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A Quick Post in Which I Insult Melania Trump

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This may not be politically correct, or even particularly polite, but I going to say it anyway… I really despise Melania Trump.

It started with annoyance in the possibility of a foreign born lingerie model as first lady, but rapidly accelerated with her “crowd-sourced” speech at the RNC Convention. This ennui subsided slightly do to her lengthy absence following that episode, but flared once again when she briefly reappeared to do some damage control over her husband’s cringy (or, rather, rapey) comments to Billy “the Bushy” Bush about grabbing women’s genitals (henceforth to be known as “Pussygate”). Blissfully, she once again disappeared after that.

That was until Thursday of this week, when Melania reemerged to aggravate me yet further. This time in major speech in which she addressed the goals of her possible tenure as first lady. These included, an I hope you are sitting down for this one, addressing cyber bullying and online harassment. Yes, you heard that right. I thought she would have used the entire year’s supply of personal chutzpah to rip off the current first lady in a prime time, nationally televised speech, but, no, that was nothing. Not compared to giving a speech on cyber bullying with no hint of the irony of being married to the one of the biggest cyber bullies on internets.

Then Friday night, the Associated Press confirmed an old rumor, that Melania Trump had worked in the United States prior to having a legal work visa. This is without any hair splitting, illegal. For the record, I had thought it rather ironic to such a xenophobic candidate as Donald Trump asking his equally xenophobic supporters (and indeed the rest of the country) to accept his foreign born wife. But now, to find out that she was exactly the type of job stealing, criminal alien that he and they cry about… well, my irony cup runneth over.

What happens now? Well, probably not much. Technically, this could imperil her citizenship, but more likely is that there could be a fine and/ or order to pay back taxes on the income made while on a visitor’s visa. That is of course if there is any consequences at all, which might be unlikely since Trumpskyites don’t seem to face that many consequences.

In parting, I wish I could say that this bit of feloniousness is the worst slime that coats Donald Trump and all that he touches… but it’s only 8am, I don’t start lying this early in the morning.

What’s in a name?

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Back in the day… or somewhere around 2000… I played an massively multiplayer online role playing game (or MMORPG for short) for the first time. The game was Everquest, and it was pretty damn amazing! Everquest had a large open world with tons of appropriate fantasy peoples — elves, dwarves and more, fantasy badies — orcs, undead, dragons, and all the necessary accouterments for us players to take on the badies — magic, enchanted weapons and armor. On top of all of this, the game allowed us to customize the appearance of our characters. Ok, it was really rather limited, but at the time it was really awesome. Finally Everquest allowed we the player to give our characters both a given name and a surname. All in all, it made Everquest a deep and personal experience.

Personally, I always agonize of any detail I’m allowed to customize in a game and the name I use. But, not everybody. Some people slam the random name button and pick the first thing it spits up. Some pick names of celebrities, or movie characters or worst of all vaguely covered canon characters to whatever game series they’re playing. Star Wars: The Old Republic has that problem. Some people only exercise creative in figuring out to use racial slurs or some other epithet through the game’s naming filter.

The most random name I remember seeing was back in the days of Wrath of the Lich King. The was the orc warlock who was named Blagojevich. Given the current events of the time, I assumed it was in reference to then Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. There are two things to know about way Gov. Blagojevich was in the news… first he was under Federal investigation for various corruption related offense and at that time was under the subject of Federal wiretaps, something he knew. Second, when there is a vacancy in the US Senate, that state’s governor chooses the replacement. At the time, Illinois had just such a vacancy, the Senate seat of Barack Obama. Gov. Blagojevich had found an interesting way to fill Mr. Obama’s seat, he sold it to the highest bidder. No, really, he did. In FBI audio taps, he described the open seat as “fucking golden”.

As weird as that was, the other day I saw something worse. I had logged onto my Alliance death knight and headed off to Stormwind, there sitting AFK in Wizard’s Sanctum was, this:

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Yea, that’s right. A level 25 human mage, named Donaldtrump. I have no more words.

Election Blahs…

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Ok, it’s been a bit since the last post post.

Since the last time there have been a few primary contests and a few less Republican candidates… most notably one soon-to-be former Florida Senator. Honestly, I don’t think it was just the loss in his home state that took Marco Rubio out… as bad as that was. It was as that in addition to Florida, Rubio had gone like four straight contests without gaining a single delegate. That is not how to get a nomination.

