KC Shoen
Donald John
Trump has always been a misogynistic, self-aggrandizing, narcissistic ass.
That’s the easy part, but this is where multiple, one-dimensional missives
overtake the exact nature of the whole, particularly in main stream media. Upon formerly announcing his candidacy for
the Presidency under the ‘Republican’ banner last year, much of the press went
straight into ‘marginalization mode’. But not one outlet cast incredibly arrogant shade and pompous
condescension more
prominently than The Huffington Post. in a July 17, 2015 article, a pathetically
shallow and short-sided announcement from staff writers Ryan Grimm and
Danny Shea stated wistfully:
“…we will cover his campaign
as part of our Entertainment section. Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign is
a sideshow. We won’t take the bait. If you are interested in what The Donald
has to say, you’ll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”
Glen
Greenwald recently wrote an excellent piece on the mainstream media’s penchant for hollow prognostics
as legitimate
certitude when writing about Trump. While covering these putrid phenomena with
great insight, it left out HuffPo’s
incredible self-serving artifice without mention.And why this is important to
recount it is to understand Donald Trump’s complete hatred and contempt of being
marginalized.
Even
if it is in jest.
In 2011 he attended President Obama’s annual
White House Correspondence Dinner. This is the yearly event where the Commander
in Chief goes on a ‘piss taking’ rant, lets his collar loose and enjoys a bit
of self-denigrating humor at his expense as well. This was during Trump’s
‘birther’ salvos he attempted to resurrect and make issue of that year. The
President, within 3 separate monologues during the first 18
minutes of his opening speech was dedicated to dissing the Donald with regards
to his show (The Apprentice), the
birther rubbish he tried to spout, and his over-all tackiness. While very effective,
hilarious as hell, and well deserved, The Donald was visibly unhappy at being
made ridiculous.
Throughout
the core of his adult life, Trump was a liberal democrat. Upon testing the
waters in 2000 he decided to withhold running as he felt (and correctly so) the
timing wasn’t right, and the support was not present to run as a member of the
“Reform Party”. It also elicited the membership of David Duke and Pat Buchanan which did not sit well with him.
Trump
began in 2011 to court and support the Republican Party in more consistency
than previously years. In 2012 he backed a cautious Mitt Romney, whom did not take a
clear “shine” to the celebrity billionaire, and had declined the offer to have
Trump appear with him when he stumped around the country.
Though
he had pledged support to the party, what he really wanted was to be taken
seriously with regards to his own political ambition. An ambition that did not
make itself known, until, quite
accidentally, during an obscure television interview with Phil Donahue in December 1987. He was invited on the
famous talk show to discuss his book The
Art of The Deal. The conversation went from his history in the real estate
business and touched upon some of his then-legal issues he was facing in New
York.
As
the conversation unfolded with regard to the zoning issues and legal hassles he
was facing, Donald Trump began to speak of then- New York City Mayor Ed Koch fielding
“the most corrupt administration in the history of the city”, his first on-air political
public statement (starting at around 7:34 in the video). Later in the program,
as he is asked by an audience member why he does not run for public office in
the city, Trump responded he had no desire to run for any office in New York.
When asked by another about running for any
office, (beginning at around the 4:53 mark) Trump went on one of his now infamous signature rants, blustering about
economic unfairness, the US being taken advantage by the Japanese in trading,
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia gauging the US in oil prices, the US defense budget paying
for military protection utilizing our assets for these three countries and so
forth. This goes on until solidly until the 8-minute mark.
Soon
after this appearance had aired, Trump received an unexpected but enthusiastic
bit of correspondence dated December 21 of that year, the short letter didn’t
laud him for his real-estate acumen, but for something else:
“Dear Donald
I
did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon that you were great on the
Donahue Show.
As
you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever
you decide to run for office, you will be a winner!
With
Warm Regards
Sincerely,
RMN”
With
this alleged blessing of the Nixons, Trump would look at himself in a different
light: he had gone from being a failed show business investor, a quasi-monarchial
inheritor of his grandmother’s business by proxy of his father, having to deal with the mafia in his investment foray
of Atlantic City, legally accused of being overtly discriminatory against housing people of
color, eventually going bankrupt when his Taj Mahal failed to appeal to
consumers in 1991.
He
went from being acknowledged by the murderous capo and don ‘Little Nicky”
Scarfo as a legitimate businessman to being acknowledged by Richard M Nixon as
presidential material. It was more than a watershed moment; it was an absolute
chance to build his brand in such a way where any marginalization either from the press, the public or his
enemies could forever be marginalized in and of itself.
