Wednesday, September 25, 2024. Annette’s News Roundup.
Someone, talk about “the emperor.” Is he “unserious” or just plain nuts?
“These are not normal people,” said Josh Stein, Democratic candidate for Governor, North Carolina.
Trump is not a normal person. We should all say this.
Watch this. 👇 Is this normal?
Read this. 👇 Is it normal?
The historian Heather Cox Richardson wrote - On Friday, news broke that maternal deaths in Texas skyrocketed after the state’s 2021 abortion ban, rising by 56% compared to an 11% increase across the rest of the nation. Just before midnight.
Richardson is a sane person so when she looks at data, she faces the world.
But Donald Trump tweets out fanciful discourse, sometimes violent, sometimes whimsical, but never real. Just off. “Somebody said women don’t like Donald Trump,” the Republican presidential nominee told the crowd at a recent rally in Johnstown, Pa. “That’s wrong. I think they love me, I love them.”
There is much media conversation in print, in social media, on television, interpreting craziness as Trump trying to win suburban women’s vote. Yes, or maybe, but what come out is also narcissistic word salad from a man who just isn’t normal.
From the time of Trump’s unexpected arrival by escalator in 2015, spewing disgusting racist lies about immigrants, he owned the press and the public.
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” Trump said.”They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us [sic]. They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
Controversy. Puke being treated as policy. Puke being shaped into policy.
Now Trump is a convicted rapist, and 34 times convicted felon, a criminal fraud, a racist who praised Nazis marching with tiki torches, chanting “Jews will not replace us,” an insurrectionist who orchestrated and excited an riot at our Capitol, a deluded and menacing voice resisting election results and the rule of law, wrapping himself and millions in a great lie.
Still spewing puke. Still being treated as if it was policy.
As Kamala said, “Trump is an unserious man, “ but, as the Vice President continued, the consequences of putting Donald Trump in the White House are extremely serious.” But is he just “unserious”? If so, isn’t that bad enough?
In most instances, the charge of “unserious” would derail a candidate’s run for President but in this case, it is clear that “unserious” easily floats off into pure crazy, and the Press doesn’t care, nor does the public. They all know Trump often crosses that line.
There is a collective commitment to laughing and/or deciphering, rather than denouncing, the scribbling - the word gargling - of a deranged man, a mad man.
That shouldn’t be. Too much is at stake.
Here is Today’s headline in the New York Times, the standard bearer for journalistic integrity in our nation.
Are you kidding me? That sounds like a lead-in with the expectation of a normal candidate. Trump is not. What should we expect? Rants about how he won in 2020 when in his words, “the RINO,”Brad Raffensperger, Secretary of State of Georgia, refused to find him
11,779 votes, when he knew he won the state won by thousands of votes. “
Every day I face and I suspect you to face a headline, or media or social media coverage that ignores reality and treats Trump as if he were a familiar, GOP candidate, a buttoned-down, managerial type.
A man speaking policy.
Sane Washing. That is a moderate way of describing what should be recognized as madness by our media and worse, madness by the electorate.
We are often told to be kind and respectful of Trump supporters.
Why?
As a strategy? Okay. That I understand, but I want to be on record as saying that I think anyone who plans to vote for Trump, thinking he is sane and capable of running a nation sanely, is themselves out of their minds. Deplorables? Yes, but more. NUTS!
Some willing to ignore the gargling. Others entering his strange sphere.
This is a real and serious world. People struggling to stay alive, struggling to live decent lives, work or do activities that are economically and/or emotionally fulfilling. A world with dangerous disease, war and violence, natural and unnatural conditions.
But the GOP doesn’t see or care about the world. Even if the bulk of Trump supporters are also mad, the GOP is happy to have their votes.
Given the condition of some recent candidates that the GOP has put forth -Donald Trump, Mark Robinson, Herschl Walker, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, it is clear we need a strategy of how to deal with a candidates who are either not serious persons, or, unfortunately, not sane.
Our Vice Presidential candidate took a first step and called them weird, but even that is just a baby step to accurately describing what we see.
Join me in reality.
Tell everyone you can that candidates who are nuts are nuts. Yes, tell them candidates who are not serious are not serious.
Sample Trump is nuts. Say it. Doesn’t that feel good.
Post this on social media. Speak it aloud in your social circle.
Knocking on doors for Kamala?
Try it there.
Maybe you will be pleasantly surprised by someone else who noticed “their emperor has no clothes.”
It matters. (Annette Niemtzow, Annette’s News Roundup).
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