8/11/20: The big news today: Former Vice President Joe Biden has selected
Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. No sooner was Harris tabbed than Trump
was out with his first insult.
He immediately tagged Sen. Harris as “nasty,” which is interesting,
if you ponder his words a moment. This is a man who cheated on his third wife
and current First Lady, so he could boink a porn star. This is the
Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief talking about someone else being nasty.
It can be revelatory to consider who is “nasty” in the eyes of
Trump and who is not. The president has never called any of his authoritarian
pals “nasty.” Putin’s not such a killer, if you think about it, Trump said. Putin’s
was “a leader far more than our president,” he said back
in 2016. Sure: Putin had critics thrown off fifth floor balconies. But, hey, was
Obama even born in America?
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AS FAR AS Biden’s running mate was concerned, Trump wanted his
loyal but fact-averse followers to be clear. Harris was a bad woman. Speaking
to reporters, the president said she was “extraordinarily nasty” in her questioning of Judge Brett M.
Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Kavanaugh? He wasn’t
“nasty,” even though he had been accused of attempting to rape a classmate in
high school. Yet his questioner was somehow nasty! She was “nasty to a level
that was just a horrible thing,” Trump said. Harris was “the meanest” and “the
most horrible” member of the committee pressing Kavanaugh to explain.
In fact, sounding a note of hypocritical concern, Trump said no one
was as mean to Biden, during the Democratic debates, as Harris. She was – lest
we miss his point – “very, very nasty.”
Here’s a simple list to
explain the Trumpian worldview:
NASTY:
Sen. Kamala Harris
Sec. of State Hillary Clinton
Megan Markle (Trump denies this one)
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Megan Markle. |
NOT NASTY:
Trump, his pussy-grabbing self
Vladimir Putin
Mohammed bin Salman
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Vladimir Putin, well-known killer. |
NASTY:
Democrats (“RUDE
and NASTY”)
Chris Wallace
(“nasty & obnoxious”)
Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, reporters
Juan Williams
(“always nasty and wrong”)
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Special Counsel Robert Mueller
Omarosa, after she turned
against him
NOT NASTY:
Omarosa, when hired as White House aide
Ghislaine Maxwell (Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged accomplice)
Judge Roy Moore, accused pedophile
Kim Jong-un
White supremacists
Alex Jones (says Sandy Hook was a hoax!)
Roger Stone (seven-time felon)
NASTY:
Mette Frederiksen, Danish Prime Minister
Elizabeth Warren
(a.k.a. “Pocahontas”)
Cher (“bad
plastic surgery and nasty”)
NOT NASTY:
Roger Ailes, sexually harassed multiple women
Bill O’Reilly, sexual harasser
Ted Nugent (told Obama to suck his gun)
Tom Price, Scott Pruitt,
Ryan Zinke, Carl Higbie, Carl Paladino, Marjorie Taylor Greene
and many more.
So, there you have it, a quick listing of people Trump considers
terrible, and others he has defended, hired, or hung around with in recent
years. Greene is anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic both. Price and Pruitt had to
resign from the cabinet after wasting millions in taxpayer dollars. Paladino
made racist comments about Michelle Obama, while Higbie suggested going down to
the border and using AR-15’s to do target practice on illegal immigrants.
Nasty?
In the eye of the beholder.
ADDENDUM
Red state politicians, and Republicans, generally, like to howl about socialism
and insist blue states don’t deserve to be bailed out when they run out of
money. Today, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said he really, really hoped the
feds would send his state some more dough, to pay the tab for increased
Medicaid outlays, and to afford the mandated $400 weekly unemployment aid.
That aid was ordered by President Trump. In other words: socialism,
mandated by Trump (the employed paying taxes to help the unemployed).
And increased spending on Medicaid (socialized medicine).
Speaking of socialism: This week it was revealed that Kodak dramatically increased spending on lobbying in the months leading up to the Trump
administration providing the photographic equipment maker with a $765 million loan.
This liberal blogger might approve of saving jobs at Kodak. Since this
liberal blogger has zero financial interests in Kodak, and neither do most of
you, it’s still a plain example of socialism.
(Kodak had spent only $5,000 on lobbying since the first three
months of 2019. Now, from April through June, they jacked it up to $870,000.)
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