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Wow. Where to even begin after so long? Yeah, I know, it’s
been months since I’ve written. Mostly because I’ve just frankly been burnt out
on the cataclysmic circus that the 2016 presidential race degenerated into.
Seriously…this has been the most depressing, infuriating, divisive
race in my lifetime. On the Left, young voters that are normally the victims of
the Democrat Party’s propaganda recruiting campaigns have gravitated so far to
the Left that they are embracing a frikkin’ Socialist. Why? In part because
they’re stupid and don’t know any better, but mostly because, like anyone
trying to garner Lefty votes, he’s promising all the free shit. Comrade Bernie
is Joe Stalin without the balls to purge his enemies and kill anyone who
opposes him. Commie Lite, so to speak. The only reason he is on the Democrat
ticket is because he knew no one would go Third Party and vote for a Socialist
candidate so he decided to usurp the Donkey Party and in doing so has gotten a
bunch of Useful Idiot flunkies to threaten riots like the Occupy crowd…..No-Info
mollycoddled assclowns with no real idea how life works, and a few
disillusioned grownups who really should know better but still think the
government owes us all free shit. Of
course, the alternative to The Commie is The Criminal.
The Donkey Party has rigged the elections to keep Bernie out
of office with their Super Delegate system so that Queen Killary can ascend the
throne. Problem is, everyone hates her and she’s on the verge of prosecution
for her stupidity and sheer narcissistic lunacy in having a private email
server in some couple’s bathroom closet. Either way you slice this Crap Sandwich,
the Left is offering choices that are just as bad, nay worse, than Lord Obeezy,
and that’s really saying something after the 8-year shit show we’ve endured. (I
covered a lot of this
8
months ago…..)
Sadly, and most disgustingly, the Republicans clown show has
been just as bad.
Remember 10 months ago, last July, when Donald Trump
announced his campaign and I naively thought he wouldn’t last? Back when I
thought a real GOP candidate would
take over? I honestly thought Trump would bring up a few issues that the
Rove-led GOP Squish Jellyback Establishment never would, and then he’d back off
and let a serious candidate take over. I was so very, very wrong.
Yeah, the Establishment types all faded and rolled over and
died, the Linzy Gramnesty types, and even the mega-funded Jeb Bush. Some of the
more addled and jellybacked types even joined the Dark Side and backed Trump
after they were left in the debris of their failed campaigns. Yeah, I’m talking
to you, Huckaboo and Santorum and Carson. Chris Christie verily fell to his
knees to fellate Trump and now is slated to lead his Transition Team should he
win the election in November. I was saddened that Rand Paul failed to catch
fire. He’s been pretty silent since bowing out, as has Bobby Jindal. Rubio…. Once
a Tea Party guy and in the end just another Establishment shill…. I have a microscopic
shred of respect for Kasich for thumbing his nose and sticking it out as long
as he did but it was painful to watch and in the end, he too threw in the
towel.
So, yeah, I was a Ted Cruz supporter. I’m not gonna lie. And
no, I didn’t agree with all of his positions, especially his more fervently
religious-based ones... I did however think he was the best of what we were
given to work with. I’m really not a Republican per se; I’m more a Libertarian
leaning constitutional conservative. I tend to be more liberal (for lack of a
better word, because the L word makes bile rise in my throat) when it comes to
social issues and more conservative on issues like taxes and the military.
However, it looks like a spray-tanned narcissistic megalomaniacal
wolf in sheep’s clothing made in China will be our nominee in November. God
help us all.
By now, all my friends who are Trumpkins are yanking out
their hair and screaming at the screen, wondering why I don’t back The Donald.
After all, he’s gonna make ‘Murica great again and yadda yadda yadda.
Bullshit.
Eight years ago I derided all of the Obama Zombies who drank
the Koolaid. Now I get to do it again, only this time I’m starting earlier and
it’s Trump-Aid, the best drink, because he has the best drinks, and the drinks
are gonna be great, really really great, and Mexico is gonna pay for it.
So….why am I not on board the Trump Train?
1.
All of a sudden, a lifelong Democrat in his late
60’s suddenly changes his mind and decides he’s a Republican? I could see if he was a Democrat in his 20s
and changed sides as late as his early to mid 40’s, but really, once you’ve hit
a certain age your belief structure is pretty much in place and it is a stretch
to just change them. And in 1998, he was
quoted as saying he would run as a Republican only because Republicans are
stupid.
