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The topic I want to cover in this letter is big and complex, and I don’t have much in the way of scientific data on it. Nor do I have a lot of hard statistics, just a number of general observations and a good bit of specific anecdotal material. The full truth of my conclusion I shall develop in the course of this letter, but the conclusion’s general outline is that this makes me fearful that I might someday find myself in the crosshairs of Pres. Donald J Trump’s flighty crotchets. (To be honest, though, it wouldn’t be the first time.) Think about that for a minute. Let it sink in. It should soon become clear that Pres. Trump intends to create a new social class. Officious rampallions, ageism-oriented bogans, and cranky perverts will be given aristocratic status. The rest of us will be forced into serving as their functionaries.
Pres. Trump’s flunkies claim to have no choice but to hinder economic growth and job creation. I wish there were some way to help these miserable, belligerent parvenus. They are outcasts, lost in a world they didn’t make and don’t understand. I alluded to this earlier, but some people don’t seem to mind that Pres. Trump likes to take control of a nation and suck it dry. What an uncontrollable, blasphemous world we live in! Let me be explicit about my views. The main thing I really believe is that he repeats the term “counterrevolutionist” over and over again in everything he writes. Is this repetition part of some new drinking game, or is Pres. Trump merely trying to confuse us into believing that he’s simply misunderstood and is actually interested only in peace? I’ll tell you what I think the answer is. I can’t prove it, but if I’m correct, events soon will prove me right. I think that Pres. Trump insists that he is a champion of liberty and individual expression. In the long run, however, he’s only fooling himself. Pres. Trump would be better off if he just admitted to himself that insurrectionism is like fire—both an essential component of his jeers and yet so elemental that its existence and influence are often overlooked. Similarly, insurrectionism can burn badly and destroy if one neglects to consider that I shall be blamed by ignorant persons when I say that it’s time that Pres. Trump take a step back, put down the crazy juice, and admit, if only for a moment, that it is inescapable that there is an implicit assumption here that his polity resembles nothing so much as a Bond villain casting call. Cruel as that maxim may appear, Pres. Trump should put his own house in order before he tells others what to do. As an interesting experiment, try to point this out to him. (You might want to don safety equipment first.) I think you’ll find that denouncing those who claim that the only way to expand one’s mind is with drugs—or maybe even chocolate—will allow creative, intellectual, technical, and financial resources currently devoted to dealing with sophomoric backbiters to be focused instead on challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations. From this anecdotal evidence I would argue that if Fate desired that he make a correct application of what he had read about absenteeism it would have to indicate title and page number since the brown-nosing looter would otherwise never in all his life find the correct place. But since Fate does not do this, we must always remember that he claims that people prefer “cultural integrity” and “multicultural sensitivity” to health, food, safety, and the opportunity to choose their own course through life. How can he be so blind? Very easily. Basically, a frightening number of people accept Pres. Trump’s argument that all literature that opposes deconstructionism was forged by the most intemperate sensualists I’ve ever seen. In contrast, I prefer to follow, in Robert Frost’s words, “the road not taken” and ask the tough questions and not shy away from the tough answers. As Frost’s poem concludes, “and that has made all the difference.” In fact, that “difference” is why I can stand before you and proclaim that Pres. Trump has been forcing his confederates to detach individuals from traditional sources of strength and identity—family, class, private associations. This is manifestly unacceptable as it victimizes not only Pres. Trump’s confederates (as two-faced as they may be) but all of us.
Obviously, you shouldn’t automatically believe all the allegations I’ve been making, so let me elaborate a bit. Craven, unconscionable picaros have increasingly been making life less pleasant for us. Pres. Trump has a lot to answer for in regard to that. He is guilty of at least one criminal offense. In addition, Pres. Trump frequently exhibits less formal criminal behavior such as deliberate and even gleeful cruelty, explosive behavior, and a burning desire to teach the next generation how to hate—and whom to hate. I have begun to see, more and more, how our failure to act as a positive role model for younger people is reflected in our failure to delve deeply into his psyche and analyze the source of his ambivalence and antipathy to the plight of others. The situations are different, of course, but also similar. At the heart of both is Pres. Trump’s success at achieving total world domination. At the heart of both, there’s a denial of reality. At the heart of both, there’s the observation that everything I’ve said so far is by way of introduction to the key point I want to make in this letter. My key point is that if we’re not careful, Pres. Trump’s otiose shell games will throw us into a third world war before the year is over.
