Trumpian Delusions

Trump is intellectually dishonest and morally bankrupt. Insisting that he is doing well with African Americans and Hispanics is like George Armstrong Custer insisting that he is doing well with Native Americans as he leads his troops off to the Little Bighorn. Someone should tell the Donald that there is no where to run and hide from them. In spite of the best efforts of the GOP to suppress the vote of the wrong sort of people, African Americans and Hispanics will vote!

Conflicts of Interest. There is no way to tell what Donald Trump's conflicts of interests might be because he refuses to show his tax returns. But we know he is deeply in debt and has accepted loans from China! Unlike Trump the Clinton foundation was and is up front about who funds it. Furthermore, in spite of the disingenuous assertions by the Donald and other Republicans no one has established a conflict of interest in regard to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation. The worst any honest person can say is that she should have avoided the appearance of a conflict of interest! I suspect that much of the criticism of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton foundation by Donald Trump is a result of the fact that he rarely donates anything to charity himself. His Tax returns could prove me wrong, but I suspect they would prove me right. You know Trump is hiding something!

Trumps' Tiny Problem

Donald Trump has now attacked Hillary Clinton aid, Huma Abadin by bringing up the over exposure scandal of Ms. Abadin's husband Anthony Weiner.  It seems all too obvious to me that Mr. Trump is jealous of the size of Mr. Weiner's exposure and that Marco Rubio was correct when he said Donald Trump has a “tiny” problem. But let me hasten to add that the last thing I want is for Trump to magnify his problem in an effort to show us otherwise. That would not be a pretty picture by anyone's standards.

What I really want to see are Trump's financial conflicts of interests. He keeps harping on what he says are Hillary Clinton's financial conflicts of interests, but he hides his own finances. Come on Donald, Leona Helmsley, Trump; Where Are Your Tax Returns?

Aboard the Trumptanic

Welcome aboard. Pity the poor crewman who told the Donald that the Trumptanic has sprung a leak.

“A leak you say? Nonsense, who says so?”

“The polls, sir.”

“Which Poles?”

“All of them.”

“No, it can't be all of them. That's like saying all Ukrainians love Manafort. Only some of them [presumably the ones who are ethnic Russians] say they love Manafort, and many of them lie about it. Believe me, I know Poles and they lie as much as the Ukrainians do!”

“No, sir. I'm not talking about the Poles I'm talking about the survey takers.”

“You mean surveyors! What the hell do they have to do with it? Believe me, I know surveyors. I've even stiffed a few of them, but I guess I shouldn't say that. Lets just say I got the best deal from them on my developments.”

“No sir. I mean the people who ask potential voters what they think of the candidates and who they intend to vote for.”

“Oh them. Can you trust them?”

“The last candidate who said you can't was Mit Romney.”

“He's an idiot! He doesn't even support me. I can negotiate much better deals than he can.”

“Yes, sir.”

The Donald had now turned red or at least ruddier than normal, and his protruding, pouting lips gave him a duck mouth. A decision now descended or ascended upon him, depending on your optical, theological, or ideological prospective. And he bellowed: “Damn it!” I'll do what got me here!”

“You mean on this iceberg?”

“I mean here!” The Donald shouted. “Full speed ahead! Push the damn iceberg out of the way!”

“We can't do that, sir.”

“The hell we can't. Get someone up here who will do it!”

And with that Paul Manafort was escorted off the bridge while Stephen Bannon was hoisted up to the bridge. It was a bit like replacing Yosemite Sam with the Tasmanian Devil.

But do not worry about Paul Manafort; if the worst happens there will be a place for him in a Trump administration, probably dealing with Putin and the Ukraine – he is so good at that, don't you know?

It's Rigged

The whole election is rigged, don't you know? Just ask the Trumpster and his chumps. The media is totally against him. How dare they accurately report the stupid, inflammatory things he says, and how dare the newscasters react in a critical or dismissive manner to clips showing Trump saying those absurd things. Good Gawd, even the intellectually challenged can figure out that Trump is being an idiot when newscasters react like that.  And don't tell Trump the media is only reporting the facts. The facts are not just facts they are partisan slices of reality because only Democrats, pointy headed intellectuals, and people who claim to have journalistic integrity care about the facts.

