President Trump is not absurd. What’s absurd is a spit-flinging socialist who’s older than granite. What’s absurd is a harridan with no qualifications and a rap sheet longer than John Gotti’s. Or an incompetent half-black preener with an inverse Midas touch’ who can turn everything he touches to feces.
One has to go back to the Roman Empire to find adequate parallels. The Romans dealt hard in their Caesar politics, with assassinations playing a large part in their “elections” of emperors.
Today the assassinations are a little less bloody, but no less devastating to the targets of those attacks. Once declared to be no longer “fit” to be a contender, the vanquished fall to the earth, never to rise above a level of obscurity again. But for those who play the game and rise to the top, almost always that person is a seriously flawed human being, and aptly summed up in Mark Anthony’s speech on the death of Caesar:
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interrèd with their bones.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a backwoods logsplitter, not a quiche
eating dandy. The GOPe would label someone like that not
“worthy”.
“President Trump is not absurd. What’s absurd is a spit-
flinging socialist who’s older than granite. What’s absurd
is a harridan with no qualifications and a rap sheet longer
than John Gotti’s. Or an incompetent half-black preener
with an inverse Midas touch who can turn everything he
touches to feces.” - IronJack wrote.
Extremely picturesque Speech and right on the spot.
All of the above are absurd. Trump is at least an American patriot, albeit in a crude, ugly American kind of way. He is also a businessman and therefore at least not philosophically hostile to free markets, although he has made his career as a favor-trading, politician-buying crony capitalist, and although he is the epitome of the kind of classless wealth that fuels every leftist stereotype of vulgar wealth. Is Trump preferable to Hillary, Bernie, or Obama? Yes. But we are in bottom feeding territory with any of them.