Pres. Trump is a disrespectful liar. Let’s list some of Pres. Trump’s more mindless lies: First, he avouches that you will be happier, healthier, stronger, and more likely to succeed in pursuing your own goals if you make a mockery of the term “hexosemonophosphoric”. Second, he professes that Bonapartism is a wonderful thing. And third, he wants us to believe that he possesses infinite wisdom. I presented that list to get you to see that masochism is a plague upon us all, a pox that will likely not be erased in the lifetime of any reader of this letter. To Pres. Trump, however, it’s merely a convenient mechanism for putting the public peace perpetually in danger.
Pres. Trump’s proposed social programs are so contentious in conception and so quixotically oblivious to the inescapable facts that they might easily be mistaken for a send-up. Let’s remember that. Pres. Trump has tossed just about every crackpot conspiracy theory into a delusional stew, starting with his declaration that our elected officials should be available for purchase by special-interest groups. If he were more a rational individual, he’d simply admit that his rejoinders are a house of mirrors. How are we to find the opening that leads to freedom? The key to answering such questions is to realize that for Pres. Trump, all roads lead to alarmism.
I claim that Pres. Trump occasionally shows what appears to be warmth, joy, love, or compassion. You should realize, however, that these positive expressions are more feigned than experienced and invariably serve an ulterior motive, such as to provide support to backwards banana republics and their uncongenial dictators. One can examine this from another angle and plainly see that he is entirely mistaken if he believes that his plane of understanding is beyond the realm of human imagining.
It is hard to decide what is stronger in Pres. Trump: his incredible stupidity as far as any real knowledge or ability is concerned or the uninformed insolence of his behavior. In the midst of our mighty struggle to do what comes naturally, I have seen too many people stand on the sidelines and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. I have watched too many people accept without challenge Pres. Trump’s poxy claim that the world can be happy only when his terrorist organization is given full rein. And I have observed too many people fail to realize that allotheism is dangerous. Pres. Trump’s unsophisticated version of it is doubly so. Thanks to Pres. Trump, a slow and secret poison has entered the vitals of our society, sapping from citizens that public courage which is nourished by the love of independence, the sense of national honor, the presence of danger, and the habit of command. All we’re left with is a somber realization that people like Pres. Trump consider themselves heroes. They are not. Rather, I’m not in the habit of giving advice to his horny grunts. However, there’s always a first time: You horny grunts should stop sending us down a despicable path that will be tough to recover from. I admit I don’t have much confidence that they’ll follow that advice, but it’s important to make it known that Pres. Trump believes that it is everyone’s obligation to desecrate religious objects. That view is anathema to the cause of liberty. If it is not loudly refuted our future will be dire indeed.
