For a few days after the killings in Paris, I heard and saw very little on cable news about Donald Trump.  Reports of mass brutality chase away, for a time, buffoons, but they return with, in Trump's case, stale nonsense masquerading as solutions.
     Appearing from Trump Tower, a waterfall behind him flowing over a stepped golden structure, he spoke to Sean Hannity, his slavish Fox News interviewer, about President Obama's obtuseness when it comes to recognizing the threat of radical Islamic extremism.  American right wingers are obsessed with the Obama administration's supposed inability to name the terror threat as being characterized by its Muslim component.  This criticism ignores the administration's tendency to parse language in Orwellian fashion.  They won't use the name ISIS, even though most Americans call it that (probably because that's the name that was used when we first found out about them only last year).  Obama and his people say ISIL, the L standing for Levant, an old and outdated name for the eastern Mediterranean islands and surrounding countries.  Daesh, an acronym using the name components of what ISIS actually calls itself, is also popular with politicians, especially after the Paris attacks, because ISIS doesn't want to be called that--they're against acronyms, apparently, and no, this is not a Monty Python sketch.
     Trump, Hannity, and others who vent exasperation and contempt at Obama for not saying "radical Islamic extremism," or words to that effect, piss and moan about a man and his administration that can't even figure out what to call the enemy when they do call them something.
     NSDAP is a German acronym that stood for, in English, National Socialist German Workers Party.  Nazi shortens the term quite a bit, retaining only part of National and part of Socialist.  Taken that way they almost sound like they may have been leftists.
     Trump's problem with Obama's use or non-use of words hardly matters in the bigger scheme.  What he said to Hannity about the massacre inside the Bataclan theater demonstrates his egregious lack of sensitivity, something he prides himself on, boasting often of his disdain for political correctness, and how he has no time for it (although he has lots of time to tweet).
     "Twenty-five people in that theater carrying guns could've taken care of the problem," he claimed, offering twenty-five, I assume, as a non-scientifically derived number that would have overwhelmed the firepower (automatic weapons, grenades, suicide vests, as well as the surprise element) of the terrorists.
     Alas, from Trump's viewpoint, France's laws lack our Second Amendment.  To Trump, though, it would have been a fait accompli: the terrorists would've opened fire, but twenty-five intrepid ready-for-anything citizens would've drawn their guns, assessed the situation rapidly amidst the environment of a loud heavy metal concert, with stage lights flashing, and deployed toward the gunfire, heroes with the uncanny ability to coordinate their tactics telepathically, honing in on the killers with, perhaps, a tenth of the casualties from the actual non-Secondment Amendment-blessed outcome.
     I recall Ben Carson's claim after a college shooting in Oregon not long ago that he would fight in such a situation.  Does he believe the people murdered in the Bataclan should've put up a fight?  American voters need to seriously consider the words of presidential candidates.  Anyone like Trump or Carson or anyone else trying to be president, none of whom know what it's like to be in such a horrifying series of unfolding situations as happened in Paris on November 13, are talking out of their asses whenever they try to sound intelligent about these situations, or what they "would do if..."
     Trump, with his golden shower behind him, provided no new ideas, no sane policy statements.  He merely exploited Paris 11/13 and those murdered and wounded.  He's a disgusting opportunist who shows how dark the Republican Party has become, in that he's their most popular boy.

                                                                            Vic Neptune