Absolutely Not Normal
When I grow up, I want to be the person my dog thinks I am.
ProPublica recently published an article about the growing online presence of the crime family squatting in the Oval Office on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.
Benedict Donald’s son, Benedict Donald, Jr., has a show titled Triggered and, in addition, there are podcasts and YouTube channels and gods know what else. Junior interviewed his dad for one of his shows and his opening question was something along the lines of, “Who is your favorite child, and why is it Ivanka?”
Pretty cute. As Art Linkletter liked to say, “Kids say the darnedest things.”
As a reminder, Benedict Donald, Jr. likes to shoot rare creatures in Mongolia with a weapon equipped with lasers and send the tab to American taxpayers for his right to do so. Benedict Donald, Jr and Eric the Clueless also like to go big game hunting in Africa and Alaska because nothing shouts “I’m a man!” more than killing endangered and magnificent wildlife.
As another reminder, there is nothing ‘normal’ about this family.
Every single one of them - including the deluded patriarch - were born on third base and thought they hit a triple.
Their non-stop presence in the nation’s consciousness over the last several years have dumbed all of us down. Stressed many of us to the breaking point. And taken up petabytes of space in brains only meant to hold gigabytes. And, some, only bytes.
And now they are making an all-out effort to come across as the Everyman. People like you and me. Their plan is to circumvent the mainstream media and pasteurize their product (themselves) through every available social media outlet. And they are doing so through creating their own content, flooding social media with advertising or unleashing foreign troll farms.
They have the means and the moxie to do this and - thus - we have our work cut out for us.
So, even while their poll numbers are plummeting due to their callousness towards all things military, even while they grossly mishandled the greatest human catastrophe in our lifetimes, even while their insensitivity toward Black lives gets put on display daily, even while they throw the kitchen sink along with the Constitution at every attempt to force them to be more transparent about their finances, even while the news breaks against them on an hourly basis - this is no time to let down our guard.
Absolutely no time to get complacent.
We need to treat this upcoming election as if it’s that first version of Friday the 13th. You know, the one where, just when you think you can relax, the killer re-emerges? The one where it’s not over until the credits roll?
With that in mind, I want to remind you, the disaster-artist-in-chief does not like dogs.
And, there is no First Dog of the United States, which hasn’t been the case since William McKinley.
One of the prevaricator-in-chief’s excuses is that he has no time. I mean, with his incessant tweeting, compulsive television watching, ducking presidential daily briefs and spoiling a perfect walk in the outdoors by using a golf cart, when would he find the time to love on a pooch?
This family is not normal.
I don’t know for a fact that none of them have pets but I haven’t seen one of them pictured with a pet. That seems not just unAmerican to me, but inhuman, and points to an inability to feel or show compassion. Learning to love and care for another living creature is essential training for all humans. Learning to love and care for another sentient being that is not human is also essential to what makes us human.
In my mind, it shows that you can look beyond yourself.
And, I don’t know if this is true or not either, but I thought I caught wind of Dear Leader joking about pardoning the asshole who starred in the Tiger King, even though he claimed to not really know who he was. I’m sure it was an ‘owning the liberals’ thing but it speaks volumes to how he views animals. He doesn’t.
Dogs are calming. Dogs are accepting without conditions. Dogs are good listeners. Dogs are tolerant of all kinds of behavior. They put up with the child voices we use on them.
If I were trying to get this jackass re-elected, I’d advise him to shut down his Twitter account, get out of the public eye and find a FDOTUS “stat”!
Because, if there is one thing both conservatives and liberals can agree on, it’s taking time to watch dog videos in order to lift our spirits. And liking stories about dogs rescued from our local humane societies.
Speaking of which, did y’all know that Joe Biden has a rescue dog named Major?
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