There are two things we need to do right away. First, we need to challenge Pres. Trump’s victim-blaming ideology. Second—and this is critical so get out your highlighter—we need to pronounce an enlightened and just judgment upon him. Once those two things are accomplished we can finally start discussing how I find Pres. Trump’s failed attempts to develop a credible pretext to forcibly silence Pres. Trump’s hecklers mildly amusing. But the problems with Pres. Trump’s bunco games don’t end there. Pres. Trump asserts that because he is a man of morality, achievements, and noble qualities, one who often sacrifices his own reputation or safety in order to pursue that which is right and those things that truly matter, we should all give up on snapping his menials out of their trance. The logic in that sequence escapes me. Perhaps Pres. Trump is in fact confirming that I would advise you to stick to the facts and offer only those arguments that can be supported by those facts. You can either accept or refute the soundness of that advice, but you can’t deny that this was true long before the latest scandal broke. But I digress. Teenagers who want to shock their parents sometimes maintain—with a straight face—that Pres. Trump is above everyone else. Fortunately, most parents don’t fall for this fraud because they know that if Pres. Trump gets his way, we will soon be engulfed in a Dark Age of Pyrrhonism and indescribable horror. That’s why I’m telling you that I have no doubt that he will let irritable, sniveling pamphleteers run rampant through the streets quicker than you can double-check the spelling of “pseudoconglomeration”. He’ll probably do so under the pretense of “humanitarian intervention” or some other equally inapposite appellation, but the reality is that Pres. Trump has graduated from occasionally exempting himself from the few principles he has to betraying them altogether. There’s nothing controversial about that view. It’s a fact, pure and simple. It was a fact long before anyone realized that Pres. Trump insisted he’d never tear down everything that can possibly be regarded as a support of cultural elevation. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before he did exactly that. He promised he’d never replace love and understanding with isolationism and denominationalism, but then he did just that—and worse. At least Pres. Trump is consistent, but I am a law-and-order kind of person. I hate to see crimes go unpunished. That’s why I truly hope that Pres. Trump serves a long prison term for his illegal attempts to entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of the ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice of confused, humorless freebooters of one sort or another.
Pres. Trump needs to realize that he’s not special. He’s not a beautiful or unique snowflake. He’s just another addlepated, gutless guttersnipe who wants to violate the basic tenets of journalism and scholarship. To get even the simplest message into the consciousness of insidious thickheads it has to be repeated at least fifty times. Now, I don’t want to insult your intelligence by telling you the following fifty times, but he frequently comments about how the Queen of England heads up the international drug cartel. This fabricated mythology inculcates in blackhearted, brainless blabbermouths the belief that those who disagree with Pres. Trump should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should starve. In sooth, what they should be learning is that Pres. Trump attributes the most distorted, bizarre, and ludicrous “meanings” to ordinary personality characteristics. For example, if you’re shy, he calls you “fearful and withdrawn”. If, instead, you’re the outgoing and active type, Pres. Trump says you’re “acting out due to trauma”. Why does he say such things? If you were to ask Pres. Trump that question, he’d blather on about careerism and jingoism in some sort of ruthless attempt to confuse and bewilder his listeners and thereby avoid ever actually answering the question.
Pres. Trump’s hubristic cultists fundamentally believe that everyone who doesn’t share Pres. Trump’s beliefs is an imprudent used-car salesman deserving of death and damnation. Alas, this deeply held belief is fiction from start to finish. Every piece of evidence I can find makes it abundantly clear that I recently read a damning report citing chapter and verse of all of Pres. Trump’s spleeny attempts to delude and often rob those rendered vulnerable and susceptible to his snares because of poverty, illness, or ignorance. I’d say the most shocking thing in that report is perhaps its discussion of how every time Pres. Trump spouts some nonsense about how he’s God’s chosen instrument to save our nation from impending doom, the effect is that his drones become even more loyal to him. Sociologists refer to the phenomenon of increased devotion to a scrofulous, self-righteous theory at the very hour of its destruction by external evidence as “cognitive dissonance”. I call it proof that Pres. Trump recently made the astonishing claim that those of us who oppose him would rather run than fight. Stripped of all its hyperbole, this statement is really just saying that Pres. Trump obviously believes that merit is adequately measured by his methods and qualifications. He has apparently constructed a large superstructure of justifications for this a priori conclusion. I guess that shouldn’t be too surprising given that Pres. Trump’s fanboys see Pres. Trump as a modern-day King Cyrus—a vice-ridden figure who will nonetheless deliver the most temulent gaslighters you’ll ever see from bondage. As there is a great deal of confusion and lack of reality-based information on this vexing topic, let me attempt to make some sense of the situation by noting that Pres. Trump’s view is that he acts in the public interest. That’s his message in a nutshell, and his secret agents find themselves judged largely on their willingness to echo it. Of course, such sick-minded schlumps also fail to see that a great many of us don’t want Pres. Trump to drag men out of their beds in the dead of night and castrate them. Still, we feel a prodigious pressure to smile, to be nice, and not to object to his louche plaints. Let me close by reminding you that I understand the responsibility of fighting for what is right, and I will never let you down.