Look, sweetie, he’s been gone a month now and you really have to start getting over your rage. Two things to know about rage: hold on to it too long and it turns incredibly toxic — for you, not for him; and rage almost always begins with fear.
Of course you were afraid of him. We all were, as long as he was the accidental president of the United States. (I say accidental because he lost the popular vote but became president by an accidental alignment of the electoral college, and although he later claimed to have brilliantly planned the whole thing it is certain that he did not then and does not now have a clue as to what the electoral college is or how it works.) Fear was the right response when he could drop a nasty tweet and ruin a life, or mention someone in a speech and get them hounded by trolls spewing death threats; or get someone investigated because they looked at him the wrong way. And fear, when it’s prolonged and helpless, morphs into rage.
You keep saying he did all these things without consequences, hence more fear, thus more rage. But look. The consequences of his knowing nothing about politics and being incapable of learning anything about politics were: the Republicans lost the House in 2018, the presidency and the Senate in 2020, and hundreds of state legislative seats in between. Those are consequences.
He knew nothing about government; he obviously believed, and seems still to believe, that he was anointed the king of some fairy-tale, comic-book country. He talked constantly about “his” generals and “his” justice department, gave orders he was not authorized to give, spent money that he was not authorized to spend. The consequences were that he did not get anything done — not the wall along the Mexico border, not the repeal of Obamacare, not the new “great” health care plan he never quite got around to unveiling — nothing but a tax cut for the rich. The only thing he will be remembered for is being so inept that he got impeached. Twice.
He did appoint a bunch of judges, but even there he did not understand what he was doing. He truly believed that if he appointed them they would have to do what he said. But he knew so little about the law (and refused to listen to those who did know the law) that, over and over again, he went into court with cases that were so lame, even his own appointees immediately threw them out. 60 different federal courts, including the Supreme Court, trashed suits he brought to try to change the outcome of the 2020 election. Those were consequences of his ignorance.
His ignorance and contempt for the law has had profound consequences that have not yet become obvious. Formidable prosecutors all over the country — U.S. attorneys, state attorneys-general, and city district attorneys — are teeing up criminal cases that will have him buried in subpoenas and rigid with terror for years, quite likely for the rest of his life. Those are called consequences.
Because of his obvious incompetence and corruption, his businesses are in trouble, his brand is tarnished and his wealth apparently much diminished. The few banks left in the world that were still willing to deal with him have severed all connections.
So, darlin, it’s time to let him go from that space he’s been occupying rent-free in your head. Dial back the rage, knowing there is no more reason to fear, and experiment with more appropriate emotions — such as hysterical laughter at this pathetic clown of a human being. That would work.
And be assured, as you start going to church again, and hanging out in bars on Friday nights, and pouring out your heart on Twitter again, that someday pretty soon you’ll find someone else to hate and fear and do memes about. And everything will be back to normal. Promise.
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In his excellent biography ‘Napoleon’ Paul Johnson writes, “Indeed, if there was one characteristic that epitomized Bonaparte throughout his rise and grandeur, it was opportunism. He was the opportunist incarnate. Few successful men have ever carried a lighter burden of ideology. He had no patriotism as such, for he had no country.”
Sound familiar? Yes, then why was Trump defeated so early in his quest for kingship whereas Napoleon went all the way to the top? Simple, Trump, unlike Bonaparte, was unknowing and unskilled….OK, then how was the idiot Trump even able to get as far as he did?
Johnson again, “His reception was enthusiastic and confirmed his view of the French…that they were volatile and frivolous, with a short attention span, and could easily be diverted from serious misfortune by transient excitement.”
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Napoleon …” had no patriotism as such, for he had no country.”
So Nappy was a neo-liberal, no different than of all of our elected officials in Washington?
No, Napoleon was a Corsican, and therefore French only by conquest. Corsica is a large Island in the Mediterranean closer to Italy than France. The Corsicans have little love for France, with a significant independence movement.
“He talked constantly about “his” generals … ”
Yeah he did. That always tripped me out, it’s like they were little toy soldiers walking about the Oval Office, with ribbons on their chest, and if they were bad, he would toss them in the fire place, but if they were good, he would find a nice spot for them on the mantelpiece.
