Nurse the Hate: God Bless The King

I had given myself a time out from listening to anything that Donald Trump said.  This proved to be a decent strategy as he was driving me insane.  Even glancing at his Twitter feed makes me lose all faith in the population of the United States.  I have spent my entire professional life in advertising where one axiom has proven to be true.  No matter how stupid you think the general population is at any given time, they are actually even dumber than you think.  It’s not that most people don’t understand anything, it’s that they don’t want to understand.  Trump’s one great genius is that he grasps that you can say anything you want, and if you repeat it loud and long enough, about half the people will buy in.  It doesn’t have to be true.  In fact, truth is largely irrelevant.

This idea is being taken to the furthest edges right now.  As this special council investigation trudges onward, Trump has stuck with his game plan of ignoring the facts and creating his own universe.  This has to be better than the truth in this case as there exists multiple extremely damaging videos of him essentially testifying against himself in regards to obstruction of justice.  The banter back and forth about “will he or won’t he testify?” is absurd.  He lies so often about everything, there is no possible way he would be able to tell the truth in court.  He has no idea what the truth is at this point.  The lies even contradict each other.

The general public has to have become bored with this by now.  What Trump understands that law enforcement doesn’t is that as long as he maintains a counter narrative about the system being rigged and it’s a witch hunt, this will undercut the actual facts that most of his inner circle has been forced to plead guilty or are awaiting trial.  It’s not that the administration is guilty of crimes, it’s just a question of how many can be proven without a shadow of a doubt.  “I fired Comey over this Russia thing” is about as self incriminating as you can get regarding obstructing justice.  Clinton got impeached because he didn’t want to admit getting a blowjob from an intern.  This current situation is a tad more serious.  Anyone with a shred of common sense can see all kinds of smoke billowing out of the White House and recognize a fire.

With few options left, Trump is tossing out ideas that his power in office is that of a King (or more ominously, a dictator).  Even though a much larger slice of America has revealed itself to be in favor of a racist police state than would have been thought possible, it is still shocking that no one seems to be that concerned that our current president, who is under investigation for colluding with an adversarial foreign power, is suggesting that his power is all encompassing and he can pardon himself for colluding with that foreign power…  But he didn’t collude so stop looking into it…  Though if he did, he hearby declares it wasn’t a crime.  And that wasn’t obstructing justice because it is a WITCH HUNT even though his entire former inner circle is pleading guilty but even if they do he can pardon them with his vast powers as King…  The mind explodes. 

Trump and Guliani are suggesting that once elected, a president can literally do anything and is no longer tied to the laws.  “Today the President pardoned himself for the murders of citizens via his formed Freedom Squads of armed goons that executed political rivals in key voting blocks.”  Meanwhile the sheep of the population send out photos of themselves on social media with dog-ears.  OMIGOD!  That’s sooooooo funny!!!

The Congress has shown that they cannot be trusted to do what is right for the rest of us.  They are exclusively protecting their own personal best interests.  There is no help coming from those slugs.  While we slide into a dictatorship, they are concerned about “their base”.  There are going to be good roles in future movies for smarmy character actors to portray a variety of these “public servants”.  Well, assuming that history doesn’t become dictated by Fox History Channel, in which case some handsome leading man will portray Super Patriot Mitch McConnell.

I’m not sure how this is going to shake out.  I’m probably going to end up in a re-education camp in the woods of Kentucky.  Enormous statues of Trump will be erected in all public squares as people are led by gunpoint to attend the “Freedom Rallies” to christen these public works of art.  Yet, I don’t know how many people will even notice that things changed.  As long as Target is open and we can drive big SUVs to Taco Bell after the Freedom Rally, it’s all OK.   

Man, I gotta stop reading the news.  It’s better to stop paying attention.