The Mysterious Mr. Trump

Old and Ill-Advised Correspondence:
The Mysterious Mr. Trump

From the Undeleted Email Archive 

of

Ezra Arze, Jr.

Yeah, buddy, I agree with your take on Trump, and as I said before, the wife does, too.  If it comes down to a Hillary vs Trump election, we probably won’t get out and vote.  Well, the wife definitely won’t vote; she’s pissed at Trump because he’s wrecked such havoc within the Republican Party, at a time when we both believe the government has run amuck and needs to be reined in or American is going down the tubes. That means, of course, that we don’t think Hillary is any better than Trump. They are cut from the same cloth; they each are more concerned with their own personal wealth, power, influence and fame, than with the lives of average Americans. The only difference is how they got to where they’re at, and in that regard, I would say Trump has the edge.

Even though he’s a loud, know-it-all, pompous New Yorker, born with a golden spoon in his mouth, he has at least built something and put thousands of people to work; whereas, Hillary hasn't created anything, but has been a politician her entire adult life. That’s why she plays the game so much better than Trump, who doesn’t have a clue about politics, and blurts out whatever is on his mind; instead of, like Hillary, weighing every move against the polls, running it by a focus group, and practicing her nods and finger jabbing in front of a mirror before speaking. Everything she says and does is planned and choreographed. Take the last debate, for instance. The other two guys are on the stage, at their podium, the moderators are there, millions of people are tuned in, and everyone is waiting for…Hillary. And, at last, here comes the queen, takes her place, and with downcast eyes says softly, “Sorry.” I would guess that was planned. Why plan something like that?  Well, for one, it makes you the most important person; everyone is waiting for “you.” For two, it reminded everyone that she is a woman—everyone knows we must wait on women—and this one is, with any luck, the first  female President of the United States. For three, it showed how human she is. Oh, Hillary must have had to take a pee! We know how much trouble that is for women, especially an old woman, fighting that pantsuit and all. She’s just like us, just a regular person! Yeah, right. If she were just like us, she’d strap on another pair of Depends and waddle her ass out onto that stage, on time, like everyone else. Everything she has, has been given to her as a result of politics, whether salary, book deals, speaking engagements, cattle futures, Whitewater, renting out the Lincoln bedroom, donations to the vast Clinton Foundation (to keep control of their wealth and not pay taxes, the same taxes they want to wring out of the shrinking middle class), you name it—it came because of politics and political connections wanting favor.  She is a hopeless liar, deceiver, and scofflaw.  She likes to talk about what she’s done, and what she has “given” to the people. She has given nothing that she didn’t take from someone else, including you and me via taxes, but back to Trump vs Hillary.

When Hillary was running for the Senate in New York, and you said you were going to vote for her, of course, I was baffled: “How can you vote for that reverse carpet bagger from Arkansas, who has nothing on her record other than failures as First Lady here, and scandals as First Lady there, as the U.S. Senator from New York!”  I went through the litany of grievances I had about her since living in Arkansas when she was the First Lady, the lies and deception that followed. And you agreed. Yeah, she’s a money grubbing politician and a liar like all of them, but you were still going to vote for her, because, “you liked her politics.”  Well, hell, Vicki and I like Trump’s politics; he’s just parroting what the conservative base believes, but we’re not going to vote for him.  I agree with a lot of what Trump has been saying about political correctness, illegal immigration, trade, the Iran Nuclear Deal, shipping jobs overseas or to Mexico and Central America, getting taken to the cleaners by Mexico and China, theft of intellectual property, to mention a few.  How could I not?  He robbed those talking points from people like me. But when he talks about those things, it’s like listening to a buffoon. Trump doesn't explain policies, procedures or any other method to get those things done; he just plays the record again, over and over, parroting people’s anger and frustration.  Given who he is, I have no doubt he could build that “beautiful” wall and get it done in a hurry and under budget and could make better trade deals than the Obama Administration. On the warfighting end of foreign affairs, I think he’s clueless. When the primary comes to Florida, I’m voting for Rubio.  If Trump is the party’s choice, he’s going to have to show me a lot more between now and the election, including specific plans, and a whole lot more intelligence.