Ok, on to more current news, Sen. Sanders has been on quite the run… he has won all but like one of last primary contests and that is no small feat. As I’ve noted before though, the delegate count is still against him as he is still about 250 delegates behind Sec. Clinton. What’s worse is that the upcoming contests are mostly closed primaries and so far contests like that have not been good to Sanders. In fact, he has only won a single closed primary.

I don’t think Sanders is going to be able to close the gap and I do think that Clinton will end up with the nomination.

As for the Republicans… what can I say? When your party is deciding between which of Donald Trump or Ted Cruz is your preferred hate monger, I think you’ve lost all rights to be taken seriously.

Cruz for his part is an open theocrat and seems dedicated to those individuals (if not personally as well) that are attempting to codify an extremist interpretation of Christianity into American law. This is made even more ironic by the realization that these are often the same voices crying around about “creeping Sharia”.

And Trump… here is a guy that says anything, doesn’t matter how ill informed, ridiculous or even bigoted it is… if it pops into his mind, it will find its way out of his mouth too. God only knows if he even believes any of it. And given how quickly he switches his opinion, one could could be forgiven for thinking he doesn’t. But, his supporters seem to believe it and him… even when shown how ridiculous or two faced Trump is, they still support him. From that blind support to the verbal and physical abuse of dissenting voices, Trump’s supporters may actually be scarier than he is.

Listen, I try really hard not to throughout comparisons to the Nazis or Adolf Hitler (or any other mass murdering tyrants for that matter), doing so trivializes the horror that they inflicted on their victims and the world around them. But, when I see a candidate encouraging abuse or violence… even to the point of promising to pay the legal bills for his supporters that attack protesters, or when I see his staff verbally and physically assault journalists (and find support for it), or  when I see a candidate’s supporters threaten, harass and assault protesters, I can’t help but see shades of Hitler’s Brown Shirt thugs.

Because I no longer have the words to describe my horror at the creature known as Donald Trump, let me give some links to a few people that do:

Seriously… have something handy in case you need to wretch.  

The worse part is that I may own George Lucas an apology. See, like so many others… critics and fans alike, I’ve mocked the dialog Lucas wrote for Star Wars. Hell, both Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher have also commented on the dialog, with Fisher asking “who the hell talks this way” in part of her interview for Empire of Dreams.

While she was referring to the dialog between Princess Leia and Grand Moff Tarkin, my most loathed dialog comes from the prequels. In Revenge of the Sith there is a scene where the now Emperor Palpatine tells the Senate of his reorganization of the Republic into the Empire to much support and fanfare. In that scene, Senator Amidala has a line that says something like: “So this is how liberty dies… to thunderous applause”.

Dear Great Spaghetti God… that’s silly and pretentious. I can only assume that Natalie Portman also realized how bad this was, and performed the line with as much confidence in it as possible… that is to say none. She was a far better actress as a twelve year old playing a preteen orphan and contract killer fangirl in The Professional than anything this scene showed.

Still after hearing what Trump stands for and the cheers of his near sycophantic supporters, Lucas’ dialog may prove to be prophetic.

I wrote some very short comments on The Force Awakens, albeit rather late, a while back, so now that it’s on video, I have more detailed review coming. With that, I have some thoughts on the newest chapter for Knights of the Fallen Empire, the season finale of Star Wars: Rebels and the Rogue One teaser. So, yea, lots of Star Wars!

Also, there was a big video game freak out over a character in Blizzard’s soon to be released game, Overwatch. I have thoughts no that too… but later.

More Politics… Joy, Oh, Joy

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I promise, really, I do… that at some point, I’ll write about something other than politics. But, for now, here’s some more on the US Presidential Election and a bit on the struggle to replace Justice Antonin Scalia.

More from the Primaries

Well, since my last piece, things have not gotten better for Donald Trump… ahh, I feel so bad… or something like that. Of the five Republican contests held this weekend, he won only two of them. Worse yet, because most of the available delegates were allotted either proportionally or with the winner getting the majority, Sen. Ted Cruz actually gained more delegates than Trump did. In fact, Trumps lead over Cruz is now less than 100 delegates.

Is this to say that the age of Trump is over, that he’s going nowhere? Unfortunately, no… I only wish it could be that way. In many of the upcoming primaries, the delegates will be allowed to the winner only and Trump is polling well in many of those states. In fact, the March 15 Florida Primary has 99 delegates, is a winner take all contest and Trump is currently in the lead by about 8% points (over Marco Rubio, who incidentally represents Florida in the US Senate).

