Wednesday, February 06, 2019

SOTU -- who is he kidding?

I was going to boycott Trump's State of the Union Speech because I cannot listen to his voice, words filled with lies, nor look at his disgusting "blond" sprayed-into-submission hair but I wanted to see how the Democratic opposition of women in their white garb reacted. They along with Speaker Pelosi were inspiring.  

If one is a right wing extremist then I am sure they loved Trump's speech complete with late term pregnancy anti-choice bull-pucky histrionics.  These Republican men love to tell women what to do with their bodies and their base roars in approval. There was, of course, orgasmic praise for a wall to keep those oh so threatening caravans of brown out. The true threat, climate change, is not mentioned not even once.  I wonder if he will be alive when climate changed Miami sinks into the ocean I hope taking Mar-A-Lago with it.

Trump was, naturally, playing to his base as he does on his stump speeches all the time.  He spends more time on the road speaking to his right wing extremist supporters, spends more time golfing, and spends more "Executive" time watching TV.  He cannot write nor spell and he has no patience to read important foreign policy texts from experts.  This is our so called president.  His gut does the policy walking much to the consternation of those who happen not to want the launch of nuclear war.  He says it was he that kept N. Korea from launching a nuclear Armageddon.  Oh the egotism of that ridiculous statement!  Sorry, Mr. Trump, N. Korea is still building nuclear weaponry which he does not, of course, mention.  He bombs treaties and organizations that have kept the world's peace and threatens his perceived enemy, Iran, blasts away Obama agreements that were working and indicts all things Obama, including regulations that kept our drinking water and air safe.  He fires his staff and pays attention to experts if and only if they reflect what he feels otherwise they are fired.  His SOTU was all about all of that.  It was not meant to be inclusive.  It was meant to please his base and lift his base-sagging numbers.  He is addicted to love -- the love of his base -- because few of any other political bent love him. His numbers are falling and he knows it.  Perhaps this speech will temporarily raise those numbers but not for long as his policies wreak havoc on our nation.  Wait for the real biographical tweets soon to come

He has WWII vets and a concentration camp survivor from another era, the era of FDR (the opposite of Trumpian politics) in the audience.   It is all staged to evoke volcanic eruptions of praise from his base. I suspect if he were president in the WWII era since he is a self-proclaimed Nationalist and an observable demagogue he would have allied with the Axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) who were also Nationalists and supported the authoritarian fascists Hitler and Mussolini!  Who is he kidding.  Not me!

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