Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy










Those Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad
                                                                                 Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC) 

                  Just in the week since the Democratic convention


Trumpf Attacked the parents of a USA Muslim Military Officer who died heroically in Afghanistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzkkk-oJ6bo ; http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-father-fallen-soldier-ive-made-lot/story?id=41015051
 Claimed that the father’s speech at the Convention was a "vicious personal attack".  
 Questioned the mother's silence as being a religious subservience to her husband.                                         Implying that Khizr Khan’s wife ‘probably … wasn’t allowed to have anything to say’.                           Suggested that the speech had been written by "Clinton script writers".

  • Called on President Putin to provide the US media with Hillary Clinton's deleted emails.
  •  Resurfaced the debunked conspiracy theory that Texas Sen. Ted Cruz’s father was linked to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy 


On NATO

I said, "NATO's obsolete. Because it's not taking care of terror."
You understand that. And it turned out I was right. A lotta people gave me credit for that. Then three months ago, on the front page of the Wall Street Journal, they said, "NATO to develop a terror division." And somebody who's supposed to be very extraordinary is put in charge of it. That was all because of me. So I was right about that. I was also right about the fact that NATO— we're t— being taken advantage of by NATO countries, totally advantage of, George—

Ukraine

TRUMP: I'm gonna take a look at it. But you know, the people of Crimea, from what I've heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were. And you have to look at that, also. Now, that was under— just so you understand, that was done under Obama's administration.
And as far as the Ukraine is concerned, it's a mess. And that's under the Obama's administration with his strong ties to NATO. So with all of these strong ties to NATO, Ukraine is a mess. Crimea has been taken. Don't blame Donald Trump for that.


The election

“I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged. I have to be honest.”
He complained about election  debate schedule  and claimed  "I got a letter from the NFL saying, 'This is ridiculous. Why are the debates against' – because the NFL doesn't want to go against the debates, because the debates are going to be pretty massive from what I understand,".
The letter was immediately  denied by the NFL.                                                                                                                                                                   
He  escalated his war with his own party’s leadership Tuesday by refusing to endorse House Speaker Paul Ryan or Sen. John McCain, two of the GOP’s highest-ranking elected officials.They have previously both bowed the knee and endorsed him!




Trumpf is following his usual pattern of ad hominem attacks against anybody and everybody who he believes has slighted him in any way.
He is still litigating his primary battles with Kasich,Cruz and Bush


AND YET

On Sunday the New York Post under the headline "The Ogle Office" published a 25 year old nude picture   of Melania Trumpf on its front page.This is vulgar ,demeaning,sexist,unkind and irresponsible.It is clearly intended to humiliate.Mrs.Trumpf is no doubt mortified. http://nypost.com/2016/07/30/melania-trump-like-youve-never-seen-her-before/
Did Trumpf or his campaign complain or express outrage at this invasion of privacy?Did he threaten one of his famous law suits?Did he scream for revenge on the newspaper?

"In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common," Trump said in a statement. "They're a celebration of the human body as art." 
Even Berlusconni or Sarkozy would blanch at such objectivisation of their partners.

I wonder how a lesbian themed photo shoot of the candidate's wife will play with the Fundamentalist Christian Base?It could  be a real challenge between their bigotry and evangelism.

But I am sure they will applaud her husband's wholehearted support.


                            Crazy like a fox? Or just crazy


p.s. My fellow progressives who are enjoying the spectacle of Trumpf destroying the Republican party, perhaps the following THOUGHT EXPERIMENT  may give pause before counting on three liberal Supreme court judges.



TRUMPF                  

S    ees the entire Publican establishment disown him as they face loss not just of the senate but also the House
H    ears multiple veteran organisations condemn him for belittling gold star mother, the purple heart and a slew of retired Generals who have had the   temerity to question his competence.
I     ncandescent at release of copy of ten years of tax returns, obtained by rogue anti Putin Russian hacker.
T   he family finally realises that he will face the largest loss in Presidential history.


 Hillary has 14 point lead in the polls.

                                                      
He has a breakdown or quits, claiming the election is "rigged".
Or the Publican "leaders" finally find some spine and remove him.
A white knight is appointed by the RNC--Kasich,Bush,Ryan or even "lyin Ted" Cruz.

Will the new candidate get a major relief bounce and unite the Publicans and the anti Clinton majority?

Who knows?

Now add the October surprise.
 A cache of  Clinton Foundation  emails is sent to the medya.It contains effusive notes from Bill [or worse, Hillary] to multiple dictators,despots and Russian oligarchs thanking them for major donations to the foundation.These go back far enough to include Gaddafi,Yanukovich in the Ukraine,Assad,and various Iraqi "business men".

Got a plan B mates?




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