Let me just say from the get go, that I understand that Donald Trump is a walking talking narcissist and he will never experience any kind of reckoning that he will admit to. Not to us, and not to himself. His is, simply incapable of doing so.
This is the sad world of a narcissist---no ability to experience humility because somewhere down deep, they are SO DAMAGED they cannot see failure as human, and they certainly can't learn from it.
Donald Trump is many things, I'll let y'all list them or pick your adjectives. But most of all, he is a very damaged human being floating in money out of mostly, sheer luck, thanks to his father, despite his bluster and his many investment mistakes.
What's amazing is his current polling, but I refuse to double over with fear about it. There is NO FREAKING WAY, Donald Trump will be the republican candidate. Dear Lord, if only it would be that easy for us.
No, what's gob smacking in America today is that this man can hold these ratings for even a moment in the GOP. Something is very rotten in Denmark, er…America.
As much of a progressive I am, I mourn the loss of a reasonable opposition party. Been going on for years of course, but while I'm not scared of Trump, I am fearful that the republicans of today can take this man seriously. So seriously that right now he's number 2 in their polls.
I KNOW, it won't last. And I think it's a sign of how messed up republicans really are. They really embarrass themselves supporting a guy like Trump. But then, today's GOP seems to have no shame---but also, no internal compass. They are scared. Very scared.
In any case, for all the talk of corporate evil doing, much of it totally fair, today, NBC stood up and said, NO.
When I heard the Donald's announcement speech I winced with pain about his words about who the Mexicans were sending us. It was beyond the pale. It was disgusting and vomitous, and I must admit, I am so used to this kind of thing passing mustard in this country as just another POV, another case of free speech, I had little hope that it would have any consequence for him.
But today, it did. Oh yes it did. Donald Trump got FIRED by NBC. Summarily and point
blank. I have not watched "The Apprentice" but for a couple times in the beginning of its run, out of curiosity, years ago, and that was enough for me. I just couldn't stand him and his ego then, and I can't now.
Today it was the sweetest bliss for me to see the tables' turned. Yes, the Donald got fired, and his response has been the weak response of a guy caught off guard.
Ultimately, Donald Trump does not deserve the words I'm typing here tonight. But what DOES deserve some words is hello, boy howdy, yoo hoo, what are you thinking if you're a republican today?
Of course, in some ways, I really don't give a shit, in that their folly is a gain for my values. Still, in a two party system, which we are and are going to be for a long time to come if not always---where fucking where are the brave voices of republicans who know better?
Where is the shame and disgrace a republican SHOULD feel looking at the paltry, sensational, ego driven crap that Donald Trump delivers?
I am a Democrat deep in my soul and will always be so. But I want an opposition party that is worth fighting AND compromising with. I want an opposition party of some intelligence and depth, because I believe there IS an opinion opposite of mine worth listening to. That's been true through most of the years of this republic.
But about 30 or so years ago, that stopped. And that imo, is why we're such a divided country these days, that's why we're fighting a virtual civil war. Again.
And Donald Trump, and his poll ratings right now, are not too much different to me then what I might have been alive to read in the times of the real civil war.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. That's what "they" say. What do you say?