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Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Ken Burns, the Donald, and hairdressers



Honestly, I hesitate to say anything about Donald Trump because there's no end to the words that have been said and written. When he began his campaign, people considered it some kind of joke. But soon enough commentators and pundits from both political sides described what he'd done to the campaign as "taking the oxygen out of the room." He so dominated news cycles that no one else could breathe. At taking over the news, he was flat-out brilliant.

Nobody uses that phrase anymore, even though the man's orange doo is on every screen in the nation. He's still doing it, just continually ramping it up. 

His reaction to the horrible Pulse massacre in Orlando was textbook Trump. He started by extolling his own virtues, an arrogance his disciples love, for some strange reason. He told America that thousands of people were writing him to say he was a prophet on terrorism. "I don't care about being right," he said, a lie; and then he took on Obama, the Devil incarnate. 

The carnage in Orlando was Obama's fault because Obama won't call what's going on "Islamic terrorism." Presumably, if Obama would, suicide bombers would drop their vests. Now when he ascends the throne, he will use that phrase--and terrorism will cease. ISIS will lay down their arms and concede.

Donald Trump is not the only one to say those things. He knows he's got to go farther to create news, to take the oxygen out of the room. So he did. He's not stupid--you can believe him when he says that. He's a bigot and a bully. He's a chiseler. He's a liar and a fraud, but he's not dumb. He's a whole heckuva lot worse than dumb. 

So once again he suggested something that made him politically famous years ago. He repackaged his suggestion that Obama may have something to do with terrorism's madness and butchery. He cracked the window for those who already hate Obama, and their numbers are legion; he gave them leave to wonder whether or not the President of the United States sneaks out of the White House to meet with terrorists or else perhaps sneaks them in. Trump left open to suggestion that Omar Mateen and Barack Obama are teammates--after all, they're both Muslims.

All of that is pure idiocy and utterly reprehensible. What it strengthens is paranoia and hate. But he's the master at dealing out fear. 

The scary thing is not that people don't call him out for his evil--they do. Thousands do. The scary thing is that people like Paul Ryan let him ply his horrifying trade. The scary thing is that when people like filmmaker Ken Burns say, as he did in a commencement speech at Stanford, that Trump is “a person who easily lies" and "who creates an environment where the truth doesn’t seem to matter," people--thousands of them, millions, don't listen. Trump, Burns said, "has never demonstrated any interest in anyone or anything but himself and his own enrichment.”

Ken Burns is just a pinko leftie, I guess.  

Burns called the Republican candidate for President “an infantile, bullying man, who depending on his mood is willing to discard old and established alliances, treaties and long-standing relationships." And then he said, “This is not a liberal or conservative issue--this is an American issue.”

What's really scary is that upwards of forty per cent of the American public believe Trump. Ken Burns is just another liberal demonizer. Instead, they believe Donald Trump. The really, really scary part of all of this is not that nothing musses the man's hair, but that his loyalist millions are willing hairdressers.

That's what scares me.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sad thing is that Ken Burns could have just as well been speaking about Barry Obama or Hillary Clinton...

For example:writing for The Washington Times, Donald Lambro made the following point: “This is a president who has an exalted view of himself, and he frequently reminds Americans of how truly great he sees himself. He’s fond of the pronoun ‘I’ when describing his exploits and isn’t shy about comparing himself to our greatest presidents.” In a 60 Minutes interview, the president said: “I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president....

Were you able to keep your insurance?

Anonymous said...

Thank you for your concern Anonymous, I had no change in my insurance so far. Being a Viet Nam era veteran has its benefits. I suspect that in order to keep the next generation willing to go to war for Israel, there can not be too many distitute veterans in the hood.
My family has been paying the penalty for not buying insurance. Seems like anti-social insecuity.
I also hesitate to say anything about the Donald. I do collect definitions. I found a new one for democracy. Democracy is government by organized criminals. Alpha male Donald seems to have less crime on his hands then the others.
thanks,
Jerry

Anonymous said...

So far???

Since you are a vet you might as well head over to the nearest VA Hospital... get in line and hope you do not expire before you see a doctor... I too am a vet and hate having to write this, but it is the TRUTH!

Anonymous said...

thanks for responding to my comment.

I get picked up by the local vet's van and driven to the vets hospital. So far, I been fought over by career women who would never be seen with me in public.

I am suspicious of all this attention. I asked one of my white women m.d.s if she had read Solz's Cancer Ward. She had never heard of it.

If I refuse the flu vacine I have heard that will be the end of all this attention.

A young man in the local church got shipped to Kandor. The piont I was trying to make is that the fuss over veterans is to keep our Jewish overlords happy. Try checking wikipedia greatest misses for an eye opener.

www.dcdave.com


www.dcdave.com/article5/150806.htm


thanks,
Jerry

Anonymous said...

Jim, I wish you were as ruthless - on the other side -
with the "truth" you seem so clearly and cleverly
to divine about Trump. But that wouldn't be so cool,
would it...

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