We Need to Stop Playing Trump’s Game

I have already voted. In my state, we can vote early by mail or in person. I chose the mail option this year. So, this Tuesday, it’s just a matter of ensuring I have a hot pot of coffee and some munchies, as I plan to stay up all night and watch the returns come in. I did it when we elected the first Black man, Obama. It’s only fitting that I do the same when the first Black female, Harris, is declared our next president.

From my perspective, it is long overdue. The idiotic nonsense many of us have had that our presidency was too challenging, complicated, demanding, and whatever other bullshit one can devise is and always has been just that, bullshit.

We need to remember how strong and capable women are. I have yet to see any man have the strength to give birth. I know it’s biologically impossible, but did you ever consider the fact the Creator realized that if he had provided the first man with the ability to give birth, he would have cried like a baby at the pain? When it comes to intelligence, common sense, and overall intuition, again, I wouldn’t bet against a woman.

I am well aware of the game the idiot known as Trump is attempting to foist on the country with his unfounded claims about VP Harris’s intelligence. The reality of it all is he is talking about himself. Trump is the one with the low IQ.

Like many of you, I have known some knowledgeable individuals in my time on this third rock from the sun, and it is unusual for them to flout their intellect in the manner Trump does. They do not need to brag about their intellectual skills. They are self-aware and often feel uncomfortable with extended praise lavished on them. Some find it off-putting and can do without it.

They would rather have their accomplishments speak for themselves. It is not unusual for them to feel uncomfortable when complimented. But, unlike Trump, they handle it in a non-braggadocio manner, often crediting their team or others who may have assisted. Most of all, they don’t play games with people. They let the people on their team shine. But not Trump.

In the second edition of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, here is what Jeffrey D. Sachs, PH.D., wrote:

“Donald Trump is a profound danger to Americans and to the rest of the world. He will remain a profound danger until he is no longer president, since the dangers clearly result from Trump’s serious mental impairments that are untreated and are most likely impervious to treatment. The authors of this volume deserve our nation’s gratitude and, most important, our deep attention and political response.”

A profound danger to Americans, let that sink in for a moment. What would make Trump a profound danger? Is it his propensity to lie? Perhaps it is the fact that he never conceded the last election and continues to bring the same tired tropes that all center around he believes Democrats cheat. Could it be his inability to tell the truth, especially when the truth is different from what he has been saying and peddling to those who are using him?

Trump’s murders-roe of billionaires (Musk, Theil, the Loefflers, Ruffin, Liautaud, Dunn, Uihlein) and others who have the means and desire to move the country from democracy toward autocracy as the primary benefactors of Trump’s largesse while ordinary people, those not rich, will have to settle for leftover crumbs.

Throughout his adult life, Trump has engaged in misogynistic, racially motivated, necromancer-crafted incantations that will do nothing for the everyday citizens of the country. However, when it comes to millionaires and billionaires, he does something impossible for someone of his size and girth: twists himself into a pretzel to get their support. Trump is the giant hog in the trough, trying to eat all the food it can consume. Trump will do whatever he needs to get money by any means he can. So if he has to sell what’s left of his soul, and there isn’t much left, he will do it.

I want to return to what Jeffery Sachs said about Trump: “Donald Trump is a profound danger to Americans and the rest of the world.” Sachs’s words bear our attention as to the significance of how he has managed to manipulate, malign, and marginalize the once-vaulted Republican party. Trump has destroyed the party of Lincoln and, in so doing, has also managed to turn a party that believed in freedom to support his version of autocracy.

The significance of this election is profound in ways many fail to understand. This election isn’t about job growth, inflation, healthcare, immigration, or whatever the idiotic pundits are blathering about.

When historians write about this election, they will cite it as the election where American democracy survived or finally succumbed to Trump’s malevolence and aided him in achieving his goal of becoming a dictator and turning the country over to all the wannabe oligarchs.

Donald John Trump, indeed, is a clear and present danger to the country. Trump has no use for democracy. At least the type of democracy that has been the mainstay of this country for over two hundred fifty years.

Those who support him have gladly surrendered their souls to him for the promise of tax cuts and being appointed oligarchs over the industries of their choosing. All Trump desires is their adulation and to see his bank account increase. Should he succeed in winning next Tuesday, everything will have a ‘for sale sign on it.’