No, I don’t like the man, either; he comes off as an arrogant smart ass, and I don’t trust him. For all I know, the conspiracy theorists are correct: Trump is a shill for the Clintons. Bill and the Donald could have gotten together and planned this whole thing to take down the Republican Party, assure Hillary the presidency, and line up Trump with even more construction jobs and more wealth, as long as the Clintons are in on the take, they’ll do anything. Conspiracies aside, I’m sure the majority of people who support Trump in the polls are aware of his flaws, kind of like the Randy Newman song, “Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show with some smart ass New York Jew, the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox, the audience laughed at Lester Maddox, too. Well, he may be a fool, but he’s our fool. If they think they’re better than him, they’re wrong.” 

His supporters are not all ignorant, toothless, rednecks from Buckville. Maybe Trump will do what he says, or maybe he’s playing them; either way, they don’t give a fuck. They are as disgusted with the Republican Party as they are with Obama.  They are not going to support the party’s current choice, i.e., Jeb Bush, and if the party goes down in flames, so be it. They’ve had it. They watched McCain and Romney get destroyed by the democrats because they wouldn’t eat Obama alive as they could and should have, and as they did their fellow republicans during the primaries. No, they had to be nice to Obama: he's so precious. And they were nice while Obama beat the shit out of them. In the second debate, after he’d whipped Obama in the first one, Romney was advised to back off,  you’re being too mean to Obama, Independents don’t like it, and then in the second debate, he let Obama (with Candy Crowley’s help) walk all over him. For instance, when Romney said the Navy was in decline and we needed more and more modern ships, Obama said something like, “Well, Governor, if you haven’t noticed, we have things called aircraft carriers now, ships where airplanes take off and land, and, and, the Army doesn’t have horses, either.”  Romney didn’t fire back, “Mr. President, can you tell me how many ships are in an aircraft carrier battle group, how many ships are at sea to support that group, and the age of those ships now in service?” No, he just stood there and took it, as if someone had advised him to pull the Ali rope-a-dope. Obama has never stopped campaigning, never stopped attacking, dividing and conquering, since his first inaugaration when he ridiculed the out-going administration as they sat in the audience, a time when America typically heals and comes together after an election.

Republican voters gave their party the House and the Senate, and all they got for their trouble was mocked (the Tea Party, Christian conservatives, and those of like mind) and stabbed in the back. It was bad enough that the democrats, Hollywood and the media constantly mocked them, but to have leaders of your own party do it, to brand you as racists, misogynists, homophobes, Nazis, etc., was too much. The vast majority of those republicans were merely constitutionalists, people who didn’t want to see the country turned into a welfare state, who wanted to bring spending under control and not have their grandchildren inherit all that debt.  They were good, hard working, middle-class Americans, many of them of the Greatest Generation, and many voted for Obama the first time around in hopes of at last putting race behind us.  That didn’t work out too well. After Sarah Palin went down in flames due to non-stop attacks by the media and Hollywood (SNL, especially, who treated Obama with kid gloves and never even bothered with Uncle Joe Biden), I told you Obama would win.  You said you weren’t too sure, because a lot of people wouldn’t vote for a black man. I said that it was just the opposite: people would vote for him “because” he was a black man. You agreed that that wasn’t right, either. Now, after seven years of the community organizer, race relations are as bad as they were forty years ago, and the areas having the worst problems, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, and to an extent, St. Louis and New York, have been controlled by Liberal Democrats for ages.

Obama and his far left agenda, created the Frankenstein known as Trump. As in physics, for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. Obama pulled the steel ball way, way back and let it go (fuck everyone who disagrees, I’m King), and it smacked the conservative ball way, way off center, but here it’s coming back, and that “Smack!” you hear is Donald Trump. Obama rammed too much down the throat of the American people that the majority didn’t want, but the republicans in D.C. wouldn’t fight. Those who did were mocked and ridiculed.  The republicans caved on every budget battle and debt increase while people like me who sent them to Washington screamed, “Shut the government down!  Keep it shut down until Obama at least compromises!” But, no, they couldn’t take being ridiculed by the left wing media and comedians, so they caved, every time, even though Obama’s refusal to compromise was half the problem. Saul Alinsky’s fifth rule is, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” Buddy, it works on republicans, and Obama uses it constantly.  While it’s bad enough that he did it in the United States for the last seven years, being the non-stop campaigner and community organizer that he is, Obama will stand in foreign countries, ridicule republicans and “one” cable news channel, and blame them for all his failures.

