Picaro
Picaro's JournalReally puts it in perspective
Great post.
This kind of cynical triangulating is what leaves so many unable to see much difference between Republicans and Democrats.
We need to be a party that is completely unlike the opposition.
Being against reproductive choice tells me that you are not on board with the party platform.
I'm a golfer
I've been playing since I was 9 and I can't help but love the game.
I've always loathed Trump ever since I made the mistake of watching the first season of The Apprentice. He proved to me again that he is utterly without redeeming features.
I read this article yesterday and let me state something obvious to me. Trump is not a golfer. He is someone that plays a golf-like game.
While he can drive the ball well and reportedly putts pretty well he isn't playing golf. Anyone that has played the game for awhile knows that it isn't a game of do-overs and that that reported low single digit handicap he boasts of is a vanity handicap.
I've taken a lot of money from competitors that had a vanity handicap by agreeing to the bet but only if the rules are followed to the letter (they had to play in my group). No mulligans, no gimmies, lost balls played as lost balls etc.. These guys that said they shot in the low 80s watched their scores soar into the high 90s while I shot my 84 or 85. I always played by the rules because that is the genius of the game. Almost anyone with decent eye hand coordination can hit some good shots. But can you string together one good shot after another, recover well from your mistakes, and keep your head in the game for the full 18? It isn't easy. To make it easy you have to cheat.
And that is what this piece tells me. Trump cheats. At golf, at business, and at politics. Finally it looks like it might catch up to him and his criminal family.
BTW, the grab'em by the pussy thing disgusted me but I was not surprised. But when I saw the clip of him driving a golf cart on the green I was utterly shocked. No real golfer would do that (whether they own the course or not). It showed an overall lack of respect for the game, for his membership, and for the revered norms of the game.
Why this shocked me I don't know. It's just another norm being ignored. This kind of ignorant, unthinking, uncaring behavior is why he'll never be invited to join Augusta, Pine Valley, Shinnecock...
Like a strange hybrid folk tale
What is going on now is like some strange hybrid folktale that's a combination of "the boy who cried Wolf" and "the emperor has no clothes".
Over the months it has become abundantly clear that you can't take seriously anything this man says. He'll lie about the most trivial things. He spent so much time planning himself on the back it's amazing that both the shoulders are dislocated. He absolutely fits with what the Republican Party has been doing for 40 years or more – – they just make up shit that supports whatever position they want to take at the time. Trump just does it more
obviously.
It is a testament to the stupidity of the American public that the Republicans have gotten away with it all these decades. But I think, as they say, the chickens maybe coming home to roost. Trump has managed to underscore that much of what is being said is just purely lies.
Could we be waking up from our fever dream where cutting taxes leads to such incredible economic growth that the deficit shrinks, where armies of the damned mass just south of Harlingen, and whites will resume their thrones to lord over the poor browns.
Few are buying the bullshit any longer. Even the Republicans seem to be waking up to the horrifying conclusion that they actually have to govern and that Trump is just a distraction. He is just going to keep on tweeting and every month or so he'll have a rally to refill his deflating ego.
I think some of them are beginning to hope that he just goes away.
Privilege deforms the spirit
Trump has no self awareness and can't possibly understand how revealing his constant blurtings are...
Now that he is old and his face is fleshy it is easy to see the spoiled toddler he was--understanding very early that he could get away with everything and that the people who worked for his parents were frightened of him because he held their livelihood in his fat little hands.
What a grotesque occupies the White House.
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