Wednesday, December 2, 2015

     On Donald Trump's prime morning forum for airing his ideas to airhead TV personalities, Fox and Friends, the Republican frontrunner spoke in favor of mass murder:

     "We're fighting a very politically correct war.  And the other thing with the terrorists--you have to take out their families.  When you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.  They care about their lives, don't kid yourselves.  They say they don't care about their lives.  But you have to take out their families."

     Co-host Steve Doocy, the male blonde sitting next to blonde Elizabeth Hasselbeck, then nodded as if approving of something he probably wouldn't ever want to witness firsthand.
     Trump uttered this abominable statement after the other host, Brian Kilmeade, brought up the concern over civilian casualties resulting from what Trump's "hitting em hard" throw-big-rocks-at- western-Asia strategy implies.  In true Trump contradictory fashion, he said he would do his "absolute best" to keep civilian casualties low, but then he used one of his favorite button-pressing expressions, "politically correct."  Obama, I guess, has killed Yemeni and Pakistani civilians in drone strikes in a politically correct way, which probably feels the same as when one is doing it rudely.  The fracture between Trump and the English language is the former's disrespect for the meanings of words.
     It's one thing to boast, and another thing to do.  There's no telling what Trump will do if he's ever the president.  Any non-believer of Trump's bullshit knows he will run into obstacles from the government's other two branches.  Howard Fineman of The Huffington Post, though, pointed out, convincingly I think, that Trump's self-centered personality may, if he's elected president, turn him into a Francisco Franco-like object of a leadership cult.  Then it will all be about Trump.  The fucker's in the habit of putting his name on everything he makes.  Not even Khufu, a massively more powerful person than Trump, put his name on the Great Pyramid.
     Trump's mouth lets out a barrage of words, and maybe he doesn't mean even half of what he says, but those who believe in him are chumps, fallen for a con man who's using them to glorify himself.  News media outlets are not free of his spell.  A man goes on television in America in 2015 and announces he wants to murder women and children in the Middle East.  The same man, instead of being watched by the police as a potentially dangerous person, is granted taxpayer-funded Secret Service protection.  He's given free advertising every time he opens his mouth in public, getting far more attention than even Hillary Clinton, whose poll numbers surpass his.  He's allowed by journalists to get away with egregious lies and distortions of the truth, with vagueness and self-contradictory statements that would cause Jeb Bush to lose poll points, and, most important, news coverage, and still he plows forward, manure spreader working efficiently, heading a campaign with its headquarters in a golden tower where he happens to live.  Like Adolf Hitler, the first political candidate to ever campaign by airplane, Trump flies from speech to speech, never having to actually stay in a mundane state like Iowa, like his competitors, who don't ride in helicopters and large passenger planes with their names written on the fuselages.
     Yes, he's a celebrity, he's "entertaining," if a man making fun of the involuntary movements of a journalist afflicted with motor control problems is entertaining.  He wants to kill women and children--how hilarious can he get?
     Trump supporters, microphones before their faces, defend him by saying his "untruths" don't matter to them, because "he's a good manager, and he'll get things done."  That could end up being the case, but I fear that Trump, if elected, will simply get the things done that he wants done.  Beholden to special interests, Trump will be the only special interest.  Like his tax proposal that just happens to benefit himself, we can apply any area of American life to the same idea: how will President Trump benefit?  How can he get the best deal?  How can he make the best killing (literal and figurative)?
     When words mean nothing, they can mean anything.  Donald Trump, voila, is the man who destroys meaning.

                                                                                 Vic Neptune
   
       

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