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“When you are a Star they let you do it.”
Those are the words of sick mind. Those are the words of a serial abuser.
Those are the words of someone — who still thinks — he is Above the Law.
Someone who is too famous, too connected, too rich — to EVER be held accountable for his abusive actions …
Perhaps now, in light of the impending impeachment proceedings, is an apt moment to reflect upon the mindset of an abuser. What does it mean when a man who believes “when you are a star they let you do it” becomes President? Sexual assault is, at its core, an abuse of power. Only a person full of entitlement and lecherous self-interest and devoid of morality preys on others in such a manner. Only someone who views women as vessels from which something gratifying can be gained, whatever the cost to their humanity. Someone who believes that some people’s lives matter less than others.
Trump’s unaccountable worldview towards women, carries over to so many other careless, callous victimization decisions he’s has made while occupying the office:
Separate kids from their parents, and pack them in jail-cells without due process. Check!
Look the other way, while your Royalty business associate, has a US Journalist killed. Check!
Abandon our Middle East ally the Kurds, on the word another business associate. Check!
Pressure another ally of the West Ukraine, in their fight against Russian aggression. Check!
Repeat Russian disinformation, and blame that ally for Russia’s 2016 intrusions. Check!
On the world stage, repeatedly take the word of Putin, over his own Intel agencies. Check!
These are but a few of the ongoing Abuses of Power — that Donald Trump obviously thought he could get away with. Why? Well simply put, because his base lets him:
Trump’s backers either refuse to believe the allegations against him — which he has always denied — or think they don’t matter. They didn’t blink, for instance, when Trump said after Carroll’s allegation that “people should pay dearly for such false accusations.” And his accusers have paid dearly in terms of their reputation and safety, haven’t they? These women have been smeared, sometimes by the President himself, and faced threats for daring to come forward. Carroll has said she sleeps with a loaded gun by her bedside; Trump, meanwhile, is guarded 24 hours a day by the Secret Service. It seems that the false notion that a President’s personal transgressions can be separated from his official work is prevailing. “Grab ‘em by the pussy” is tolerable to Trump supporters as long as Trump isn’t grabbing them, their wallets or otherwise violating their personhood. Because they haven’t been directly hurt by Trump, they just don’t seem to care.
The question is, WHY does his base let him “get away with” these serial abuses?
Is it because he is a rebel? Is it because his is “sticking it to the man”? {and women too}
Or is it because, in their worldview “Donald Trump is a Star — and that entitles him, to the lifestyle of the ‘Rich and Famous’ ... “
A lifestyle in some small way they can live vicariously through, by simply giving him an unquestioning adoring Pass.
Here’s a rude-wakening hint for them: Rubbing virtual-elbows with The Donald will never-ever Make them Rich. Not in a millions years.
It only makes them complicit in all his historic misdeeds; in Trump’s trashing of societal norms.
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Citations reference:
Time.com — Oct 30, 2019
by Amanda Carpenter is a CNN contributor and the author of Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us.
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If Donald Trump has an “original sin” that has prepared him, for his ongoing outrageous — deny everything — Abuses of Power, in his most famous celebrity role ever, as U.S. president — this is it:
Trump’s serial abuse of women — often while married — that he continues to deny, deny, deny to this day.
Because in Trump’s mind being “rich and famous” — and now all powerful — excuses him from all sin. From all accountability. From all judgment. Only he is allowed to judge others. Period, end of discussion. The Bully has spoken.
How Trump’s evangelic and nominally-religious base cannot see what an abomination of their beliefs this is, is beyond me. Trump said THIS in his own words. On tape. Far, far away from any “locker-room” … or drunken stupor:
“When you are a star they let you do it” {grab their personal private areas, against their will}
By giving him a pass, on this failed morality test — they are making a mockery of the value-system that they themselves “claim” to put above all else.
Trump views himself as ‘being without sin’.
And yet his followers fail to hurl the ‘first questioning word’ towards him, as he forever tarnishes their morality, and their ‘family values’ Republican party, with his reckless abandon. There will be no “prodigal son” moment in the Donald’s story-line. The “chosen one” is much too prideful for that.
There will however be an era — Beyond Trump …
One in which his “band of cheering hypocrites” will not have a leg left to stand on.
That day, cannot happen soon enough. As our fragile democracy utterly depends on it (with Shutdown II lurking on the Trump horizon).
The highest office in land demands a person of utmost moral integrity — not the person with the least. The highest office in land demands someone with a conscience, and a personal north-star to guide them.
Trump’s north-star has been, and always will be, “fame and fortune” … and now we can add “unchecked power” to Trump’s list of {cough} ‘guiding lights’.
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PS. Here is another morality test, that Trump has also FAILED, in an epic way:
The US president said his life would be easier if he had not mounted a trade war with China but went on to say ‘I am the chosen one’ to take on Beijing.
www.theguardian.com — Aug 22, 2019
We used to ask for a sanity-check for those making such claims.
Nowadays, Trump’s base simply nods in agreement: “Well he did win the Election afterall, it must be God’s will.”
Never considering for a minute, that in reality, it might have been Putin’s.
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