he would lie again and walk it back.
Because his claim to the presidency is founded on his claimed success as a businessman, his tax and financial records are particularly salient. Has he really made as much money as he boasts? Has he paid taxes? Has he sheltered money in the Cayman Islands, done deals with Russian oligarchs? It is all a continuation of questions and situations that have surfaced that shows us who he really is.
THE LIPMASS TEST - But we didn’t need to hear that recording to know Trump is an aggressive misogynist. His serial outrages are well known.He has called women dogs and pigs;
He humiliated the winner of his Miss Universe beauty pageant for gaining weight, forcing her to exercise in front of the cameras; He rates women’s bodies out of 10; He dismissed Republican rival Carla Fiorina on the grounds that no one would vote for “that face”; He suggested TV anchor Megyn Kelly was hostile because “she had blood coming out of her wherever”.
Even when seeking to rebut the charges of sexual assault, he couldn’t help himself. His defence amounted to: “Have you seen what these women look like? I don’t think so.
This is such a swift degeneration from the public mores that America and the wider world had arrived at – and which had seemed steady and settled – that it can be hard to take in. It’s not that long ago that George W Bush received a global, and deserved, scolding for the unsolicited shoulder massage he fleetingly administered to Angela Merkel, which triggered a recoil reflex she could not conceal.
Now you have a succession of credible accusers saying a would-be president thinks nothing of seizing women by the genitals.
As Michelle Obama put it in perhaps the most powerful speech of the presidential campaign: “We thought all of that was ancient history, didn’t we?” Of course, that was a comforting delusion. You only have to read a fraction of the accusations of appalling sexual harassment and abuse of power leveled at Roger Ailes – the former overlord of Fox News, now reborn as an adviser to (who else?) Donald Trump – to know that such behavior never stopped. Glance at the experiences shared online by EverydaySexism or under the #notokay hashtag, and you know that men abusing women did not end in the 1970s.
THE CROWNING OF THE WOULD BE KING OR FUEHRER
Donald J. Trump somehow became the presidential nominee for the GOP party. He is in an elite club joining but unwelcome the ranks of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, all great Americans. He is not a member of this club. He is an imposter.
He lacks transparency, integrity, honesty, and is totally into himself. He is, as he states the only person who could fix things. Those were Hitlers words. Hitler’s memoirs “Mein Kamph” have now been superseded by T-RUMP’S “Mein Stuhlgang”
And my question is how did so many Americans fall for this, incredibly bad, incredibly dangerous individual and the situations he has provoked. Not all their fault, the party is to blame. “It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, “Wait on time.”
TRUMPS NEW FLAG FOR THE UNITED STATES
If he wins and he will probably change our American Flag to something more appropriate for a man of his stature. (See sample design with T-RUMP crest)
Since his rhetoric started about a year ago, the country has moved into a different orbit. Somewhat healed cuts are bleeding again, the wounds are open and festering. He has divided the country. We have created a violent culture and much of this can be traced to the northern porthole of a man suffering delusions caused by cranial-rectal dyslexia.
He’s alarmingly thin-skinned. Referring to critics who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, Trump said Thursday that he wanted to “Hit a number of those speakers so hard, their heads would spin.”
And: “I was going to hit one guy in particular, a very little guy.” Trump made clear Friday on Twitter that he was talking about “ ‘Little Michael Bloomberg, who never had the guts to run for president.” Words from the schoolyard bully.
Finally, there’s ample evidence that Trump is the worst kind of bully. Look at the way he reacted to the powerful Democratic convention speech by Khizr Khan, the father of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in the Iraq War.
Trump initially did not have the courage to respond directly to Khan. Instead he cowardly attacked Khan’s wife, Ghazala, who had stood silently on the stage. “She was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say. You tell me.” There’s no need for me to defend Ghazala Khan, who spoke eloquently for herself in a Post op-ed. But tell me: What kind of man has so little empathy for a grieving mother’s loss? Is that normal? Is it healthy?
Everything he puts out eventually crumbles just like his T-RUMP College and Atlantic City. The curse of the Taj Mahal, great dreams, bad foundations and a lot of people lost a lot of money and jobs. Those folks are merely collateral damage and he really has no concern for their losses. He has the empathy of an anteater on a termite mound.
AND AS FAR AS ANTI-SEMITISM GOES
Jewish Republicans have long been the most staunch supporters of conservative politics in the United States. Candidates like Reagan and the two Bushes benefited greatly from their allies within the Jewish community. Unfortunately for Trump, our nation’s top Jewish Republicans have reached a consensus that they will not be supporting the Republican nominee this year because of his rampant anti-Semitism he draws out from his party.
Described leading Jewish Republican journalist Ben Shapiro in the hard right National Review, “I’ve experienced more pure, unadulterated anti-Semitism since coming out against Trump’s candidacy than at any other time in my political career.
Trump supporters have threatened me and other Jews who hold my viewpoint. They’ve blown up my e-mail inbox with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. They greeted the birth of my second child by calling for me, my wife, and two children to be thrown into a gas chamber.” Released by the press (Verified by several sources) was a very scary statistic, 86% of the threats against Jewish journalists during this election were traced to TRUMP supporters.
