The Endless ironies of Donald Trump

The Left was mostly untroubled for eight years about the often unconstitutional abuses of Barack Obama — given that they saw their shared noble aims as justifying almost any means necessary to achieve them.

There was the not uncommon Rice-Gruber-Rhodes-Holder sort of deception (on Benghazi, on the conduct of Bowe Bergdahl, on the Affordable Care Act, the Iran deal, on Fast and Furious, etc.) — a required tactic because so much of the Obama agenda was antithetical to the wishes and preferences of the American electorate and thus had to be disguised and camouflaged to become enacted.

There was the pen-and-phone mockery of established federal law (the suspension of the ACA employer mandate, the Chrysler creditor reversal, the non-enforcement of federal immigration law, the institutionalization of sanctuary-city nullification). There was the constant mythmaking (from faux red lines, deadlines, and step-over lines to the fatuity of the Cairo Speech and Iran-deal harangues).

There were the abuses of presidential power (the surveillance of journalists, the selective release of the bin Laden trove to pet journalists, the likely surveilling, unmasking, and leaking through reversed targeting of political enemies).

No one worried much when Obama promised on a hot mic to Medvedev that he would be more flexible with the Russians after his reelection, as if they were to conform to a desired sort of behavior in service to Obama that would earn them dividends from him later on — the kind of unapologetic partisan “collusion” that would have earned Trump a Comey-induced indictment. No one cared that Obama pulled all peacekeepers out of Iraq and thereby ruined what the surge had saved.

Probably one one of VDH longest thesis but, this is the line that sticks out:

“In other words, cringe-worthy Trump behavior so often is the lubricant that oils his success against cringe-worthy opponents, turning upside down the Heraclitean axiom that character is destiny, or rather redefining it, because Trump’s targets so often were hubristic and deserved the nemesis sent their way.”

He says what we are thinking and in a manner that shocks the senses, putting the opposition on their heels before gathering their courage to again engage, if they are able to after his shocking offense to their synthetic genteel manners.

I have been treated to all kinds of accusations of racism, misogyny, etc and had friends tell me other friends do not want me in their presence as I am all these horrible things to people.

My response was “Eff em. I don’t care to be around anyone who has enough time in their life to create boogeymen out others who had been friends before and they woukd never find proof for their accusations if they searched the rest of their lives.”

So, some other friends spoke to them about their accusations and apparently they conceded I couldn’t be a nicer guy and they may have gotten carried away only because of my vote.

My response was “The true nature of their character has, for me, reached the pinnacle of vileness and I do not care to associate with anyone so repugnant who would make baseless accusations agsinst me.

My friends then asked I be the bigger person to which I laughed and informed them our friends, so called, were cowards and could have cleared things by calking me directly to apologize.

I then implored them to stop being patsys and to drop the matter, as I would not attend any gathering where these socially and morally fouled losers would be.

Besides, they are nearly 80 and won’t be around in 5 years so, their use by date is quickly approaching.

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