There is something wrong, and deeply un-American, about an electorate numbering in the millions that is planning to vote for draft-dodging, racist, insulting and serial-lying former reality-TV star Donald Trump this November. As the months go by and his inexplicable ascension to GOP presidential nominee rolled out, the surrealistic nature of this year’s Republican campaign gets wilder and stranger with each and every one of Trump’s actions and quotes. His flock has been hypnotized by his daily onslaught of juvenile tweets, total lack of knowledge and conviction about national and international affairs, and his continuous outright lies about everyone from Hillary Clinton to Khizr and Ghazala Khan. The sheer staggering number of what should all be Oval Office-disqualifying actions has seemingly made Trump immune to whatever tomorrow’s ugly surprise from him will be.
A short and very-incomplete recap for anyone who may’ve been off-planet over the past year :
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Trump’s laughable “Wall” yakking, which his adherents actually believe to be a workable idea. In reality, there will be no 1900-mile wall built between the US and Mexico, and “President” Trump couldn’t legally force our southern neighbor to finance it anyway. Period. As Mexican president’s spokesman Eduardo Sanchez said last year,
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“The Donald” has made himself into an unfunny comedian by denigrating many members of his own party, from presidential candidates he sparred with during the primaries (Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio), to war hero John McCain, House Speaker Paul Ryan, Fox “NEWS”’s Megyn Kelly, et al. With all his 8th-grade-level, nickname-heavy diatribes (LITTLE Marco Rubio, LOW-ENERGY Jeb Bush, etc.), he spent the primaries destroying his own fractured party from the inside out, making him a scorched-earth traitor to the very people he implores for both money and votes when he ISN’T haranguing them.And most of these Republicans from Paul Ryan to John McCain incredibly are still endorsing him, calling their own sensibilities into question.
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Trump broke a federal campaign spending law in June by sending email mass-mailings overseas to mostly conservative-leaning officials and citizens in England, Scotland and the rest of Europe soliciting donor dollars for his presidential campaign. In case you didn’t find your copy in your In-Box, here’s the first one : “We’ve set another Trump-sized goal to raise another $10 million by Thursday at midnight. Please chip in what you can to help make Donald J. Trump the next President of the United States.” Fortunately most of the bemused recipients have ignored the illegal online requests, and despite the Federal Election Commission ordering him to stop, the financial overtures are ongoing. This is “Making America Great Again”?
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Trump can thank US taxpayers for rescuing him four times from corporate bankruptcy to the total tune of nearly $5 billion during his long and checkered career as an investor and businessman. These bailouts ranged from failed casinos to his notorious Trump University scam with all their attendant lawsuits, bewildered students and investors, and ruined lives. Imagine if you or I ran our household/business finances the way Trump has over his entire career, and how much federal aid we could all hope for if we did?
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The current contretemps between Trump and the aforementioned Khan couple who lost their Army captain son Humayun 12 years ago in the Iraq War is beneath contempt. It remains to be seen if finally a crack or two may be appearing in his seemingly-invulnerable persona, as Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers have improved dramatically in the past week. Only a person totally lacking in both empathy and decency could possibly stand by and approve of the slander and ugly rhetoric from Trump towards these two, obviously due to their Muslim religion. This latest transgression should resonate with anyone who has ever lost a child, as well as anyone who cares about another human being who has.
Donald Trump has proven himself to be a hateful laws-and-people abuser. It’s obvious by now that most of his ardent fans consider this irrelevant, failing to hold him to the kind of standards that common sense would dictate anyone holding the most important job in the world should have to embody. These are the voters who will leave America a rudderless, antagonistic, hate-filled scarecrow of its present self if they get their way on November 8th. So to the 10%-15% of Bernie Sanders’ people who at this writing are STILL in the “Never Hillary” group, as well as any Democrat who is planning on exercising his right to NOT vote this election, it’ll be your faults if this depraved demagogue wins the presidency this fall.
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