I hadn’t intended to devote my valuable space in The Voice to Trumpty Dumpty, because I’m very susceptible to nausea followed by projectile vomiting. But with the week of Jimmy Kimmel drama, we learned that if we band together we can get the Orange Bully to lose. Too bad that major institutions such as museums, libraries, law firms, corporations, all shudder and cave in at the first sign of any threats from Trump.
But in just about a week after Kimmel was cancelled by Disney, ABC and its affiliates after threats by Trump, Disney lost billions (11 was the estimate). Surprise! Disney, Sinclair, and Nexstar canceled their boycotts, Jimmy was back on the air in all outlets and Trump was left sniveling and throwing temper tantrums because he didn’t get his way. It seemed that nothing had changed except for the fact that Kimmel’s ratings have shot up and America has learned that Trump can be defeated if we all join hands and sing Jewish basketball hymns.
Did you hear Trump trying to pronounce “acetaminophen” last week? The problem is that he who masquerades as a human-type person should probably learn to read words before attempting to pronounce them, especially when he’s trying to ban the product to which the words are connected. I never realized, and you probably didn’t either until Trump said it, that “300 million Americans have died from drugs.” Really? All you MAGA’s out there probably knew that, but I’m skeptical because I’ve noticed Walmarts are still fairly crowded. Most of the customers must be zombies; 300 million dead doesn’t leave a lot of live shoppers at the self-check outs. I should have suspected the figure was correct, though, when the eyeball of the woman ahead of me dropped out in the bagging area.
Have you seen the ICE recruiting commercials running on the tube? Now there’s a great opportunity for some young future storm troopers. It states as a recruit you can help catch drug lords, murders, gang members, parking meter violators, etc.; generally the worst of the worst. Just the other day my wife’s dental hygienist was stopped and hassled by ICE, ostensibly because she looked like a murderous, drug smuggling gang member in her white outfit. She’s a citizen and it shook her up because for no reason other than being Latino. She could have been dragged into a detention center and held for hours or even days and then released, still with no reason given for her apprehension or detention. She said all her young friends are very nervous about the possibility. How about that lady taco vendor dragged away from a Home Depot in Chicago? ICE agents must have suspected she was smuggling drugs in her salsa when they thought they saw a gang symbol on one of her tortillas. You job seekers better turn in your applications if you hope to be a well-respected ICE hero.
One last comment on Donny. This past week I almost spit out a mouthful of beer when I heard him say that James Comey lied and he should be punished for it. This coming from a habitual liar whose total lie count from his first run as president and this current one totals around 36,000 and has probably passed that number by the time you put this page in the bottom of your bird’s cage. Comey’s been indicted, but he should make out okay because other courts have already discovered that there isn’t enough evidence to prosecute him. There is enough evidence to convict Trump’s border czar Tom Homan on video accepting a $50,000 bribe, but Pam Bondi dropped the case.
Just another day in the moral decay of Trump World.
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