Tongue in Cheek Don: You Traitors Need to Get a Sense of Humor

That didn't take long did it? No it didn't, but then those of us who have followed the man for the last couple of years knew it was coming. Let's face it, you can write Don Trump a speech, but you can't make him stick to it and once he's off script God only knows what the crazy fucker will say.  

Yes, less than seven days after he delivered his first State of the Union Address, during which he asked lawmakers of all stripes to rise above party politics and act in unity, Brother Trump called members of  the duly elected opposition not only un-American, but treasonous.

Now that's some serious language coming from the President of the United States of America. Hell, not even  Dick Nixon went that far, at least not while he was sober. It makes you wonder what bridges the democrats blew up? What military secrets they gave away? Actually they did neither. Their high crime was not standing up and applauding after El Donald bragged he and he alone was responsible for the record low rates of unemployment among African-Americans and Hispanics.

Yesterday, in Blue Ash, Ohio Trump had this to say, "Even on positive news like that, really positive news like that, they were like death and un-American. Somebody said, 'treasonous.' I mean yeah, I guess, why not? Shall we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn't seem to love our country very much." The crowd roared its approval.

Today Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, R-NY only slightly tempered her approval of what Mr. Trump said. She described the democratic reaction to the State of the Union speech this way. "I would say it was un-American and they don't love our country. I don't know if I would go so far as treasonous."

No one asked Joe Wilson, R-SC. what he thought of the democrats less than enthusiastic response to Trump's specious claim. (Both numbers, despite El Presidente's braggadocio, had begun to improve dramatically during the Obama administration. The only truly honest claim, Trump can make about them is, so far, he hasn't screwed up the progress.) But, let's get back to Wilson. He is the tea party fire breather who not only didn't applaud Obama's 2009 speech to a joint session of congress, but during the middle of it yelled out twice, "You lie!"

Wilson apologized for his behavior, although the mea culpa came only after members of his own party called him things like, reprehensible. Despite that and other derogatory epithets, however, no one on either side of the aisle stooped to use the word treasonous while describing his boorishness. Hey--although it is hard to fathom, a scant nine years ago we were living in a different age.

So what was the reaction today from some of the democrats--you know the very people Donald Trump will need bi-partisan help from on more than a few issues?

Senator Jeff Merkley, D-OR tweeted, "Treasonous means betraying your country--like, say, if someone colluded with Russia to influence American elections. The freedom not to clap for ideas you disagree with is called the 1st Amendment."

Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, a disabled combat veteran, posted, "We don't live in a dictatorship, or a monarchy. I swore an oath--in the military and in the Senate--to preserve and protect the Constitution of the Untied States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap."

The White House response to the backlash was to send spokesperson, Hogan Gidley out to explain his boss had been, "speaking with tongue in cheek."

That's right, folks, when the President calls his political opponents, "un-American traitors," it is just a joke. You guys need to get a sense of humor for God's sake.

Well someone needs to tell cretins like Claudia Tenney and those vicious rubes in Blue Ash it was all just a part of The Big Orange Guy's stand up routine, because they sure took what he said as gospel. That is, as they say, self evident.

What's also self evident is Donald Trump and some GOP leaders are disturbingly comfortable with using terminology we normally associate with autocrats and out right despots. The Donald is increasingly prone to referring to himself by name in the third person. He has accused the press of being, "an enemy of the people." Now he is calling political opponents un-American and treasonous. This after it has been reported he quizzed FBI officials about their loyalty to him personally and who they voted for in 2016. And it doesn't stop in the west wing. The other day House Speaker, Paul Ryan spoke about the need to, "cleanse," the FBI. And all of it is set against the back drop of the administration's continuous warnings about the machinations of an amorphous, "deep state," which ruthlessly aims to bring down the Trump presidency.

Yeah, some joke.

Be careful, America. We're getting close to the abyss. And it isn't because of some immigrants trying to find a place where they can earn a living wage. No, it's all about people who want to use keeping them out of here as an excuse for something far darker than we've ever encountered before.



sic vita est


2-6-18