On the Democrat’s side, Sen. Sanders had a great weekend. There were four contests held, he won three of them – Nebraska, Kansas, and Maine. While Sec. Clinton, on the other hand, only managed to win Louisiana.

Still, and I hate to throw cold water on Sanders’ supporters and their celebrations, but these victories only underscore the difficulties Sanders faces. See, for all of what he won, Sanders gained 64 delegates, Clinton gained 62. That means that Sanders only narrowed Clinton’s lead by a net two delegates! So, while this could give him some momentum and fundraising opportunities, it didn’t get him closer to the needed amount of delegates.

There are two Democratic primaries tonight, Mississippi and Michigan. Five Thirty Eight is predicting that Clinton will win both, and with that, the majority of of the 166 available delegates (Mississippi has 36, and Michigan has 130). Though at the time I uploading this, Sanders is ahead by like 3,000 votes, with 10% of precincts reporting. If he wins that… it’s a big deal!

[Sneaky update: Sanders in the projected winner in Michigan, 50% to 48% with 92.48% of precincts reporting.]

The thing that worries me, is that much of the lefty aligned new media types… The Young Turks, Secular Talk and others are very much in support of Sanders and equally as much against Clinton. When you watch their programs you get a steady stream of how great Sanders is doing. I worry that Sanders supporters don’t realize how far he is behind Clinton and how hard it will be for him to gain the nomination. I don’t want them to become the 2016 Democratic version of 2012 Republican voters and pull the same ignorant flip out when Sanders loses as Romney supporters did back then. Because right now, they are committing many of the same errors and not looking at the actual numbers behind the candidates.

Actually both The Young Turks and Secular Talk are starting to really annoy me with their love for Sanders. Yes, I know that neither have ever stated that they are unbiased nor hid their biases and I also know that there really isn’t anything all that progressive about Clinton. But, neither is looking at the situation in a realistic manner.

For example, The Young Turks did a piece Saturday night in which they talked about how the mainstream media wasn’t giving Sanders the credit he was due for his, at that point, two victories over Clinton’s one. They highlighted several very real biased reports that ignored or really downplayed Sanders’ wins, but in the middle of that Jimmy Dore spent a couple of minutes having a freakout over article that correctly noted that, again at that point, Clinton had picked up more delegates than Sanders. Dore called this “100% pure spin”!

Really! Really? I didn’t know that factual reporting was now spin. I’m sorry Jimmy Dore didn’t like that fact, but that doesn’t make it any less correct.

I’m going to get off this topic before it pisses me off any further.

On a SCOTUS nomination.

Apparently denying President Obama his Constitutional authority to name Scalia’s replacement isn’t enough, some Republicans feel that they can prevent any(!) Democrat from filling that vacancy. At CPAC this weekend, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) said: “The Republican majority in the Senate will not allow the Supreme Court to flip. You can take that to the bank.” In other words, as long as the Republicans hold the Senate and the nominee will be selected by a Democrat (this one or a future one), Scalia’s seat will remain unfilled. Well, what a way for discharge one’s Constitutional duties… by not doing them. It also nicely flies in the face of what my Senator, Steve Daines (R-MT), said in excusing his own refusal to do his job: “The best way to ensure this process remains nonpartisan would be waiting until after the election, before a nomination is made”. These guys have really got to coordinate their excuses better.

Johnson was backed up by Federalist Society Vice President, Dean Reuter saying:

But I’m happy to report that the law and the Constitution are on the Senate’s side here. The President surely does have a duty to nominate someone, but the Senate has a co-equal duty as a co-equal branch of government, to in this case operate as a check. It doesn’t have any responsibility or any duty to host one on one meetings with the nominee, or hold a hearing, or hold a committee vote, or a floor vote. There’s no timetable. It’s not as if the president sends somebody over and says, we need this back next month, or next Wednesday, or whatever.

What a crock of horseshit. The Constitution is clear, the president nominates members of the court and the Senate is to “give advice and consent” on that nominees. Since the Constitution was ratified came into force in 1789, that has meant that the Senate holds hearings and a vote on the president’s nominees. Moreover, and this isn’t really a good thing, the Senate has often been a rubber stamp for nominees for most of that history. And yes, precedent does give a timetable, that being 125 days. That is the longest period of time that any nominee has waited to be confirmed (or withdrawn or rejected) by the Senate. By the way, that nominee was Louis Brandeis, if you wanted to know. Among the shortest I could find was Samuel Freeman Miller, who was confirmed only a half an hour after the Senate received his nomination from President Abraham Lincoln.

