I think this ‘event’ actually happens next Saturday. Maybe Kevin Spacey will show up and we’ll realize this was the just an extreme version of some House of Cards binge watching or just a really bad hangover. Doubtful. It is what it is and if nothing else we will discover if the crafters of the U.S. Constitution ever envisioned a canidate becoming a sitting U.S. president who’s one part Bernie Madoff, one part Larry Flynt, and one part Charlie Sheen.
Frank and Claire move over, you’ve become too boring to be watched or followed by serious followers of executive branch obsessive dysfunction. True, some will say if Hillary had prevailed there would have been plenty of storyline drama with Bill Clinton once again prowling the White House corridors in search of new intern talent, but even with Bill Clinton back and getting lap dances in rooms where Lincoln, Madison, and Washington once roamed, there would have at least been the perfunctory effort to somewhat shield all of us from all of it being shared on Twitter with a ‘She really sucks in bed’ tweet from the leader of the free world.
So here we are on the cusp of what this country has never experienced before, namely a Twitter bully with the keys to the nuclear codes with a revived Cold War between the United States and Russia lurking on the horizon. Imagine Donald Trump making the ultimate decisions during a Bay of Pigs like crisis and it doesn’t take all that much imagination to hear ‘Blow Them Up’ chants emanating from Donald Trump’s more ardent Twitter followers.
Maybe the ultimate nuclear decision to launch or not to launch will be decided by a Twitter poll of sorts from unemployed factory workers in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin acting out their ultimate frustrations. Don’t scoff, because in fact the Clintons garnered three million more votes than Caligula Lite, but in reality, those handful of voters in those three states decided the course of the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and in essence, the country as a whole unless there’s some shockingly surprising political behavior by some Republican senators when push comes to shove.
I find it odd there’s still all this clamor this week in regards to a new purported Trump revelation in regards to his character or more to the point his complete lack of character. I mean, at this point, even if there were a video showing Trump, Billy Bush, and Putin frolicking together in a Moscow brothel, what possible difference does it make at this point? Been there, seen that, and like Trump said himself, his Twitter groupie followers wouldn’t hold it against him if he shot Rosie O’Donnell in broad light in downtown Manhattan. More to the point, they’d be chanting, “Killed Her Dead.”
We are what we are now as an admitted nation of extreme dysfunction. What more need be written than the fact Billy Bush’s sex mentor garnered over 80% of the fundamentalist vote in the election…. and here’s the thing, not one conservative has mentioned in analysis of the election results–if Trump had been running against say Ronald Reagan, Bush 41, or even Teddy Roosevelt back from the grave, Trump still would have won because he is what we’ve become as a country and a culture.
So I’d give the Trump Russian porn video a rest and just admit America has fallen further from a character standpoint than even Frank and Claire thought possible, let alone our forefathers.