He doesn’t want the Hard Questions anymore. He’s tired of being hounded about questions that he brought upon himself. How many people did NOT believe his promises? Not enough. But they’re still asking and will continue to ask. From AlterNet:
Former White House correspondent Brian Karem tells Salon he’s been working long enough to recognize the signs of ‘wag the dog’ in the Oval Office. “Trump continues to play his usual game, hustling and ‘trying to get over’ like an aging White Super Fly — have you seen him dance?” asked Karem. “But even those who have loved Trump with the loyalty of a stray canine are now barking in disdain.” Trump is stirring news at a frantic pace, but “nothing Trump is doing is keeping his own followers from burning their MAGA hats,” he writes. “They wanted the Epstein files released, and they wanted it yesterday.”
Tsk, tsk, Donnie Boy. The natives are restless. They may still love you, but they want those answers. They want them NOW. Too bad for you that they believed your promises. You brought it on your own head. Those of us with intelligence knew your promises were just hot air. They weren’t anything you seriously intended to do.
Trump’s promise to release the files during his campaign “was just another lie,” said Karem, “like the many he’s told women, his children, his staff, Congress and everyone he knows, [including his own mirror].” “Lost for ways to deflect from this ongoing fiasco, Trump has tried to wrestle with a variety of meme-worthy issues he hopes will go viral so people will stop talking about Epstein,” said Karem. Then Trump stumbled into the war in Ukraine, says Karem, and stumbled back out of a meeting with “Russian President Vladimir Putin with nothing “except saying the war would have never started if Trump had been in charge.”
Oh, get real. Never would have started. I call bullshizzle. It pretty much would have started no matter what, because no one could take down the massing of Russia when they were inside their own border. We and the rest of the world should have done more for Ukraine. And we didn’t. So they’re now in a war they do not want and did not start.
Karem laments the drain of intelligence in Trump’s circle as he flounders about, but says he is not surprised it left. “The sense of reason has long left many who work for Trump. No sense of irony, hypocrisy, or critical thinking is left,” Karem said. “How can there be when you have to pay fealty to a delusional dim-wit with the power of a president? You could ask that of Donald Trump, and he’d probably just smile.” “After all, at least you aren’t talking about Epstein or Ukraine.”
Too bad the distractions don’t work for more than a few days, and then we’re right back to it. Trump is not going to escape this one. He may have slithered out of other things, like jail, but he’s not going to slither out of Epstein or Ukraine, no matter what anyone says. Too bad, so sad. Except we aren’t.
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There’s got to be a higher order, and what is, hopefully it’s based on ‘what you put into the universe you get out of it’ or something similar. Trump, by all accounts, falls short, by many a mile, to be denied any goodness as payback, for good reason.
I see we think along the same lines. Appreciate the comment!