My button’s bigger and it works! Wow, looks like it’s
official; about half of America elected a grown man to lead the free world, who
has the emotional maturity of a 5-year-old. When I hear Rump spokespersons
defending his overtly childish behavior, it astounds me. I am deeply concerned,
as I’m sure many of my readers are, that this egotistical putz will soon spark
a nuclear war. The big news this week is that “reporter” Michael Wolff's hatchet job book entitled “Fire and Fury” has been released, proclaiming Donald Trump to
be a colossal moron. White House aids have apparently gone
on record to state that The Donald is a few spices short of a goulash; an impetuous, childish idiot. Regardless of the veracity of
the allegations – and Wolff must have known he was going to be a
lightning rod to libel charges - the saddest part about this book is Rump’s
reaction. He publicly denied that he is a moron, which is bad enough, but then he made a
quantum leap and declared himself a genius. To me this makes him look even more like a moron. I take everything out of Rump’s mouth (or fingertips) with a pound of salt, but he’d have been much wiser to discredit the
book’s facts. Forget Obama’s birth certificate, I think it’s time we had a
little conversation with Donald’s teachers. Start with the third grade. I
realize that the press is in an all-out war with the White House, and I’m no
champion of biased media. The truth lies somewhere deep in the miasma of spin and
innuendo. The fact is, Rump says stupid, untrue things every day, and he has finally succeeded in eradicating
whatever dangling particle of hope I had that the man really does in fact have both oars in the water. I gave him a year before throwing in
the towel, presuming that the swamp creatures would be gunning for the underdog, and that all his shenanigans were just a clever ruse.
Rump may be draining the swamp, but he’s filled it with raw sewage. I feel genuinely
unsafe, and evermore astounded by the damage this bozo has done to America. Dust off the
25th Amendment! Meanwhile the stock market is climbing to record
highs. What is wrong with this picture?!
The other day I heard someone say that 2017 was the
year everyone became offended by everything. We may have pegged the meter on
the politically correct side of the scale, but let’s face it, there was plenty about which
to be offended in 2017. I shook my head in disgust the other day as I watched the
11 O’clock News. There was a story about some internet blogger who got into
trouble with his fans over an insensitive video post. I shrugged off another story about a wannabe celebrity, until I heard that this guy makes millions
of dollars from sponsors who are drawn in by his legion of followers. He
performs stupid stunts, like faking his suicide through an apartment building
window, stunts you’d expect to see on one of those Jackass movies; and he has a
lot of followers. So, the kid with the stupid grin, who wears his baseball cap
backwards, is making millions video recording himself skateboarding into a brick
wall, and posting it on YouTube. He now lives in a house worth $6.5 Million and is making
more money than the average heart surgeon. What a wonderful message we are
sending to the next generation. Hard work and public service are to be eschewed in favor of stupid, sometimes desperate
attempts to attain celebrity, and to exhibit over-the-top bad behavior.
As we welcome the new year, hoping that Baby 2018 grows up to be a better person than than Baby 2017 (who never grew up) I repeat a quote from my favorite cartoon
possum (no, not Jeff Sessions), Pogo: “We have met the enemy and he is us!"
I’ll be back next week, if the world has not been reduced to ash.
- Written by Jamie Oppenheimer c 2018 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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