  

Regarding gay marriage, almost everywhere it was put to a vote, the people didn’t want it, so the left ran it through the liberal circuit courts, and it squeaked through the Supreme Court 5/4.  Instead of being presidential and bringing the country together, oh, maybe by saying something like, “While this ruling is a great victory for a segment of society and their supporters, I understand that at least fifty percent of America disagrees. Even so, it is now the law of the land, and I would urge everyone to come together. Let us neither gloat, nor fret…blah, blah, blah,” Obama lights up the White House in rainbow colors as if all of American is dancing in the streets.  He knew they were not; he was rubbing their nose in it, which is the progressive M.O.   Ditto Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell, women in special ops, Obamacare, amnesty for illegals, securing the border, the Transpacific Trade deal, the Canadian pipeline, Iranian nuclear deal, letting Russia take Crimea without a fight, allowing ISIS to run amuck, et cetera, et cetera. Forget about conservatives, Obama went contrary to national polls on those things, and the republicans we sent to congress to fight just rolled over.  Now, he should be the lamest of lame ducks with only a year left, but he has a phone and a pen, and he’s going after GITMO, guns, and Cuba.  He sees himself stepping onto Cuban soil, as if it’s Nixon landing in China…and we defeated them! All we had to do was wait a few more years for the Castro brothers to pass, but, no, we must apologize, surrender, and hand them the victory.

Obama, with the aid of republicans, has decimated the constitution and turned the presidency toward a four to eight year kingship. Hillary Clinton will continue that process and get it completed. By the end of her eight years, the Supreme Court will be hopelessly far left, as will be the voting population due to public school indoctrination, amnesty of illegals, continuing illegal immigration because the border will not be secured, and legals of only a certain stripe allowed into the country.  After another four years of far left leadership, being a conservative in this country will be like living through “The Night of the Living Dead,”  the liberals being politically correct zombies. The same liberals who claim to be so kind, caring, compassionate, and giving, if only you will agree with them?  Yes, the very same. The left will have 100% of its progressive agenda accomplished, control of the vote, control of circuit and supreme courts, no legal and no 1^st Amendment opposition, and that will be it: done deal, game over. The left wins; democracy loses: nothing but blue birds and happiness. But, no, like in any other country where this has happened, the opposition doesn’t go away, it goes underground, and that’s when things get dangerous.  

     

So, your statement was that you couldn’t understand how such a vast majority of Americans could be snookerd by that asswipe Trump.  Well, man, that’s your answer. There is no mystery. They are no more snookered than the people licking Hillary’s rich, fat ass, or kissing Obama’s ring every time he lies, and he has lied many times, from Fast and Furious to Obamacare, and don’t forget the IRS scandal, when he said, “Not a smidgen of corruption.”  He said that while the IRS scandal was still being investigated, and after Lois Lerner had pled the 5^th the first time, around the same time all her and her staff’s emails mysteriously disappeared.  Not a smidgen of corruption?  Right on, brother! Obama took a page from the Clinton playbook: "You can’t prove corruption, because we have destroyed the proof; therefore, there is no corruption."  Some on the right like Trump’s politics, at least what he’s saying, standing up for them.  Maybe he’s a liar, too, maybe not.  If he throws them under the bus, well, so what?  Everybody throws them under the bus. By supporting Trump, they are merely saying, “Fuck it. Fuck these politicians, and fuck this government.” Others may be a bit more calculating, supposing no one can kill these monsters that arose during the Obama years: widespread terrorism, problems with Russia and China, Syria, Libya, Turkey, a growing racial divide, the failure of healthcare, a gutted military, and an anemic economy with an impossible national debt. We appear to be on the edge.  If a republican is elected, he will surely take the fall, along with all the blame. Why not let Hillary have it?  Let her take the fall.  No, the Clintons never take the fall. That history has yet to be written.  Cackling, wearing a pink pantsuit and dragging bags of money, she would ride off into the sunset.  Either way it goes, my friend, this does not bode well.