Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
I spend a lot of time here bashing on Democrats and the left in general, and I’ve never had a kind word to say about the Hildabeast, and never will. I haven’t spent much time here hammering on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump because he has as much chance of winning the White House as I do; so, it seems silly to spend much time talking about his proposals, since he’ll never get a chance to implement them.
However, in the interest of equal time and fairness, today I shall bash on Trump. It is his own fault anyway for presenting me with such low-hanging fruit to pluck. Trump was speaking in Pittsburgh yesterday where he reiterated his commitment to being a “law-and-order president.” Trump had been recently praising the tactic known as “stop-and-frisk” whereby police quite literally stop and frisk people, usually black, without any actual cause or reason. It was championed during Rudy Giuliani’s reign as mayor of New York City and has been described as an abject failure that caused far more harm to police and community relations than anything else.
Trump was pressed on his effusive praise for the tactic on Fox News and was asked to describe how it would work.
“If they see a person possibly with a gun or they think may have a gun, they will see the person and they’ll look and they’ll take the gun away…They’ll stop, they’ll frisk, and they’ll take the gun away. And they won’t have anything to shoot with,” Trump was quoted as saying.
The question his comment raises is an important one: Who is hearing him say this and then is thinking to themselves “yeah, that’s a great idea”? I’d love to think the target audience for his remarks is non-existent; that no one could be as damn dumb as to think increasing the incidents of contact between police and citizens will improve police/citizen relations. But, this is 2016 America, so, I’m guessing a lot of people agree with him; all of them morons.
Speaking of morons, Trump kept going, insisting that the race-fueled rioting in Charlotte, N.C., isn’t about race and police violence and a deliberately manipulated group of agitators. Nope, none of those are the actual cause of the problem, according to Trump.
“If you’re not aware, drugs are a very, very big factor in what you’re watching on television at night. My administration will work with local communities and local officials to make the reduction of crime a top priority,” Trump was quoted as saying.
As is often the case with one of Trump’s proclamations, someone has to come along afterward and clean it up for him. This task falls to campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, who said Trump wasn’t referring specifically to Charlotte, but was “addressing a major concern that authorities and moms across the country are raising with him, which is indiscriminate drug use and opiate addiction.”
Just what the hell is “indiscriminate drug use?” Most people I know that use drugs are quite discriminatory as to which ones they use. And has anyone ever seen a junkie riot? They’re typically either barely functional by being comfortably half-sedated, or ghost-white, clammy, shaking and puking; not much room for rioting in that lifestyle.
No, obviously the root causes of the riots in Charlotte are many and complex, but the only role drugs play is in the efforts police use to enforce our nation’s imbecilic drug laws. That Trump thinks the problem of over-policing black neighborhoods can be solved by more police putting hands on people more often only serves to expose his profound disconnect from reality.
It would be possible to take some solace in knowing Trump will never be president, but for the fact that the alternative is a harpy demon crammed into an ill-fitting human coil. Knowing that one of these horrible things will be president, and that it will be the harpy demon, is enough to make me consider trying some “indiscriminate drug use.”
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