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hile I don’t expect the Electoral College to be anything but
the rubber-stamp it’s always been—one of the lamest dodges the framers came up
with in their desperate attempt to reach some compromise between democracy and
autocracy—this would be a good year for it to actually do the goddamn job it
was supposed to do and deliberate on just who would be the most competent captain
of our Ship of State. The United States is now at the point of crossing the
Rubicon, of reaching its rendezvous with destiny, of leaving the Republic behind
and charting its course to Empire. The Groper is no Julius Caesar, but then,
that isn’t a requirement. He doesn’t have a pretty face or a pompadour either,
but that doesn’t mean he’s not going to be the next teen idol.
The guy that the Electoral College is about to put in charge
of the most powerful military force on earth is Osama Bin Laden’s wet-dream.
Ever wonder why the jihadists of the so-called Islamic State are cheering? They’ve
been fighting a losing battle against a fragile coalition that is destroying
them—and now the linchpin of that coalition is about to field a clown against
them, a naïve bumbler whose blithering bombast directed against all Muslims
will bring in hordes of recruits to their idiotic cause. Saved by the bell
indeed.
Who owns this blowhard? Where does his money come from? We don’t
know. Is it the Russians? They certainly worked overtime to get this
empty-headed buffoon into a position of power. Whose interests is this bozo going
to be working on? There’s no way to tell, though his appointments of ignorant
incompetents to key positions suggests it won’t be on behalf of the American
people. Seriously, his picks are minnows being set loose in a sea of sharks. It
may of course be good for the world to have an America on the ropes, but there’s
no way it can be good for America.
Bluntly his cabinet (and other) picks show that Donald J.
Trump is either a blithering incompetent who should be removed from office
before somebody gets hurt, or a damned traitor who should face whatever penalty
that brings in these benighted times. (I favor trial by a jury of sane people followed
by a prompt execution by firing squad, but that’s so nineteenth century.) In either case the simplest thing by far
would be to keep him out of the office he is so obviously unqualified for
before he can screw us all over and take the country down the drain to
oblivion.
But, as I said, I am quite confident that the Electoral
College will do as its predecessors did and rubber-stamp the election. It is a
sad ending to a once-glorious nation, and even sadder if he manages to take the
rest of humanity along for the ride. Will we go quickly, via nuclear holocaust?
Or slowly roast to death as the temperatures rise? But with barbarians running
things, people like Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Rodrigo
Duterte, even pipsqueaks such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Bashar Hafez al-Assad,
what better fate should we expect? It’s over, folks. Humankind had its shot and we
blew it. The looters, torturers, and rapists are in charge, and not just in
backwaters like Syria and Michigan. There is no future, so we all might as well
go down in a blaze of inglorious debauchery. I won’t be with you—but I’ve
always been out of step with the times.