As
a male, I can attest that nothing is more wretched, fearful and generates more
feelings of anxiety, vulnerability and pain than that of marginalization. To be
deemed ‘not good enough’ by any important figure in your life: be it a parent, a
loved one, the general public, or any entity whose opinion you value more than
your own. And is made more horrific have you not the foundation of genuine
self-worth and humility to know your own human value being truly meaningful,
and you have to learn this. Genuine
self-value is taught, not inherent.
This
is not to exclude women by no stretch in this, but men, by and large are taught
from a young age that any expression of hurt, doubt, or inadequacy is
tantamount to being weak; a ‘pussy’, to be reduced as being an effeminate
coward deserving of retribution and ridicule. Men are often ’dressed down’ in
certain circles for not being ‘man’ enough.
Donald Trump’s military school background, which he attended from ages
13-17 most certainly left a lasting impression on the personae of being an ‘alpha
male’. That age bracket is the most tumultuous for any teenager, and for boys
that is the time we establish the further attributes and latitudes what it is
to be a ‘man’, and not just in our sexuality but in our identity. It is a
potent mix of taboo, minefield and stunning realization.
Donald
J Trump may have ‘survived’ this experience intact. But something had to have ‘died’
as well. Most financially driven and successful people usually possess a
heightened level of sociopathy and are incapable of empathy with regards to
their actions and how it impacts those who are less fortunate. American
business is riddled with this, and has been demonstrated countless times in
history. He who often has the most money and power, cares the least of
humanity. And those of us who speak the loudest, are the most afraid among us.
Donald’s
sociopathy was at one time considered entertainment.
It
was in 2003 when The Apprentice first
aired that Trump captured the American imagination of opulence,
self-aggrandizement, punitive and pugnacious behavior as chic entertainment
value. Although not nearly as intelligent as Hillary Clinton, Trump has several
attributes that she herself needs but will never obtain:
Pure
vitriolic charisma, understanding the mind of the ‘common man’, and an
insatiable outwardly and angry pugilism.
Trump
understands the American public as being an attention-deficit mindless crevasse
devoid of critical thinking and imagination. He is clever enough to note that
it is not intelligent discourse or meaningful parlance of educated expression
that captivates. It is a mob mentality replete with coercion, fear and
ignorance of the highest order: a materialistic mob that needs validation and
entertainment, that loves its money and guns and wants to feel ’special’.
From
the upper middle class to the ghettos, Trump’s Apprentice resonated in places and demographics no other has ever
reached in such unison and concentration. The show was a complete American
original, unlike its contemporaries The
Weakest Link or American Idol
which borrowed elusively from its British forbearers, the show was Americana in
all its money obsessed, celebrity worshiping, draconian social classicism. No
other culture on the planet could pull such a thing with sleek showmanship,
vice and malice. Trump as the kingpin represented the petulant social Darwinism
America in particular is so prone to, and still worships.
To
Hillary’s Combustible Animal, he is the AlphaBeast.
Donald’s
verbal denigration of women comes from a tradition of
the Alpha male: the subjugation and conquering of the ‘lesser’ sex as proof of
legitimate male dominance. The women have to be the ‘prettiest’ and the most
ornate. They also have to withstand bad treatment and abuse (such as rape and
domestic violence), and are not allowed individuality or validation as people.
They are trophies to be collected and admired, but not heard from. Property for
and of the ‘champion’ and nothing more.
If
the allegations of rape and verbal abuse
against Trump
as presented by his first wife are initially correct, then it communicates
Trump’s sociopathic disposition with regards to women, even those in his own
life. As fact in this cannot be discerned with any level of verification, one
could still make the assumption given his comments and latitudes on the subject
of women that he does not regard women as more than this.
Women
cannot be intellectual, talented nor brilliant in their own being. They must be
‘attractive’ and ‘quiet’: non-threatening to the Alpha dominance.
I
believe Donald Trump hates women as people, because he fears them.
And
this fear, I believe, is rooted not only of the intelligence and ability arena,
but also of female sexuality. As an Alpha, he must be the best at everything including sexual conquest. Women are not
allowed in his realm to be better at this conquest than he, or it will be a
direct threat to his sexual prowess. And his penis
A
woman cannot be ‘like a man’ and have multiple sexual partners, and enjoy sex
strictly for its satisfaction only. But they do, so Donald, like many conservative,
religious, macho males cannot deal with a sexually charged female whom is
independent of that Alpha Male mentality, and is confident and comfortable
enough just to ‘get laid’ for the sake of getting laid.