I shouldn’t be too surprised by Reuter’s statements, especially considering that he gave them during a talk chaired by himself and John Yoo. If that name isn’t familiar, let me remind you. He was a Deputy US Attorney General in the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel during the Bush Administration. During that time he authored papers and policies that so narrowly defined torture and governmental requirements for habeas corpus as to preclude most limits on torture or confinement of prisoners. His argument meant that actions banned under international law and treaties did not apply during the war on terror. He also argued that certain interrogation techniques that are banned on US soil could still be used by US interrogators overseas. Further, he argued that presidential authority allowed President Bush to use the NSA to spy on the communication of American citizens on American soil, indefinitely, without a warrant or approval from the FISA Courts, this was in almost direct defiance of the FISA legislation. Lastly, Yoo argued that since the Constitution grants war powers solely to the president, that outside of the declaration of war and the budgeting process, the Congress did not have the authority to check the president on military actions and neither did the courts!

Ok, I had more to say, but I’m going to stop here. I’ll have more at the end of the week, including some on tonight’s primaries, a review of Chapter 11 of Star Wars: the Old Republic’s new expansion, Knights of the Fallen Empire, and some thoughts on the dumb that Caitlyn Jenner let fall out of her mouth this week.

 Edited, cause I’m dumb.

Follow up, no fries

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Ok, I know, I’m late… behind the eight ball, as always. Still there is one good thing about waiting, I get to talk about last night’s Republican debate as well as Super Tuesday. So, without any further fuss or delay… here are my two bits on this week’s events.

On the Democrats

As expected, Hillary Clinton won pretty big. She claimed two thirds of the contested states and the majority of delegates. Still, Senator Sanders did better than I had anticipated. Winning not just Vermont, but Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota also, is a big deal for his campaign. Again, just like in New Hampshire,  his supporters came out big for him and showed themselves (and the Senator himself) to be a force to reckoned with.

That said, Sanders has a long way to go. He picked up 340 delegates, but that still gives him less than half of what Clinton has (427 to 1,058) and more than one fifth of what is needed to gain the nomination (that’s 2,383 delegates for those counting). Further, losing Massachusetts wasn’t good. The final total was very close, but Massachusetts is generally considered a very liberal state, you could be forgiven for thinking that Sanders would have more traction there.

I’m not saying that Sanders is done, that he should drop out or that there is no way for him to win, only that it’s hard come up from second place when you’ve only won five of the last fifteen contests.

Another thing to consider is that in the states that Clinton won, save Massachussetts, she beat Sanders more than two to one. Sanders did have solid majorities when he won, but outside of Vermont, his leads were smaller.

On the Republicans

Tuesday night was very good to Trump. He won seven of the eleven contests and did so by large margins… no less than ten percent in any state, fifteen or twenty percent in most. I guess that’s not really that surprising, many polls were showing just that result.

Still, there were surprises, Ted Cruz winning Oklahoma and Alaska in addition to Texas. I did not see that coming. I’m sure this only further convinces Cruz that god really does favor him. More surprising is that Marco Rubio actually won something… Minnesota. Even though he placed third most of states, Rubio still took Minnesota as an excuse for a victory lap. I was also surprised by how well John Kasich performed in Vermont. And while Ben Carson’s poor showings were not a shock (well, it may have been to him) the fact that he actually did drop out was surprising… I did not think he’d actually pick up the clue the voters were giving him.

Delegate wise, the Republican race is a lot closer than the Democrats. Trump ended the night with 319, with Cruz at 226, Rubio with 110, Kasich with 25 and Carson with a lulz worthy 8 total delegates. What this shows is that, despite his poll numbers, Trump is far from uneatable and still far from a nomination that require 1,237 delegates. He also isn’t beyond the possibility (however remote, and it is remote) that his adversaries could join forces and take the nomination from him.

The Trumpocolypse

I do think the GOP is realizing that they need to take Trump seriously… late as they may be to that conclusion. Since Tuesday, Trump has been under near constant assault, from the other candidates, Republican officeholder, major GOP-aligned donors and the 58% of Republican voters that have a negative opinion of Trump to Mitt Romney of all people. I mean you have to know you have a problem when Mitt Romney calls you out for flip flopping. I would hope that most people would take that remonstration as a need to seriously evaluate what poor life decision brought them to that point.

Then came last night’s debate.

