August 18, 2017
Dear Everyone:
Well, it looks like Donny the Trumpet has put his foot in it again.
Last weekend, there was an
ugly confrontation between some
Neo-Nazi /
White Supremacist (WS) /
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) aficionados and some
basically sane people in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
The KKK wannabes couldn’t find regular flaming torches, so they
ran down to the nearest hardware store and stocked up on “Tiki Torches”
(so much more “manly” than
LED flashlights.)
Ultimately, someone
used his vehicle as a
battering ram and
killed one person, injuring more than a dozen others.
Have you ever noticed that White Supremacists are always white, and
almost always male? Do they
honestly believe that they are automatically superior to everyone else
simply because they happened to be born with white skin and a penis
(WSP)?
I especially liked the press release by the manufacturer of “Tiki
Torches”, decrying the misuse of their product as a symbol of hatred;
and professing that they are intended for backyard gatherings of
families and friends and not for political statements of any kind.
At first, everyone waited to hear what the President would say about
this case of
Domestic Terrorism.
Donny the Trumpet read a
prepared speech off his teleprompter,
but could not resist the temptation to ad lib a remark that “both sides”
were at fault. This provoked
admonishments from all but
David Duke and
Richard Spencer who praised
Trump’s “courage” in not condemning them.
Remember, Donny is the one who started the “Birther Movement”,
insinuating that Barack Obama could not be
President because he
supposedly, and completely without proof, wasn’t born in the
United
States. So praising
racists
is right up Donny’s alley.
What surprises me is that anyone is surprised.
Donny always wants to have things both ways.
He wants to have his cake and eat it, too.
Especially if it’s chocolate.
Donny seemed genuinely perplexed.
Both sides were supposed to shower him with praise and adoration.
It didn’t happen.
What’s wrong with those people?
Obviously, it must be the “Fake News”, who failed to afford him
the admiration that he so richly deserves.
He certainly couldn’t admit that embracing racist bigots was a
monumental mistake. After
all, in the Donny-verse, for him to admit to being wrong about
absolutely anything would cause the entire world to come to a screeching
halt, thus sending all of humanity flying out into space.
Then, on Tuesday, Donny held a press conference at his beloved
Trump
Tower in New York to announce a new
infrastructure initiative, still
convinced that his one-size-fits-all Band-Aid will make Everything
Better. At least, that was
the plan. But before his
staff knew what was happening, Donny went completely off the rails to
defend the indefensible, in what could be called a
kamikaze attack on
anyone-not-KKK-Nazi-WSP.
Donny is a Combatant. He has
labeled himself “the Counterpuncher”.
So, he “hit back” at anything he could think of.
It reminds me of a long-ago
cartoon that showed a man laid out on
the sidewalk, clearly beaten up.
The constable was taking a statement from the man still standing.
“I knew he was going to hit me, so I hit him back first.”
As our brother, "Byron", was fond of saying,
“Follow directions:
Open mouth, insert foot.”
Having dug himself into a really big hole, Donny continues to drill
downward. Maybe he’s hoping
to pop up in China, where he fondly believes himself to be a “Great
Negotiator”.
During the
election, Donny boasted that he could shoot someone in the
middle of Fifth Avenue and it wouldn’t cost him any votes.
Has he now shot himself in the foot?
He keeps handing out maps of the United States, showing how many
counties voted for him. He
won the election, but he may be losing the Presidency.
As for that “the world will stop if I admit to a mistake” issue, could
we just try it and see?
Love, as always,
Pete
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