It’s always weird when Donald Trump goes off on one of his childish rants. It’s just unusual, no matter how many times it happens, to see a grown man, especially one in his 70s, whine like a spoiled 4-year-old. And make no mistake, every time he suggests that he’s the most victimized victim to ever be victimed, that is EXACTLY what he sounds like. Here stand Donald Trump, a man who has lived his life at the pinnacle of privilege, claiming that people are being too mean, too unfair to him. He claims that people shouldn’t be allowed to engage in “presidential harassment.” Really? He didn’t seem to take issue with it for the better part of a decade when he harassed Barack Obama about his citizenship. Harassing people he doesn’t like or agree with is how he has spent the better part of his presidency, and now he is calling foul now that the idea of people really looking into his shady practices is looking to be a reality. But I think most of us can see this for the sham that it is: the gasps of a desperate imbecile.
I feel like I’ve had a lot to say in regards to Fox News over the last couple of years. As an organization, I think they are unethical, overly biased, and unscrupulous. Their ratings drivers are not journalists, they’re con artists and snake oil salesmen. So when their message falls on deaf ears, it’s a good day for the country. Take their most recent snafu. They conducted a poll of their audience asking how they felt about raising taxes for wealthier Americans. Their expectation was that the sage Reagan wisdom of Trickle Down economics would shine through, but recent challenges to that logic, by people such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, using history as a lesson, wherein high percentage taxes to wealthy Americans preceded and accompanied our countries most significant economic growth, have begun to shake the faith in the conservative talking point. Indeed, 70% of the people interviewed in the poll thought that people making over $10 million per year should pay higher taxes. And 65% thought the same thing for people bringing in over $1 million a year. Talking over themselves, the talking heads suggested that it’s just the result of brainwashing the idea of fairness into people. I like to think people, when given the right information, know how to listen.
At a certain point, it stopped being surprising that Donald Trump would take Vladimir Putin’s side in regards to…well anything really. He has made it perfectly clear that he admires the man, and that he’ll take the man’s word over his own intelligence networks. But now Trump is at the point where he’s parroting the man’s talking points in his own interviews. When Trump starts acting as a surrogate or representative of the Putin Regime…I mean seriously, where are we then? When does it stop being a joke that Putin is really leading the country?
I really can’t articulate how little I think of Mitch McConnell. He represents the very worst of what traditional modern politics has become. Him and his ilk pave the way for Donald Trump and his gross brand of discourse to come to the forefront of our political culture. Mitch McConnell has had a stranglehold on the Senate for far too long, keeping good legislation from ever even reaching the floor for a vote, and pushing through garbage that better lines the pockets of him and his comrades. And if you think I’m being overly critical, I encourage you to listen to his statements from last week, during the debate over making Election Day a federal holiday. His argument against this is quite simply that he’s afraid of more people voting. His own words are that it’s a democratic “power grab.” In other words, he knows the majority of people don’t like him, and if more people go out to vote, he’s afraid of losing his majority. It’s gross, it’s transparent, and it only goes to show why he’s dead wrong.
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