Trumpy did two good things – and only two – while in office, in my estimation. He handled the North Korean “showdown” about as well as could be handled, I thought. That situation had the potential to escalate, wanted to escalate, but it didn’t, thanks in large to his actions, or inactions, as the case may be.
We would be remiss, here, if we didn’t mention the peace contributions of Dennis Rodman in this matter. Thanks Dennis!
Secondly, Trump … I think … came to the conclusion that some “his” generals were trying desperately to false flag us into a war with Iran, and had the good sense to listen to “his” other generals that wanted no part of it.
Still, it was close run thing. It all came down to Iranian radar operators, who are apparently highly skilled at their craft, able to differentiate in an instant the difference between bait and prey. They properly identified the US drone that was invading their air-space, and the V-22 Osprey that was flying right behind it, and shot down only the drone.
Misidentify and shoot down the Osprey, the bait, with 30 or so US personnel on board, and their would’ve been war, whether the all powerful President Trump wanted one or not.
Hmm, serendipity. Quite the player. So maybe it would’ve been more accurate to write, that the Trumpster did one and a half good things while in office.
He was a breath of fresh air. I will miss him. They only party members I have known were ready to do anything to get their way.
Arnie A.
There was another thing. Trump made sure our “retaliation” against Syria for the “chemical weapons attack” [read: planted false flag] was a token attack only. I’m pretty sure Hillary would have “gone for the gusto” on that one, with the consequence that none of us would be here right now to discuss any of this. (A major attack on Syria would have certainly involved an attack on Russian military forces that would have been repelled with extreme prejudice. You don’t have to be a Nobel Laureate in international affairs to imagine how that story would end.)
I’m not convinced Hillary would’ve gusto-ed the Russkies. For one thing, she would’ve been President, meaning the diabolical and equally economical Russians would not have defeated the 121 million dollar Clinton/Kaine* campaign with those well placed 100,000 dollars, so she would’ve borne no grudge.
Theoretically, that is. Still, good point, I’ll give the Trumpet a half for Syria, that could’ve gone badly as well, so … back to two good things.
He gets nothing for dropping the MOAB, however. I know everyone was in awe of this decision, in fact several of our top tier journalists had what appeared to be on-camera orgasms describing the power of the bomb, and the command decision to drop it.
But LBJ and the Tricky One dropped MOABs by the bucketful, on our allies no less, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, the bomb just had a less impressive moniker back then.
Daisy Cutter.
*Timothy M. Kaine. I had to look that up.
Well, you should be aware that there was bad blood between Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Putin even rather before the now-infamous 2016 Election.
The thing I remember most about Hillary in that period visa vie the Russians, is that SHE was the Russian agent, who according to ALL of my Donald Trump supporting friends, was selling uranium to the Russians so they could make atom bombs to be used against us!
Note: Where do they get this stuff? Rush? Is he still “the Man?” It didn’t matter that I would explain to them, that is it the United States that receives virtually all of its uranium supply from the Russians, so the Russians clearly don’t need Hillary’s uranium to make bombs.
But nope, Hillary was Russia’s, main uranium bomb supplier!
I wish Rush would come out in favor of Medicare for All, then we’d have not only 93% of Democratic voters in favor of it, but 93% of Republican voters as well.
Wouldn’t do any good. 100% of our elected representatives would still be against it, but the knowledge of such overwhelming majorities aligning, might induce in them an occasional case of the willies, which is about the best We the People hope for at this point.
@Max-24
Rush L. come out in favor of Medicare for All? Wow, what a day to post that!
https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/17/media/rush-limbaugh-obituary/index.html
One thing for which I can appreciate the Donald is that he showed the neo-liberal/neo-conservative globalist Deep-Staters and the urban Professional-Managerial Class that their socio-politico-economic hegemony is not an impregnable fortress. And as the text of this post implies, boy-oh-boy, did they ever dislike being made to realize that!
@Oji
Wow, indeed. Thanks for the info.
Only time to get trump out of our heads is when he is in prison or when the GOP finally rids itself of his rancor and his followers till then he is just doing the same things that Adolph did in Germany with the same type of crazies eating up his every lie and fantasy and ignoring him is as dangerous now as it turned out to be for Europe back then