A Thousand Lashes!
By
Mike Arroyo
It is said that an animal forced in a corner will lash out at the party, or parties, that have thus cornered the animal in question. Enter President Donald J Trump. There is no end to his counter candor, which more resembles a desperate person trying to hold on to whatever he has got. As time goes on, everything he’s got is lessening more and more and at a daily rate it might be added to say. Bit by bit, Trump has done so much in the wrong direction I think he couldn’t find the right direction even if he tried, but he doesn’t and won’t do that. It simply is not in his nature. Hard as it might be to realize that he has no motivation to do the right or even the correct thing, just his thing. His hubris is incredibly strong and active up to this moment. Throughout the time that he got elected and so-called ‘ran things’, such as building walls and alienating the nation as a whole and so many bizarre and illogical things, the man has been good at one thing that no one could ever effectively deny…Trump has made more enemies than he or anyone else, can afford! Not the best of all scenarios and a very bad one to be in the center of since being surrounded becomes not only threatening, but also predictably daunting and foreboding. In other words, the man is in a world of hurt and there is no end in sight. If they gave awards for incompetence, misdirection, inability to process information, react irrationally and act like a bull elephant in a china shop, then the award would definitely go to none other than Donald Trump. It would be way too simple to pick just one example to draw from because there are so darn many. This has caused him to excommunicate so many people from his inner circle and outwards, those that did not share his emotional elations for simply being a pretend dictator. Never would anyone have thought of him this way back-in-the-day. Earlier years had an ambitious man that was a jet setter, a mover and a shaker, with pitfalls and victories on many levels. From real estate, business ventures and reality TV shows, et cetera, Trump was an icon. Never perfect, he even admitted on many occasions, but his ego has blinded him to the fact that his over assertiveness and blunt methods of obtaining whatever. Those were better days and the man was simply ‘a trip’ in the minds of many and could never had even the shrewdest bookie ever lay even money on Trump becoming president, let alone running things into the ground during such an extremely pressing time for everybody and everything.
His falling out with so many, enemies, allies and even friends alike, has done to him what he has been doing to the citizens of this country and the world. The man has succeeded at being an ultimate failure with a childish agenda and attitude to boot. They say that children do not understand logic. If that is so, then Donald Trump is certainly in that particular category. It doesn’t help that not only has he cast out many people in his realm that may have well have helped him given half a chance. He is always going out and finding more and more people to lash out at for whatever reason. Can’t really blame him since he blames everyone but himself regarding anything negative in his jurisdiction. Projection is what psychologists call it and that is precisely what the man has done. Those around him are either not too sure of themselves or their administration, suffering from the ‘damned if we do’ and ‘damned if we don’t’ scenario. Even Mitch McConnell is wearing a face mask. Just a faint, yet important fact, nonetheless. Though there are reasons that Trump doesn’t wear a covering for his snoot, none of them give validity to his reluctance and refusal. Trump is special and has special powers, which is based on self image as opposed to reality. At this moment, the man feels like a predator that has been denied and is now being taunted by a great many. His bravado and arrogance has turned a multitude against him, or at least he is convinced that those that face off with him are his enemies. Those loyal to him is waning. The people see what he is and naturally don’t like it. Trump doesn’t like that, but not because they raise the challenge of his power and authority, but because they don’t want to play in his sandbox. He wants his friends as mindless ‘yes people’ while turning a blind eye to his downfall pending from all his actions. Each person that opposes him or has an alternative point of view are considered ‘the enemy’ and they must be lashed out at, no matter whether they are right of wrong. They oppose. Trump counter opposes. It is interesting to say that he goes on a rampage almost every hour of every waking moment of his day. A desperate action by a person that is nihilistic by nature, uncaring and unknowing. Clearing out a church (Saint John’s), via force, to get a photo op with the Bible is basic sacrilege. Some wonder how the one he held didn’t burn his damned fingers. Donald, listen carefully from one Christian to a so-called another…put the Good Book down please for the sake of all that is holy. We all know that you don’t really mean it and you should atone for that hypocritical display of gluttonous notoriety. I am confident that if we all stopped paying attention to him that it might well put him in the hospital for he only lives for self acknowledgement and what he can draw from others. At this point, his team is in very big trouble as is he, respectively.
Lashing out is the last and final thing. Understandable that he does that for there really is nothing else left his disposal. When the Pentagon questions the orders given by the so-called commander-and-chief, that is serious! Even they can’t go along with what he wants and has wanted that for a long time in the coming. Almost borders on a coup a brewing, though we all know better than that. Does Trump? How can he lash out against them? Wouldn’t surprise me or anyone else if he did for history shows that Josef Stalin (former Communist Russia leader) didn’t even like his own army. Power mad dogs in high place share one thing in common with one another…paranoia. They feel that even those closest to them are against them in some form or another with some hidden agenda. Don has to realize that if you berate and do little else but make enemies, the natural course of things is that those dragged down for whatever reason may well, and do, become a collective uprising. Look at former President George W Bush. He called for unity and Trump went after him verbally. As a result, Mr. Bush is now endorsing Joe Biden, along with retired U. S. Army General Colin Powell. It wasn’t the unity thing that irked Trump greatly, rather that is was someone else having the best idea of all and Trump couldn’t put his name on it, much like his branding of things that he has accomplished. He missed that opportunity a long time ago and now that it comes from the most unexpected sources and the man simply doesn’t like it! Can’t digest the fact that there are a slew of people out there on all levels that rival his visions and come up with potential and viable solutions that he didn’t have at least some small part in respectively. Rounding up the wagons and taking to countering with pop shots at those circling is all he has left. Simply put, he feel threatened and with great reason for he is, though most of that is his own doing. Too bad that he doesn’t have a clue.
