Well this is a break through. Not only am I riffing on Donald Trump, something I vowed never to do but I’m doing it in my own rhythm. No more Thursday morning deadlines, every rohn report being published precisely at 7 AM on the morning of . . . (you may or may not have noticed). Just a simple catch and release. Who knows when the fish will bite, it’s still early or it’s too late, they bite when they want to bite. This post is ready when it’s ready.
So, yep, it’s about Donald Trump. I had to dump it somewhere. I feel like acting out.
I posted that on Facebook, ‘I feel like acting out’ and a friend responded ‘Could you set fire to a Tesla?’ I replied “No, I was thinking more on the level of a scathing rohn report’. Ha ha. Screaming and yelling. So here it is. My scathing rohn report about Donald Trump. The chump. God bless me if I ever mention his name again.
Donald Trump is a crook (thank you Lord). He cooked the books so nobody would notice he paid off a porn star who he had sex with before the 2016 election. Got caught for that one. Meanwhile his wife was home nursing little four month old baby Barron.
He raped a lady (E. Jean Carroll) in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman Department Store on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Got caught for that one.
He once bragged to an Access Hollywood reporter, “ . . . when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything . . . grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.” What a guy. Didn’t get caught for that one.
Two other felony indictments have been dropped since he became president, dropped and forgotten. But let’s review them just for a moment, just before the lights go out again.
He attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election by inspiring a mob to attack the capital during the confirmation process. That was quite a spectacle, scaling the walls and breaking through windows to roam the halls of Congress wearing MAGA hats (one guy in a horned helmet), looking to lynch Mike Pence and piss on Nancy Pelosi.
Hundreds of people managed to breach Capital security and attempt to break into the chamber where a joint session of congress was underway. The congress people, including Vice President Pence, were evacuated and moved to a secure location.
People died, 170 police officers were injured. Trump was impeached by Congress but not convicted.
Then there was the illegal hiding of classified documents in his bathroom at Mar-a-Lago case. Some mementos he took home, apparantly, to share with his dinner guests or whatever. Don’t mean to presume Donald Trump’s motives (thank you Lord).
And of course the Georgia case where he was on the phone with the Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, urging him to find more votes and flip the state in his favor. The conversation was recorded. Everybody heard it. He was indicted by the state of Georgia for racketeering and conspiracy (among other things) but this indictment too was dropped when he became president.
All gone, they’re all gone as if they never happened. He got clean away. Except for a few taps on the wrist.
He’s a con artist and a mafia boss and a wanna be dictator like his buddy Putin. He knows how to lie and manipulate people’s minds. He’s an expert at that. That’s how he operates. That’s the game: see how much can you get away with. "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." he famously remarked during a campaign stop in 2016. "It's, like, incredible." Yeah, I can agree with that, it is incredible.
He doesn’t care about you, your religion or your country. He doesn’t care about democracy or our historical values like equality and fairness and honesty and hard work and a government based on sharing power in a balanced way (as it was designed).
He’s a serial narcissist. It’s all about him. It’s pathological. My dictionary defines pathological as: compulsive, obsessive, inveterate, habitual, persistent, chronic, clinical, hardened, confirmed, unreasonable, irrational, illogical. Check, check, check.
Whatever he says, the opposite is true. I find that also incredible. He just wants to see what he can get away with, he wants to see what the limits are and what’s the pushback and where’s it coming from and how powerful is it. Once he calibrates that, he and his band of merry robsters will get together and figure out how to overcome that. They’re going to shoot the moon. And Musk is going to Mars. Lot’s of cheap real estate there. Prime for development.
He saturates the media with bullshit. That’s devious. He’s flooding the zone with bullshit my cafe friend John said the other day. He’s flooding the zone with deviousness I said in return. Trying to over-max the system. I mean there aren’t enough courts in the land to deal with all his bullshit and they are the only thing standing in his way. He’s got Congress in his pocket.
He’s drunk on power, intoxicated, can’t get enough adulation to satiate his need for ego gratification. Any news is good news. Bad news is great news. He has mastered the art of dominating the media. Indictment? Go ahead mother ucker, hit me with another one. They all love it (the MAGA people).
He wants to be in the headline news, not only each and every day, but forever in the annals of history. He wants to live in your mind and in the minds of your children. Donald Trump did this or Donald Trump did that they will read one day in the history books and he will become a myth. Statues in the park? Well, we’ll have to see how the war goes first. Those things have a way of turning around and biting you in the butt.
He’s a lout. He’s rude and he’s crude. There’s no precedence for giving the keys to the car (or in this case the nation) to a total maniac who doesn’t respect the laws that are supposed to keep us all safe and alive. He drives like a teenager with the instincts of a bully. If he pushes others off the road - hey who cares, you’re fired.
He wants to tariff countries he has a beef with and then the next day reverses it, roiling the markets and rolling in the headlines.
He creates divisiveness and confusion so he can grab even more power than he already has. If everybody is confused and divided - good. Only he can fix it. What the uck. Did you notice that I managed to write this entire post without using the word that rhymes with ‘uck’ or even the verb form ‘ucking’?
Alright, well, the case against Donald Trump could go on endlessly (thank you Lord). Shutting down or trying to shut down the U.S. Institute of Peace - which basically studies how to make peace in the world not war. Ditto for the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID, it helps countries recovering from disasters, or trying to escape poverty, engaging in democratic reforms and stuff like that. The Voice of America? This is where many people without alot of media options get their information and news about the USA, and it’s where we can share our culture with them. How is shutting down these organizations going to make things better? The Department of Education, WTF he wants to shut down the Department of Education. WTF and a half.
So I’m driving my car down McCullough the other day and all these thoughts about Donald Trump are going through my head (thank you Lord) and all the possible scenarios and the possible consequences and potential disasters of all sorts: the end of civilization, the death watch of humanity and then all my problems and issues thrown in for good measure - the bog filter leaks, the cat seems to have mange. These were my thoughts when I saw this guy on a bicycle waiting at the corner. I saw him and immediately felt like, he’s having fun, I’m driving in my car thinking about all my problems and he’s just cruising free and easy. That was my perception anyway.
I suddenly realized that, hey, I can separate myself from all this, I can be in my own experience and everything else can be whatever it is. That’s the way it can be. That’s the moral of the story. Do we need a moral? Yes, I need one. I need to learn something or understand something. I’m only human.
Yeah, I mean the bog filter and this issue and that issue and all the problems of my life come and inhabit my mind, they take over, they become priorities, their own self importance trumps everything else (thank you Lord). Seeing the guy on his bike, free and clear and me thinking about all my problems . . . I can be that guy on the bike.
It’s a life skill. Doesn’t come easily but something to practice while driving my stupid car down the street. Who do I want in my head, yucking what’s his name or the possibilities of elation? That’s the lesson I got out of all this.
See this wasn’t really about what’s his name at all. It’s about you and me. Who can we be? A Dr. Seuss book or a power for good? Power Rangers. Saviors of the Galaxy. These are the stories the kids are listening to. Building an infinitely diverse new world in Minecraft. They will be tasked with re-building the world that we are destroying.
Deep exhalation. I’m going to go ride my bike.
podcast music from Martin Liege. Thanks Martin.
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