The Birther crap. The Mexican drug-bringing criminal rapists slander. The “thousands and thousands” of 9/11 celebrating Muslims slander. The re-tweets of hateful anti-nonwhite, anti-Semitic ‘fake news’ falsehoods. The disparagement of military service persons who were captured. His attacks on Hispanic judges, Gold Star families and the Pope. His stupid, lying, vicious personal attacks on just about anyone who isn’t in his basket of deplorables. The incitement of violence at his rallies. His disgusting boast that he could get away with sexually molesting women because he was famous. The 22 women who alleged that he did exactly what he bragged about. His suggestion that gun rights people should take matters into their own hands because the election was rigged. His penchant for making outrageous, incendiary accusations without a shred of evidence. His stupefying ignorance and moronic comments.
The sheer pace and volume of his blatantly false statements and repetition of right-wing fake news. His nauseating narcissism. His insulting treatment of our allies and praise of murderous dictators. His despicable reaction to the Charlottesville riots.
(He went on and on about the “very violent” anti-racist protesters while ignoring the heinous car attack by a neo-Nazi/white supremacist who brutally murdered a beautiful soul named Heather Heyer and injured 35 including 5 critically [these people were peacefully protesting the racist rally]).
He also failed to mention the brutal beat down — by several men with clubs — of a solitary black man or any specific act of violence by any of the alt-righters — even though he was full of animated details of anti-racist attacks which he continued to bring up at his rallies)
(He went on and on about the “very violent” anti-racist protesters while ignoring the heinous car attack by a neo-Nazi/white supremacist who brutally murdered a beautiful soul named Heather Heyer and injured 35 including 5 critically [these people were peacefully protesting the racist rally]).
He also failed to mention the brutal beat down — by several men with clubs — of a solitary black man or any specific act of violence by any of the alt-righters — even though he was full of animated details of anti-racist attacks which he continued to bring up at his rallies)
His attacks on our institutions, our Constitution and the investigations and investigators of his probable wrongdoing. His tax related crimes. Campaign finance crimes. His anti-Christian treatment of refugees seeking asylum.
(The defender of ‘the family values party’ prying children and infants from their mother’s arms)
His fomenting of racial animus. His open and continued aid and comfort to white racists. His long, ongoing and relentless attacks on the press.
He calls them “Fake News” while almost never giving a single example of such “Fake News”. (The few examples I’ve heard him give were relatively trivial and offered no proof other than his say so.) He called them “The Enemy of the People” and described them in such a menacing tone that it made many of us think that one of his deranged supporters might one day attempt an act of extreme violence against them. He did the same thing with non-white people trying to immigrate into the country.
(The defender of ‘the family values party’ prying children and infants from their mother’s arms)
His fomenting of racial animus. His open and continued aid and comfort to white racists. His long, ongoing and relentless attacks on the press.
He calls them “Fake News” while almost never giving a single example of such “Fake News”. (The few examples I’ve heard him give were relatively trivial and offered no proof other than his say so.) He called them “The Enemy of the People” and described them in such a menacing tone that it made many of us think that one of his deranged supporters might one day attempt an act of extreme violence against them. He did the same thing with non-white people trying to immigrate into the country.
At a rally, he praised a Republicon congressman for body slamming a journalist. He then mimicked the violent act as the crowd of deplorables cheered and laughed in approval. Similarly, before a cheering, laughing crowd, he mocked the woman who alleged a sexual assault by the Justice nominee. He added injury to insult as he made a series of false statements attributed to her.
There seems to be nothing that this low life — and his basket of deplorables — love more than punching down on the weakest and most vulnerable and reveling in the cruelty of it. He has mocked and mimicked and blatantly lied about a physically disabled reporter. He has ordered troops to the border to confront a “caravan” of impoverished migrants walking the entire length of Mexico, seeking asylum, and conjured up an image of dangerous criminals eager to infiltrate your neighborhood in order to rape and murder you. He has given orders for the troops to use maximum (lethal) force against any rock throwers.
What a demagogic scumbag.
There seems to be nothing that this low life — and his basket of deplorables — love more than punching down on the weakest and most vulnerable and reveling in the cruelty of it. He has mocked and mimicked and blatantly lied about a physically disabled reporter. He has ordered troops to the border to confront a “caravan” of impoverished migrants walking the entire length of Mexico, seeking asylum, and conjured up an image of dangerous criminals eager to infiltrate your neighborhood in order to rape and murder you. He has given orders for the troops to use maximum (lethal) force against any rock throwers.
What a demagogic scumbag.
The above, exhausting reminder of Trump’s insults, outrages and offenses are just the ones that came off the top of my head. I’m sure there are at least as many that I’ve forgotten. Like, for instance, his habit of sizing up very young girls then imagining himself “dating” them in a few years. Or the extremely disturbing way he has talked about his own daughter. Yuk. This pussy grabber is a moral degenerate of the first order. Oh, yeah, then there’s the numerous reports of people in his own administration calling him an “idiot,” “moron,” “dope,” “child-like” or “fucking moron,” proving that appearing like an imbecile in public isn’t just an act.
Somewhere early along this timeline of disgusting acts, Trump came to the conclusion that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”
Even though he has progressively stooped to one new low after another, he has yet to “shoot somebody”. But now, after years of increasingly more vicious and relentless rhetoric, he has gotten other people to do it for him. We have the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting. The Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. And, although a gun wasn’t used, the recent mail bombing attempts.
Trump and his deplorables deny any connection whatsoever between these acts of violence and Trump’s daily doses of incendiary rhetoric, which he has been poisoning the country with for years. When confronted with the possibility of a connection, Trump did what he does best and most often: he falsely accused someone else of something he is precisely guilty of.