Added the deeply concerned Shapiro, “The anti-Semites believe that Trump’s zero-sum critique of free markets and foreign policy hawkishness, combined with his “America first” posturing, amounts to rejection of the supposedly Jewish financial lobby on the one hand and the supposedly all-powerful Israel lobby on the other; they believe that Trump’s nationalism without philosophy amounts to an embrace of the blood-and-soil white supremacism they celebrate.” How disgusting is Trump’s bigotry? He really is an international disgrace! EDITOR: I agree he is about as appetizing as a three day old pickled herring bagel left on the counter with rotten schmaltz on it.
GOP HIGH RANKING ADMINISTRATORS SLAM TRUMP
A group of 50 high-profile former officials in Republican administrations have signed a letter denouncing Donald Trump’s candidacy, warning he would be “a dangerous president and would put at risk our country’s national security and well-being.”
"From a foreign policy perspective, Donald Trump is not qualified to be president and commander-in-chief," they wrote. “ Indeed, we are convinced that he would be a dangerous president and would put at risk our country's national security and well-being."
"None of us will vote for Donald Trump," they wrote, criticizing his lack of "character, values and experience to be president." Donald Trump is not the answer to America's daunting challenges and to this crucial election." “He weakens US moral authority as the leader of the free world," the letter reads. "He appears to lack basic knowledge about and belief in the U.S. Constitution, US laws and US institutions, including religious tolerance, freedom of the press and an independent judiciary.”
NOTE: TRUMP does however make a big deal about having the well wishes of two hundred retired Generals and Admirals as an endorsement. Unfortunately most of them were made to retire when the military downsized and many were just not equipped for the military of today. They had to turn in their horses and polished boots, riding crops and calvary swords. The normal advancement policies of Military because of the wars in the middle east produced an abundant crop of high end military officers with few real skills. Basically we had too many useless Chiefs and too few Indians.
SENATOR HARRY REID
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada ripped apart Republicans for this, explaining in very clear terms what a psychopath he is. Said Reid, “Donald Trump is an American nightmare. He’s the most unqualified party presidential candidate from a major party that anyone can remember.
He’s a bigot, he’s a scam artist, he won’t show us his tax return, and Sen. Grassley is holding the Supreme Court vacant for this man. With all due respect to the senator from Iowa, I know President Reagan and I worked with him. I can say unequivocally, Donald Trump is no Ronald Reagan, and that is the most significant understatement I’ve made on this floor in a long, long time.
The fact that my colleague from Iowa would lump Ronald Reagan in with an egomaniac, selfish person like Donald Trump should scare the people of Iowa. This is not the Grassley we’ve come to know all these years.
JOE SCARBOROUGH
The Muslim ban, the David Duke denial, the “Mexican” judge flap, the draft dodger denigrating John McCain’s military service, the son of privilege attacking an immigrant Gold Star mother and the constant revisionism and lying about past political positions taken are but a few of the lowlights that have punctuated Donald Trump’s chaotic chase for the presidency.
Any one of these offenses would have disqualified any other candidate for president. But the Republican nominee remained competitive against a historically weak Democratic nominee on the promise of bringing radical change and dramatic disruption to Washington.
The WASHINGTON POST’S View on T-RUMP
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DONALD J. TRUMP, - Until now a Republican problem, became a challenge the nation must confront and overcome. The real estate tycoon is uniquely unqualified to serve as president, in experience and temperament. He is mounting a campaign of snarl and sneer, not substance. To the extent he has views, they are wrong in their diagnosis of America’s problems and dangerous in their proposed solutions.
Mr. Trump’s politics of denigration and division could strain the bonds that have held a diverse nation together. His contempt for constitutional norms might reveal the nation’s two-century-old experiment in checks and balances to be more fragile than we knew.
Any one of these characteristics would be disqualifying; together, they make Mr. Trump a peril. We recognize that this is not the usual moment to make such a statement. In an ordinary election year, we would acknowledge the Republican nominee, move on to the Democratic convention and spend the following months, like other voters, evaluating the candidates’ performance in debates, on the stump and in position papers.
Donald Trump painted a dark picture of America during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, but some of his doomsday stats are rather dubious. In contrast, there is nothing on Mr. Trump’s résumé to suggest he could function successfully in Washington.
He was staked in the family business by a well-to-do father and has pursued a career marked by some real estate successes, some failures and repeated episodes of saving his own hide while harming people who trusted him. Given his continuing refusal to release his tax returns, breaking with a long bipartisan tradition, it is only reasonable to assume there are aspects of his record even more discreditable than what we know.
The lack of experience might be overcome if Mr. Trump saw it as a handicap worth overcoming. But he displays no curiosity, reads no books and appears to believe he needs no advice. In fact, what makes Mr. Trump so unusual is his combination of extreme neediness and unbridled arrogance. He is desperate for affirmation but contemptuous of other views. He also is contemptuous of fact.