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Many families have a relative they look up to, a personality known widely in a local area, nationally or internationally. For me it was my Great Uncle Lewis Foster, my grandmother’s brother. He was a screenwriter, director and producer who won an academy award for writing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
I remember visiting my uncle in Los Angeles (Bel-Air actually) when I was around twelve. As I recall, my mother and aunt went shopping while Uncle Lew took me to a movie. It might have been A Light in the Forest, I can’t remember for sure.
While watching the movie my uncle noticed that I was rubbing my eyes. I told him they itched a lot and that I couldn’t help it. He frowned. Then he instructed me to stop. He said, I clearly remember this, “God doesn’t make little boys whose eyes itch.” He told me I was addicted to rubbing my eyes and that I could stop if I would just give it a try.
It will help you to know that my uncle nearly died at one point in his life. The doctors seemed unable to help him. A friend introduced him to a Christian Science practitioner who prayed with him. Miraculously he got well after that. Needless to say he became a true believer.
I tried with all my might not to rub my eyes during that movie. My eyes teared up. I became very uncomfortable but I did my best not to disappoint my uncle. After the movie he smiled and said, “You see, your eyes didn’t really itch.” Well, they sure did but I was loathe to argue. A few years later my doctor prescribed allergy medication and I’ve been free of itching eyes since.
I thought of this little episode in my life because I realize I’ve become addicted to Donald Trump. There’s no escaping him. He’s all over the news, even the foreign news that I like to read. Everywhere I go people argue about him. His tweets are followed by millions of Twitter subscribers. I get emails daily pointing to one idiocy or another that occurred that day.
The fact is Trompudo is a narcissist and he has succeeded getting attention 24-7. I wish I could take a medication that would cure me of this addiction but I can’t. In this case I really am on my own.
I’ve decided all these years later that my uncle was on to something. I concluded long ago that religions have too many kooky ideas for me to take any of them seriously. Trompudo has lots of kooky positions too, but he is in a position of power and cannot be totally ignored.
Or can he? Most of what he says is bluster. Most of what he does is symbolic. There is no doubt that he is making consequential changes in regulatory reform, the judiciary, and so on. But, he doesn’t have unlimited power as much as he might like to.
Flushing Trompudo
I have reluctantly come, kicking and screaming, to my uncle’s conclusion. Ignore Trompudo and he will go away.
The worst thing that can happen to a narcissist is to be ignored. As Trompudo himself has said: bad press is better than no press.
So, I’m going to follow my uncle’s advice at least in part. My uncle was a Republican, but I know he would understand. He wasn’t like today’s Republicans who have no scruples. After all, he wrote Mr. Smith Goes to Washington! I’m going to break my Trompudo addiction by ignoring Trompudo. It may be hard with this Stormy Daniels news breaking. But, hey, a guy’s gotta do what a guy’s gotta do. He can say any stupid thing he wants, do any stupid thing he does. I’m going to focus on Congress and on the next election. That’s where the real action is today. Trompudo, colorful as he may be, is just a distraction.
Some Links
Why We’re Addicted to Donald Trump and How to Get Clean
I Must Face the Crippling Reality of my Donald Trump Addiction
How Will We Get Over the Trump Addiction?
Trump is a Drug and the Media is Addicted
No way.
I will take the over on how many reads you engage in on each day about the Orange baboon in the “Shit House” at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. You can take the political out of the junkie, but you can’t junkie out of the political junkie.0
In fact, I am already [David] jonesin for some more junk on Trumpudo (and not the junk that Stormy can describe).
Come on, KD, admit it, you’re already cravin’ it!
Yes, gettn’ off the crack is hard work but I Ain’t Misbehavin’ quite yet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7RG6V7NvlJI
It’s tough to look away from a burning building or an accident. It’s human nature 101. Someone once called it, “fascination with abomination”. seems to fit the current circumstances.
Gonna take more than a wimp from Brooklyn and a stock jockey to break my resolve. Time to see the light, boys. As my hero Hitchens said of Jerry Falwell, give the man an enema and he could be buried in a matchbox.
On Trumpudo one year anniversary the government is shutdown as a result of his incredulous deal making skills.
It is truly “The Shart of the Deal”
TOP DEFINITION
Shart
a small, unintended defecation that occurs when one relaxes the anal sphincter to fart (blend of “shit” and “fart”)
“I sharted [in the Senate] last night and went home pronto to change my clothes.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shart
Trump’s First Year: Hard Times for U.S. Soft Power
The losses in U.S. leadership approval may have implications on U.S. influence abroad. With its stable approval rating of 41%, Germany has replaced the U.S. as the top-rated global power in the world. The U.S. is now on nearly even footing with China (31%) and barely more popular than Russia (27%) — two countries that Trump sees as rivals seeking to “challenge American influence, values and wealth.”– Gallup
Dear Henry and Tom (sorry, I am consolidating my response),
Please get your heads out of your arses. Trompudo did not create nor can he solve these problems. He is, as I’ve stated above, a narcissist whose only thoughts are for himself. Thankfully most Americans know this. Happily many true Americans are marching today to remedy these problems. Sadly, many Republican leaders continue to show they cannot grow a spine , that they are slithering in the mud like a headless snake. The reason is obvious, they think they can use Donald the Narcissist to achieve their goals. Most who love our country, who respect our friends around the world, have come to their senses. They see the light. Let’s focus on those who have the power. Any kindergarten teacher knows that you must separate the unruly child from the class to teach the rest. Please, put Donald in the cloak room and march with the true American patriots and leaders.
Dear Mr. Jones:
It is very difficult to separate an unruly child who possesses a fistful of nukes as we know from his brother from a different mother in NorKorea and his puppet master in the Kremlin. In fact, this is what drives “little rocket man” to go nuclear.
Trumpudo craves power because, in my words from many years back, “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Appalling.
I suspect his foreign affairs are about to get very Stormy over the next year.
Sincerely,
Henry K.
Difficult but not impossible, Henry. Have you not read the book by Christopher Hitchens detailing how you were able to push Tricky Dick all over the planet? Rex T is not up to the job. In some ways I’m thankful for that. Perhaps we will think twice before assassinating a democratically elected President as you did in Chili, prolong an unpopular and deadly war as you did in Vietnam, and be complicit as you were in torture and extortion. In any case, when you and your cronies realized Tricky Dick was no longer useful, was a drunk on booze as Donald the Narcissist is on himself, you did the right thing. You pushed him out of the way. In the meantime let’s get real stuff done.