Watch out whoever you are, you could be NEXT!
I was absent for a couple of days, doing things with my wife on one of her rare weekends off, so I apologize if this has been previously covered, but it's still nagging at me 3 days later, so I wanted to get this popcorn hull out from between my tooth and gum!
On Friday I was numbly suffering through another endless Donald of Orange presser-campaign rally-fundraiser-not fundraiser-maybe fundraiser who the hell knows that was being forcibly foisted on me live by MSNBC. I'm starting to believe that the media is spending so much time covering the Donald live at every turn simply because it behooves them to let him stand there for :30-:40, hurling shitballs like some kind of deranged spider monkey, and absolving them from actually have to do their JOBS by providing us with something even approaching "news".
The first 1/2+ was typical well worn Trump, although he did land a couple of nice hard kidney punches to Jeb! I especially liked the line where he talked about having to find a new chew toy since Jeb! had dropped so far in the poles and just wasn't much fun to kick around anymore. But then the Donald went off the rails and into unacceptable territory. Follow me below the fold for the short balance.
To be honest, I was only half listening to the same old Donald tripe when he suddenly changed the tenor of his rant. He started ranting away at Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner! Excuse me Your Lowness, but WTF?!? Why are you dragging these two poor people into this? Not only are they not running against you, but they're not even Republicans!
Trump trotted out the same old, tired tinfoil hat theory of her "alleged" secret underground connection with the Muslim Brotherhood movement. Even though all the way back in August of 2012 a more honorable Senator John McCain took to the floor of the Senate to;
call the allegations "nothing less than an unwarranted and unfounded attack on an honorable woman." (Source: Huffington Post, 7/2012)
And then he went on to gleefully recount the sordid details of Anthony Weiners personal quirks, which cost him not only his job in public life, but public humiliation and shame. Make no mistake, from where I'M sitting, Anthony Weiner is truly a dick, and not just based on photographic evidence, his morals and ethics make him an even bigger dick that whatever he was blessed with at birth.
There is a longstanding tradition in politics that candidates are fair game, when their overpowering egos and lust for power lead them to declare for public office, they put themselves under the microscope. But in any "acceptable" campaign significant others and children are off limits, attacks against them are quickly and loudly denounced by parties on all sides. After all, would even a self centered egomaniac like Trump decide to run if he knew that it meant reporters and researchers following around and fine tooth combing his wife and daughters, looking for juicy nuggets to throw out on the front pages? Well, mebbe Breitbart and the New York Post, but they don't count. There was absolutely NO political, strategic or morally acceptable reason for the Donald to drag these two private citizens back through the mud again for public consumption.
My own personal takeaway? Sir Donald of Orange is a bigger dick than Anthony Weiner could ever dream of being. Move over John Holmes, there's a new sheriff in town, and already his shiny new badge is tarnished a dull nicotine brown.
Thanks as always for reading.
3:24 PM PT: I am soooooooooo disappointed!!! The Rev. Al Sharpton in Politics Nation just replayed the "Weiner/Abedin" portion of Trumps tantrum on his show...Granted it was to set the table to ask his guest if it was unacceptable, but SHAME on the Rev. Sharpton for replaying it, he could have just referred to instead...