They
don’t like it, because it means that their penis is not the only penis that can
satisfy, so to speak. There are others, and they can explore, just like men can
of women. To the AlphaBeast this is sheer terror and is not to be examined or
sanctioned.
It
reeks of marginalization, and Donald
can’t have any of that. Even his
having a daughter does not impede this, as the ’woman’ context is different
when it comes to the female child of an Alpha male.
Donald’s tirades against immigrants, Muslims and other
people of color are reflective also of his upbringing. I can state from my own personal experience
as a white person that we were often told, even somewhat passively, that
white people are more ‘exceptional’ ‘smart’, and deserving’ of prestige than
those of color, particular African-Americans. This argument needs not one
in-line reference, for it is that true, and it is that profligate.
Unlike Hillary, the use of coded, Orwellian language hasn’t even
been proffered by Trump. At all.
He has been unabashedly explicit in his contempt of illegal immigrants, Muslims
and the Eugenics-based theorem of profligate ‘black-on-black’ crime (which does
not exist). He has no issue with inciting violence at his rallies, and could
care less about the Black Lives Matter movement, women’s reproductive rights,
or disparaging his ‘Republican’ opponents leading up to the bludgeoning that
was the Indiana Primary on May 4th.
The main reason for this astounding success is he is not
beholden to any special interest or lobbyist group. He is beholden only to
himself. Secondly, his celebrity alone has allowed his ‘brand’ traction,
getting the gift of nearly 2 billion dollars of free airtime by the feckless
and corrupted corporate mainstream media, which has spanned the entire course
of his maturing campaign.
As he has all but secured the nomination for his ‘party’,
he has not slowed down any of this
rhetoric nor curtailed it. In leading his charge for possession of the White
House, he is currently performing two of the three important processes in which
has earned him such support from his predominantly white, Alpha Male angry ‘proletariat’
as a nativist/ populist candidate , and they are
1)-Identification-
properly blamed an ethnic group or groups that are deemed as the basis of the
damaged pride of nationalism, economic disparity and depression of defense of
the nation’s borders, so as to retain its purity and piety of ‘culture’
preservation. His blaming violent crime and malfeasance on Mexican illegals,
and offering a full ban on non-American Muslims to the U.S. has resonated with
his supporters. By dehumanizing these groups, and making them the root cause of
the Nation’s perceived low-standing in the world, it makes the 2nd
process simpler to execute.
2)-Isolation-By
identifying the ‘problem groups’, the proletariat has now mobilized, on their
own volition to ‘make an example ‘of these groups, and assist with the further dehumanization.
As example,
violence against Muslims has increased nearly 25% since Trump’s entry into
the primaries, and anti-immigrant rhetoric on-line has nearly tripled. It is
important for the core proletariat to continue the mission of indoctrination,
spreading the message as prescribed by their preferred candidate as to draw
further support prior to the general election, so as to also further isolate
these two groups and cause them fear of their own well-being for easier
dismantling and denigration.
The third, Eradication,
can’t be fully realized nor executed yet until Trump is properly elected.
For this to take place after such an election, would require him to refer to
history as to
properly manifest dictatorial control of a nation, and to utilize Article I,
Section 8, Clause 15 to enact Martial Law. Any insurrection, dissenting
voices or violent action could be immediately attributed to these groups and as
justification for Martial Law, and can be expanded to assert more defined and control
en masse over a proletariat, and by
all means necessary, begin such eradication as deemed fit by the installed
regime…
Nativism
+Nationalism = Fascism, folks...
Think it can’t here in the Grand ‘Ol USA? Think the
Donald is not capable of such a feat? Still think he’s impudent, stupid,
self-obsessed bore not able to achieve the highest office? Think he’s just an
unsophisticated brute not tempered enough to be an acting President? Still
think that he will be ‘stopped’ in the general election and made ridiculous for
his megalomaniacal efforts just in the nick of time?
Any of these define your mindset, then history is not
your strong suit, and your blinded bias to ‘party’ makes you lame. You must be
a harbinger of American Exceptionalism, that draconian and unenlightened
“it-can’t-happen here” stupidity.
If your one of those so certain of America’s absolutism
as for it never to be subject to fascist parlance, maybe you should track down
a native German over 70 years old, or attend a holocaust survivor presentation
given weekly here in Los Angeles at The Museum of the Holocaust,
and tell them it can’t happen here. Listen to their response…
And then take your public ass-kicking like a mature
adult.
