Fake News, Real Lies
It’s instructive to see one of trump’s lies up close and how he mixes truth and fabrication. His latest Tweet about Sen. Richard Blumenthal is a case in point. Yes, during an election campaign Blumey said he served in Vietnam. Yes, he lied. Yes, he apologized in an embarrassing moment. No, he did not cry “like a baby.” He didn’t cry at all. He said he was sorry and the veterans and voters of Connecticut forgave him enough to vote him into office time and time again.
Why did he lie? I’m not a shrink, but I think a lot of men feel guilty they avoided active armed conflict over there. But any man who was paying attention back then knew that Vietnam was a un-winnable war, that the U.S. was not in it to win it. We did not belong there. I avoided the draft and the war by staying one step ahead of the government’s deferments. Student, married, fatherhood; I had ‘em all except medical.
It would be an honor to be attacked in one of trump’s Tweet storms. It would be like being on Nixon’s enemies list. Paul Conrad was, lucky dog. Once again, it shows just how small this cretin trump is. But, alas, I don’t know if he even understands editorial cartoons like Nixon did and I don’t care.
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7 年Perfect
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7 年I disagree with the distraction argument because that requires thought and awareness of more than one issue at the same time. I do not think he is capable of that and I know it sounds like I'm being a jerk but I really don't believe he has that kind of focus. He just can't seem to stay focused on more than one thing with enough coherent thought that is required to use another as a distraction. He is a lot like a young child is running around chasing a butterfly with a net only to just get distracted by another butterflies and ending up never catching anything. He is his own worst enemy and comes off like so many leaders I saw in the corporate world. Where it is always a managers, supervisor or an employees fault and never the leader(s) or an unrealistic policy or guideline that changes every 30 seconds. (We had an internal reference a friend used of mine one day that stuck. We have no policies or guidelines only a never ending collection of 30 second rules because they change every 30 seconds) We need focus and a plan to address issues and I just do not see that here. I just see yet someone in love with attention and a title and not really worried about what happens beneath them.