Although I’ve posted nothing about the man recently, I’ve come under attack over the past couple of days for my lack of sufficiently reverent devotion to Mr. Donald J. Trump, Leader of the United States, and my failure to recognize that criticisms of him constitute the crime of lèse majesté, which is a serious offense in absolute monarchies and third-world dictatorships.
I plead guilty. I simply cannot muster the servility that is required of me. My parents raised me badly, I guess.
Thus, I’ve been inspired to post a few links to recent articles that I’ve liked, on the subject of Mr. Donald J. Trump, Leader of the United States, that I’ve liked.
The first one, by Mitt Romney, has drawn quite a bit of attention since it was published on 1 January, but it’s possible that you missed it. Having read it, one commenter on my blog suggests (just a sentence or two after calling the late John McCain “treasonous”) that Mr. Romney is very possibly involved in international child sex trafficking.
I dunno. That seems a bit of a leap to me. I don’t think that the article quite justifies the commenter’s conclusion. But you can judge for yourself:
Of course, that same commenter — I think that I’ll call him Der Stürmer — contends that “What is happening behind the scenes right now in our country and the world as The Storm arrives and President Trump and the greatest military power in the history of the world destroys the world wide corruption and incomprehensible crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Deep State is giving me hope.”
Moreover, he says — clearly fantasizing about putting political figures of whom he disapproves in concentration camps — “Guantanamo Bay has been remodeled with over two divisions of troops stationed there and prepared for the mass influx of treasonous and seditious politicians and Government officials (Think Comey, Clapper, Brennan, The entire Obama administration along with the likes of Paul Ryan and numerous corrupt judges and state politicians)”
O glorious day!
“The Great Awakening is here,” he proclaims. “The Storm has arrived and the swamp is being drained here and now starting in Europe. Viva la Resistance and the Gilles Jaunes!”
I was in downtown Paris on Saturday night, and I saw the smashed windows, the scores of burned out motorcycles, and the smoldering cars left behind by the gilets jaunes just an hour or two before I arrived on the scene. If you liked Kristallnacht, the Watts riots, and the Somalia of Black Hawk Down, you’ll resonate with Der Stürmer’s dream for our future.
Another commenter on my blog has already pronounced Mitt Romney’s tenure in the Senate a failure, complaining that Mr. Romney should have spent his time in the Senate representing Utah and doing good rather than being so horribly “judgmental.”
Now, I haven’t done any serious mathematics in years, but Mitt Romney published his article on Tuesday, 1 January 2019, and that seems to me to have been approximately two days before he was sworn in as a member of the Senate on Thursday, 3 January. Moreover, I’m reasonably confident that he wrote the article even before it was published. And, as of this writing, Mr. Romney has been in office for only four days. So I think it’s just a tad premature to write his Senate term off as a failure.
Here’s a slightly odd comment on Mr. Romney’s article that some will find interesting:
“Sen. Mitt Romney’s Criticisms of Donald Trump Highlight New Political Culture for Mormons”
Meanwhile, speaking of once and future Latter-day Saint senators, here’s a piece about the most powerful of them all:
“Harry Reid Has a Few Words for Washington”
I should add that I was never a supporter of Harry Reid. (After all, I’m a life-long libertarian-leaning conservative.) Moreover, I’ve found some of his political actions reprehensible, even apart from his voting record. But I’ve defended him a few times:
“I’m far from a political supporter of Harry Reid”
“Harry Reid Shocked to Learn He’s Mormon”
“A Sabbath eve warning with regard to comments about Harry Reid”
“Daniel Peterson, deviationist and heretic”
“Decent people can disagree. Decently, even. (It happens.)”
And I’m deeply sorry that he’s apparently fatally ill.
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