Then read up about this
dude’s psychological assessment (starting at around page 7), and convince
yourself there are no core similarities of character that was assessed in
regards to Hitler that are not relatable or directly relative to Donald Trump
as to his current political rise.
For example:
The need for validation through public adulation by way
of oratory runs concurrent for both men. Both men had a limited dichotomy of
contextual content within their oratory: falsehoods become convincible 'facts',
and public displays of Alpha Male dogmatic charisma become its own conviction
of truths among the faithful proletariat. Both men haven’t a problem with the
instigation of violent protest in their honor and support. Both courted power
among the political elites prior to their own ascension, and both men are
megalomaniacal, extremely insecure within the privacy of their personal lives:
extremely sensitive to criticism.
Both men believe that ethnic groups and people of color
are not part of making each of their countries “great again”, and believe that identification, isolation and eradication of this groups is essential
to bringing a “better, more secure nation”, and both held fairly close
relations with anti-ethnic/ pro-Aryan groups in their initial rise, but keeping
enough distance with these groups until their political fortunes were secured.
Both men took flight amongst a divided nation, cultural derision, and where the
economy was in shambles, and corruption from the Establishment was perceived as
against the “common man”, praying upon the fears of marginalization to a group
believing itself displaced by these upheavals, and deserving to be “on top again"
Their rhetoric, although not carbon-copy, imbue the same
sense of Nationalistic pride most often eschewed by men who are in search of
great power and control by inciting such emotions by utilization of broad sentiments
not supported by facts, or facts not entirely complete.
“The response of
the Weimar Republic …has been sorrowful. They want to change our population to
fit our territory. They encourage the emigration of new generations of Germans.
Our best minds are leaving Germany. If the best continue to leave, our nation
will collapse….Today it is clear that the Weimar Republic could not succeed in
winning the future for Germany. We National Socialists therefore make the holy
promise never to rest in raising up Germany.”
-Adolf Hitler speech excerpts
from The Nuremburg Rally, August 20, 1927
“The world is
collapsing around us, and many of the problems we've caused. Our
president is either grossly incompetent…. or he has a completely different
agenda than you want to know about, which could be possible.… the politicians
talk about it and they do nothing about it… They talk about executive orders
and they talk about immigration ..… I know what needs to be done to make
America great again. We can make this country great again.”
-Donald
Trump, speech excerpts from the Iowa Freedom Summit, January 24, 2015
Both men suffer
the most crippling of all ”diseases” of the AlphaBeasts: The component of
the fear of marginalization , both
sexual and personal, which they both view as the largest threat to their
being. Megalomania does not allow room for moral inventory, self-examination
nor nuance.
Fear is powerful breeder of contempt, both
individually and collectively.
These two men were and are loud speakers in voice, afraid and loathsome….one
of whom was able to systematically destroy 8 million people. How much can the
other destroy if and when he gets the chance?
And when will you the ‘voter’ finally regain
consciousness?
The’ progressive’ who isn’t one, if elected will merely
continue both domestic and foreign policies of her predecessors. The financial
sector is overdue for another great crash that will further the divide between
the haves and have-nots, and ‘President’ Clinton will do nothing. 4-8 years of
status-quo. Foreign policy will continue with drone strikes, further invasion
and usurpation of any country that does not play along to America’s Corporate
interests, and the expansion of ISIL in the Middle East will continue unabated.
Her callus and witless mindset, so prone to sloppy
plights of executive malfeasance will also continue. The environment further withers,
and draconian laws and punition will continue as well, as more people of color
will face more time in prison, and more unarmed black males get shot for no
reason, and no punishment for gun-happy law enforcement.
The courts devolve into a more corrupt version of
themselves, and the Supreme Court becomes a place where justice can only be
sought by the highest bidder, and Habeas Corpus takes a further beating closerto extinction, just like all the American Civil Courts throughout the country
at present. Prison construction may slow down initially, but will rebound
sharply as soon as she is able to re-start another foreign conflict to add
distraction to the American public. The media will continue their partnership
with her, and she will aide the nearly-defunct “Republican’ party and drag it
back from extinction. These are her ‘friends’ as well, and she got to be a
‘team player’ and keep that lobbyist money train diverse, thick, and plentiful.
It helps her and her “democrat’ brethren
After all , it’s good business…and never personal. Not
now
Her cabinet will be lined with all her personal cronies: her
homeboys and homegirls from Wall Street included.
