This week I feel I have to rear up here and say a few words in defense of fellow The Voice columnist, Chas Coddington. Frequent The Voice contributor Bela “Wild Bill” Suhayda recently stuck his head up out of the MAGA mire to lambast Chas for his comments on disgraced loser Donald “Why Is Everybody Always Picking on Me” Trump. As I read through Wild Bill’s usual blather, the sentence three that caused my eyeballs to choke and stop in their tracks were, “Unlike your article, mine is factual.” Now I know that Chas performs very thorough research before he submits anything for publication (as I do!?), whereas Mr. Suhayda’s research is limited to what he gets from Truth Social and the Tips and Tricks printed in the yellow and black book, Fascism for Dummies. Right after stating his articles are factual, he goes on to say Trump had every right to take and keep our Nation’s Top Secret documents, then lie about it. There go Wild Bill’s facts right out the window.
Any of you regular The Voice readers probably realize by now that Wild Bill has been thoroughly gaslighted by Donny T. and is doing his best to gaslight readers by continually stating Trump did nothing wrong by snatching Top Secret materials containing national security secrets and sharing them with every yahoo on the street, including well-known national strategic planner Kid Rock, figuring that if he repeats it enough you’ll believe it. You can dump your “alternative facts” on the Chas and the rest of us all you want, Wild Bill, but it ain’t workin’.
How about this, Mr. Suhayda? British journalist Nate White wrote in the July 29 issue of the London Daily, his response to the question, “Why Do Some British People Not Like Donald Trump?” His observations are quite astute. I can’t list the whole article here, only some tidbits to digest. Google the article if you’re interested in reading all of it. Compared to White’s assessment of Trump, the Chas was downright complimentary:
“Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem…he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor, Mr. Barack Obama was generously blessed.
“Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever…his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.
“And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: 111111 bully…So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people.”
If the Brits are distressed, what about us? We have to live with the guy.
Mr. Suhayda, you can tell a lot about an individual by the type of person he or she admires, defends, emulates and holds in high esteem, say, a piece of work such as Trump, for instance. It appears to me that like attracts like, I guess.