Patrice Greanville
Ever since Donald Trump became the 45th occupant of the White House, sanctimonious liberals and their numerous media—including overt Democratic party shills like the Daily Kos—have been having a field day with the Twitterer in Chief.
Their job is easy because Trump is nothing if not pathetically incompetent in his moves, often buffoonish, and his focus and coherence leave more than a little to be desired. Besides, his priorities from day one have been eschewed to “prove” to his base that he is a man of his word, a man who delivers, as opposed to the longstanding tradition of complete betrayal of electoral promises evidenced by the numerous crooks and rogues that preceded him.
This would be fine if his priorities had concerned sane, generous, and healthy objectives for the nation, instead of the narrow, racist and divisive obsessions of a man and a crowd hitched to ugly and simplistic “solutions” to problems—long in the making— of a complex historical nature. Alas, such tact and finesses are alien to Trump, and in the deviousness department where he could learn a thing or two from his predecessor, he is simply as adept to the minuet as a man with two left feet. Further, contrary to his own rhetoric, by surrounding himself with abject swamp creatures and rabid warmongers, he defaulted on just about every single important promise he made or implied as a candidate, and now, after caving in to the War Party on de-escalating tensions with Russia, he has dropped the last rationale for anyone sane to support him. That however, before we jump on the liberals’ bandwagon of making Trump the sum total of our predicament, only means Trump is as typical of the rotten system misruling America as is Obama and Clinton and the rest of the crooks and criminals in that fetid class.
I see no reason, therefore, for complacent, obtuse liberals (is there any other type?) to be gloating over Trump’s manufactured misfortunes, or his supposedly inferior performance when compared to Obama, as their hero is also demonstrably a Wall Street-owned crook and tested warmonger who put the nation on a terrible collision path with Russia, China and other nations, while totally betraying the environment and the prospects of a better life for ordinary Americans. Did I leave anything out?
In any slightly functional democracy, a man with such a voluminous portfolio of dubious accomplishments would be justified to feel concerned. But Obama sleeps soundly. After all, he can always rely on the Democrats’ well stocked sycophant gallery, of which the author below is apparently a member in excellent standing, not to mention the numerous Hollywood and media celebs who regard rubbing elbows with Obama as a lifetime honor to keep burnishing his imaginary creds as an exemplary leader. In any case, anyone who talks, with a straight face, as Mark Sumner does in this excerpt from the Daily Kos, about “Obama’s accomplishments” is grotesquely delusional or intentionally deceiful. Or just plain dumb. A rather normal finding when thinking about mainstream liberals these days. Incidentally, many liberals prone to lucubration think they can impersonate truth via pseudo-sophisticated analysis, or witty, scathing and snide commentary—a field they specialize in. The sad part is that kind of devious stratagem frequently works, deepening the confusion that now envelops the public mind like an unbeatable fog.
All of which leads us to a depressing conclusion. Trump may be easy to knock down and deride, like shooting that legendary fish in the barrel, but sometimes truth—uncomfortable truths—come out of the Donald’s mouth (one more reason for the establishment to hate him). So, yes, it’s highly likely that his phones were indeed tapped by Obama or the Democrats managerial clique, and that is a crime that should be investigated. Will it? I doubt it. Trump’s hold on the “power ministries” is now next to nil so insisting on this without even solid GOP support is bound to make Trump even more ridiculous. Which is a pity, because if nothing else an inquiry into this dirty trick might have shown the benighted liberal masses that their darling Obama does not walk on water, as many still would like to believe, and that the problem is a lot deeper than Trump, or Obama, or any other big time politician, but the system itself which can only present the public with such outrageously broken examples of governance.
In this clime, the response to Trump’s denunciation has been wholly predictable. The usual battalions of fools, comedians, and presstitutes throughout the liberal media are out in force, already making a lot of noise about how “absurd” this is, how “unthinkable” that the saintly Obama should have stooped so low as to tap Trump’s phones (or any other candidate’s), etc., but that’s only arrogant flatulence. Their protestations are baseless, their posture ultimately ridiculous. Trump’s accusation—twittered or not— is credible simply because that’s the rotten epoch we live in. Caught in a legitimacy crisis, the American system of global rule is showing its true face, the naked plutocracy’s face, and it’s not pretty; it’s the face of a mafia of infinitely more power, cynicism, and maleficence than anything conceived by the likes of Mario Puzo.
In this rarified context in which even the pretense to ethics that whitewashes the reality of the system is disintegrating before our eyes, why should we suddenly trust Obama—the Great Dissembler— or the FBI or the CIA, all first class liars with a proven history of underhanded citizen betrayal and crimes galore to their credit? Affluent liberals, of course, forever skating on the far periphery of truth, never paid much attention to Obama’s from-the-word-go betrayals, like his famous trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street, fully at the expense of the average family in America, nor his long list of sordid crimes, beginning with his cold-blooded aggressions in Ukraine, Libya and Syria, a type of international capital offence for which the allied powers hanged Nazi hierarchs at Nuremberg.
At the end of the day, given his agenda, only fools can defend Trump, or cling to a sense of pride in a politician as transparently phony and treacherous as Barack Obama, except in those rare cases when for some well-nigh inscrutable reason, and contrary to character, they happen to do something good for the American people or the world at large. Otherwise, this is a brawl between two equally abominable wings of the reigning plutocracy, and our role must be to sternly oppose, resist and expose its fraudulent rule by every means possible. Until their hold on our lives is broken—through clear-eyed and stubborn struggle—we should simply follow Shakespeare’s advice, and shout at them, with full confidence in the rightness of our cause, “a plague on both your houses!”
—PG
The piece critiqued in the above comment, appearing on the Daily Kos, can be found below:
I will not be made a fool of! Do you hear me?
When Trump ran into Christopher Ruddy on the golf course and later at dinner Saturday, he vented to his friend. “This will be investigated,” Ruddy recalled Trump telling him. “It will all come out. I will be proven right.”
“He was pissed,” said Ruddy, the chief executive of Newsmax, a conservative media company. “I haven’t seen him this angry.”
Not only is Trump obsessed over a conspiracy of persecution that includes non-existent phone taps, a cadre of “low life leakers,” and a press eager to display his every failure, he’s also being driven (more) snot-slinging crazy by the thought that he could be compared to President Obama.
Gnawing at Trump, according to one of his advisers, is the comparison between his early track record and that of Obama in 2009, when amid the Great Recession he enacted an economic stimulus bill and other big-ticket items.
Yes, by this point Obama had proposed, negotiated, renegotiated, and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That’s on top of getting the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act signed within the first two weeks of his administration.
What has Trump accomplished? Well … he wrote a bunch of executive orders, one of which has already been blocked in court, and he signed a bill making it easier for energy companies to pollute both the air and water. Hows that hatey-wally thing going for Trump voters?
Trump’s young presidency has existed in a perpetual state of chaos.
Trump made a huge number of promises about what he would accomplish day one, but real governing has turned out to be harder than just screaming at a receptive crowd.
REMEDIAL READING
For those who wish to read something far closer to the truth than mere elegies or apologetics for Obama, this piece by Obama expert Paul Street is just what you need. Many more essays of this type are awaiting inspection in our archives.
WE TOLD YOU SO DEPT.: “Progressive” Obama: He’s Melting, He’s Melting
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