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We owe it to America to deny Trump welcome(major Hurl Alert)
Sunday Times ^ | 20th August 2017 | Justine McCarthy

Posted on 08/20/2017 3:47:34 PM PDT by Ennis85

I admit, Donald Trump brings out the snob in me. But that doesn't make you about him. And it doesn't make him any less a vulger, inarticulate, sleazy, self-obsessed, lying, twitter boot boy. I don't believe, I am alone in wanting to hurl petty insults at his effeminate, circle making fingers and those glow-in-the-dark-teeth, not to mention the sulky puss on him. The deeply shallow have a way of bringing others down to their own superficial level of judging a book by its cover, saving them the trouble of ever actually reading it. How else do you engage with somebody who boasts he has never read a whole book, despite purporting to have written one?

America's president considers himself an arbiter extraordinaire of such trivia as a woman's looks and a man's anatomical measurements. Nothing will dissuade me that the most urgent reason he fired 6ft 8in James Comey as the DBI's director was that Trump couldn't bear to not be the tallest man in that room. When he declares Angelina Jolie isn't beautiful but statues celebrating slavery are, quelling the inner snob is quite the challenge. It isn't eased by Trump's repeated tweets revelling in the fantasies of killing journalists.

Yet, if there is to be any hope of getting rid of the creep-in-chief, Trump' critics have to resist snooty distain, because that is the last hostage available to his apologists. Sneering at Trump bolsters the PR fallacy that the billionaire, who has never had to depend on a bus timetable or a bean-on-toast budget, is seen as the antithesis of "Washington elites" and pontificating "liberals". You insult Trump, they say, and you're insulting everyone who voted for him. In the same breath, faux anti-establishmentarianism and inverted-liberals, bending over backwards to be tolerant, insist we must respect the presidency, even if the president doesn't. How did Trump's "birther" campaign against President Barack Obama square with respect for the office? When the office-holder treats the office as a Snow White style mirror for his vanity. It becomes difficult to distinguish one from the other.

Almost all the fears about a President Trump are coming true. He's building the Mexican wall. He's intent on banning Muslims from entering America. He has reneged on climate change undertakings. He has withdrawn funding for abortion services. He ogles other leaders' wives. He baited North Korea into a nuclear stand-off and is taunting Iran too. When he couldn't stop investigations into his links with Russia by sacking his appointed officials, he checked if he had the power to pardon himself. Instead of uniting the alienated peoples of his country, he has driven them further apart, especially in the past week. The thank-you he got from David Duke, a Holocaust-denying former "imperial wizard" of the Ku Klux Klan, crystallised on which side of the widening chasm the president stands. By equalling blaming white supremacists and those who oppose them for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, insinuated that Heather Heyer was partly responsible for her own murder when the human rights activist was run down by a car driven amok by a nazi-sympathiser. Trump's pathetic attempt to make amends subsequently was to tweet that she was "beautiful". Then he tweeted that confederate statues are beautiful too. The Daily Stormer, a nazi propaganda website, called Heyer a "fat, childless slut", which sounded more like the things Trump is wont to say about women with minds of their own, and bodies he will never possess.

His apologists argue that history is part of American history and is legitimately memorialised in public places. Does Germany have statues to Hitler, Goering or Himmler? Did you hear American fascists objecting to the destruction of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

The most troubling aspect of Trump's reign is the needling mystery as to why Vladimir Putin wanted him ensconced in the Oval Office. Various foreign policy theories abound but, if it was simply to cause chaos, thus creating the conditions for political destabilisation, both demoestic and global, the odious plot is rapidly paying off. Which brings us to the latest dilemma. Is America, the world pioneer of regime change in foreigns lands, now in need of one itself? Ought we not help the vast majorityy of American's to escape Trump's megalomaniacal and increasingly ominous power hold? The majority of voters in last year's presidential election did not vote for him and since then, his popularity has plunged. By last week, nearly two in every American didn't want him as their president. Trump's arrival in the white House has changed the rules of engagement. According to US intelligence agencies, Russia helped put him there by subverting American democracy; a trick picked up by ex-KGB agent Putin, ones supposes, from studying CIA interventions from Nicaragua to the Persian Gulf. America is the world's superpower. Nuclear armament, human migration and climate damage are global issues, likely to have a more direct and enduring impact on sub-Saharan Africa or the middle East than downtown Kansas. Trump's contempt for the planet, his megaphone jeering at Pyongyang and Tehran and his fanning of racism make his occupancy of the white house as a worldwide concern. Ireland sees itself as a friend of America, and so it should act as one: by withdrawing the welcome mat rolled out to Trump. Enda Trump invited him here during his last visit to the White House as Taoiseach in March. That invitation hangs now like the sword of Damocies over Leo Varadkars's head and the heads of everyone in Ireland who deplored his hate-spreading utterances. Greg Stanton, the mayor of Phoenix, has said Trump should stay away from his city, where he is scheduled to appear on Tuesday, following the comments he made about Charlottesville. It took guts for Stanton to send that message to the world's most political leader. How much easier it would be for American's to take a stand if whole countries, such as Ireland told Trump too:we don't want you here. Critics may occasionally succumb to the urge to jeer Trump's hair-set and too long neckties out of an overwhelming feeling of powerless to do anything about what really worries us: his power. Yet, until we withdraw our welcome to him, his welcome for himself will cast a long shadow over our plant.

