He has his Father's eyes.
As has been prophesied since ancient times, this, at last, is what the Cult of Both Sides Do It has done to us.
From ABC News (with emphasis added.)
'I think I’d take it': In exclusive interview, Trump says he would listen if foreigners offered dirt on opponentsIf I ever get five minutes with corporate media middle management I will ask them what the fuck did they think was going to happen when, for the sake preserving the illusion of Fake Balance, they created a political climate in which Republicans were conditioned over and over again for decades to expect that whatever crimes against democracy they committed, the entire pundit caste would automatically leap to deflect and dissipate the responsibility for their escalating depravity as long as they spoke the Magic "Both Sides Do It/Everybody Does It" Conjure Words?
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Trump disputed the idea that if a foreign government provided information on a political opponent, it would be considered interference in our election process.
"It's not an interference, they have information -- I think I'd take it," Trump said. "If I thought there was something wrong, I'd go maybe to the FBI -- if I thought there was something wrong. But when somebody comes up with oppo research, right, they come up with oppo research, 'oh let's call the FBI.' The FBI doesn't have enough agents to take care of it. When you go and talk, honestly, to congressman, they all do it, they always have, and that's the way it is. It's called oppo research."
How did they think this was going to end?
Then, of course, I would be escorted from the building because you are absolutely not allowed to ask questions like that of the lords and ladies of the media.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
4 comments:
Drifty,
I can totally see your point, and yet somehow when I heard Trump say that, I had the intuition that he's been using that "oh come on everybody does it" dodge since he was a little guy. I can remember going there in high school to try to dodge responsibility for throwing trash out the car window or other minor infractions, until somebody told me to grow the f up and taught me the categorical imperative. Which it's blatantly obvious that nobody ever got thru little Donnie's thick skull.
That's it, god damn it. Stamp his forehead with India ink and throw him on the reject pile forever.
Let him play his little games with the other inmates.
-Doug in Oakland
Yes, when trump decides to make himself president for life in 2020 the republicans will have fulfilled their dream. The light of Law and order has been dimmed and appears to be going out. The person who resides in the office of the president said he doesn't believe in the rule of law and the person pretending to be the attorney general of the United States is silent. The person residing as the head of the FBI is silent. The republican party remains silent. It is all said in the silence.
I hope in the demise of our species there is enough left of the planet for the rest of the species to be able to keep going. They have always been better care takers of this exceptional planet than we ever were.
Sure, I hold out some hope that the good people on this orb can do something to halt the authoritarian onslaught that appears to be coming but I'm deep in my depression don't hold out for much of anything.
I suppose this will put a little damper on the "both sides do" bullshit, eh, maybe? I doubt Vegas will even run odds on that one.
Do take note that I was raised by a narcissistic father and a depressed alcoholic mother, neither had much empathy. Just to say my scribble tends to run in the..., well you get the idea.
I have been loved and loved some wonderful people in my life, and always loved and enjoyed all the other creatures on this planet.
I do apologize for the tone of this hod-podge of negative scribble, but some days...
That picture of Dave B at the pulpit belongs in the dictionary to illustrate the word SANCTIMONY ~
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