The dude’s own kids couldn’t vote for him in
the New York primary because even they aren’t registered Republicans.
2. The dude gave money to Hillary when she was
running in ’08. He claims it was just to get her to come to his wedding, and
many of you are already foaming at the mouth saying “But Steve, he done gave
money to lots of people, on both sides!” Oh, so he’s just an opportunist and
just looks to bribe anyone who might help him? That’s a great quality for a
President to have. All the years we’ve spent fighting the Clinton Machine, which
is now part of the Obama Machine, and it’s cool with you that he gave her money?
. 3. This myth that he is self-funding his campaign.
I was willing to think at the very beginning that he didn’t need to use
donations and actually could self-fund, and that would keep special interest
money out of it. But, alas, people have been donating. About a quarter of his
war chest is from donations, kids. And rather than spend his own money
outright, he has instead loaned his campaign $50 million or so. And a loan gets
to be paid back FROM DONATIONS. He’s really only spent about $317,000 of his
own money. When all is said and done, he will likely get all of his money back
from the loan, and will end up having really spent nothing.
Of course, he hasn’t exactly needed to
spend much on advertising. The left-controlled media gives him plenty of free
advertising to let him bloviate and act like a mouth-breathing sideshow barker.
And Fox is his bitch. Make no bones; the crowd at Fox bow and scrape and lick
his boot heels. Hannity has given up any and all credibility as an objective
journalist and has become Trump’s lap dog. Ann Coulter kisses Trump’s ass so
hard the dude should have a prolapsed anus. Why spend money when you’re the
only thing the media rants about?
4. He bitched about Ted Cruz taking out a $1
million loan to fund his campaign, a loan that was paid off. However, in
financial statements that get filed when you run for President, it showed that
Trump owes various banks worldwide somewhere between $500 million and $800
million. That. Friends, is what we call
deflection.
Don’t look at what I’m doing wrong, look at what he did that can be twisted
into looking wrong.
4.
Speaking of money, how much is Trump really
worth? We don’t know. He claims billions. However, he also won’t release his
tax returns. He claims that because he is under audit, and is always under
audit, that he isn’t allowed to release them. That’s a total fabrication and
lie. There’s no rules or laws that saw someone under audit cannot release their
returns. Why is he under audit all the time? Because he looks for every
loophole (no, wait, his lawyers and accountants do it) to avoid taxes. Part of
me says yeah, y’know, I guess any rational human would look for every way
possible to keep as much of their money as possible, and part of me says not
everyone has an army of retainers to fabricate any and all methods to do so.
5 5.
All y’all keep saying that America needs a
businessman and not a politician. You called Ted Cruz a politician and Trump vilified
Ted as a politician. Y’all do realize that Ted hasn’t yet finished his first
term in office as a Senator, right? And that this is Ted’s first and only elected
office? Hardly a lifetime politician. Meanwhile Trump says his Vice
Presidential pick is likely going to be a career politician who knows the ropes
in Washington. So, it’s okay when you need it to be okay, and a cardinal sin
when it serves your purpose? Can’t have it both ways, Donald. By the way, Trump
demanded that Romney release his
taxes in 2012. Good for the goose…unless the goose is you.
6. Successful businessman? I’d put an
asterisk next to that. Yeah, dude has made oodles of money, often by crushing
any and all opposition to him. But if you or me declared bankruptcy FOUR TIMES,
what bank would touch us? Who the hell would trust us with FOUR BANKRUPCTIES?
Trump Steaks? Who the hell buys
their quality meats from The Sharper Image? I go to the meat counter or a
butcher shop and get it fresh, not sent to me FedEx. Trump Wine? Dude says he
doesn’t even drink wine, but knows enough about it to slap his name on a bottle
and call it the best? It might be decent wine but I was unaware that Virginia
was a hotbed for vintners. Trump Shuttle? Yeah, he took out $380 million in
loans from no fewer than 22 banks, and a little over a year later
defaulted
on his loans and control of the airline reverted back to Citi Bank. Trump
University? A pyramid scheme that lured you in with the promises of business
acumen and knowledge and coaching, but was just a way to get you to buy more
seminars and books and other crap. Pretty much the same bollocks as those Zig
Ziglar seminars. I went to one of those once; my employer at the time paid for
us to go as a sales team. What a joke; it was just a ruse to get you to buy
their products. Same with Trump U; no wonder he is in the middle of an
investigation with legal action pending over people getting duped by the scam.
