Ugliness

[poliphilo]

There are good reasons for not wanting to see Donald Trump become POTUS and there are bad reasons. One of the bad reasons is snobbery. Trump is just so vulgar- "such a coarse soul" as one of my teachers once said about Kipling- so decidedly not "one of us".

Another bad reason is fear of change. Trump hasn't and won't play by the rulebook. He threatens to upset the smooth running of things. He's going to jump into the sluggishly-moving, lumpy stream of effluent that is national and international politics and splash about. It could embarrass and annoy a lot of people who aren't used to having their beauty sleep disturbed.

So Trump approaches his inauguration with the political establishment (both parties) against him, the cultural elite against him, the media against him, the security agencies against him and most foreign leaders against him.  Bush Jnr wasn't much loved either, but has any president entered office with so many powerful enemies?

Expect ugliness.

And here comes some, right on cue....

All this TMI about prostitutes pissing on one another or pissing on Trump or having Trump piss on them in a Moscow hotel room is probably made up. I'm sure Trump has some pretty gross things on his CV but doubt this is one of them. As with all the stuff about Russians hacking Clinton's computer we need to remember where its coming from. It's coming from the spooks- that is to say from people whose entire raison d'etre is subterfuge, misinformation, dirty tricks etc...

Trump isn't handling the pressure very well. Or is he? That rough-edged, bad-tempered press conference is what we've come to expect from him- and being rough-edged and bad-tempered hasn't harmed him thus far. In fact rather the opposite. The media and elite don't yet seem to have understood how sick, sick, sick  the common people (the unwashed, the not particularly articulate, the deplorables) have become of well-groomed, political smoothies who "smile as they kill".

Comments

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

It reminds a story: when one guy from Trump's team reposted in Facebook that story about Podesta and pizzagate, he was immediately excluded from the team by Trump.

So from this point Trump looks as more decent and respectable man than all those so called "good people", who are ready to pick up every shit and spread it with no doubt if they see name "Trump" on it.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Trump is no fool. I used to think he was, but he ain't.

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

Man who can get that far is definitely no fool. By the way, that guy who made up that so called secret report left his cat to a neighbor and ran away from the fame, which is already chasing him (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/11/former-mi6-officer-produced-donald-trump-russian-dossier-terrified/).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's like a spy story- which I suppose it is- only more like fiction than something that's actually going on.

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

One guy on 4chan image board said that it was him who sent that prank about Trump to Rick Wilson from whom it made its way to that Mr. Bond from Mi6 and further. It's a win, I suppose.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's so much disinformation out there it's hard to know what to believe

[evilzerg-r.livejournal.com]

Sure. And people in intelligence services who are responsible for making the report for government are hired there for that purpose - to dig the truth. But now it looks like someone in internet shouts that terrible Trump eats children for breakfast, and this nonsense without any check comes to the government and TV.