Justine.mccarthy@sunday_times.ie


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: charlottesville; donald; ireland; trump; trumpuk
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To: rktman

Well, the author’s in Britain so she’s more likely to randomly hack someone to death with a knife than shoot them with a gun. Of course she might have access to a Mini Cooper so a shin-bruising spree isn’t out of the question either.


21 posted on 08/20/2017 4:08:01 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Ennis85

The ‘writer’ must have been given a check list of all the beefs b*tches and bombshells the left has cooked up since the election.

“How much do I hate thee?
Let me count the ways.
I hate thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach...


22 posted on 08/20/2017 4:08:01 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Ennis85

“”Did you hear American fascists objecting to the destruction of Saddam Hussein’s statue in Baghdad after the 2003 invasion of Iraq? “”

Not really, witch - it didn’t have anything to do with our history... Is that a surprise to you?


23 posted on 08/20/2017 4:08:06 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Ennis85

As my mother would say, blow it out your giggy.


24 posted on 08/20/2017 4:08:26 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist.)
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To: Texas Eagle

GREAT letter.

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25 posted on 08/20/2017 4:11:44 PM PDT by Mears
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To: Thank You Rush
“”Justine McCarthy is a writer, broadcaster and a journalist with The Sunday Times (U.K.). One of Ireland’s most respected commentators on politics and culture, she is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Limerick””

Oh, really? And yet the second sentence of her article was an utterly meaningless string of words.

But that doesn't make you about him.

26 posted on 08/20/2017 4:12:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Ennis85
It doesn't happen as often as I would like, but I do so enjoy watching the America-hating Left suffer.

Think this public display of intolerance, bullying and outright hatred by the Left is something? Just wait until President Trump nominates another ... possibly two ... maybe even three Supreme Court justices to see some real insanity on the Left. The Left will go absolutely bat-schumer crazy with even one! (I just have to think President Trump will enjoy every minute -- perhaps we'll even get treated to a public display of his pleasure!)

27 posted on 08/20/2017 4:12:05 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: Ciexyz

How in the devil did everything get so blown out of proportion?

From saying we don’t need to bring terrorists to our country, to building a wall to keep illegal aliens out, to criminals among the illegal population, to THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY.....

All of which are true...How is it that people are so adamant about listening/accepting to the truth? No wonder we’re all going crazy.


28 posted on 08/20/2017 4:12:33 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: Ennis85
The most troubling aspect of Trump's reign is the needling mystery as to why Vladimir Putin wanted him ensconced in the Oval Office.

Another mayonnaise haired Trump hating whack-job.

Justine McCarthy Debbie Washerwoman Schultz


29 posted on 08/20/2017 4:12:46 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (We were Trumpin' before Trumpin' was cool.....)
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To: Ennis85

Why post this?


30 posted on 08/20/2017 4:13:11 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: glennaro

“”perhaps we’ll even get treated to a public display of his pleasure!)””

I would say that’s a given! It’s beginning to grow on me - watching heads on the left explode!


31 posted on 08/20/2017 4:14:09 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: jospehm20

That’s not the only thing she can’t spell properly. This stupid whore can barely make a coherent sentence. These idiots act like Trump took the White House by force, and that Americans don’t want him as President. Nope dumbass. We the people chose Trump. Deal with it. You chose Obama. We dealt with it. Keep killing, maiming, and acting like idiots and you’re going to keep 8 years of Trump followed by another 8 years of someone like minded. You might even end up fertilizing a garden somewhere if you don’t shut your mouths and deal with it.

Why post this utter garbage on FR? This poster deserves a ZOT.


32 posted on 08/20/2017 4:14:23 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: MarvinStinson

OH MY GOD!!!
The HORRORS!!!
He’s doing what he promised


33 posted on 08/20/2017 4:15:49 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor; Ennis85; MarvinStinson; rktman; Kaslin; 2ndDivisionVet; Diana in Wisconsin

34 posted on 08/20/2017 4:16:09 PM PDT by 4Liberty ("Russia"? Communists have been infiltrating Hollywood & US academia for decades..........)
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To: Mears

Heh, heh. Thanks. I’ll let you know if I hear back.


35 posted on 08/20/2017 4:16:44 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Texas Eagle

I love it - good for you. Good thinking!


36 posted on 08/20/2017 4:17:00 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: jospehm20

Good catch...


37 posted on 08/20/2017 4:18:49 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: TigersEye
🤔. Sounds like IRA to me.
38 posted on 08/20/2017 4:23:04 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: Ennis85

The most troubling aspect of Trump’s reign is the needling mystery as to why Vladimir Putin wanted him ensconced in the Oval Office. .
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The evidence for which is evaporating faster than an ice cube on a Palm Springs sidewalk.

But this demonstrates the fundamental ignorance of Ms. McCarthy. She takes a made up story, swallows it whole and finds herself troubled by the thought that Putin was anxious to see Trump win the 2016 election.

Welcome to the club Justine. We Freepers would also like an explanation for that mysterious choice. We wonder why Putin would trade the easily bribed Hillary Clinton for the unknown but certainly worrisome Trump. Putin may be evil but he is not stupid.

OTOH, we and many others considered the possibility that Trump-Russia WAS a made-up story. As it turns ot the facts now show quite clearly that is the case. You should check in with our MSM. They are running like crazy from the story that a week ago was 24/7 on CNN.


39 posted on 08/20/2017 4:23:07 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed. About time.)
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To: 4Liberty
👹. Hey. That works. Kept the cannibals from eating me after I was caught on the Limpopo river once upon a time.
40 posted on 08/20/2017 4:25:09 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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