Freak Out Friday – March 22, 2019

Trump’s been very busy this week. Not that he’s been accomplishing anything. Instead he’s been hurling himself head-first into disputes and situations that are entirely his own making. He is psychologically incapable of letting anything go. Insanely, that’s what his supporters adore about him. He goes around stirring up trouble, getting liberals angry. And it doesn’t matter that he is literally destroying the country; all they care about is, “Are the liberal snowflakes upset?” If the answer is yes, they love it. The fact that his base is inadequate to get him reelected doesn’t even enter into it.

1). Dead and loving it.. John McCain died seven months ago.

Now let’s face it: McCain did a good deal of dumb stuff. What pìššëd me off the most was his run for the presidency, where he buried his own personality in favor of something he thought would get him elected, plus he elevated Sarah Palin to the national stage. So thanks a freaking lot there, Senator.

Nevertheless, the man was a war hero. He spent five years being tortured in captivity, and then rebounded from that to serve his country. In one of his most dramatic moments, he killed the Senate’s attempt to do away with Obamacare so that they could replace it with absolutely nothing.

And because of that, President Bone spurs, who received five draft deferments, not only had it in for McCain while he was alive, but has been trashing him while he’s been in the grave for seven months.

He launched his unprompted assault (despite his subsequent accusations that the media started it) at an Ohio tank manufacturer plant. In an audience crowded with vets and army guys, Trump trashed a war hero, mentioning a fabrication that he had something to do with McCain’s funeral and that he was never thanked for it.

Even Republicans are appalled at his actions, although some are doing so in their customary gutless manner (McConnell praised McCain without actually mentioning Trump.). But Trump doesn’t care about that. All he cares about is his base, and if his base knows liberals are pìššëd, they’re ecstatic.

Neil Robertson suggested that I provide a list of other things Trump was never thanked for. Interesting suggestion.

1). No one’s ever thanked him for his countless insults involving people who worked for him, were friends with him, or served him in a variety of ways.

2). Have Democrats ever actually thanked him for the two years of his presidency that so turned off voters it enabled us to recapture the House in November? Don’t think we’ve done so formally.

3). Pretty sure the Washington Post never thanked him for basically taking Saudi Arabia’s side over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

4). Putin has never thanked him for taking Russia’s side over the beliefs and opinions of America’s intelligence agencies.

5). Alec Baldwin has never thanked him for providing Baldwin a regular gig on SNL.

Speaking of which…

2). First Amendment? What First Amendment?. Although Trump has repeatedly favored the rights of gun nuts and the Second Amendment over all things, he is apparently oblivious to the First. Unaware of the fact that the fairness doctrine only applies to political candidates and not elected officials, he wants to launch “investigations” into all late night variety/talk shows in general and Saturday Night Live in specific, demanding to know how they can get away with unilaterally criticizing him and no one else.

This is an outstanding new low for someone who swore to uphold the Constitution. There are no grounds–none–upon which to launch an investigation. There’s nothing to investigate. They can make fun of whomever they want, period, end of story. But Trump, whose skin is thinner than that of the invisible man, wants to go after the people who regularly depicted Gerald Ford as a bumbling klutz and have gone after every president–not to mention presidential candidate–without exception, since then.

One can only hope that no time or money will be wasted on Trump’s desires because Congress has no place to do so. As much as Trump wants to find a way to prove that the Russians are conspiring with Hillary Clinton to attack him, the bottom line is that he’s a freaking moron who brings all of this down upon himself. Not that he’ll ever accept responsibility for anything negative, of course. Anything that goes wrong, it’s the fault of a) the Democrats, b) Hillary Clinton, c) Robert Mueller, d) the “fake news,” or some combination.

3). Shrink, Shrank, Shrunk.. Some months ago I reviewed, on my website, “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump.” It was a fascinating book in which twenty-seven psychiatrists and mental health experts evaluated Trump. (It has since been updated and modified; now it’s thirty-seven psychiatrists.). One of the recurring evaluations was narcissistic personality disorder.

This was pointed out on Twitter by George Conway, the attorney husband of Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s main apologist. God knows there have been “mixed couples” in Washington, D.C., but usually it’s a Republican and Democrat. The Conways are both Republicans, but George is a genuine Republican who still believes in the basics of his party that have been trashed by the current President. He posted the textbook definition of narcissistic personalty disorder and it took no genius to realize that pretty much every symptom of the disorder is regularly displayed by Trump.

An intelligent president would have kept his mouth shut rather than put one of his most trusted advisors into a conflict of interest. An intelligent president would have had loyalty to Kellyanne and not said anything. But Trump only has loyalty to himself, and so this twice-divorced adulterer who forgot his own wife’s name referred to George Conway as the husband from hëll and dismissed him as a loser who is pìššëd because he didn’t get a job in the White House–a job that Conway actually turned down.

I wanted to feel sorry for Kellyanne, but honestly, I can’t. On the one side she’s got Trump, loyal to himself and uncaring about sticking her into the middle of his dispute with her husband. On the other hand, she’s got a husband who somehow thought it was a good idea to publicly go after her boss who is notorious for attacking anyone who says something he doesn’t like. But you know what? Screw it. Kellyanne has divested herself of any conscience that she might have possessed so that she could serve the worst president we’ve ever had. She got herself squarely into this situation. The fact that it’s come around to bite her on the ášš is entirely because of the decisions she herself made. Apparently she doesn’t want to be condemned as Hillary was for sticking with her husband, so Kellyanne is publicly taking Trump’s side in this dispute, which of course is exactly what you want to do when you have four children and a husband who despises your boss.

If she were smart, she’d take no side. “This is between my husband and the President,” and she’d recuse herself. But no, she had to weigh in for Trump. Yeah. They must have great evening meals.

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