So Liberals are in an uproar over
Trump saluting an Enemy Officer during his NK visit. Screaming
"treason!" and "SEE SEE! He likes enemies more than
Americans!" The majority of them post the still photo that
apparently shows him smartly saluting the (Ok I have to admit, I do
like the guys uniform) officer. My problem isn't with Donnie saluting
the dude. If you watch the actual video, you'll see that when the
moment comes, Hair Furrer is completely and utterly confused at what
to do. The dude salutes while Trump holds out his hand and Trump
awkwardly salutes him back. It was obviously an "Oh crap what do
I do" moment on the Toupee that walks like a man's part. If you
watch the video, it was less of a "saluting the enemy' than it
was "I have no idea what I doing" thing.
No, my problem is the hypocrisy of
the Right over the moment. They have already demonstrated it quite
well by praising Trump's efforts in NK while forgetting how they
completely eviscerated Obama over and over again when he even
suggested that it should be done. Now, we have the salute. When Obama
bowed to one of our ALLIES!!!, he was demonized over and over again
by the RIght Wingnuts as being weak and betraying America by showing
subservience. Faux News ran with that for months after the event. Now
Hair Furrer is seen saluting an Enemy Officer and all of the
Trumpublicans are defending him and coming up with exquisitely
delusional reasons why this is COMPLETELY different from Obama
bowing.
John McDuffie provided the most
perfect example of doublespeak on the matter. (In his defense, he was
not aware of the actual event yet and was speaking in a more general
nature, but his well-worded explanation pretty much mirrors all of
the BS being spewed by others who actually knew what was going on.
WTG John!)
Politics is filled with BS.
Politics is filled with hypocrisy. It is an occupational requirement.
The very idea of a politician is a contradiction. A Politician MUST
keep his vast numbers of supporters happy by making them insane
promises that he has no real ability to keep and a Politician MUST do
whatever he has to to keep his job even if that means screwing over
the very people that elected him. It is only when people understand
this simple fact that they realize that broadly defending one group
while destroying the other groups is pointless and only serves to
make things worse.
Every political group is guilty of
this. None of them are innocent. The only way any of this will change
is if we stop this insane partisan blind support of "Our"
side and realize that we are all in this badly damaged boat rapidly
sinking in a sea of manure together and start patching the holes and
draining the crap. To quote a director that I never really liked,
"WAKE UP!" Because if you don't wake up soon, you're going
to need to learn how to breath bull poop.
