Donald Trump – LonelyMachines

Impeachment

The Senate has refused to hear witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump. It’s not the cover-up Pelosi and Schiff are claiming. They brought the articles to the Senate (with no small amount of ridiculous grade-school theater) under the assertion that they had an unassailable case, backed by compelling evidence.

Apparently, they don’t. Well, that’s their problem. Let’s run through the whole 2016 narrative, shall we?

Donald Trump personally worked with Vladimir Putin to sway the election! We have evidence, but we won’t show you just yet. Well, OK. We don’t have evidence.
Here’s a fake report from the “intelligence community.” That’s evidence, right? No? OK.
Let’s talk about Stormy Daniels. She…what? Russia? That was last week.
OK. OK. We’ve got it. There’s this thing called the Emoluments Clause. We’ll use some big words to confuse people, and…oh for $%&* sake.
Two scoops of iced cream. TWO SCOOPS, people!
So, that Russia thing?

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Civil Rights

The Bump Stock Ban

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I’m going to give you the short version up front. That bump stock you bought a few months ago? It’s now the most dangerous thing you could possibly own. It’s classified as a machine gun, you have 90 days to get rid of it, and there’s no way to make it legal.

You have two options. The first is to destroy it. I suggest having a witness present to make a video recording. The second is to turn it over to law enforcement. Have a witness present and get a written receipt as well as the name and number of the official to whom you surrendered it.

There’s no third option. Since these are essentially post-1986 machine guns, there’s no way to register them. If you want to play games and hold onto it, remember that 82 people burned to death at Waco on the mere suspicion of that.

The deadline is March 21st.

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How Trump Happened

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We’ve heard the blame shifting. We’ve seen the finger pointing. By now, you’ve no doubt heard the theory from the Left: Donald Trump won the election because of uneducated white males, which is liberal codespeak for racists. Apparently, there are 60 million or so of them.

When the last shred of an argument one has is a shockingly and unfeasibly large allegation of racism, it’s time to reconsider strategy. They were wrong, so wrong it cost the Democrats everything. Hillary Clinton must be fuming that she not only lost–she lost to Donald Trump.

Just consider that. He’s the most ridiculous and inept Presidential candidate we’ve ever had. Any one of his stupendous blunders or unearthed scandals would have been enough to destroy any other campaign. How did he get this far?

The answer is simple: anger. Not just the kind that makes people throw a vase and feel better, but the kind that gets deferred.

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Do Let’s Shut Up

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I’m sick of the manufactured outrage this election. The American public was fully aware what kind of people both Presidential candidates were when we nominated them. We have only ourselves to blame.

Let’s be honest and stop with the fist-waving and name-calling. We relinquished that right with an enthusiasm and abandon that should trigger nothing but shame in retrospect.

Donald Trump is, for lack of a more articulate adjective, an asshole. He’s the spoiled rich kid, the bully, the fraternity jock who hopes a comely cheerleader will get drunk enough not to remember who took advantage of her in the morning. The evidence of his disdain for nonwhite elites is apparent to anyone who knows how to use Google, and it always has been.

Those who voted for him in the primaries should have known this. The only explanation is that we’re truly desperate or that we chose to disregard that in favor of bumper-sticker slogans.

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Low Energy, Totally Uninspired

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At this point, I can’t see the math working out any other way. Donald Trump is going to be the Republican nominee for President this fall.

That scares the living bejeezus out of me. It should frighten any reasonable person. Apparently, “reasonable person” excludes a large portion of the American electorate.

Let’s be clear: Donald Trump doesn’t care about you. He only cares about himself. This is all a game to him, and one in which the most uncouth bully wins through sheer force of will.

The obvious retort is, “well, that’s politics as usual.” It’s not untrue, but this guy claims to represent a repudiation of politics as usual. Right. If anything, he represents an amplified version of it, filtered through the worst kind of populism I’ve seen since, well…

I’m going full Godwin here. It’s the worst kind of populism since Hitler. There. I’ve done it, and I’m not sorry.

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Enough!

I get it: Donald Trump is rich. He managed daddy’s real-estate business with some degree of competence, and it made a great deal of money. Good for him. That doesn’t qualify him to be the President of the United States.

He has yet to articulate a single coherent policy position. He says he’ll “build a wall” and “make Mexico pay for it.” OK. How is he going to get that done? He won’t say. He claims he’s going to “make America great again.” What steps does that entail? No clue.

He claims to have learned about foreign policy by watching generals on television. Let that one sink in for a moment.

If he thinks Megyn Kelly’s question to him in that silly Fox debate was tough and unfair, wait until he has to deal with someone like Putin, Rouhani, or Lukashenko. He has yet to face a real bully.

He spends all of his time chanting calculated and vague slogans, and he treats every speaking engagement like he’s doing a standup comedy routine.

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