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Thoughts: Keeping It Simple
And, lo, we come to another point in this commentator’s lengthy run where
there are way too many things to talk about and not something to dedicate
enough time to make it a standalone article.
You would think that after 23 years of doing this I’d be a little better
at it. But, hey, it happens.
So let’s start with some Nazi talk...
Get Your Nazis Right: First
of all, yes, it is allowed to make comparisons between the white nationalists
and the Christian nationalists with the Nazi party in Germany. As long as there is a legitimate comparison –
which even the creator
of Godwin’s Law says does apply with the Trump Party (formerly
known as the GOP) – then it is fair game.
But I would add this piece of advice... if you are going to compare specific
figures in the White House or members of the Trump Party to those in the Nazi
Regime, get your Nazis right!
Joseph Goebbels was a notorious Nazi propagandist. He started out as a critic of Adolf Hitler,
but after meeting with him for the first time, he instantly became Hitler’s jock
strap. And he was skilled in media
manipulation. He knew how to sell the
regime as something it was not.
Having said that, it is not correct to paint presumed white nationalist
Stephen Miller as a modern-day Goebbels, even thought he bears some resemblance
to the German sycophant. Goebbels was a
propagandist, not an advisor. You can
compare Fox News propagandist Sean Hannity to Goebbels. That would be a legitimate comparison. Miller is an advisor. If you’re going to compare him with a
specific Nazi figure, then it would have to be someone like Heinrich Himmler.
I know they’re all evil, but, please, get the comparisons right. It makes you look stupid if you can’t tell
the difference between them.
Exiles in Sanctuary Cities:
So let’s see if I got this straight... Narcissist President Donald Trump thinks
that he can make the liberals suffer by sending all the people he’s currently
having detained in cages for trying to enter the country into the places that
declare themselves “Sanctuary Cities”.
So you’re “punishing” these places by giving them what they are asking
for? I suppose that would only work if
the people trying to come into the country are the truly vile people that
Narcissist Trump and his sycophants have painted them as. If, however, they really are, for the most
part, mothers and children seeking asylum, then the joke is on Narcissist Trump.
But I also think this is yet another one of Narcissist Trump’s
diversions. Something to get our focus
off the Robert Mueller Report and the
ongoing fraud that was foisted by Trump’s new prized poodle in the
Department of Justice.
The 2020 Mess: So we have all
of these people running for President in the 2020 Fraud. All of these different people with one thing
in common... they are not orange narcissistic clown acts.
And to be honest, I really don’t care about them at this point. I really don’t think anyone outside of the
so-called “political experts” in the media even want to know who any of them
are or why we should be excited about them yet.
We’ve been here way too many times before. You get a whole bunch of wannabes who think
they have a chance; they start making the rounds and a whole lot of them drop
out even before the first primary or caucus is held. People don’t give a care about them until
after the primaries and caucuses start up and then we’re already sick of them
and we’re just praying for the giant asteroid comes to wipe us all out soon.
Oh, wait, that part about the asteroid is just me.
Then there is the one person who hasn’t declared their intention as of
this column...
Touchy Biden: I actually feel
sorry for former Vice President Joe Biden.
He is an old fashioned hands-on touchy guy who is now being accused of “bad
touch” at a time when just the mere accusation is enough to crucify a man.
And I have to call blatant hypocrisy on this, because we have a man in
the Oval Office who not only was “hands-on”, but he even bragged about grabbing
women by their genitals and it didn’t even slow down his campaign. He called it “locker room talk” and nobody had
a problem with it. His propagandists in
talk radio even excused it by claiming it’s “Alpha male privilege” and nobody had
a problem with it!
But touchy-feely Joe is now a pariah and people are saying that he should
give up running for President because of it.
What a bunch of BS!
MAGA-Out: So Herr Himmler...
I mean White House Advisor Stephen Miller... is supposedly behind the “purge”
of the Department of Homeland Security, starting
with the woman behind the kids in cages, Homeland Secretary Kristen...
sorry, Kirsten... oops, sorry, Kristjen Nielsen.
Okay, for starters, pick a first name and stick to it. You are not Prince or Sean Combs, and nobody
tolerated their insane name changes either.
As to the purge, this is standard Narcissist Trump. This is someone who thinks that he can do
whatever he wants, and if it means firing people just to shake things up, so be
it. Forget about “rules” or “traditions”
or “procedure”. This is Narcissist
Trump. He doesn’t give a care about any
of those things.
