Dear America,
There's something I don't understand. Donald Trump withdraws fifty American troops from the Kurdish region of Northern Syria in furtherance of his campaign promise to get American forces out of foreign wars, this in spite of his knowledge that Turkey intends to invade once he does so and the Kurds cannot defend themselves against a nation like Turkey. Almost concurrently, he sends 3,000 troops to Saudi Arabia, in anticipation of military action against that country by a rebel movement in Yemen. Seems like getting involved in another foreign war to me, but risking sixty times as many Americans in doing so.
Then there's the Biden corruption theme that he is flogging on Twitter and every chance he gets to talk to the press, which keeps on repeating what he says even though it only serves to encourage the liar in chief. In addition, it effects Trumps intended dissemination of an already debunked claim against a political rival, repeated by Trump for obviously corrupt purposes, but they never ask him about the obvious inconsistency between the withdrawal of fifty soldiers in one place and the insertion of 3,000 more a few hundred miles away. They also never mention the fact that not only are Trump's two eldest sons traveling all over the world cultivating business relationships in his name--and for the company of which he refused to divest himself--while Trump criticizes Joe Biden because his son does business all over the world in his own name, never involving or benefiting his father, Joe.
I don't understand how Trump gets to use the media, whom he condemns, and the media do nothing to prevent him from using them. I don't understand how this guy can speak simultaneously out of not just both sides of his mouth, but from the top and the bottom too saying all kinds of things that are mutually exclusive. I don't understand how people can still support this guy who may actually be fecundating ground that is already fertile for a world conflagration with the contentiousness of parties like Israel, the Palestinians, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Syria rampant in the area. How can anyone believe him when he claims that someone else is corrupt: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and his son Hunter, or for that matter, anyone else. How can people ignore the fact that when Trump owned "The Taj", as he called it, a casino in Atlantic City, he sold junk bonds to keep the imminently bankrupt enterprise afloat and then used the money to pay his management company that ran the place just before the Trump company that owned the casino declared bankruptcy...not Chapter 11 intended to help the company reorganize but Chapter 7, which left creditors in this case with next to nothing. How can people forget that when Trump hired a bunch of Poles to work on his Tower in Manhattan at a promised rate of compensation and then paid them less, he dared them to sue him pointing out that if they did, it would cost them more than they would get if they just took what he was offering. How can they ignore his hypocrisy?
Well, this is my theory. He lies at such a prodigious rate that the media don't have time to formulate questions to ask him, which he would demur to anyway. They never get a chance to confront him for a given lie because another one has almost contemporaneously spilled shamelessly out of his mouth. There are so many, which ones do you confront? Between preposterous hyperbole that he sometimes turns into a lie in the same sentence in which he utters them and the defamations, character assassinations and gratuitous lies told just because he wants to aggrandize himself, it's like dodging bullets fired out of an assault weapon, which Mitch McConnell is protecting Trump from having to take a position on by preventing a vote on stricter restrictions on weapon ownership in the form of universal registration. Trump isn't just supremely deceitful; he has enablers who effectively keep the flow of preposterous invective going.
It's frustrating being sane in a Trump controlled world. How can this all be happening? Well, political scientists will be talking about that for decades. All we can do is vote.
Your friend,
Mike
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