Timothy Synder wrote the following:

“History does not repeat, but it does instruct. As the Founding Fathers debated our Constitution, they took instructions from the history they knew. Concerned that the democratic republic they envisioned would collapse, they contemplated the descent of ancient democracies and republics into oligarchy and empire. As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants. In founding a democratic republic upon law and establishing a system of checks and balances, the Founding Fathers sought to avoid the evil that they, like the ancient philosophers, called tyranny.” — On Tyranny Twenty Lessons from The Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder, pg. 9–10

Please make no mistake: should Donald Trump get back to the White House, he indeed will take us down that tyrannical road of Perdition to satisfy his debased needs and wants. He has all but said it when he boasted that he could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue in New York and shoot someone, and nothing would happen to him.

It is that same mindset where he will have no problem suspending the Constitution, declaring the country to be in a state of emergency, activating the Army, and beginning his “purge” of those on his enemies list. Political writes the following:

“If he wins the election, Trump will take office as a defendant in two federal criminal cases: one active case and another that has been dismissed but that special counsel Jack Smith is seeking to reinstate. Trump’s first, deeply personal order of business will be ensuring those prosecutions come to a swift end.

And he has spoken openly about one of his other primary goals: seeking retribution against his perceived political enemies. His list of targets is long and growing: his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris; President Joe Biden and his family; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who successfully prosecuted Trump in one of his other criminal cases; and members of the House Jan. 6 select committee, just to name a few. He has threatened to prosecute a host of unnamed Democratic lawyers, political operatives, “illegal voters,” and election officials, as well as judges and court officials. He has pledged not only to fire Smith but also to kick him out of the country.”

Like all dictators, Trump is a petty and insecure individual and will seek revenge on anyone he feels has done him wrong. When he talked about how nice it would be to see Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad, he wasn’t kidding.

Every election is important, but this one is exceptionally determinative as to whether we continue as a democracy or morph into the dystopian world of Orwell. I consider the following from Project 2025;

“When it comes to ensuring that freedom can flourish, nothing is more important than deconstructing the centralized administrative state. Political appointees who are answerable to the President and have decision-making authority in the executive branch are key to this essential task. The next Administration must not cede such authority to non-partisan “experts,” who pursue their own ends while engaging in groupthink, insulated from American voters.” –Project 2025: Section1: Taking the Reins of Government, pg. 106.

In American Crisis, Thomas Paine wrote the following:

“These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of many and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: ― ‘Tis dearness only gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to set a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.” — Paine Collective Writings: The American Crisis Number 1, pg. 91.

Thomas Paine wrote these words to boost the confidence of Washington’s troops, who felt their quest for independence from the tyrannical grip of England was a hill too far, and many were about to leave and go back home as their enlistment was up. When Washington read these words, they realized what they were fighting for and decided to continue and see the cause they were fighting for to the bitter end. They were fighting for what we have now: our democracy. Many of these men died on the battlefield to give Trump the freedom he has to voice his opinion, even if it’s a bushel full of lies, half-truths, and overall claptrap.

The country was at war for eight years with a government with more money, better-equipped troops, a navy that ruled the high seas, and seasoned military officers who knew the art of war. Many of those whom we call patriots died on the battlefield for the right to be free of England. According to Trump, those that died were ‘suckers and losers. If it weren’t for the suckers and losers, there would be no United States of America.

So, to those who support Trump and think he will ‘Make America Great Again,’ you had four years of him as President; what did he accomplish during his four years? How much of his touted wall did he build and have Mexico pay for?

Why did over a million American citizens needlessly die because he was too damn stupid and stubborn to listen to people who knew what they were doing regarding COVID? Pull the country out of the Paris Accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that would have significantly benefitted the US for no other reason than it was his predecessor, Obama, a Black man who negotiated them, and let’s be honest here, Donald Trump pulled out not because it would be bad for the US.

On the contrary, the US would have significantly benefited from it because Trump is abject racist, a characteristic he inherited from his racist father.

It’s past time for ‘the common man and woman’ Trump supporters to recognize and accept the fact they are supporting fucking idiot who doesn’t give a damn about them.

It’s time for people to stop playing Trump’s game. What game am I referring to? The ism/religion game. Racism, sexism, able-bodism, and religion.

Regardless of statements about the Bible being one of his favorite books, Trump is not a religious individual, and one should be highly suspicious of his claims of being a Bible reader.

It is long past time to stop playing Trump’s game of racism, hate, misogyny, and abject greed. If Trump is elected, he will end democracy as we know it. Harris will preserve it and work to make it better and far more inclusive so we can have it, as Lincoln said, a more perfect union.

It will only happen if you vote.