Let’s face it! Make America Great Again has proven to have become quite the opposite of the original intention in almost every way possible. There has been nothing less than unrest throughout the country and the world in opposition to Trump’s agenda and actions. No justification for most of the things that have been brought to light by the Trump Administration. Is it not funny that even though those around him try to provide some kind of defense for all, there is nothing left that truly is effective in that manner any more. 100,000 plus casualties, along with a burning nation, angry people so mad that Trump gets scared and takes to the Hitler like bunker aspect of things, along with much else that is too long to mention in detail leads to the question, ‘Is Donald Trump not quite as popular as he once was at some point in time?’ Though that is a cause for concern on his end, his retort is to blow them off and tread on his happy ass way. The problem that is stirring mostly in his mind is, ‘Will I have a job in November?’ Plain and simple. Nothing else seems to matter to ‘the Big Orange One’. Deaths left and right, societies under lockdown and semi lockdown (by the way, COVID cases and deaths are greatly increasing at this very moment as a result), burning cities and hoards of scary protests, an economy that is in a state of turmoil, along with much, much more and all else is not the main thing. Trump sits in his playground sandbox and wondering, as did the cartoon character ‘Baby Huey’ (the huge clumsy duckling baby) that was infamous for unknowingly destroying things in his wake, “Why doesn’t anyone want to play with me?” Oblivion is the only explanation. It just doesn’t register in that weird head of his that when you go after everyone and everything that opposes you tacitly or in a major way, you’ll gain nothing good and acquire things that are not wanted nor needed. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate! That is the story of Donald J Trump. Think back to when he proclaimed ‘absolute power’. It is the equivalent of dictators that stated ‘total war’. What did that ever get anyone in history? Nothing good and everything bad, which consistent results have thus proven over and over again. The last resort…
Lash out! A thousand and more lashes to those that he either didn’t trust or conform to his narrow and dangerous way of thinking and doing. Lash out! Against all opponents for they are truly enemies, not friends. Lash out! To those that defy his self perceived authority and actions of the same. Lash out! Make critics pay big time and make sure that the media is making him look as good as possible, which is by the way, a very big tall order indeed. Lash out! Towards professionals at all levels that do actually know and do more than he will ever or has, but that do not play his games to his personal satisfaction. Lash out! To protesters that he has labeled ‘lowlifes’. ‘scumbags’ and has given strong directives to ‘dominate’ these people. Lash out! At the Pentagon and those in the military that not only deeply question Trump’s wanton for a military dictatorship, but also directly oppose the man for they know the implications of the proposed actions he wants (under section 501: Marshal Law). Lash out! At those that just are not on his side or have different views and ideas. Twitter and all else provide the vehicles and tool necessary for him to do so with stamina. Even Twitter is having issues with him…lash out, once again! He is shooting rounds off in all directions with a machine gun (metaphorically speaking) for there are too many enemies. There is nothing else for the man. Trump has exhausted all options that he had up until this point in time. In his quest for the ‘Holy Grail’, the acquisition has been the inheritance of the ‘Holy Fail’. What has he done that has really served anyone any benefit? Outside of the stimulus check (with his self induced ‘signature’ on them) and trying to deal with the COVID mess and all else on some level, there is nothing out there that he can proclaim victory for or over, both. He never felt that his ‘gravy train’ would fail him and that resources would always be plenty. Apparently, Trump was wrong. What goes around comes around. He has threatened a great many, so it is very surprising that he does not see their responding in kind could or should ever happen. The man wears effective blinders and his vision only allows what he wants, nothing more than that.
It is said that animals bite at their own wounds and lash out. That is Donald Trump. He provoked way too much, has gotten bitten from various sources and now counters with his personal egotistical candor, which is pretty much all the man has remaining. Again, projection is the art of blaming everything else for the fact that too much is wrong. Don’t blame oneself, blame everyone else for it must truly be their fault collectively that things didn’t work out as planned. We must give him credit for one thing…the man is definitely a fighter indeed. Rather than cast a shadow of doubt on his dealings, Trump goes after all those around him in the world. He has made fun of the handicapped, dissed veterans, made clear that minorities and other ‘mud people’ don’t count, alienated us from the rest of the world, marched towards what he wants and not what the nation and the world really needs, put his mark on everything that he could, placed incompetent people in positions of power since they are akin to him (he likes those that like him and not much else), along with so much more that draws little more from his outside of criticism no matter how ridiculous or unwarranted, and expects people to like it! Wow! We have never ever had a president like this one. He has broken the mold and even so-called ‘bad leaders’ from the past can now rest. Trump broke apart records in the department of jacking things up to an incredible degree and making absolutely sure that faith no longer exists regarding him and those minions working on his behalf, his loyalists. I have respect for the latter mentioned for at least they take sides, Trump just takes photo ops (after tear gassing secured that one for him). Ugh! When he goes on a rampage again for whatever reason and towards whomever he does it too, I urge the man to look at himself in the mirror. If there was anyone that should be self criticized and lashed out against, it is…