Trump & The Raccoons

I saw this today; supposedly by Steve Harvey. First of all, it’s not by Steve Harvey, secondly it makes a lot of assumptions about why people don’t like Trump. (Original in regular type, my comments in bold)

HOW I FEEL ABOUT TRUMP:

You’ve been on vacation for two weeks, you come home, and your basement is infested with raccoons.. Hundreds of rabid, messy, mean raccoons have overtaken your basement.. You want them gone immediately!.. You call the city and 4 different exterminators, but nobody can handle the job.. But there is this one guy, and he guarantees to get rid of them, so you hire him.. You don’t care if the guy smells, you don’t care if the guy swears, you don’t care if he’s an alcoholic, you don’t care how many times he’s been married, you don’t care if he has a plumber’s crack, you simply want those raccoons gone!.. You want your problem fixed!.. He’s the guy.. He’s the best!

Okay, let assume that this comparison is accurate, that our country’s position is analogous to a raccoon-infested basement. I’ll get back to that later.

Here’s why we want Trump: Yes, he’s a bit of a jerk; Yes, he’s an egomaniac; but we don’t care!.. The country is a mess because politicians suck, the Republicans and Democrats can be two-faced and gutless, and illegals are everywhere.. We want it all fixed!..

Great, let’s continue assume that there’s something to be “fixed”. But here’s where there’s a logical breakdown, Why do we assume that just because Trump said that he could fix this “mess”, that he actually had a plan to do so? He certainly didn’t even get close to articulating a plan to “fix” anything. 

We don’t care that Trump is crude, we don’t care that he insults people, we don’t care that he has changed positions, we don’t care that he’s been married 3 times, we don’t care that he fights with Megyn Kelly and Rosie O’Donnell, we don’t care that he doesn’t know the name of some Muslim terrorist.

But for some reason “we” cared about all those things when there was a Democrat in the White House.

This country became weak and bankrupt, our enemies were making fun of us, we are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims where every Tom, Ricardo, and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don’t even recognize the country we were born and raised in; “AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED”.. And Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want..

And there it is. If the invocation of “illegals” in every paragraph wasn’t a hint, it’s getting a bit more overt. The not-so-subtle change of “Tom, Dick & Harry” to “Tom, Ricardo & Hasid” should alert us to the underlying bigotry. Though perhaps the author didn’t realize that a “Hasid” is a member of an orthodox Jewish sect and not a Muslim name.

We’re sick of politicians, sick of the Democratic Party, sick of the Republican Party, and sick of illegals!..

Somehow I think the author of this piece has a problem with “illegals”.

We just want this thing fixed.. Trump may not be a Saint, but we didn’t vote for a Pope.. We voted for a man who doesn’t have lobbyist money holding him back, a man who doesn’t have political correctness restraining him..

The myth that Trump was somehow not influenced by contributions from lobbyists has been long ago been disproven. The backdoor lobbying by spending money at Trump properties has become epidemic.

We all know that he has been very successful, he’s a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, and he’s also NOT a politician, NOT a cowardly politician.!.. And he says he’ll fix it..

No, we don’t “know” that he has been successful. If he has been successful at all, it has been at convincing everyone that he is a good businessman when he has multiple bankruptcies under his belt. If he has a skill it’s been to suck every dollar out of a business into his own bank account while running it into the ground and stiffing contractors. His negotiating skills are nothing but bullying & throwing money around, which may work when it comes to screwing small businesses out of their livelihood, but hasn’t worked when it comes to screwing sovereign nations.

And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong, or looked at and called a liar..

That part is partially right. He will never admit to being wrong, and lies through his teeth when he is proven wrong. It’s always someone else’s fault

Also, we don’t care if the guy has bad hair.. We just want those raccoons gone, out of our house, NOW!!!

But the raccoons are still there, even though he is claiming that the raccoon population is the lowest in 94 years, and hiring people who have a vested interest in there being more raccoons.

I don’t care about his multiple marriages or his philandering either. However, most of you Trumpists seemed to care about those things when Clinton was President. 

• I do care that the supposed president of all Americans routinely attacks and belittles those he disagrees with. I care that he regularly calls the free press “the enemy of the people”. 
• I care that his executive orders chip away at regulatory protections for ordinary Americans. 
• I care that science-based and other evidence-based decision-making has given way to “what will it cost?” decision making. 
• I care that his foreign policy consists of threatening to obliterate whole nations and then backing off when he gets “a beautiful letter”. 
• I care that he verbally attacks our longtime allies and cozies up to dictators. 
• I care that he cavalierly withdraws us from international agreements that had taken years of negotiations to put together, causing the rest of the world to view American commitments as not worth the paper that they’re written on. 
• I care that he makes economic decisions without any understanding of economics or the consequences of his actions. 
• I care that his trade wars have done nothing but financially impact American businesses. 
• I care that he is running the executive branch as if he’s a dictator, including refusing to cooperate with Congress, and withholding information that is within their oversight authority. 
• I care that he views the Justice Department as his personal lawyers. 
• I care that he finds no problem with asking foreign governments to investigate his political rivals. 
• I care that he lies constantly, even about things that can easily & quickly be fact-checked.
• And yes, I care about the rampant bigotry.

And for those of you who don’t care about any of those things that I care about, and still believe that he’s going to “fix” things: he hasn’t. 

All of his “accomplishments” have benefited a narrow constituency: the rich. His “massive” tax cut was a pittance while corporations reaped a huge windfall, which they, in most cases, failed to pass on to employees or consumers. The so-called Trump Economy, which was never more than an extension of Obama-era growth, his starting to sputter, as businesses begin to worry about how the erratic tariff policies will affect their future.

The raccoons are still in the basement…and they’ve mutated.