6 7. Says he will overturn Obamacare. But….Trump
firmly believes in nationalized health care. His plan is basically Obamacare on
steroids. And Obamacare is working so
well, isn’t it?
7 8.
Remember a few months ago, early in the
primaries, when Trump kept saying that Ted Cruz lied about Ben Carson dropping
out and stole Carson’s votes? The problem is, the story that Carson was
quitting came from CNN, and was retweeted by RUBIO’s people before Ted’s people
saw the RT and thought it was true. Yet, Trump jumped on Ted because Ted was
always his biggest threat and had to be dealt with no matter if it was true or
not, because, after all, Trump could kill someone on 5th Avenue and
no one would care, right?
Any time Trump won a primary, it was skill
and gamesmanship and the Will of the People. Any time he lost, it was rigged,
it was voter fraud; it was anything but the Will of the People.
8 9. Says he is surrounded by the “best people”. But, if you have the best people around you,
shouldn’t someone have known how the primary system worked in Colorado since
their system has been in place for about a hundred years now? Instead, he
bitched and moaned and says his votes were stolen. Dude, you simply had no idea
how that state conducted business. Best people, my ass.
9
And speaking of “best people”… Trump demonized
Ted’s wife Heidi for having worked as an investment banker at Goldman-Sachs.
After all, G-S was The Enemy of the People. But, one of these Best People that
Trump has surrounded himself with is his chief campaign advisor who did what?
Worked at Goldman-Sachs for 30 years. A couple weeks ago, G-S was evil but now
they’re okay?
1 10.
Trump’s buddy David Pecker is the CEO of a
spurious tabloid rag, namely the National Enquirer. So it’s awfully convenient
when the Enquirer publishes crap that alleges Cruz has as many as five
mistresses and that one of them was a certain Katrina Pierson. Thing is,
Pierson is Trump’s campaign spokesperson. Now, if I even suspected that one of
my people was sleeping with the enemy, I’d fire that person. Instead, he keeps
her on staff? And even more spectacularly odd; she’s staying. If my employer’s
buddy published a lie about me with his knowledge and consent, one that made me
look like an adultering whore banging my boss’s rival, I’m not sure I’d be
sticking around. Either she’s in on it or she’s going along because someone has
SERIOUS dirt on her even bigger than this.
And then the Enquirer posts up a story that alleges Ted's father was involved in the JFK assassination and included an alleged photo of his dad with Lee Harvey Oswald in Cuba. Despicable.
1 11.
Trump alleges that he’s gonna punish companies
that take jobs to Mexico, and that only he has the wherewithal to fight China
on the economic battlefield. I actually went to a Trump even here in South Carolina,
out of morbid curiosity and because it ain’t every day when a candidate visits
my little town. During said rally, Herr Trumpmeister claimed that Boeing was
gonna close their plant in North Charleston and send it all to a new facility
in China. It was all I could do to keep a straight face and not laugh. Boeing
is *still adding onto and building new
facilities* at the Charleston plant, which makes the new and wildly popular
787 Dreamliner. If you’re going to close a facility in a non-union, right-to-work
state that gave you a lot of tax breaks and that you’ve already sunk more than
a BILLION dollars into, why keep building more stuff there? That big-assed new
building alongside International Boulevard they’ve been working on the past six
months? I do believe that’s the new paint shop building, so that planes, once
built, can be painted in their new owner’s livery on-site instead of flying
them to the facility in (I believe) Fort Worth, Texas.
Enny-hoo….. if he hates Mexico so
much and hates China so much, why is all his shit made there? Hey, Donald,
either you’re part of the problem, or you’re part of the solution, and I don’t
hear a lot of answers that make sense when people ask why your overpriced shit
is made elsewhere.
Trump ties? Made in
China. A Trump suit jacket? Made in Mexico. Trump eyeglasses? Frames made in……China.
