Can you stand on one leg and list Trump’s disqualifying
problems?
Maybe if you’re a gymnast. I can’t.
1.
He’s a liar. No matter what he says today, if it
doesn’t make money and win applause today, he won’t say it again tomorrow.
2.
He’s pro-abortion. Even when he was pro-life for
a few days – even then! – he was pro-Planned Parenthood and ready to appoint
pro-abortion judges.
3.
He treats women like cattle. I like cattle. But
women aren’t cattle. When you check out his wife collection, it’s glaringly
obvious what he wants from women.
4.
He despises the military. Yeah, I know he has
put a lot of money into buying vets’ votes. But he thinks that having the guts
to die for your country is a clear sign of a loser. My brother died for his
country, and I cannot find it in me to understand anyone – anyone! – who
tolerates Trump’s remarks about CAPT McCain. CAPT McCain isn’t a hero because
he got captured; he’s a hero because he risked it all, 23 times. What’s wrong
with the guy who can’t understand this?
5.
Trump has no idea how the military works. We
have the world’s best military, partly because we have money for weapons and
R&D, but mostly because we still have people Trump will never understand.
People who will risk and lose their lives for others. What makes them great is
the guts to risk. And what makes it clear that the risk is real are the
casualties. Sorry, you can’t separate our heroes from our casualties. They
aren’t heroes because they got killed; they are heroes because they took real
risks. Look, try this: here’s a story about the losers Trump wants to order
around: http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kellys-speech-about-marines-in-ramadi-2013-6.
6.
He is ready to demand that loser-soldiers commit
war crimes. Killing civilians deliberately is a war crime. Torturing people is
a war crime. But Trump says that loser-soldiers will do what the Alpha-Male
tells them to do. That’s demeaning, but also ignorant. What’s he got to say
about the CIA agent, Sabrina de Sousa, facing trial in Italy now for war crimes
– because she cooperated with evils that her bosses said were okay? When you
commit war crimes, the tribunals that might go after you include: international
law, other nations with laws that we used to support, the contempt of
colleagues, and God himself. That’s a lot of exposure that Trump would demand
that his loser-soldiers risk. (See http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/25/former-cia-agent-sabrina-de-sousa-extradition-italy-abu-omar-kidnapping)
7.
After the war in Vietnam was over, the USA was
divided. Veterans came home and were called baby-killers. Trump didn’t fight in
that war; he dodged duty repeatedly. (I was a conscientious objector, and did a
couple of years of alternative service. I opposed the war, but I honor the men
who fought there. I oppose war, but I honor men and women with the guts and
generosity to put it all on the line.) The nation pulled itself back together
somehow, but Trump is still contemptuous of the military, ready to re-open old
wounds. I am so ashamed of the people who think this draft-dodger is tough,
because he asks other people to rough up protesters.
8.
After Putin grabbed Crimea, and while Putin held
the eastern part of Ukraine, Trump said that Putin wasn’t in Ukraine yet. He
didn’t know what was going on. He wasn’t imposing a weird interpretation on the
facts; he didn’t know what was happening. That degree of ignorance is no okay
for a President.
9.
Did you hear him talking about nukes? Maybe all
those free-loaders who depend on us to defend them should go get their own
nukes? Did you now he wanted an explanation, over and over, about why we
shouldn’t use them?
10.
Trump should be horse-whipped for what he did to
Heidi Cruz. I don’t understand the gun culture at all. But sometimes, weapons
make people polite. If you insult a guy with a gun, you might die, so you’re
polite. But this guy insults Ted Cruz’s wife, carefully, after thinking it over
for a few days. Where’s Aaron Burr when you need him? But let’s not go there;
if you can’t give life back after a mistake, don’t ever take life. Still, I think
Trump should be whipped. I simply cannot imagine how anyone with a grain of
self-respect can still defend him after he attacked Heidi Cruz.
11.
He despises Mexicans and other Latinos. That’s
my family. Especially my Latina grand-daughter – but really, all the children
of Guadalupe. That’s my family whom he despises. I take it personally. I want
the wall down, so Americans north and south can visit easily.
12.
He despises Muslims. That’s 1.5 billion children
of God. That’s an attack on my students. That’s about my neighbors and friends,
whom I love and respect. How does he do that horrible thing? I understand that
he does: he is the voice of fear and hatred. I see it, but I can’t understand
it.
13.
He despises the Pope. The Pope wasn’t bamboozled
in Mexico; he’s been talking about immigrants for years, decades. The Pope
planned for months to walk up to that wall and feel the shame and pain of the
hateful division. Trump dismissed his teaching, just brushed it off
contemptuously. What a blind fool!
14.
He despises Christians. He can smarm with the
best, and some folks are gullible enough to fall for it. But “little cup of
grape juice” and “little cracker”? That’s contempt. How do you not see it? I
don’t get it.
15.
I cannot imagine what goes on inside the head of
a guy who makes fun of people with disabilities. I understand brats who do it;
they’re ignorant, and they will grow up. But Trump is over 12. He’s been around
a while. How do you do that? Where has he been? Why doesn’t he have a lot of
friends who live with disabilities, friends he loves, friends with disabilities
who inspire and teach him? How do you live 60 years and still do this juvenile
stuff? I think he should work in hospitals for a couple of years.
16.
He thinks NATO is optional, and that our allies
are cheapskates. He’s okay tossing aside serious efforts to maintain global
stability. I don’t understand how anyone can be taken in by this fool.
17.
He admires Putin, because the guy is decisive.
Where did this guy go to school? Has he ever read anything?
18.
The KKK act was so hokey. He couldn’t figure out
how to keep the KKK vote but not lose the whole anti-KKK vote. Hm, hm, lemme
think, who’s this Duke guy. Hey, I’m willing to listen: can anyone explain how Trump
can waffle on the KKK and not be a racist? I think he’s a racist, like his
father, and I wonder how anyone can support a racist for president and not be a
racist. I’m listening, if anyone wants to explain.
19.
He does NOT get things done. He inherited a lot
of money from his slum-landlord dad, who got a hand up from his pimp father. If
he had invested his inheritance in the stock market, he would have been better
off than he is. Four bankruptcies? (Six, but three get lumped together.) This
guy is an expert deal-maker? Are you serious? Have you heard the stories from
people he cheated? He said he might want to try to re-negotiate America’s debt,
same way he chaeted people with his bankruptcies. If the President of the USA
suggested that the USA might not want to pay its debts in full, and the dollar
was suddenly not secure, would that cause a global depression?
20.
One of the great evils in immigration abuses –
the one that makes so many Americans hate illegal immigration – is that
unscrupulous employers bring in illegals and pay them dirt wages, undercutting
the local workers who need a living wage. Trump the anti-immigrant uses cheap
illegal labor all the time. Even his most evil stance – keep out refugees – is based
on fraud. He can’t even do evil without cheating his co-evilists.
21.
He’s a fraud. Trump University? Who benefited
from that? How can a thoughtful person want that rip-off artist touching our
nation’s money?
Woops. I can’t stand on one leg
any longer. But I wasn’t done.