Love those Limericks!
There once was a lass named McCarthy
Whose language was earthy and swarthy
But one look at her hair
Gave the boys all a scare
And sent them running the other way smartly
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
Justine McCarthy was, obviously, an “A” student in English in one of today’s stellar public schools...
“”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””
and apparently a mid day toker
Love those Limericks!
There once was a lass named McCarthy
Whose language was earthy and swarthy
But one look at her hair
Gave the boys all a scare
And sent them running the other way smartly
They talk in meaningless sentences? lol
Because we don't have Moochie Obama to keep us amused anymore?
This just screams, Faggot.
She mindlessly prattled as she brought her faithful Trump-Hating followers down into the swamp with her.....
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! EYE BLEACH! STAT!
............lol, a 9.5 on a ten scale I would say!
Justine McCarthy is a writer, broadcaster and a journalist with The Sunday Times. One of Ireland’s most respected commentators on politics and culture, she is Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the University of Limerick.
Wow! You got as far as I did!
Why are foreigners even allowed to have an opinion about our President. They have no clue about any member of our government let alone the American mystique.
LOL looks like I killed another thread.
Why even bother to post this drivel?
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