Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The State of the... Something

It probably seems as if I've been quiet on the political front lately, but that would just be the blog. Here. It's not that I've wanted to be, I just haven't had time, lately, to construct political posts. They take a lot of work and research and, when everything changes as quickly as it has been, well before I could finish with whatever it was I was writing, it would no longer be exactly relevant.

But this is relevant and, barring Trump's (#fakepresident) resignation or assassination, isn't likely to change soon: We have an Abuser in the White House. A liar. A gaslighter. A destroyer. An anti-Christ (because he certainly is an anti-Christ no matter what you believe about the actual existence or relevance of "Christ" or whether there is or will ever be the Anti-Christ). Someone incapable of any good deed except by accident.

But let's get back to this abuser thing, which is something I've mentioned before, somewhere, but I'm not going to go back and look for it now. However, this current situation with the shutdown of the government over this fucking-wall-shit (which I'm just assuming is still going on, today, on the 29th, as I write this, last week, on the 23rd) is a perfect example of what an abuser in a relationship looks like. And, well, no matter whether you want to be or not, we are all in a relationship with this total piece of shit in the White House.

So, see, jump now to the 28th -- because I wasn't able to finish this piece on the 23rd as I'd intended -- and the shutdown is on hiatus because Trump (#fakepresident) wants to give his fucking speech so fucking bad that he turned the government back on so that he can give it. But not till February 5! LOL Because Nancy (whom he calls... wait for it... Nancy) has his number, and is treating him like the toddler he is.

And it's about fucking time, too, that someone stood up to that asshole. Because that's how you deal with a terrorist -- and he is a terrorist -- you don't negotiate. The same as with toddlers. You don't negotiate. And do you know why? Because they are fucking stupid little whiny kids, and you can't negotiate with stupid. You can only set the boundaries and hold firm to them. Any good parent will know what I'm talking about. Sure, the first time or two or three, there will be tantrums but, once the presidential-brat figures out that that wall is real, he'll quit throwing tantrums and just stay on his side. You just wait; if Nancy keeps dealing with diaper-boy this way, he'll start doing whatever she says pretty soon, because he'll know there's no point in pouting or pitching a fit.

But, anyway, back to this abuser stuff...

This whole thing where he shuts down the government over the wall was never over the wall; if he was concerned with the wall, he would have done this sooner. It was all about punishing the Democrats for taking over the House. He wanted to hurt someone over the devastating losses he suffered in November, so he took it out on the only people he could: government employees. And, of course, despite the fact that he said he would take all the responsibility for shutting down the government, as soon as he did it, he tried to gaslight everyone by trying to pin it on the Democrats. Classic Abuser behavior.

It reminds me of when I was a kid and my dad would ask me a question, I would answer, and he would yell at me, "Don't you talk back to me!" then smack me in the face and tell me how it was my fault for "talking back" when all I was doing was answering the question put to me.

So here we are, on a three-week hiatus of the government shutdown before we return to the new normal of the government being shutdown because the Toddler-in-Chief has Putin's arm up his ass and some Russian agent is wearing an ill-fitting McConnell skin-suit.

What's the State of the Union?
Not good, Sir. Not good.

5 comments:

  1. I agree with you and appreciate that you pointed out the whole shutdown thing was about punishing the democrats rather than building a wall. I should have caught onto that, but I do think you are right. What a scumbag he is.

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    1. Michael: I think "scumbag" is a step up from what he is. In fact, I don't think what he is has been classified yet.
      Him or McConnell; I can't decide which is worst.

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  2. I don't get how anyone doesn't see this. How they like this behavior. Well, I guess they just have no empathy. But we knew that to start, right?

    They say the brains of liberals vs. conservatives is different. Liberals are more caring about others. Conservatives are more fearful. I believe that was how it went. It's been a while since I read that article.

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    1. Liz: Yes, conservatives are fear-centric and liberals tend to have more empathy. Liberals also tend to be more intelligent. And conservatives tend to want to spend a whole lot more time on punishment.
      But this is going to turn into a whole other post if I don't stop...

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  3. The thing that gets me is how we ALL knew ALL of this before he was elected! And people didn't care! They so hate brown people that they've just decided that all the awful, problematic things about him aren't real because they want to punish liberals and POC and women. As terrible as he is, he wouldn't be a problem if people refused to tolerate his shit, but they not only do, they're happy about it! He's everything selfish and mean about this country and they like that they can finally express those parts of their belief and not feel bad about being a racist, sexist piece of shit.

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