The son-of-a-bitch blamed the press. I wrote about this tactic — one of his favorites — in a blog post last year:
The son-of-a-bitch blamed the press. I wrote about this tactic — one of his favorites — in a blog post last year:
So, the press is to blame. How does this logic work? You see, as Trump tells the country on a near daily basis, the media is “fake news,” “absolute scum,” “disgusting,” “very dishonest,” and of course “the enemy of the people.” Listen to the montage in this video clip for some more choice words from the Hatemonger-in-Chief:
You see, these “lying, disgusting people” make up “fake news” stories about him and this angers people. And what else is a Trump supporter supposed to do when he gets angry, other than commit acts of violence? Trump has used this logic before when he tried to defend his supporters’ violent behavior at his rallies during the campaign, only that time he blamed Obama.
Interestingly, this logic actually works if you apply it to the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting. That’s when a Bernie Sanders supporter targeted Republicans at a baseball game and injured four people. Now, we all know that Bernie rails against the wealthy who don’t pay their “fair share of taxes”, but if you want to argue that that rhetoric is what triggered the gunman, then you’d only be damning Trump even more for his rhetoric because it’s much, much, much, much, much, much worse than Bernie’s (see the litany above).
And, indeed, it was Trump’s rhetoric that set this guy off. He wrote angry letters to newspapers and made angry calls to his Congressman complaining about Trump. And as the above partial litany of Trump’s offenses shows, any decent person would be outraged by them. But no decent person would resort to violence. Unfortunately, the shooter was not a decent person and he used violence to deal with his anger. By Trump's own logic, Trump is to blame. He's the one who incited the shooter’s violence.
What about the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the recent mail bombing attempts? Who’s to blame? Trump says it’s the “enemy of the people”, the “fake news” media. Others say it’s the angry Democrat mob. It’s “low IQ” Maxine Waters. “Lock her up” Hillary. The Antifa funding globalist George Soros. Eric “kick ‘em” Holder (they leave out this part: “I don’t mean we do anything inappropriate. We don’t do anything illegal”)
It’s the shooters and the shooters alone. Anyone but Trump.
It’s the shooters and the shooters alone. Anyone but Trump.
I say society’s to blame. Anyone who engages in attacks or criticisms that are unfair, untrue or hyperbolic deserves some of the blame because these promote responses that usually escalate the anger, exaggerations and falsehoods. We all do this.
But there is nothing wrong with strong, harsh criticism — as long as it’s honest, accurate, based on a fair assessment of the facts and commensurate with the offense. When warranted, harsh criticism is “a good thing not a bad thing.” (As Trump has said in regard to better relations with Russia [one of the few things I’m in agreement with Trump]).
Mischaracterization, demonization, misstating the facts, purposeful lying — this stuff is poison. It is uncivilized. Uncivilized behavior is destructive, dangerous and may lead to our doom. It is what people like Abraham Lincoln and Albert Einstein warned against.
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Lincoln
“We shall require a substantially new way of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Einstein
I said we all deserve some blame because we all engage in this uncivilized behavior. But some of us are worse than others. They deserve more of the blame. Others are much worse. They deserve much more of the blame. Others are much, much worse. They deserve even more of the blame.
I have a question. Is there someone you can think of that is much, much, much worse? Is there someone who mischaracterizes, demonizes, misstates facts and lies purposely on a level that is much, much, much worse than anyone else? Someone who has a platform like no one else in the world and who commits these atrocious acts on a daily basis?
Answer: The Hatemonger-in-Chief. He deserves the most blame — by far — for the hate crimes mentioned in this post. He is toxic and he is tearing this country apart. If things get worse he could be leading us into a civil war. The most extreme of his supporters — heavily armed extremists — have been dreaming and talking about this moment for years.
Trump doesn’t just add more, by far, than any other person or persons to the toxic atmosphere in the country. He has specifically vilified the victims that were the targets in the three incidents mentioned above (the Capital Gazette newspaper shooting, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the recent mail bombing attempts [Trump doesn’t vilify Jews directly but I will explain his role in the synagogue shooting in my next post])
This is why there needs to be a demand that the Hatemonger-in-Chief resign. Trump knows how to harness anger and hatred better than anyone since Adolph Hitler (my opinion).
I am against hatred. It is a dangerous, toxic, uncivilized emotion. But anger, when justified, is something I believe should be harnessed to do good.
As we can see, Trump is getting away with his responsibility in these recent murders. He didn’t even miss a beat in continuing to attack the very same victims who were attacked!
Don’t let him get away with murder! If there is a demand for him to resign we can use it to motivate our side the way he uses “lock her up” or “build the wall” or “CNN sucks”. We should hold rallies where we recite his offenses and chant “Trump — resign! Trump — resign! Trump — resign!”
I am against hatred. It is a dangerous, toxic, uncivilized emotion. But anger, when justified, is something I believe should be harnessed to do good.
As we can see, Trump is getting away with his responsibility in these recent murders. He didn’t even miss a beat in continuing to attack the very same victims who were attacked!
Don’t let him get away with murder! If there is a demand for him to resign we can use it to motivate our side the way he uses “lock her up” or “build the wall” or “CNN sucks”. We should hold rallies where we recite his offenses and chant “Trump — resign! Trump — resign! Trump — resign!”
If I get a response to this post, I will start a petition demanding the resignation of the Hatemonger-in-Chief.
In my next post I will present the evidence to make the case that Trump is largely responsible for the recent atrocities.
