Somebody has to tell me what is so magic about a capital R. The kind that goes after your name if you are a Republican. Because if you have one of those, you can get away with pretty much anything when it comes to selling out, cursing out or compromising your own country. When it was Hillary Clinton with an insecure email server, Republicans wanted to "lock her up," but President Trump still uses the insecure Android phone he had before he got elected. Plus, he has been warned that with an old, consumer grade phone like that, someone could easily hack into his Twitter account and start posting crazy messages....and how would we be able to tell?
So, a couple of weeks before the Super Bowl, Bill O'Reilly asked Trump why he always defended Putin who O'Reilly said was a killer. A reasonable question since the last two guys who were as cozy as Trump and Putin held their bilateral talks on Brokeback Mountain. Then, Trump took Putin's side over America saying, "we've got killers too. You think our country is so innocent?" If a Democrat had said that before the Super Bowl, they would be in Guantanamo Bay by half-time. But if you have the magic R, no problem.
Trump repeatedly said that he was going to donate to military charities and didn't, then lied about it. He compared our intelligence agencies to Nazis. He said McCain, who spent 5 years in a Vietnamese prison, was not a war hero because he likes people who were not captured. I gotta say to all of you flag-waving right-wingers that say, "I'm not to just stand here and let you run down my country," you're just standing there and letting Trump run down America.
Donald Trump could go to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and say, ''Well, maybe if he had something maybe he wouldn't be so unknown," and Republicans would be okay with that too. When Trump said that he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue, shoot someone and not lose any voters, he wasn't making a joke; he has never made a joke. Unless his entire life is some Andy Kaufman-style performance in which case; stop it. No, he simply stating an actual fact for once which is if you have the magic R after your name, you can drive a Hummer through a daycare center and Fox News will say that the babies were asking for it. Meanwhile, in an alternative world where a Democrat is President, Obama once said that "We have not been perfect." Then, for 8 years Republicans screamed that Obama was on a non-stop apology tour. They lost their marbles when Obama did such high crimes like not holding his hand up to his heart during the national anthem, or saluting with coffee in his hand, even though George Bush did it with a dog. Yeah, that guy who sat frozen for 7 minutes after being told that the country was under attack? Republicans defended that. We just accept that America is the Republican Party's bitch and they can criticize and betray her but you can't. Even though Obama spent 8 years talking up the troops, talking up the country, how much he loved it, and saying "In no other country on Earth is my story possible," it didn't matter. Conservatives all nodded when Rudy Giuliani said: "I do not believe that President Obama loves America." As opposed to Giuliani, who happened to be mayor on 9/11 which made him Amerca's mayor, who's great act of heroism was that nothing fell on his head. To paraphrase Donald Trump, I like mayors who don't let buildings collapse.
A few weeks ago, an old but very smoking gun, emerged from the Nixon era when it came out that in 1968 when President Lyndon Johnson was trying to end the war in Vietnam, candidate Richard Nixon was actively undermining the peace talks because he wanted the war to go on so he could make it a campaign issue. You would think that the America first crowd would find that a bridge too far. Hell no. Dick Cheney once outed a CIA agent just to say fuck you to her husband. Reagan sold weapons to Iran, the country that they want bomb now in brazen defiance of American law and instead of being impeached, he was elevated to sainthood and now rides horses in Heaven with Jesus.
Why do Republicans get away with this? Why do they have patriotic immunity? America is like a dysfunctional family where the Democrats are the older, mature son who works hard and does everything right, but somehow is never good enough. The Republicans are the young asshole son who is a complete fuck up and no matter how many times he crashes the Camaro, Daddy buys him a new one. I know it's not really important like which department store is selling Ivanka's panty liners, but all of America's intelligence agencies say a foreign power tampered with our elections to favor the Republican candidate. They also say that they do not trust that Republican, our President, with our state secrets. Yet, the theme of Trump's inaugural addresswas America First. Please, his ego is first, his hotels are second, Russia is third, I doubt America breaks the top ten.
