A chandelier over a toilet
This fucking election. Fucking Trump.
These newest revelations, that Russia hacked the election. Piles of evidence, teetering up to the sky. That Russia ALSO hacked the RNC and are holding them over a barrel because of what they know. Which would be hilarious if it wasn’t so frightening.
And the boiling chaos that’s resulting from it. I’ve got conservative friends actually DEFENDING Russia on this. I’ve got progressive friends gloating that we’ve finally had done to us what we’ve done to other countries. That Hillary somehow deserves this. That WE somehow deserve this. That infuriating cliche about, “It’s actually GOOD ifTrump destroys everything it’ll start a revolution BLAH BLAH BLAH FUCKING BLAH…”
And in the middle of it all is Trump — bloated, grinning, oblivious, wearing his cheap baseball cap and ruining people’s lives with his Twitter. While all around him — smarter, better, exhausted people scramble around, trying to sweep up a china shop he keeps stumbling through, laughing the whole time at these stupid nerds picking up the broken pieces on the ground. Losers. Weak.
Trump doesn’t spread evil. He doesn’t even spread chaos. Evil and chaos are beyond his abilities.
He spreads MEDIOCRITY. And anyone who gets near him gets dragged into the same sloppy, tossed-off, first-draft shitscape he lives in.
Except this time, it’s the entire country who got too close to him. We’re about to become, as a nation, as garish and pathetic as one of his hotel suites. Balsa wood under gold spray paint. A chandelier over a toilet. Knock-off Haviland and Parlon china on which to serve a Big Mac. And the people MAKING the Big Macs getting screwed, stripped and exploited while the predators high-five on their private jets.
In nine days the electors make their choice. Let’s hope they choose to save us from our grope-y, racist uncle who just won $50,000 playing scratch-offs.
I can’t really agree with this. I think he is evil, and I don’t think it requires any particular abilities to be evil. You don’t have to be a clever Bond villain to be evil. In fact, I would say Trump is more of a Batman villain.
iknklast, I,d say that Trump more closely resembles The Ugly than The Bad – Tuco rather than Angel Eyes. The Bad and the Ugly are both evil, but whereas the former is sly, calculating, patient and rational, and never acts unless he is in complete control of the situation, the latter is primitive, vulgar, impulsive, irrational, unpredictable, and often takes foolish chances. And while the former is ice cold, the latter is constantly on the verge of overheating and boiling over. On the same analogy Stalin was the Bad while Hitler was the Ugly.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1371777276174063/?type=3&theater
Bjarte – I can agree with that, it’s sort of what I meant by referencing a Batman villain, but I still can’t agree with the statement that evil is beyond his capabilities.
It’s like he was born with no impulse control – or simply never acquired one as he matured, which I imagine is where most of us get it.
Oswalt is spot on about the garish decor, it’s all fake just like everything else about Trump, cheap and nasty hidden under a thin veneer that won’t stand close inspection. All those intricately moulded gold mirror frames? Pressed MDF and a spray of paint. The gold and bronze statues and chandaliers, light fittings etc? Cheap cast base metal with what is effectively a spray-tan. The fine porcelain ornaments and vases? Surely 18thC Meissen and Dresden and 17thC Chinese Imperial wares, right? Wrong! Cheap modern reproductions mass made in Chinese sweat shops (that’s not to say China doesn’t still produce high quality, beautiful porcelain works of art, it’s just that Trump goes for the cheap tat.)
The truth is, there’s more real gold in Mike Tysons mouth than in the decor of an entire Trump ‘palace’. Speaking of which, I know people say that his decor is the tackiest this side of Versailles, but I’d say that Trump’s gaff is even worse; as vulgar as they were, the Louis’ at least had the class to show it with the real thing.
Hell, Trump can’t even do tasteless over-opulence right. They say that you can’t polish a turd, but why bother trying when spray paint is so cheap?
Is anyone organizing the ‘pressure your electors to be faithless’ effort? I can’t do it – I’m a Californian and a Clintonite, and the only way it can work is if the impetus comes from erstwhile Trump voters in red states pushing at their home-state Republican organizations. And it’s not all that likely to work anyway. But it is our only chance.
iiii, are you seriously looking for Trump voters here?
nope – it’s just that I don’t get out of my liberal bubble much, and I was hoping someone here was better traveled.
I’ve tried engaging with Trump supporters. No way of knowing where about in the world they reside. There is zero chance of any true believer seeing anything wrong with anything he does ever. He could gift the USA to Russia and they’d still say “Better than Hillary”.
Found an answer to my question:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1f-fXgbqqSS0o6U3M72ivq-yXMZHBDAJrr2RJ43FTbOg/edit#gid=680455138
Lots of contact info, lots of notes based on contacting individual electors.