First, with almost no comment, Trump came slinking back to FOXNews and Megyn Kelly like a sad runaway puppy begging to be let back in the door. So much for his “brave” stance against “unfair” and mean questions being asked by a “lightweight”. Kelly for her part jumped right in on Herr Trump challenging him on the Better Business Bureau’s rating of Trump University (a D-, btw) and the fraud lawsuit against the program. Trump tried to come back and say the BBB had resolved that, Kelly noted it had not. He further alleged that the woman that sued Trump U had been pleased with her experiences, Kelly responded with a  quoted from the court’s opinion in Malaeff v. Trump University: “… victims of con artists often sing the praises of their victimizers until the moment they realize they have been fleeced.” Ouch!

Not to be outdone, Rubio said that Trump was “trying to do the American people what he did to the people that signed up for this course (Trump University), he’s making promises he has no intention of keeping and it won’t just be $36,000 that the lost, it’s our country that’s at stake.” Double ouch!

Cruz also went in on Trump noting that he supported Jimmy Carter over Ronald Reagan, John Kerry over George W. Bush, funded Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, five members of the “Gang of Eight” and donated to Hillary Clinton ten times… four of which during her 2008 presidential run. Ouch yet another time!

Trump did not defend himself well. He seemed confused, even shell shocked by the many attacks launched at him. This was really noticeable when Chris Wallace went after him on his “medical plans”. Trump simply could not respond. Trump’s performance was that of a desperate, struggling eunuch, it looked immensely pathetic.

Frankly, the reason why is simple, Trump doesn’t know anything about any of the issues and he doesn’t even really know what he’s said/ done in the past that could hurt him. When he can’t just attack, he has nothing to offer. Further, I alluded to it before, but after the freak he pulled before the last FOXNews debate, for him to come back to this one shows just how weak he really is and just how much he needs attention.

By the way, of all funny things, Republican pollster and all around jerk, Frank Luntz ran a focus group (my apologies for linking to the Blaze) during the debate, they gave the victory in the debate to John Kasich (seriously, WTF!) and only one person of the group felt Trump won.

One Tuesday, Supersized, with Fires

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Tuesday is the one of the top five days in an election year. It’s a big days that the candidates, news anchors, reporters and talking heads look forward to with giddy hearts. See, it’s Super Tuesday, a single day in which the primary contests in a dozen states will be decided at once.

To call it a make or break moment for a campaign is an understatement. The combined number of delegates available on Tuesday is some ten times that from the previous contests. Further, historically speaking the candidates that does the best on Super Tuesday generally becomes the party’s nominee and including the media attention and fundraising possibilities only underlines Tuesday’s importance.

So just how do things stack up? Well thanks to my crystal ball… otherwise know as FiveThirtyEight.com and Real Clear Politcs… I can tell you.

The short version is that unless the candidate’s name is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, they’re going to have a rough night.

Let me explain. On the Democratic side, Clinton is projected to win all but Sander’s home state of Vermont. That said the two are running close in Massachusetts, with Clinton now having a narrow lead. Also, the polling data available for Colorado and Minnesota is old and poor, and I can see Colorado being receptive to Sanders. So, at best Sanders picks up four of twelve states and at worst only one, that’s not “feeling the Bern”, that is a campaign in crisis.

On the GOP side, the vast majority of states show a clear Donald Trump victory, with Marco Rubio in second, Ted Cruz in third with Ben Carson and John Kasich trading fourth and fifth place. Cruz is slated to win Texas and some outdated polls show him ahead in Arkansas and Rubio in Minnesota. Since the delegate count in most of the states is proportional, Trump won’t get everything, just most of the available delegates. Also, Texas has 155 delegates, most of which will go to Cruz. All that said, Trump is still looking at a very good night.

So what happens on Wednesday?

Well, most of the Republican primaries require candidates to receive a minimum percentage of votes to be awarded delegates. Because of these requirements, there are few states that hold any possibility of Carson or Kasich getting delegates. So, on Wednesday morning, they need to realize that their campaigns are over and drop out. Ted Cruz, despite winning Texas, will still be far behind Trump and because he comes in third in most states and those same minimum vote requirements, could still end up in third place behind Rubio overall. If that turns out to the case, he also needs to get out the race. (Note: I have no real anticipation that Cruz would do that. He is about himself and himself only, not the party, not the Senate, not Texas, nor even the god he claims to believe and sure as shit not the country.)

As for the Democrats, frankly there is no actual way that Bernie Sanders is going to catch up to Hillary Clinton. The sooner Sanders admits that to himself and his fanbois admit that to themselves, the better off we all will be. Wednesday morning, Sanders needs to take a really hard, really honest look at his campaign and his changes and then make hard choices.

