You knew when the Idiot went to California yesterday that it wasn't going to be pretty. Did he go to give comfort and aid to the thousands who have lost everything? Oh, c'mon. You know better than that.
Well, then, did he go to assess the damage so that the federal government could best target how to help Californians in their hour of dire need? Yeah, right.
Maybe he just wanted them to know that they're not alone in this bitter battle with the worst wildfires that have ever occurred. Oh, hell no.
He went as a photo op to showcase his complete disdain for climate change, and all the science that has been developed showing that it's getting worse at a rapid pace. He wanted a stage on which to show off his vast knowledge of, well, EVERY-FUCKING-THING.
After all, this is the man who knows more than the best and brightest generals about all things military and tactical. He said so. This is the man who knows more than....uh, well.....anybody about everything.
But, if nothing else, Donald J. Idiot has left me in complete awe.
Of what?
Of his universe class...which is waaay beyond mere 'world class'.....ARROGANCE. I am not sure what a person would have to do in order to beat him on this one. As one who follows history, I have seen some dictators who have displayed rather profound and astonishing styles and levels of arrogance. I mean if you really look into it, there have been lots of them. Some have been clowns, just like our Donny Boy, but in most cases they have been the kinds of clowns you would expect to see in horror films. Idi Amin is a good example...buffoonish in the extreme, but as deadly as a puff-adder. Mussolini is one that comes quickly to mind. He had this pose he'd do while he was waiting for the crowd to cheer during his speeches. He would put his head back, fold his arms across his chest and nod repeatedly....as if he was approving of the crowd's response. It was comical....but, hey, you wouldn't want to be a member of his retinue and try to point out how ridiculous he looked. He'd have you killed for that.
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| What do we need Google for? This idiot knows everything. |
Of course you have the Dutertes, the Saddam Husseins, the Libyan dictator Muhamar Ghaddafi, who was like a banty rooster and, like so many of his ilk, given to pretentious uniforms plastered with glittering medals. Aside: apparently, you should really beware the dictators with the bone-simple uniforms. Think: Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin, Hitler
What all of these sickos had in common was their willingness to use violence to get their way, and to maintain their power. Some big league dictators have set the bar very high in that regard. Stalin was a world-class despot with approximately 3.3 million murdered, in addition to twice that who died in a famine Stalin could have prevented but chose not to.
The undisputed world champion appears to be Adolf Hitler, coming in at over 11 million murdered and many millions more who died as a result of Hitler starting WWII. He was arrogant in the extreme and if you can bear to watch his filmed speeches you will see a master actor on his stage. After screaming a particular passage in a speech, he would often swipe his errant forelock back and nod as if to say, "Yeah, that was good, wasn't it?"
So, here comes Donny boy into this elite neighborhood of world class buffoons. Can he hold his own without having the advantage of killing off anybody who disagrees with him?
Oh, yes, he can. He has all that television experience to fall back on, and he's always been a kind of ham anyway. Howard Stern, the famous NYC shock-jock, had him on his radio program for many years, a sort of color character from among many in the world of New York high-rollers. Howard knew just how to manipulate Donny-boy so that he'd start bragging about himself....to be honest, it was mostly about his sexual prowess and how hard it was to find hot women who didn't have an STD. At one point, in a now famous moment, he compared his search for disease-free women to being in combat in Vietnam. Now....that is hubris, serious, world-class and superlative HUBRIS!!!
But, oh how he loved to go on about what a stud he was....past tense duly noted here, eh.
So, yesterday in California the Idiot was seated at a meeting of concerned officials and some of them were obviously well-informed and clear about the role climate change is playing in the dramatic increase of malevolent weather phenomena....not merely wild-fires, but drought, heat, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods. At this point, there is a vast amount of hard data that has been put together by climate researchers. These are not a bunch of kidders who make stuff up for personal gains....uh, sound familiar? It's not a subject that is still being examined to see if it's real; it's a subject that is being looked at to try and predict how bad it may get and whether it will even be so catastrophic that it may be a so-called 'event horizon'....a major turning point in human history that could be a point of no return. Many who are intimately familiar with climate change, are now calling it a 'climate crisis'.
And, here's Donny boy sitting there and telling them that scientists don' t know about climate, it's all a bunch of speculation and bull. He laughed at them. He told them he knows best, and pay attention because he knows it's actually going to get COOLER.
At times like this, one searches for the right words to express something that is beyond ridiculous, far beyond. Just saying the words brings a feeling of deep hopelessness to me. It's not that he's an idiot. There are plenty of idiots in the world. I meet one or more of them almost every time I drive. But, they are just stupid drivers whose worst offence is pulling out in front of oncoming traffic.... not malevolent power players. Donny boy is being identified by various experts on human behavior as the 'greatest threat to American security'. He's not merely dangerous, he is potentially off the scale and imminently LETHAL. Recall that he has almost completely UNFETTERED access to the nuclear button. And, we will never know how many Americans died who didn't have to but did because he backed away from the virus when he should have taken it head-on. For all of his braggadocio, he's a straight-up COWARD. But, from his perspective....it's the soldiers, sailors and marines who are lacking.
Right.
His combination of denseness--i.e. all the stuff he just doesn't get, whether intentionally or not--and his amazingly, beyond extreme arrogance...is DEADLY. This is not because he routinely sends his enemies to concentration camps, gulags and the like...or just orders them to be 'rubbed out' like his buddy Putin does. Oh no. It is because he is so self-absorbed and so vainglorious, and so utterly lacking compassion or anything even close to human caring, that he just doesn't concern himself with people suffering and/or dying.
His now well-known statement: "It is what it is." Sums it all up, eh.
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