“Politics
is a performing art involving timing and context.”
----from
“The Quotations of Chairman Joe”
It is
the reason that Reagan was so successful.
It is the reason that he was called the ‘Teflon’ president. Reagan understood that politics is a
performance art and, like any artist, understood that timing and context are
everything. Not so the dolt now
occupying his seat.
Nowhere
is this more dangerously on display than in the ongoing disputes involving
North Korea. At a time when Disgustus,
full of bombast and sounding like some iron age god, warns of ‘fire and fury
the likes of which the world has never seen”, threatens a deeply insecure,
indeed paranoid regime. At a time when
he openly declares that the “time for talking is at and end”; at a time when he
threatens any country currently doing business with the regime with retaliation
and sanctions, we find him openly criticizing our South Korean ally accusing
Seoul of “appeasing” the adversary and threatening to end the current trade
agreement with South Korea.
These
are seriously mixed messages sowing confusion among our friends while outraging
the rest of the world community.
Clearly
something must be done with our trade agreements. Since ratifying five years ago the current
accord with South Korea, an agreement that was supposed to lower if not
eliminate altogether our trade deficit with the country, the trade imbalance
has doubled. This is not the outcome
intended and it has strained relations between the United States and its
ally. Addressing this issue is important
for it has cost, by some estimates, 90,000 jobs in the United States and added
to our standing as the world’s largest debtor nation. But this, given the severity of the crisis
over nuclear and missile testing by the North, is not the time. Nor, perhaps, is South Korea the place for
our trade imbalance is much more serious if one looks to either Japan, China,
or the European Union.
But
Disgustus, perhaps seeking the ultimate diversion from his Russian troubles,
has done his utmost to inflame the situation, now saying that we will not trade
with any country doing business with North Korea. Since this involves not only China but also
India, Russia, Japan and a host of other nations it is clearly an empty threat;
for such action would quickly bring not only the United States but the entire
world financial structure to the ground.
While these actions might finally fulfill the masturbatory fantasies of
one Steve Bannon they would do nothing to either address our economic woes nor
keep the peace.
In
recent weeks, especially in the disgusting months of July and August we have
witnessed and increasingly unhinged chief executive as he delivered a campaign
speech to a Boy Scout Jamboree, and act for which the Boy Scouts was moved to
apologize; we have seen him address a graduation of Coast Guard cadets using
the occasion to whine about how he is treated in the press; we have seen him
stand before a gathering of law enforcement officers and condemn
ObamaCare
and call for the reinstatement of police brutality; we have seen him take the
care and time to head off to Missouri to campaign against a Democratic senator
while a region and a city drown; we have seen him speak to the nation and draw
a false equivalency between the voices of hate and domestic terror and the
forces that gather to protest them. We
have seen him, as ever the ingrate he is, call the White House, the very symbol
of the American Republic, “a dump”.
Clearly,
this man knows not who he now is or the place that he now defiles. Disgustus has no idea of time and place; no
idea of what is appropriate and what is not; no idea of what is decent and
honorable and what is corrupt and disgusting. The emperor does not wear well
the emperor’s raiment.
Evidence
is gathering that the country is having its fill. MSNBC recently aired video of a focus group
gathered in Pittsburg a city that had voted for Clinton. Gathered in the cross section of ten voters
were four that had voted for tRUMP, none of whom support him now. One lady said that “of course I knew he was
crazy, but I expected that he would at least be professional, he’s not
presidential, he’s not even professional”.
Another said that he had hoped he would be a great executive, delegating
to competent executives and running the government like the businessman they
all thought he was. Clearly, he had bought
the illusion presented on the ‘reality’ television show “The Apprentice”. With tRUMP, illusion—façade—is everything. Then there was the man who said he voted for
tRUMP but regretted it telling the interviewer that he wished Disgustus was on
the other side because of the damage being done by this man to the causes he
holds so dear. They are not alone. Disgustus has lost, in the last month alone,
9% of the white male voters without a college education and fully 56% say that
he is “pulling the country apart”. He is
also tearing apart our alliances and the fragile, if enduring, peace that they
have produced.
Donald
J. tRUMP has no idea. He has no idea of
time and place. He has no idea of where
he is nor what he is doing. He is the
ultimate vandal realizing the wet dream of the “Generation of Swine” to bring
the whole house down about our feet.
Impeach and Imprison.
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