And of course, where are the MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN ball caps made? One
guess. C’mon, kids, say it with me….CHINA!!!!!!
He’s claiming to be tough on
immigration, and illegal immigration was the big issue that first brought him
campaign notoriety. However, it appears he’s backtracking a bit with the news
that he favors a simple Touchback Policy. That means when we catch you here
illegally, we’ll send you home and once you get there, you can just come back
because you left. What in the actual fuck? That ain’t exactly a tough
immigration stance, sunshine. I lack the time and crayons to explain it to you,
and you probably don’t believe me if you’re a hard-core Trumpkin,
so
go here, because Newsweek ain’t exactly a right-wing Ted Cruz site.
1 12.
Trump loves veterans, huh? I may not like John
McCain’s RINO squish ways or his Establishment GOP dumbassery, but I don’t talk
smack about his time as a POW. You, however, did, and basically talked shit
about anyone who’s ever been a POW. This from a guy who dodged the draft during
Vietnam by getting your rich daddy to secure you a college deferment. You did
the college thing, like Bill Clinton did. I may not like Al Gore (in fact I
detest him) but dammit, he served when he could have gotten out of it.
You have instead had the balls to say you’re
as well-trained as any soldier because you were sent to a rich-kid military
boarding school as a teen. Look, pal, don’t even try to equate your prep school
experience to what we real veterans have earned with our service. And you also
had the balls to say in an interview that banging supermodels and dodging STD’s
in the 80’s was your personal Vietnam? You, sir, may quietly go fuck yourself
in the corner.
Speaking of your love for veterans,
of which no one can find any previous history of you supporting veterans
charities, let’s talk a minute about that January debate you skipped out of fear
of getting your ass ripped open by Ted Cruz, so you canceled out and claimed
that you were holding a fund-raiser for veterans. Thing is, months later and no
one can find any record of your donations and not a single charity has chimed
in to report having received the first red cent from the millions you raised.
SHOW ME THE MONEY! Where is it? Who got it? Legit charities keep records. Come
on, D; enquiring minds wanna know.
UPDATE: As of Friday, May 20
th,
questions were still being asked about the alleged $6 million that was raised.
Turns out it was a LOT less, and in typical Trump fashion, none of his Best
People
seem
to know exactly how much.
Furthermore, don’t fall for
everything you see out there, folks. There’s a picture/meme floating around
Facebook that claims to have been written by a Desert Storm veteran who got
home because Trump’s personal airline came and got him. And it’s been
debunked by Snopes.
1 13.
Guns. Oh yes, we on the Right loves us some
guns. Allegedly, Trump loves the Second Amendment. As well he should since he
is surrounded by bodyguards with guns, most notably the Secret Service at
taxpayer expense. However……I find it incredibly ironic that Trump’s hotels are
gun-free zones. Yeah, you read that right. Mister Gun Rights won’t let you
carry concealed, or open, at his facilities. Doesn’t seem very pro-2A, now,
does it? In 2000, Trump supported the assault weapons ban, too, just like all
the liberal Democrats he associates with.
So there’s a good baker’s dozen reasons you
should think a little harder about blindly riding the Trump Train.
Look, I get it. You’re disillusioned with “politics
as normal”. You’re mad as hell about the way this country has gone to shit over
the last 8 years. Believe me; I get it. I’ve been fighting the good fight here
at GDTAI for years. But don’t let your anger blind you.
Half of you out there are screaming at the
screen, “You fool! If you don’t vote for Trump you’re voting for Hillary!!!!
And if you don’t vote at all, Hillary’s gonna win!!!!” Oh, please. Grow up. Ever
wonder why no viable, serious third party candidates gain support? Because the
media and the two major parties only want you to have an either/or choice, and
preferably the choice they have engineered. I’m actually investigating the
Libertarian Party, but I honestly haven’t made up my mind yet about my vote, other
than that there is no way in hell I will vote Democrat. Ever.
The parties and the media want each election
decided and wrapped up MONTHS before the actual voting, even before all the
states (and their voters) have had their say in their primaries or caucuses.
Gang, the conventions are still weeks away. Why are we so quick to call an
election when voting hasn’t started yet and Election Day is still SIX MONTHS
away?
Ugh. This Carnival of Fools still has six more months to go?
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