Thursday, November 10, 2016

Trump Protests

He's ignoring them so far. Quelling a crowd is harder than poisoning a single reporter--see Megyn Kelly's tale of the cab driver who insisted on buying her coffee right before she interviewed Trump: she began vomiting uncontrollably.  As I write ("within the last three  hours," says Google) she's being "forced to deny" the "rumors" that she was poisoned. Don't forget the woman who was raped at thirteen being threatened not to continue talking about the incident. As I write, CNN is broadcasting protestors bearing placards saying "Not My President," "Mein Trumph," and "Sexual Abuse," among other accurate accusations, while those far from the protests in rust belt cities that voted for Trump claim such slogans and protests are "disrespectful of the office of the president." Is it respectful of the office to which a candidate wishes to accede to shout accusations and insults at his opponent? ("Liar! Nasty woman!") Is it respectful of the office of the president to lie to the world, insisting President Obama wasn't born in the United States? Is it respectful to the office of the president to stand smiling as his supporters denigrate his opponent? ("Spank her! Lock her up! Execute her!") This week's Die Zeit (The Times, in Germany) shows a drawing of the Statue of Liberty cowering under an American flag, saying, in English, "Oh My God." Divine intervention is indeed what we need in this mess. No good can come of a Donald Trump presidency, and the constant efforts I see now to rehabilitate his image, plus his now mild declarations of respect for President Obama and Secretary Clinton, should not fool anyone. How deep Trump's tentacles go is a question. The FBI? The Justice Department? Why are both of these institutions silent now? His taxes? Trump University? Fraud? Never forget that Trump took his cues from Roy Cohn.The narcissistic sociopath does not change his spots. 

4 comments:

  1. Too many people I know -- educated liberals like me -- refuse to see why over 50% of Americans voted for Trump. They're not all racists and bigots and they're not all stupid. Many of them felt marginalized and overlooked and they voted for CHANGE. I don't think it will be a good change, but rather than looking for conspiracy theories, I think we need to understand why so many Americans felt so desperate in a *seemingly* inclusive government.

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  2. Nothing is said here about conspiracies. But Trump seems to have been planning things for some time. And no matter how marginalized people feel, what life an be bettered by this pig?

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  3. I believe this will galvanize the millennials to serious political action and be the making of their characters as they restore justice and liberalism values. I also think some great art will be made.

    And what I hope is that the next four years will be a blip, not a harbinger.

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  4. Serious art, yes. Osip Mandelstam remarked that in Russia alone they take poets seriously--"they kill us." Unfortunately, the changes people voted for remain unlikely to be achieved politically: when the economy goes global, the president cannot alter that any more than she or he can alter the laws of gravity. We have a tough row to hoe, now that the demagogue's crouching on this toadstool surveying his domain.

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