By David Glenn Cox
When I was a kid back in the halcyon analog stone age. I had a gyroscope, an ancient toy even for those ancient times. And once getting it spinning it became rigidly straight and unmoving. Then as the revolutions began to slow, the top would begin almost imperceptibly to wobble. The axis began to wobble, growing in ever widening circles, before eventually falling over.
Such is the case of Donald Trump. All the signs are there, the slight wobble. The desperate need for attention to say anything to anybody. If you elect me, I’ll get some journalist you’ve never heard of and wouldn’t read anyway released from jail in Russia. Cause Putin, he kind of likes me. Yes Gomer, it’s true. He likes you! Putin likes everyone he can easily manipulate.
Whether Putin would or wouldn’t is academic. Trump is pointlessly bragging about something on the second or third tier of news stories. Making claims which are impossible to verify. And even if they could be verified, look unflattering towards the former President. Not because it makes him look compromised but because it makes him look as if he doesn’t understand, it makes him look compromised.
I sure did slicker ole Vladimir. I just traded him a box of old government papers for a hundred thousand dollars! I told him to come on back any time the turnip truck is in the neighborhood. I got a whole garage full of this stuff!
The Trumpman savant appearing almost retarded, but ever calculating. Playing “gig the pig” and saying whatever will make them howl the loudest. Trump owning the Libs for fun and profit. The media love it, “Shhh, he’s gonna say something!” Easy copy and an early night. And can you believe what Donald Trump said again tonight ladies and gentlemen? That’s the worst thing he’s said since…well, yesterday!
Trump’s claim that Joe Biden planned to have him whacked is pure paranoid wobble. What’s the furthest extremity a weak human mind can reach? It’s not unusual or surprising to think this way. Especially, if you yourself often think about whacking your opponents (wobble). Might not your opponents also be thinking the same way about you?
Trump says, we might have to look at outlawing contraceptives just twenty-four hours before saying he would never outlaw contraceptives. You know, if you say everything to everyone real fast nobody can actually tell when you’re really lying or not or what your true feelings are. The Trumpanzee’s hear what they want to hear, and Trump’s opponents hear what they don’t want to hear. Don’t listen to the volume, watch the wobble! Watch how far he grasps for the straws.
Having completed his wholesale destruction of the Republican Party, Donald Trump moves on to the Libertarians. (Credula Simpletonis) Where he is scheduled to appear at their national convention after Harrison Butker (Dumbasticus Footballus) abruptly cancelled. (Joke) For Trump this is perfect because whatever he says will likely piss them off royally. Already the Libertarian’s offer their welcome with “Trump go fuck yourself!” What the message lacks in articulation it more than makes up for with its heart felt sincerity.
Why is Trump speaking to this bunch of yahoos? At best on a good day, he doesn’t appeal to half of them. Winning votes by appealing to the enemy? Desperate for votes already and sweeping up the floor for any stragglers Trump can find. Trump’s speech is sure to ignite controversy as it is designed to. Maybe Trump will go off script and drop a bomb. “Trump plans to eliminate Thursdays and Mexico will be made to pay for it!”
It’s not what Trump says, it’s who he says it to. This is the blunderbuss shotgun approach of saying something outrageous every day to everyone you meet. Throw shit at a wall and something is bound to stick. Accuse Joe Biden of being a crook and of bribery. When that scheme doesn’t pan out, now he’s murderer! Joe Biden is too old to be president as orange grandpa falls asleep again in the courtroom. Drop the “Old” remarks. Now, it’s he’s coming to get me! He’s a murderer! He is! Really! He is! Wobble!
Like a mouse in front of a candle Trump throws a big shadow on the wall. The other day Trump’s Super Friends in a show of unity came visiting Donald Trump in his courtroom. Maybe a dozen proselytizers’ prostitutes and other Congressional ne’er do wells. Trust me! This was everyone. Trump wanted 100% attendance at the event and got it. Matt Gaetz and Tommy Tupperware and all of your other favorite seditious Super Friends.
Four Hundred and thirty-five members of the House and Trump only managed to attract about a dozen or so of them. I’m sure the rest wanted to be there or were there in spirit. Maybe they were afraid Joe Biden would try to kill them. More likely afraid their association with Donald Trump would kill them politically.
It was the artist Andy Warhol who famously said, “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.” He neglected to mention that just before your time is up there will be a noticeable wobble.
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” ― Ray Bradbury