I’ll have more to say about Trump (or should I say Drumpf), the Scalia replacement fight and a review of the next chapter for Knights of the Fallen Empire later. Until then, check John Oliver’s epic beat down of Herr Drumpf and always remember to #MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain!

Having a go at Trump

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Donald Trump is still butthurt over the first Republican debate on FOX News, so much so that he is refusing to attend the FOX/ Google debate tonight. The reason, according to Herr Trump: FOX is allowing “lightweight” (his term) Megyn Kelly to participate in the debate and that FOX was mean to him in their press releases. Oh, and Trump also whinged that Kelly had been “unfair” to him previously.

Well… boo the fuck hoo…

So let’s get this straight, Donald Trump, the guy that spends his waking hours spewing racist, misogynist, douchy bullshit from his mouth and Twitter account, is still so injured by Megyn Kelly’s completely reasonable questions that he simply cannot face her again. Wow, what a little bitch.

I shouldn’t be surprised, after all, Trump is hardly the only thin skinned loud mouth… there’s Ann Coulter, Bill O’Reilly, El Rushbo, and more clergy than can easily name.

Serious question though, if Kelly is such a “lightweight”, why can’t Trump handle her? If this sackless twit thinks she was unfair to him, I can’t wait to see him in front of the White House Press Corps… if this is any indication, he’ll be running away from his first press conference in tears.

Further, how is this coward going to handle ISIS, who, you know, cuts off actual people’s actual heads, when he can’t handle a questions that even so slightly pricks his unbelievably thin skin? Fucking hell, by the amount a butthurt whining from Trump you could be forgiven in thinking that Kelly’s questions were so emasculating that she’d literally went Lorena Bobbitt on him. I guess Kelly should add a line to her CV, “the woman that cut off Trump’s balls.”

This isn’t Trumps pity party either. When reports came out the important members of the RNC were looking into ways to keep him off the ticket, he freaked out. Cried that Rience Priebus wasn’t treating him “fairly” (notice a pattern here) and threaten to sue the RNC. News flash: neither Chairman Priebus or the RNC are under any obligation to be fair to any candidate, rather their job is to engineer Republican victories. I’m sure they seen the same polls I have and know what Trump’s actual chances are for success.

I guess, this is what we should expect from someone that has been given almost everything by his daddy, earned little for himself, and whose “marketable” skills mostly include filing for bankruptcy or divorce, firing has-been “celebrities”, and being ass on twitter.

Seriously though, and all snark aside, this tantrum is not only par for the Trump course but is part of a long line of reasons he’s not fit to president (or anything else for that matter).

First, there is his campaign slogan: “Make America Great Again”… cause America sucks right now. Yea, I know, America has a lot of problems, but I cannot feel that a presidential candidate running on a campaign of “America, fuck you” isn’t really that great of an idea. This same thing irked me about Mitt Romney, he constantly talked down the country and I know it was (and still is) an effort to trash President Obama, but sounded so negative and immensely unpatriotic.

Then there was his impressively bigoted announcement speech in which he manages to piss on one of the country’s largest active voting blocks.

After that, his call to ban all Muslims from the country… even those are American but have been traveling abroad, which in addition to being likely illegal, also screamed “help, help, I’m afraid”. Yep, rather than looking strong and decisive, Trump looked weak and frightened. Worse yet, the called played right into the propaganda of ISIS and others. When he was confronted about his statements being used in an Al Shabaab recruitment video, Trump responded by saying that he’s going to say what he needs to say… or something like that. So, yea, Trump would rather continue on with his silliness and thereby continue giving aid and comfort to our nation’s enemies than do anything more sensible.

Finally (at least for my list), there is his (and his supporters) treatment of protesters, reporters, critics and anyone else insufficiently Trump-loving. In between his threats of legal action for reporting on stories he’d rather not have out or “treating him unfairly” and his supporters assaulting dissenters, it’s clear that Trump doesn’t think he is subject to question or criticism. This is disturbing in so many ways, not least that the President of the United States is questionable and accountable to all Americans. Further, journalists, bloggers, and average Joes have a guaranteed Constitutional right to comment, question, criticise, malign or disrespect until our hearts are content. If Trump doesn’t like this or can’t handle it… maybe he should fuck off to Russia or some other totalitarian shit hole.

My advice to Mr. Trump is to pull up his big boy pants, act like he really wants to be president and suffer the slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune of running for public office… just like everyone else… or just fuck off.