Trumping Reality

The media says that Donald Trump has awakened a sleeping giant of the great unwashed in this country. Well, they need to go back to sleep.

I really don't have a problem with Trump. He was a joke before he ran but he's no longer funny now. This guy was a supposed billionaire with four bankruptcies under his money belt, a stupid reality show and a ridiculously unnecessary feud with Rosie ODonnell (and others) as his real claim to fame. Was it smart to add a failed presidential campaign to that? Time will tell but, if he was ever taken seriously before, he won't be after he loses in November. And that's if he makes it that far. He can never go back to being the goofy billionaire fool that he was before he ran for the GOP nomination for POTUS. He won't wind up destitute and on the streets as a result of his self-indulgent fool's errand but, it will be what he is remembered for.

My beef is with the sleepyheads he awoke. Who knew there were so many fucking idiots in America? So many gullible deadheads! It's one thing to be Trump and spout off bullshit about border walls to be built and paid for by Mexico, but another to be so dumb as to believe a guy can pull that off. Even supporters candid enough to recognize that the wall is a bluff still go on to proclaim that it's good that he said it. Like his heart's in the right place even though his head is up his ass.

The very notion that a billionaire could be considered a Washington outsider  and a man of the people is pathetic and sad. His supporters regularly regurgitate that it's a good, refreshing thing that he's not a politician. I can't fathom that as a plus where the presidency is concerned. He has no knowledge of what a president's powers are, or of our Constitution and how it operates. Presidentially  he has more in common with the late Saddam Hussein that Barack Hussein Obama. And that's probably the allure to his peasants. Guess which one poops on a gold toilet.

These people are the same dumb-asses who believe that President Obama is a dictator because Fox and Breitbart told them he was because he- you know- shoved Obamacare down our throats...via congress... And, he used executive powers on a few other things- but less than most of his predecessors did.

These are the people who are certain that he still will take their guns away even though that foolishness would take an act of congress to do. They have no concept of what a president can do so, it follows they can't grasp what he cannot do. He can't build a wall and make Mexico pay for it, for example.

The problem is that millions of Americans buy into his bullshit. It isn't so much the messenger as it is the messages. Frankly, he's any idiot on the internet as far as his message and delivery goes. He's nowhere near being a gifted speaker. Hitler and Mussolini he's not. He's more like the idiots who call themselves "Sam" on Topix. Absolutely anything he says could be said by tens of thousands of internet commentators on hundreds of sites. Other billionaires doubt his assrtion that he's a billionaire himself and, of course, he won't release his tax returns because that most likely would prove them right. I've known men who have won and lost millions. They have the air about them to prove it. Trump has a portfolio of failure. That goes with the territory for a lot of successful people but, not four bankruptcies. It's sad to hear unemployed coal miners defend bankruptcy as a "wise business tool" when bankers have made it virtually impossible for them to use that tool. Trump has also caused many small businesses to go bankrupt not only through his normal business moves but, also through his go to move of not paying contractors for work they have performed.  The people who trump for Trump could well be the people he trumps- the painters and carpenters and other working men and women- who have been told by his lawyers on payday "We'll see you in court..."

It's one thing to get screwed by a politician that one is unsure about. GW Bush comes to mind. Hillary Clinton might come to your mind. But to think for one second that a douche bag like Trump could be good for anyone but himself is simply insane.

If the soft, troubled underbelly of America has been awakened by him, they need to have a little coffee, wake up some more, and realize that border walls and Muslims are not the problem in America. Nope. It's stupid people looking for stupid people to lead them.