By Steven Jonas
With this column I am beginning an occasional
series of what I will call "Short Takes."
That is, instead of a lengthy column on a single theme, I will be
offering a series of thoughts, briefly stated, on a variety of themes. In length, they will more often than not be
like Tweets, but fully spelled out, which Tweets by myself and others often are
not. Some of them, actually, will be
expanded versions of recent Tweets of mine.
And so, here goes.
1. On
Trump, what would we political writers do without him? He provides endless fodder for the political
gristmill. But since he doesn't do much
that is Presidential in the traditional sense, and shows absolutely no interest
in learning about either the form or content (especially the latter) of that
role, he does have to fill up his time somehow.
Doesn't he?
2. That
is except when he fills it up by having affairs while married, then paying off
the affairee to attempt to keep her
quiet. Which tactic is not working too
well right now. Has Las Vegas yet set up
odds for how many more such women will be coming forward? At least so far, those Hillary supporters who
had to stand by while Hillary got it from both Right and Left for standing by
her man, can point to Melania for doing the same thing.
3. Speaking
of porn-stars and Playboy cover models with whom Trump has allegedly been
involved, and the payoffs that his lawyer/fixer Mike Cohen (who followed Roy
Cohn of "Angels in America" fame), in that role, has "made out of his own
pocket." What a generous man. One wonders if he will have to/have had to
pay gift tax on the amount, since the sums would seem to be made for Trump's benefit. Wouldn't that amount to a gift?
4. On L'Affaire Porter, Trump has said that he
is "opposed" to domestic violence. Isn't
that sort of like being "opposed" to the TPP or immigration of any kind (except
for Norwegians)? What? He couldn't say that he "condemned" domestic violence? Nah!
That would reveal "imbalance."
5. Trump and his flaks have been all over
the FBI because tips on the Florida murderer were sent to them and nothing was
done. But w hat precisely could have
been done? Florida is an open-carry state.
AR-15 ownership is legal nationally. An indignant Rubio gets 3 + mil [!] from the NRA. One cannot
be locked up for making threats. And if
the FBI had tried to do something with this White/Racist/Right-wing Terrorist,
every NRA shill in the country, starting with Sean (Let's Put Armed Guards in Every
School) Hannity (Trump's best bud, donchaknow) would have been jumping down
their throat. I don't know who is the
worst FL political hypocrite, Sen. Rubio or the Gunner Gov. Scott.
6. On
the "armed guards in the schools" thing, a) who would pay for them (?) and b)
of course a killer like the one just seen, who planned everything out very
carefully, would simply have cased the joint and taken out the armed guard(s)
first.
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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