It will be Obama’s ‘3rd term’, really.
No. Real. Change…Just a bit worse than now. The
Combustible Animal will make ‘friends’ anew, which means more gravy for herself
and her ‘brand’. The legacy re-stablished, histrionics re-written, and the
continuation of the US decline in the world and at home…and no criminal charges
of any stripe against her behalf. Mission Accomplished.
‘President’ Trump would bring a totalitarian flavor to
his Presidency, suspending the Constitution in favor of a modern-day Reichstadt
(just without all the black-and-tan uniforms mixed with swastika arm bands). He
will take it slow at first, but will work behind the scenes to exact Martial
Law and create a culture that allows for no redress, expression, dissension, or
polemics that do not align with his own to stand. The resurrection of the
concentration camps will replace some prisons, and they will be given a
different nomenclature than Nazi Germany or North Korea, with names like:
Repatriation Detention Facilities, Homeland Unity Retention
Complexes, Re-alignment Housing Centers, Rendition Houses, International
Intermediary Holding Facilities, Non Naturalized Citizen Warehousing Detention
Centers, Terrorism Prevention Holding Units, Citizens Housing and Detention
Units, Compulsory Consignment Detention Facilities & Redistribution Centers...
..you get the idea. All creatively named centers and concentration camps for
those who don’t look nor act the part of the “Making America Great Again”; Those who are
poor, weak, crippled, uneducated and non-white will be stripped of everything,
eventually their lives will be compromised as well.
As the constitution is suspended, so are its tenants. The
press had better make themselves cuddly with President Trump or face
incarceration themselves for speaking out of line against he and his authority.
The Department of Defense, at first, will repel against him, but an 11th
hour agreement allows them quasi-autonomy for exchange of this Martial Law
enactment initiated by President Trump. It will be the first time in American history
the military is brought in as direct assist to the ‘new leader’, having a shared
stake in the ‘ruling’ of America, post-Constitution
And what of the ‘1% per-centers’? They will love this!
They will, for the first time, directly dictate all manner of commerce without
governmental oversite, protections nor regard to law or environment. To them,
Trump is the New Christ who has ‘set them free’ and allowed to be the true
‘masters of the universe’.
The NSA, CIA and FBI will be given full amnesty to spy on
citizens in greater expanded density, as to stave off any resistance that might
come from the proletariat. Your internet browsers ( PC, Smartphone, Iphone etc) will be saturated
with back-door viruses and digital tracking malware. Computer and software
companies will be forced to act as slave maidens to Trumps regime and help them
stay ‘ahead of the curve’ of potential digital dissenters and hackers.
Remember, the Constitution has been suspended, and Trump is free to draft laws
of his own as he sees fit. Microsoft, Apple, Google and other tech giants are
now wards of the State, and must act in the States interest, or be destroyed,
dismantled and imprisoned accordingly….
It’s fun to exaggerate a bit for extrapolation. But how much of this is far-off, really?
The choice is appearing to be more and more the
Combustible Animal vs. The AlphaBeast. They both
are facing potential criminal and civil cases during the course of their
campaigns that they may be summoned to testify against, and possibly charge... before the election itself
At the most crucial
time of our national history, this what we have as a choice: two candidates who both
were impacted by Nixon at various stages of their careers, yet both make Nixon
look the righteous choirboy by comparison.
Outstanding!
Embarrassing...
Destructive, no matter which
way one goes.
So how did we get here?
We did this:
the American Citizen and voter, did this. With help from our parents and family
who came several generations before us, all contributed. Complacency,
ignorance, laziness, distraction, and the perpetual need to fulfill our
personal status did this. Never stopped long enough to halt the building blocks
in history that fomented what we have at exactly this time.
Nothing has changed, because we didn’t. We stood in
place. ALL of us
And we have gotten what we deserve: two completely
self-enamored elitist trash-bags who care not a damn for the rest of us still
struggling to move forward economically, and in a world so impacted by our retarded, avarice and destructive foreign policy
We have earned it.
We didn’t stop the decades-worth of malfeasance
strongly enough, so this now is as part of the
chaos theory; the butterfly effect. Decisions and actions seemingly simple yet
corrupt were never corrected in their domino -like impact, but were allowed to
worsen and spread like cancers ignored.
This is America. If one person outside of this country
were to judge us for our allowing these asshole criminal candidates to be in the running for the highest office in the US , one could make this simple
perfunctory summation:
‘Goddamn, Americans are fucking stupid!”
Correct.
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