Hiatus

It's so difficult keeping up with the changing positions and daily horseshit coming from Donald Trump's mouth.  I've taken a break from commenting because I know tomorrow he is going to blame the press for reporting his exact words so they can be misunderstood, then change his position, then send one of his inept campaign leaders and spokesman to double down on his original position. He could pay me millions and I wouldn't jeopardize my reputation, chance of future career or morals to try to schill for him. Good Republicans, however many may still exist, must be secretly praying to their gods to let Hillary be elected.

Sarcasm, ISIS, Obama, Clinton & Rednecks

A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man, the saying goes.
Trump doesn't get to redefine words like sarcasm.
Suggesting militant ignoramus supporters of the second amendment kill Secretary Clinton was "joking." Oh wait, then he said he meant they could organize to defeat her, AFTER he loses. Right. Gotcha!  NOW I understand!
Then outright saying President Obama was the founder of ISIS. And Secretary Clinton is their MVP?
Then, when conservative radio idiot (Jo, not Pence, that's another one) Hugh Hewitt tried to help him by redirecting the narrative and give him an out, Trump doubles down reiterating his claims?
But he tweeted this morning, oh, it's CNN's fault, because their ratings suck and they're too stupid to get sarcasm!
Let me define sarcasm.

sar·casm
ˈsärˌkazəm/
noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
"his voice, hardened by sarcasm, could not hide his resentment"
synonyms: derision, mockery, ridicule, scorn, sneering, scoffing

So by that definition, the only one for sarcasm, Trump was saying Obama and Clinton are NOT the founders of ISIS, thus defending them and their work?

I've literally already run out of ways of describing Donald Trump.
I'm not sure anyone so stupid and willfully ignorant has ever been so rich, if indeed he is rich.
But the saddest part, he represents a good portion of the American electorate. Represents in a way that whether he believes what he says or not, he mimics their scared, backwoods, blissful and unknowing ignorance.
There is no excuse anymore to be stupid.
The internet reaches even the deepest darkness of the Appalachian woods, the backwoods of the bayou where Carville said they had to pump in sunlight.
Being stupid is not a badge of honor.
These people are an honest to goodness embarrassment to the nation.
Their willingness to be stupid and then try to lay claim to the moniker "real America" makes me want to actually puke.
Sadly, my heritage lays with many of these types of people.
It's one thing to be Republican.
It's another to be a fucking dumbass with a chip on your shoulder because America isn't the grass bastion of whiteness it once was.
The irony to this all is these same states, the West Virginias, Kentuckys, Mississippis, and Alabamas, among other states, are the places where the greatest percentage won't work, get welfare and government handouts, and bitch about the government trying to take away their guns, while not caring a bit about anything but why their check and foodstamps are late and why they can't get Oxy as easy as they used to be able to.
Let Trump spend a weekend with them and their kinfolk in the trailer.
We'll see which one changes their mind quickest!

Trump Spending No Money on Ads

I noticed Trump has spent very little money, if any, on campaign ads so far.
Beware Democrats!
He thinks he'll save all his money and blitz the airwaves a week prior to the election so there won't be recovery time for Secretary Clinton.
That's how illusionists and carnival barkers operate- swoop in at the last second to redirect your attention, pulling off what appears to be the greatest trick since Houdini.
Don't let Trump's Cliffs Notes version of politics win this election.
I also suppose it's possible he has no money to spend, as donors are mostly smart enough to know he isn't about even helping the rich, only himself.

Trump Dropping Out?

I'm reading this morning there is some buzz of Trump dropping out. Funny, I wrote about that yesterday.
I'm not sure I actually want that.
Bringing a fresh new candidate in this late in the race might not give there people enough time to dislike his or her enough to cause them to lose.
Granted, it might be a long shot anyhow, considering they'd have to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and while I'm not certain, I believe some states might have had a deadline.
Additionally, however, I wonder if forcing him out would piss off the honest to God Trump supporters enough that they'd stay home or vote for Gary Johnson?
Time will tell.
One thing's for certain: twenty years of creating a party so far from the sentiments of a majority of Americans has potentially crushed the Republican party, perhaps for good.

Post-Convention Trumpery

The conventions are over and, as I expected, the shift has strongly come back in Secretary Clinton's favor. An average 7-9% lead over Trump.
However, other events are in my thoughts today.
I've said all along, I expect Trump to bow out of the race at some point, probably once he's finished ruining the Republican party, and certainly when he faces the inevitability of being a "loser," he'll do what he did in Atlantic City leave the race.
But he's setting up that and other things now.
Aside from his likely involvement in the email leaks and DNC email break-in, a high tech Watergate-like affair, he's already brought up the debates.
I know he doesn't want to debate the Secretary. She's too smart. Trite little answers, snarky comments and name calling would only go unchallenged by a Fox News sponsored debate. I've questioned since it was evident he was going to be the nominee about whether he would debate her.
First, the bipartisan and independent Commission on Presidential Debates released the dates for presidential debates last year. Likely before the NFL released their game dates. Not that that should have any bearing on it.
This past Sunday, speaking with George Stephanopolous, Trump stated he'd received a letter from the NFL complaining about the fact two debates aired the same time as football games.
The NFL has flatly denied they ever sent, or were aware or concerned with other programming, to Trump or anyone.
So he tried to shift to a false narrative by lying, again.
Then he brings in Bernie again, saying the Clinton camp is rigging the election with the debates, like they "rigged the primary to beat Bernie."
Again, the commission is independent and had no idea who the nominees would be when they created the dates.
Then Trump says he shouldn't do the debates because he's not getting paid and he can tell the American people his views and policies via Twitter and calling into TV shows.
Whoa.
First, before I go any further, allow me to say this: the NFL or ANY show on TV should NEVER be viewed as more important than the election of our president. Whether you watch them or not, saying the NFL is so important that choosing the leader of the greatest country in the world should take a backseat to it is both offensive and a spit on the graves of every American that ever died protecting our freedoms.
Second, you don't get to rewrite how we choose and elect our leaders Donald. Deciding what you will do, or release in the event of taxes, is crooked, deceptive, shady, and causation for defeat in itself. Just because you have a group of ignorant pissed off rednecks in the poorest states with the worst education does not give you unanimous consent.
You're asking the American people to trust you, without plan or policy, to lead this country. Yet you give them no reason to.
Your business dealings are fraudulent. You refuse to release tax returns, even though billionaires worth ten to thirty times more than you, Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg, as well as one worth about $4 billion, probably still more than you, call it hogwash.  They too have been audited. They've unnecessarily volunteered to release their tax returns just to get you to. That tells me they know the real you. Which is why you generally refuse to engage them in your ignorant comments (although attacking Bloomberg could easily be a serious problem for you, I foresee).
So my take is you won't debate.
You will pull out of the race toward October.
And if some miracle occurs and you win, you'll resign, probably claiming you're not making enough money, even though it's probably a bigger paycheck than you've ever regularly cashed.
You are a carnival huckster. A sham.
You truly don't deserve to live for all the damage you're doing to your party and the country.
Lastly, I imagine several more mock scandals will be created by your party in an effort to once again defame Secretary Clinton. Forty years they've been trying to create some supposed scandal.
They've always failed.
But come, let's see, shall we say week two of October, I foresee the GOP pulling some made up bullshit and trying to drag her numbers down so close to the election that they feel she can't recover.
But I truly think the American people are tired of wasted millions by public officials when it's evident they are only trying to create a scandal to bring down a good American in Secretary Clinton.