Donald is already hedging his bets and building an ego shield by telling us the fix is in. He claims that the only thing that can keep him from winning Pennsylvania is fraud.

"The only way we can lose, in my opinion, I really mean this, Pennsylvania, is if cheating goes on ... if in certain sections of the state they cheat," Trump said.

In Trump speak that means that the only way Hilary Clinton can win in Pennsylvania is if the wrong sort of people, the people not counted as likely voters by Republican pollsters, actually vote. If that happens you know the system is rigged against the Republican Party's efforts to suppress the vote! So the system is rigged! So rigged! Right?

Moldy Garbage!

With Donald Trump it is not garbage in garbage out; it is instead moldy garbage intentionally dug up, pulled out of trash cans, thrown with panache and plopped higher and deeper in mounds of festering deception. Everyone with eyes can see it, everyone with a nose can smell it, everyone with a functional brain can tell you it is garbage or worse; yet there are still millions of people who deny it, try to excuse it, or even embrace it. In this regard the tawdry huckster, Trump, is an uncivil cultural phenomenon in the vein of shock jocks and Howard Stern (who Trump admires). Trump is also a fascist style demagogue who taps into the paranoia and anger of unsettled people for whom the American dream has always been illusory and the American past has always been highly romanticized drivel.

The only people who benefit from what Trump is doing are the drama casters, and even the drama casters are embarrassed by the abundance of Trump's absurdly offensive statements, his incessant use of Trumped up accusations, and the outright lies he so shamelessly spews in volumes that leave no time for analysis or a detailed reporting of them. What Trump is displaying is a shameful disregard for the truth and a disdainful dismissal of the decency and decorum of political discourse. Insulting a grieving, gold star family and mocking a disabled reporter are only two examples of how low Trump is willing to slither.

Trying to teach Trump history is like trying to teach your dog calculus. He Cannot even remember his own history. Donald Trump was for W. Bush's war in Iraq until it became expedient to opposed it. But then this brings up that Bush thing. No Republican wants to bring up George W. Bush. It was Obama and Hillary Clinton who “Founded Isis", don't you know? And you silly asses thought Isis was an offshoot of Al-Qaeda which was not in Iraq until after we invaded that country and Bush replaced its government and military with a weak Shiite government that depended on Shiite militia's. It was also George W. Bush who crashed the economy, and it was a Republican Congress that obstructed the economic recovery.  So a big Bush who to you too!

One of the worst traits any President can have is the lack of an intellectual curiosity, and Trump lacks the curiosity to learn what he needs to know. We see this in the field of economics when he actually advocated making the world write off a large portion of our national debt. He apparently lacked the curiosity to find out what this would do to the currency markets and stock markets around the world. Ah, but do not worry. The other Republicans have him on track now. Like all Republicans he is happily perpetuating the longest running fraud in American history.  Reagan euphemistically called this fraud “supply side economics” but it is the same trickle down theory that enriched the rich at the expense of ninety percent of the people until it failed in 1929 was revived by Ronald Reagan and then failed again in 2008.

Voting for Trump means casting aside all logic and judgment. In Trump world it is fair to accuse Obama of being a Kenyon and Hillary Clinton of corruption. It is up to Obama to prove he is an American, and it is up to Hillary Clinton to prove that her missing emails do not show she is corrupt. I think we should apply that standard to Mr. Trump. Hey, Donald, Leona Helmsley, Trump what are you afraid of? We are not buying the being audited excuse. Richard Nixon produced his tax returns when he was being audited, and Warren Buffet has offered to produce his tax returns while being audited if you will produce yours. So what are you hiding? Will your tax returns reveal that only the little people pay taxes? Will your returns reveal that you cheated on your taxes? Will your returns reveal that your praise of Vladimir Putin is the result of your close and shady economic ties to Russia? I think it is all of those things plus the fact that you are not as wealthy as you claim. So following your own illogic, produce your returns and prove me wrong!