What Trump fans get wrong
There are truly none so blind as those who refuse to see blatant truths.
The proctological, cherry-picking alias Edward Zile blithely informs us that the “talking heads” on CNN and by extension the New York Times and Washington Post offer “unsubstantiated denunciations” (tripe) of one man. This cynical demonising of legitimate mainstream media has obviously dark historical precedents, and is thus a clear and present threat to democracy.
Their bete noire is Trump, of course. This is the man who, luxuriating in “alternative facts”, luckily presides over the usual and routinely expected spike in the US economy (a verifiable, historical trend) and that “for the first time” the US has become “energy self-sufficient”. No, it is not the first time at all.
The US was a net exporter of energy decades ago. So, such is Trump’s economic and political prowess, his approval rating is provably heading towards the flatline rather than moving in the other, preferred direction.
Thrown into this frankly (no pun intended) obscene mix are the 800,000 government workers pulled off their jobs due to Trump’s irrational hubris and infantile tantrumps (sic) after he flip-flopped on who was actually going to build his wall following mendacious campaign promises.
If we multiply that figure to factor in, say, a total of four in an average family, we have over 3 million Americans facing hardship and uncertainty for no other reason than to satisfy presidential stupidity, and who are resorting to using foodbanks to fill empty stomachs in the world’s richest country. One may only imagine “pay day” loan sharks circling at time of writing.
Let’s take a look from another approach. We are also informed that North Korea is, seemingly, denuclearising. Not true, as any respected and authoritative source will state. Kim, like Xi and Putin, is busy running rings around a callow, self-important “stable genius”. As for the “futility” of disengaging from the Middle East fault lines, all such fatuous nonsense will offer is a green light for an adventurous Russia to enlarge its military footprint in this notoriously volatile area.
Perhaps we may also wish to, as usual, contemplate the serial evacuation of adults from the White House wings as a damning indictment of Trump’s administration, and await the outcomes of Special Counsel Mueller’s investigations into alleged collusion between Americans and an adversarial foreign power. Here we stand or sit, with bated breath.
Dr Frank
