Trump says the dumbest things: Cutting through the wall

When it was reported that smugglers were cutting through his wall with a battery powered saw available in hardware stores he said:  “We have a very powerful wall…but no matter how powerful you can cut through anything.  In all fairness, you know cutting is one thing, but it is easily fixed.  One of the reasons we did it the way we did it…it’s very easily fixed…we put the chunk back in.  But we have a very powerful wall.  But you can cut through any wall.”

Raser’s Edge:  The hating game

Donald Trump tweeted: “Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals.”

The Supreme Court is now considering whether Donald Trump can rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an immigration policy allowing children of illegal immigrants who were brought here when very young to remain.  Aside from the inherent cruelty of Trump’s move, it is entirely in keeping in his methods for manipulating and deluding his base supporters.

What the American people should realize is that Trump is using the same technique Hitler and Mussolini used to rise to and maintain power in the 1920s—the vilification of specific groups of people.  The principle is easily understood.  You brand a group or groups of people as undesirable, repulsive and, above all, as a threat to you and your way of life.  You stir up hatred and fear, and your masses blindly cheer you on.

Trump has used it since the day he announced his presidential run.  Remember, Mexicans are sending “rapists,” “gang members,” “murderers” and “very tough, hardened criminals.”  Muslims want to kill you.  Immigrants and people on welfare are taking all your hard-earned money.  Be scared all you good, loyal, upstanding, patriotic Americans.

Of the 700,000 or so DACA recipients no doubt some of them might be a bit undesirable but that would also apply to some people attending Trump rallies.  The vast majority of DACA recipients have been vetted, work, go to college, pay taxes and behave just like average Americans.

But they have now been targeted in Trump’s Nazi/Fascist style use of hatred and denigration of a group of people to manipulate and control his enabling, gullible, emotional base.  It is exactly the same thing Hitler and Mussolini did to obtain power a century ago.  The Trumpists cry the Democrats want to establish socialism in America.  That will never happen. The real threat is the new Trumpist Republican party’s slide into Fascism.

Raser’s Edge:  My legal opinion

Admittedly, I am not a lawyer.  However, I did play one on stage as the assistant prosecutor in the courtroom drama Inherit the Wind.  So I believe I am just as qualified as anyone else to render my opinion on the interminable cable news discussions regarding Trump’s impeachment.

The case has been exhaustively discussed in public, so much so that any kind of official proceedings are completely superfluous and unnecessary. Everybody has already established their arguments.

Trump has emphatically made his case:  “It’s a hoax, a witch hunt, I did nothing wrong, no collusion, no quid pro quo, the fake news press is out to get me, the Democrats are traitors, you never had it so good.”  The Congressional Republicans are squirming to be as indecisively deceive as they can be without offending Trump who scares them to death.  “Well, maybe it wasn’t such a good thing he said on the phone call, but it really is not an impeachable offence, he really did not mean quid pro quo, he was just misinterpreted…”  Then some of his biggest sycophants, Rudolph Giuliani and Steven Mnuchin, go out in public and say, “Yeah, he did the quid pro quo but so what we do stuff like that all the time. No big deal.”

Then the Congressional Democrats say: “We are just doing what is right for the American public, carrying out our constitutional duty to attack, disparage and discredit an obnoxious Republican sleaze ball president.  That’s what the American people want and that’s exactly what we intend to do.”

The point is, everyone in America who is actually wasting time following this thing has already arrived at a conclusion.  If you think Trump is the most despicable person to ever hold the office of president, you have already decided he should be impeached, removed from office and burned at the stake.  If you think he was appointed by God, the greatest president in the history of America and a stable genius, you have already decided all Congressional democrats should be charged with treason and burned at the stake.

So, in conclusion, my considered legal opinion is:  Everybody in America has already decided whether Trump is a saint or a schmuck, so why waste time with impeachment proceedings?  Since the Senators will not impeach Trump anyway, maybe they should direct their attention to the hundreds of bills passed by the house that McConnell refuses to bring to a vote and really get on with what the American public believes their elected officials were sent to Washington to do.  

Join me in protesting! Protect Florida’s borders!

Donald Trump just announced he is changing his official residence from New York to Florida. We must stop this. I urge you to contact our two Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott and demand that they take immediate action to protect Florida’s borders. Even though they are soppy Republican Trump enablers tell them they could demonstrate they really put Florida first by keeping out undesirable residents like Trump. As an indication of Trump’s undesirability, New York Governor Andrew Como said when hearing Trump was leaving his state, “good riddance.