There…I’ve said it.
Phew!!!
I feel much better now.
Read on for more.
Please.
I watched about 25 minutes of the SOTU dumbshow…as much as I could stomach. Following is what I saw and heard of any import as far as I am concerned:
#1-The initial images of Melania Trump looking like she was suffering from either a case of model’s rictus, an over-application of cosmetics that unexpectedly hardened under the lights, an early-in-life plastic surgery gone wrong or…most likely…the sheer horror of her life after marrying that serial woman abuser Donald Trump in search of even more money than she made as a model.
#2-The elephantine Trump waddling down the aisle, ascending to the stage and then…apparently with no teleprompter whatsoever…blithely (And quite effectively, apparently. Read today’s headlines.) lying through his teeth for the remainder of the time that I could stand to watch.
#3-At least 2/3rds of the Dems in the audience…including Nancy Pelosi, who I believe should have walked off the stage and out of the room in protest, followed by every Dem in attendance except the central group of women in white who should have remained without a movement or a sound as a statement of the real resistance to Trump and his minions.
And…the heartbreaker.
At least it was for me:
#4-Some amount of time into the broadcast, a camera operator panned in on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as she sat there with a look of sheer horror on her face. There is no other way to describe it. She looked like someone who had suddenly realized the true depth of evil that Trump represents, and her relative unimportance and isolation…so far…from the fat and happy old-line Dems who obediently stood after every few sentences and clapped their hands in a show of obeisance to the old ways.
INCLUDING FUCKING NANCY PELOSI!!!
I turned off the TV and went to bed early…only to be awakened 3 hours later by the title of this post.
I’ll say it again:
Donald Trump-His Satanic Majesty/The Father Of Lies
If he is not that entity…the existence of which I have always believed to be a metaphor for evil, even as a young Irish Catholic…then he has been effectively occupied by him. There is no other explanation that I can find for Trump’s success.
I wish that it were otherwise.
Think on it.
It is common knowledge that he is…and has been for his entire career…a massively and totally unapologetic crooked businessman. The highest-level total ripoff artist in perhaps all of U.S. history.
In this #MeToo/PC world that effectively unseats politicians, stars and billionaires for…in many cases unproven or even minor…relatively juvenile expressions of sexism and/or racism/religious bias, this sexist/racist motherfucker has risen to the most powerful position in the world!!!
Give me a better explanation of how and why this has happened other than something totally Satanic in nature.
Damned if I can find one.
Plus…Pelosi and most of the rest of the Dems? The ones who stood and clapped for this Satanic creature because they are “going along to get along!!!???”
I suggest that they go read one of the greatest books about morality and human survival that has ever been written:
Here’s what it says about dealing with evil:
Kuai / Break-through (Resoluteness)
…a compromise with evil is not possible; evil must under all circumstances be openly discredited.
There it is.
Clear and clean.
Or…if you want the Christian view?
Jesus Christ, Matthew 16:23:
Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
He said this to Peter, one of his disciples, the one about which He also said:
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church; and the gates of Hades shall not overpower it.
Maybe you don’t like the religious stuff?
OK…not all roads lead to Rome, but the road upon which this country is now traveling plainly leads to disaster, and playing by the book is equally plainly not going to avert that disaster. Trump proved that in the primaries and and in the election. He trounced every challenger…including HRC…by not playing by the book!!! And his winning is continuing despite all of the “by the book” attempts to defeat him, including the army of lawyers sicced on him by the Mueller probe. Lawyers are by the book. That’s their job. They use “the book”…the laws of the land, also written primarily by lawyers…to protect their clients and prosecute their enemies.
Ain’t working.
Sorry, but there it is.
Those bipartisan schlumps dutifully standing and applauding The Lord Of The (F)Lies?
Most of them are lawyers, and those that aren’t are in constant contact with other lawyers who advise them on how to…
How to what?
How to go along to get along is what!!!
So there the usually exuberant and combative ex-barista AOC sits, surrounded by a number of compatriots who also managed to get elected despite their relative differences with most of the legislators in place in DC’s Swampland.
And the hammer comes down on her.
New party? Who dis!!!???
She said it…originally in another context, replying to the execrable double turncoat/go along anywhere to get along Joe Lieberman’s criticism of her stances and policies. But here she is, surrounded by Joe Lieberman types who have been a little slicker/a little more subtle than was ol’ Joe.
Outnumbered and outgunned.
A latter day Socrates Fortlow. (Don’t recognize the reference? You should. Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, by Walter Mosely. Read it. You be bettah off. Bet on it.)
I turned the TV off at that point and went to bed early, trying to sleep off the horror.
Joseph Conrad’s The Heart Of Darkness, there for all to see.
The horror! The horror!
Only…how many people actually see it?
AOC did.
Bet on it.
Me too.
You?
I hope so.
Know thine enemy
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Today?
So far?
The so-called “opposition” to Trump?
A little of Sun Tzu’s second sentence, more of his third sentence, and very damned little of his first sentence.
The result?
Here we jolly well are, aren’t we!!!
WTFU.
You been had.
A popular definition of insanity goes like this:
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.
Yup.
Four years into Trump’s rapid rise to power?
Isn’t it about time to start trying “something else,” instead of what we saw at that SOFU farce?
I think so.
You?
Again…
I hope so!!!
Later…
AG