The Company You Keep (Le Grand Orange)
This whole Donald Drumpf thing is not getting better. In fact it’s actually getting worse. Much of the GOP establishment is predictably falling in line and trying to rationalize their support of the carnival barker that could rightfully assume the moniker once ascribed to the much loved baseball star of the NY Mets and Montreal Expos, Rusty Staub (for his red hair)… “Le Grand Orange”
Le Grand Orange of the GOP is an all together different animal. His relationship with the truth is hostile at best, putting the lie to the famous quote by Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynahan that “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Le Grand Orange feels very much entitled to his own facts. His facts are a loose combination of things he’s read online, been told anecdotally and things he wishes were true. Mashed together and repurposed through his Twitter feed, these bits of fiction or “ficts” take on a life of their own until he and millions of people come to believe that his ficts are facts. It may very well be pathological. In the immortal words of George Costanza “It’s not a lie, if YOU believe it”
That so many believe that Le Grand Orange is a “straight shooter”, that he “tells it like it is”, is actually more ironic than any Seinfeld episode. The list of current lies is so outrageously long that I could not conceivably list them all, but just today (TODAY!) he lied about…
Opposing intervention in Libya (in contrast to HRC’s “poor judgement”) Problem is that he supported it… ON VIDEO!
His opposition to the Iraq war in 2003 (he claims he was against it… but…really?)
Claims that Hillary Clinton wants to do away with the 2nd Amendment and take away your guns.
But the single most amazing load of crap that he has repeatedly run on this season, and the one his supporters have clung to as proof of his outsider status, is the “I’m self-financing my campaign so will not be beholden to anyone.” nonsense. He just received campaign promises from Sheldon Adelson to the tune of $100,000,000, and is now plugged into the GOP fund raising apparatus looking to raise $1 BILLION. This of course raises the question that if he so incredibly wealthy and has $10B, why would he need to do this in direct contradiction to his boasts of self-financing?
It’s amazing. You almost get overwhelmed with the amount of bullshit spewing from his face that you can’t actually react to all of it. So there is the serial nature of his lying, and then there is the targeted bigotry, meant to rile up the worst aspects of the base. Muslims, Mexicans, the Chinese etc… all are fair game and all are, well…. not white. The question that a Drumpf supporter needs to ask oneself is this. If it is CRYSTAL CLEAR that this man is blatantly lying and making a mockery of the process, the presidency and the people who support him.. what does that say about YOU, the person who actually supports him? He is clearly playing you for a fool, and yet, and YET, there you are, cheering him on and buying his hats. There you are laughing and cheering as he mocks disabled people, objectifies women, threatens to ban an entire religion from entering the country and deporting millions of people forcefully. This is not about him, Le Grand Orange is a clown for sure, but more than that he is a big scary funhouse mirror held up to our society. When you, a Drumpf supporter look into it, what do you see?
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