How Much Longer?

     Does Donald Trump know that his statement at a Virginia rally, "Hillary wants to abolish--essentially abolish the Second Amendment," is untrue?  Clinton, like President Obama, the latter too frequently and inaccurately blamed for being an opponent to the right to bear arms, has never publicly expressed animus towards any Amendment in the Constitution.  During the Obama Administration, gun sales and profits for small arms dealers in this country have been healthy in their unhealthy ways.  Fear that "Obama will take our guns away" contributes to gun buying.  Gun massacres increase gun sales due to this fear, as some Americans truly and pathetically believe the lies told them by the NRA and politicians, like Trump, who benefit from gun lobbying and the money and influence it generates.
     Whether Trump believes in the veracity of his accusation against Clinton, a "shoot from the hip" comment based on the Republican candidate's feelings rather than on facts, his next comment at the August 9 rally drew the most attention:

     "By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks.  Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know."

     The Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, with his usual Trump-related lifeless look of buyers' remorse slowly aging his face, characterized the candidate's remark as a "joke gone bad," making it seem as if Trump failed to deliver a good punchline to a quip about the assassination of Hillary Clinton.
     Condemnation from the Right of Trump's appeal to murder was about what I expect from a political class that's proven its inability to stand up to immorality and fight for people who deserve help.  Trump hasn't visited Flint, Michigan, hasn't commented on the poisoned water crisis caused by that state's Republican government, is too much of a shit to care about it.  He's typical in this regard of GOP lawmakers.  Ryan and other politicians still supporting Trump--there have been a few defectors among the large GOP hive mind--are reluctant to take a stand against their man, nominated just last month to be their opponent against Hillary Clinton.  Trump, meanwhile, continues to behave like the boor he is--not a surprise.  Even when his "campaign" received face to face conversation time with the Secret Service, which ironically protects Trump, too, no one on the Right has said, "This is fucking unprecedented," which it is.  Trump denied the Secret Service spoke with his campaign, or with himself.  He lies all the time, I don't believe him, so, like Ted Nugent, Trump, since the words above came from his mouth, has had to explain himself to those who swear to protect high-ranking politicians like Hillary Clinton, who is in greater danger now of being killed by a fearful gun nut stoked by the words of a man too irresponsible to be in charge of anything.
     Today in New York, a man climbed several stories up Trump Tower using suction cups.  He was pulled through a knocked out window, finally, and we've been assured by news reporters that Donald Trump, in Florida at the time, was in no danger.  No shit, how could he be?
     An NYPD official said, "The guy doesn't appear to be here to do anything evil."
     If only America, and the news media, could realize that the same can't be said truthfully about the man whose name adorns the building climbed by the suction cup man.

                                                                            Vic Neptune