A slightly quieter week since Trump just returned from Asia. But there are still some things that need to be addressed.
But I’ll tell you right now, I’m not going to make a big deal about him drinking water. Yes, I know he went after Marco Rubio for that and now it’s ironic, and so on. I don’t care. He’s an old man, he was back from a long trip, they handed him some Fuji water and he drank it badly. So freaking what. Let’s try to stick to a higher plane of discourse here.
1). Seriously? TRUMP is going to attack Al Franken? So Al Franken was revealed to have done something stupid seven years ago, before he was a Senator. Apparently he forcibly kissed a female radio broadcaster before a sketch during a USO tour, and he had a picture taken of him fondling her breasts while she was asleep. He has profusely apologized for it, which we all know in this day and age makes no difference. Once upon a time, an apology was the end of a discussion. Now it’s just the opening salvo of a determined process that will not stop until the person who committed a wrong doing is driven from his job into hiding. Franken is aware of that and has already HIMSELF called for a hearing before the Senate ethics committee. But that wasn’t enough for Trump, who declared that the picture looked really bad and implied that there were many more photos where Franken groped her all over.
Yet oddly I have seen NO Trump Twitter comments about Roy Moore who, in his early thirties, attempted to or actually did commit statutory rape with a number of girls ranging in age from 14 to 16. For that matter, sixteen women have come forward with their own stories about Trump’s groping, fondling and assaults, which he himself BOASTED ABOUT. Harvey Weinstein was fired from his position in the company that he created, but Trump continues to cruise along, criticizing people he dislikes for far milder crimes while ignoring those in his own party who were banned from malls because of their sick behavior. Meanwhile Jeff Sessions starts insisting they should investigate the Clintons, probably at Trump’s request. David Gerrold posted a great joke: “How many Republicans does it take to change a light bulb?” “Benghazi!”
Meanwhile it’s been revealed that in Congress itself, if a female aide is groped or molested, there is a byzantine process in which any woman who wants to complain has to go through therapy and counseling for months BEFORE she can proceed with her complaint. And if the process isn’t completed within 180 days, she can’t file it. Yet THEY then get to sit in judgment on Franken for something he did before he was a Senator? Fine. Then if they’re going to be consistent, if/when Roy Moore is elected, his very FIRST stop should be going before that very same Senate ethics committee.
2). The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.. Donald Trump Jr’s emails prove beyond any doubt that during the campaign, he was allied with Wikileaks to hack Clinton’s emails and release them in order to make her look bad. There’s a technical word for this behavior: illegal. It violated campaign finance rules which prohibit foreign spending and involvement in an election. Trump Jr. specifically supported and endorsed their activities. Meanwhile evidence is mounting that, despite Trump Sr’s assertions that he didn’t know George Papadopolous, George in fact briefed him and Jeff Sessions in person about Clinton’s emails and Russia’s cooperation. Sessions, to his credit, said it was a bad idea and they shouldn’t get involved. To his lack of credit, he later lied about it to Congress.
3). Basketball players get bounced. I was going to include this in the “did he do anything right?” section, since Trump managed to get China to back off from jailing three idiot college basketball players who were caught red handed shoplifting. But I can’t because he immediately screwed it up by asking if the students were going to thank him. Yes, that’s right: he asked to be thanked. NO ONE ASKS to be thanked. The whole purpose of saying “thank you” is that it’s unprompted and thus genuine. By demanding to be thanked, you’re behaving like the kindergarten teacher who insists that little Tommy apologize to little Jimmy for slapping him during recess, and the response you get will not be especially sincere. That is how fragile Trump’s ego is. That is how much he needs to thrust himself into the spotlight and receive praise. If he HAD to insist on thank yous, what he SHOULD have done was say that they should remember to thank the Chinese president who agreed to spring them. Which he eventually did AFTER they had thanked Trump, because to this idiot, that’s all that’s important.
4). Trump’s tax bill.. In addition to Trump endorsing a tax bill that will screw over middle income families while aiding the rich (and falsely claiming the exact opposite on Twitter) it should be also noted that hidden in the bill is a stipulation that will defund Planned Parenthood. Despite the fact that no government dollars go to pay for abortions, Trump’s people want to try to undo Roe vs. Wade in any manner that they can, and they figure shutting down Planned Parenthood will go a long way toward accomplishing that. So if the tax bill passes and you’re a poor to middle income woman who wants to get an abortion, you may not be able to afford it or there may simply be nowhere near you where you can have the procedure done. Which would mean a return to the old days where back alley abortions hold sway and women are either messed up or dead as a result. Which is fine with Trump because he still wants a return to the good old days. You know. When women shut their mouths about abuse.
How the hëll does this nimrod still have anyone who supports him?
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