I’m glad she’s fired – be honest, she was – but the problem is that she
was supposedly “let go” because she just wasn’t “tough enough” on immigration. So now Narcissist Trump will bring in someone
he thinks will be. I just worry what “tough
enough” will be. Are we talking East
Berlin border wall “tough”? Korean DMZ “tough”? “Handmaid’s Tales” kind of “tough”?
Lock Them Up: For years, Narcissist Trump has refused to make
public his tax returns. This is
something every presidential wannabe since the days of Nixon has done save for
two people... Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders.
Trump continually says he is “under audit”. But the Commissioner
of the Internal Revenue Service says that doesn’t stop anyone from
releasing their tax returns.
Of course this is yet another case of blatant hypocrisy from the man that
demanded to see his predecessor’s birth certificate and then demanded to see
his school transcripts. And the only
reason why nobody has made it an issue until now is that the Trump Party has
been in charge of Congress for the past two years.
But now we have a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives that is
making a formal request for those tax returns, and neither the IRS nor the
Department of Treasury is able to refuse.
There
is a federal law that compels the Department of Treasury to comply. Federal
Tax Code 6103. Look it up.
So I will make it painfully simple.
If “Acting” White House Chief of Staff Nick Mulvaney or IRS Commissioner
Charles Rettig or even Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin refuse that request,
they need to go to jail. Do not pass “Go”,
do not collect $200. Call the sergeant-at-arms and frog march them in front of
the media. Jail. Period.
Rule of law, Trumpets. It is high
time that you gagged on it.
Speaking of taxes...
Bernie Blues: So Senator Bernie Sanders will supposedly
release ten
years of his tax returns on Tax Day, which will make Narcissist Trump the
last person to refuse to do the same.
But his reason for secrecy is really asinine.
Supposedly Bernie has been worried about what people will think of the
self-professed “socialist” when they find out he is also a millionaire because
he wrote a book that people liked well enough to pay for.
Oh, so you think that Bernie should be doing the whole
sackcloth-and-ashes thing because he calls himself a “socialist”? Or maybe you’d feel better if Bernie just
gave all that money to charity.
No, I don’t find it odd that Bernie made money writing a book. I’m jealous that he does, but that’s not the
same. I’m more bothered with the other
people that are supposedly concerned about the poor and struggling that turn
around and make six figures easy just by giving one speech.
Lock Them Up Too: I have no
sympathy for any of the “Operation Varsity Blues” elitists who paid to have
their precious little tax deductions get into elite colleges.
You know I recall that my college advisors told me that it really didn’t
matter which college I got my degree in, just that I did. I guess that person was full of crap, huh?
What bothers me is that the media is focused on two women as if they were
the only ones involved in the rigging.
What about all the others involved in it? Who are they?
What do they do to make enough money to afford rigging the system? Why are we not hearing anything about them?
Finally....
And Lock Him Up: Julian
Assange has finally overstayed his welcome with the Ecuadorian Embassy in
England. The Wikileaks founder is now
under arrest and will soon be extradited to the United States.
I know some folks think that Assange is some shrewd online publisher with
an axe to grind, but I still think he’s pretty much been used as a helpful tool
for Narcissist Trump.
Julian Assange got into doing Wikileaks because he wanted to shake things
up. Only a complete idiot would think
they would be able to get into that kind of service and somehow not piss off
people and corporate entities and even whole governments. Powerful entities keep their dirty laundry
secret for a reason. And they don’t
laugh and waive their hands when outed and say “Okay, you got us.”
Do you think Mark Felt, the infamous source known as “Deep Throat”, kept
quiet about who he was in connection to the Watergate scandal just as a game? Do you think the Washington Post were playing
fast-and-loose when they published the Pentagon Papers just so they could get a
headline? There are consequences to
outing secrets. Just because you post
them on the Internet instead of a national publication doesn’t make you immune
to those consequences.
So, yeah, I have no sympathy for Assange.
I support the idea, but, let’s get brutally honest here... he knew what he
was getting into. At some point he was
going to post something that he couldn’t walk away from. He was going to piss off the wrong person or
the wrong group or the wrong country. It
just happened to be the United States.
And, yeah, it helped Narcissist Trump a lot. But I don’t see him pardoning Assange, even
if it were possible. Trump pardons are
political tools, and he seems to only give them to those that will help his image
and his base. That seemingly does not
include Julian Assange, given all the other secrets he has exposed over the
years.
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