I’m not sure, but I think the best strategy for surviving the Trump presidency may just be to never, ever watch anything he says, and certainly don’t read about it.
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I had to snort at Hippy-Chick’s header on the Bob Christie thread https://twitter.com/deejaydee AntiPussygrabber That seems clear enough.
I simply cannot bear to see his face or listen to him speak. Intentional or not, his speech pattern of simple repeated words and phrases makes me want to throw things at the TV.
I will deliberately avoid watching his address this evening, as I avoided the Coronation. I thought Dubya made me sick…Trump is immeasurably worse.
Besides, virtually everything he utters is a lie.
That’s mostly what I am doing–ignoring as much as possible. He speaks like a grade schooler, which is okay for a grade schooler. It is not okay for the President of the United States.
Any coverage of SCROTUS speaking has reminded me of just how eloquent George W. Bush was as a speaker during his presidency.
Actually, I think that in many ways this is a sound strategy. And I find myself leaning more in that direction every day. Mainly because allowing myself to become distracted by the daily stream of consciousness of a moron; and yes, by definition, he is a moron, simply takes away from the mental and emotional energy that is required to carry on this fight on the ground. I am not allowing myself to become engaged in useless arguments about the bleatings of a man who is simply so stupid and consciously ignorant that debating the things he says are as useless as arguing over the existence of Bigfoot.
It can be a difficult task to stay informed about the ways he is trying to control the daily narrative and still keep the stupidity at arms length, but it is the only way one can stay mentally engaged and not put oneself in a position where you want to step in front of a speeding bus.
Trump is dangerous. But I fear much more the Paul Ryan/Mitch McConnell duo, who have the ultimate power to destroy the country, while everyone else is singularly focused on the stupid controversy of the day coming from the mouth of Trump or Spicer. Trump is almost too convenient a distraction for the GOP to be able to use to silently and almost anonymously do their dirty work.
And then there is always that most secretive member of the Trump administration, who everyone on the GOP side seems intent on stroking and appeasing in one way or another. Certainly not one of them wants anyone to get a glimpse of the levers that this man has been pulling from behind the curtain, while the Great And Powerful Oz is filling our heads daily with his skewed and insane view of what he feels is reality.
Not far in and so far the overall great state of the economy (relative to until about two years ago) has made “surviving the Trump presidency” not so bad so far. Of course, like you say, I neither watch nor read what Trump says, and I’m sorry you included the link I had to click to read to know what you were talking about, but generally otherwise, watching or reading Trump is against my will. He’s shocking I suppose, but never surprising.
Hmm. Maybe fewer links to what the bore has to say would be helpful.
Concur. He’s just distracting attention from the real enemy, Paul Ryan.
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