Still lower
Today in Trump. Worse than ever, I’m afraid.
Some late yesterday first.
The FAKE & FRAUDULENT NEWS MEDIA is working hard to convince Republicans and others I should not use social media – but remember, I won….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017
….the 2016 election with interviews, speeches and social media. I had to beat #FakeNews, and did. We will continue to WIN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017
Yes, and a harsh indictment of our society, politics, discourse, education system, and much else that fact is…but bracket that, and it’s still the case that winning the election is not the same thing as succeeding in the job. Tragically and horribly and shamefully, Trump won the election by being a sexist racist xenophobic bullying pig, and despite being a liar and fraud and cheat. That says terrible depressing things about us as a country. But he is not winning the presidency. He’s failing dismally…and dragging us down with him. He won’t “continue to WIN” because what he’s doing can’t be described as winning. He’s trashing everything in sight, yes, but that’s not winning.
I am thinking about changing the name #FakeNews CNN to #FraudNewsCNN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017
Again with the relentless Hitler-Goebbels-like attack on the free press. Not winning.
My use of social media is not Presidential – it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 1, 2017
No. Bullying, insulting, and lying are not MODERN DAY anything. They’re just bullying, insulting, and lying. An evil malevolent enraged toddler-man is not MODERN DAY anything. It’s just an evil malevolent enraged toddler-man destroying everything in his path, like a hurricane.
And elected by evil malevolent enraged toddler-men (and all too many evil malevolent enraged toddler-women)
I think the malignancy of Trump was on display so thoroughly (and in EVERY appearance, even those which were supposed to be positive, like FOX, where his own behavior displayed all of this during the election) that it is disingenuous to expect that the Trump voters were uninformed about his bad characteristics, that they were offended by his bad characteristics, that they did not share his bad characteristics. If all they wanted was someone to give them a job, they would have skittered away from Trump and headed toward Bernie Sanders, who actually put forward policies that were much more complete and thought out (even if they might have been unworkable as some said and others disputed) than the simplistic Trump-vision of tearing up NAFTA and exporting everyone who was less white than the typical midwestern rural area. These people voted for nastiness because they wanted nastiness, and they got nastiness. So did the rest of us, and we have a right not to spend our time feeling empathy, sympathy, compassion, or good humor toward the evil malevolent enraged toddler-people who voted this orange menace into power he is unfit to wield.
Yeah. Apparently the thinking is that jobs aren’t going to happen, so the best compensation is vicarious raging at The Elites.
It’s such broken “thinking” that I can only turn away in despair.
And the “elites” they are raging at are not the ones causing their problems. It’s the Donald Trumps of the world, with their refusal to pay contractors, their flouting of rules, and their low pay that are hurting them, not the various academics and intellectuals, who are mostly without real power