“It is the eternal lament of the learned: when confronted with barbarism, language fails us”.
----from “The Quotations of Chairman Joe”
So,
it seems, is the eternal cry. Conservative columnist David Brooks
lamented a few weeks ago in “The
New York Times”, that
nothing spoken or written seems to have had an impact upon those
supporting our very own Caesar Disgustus as he goes about vandalizing
our institutions and plundering the public domain. No act of
treachery, no example of corruption, no constantly repeated bold-face
lie, will convince the converted, now seemingly hopelessly marooned
in some alternative universe.
Indeed,
those who would seek to influence public opinion—from conservatives
Bill Kristol, David Brooks and George Will, to liberals such as Paul
Krugman have exhausted their vocabulary in an effort to describe the
vandalism and plunder. George F. Will, in his “Washington
Post” (1) column on
May 9th
became so desperate as to send America scurrying to its collective
dictionary, as he reached down to retrieve the adjective “oleaginous”
to describe tRUMP. “An S.A.T.” word, he reported on MSNBC,
meaning “oily”, an apt, albeit esoteric, descriptive of Putin's
'Tar Baby'. The 'tar heels' haven't quite reached the bottom of the
tar pit but every day new acts of –again to use Will's
words--”feral cunning” come to light showing the depravity of
this man and all those around him.
In
any case, we are left to ponder whether Will is here attempting to
raise the level of discourse or has he, or have we, simply exhausted
our vocabulary; was this piece an act of inspiration or an act of
desperation?
Will
was writing about Mike Pence, nominal V.P. to the illegitimate
'presidency'. But the fate of Pense is, alas, the fate of anyone who
dares come into the presence of or, heaven forbid, touches this 'tar
baby', for one will be besmirched thereby. So, in Will's memorable
characterization, Pence too has now become smeared, tarred, in a
word—Oleaginous.
Last
Friday, June 15, in a front-page article in “The
New York Times”, Danny
Hakim reported that the State of New York is suing the tRUMP
foundation for misuse of funds. It gets worse. Not only, does the
state charge, did tRUMP and his children divert funds from his
charity for personal use—including purchasing a portrait of
himself, but that emails reveal that his then campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski was directing expenditures into the tRUMP political
campaign. In addition, the “attorney
general's office is seeking Trump Foundation to pay 2.8 million in
restitution, the a amount raised for the foundation at at 2016 Iowa
political fund-raiser. At the time, Mr. Trump skipped a Republican
debate and set up his own event to raise money for veterans, though
he used the even to skewer his opponents and celebrate his own
accomplishments.” (2)
Here
we have yet another brazen act, openly illegal, of not only using
money raised for charitable purposes being misdirected into a
political campaign, staging a political event at a charitable
function, but using our veterans as a prop in order to raise this
money. Scamming the public is one thing, callously scamming the
military is quite another. Clearly Disgustus is truly disgusting,
daily demonstrating that he has no sense of decency.
The
State is not only seeking restitution but has made criminal referrals
to the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Election Commission and
the Department of Justice. Caught up in the legal action are his
daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner who were also directors
of the foundation. Additionally, the State seeks to ban tRUMP and
his family from serving on the board of directors of any charity
based in New York: a scathing rebuke, indicating the lack of moral
compass, indeed the depth of depravity, that is all things tRUMP.
“Trump
is what he is”, concluded
George Will, “a
floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and
not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic. Pence [and
the Republicans who enable tRUMP]
is what he [they
have] chosen to
be, which is horrifying.” (3)
“With
Malice toward all; and charity for us”--that
is the motto of our 'first' family and their Rescumlican cohorts.
“'An
Br'er Putin, he jus' laugh and laugh”
Impeach
and Imprison.
__________________
- Will, George F. “Trump is No Longer the Worst Person in Government”, The Washington Post,
- Hakim, Danny. “State Sues Trump Charity, Alleging Vast Misconduct. In Scathing Rebuke, New York Seeks Fines and the Closing of the Foundation”. “The New York Times”Friday, June 15, 2018: Page 1.
- Op. Cit.
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