Saturday, July 29, 2017

Enough Pandering to the Handicapped, Too.

        

         It’s about time. We’ve been indulging another minority for a few decades and thanks to Trump it should now stop too.
A new era [actually an old era, but one that Trump and his supporters remember fondly] is here. We have returned to a time of rugged individualism, of pulling ourselves up by our own bootstraps and learning to live without the government doing anything for us…a time when whiners, crybabies, and the disabled weren’t tolerated. They were rightly shunned. What do the namby-pamby, sniveling fuss buckets, and the disabled give back to society? Nothing. They just take, take, and take. And the American taxpayer has to foot the bill as well as put up with their bitching about equal opportunity. Not in Trump's America. All that has changed.

President Trump has courageously tweeted that transgender people can no longer serve in our military…because of the cost and the disruption…which doesn’t actually exist, but why let facts get in the way…so now it’s time to address the cost and disruption of handicapped ramps, handicapped stalls, and handicapped parking spaces. Handicapped people make up a small portion of our population, maybe even less than the transgender population, so why do we have to use our tax dollars to appease them?
          If we don’t need those 15,000 or so transgenders serving and defending the country, then we sure as hell don’t need to accommodate people in a wheelchair or have some disability where they think they should get special treatment. Maybe those transgender servicemen and women are performing a valuable service, but Trump has made it abundantly clear he doesn’t want their service. So what are the wheelchair-bound and other handicapped people providing? Short answer, it's not any recognizable service…it's obstruction, excessive use of parking and bathroom space, a drain on the economy, and causing others the discomfort of having to see them in public. That's just for starters. We don't want their 'service' either. If Trump can ban transgenders, he can ban these mooches too.

When the wheelchair-bound and disabled are out in public and need a bathroom, they’ll have to use it like everyone else. (Stop and think about it. What did the disabled do 50 years ago? Well, just do that again and stop whining to the government to make things easier for you!) Or just stay home and do your business. By banning transgenders, Trump is saying he wants to make the country great again where you didn't have to see them, so it’s a logical step toward not having to see the handicapped either. Make America Great Again by not making us uncomfortable. Trump is indicating that if it makes us uncomfortable, then it needs to go. Besides, it’s healthier and builds character if we use the stairs rather than a wheelchair ramp anyway. Only about 10% of the population needs them. Why should the other 90% have to be inconvenienced?
If you catch a handicapped person whining about their disability, you know what to do. That’s another way to make America great again.

Unless you, unfortunately, happen to develop a bone spur in your foot...or just make up that disability Then the system needs to be restructured to your wants, needs, and desires, especially if it helps to avoid military service. But…and this is a very important but…this only applies to an extraordinary man. A man who was born into a wealthy family and had been given everything by his father in order to make millions of dollars, who then goes bankrupt four times, loses three casinos, is sued over 360 times by the people he has cheated in business - or because he set up a phony university or something like that, is repeatedly unfaithful to and divorces his first two wives and marries a third (who within two months the man is bragging on an Access Hollywood bus that he might cheat on her and boasts about grabbing other women by the pussy). That kind of man deserves respect, deference, sympathy, loyalty….and is entirely above reproach.

After all, he set the bar on how much respect these disabled people deserve.

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Trump Finally Chalks Up a Victory - He Saved a Hat


What a courageous, unprecedented and outstanding service Trump has provided the nation. On Saturday Trump retrieved a Marine's hat after it was blown off his head by a gust of wind. It's something any 5-year old would do but naturally with the bar set so low for Trump, conservatives are celebrating and treating it like Trump just won the World Series. 
A jackass trifecta


Sarah Palin tweeted “Thank you President Trump.” Former game show host Chuck Woolery added his two cents with “NOT AT ALL SURPRISED IT’S WHO HE IS…” in all CAPS no less - so we know how proud he is of Trump's hat rescue.  In case Chuck Woolery forgot, this is ALSO who Trump is...
Trump leaves Melania to fend for herself when they meet the Obamas at the White House on inauguration day.

        Fox News used the hat incident to blast Obama because at a rainy Rose Garden news conference in 2013 (yes, they had to dig back through 4 years of video) Obama’s umbrella was being held by his Marine guard, rather than Obama holding it. So Trump was praised for rescuing a Marine’s cover while Obama is chastised for rudely allowing a Marine to do what he was supposed to be doing when the Commander-in-Chief is speaking in the rain. (How dare Obama allow the president's Marine Escort to do exactly what they are supposed to be doing?) This is worthy of scorn, but if your name is Trump and you bend down to get a hat, that's presidential.
Obama thanks the Marine for holding the umbrella - how unethical is that?

A Virginia Wesleyan University student wrote about the hat pickup “It shows respect and it goes a long way when it's a president showing respect.” How about all the respect Trump showed our intelligence services over the past year, even comparing them to Nazis just a week prior to his inauguration? Or the respect he showed CPO William Ryan Owens when Trump ordered his SEAL Team 6 into Yemen on January 28th which caused the death of Owens and Trump couldn’t even bother to be in the situation room while the mission was underway? Did Trump show any of that respect when he invented his “bone spur in the foot” excuse to get out of military service in the late 1960s? 
Trump's official "Medal of Honor" photograph.


The video of Trump went viral on Saturday at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland as Trump was boarding a helicopter to return to the White House. Walking along the tarmac, a Marine's hat flew into the air, prompting Trump to grab the hat, pick it up, and place it back on the Marine's head. Trump then patted the Marine's arm like he was a good dog. But the deed was short-lived. Moments later, the hat is seen once again flying into the air, sending Trump after it for a second time. This time Trump gave it to another official and then boarded the helicopter.
The second time Trump just picks it up and hands it to someone else.

             Is picking up a Marine's cover somehow akin to moral purity or upstanding citizenship? Does this compensate for his grabbing women by the genitals? Is this how the conservatives offset Trump’s less-than-stellar G-20 European visit? Will it cause Kim Jong Un to re-think developing a North Korean nuclear ICBM? Does it equate to passing meaningful legislation or coming up with health care to benefit all Americans? Does it trump (pun intended) months and months of Russian-collusion-denial that his son Jr. just admitted to on Tuesday? 
             Like father, like son...a lie is a perfect band-aid.

              So a hat flies off - 'predisent' Trump picks it up and returns it. Most children do that. When you have nothing better to rally around, picking up a wind-blown hat must be as good as conservatives can hope for to show how Trump is Making America Great Again.
               Or you could say it is exactly two letters and a period too long.