Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Why are we still having this conversation ?

I'm really wondering why we need to be having this conversation. 

I really am. The current elections of 2016 are between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.The two of them could not be more different :
On one side, we have a greedy, arrogant, cheating, lying, misogynistic, racist, bigot, gonif, meshuggenah, POS that calls himself Donald Trump. On the other hand, we have Hillary Clinton, a woman who has a less than spotless reputation, owing largely to 30 years of being slimed by her opponents with the mostly willing cooperation of the news media. (newsies will tell you, if you manage to slip one enough truth serum, that they hates them some Clintons) Yes, it's true that Mrs Clinton has made mistakes, and some unforced errors, and has at times skated a bit close to the thin ice. But she's human. She puts her pants suits on one leg at a time just like the rest of us. She bleeds red blood, gets sick sometimes, and probably has said some sharp-tongued things. But compared to Donny, she's a freakin saint. Holy crap, I can hardly believe I have to explain this to people. HRC is not my favorite democratic candidate. That would have been Bernie Sanders. But she is light years ahead of Trump. Galaxies, even.

      Someone recently asked me if I would dare utter such things about Hillary Clinton. 
My reply, repeated here for effect : If Hillary Clinton had been going around the country saying that we need to ship "them" back to Mexico1  ; If Hillary Clinton were saying that we need to racially profile "them" because they might be terrorists; if she were saying "Blood was coming out of her eyes, out of her somewhere" or mocking a journalist for being disabled, then yes, I would be harshly critical of Hillary Clinton. But only one candidate is saying these things. Of course, he's covering himself by saying he isn't being Politically Correct. Well, I have to disagree with that. He's not being correct . [full stop]
     Another wit queried with regards to why Donald Trump was not deserving of my scorn and derision before he was running for office. In a way, this one is even easier to answer -- The President of the United States of America is and must be the President of all the people. Even of groups he or she does not approve. This is the real reason why some were upset about Mrs Clinton's use of "basket of deplorables" to refer to some of Mr Trump's supporters. (or at least it should have been the real reason.) That Mr Trump is a greedy, arrogant, cheating, lying, misogynistic, racist, bigot, gonif, meshuggenah, POS was of no importance while he was merely Donad J Trump, private citizen. While those qualities are deplorable, it's not illegal to be any of those, except perhaps a gonif, if you get caught at it. But Mr Trump is no longer a private citizen. He's running for the highest elected office in the nation. Were he elected, he would have to deal with crises on a national and international level, on a daily basis. He would have to deal with a hostile Congress and an angry electorate, and keep his wits about him while doing so. President Trump would have to deal with foreign potentates, be they democratically elected or ruthless autocrats, and he would have to do so without temper tantrums, without calling them names or heaping derision on them on Twitter. As commander in Chief of the world's most powerful military2 He would have to learn the hard way not to use it. George W. Bush did not learn this lesson, to our dismay. Do you really think that a man who is willing to write off entire slices of the American demographic pie just because they follow a different religion or come from a country where the people aren't all lily white is someone who should be made President of the United States ? Do you really want someone who is all those things I pointed out above to be Leader of the Free World ?
Let's make something clear here : I did not just wake up one morning and look at Donald Trump and say "I don't like the cut o' his jib" and then go off and write a bunch of things that would be insulting if they were not true. I have been there these last 16 months, listening to Trump live as he has said things that make him fit into the description above. I've read reports from credible sources, including direct quotes on audio or video wherein the Candidate has disqualified himself over and over again. I've read transcripts of his speeches and public events. None of the labels I applied were applied in haste or in error. I am not alone in saying that the emperor has no clothes. GQ Magazine's Keith Olbermann has taken the time to detail 176  reasons why Trump should not be President.
I strongly urge you to at least listen to them, here You can also read the list of the reasons, with links to specific incidents. I'm asking all of you who read this entry to go and listen. It takes about 15 minutes.You'll either be angered because Olbermann is insulting your boy, or you'll be angry because Trump is so richly deserving of vicious mockery and insult. But, like having a good cry, having a good anger can be good for you.

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