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Trump Likes Putin Because Trump Wants To Be An Authoritarian

September 8, 2016 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

People are scratching their heads over Trump’s doubling down on his praise of Putin. As he told Matt Lauer, he likes Putin because Putin is a strong leader. And very popular, too, with an 82% approval rating.

Apart from the fact that no one should give any credence to the approval ratings given to dictators in their own countries–are you really going to say you don’t approve of your fearless leader?–it is clear that Trump admires Putin’s strength above all else.

Well, maybe not above everything else. Trump also likes him because Putin has made Trump think that Putin likes him. Trump is auditioning for the role of Putin’s lap dog.

But I digress. Trump really admires Putin’s strength. Of course, Saddam Hussein was strong, at one time. So was Idi Amin. (Amin didn’t just fire people; he ate them!) You could add lots of other enemies of the U.S. to the list: Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini (who Trump appears to be channeling facially), just to take examples from the 1940s–the halcyon days of Trump’s childhood. (In fairness, Trump was born about a year and six weeks after Hitler and Mussolini died, so he never had the pleasure personally.)

I suspect that Trump would have good things to say about all of these men, especially in the context of comparing them favorably to Obama, whom Trump claims is a very bad, weak man who wasn’t even born here.

What all this comes down to is that Trump aspires to be an authoritarian President (to the extent that he aspires to be President at all). Of course, there probably are a lot of Americans who would like an authoritarian President, just as there probably are a lot of Americans who think ignorance is a qualification for the office.

If Trump is elected, old Vladimir will have a friend in D.C.–a fact that Trump actually views as a selling point.

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In wake of Massachusetts upset, Obama reveals new jobs plan

January 20, 2010 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

January 20, 2010 

Spurred on by the disappointing outcome of the Massachusetts special election, President Obama has revealed his new jobs plan:  It starts with putting the Republicans back to work. 

More to come . . . .

The Latest on Fox

September 12, 2009 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

With the so-called Health Care Reform “debate” raging and on the eve of a taxpayer march on Washington (brought to you by the loonies who gave us tea parties and brought guns to town meetings), I’ve been thinking of some of the news stories we can expect from Fox and Rush in the coming days and weeks. I’ve looked into my crystal ball — in the shape of a glass of beer — and here are some of the headlines that are on the horizon, brought to you by the folks who lost the last election:

1. New Report Reveals That Obama Administration Took No Steps To Prevent 9/11.

2. Obama Deliberately Makes Dumb White People Ashamed That They Are Dumb White People.

3. Obama Lost China.

4. Obama Failing To Check Danger Posed By Newly Resurgent Socialist Workers Party Of America.

5. Exposed! Obama Read Marx In Sophomore Poly Sci.

6. Obama Seeking To Create An Achievement Gap Between Children And Their Crystal-Meth Addicted, High School Drop-Out Parents.

7. Obama’s Government Death Panels: A Threat To My Insurance Company’s Death Panels.

8. Seniors Rally Against Obama’s Socialist Government Health Care Program: Urge That Medicare Be Protected From Government Takeover.

9. “Obama A Bambi Sympathizer?” Asks NRA.

10. Obama’s Election: Tyranny Of The Majority?

And to show that Fox isn’t obsessed solely with destroying Obama, I anticipate that we’ll see this story soon:

“If Evolution Was True, Why Am I And All Of My Friends So Stupid? Case Closed.”

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Sarah Palin — A Fighter, Not A Quitter

July 7, 2009 in Humor, Politics by admin | Permalink

Today’s news is reporting that Sarah Palin is proclaiming that she is a ”not a quitter.  I am a fighter.”   Reading this in light of her having just quit as governor of Alaska brought a number of cultural touchstones to mind.  I was reminded, of course, of Alice in Wonderland.  Also springing to mind was Richard Nixon, who famously told David Frost that “when the President does it, that means it is not illegal.”  George Orwell’s criticisms of the abuse of language in “Politics and the English Language” and 1984 also sprang to mind.  And in Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes recognized that the ability of words to take on various meanings is itself a source of civil unrest, and so he sought to stabilize meanings through a positivist lexicon that would denude words of their power to incite action and violence.  But to associate Sarah Palin with the likes of Hobbes, Orwell, and even Nixon seems a bit much. Aren’t there some more apt cultural precursors to invoke? Why yes, there are.  My favorite lens through which to view Ms. Palin’s insistence that she’s actually a fighter, even though it appears that she’s just a quitter, is a verse in the Ballad of Brave Sir Robin from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  Here, with thanks to GuntherAnderson.com, are the words:  

Brave Sir Robin ran away – No!
Bravely ran away, away – I didn’t!
When danger reared its ugly head
He bravely turned his tail and fled – No!
Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Bravely taking to his feet
He beat a very brave retreat
Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin

P.S. Sarah: If you want to sue me, e-mail me and I’ll send you the address for your process server.

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Ironies

June 12, 2009 in Politics by admin | Permalink

Today (June 11), the Associated Press reported that President Obama’s former minister blamed “[t]hem Jews” for preventing the President from speaking with him. In an interview, the Reverend [I use the term loosely] Jeremiah Wright said, “Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.”  Here’s a link to the article. The AP, however, omitted some other choice remarks that Reverend Wright managed to squeeze into the one minute forty-five second interview.

Wright went on to say, “the Jewish vote — the AIPAC vote — is controlling [Obama]; it will not let him send a representation to [the] Darfur review conference . . . . They will not let him talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is.”  You can hear the interview in the entirety of its loveliness here.

Reverend Wright’s comments are, shall we say, unfortunate.  Quite apart from Reverend Wright’s portrayal of the President as his staff’s, and the “Jewish” vote’s, poodle, to be leashed or let out as they please, Wright’s timing could not be worse.

The report of his statements comes a day after a White supremacist, James von Brunn, shot and killed a guard, Stephen T.  Johns, who was African- American, in an attack on the Holocaust Museum here in Washington.  The attack on the museum is just the latest act of terrorism by so-called “lone wolves” of the far right. Two weeks ago, it was the murder of Dr. George Tiller.

Now, I guess I should acknowledge that Reverend Wright “issued a statement . . . that he was ‘disturbed and deeply saddened’ that his comments were stirring discussion again.”  He  apologized “‘for the way I framed my comments. I mis-spoke and I sincerely meant no harm or ill-will to the American Jewish community or the Obama administration.’”

Maybe the realization that the forces of evil are on the march again has put me in a bad frame of mind, but I’m not buying it. Reverend Wright is an anti-semite, and his rhetoric resembles that of von Brunn, the Holocaust Museum murderer.  Here’s a tidbit from a note found in von Brunn’s car, as reported by ABC News: “Obama was created by Jews. Obama does what his Jewish owners tell him to do.”  Sound familiar?

So, Reverend Wright, I am one Jew who is not inclined to accept your apology. And although I can’t speak for him, I suspect that your old friend, the President, wouldn’t mind me telling you to just shut the fuck up.

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