Trump’s moral tapeworm: Far beyond “deplorable”

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Trump’s moral tapeworm: Far beyond “deplorable”


By Mark Morford on September 12, 2016 at 11:43 AM





Hillary has (had) mild pneumonia. Maybe a classic case of walking pneumonia, and of course it’s all very easily treated by rest, and antibiotics, and skimming through the countless laughable tweets of a thousands of scabrous, Trump-fellating supporters deeply wishing for her death so they can reclaim the country for an increasingly irrelevant army of furious white males who can’t spell and detest women and think Obama is a secret Muslim – which the majority of Republicans, quite truly, still do.

Trump, by the way, is quite sick, too – though his ailments are, shall we say, of a slightly different variety. Trump, of course, suffers from a bizarre combination of ethical derangement, reverse priapism, moral tapeworm and malignant spiritual melanoma, all shot through by an incurable deterioration of everything it means to be human. It’s impossible not to notice. So dire is his condition, so bizarre and inscrutable, the media has struggled mightily to report it with any accuracy. They are flailing everywhere.

It’s no wonder. Problem is, Trump’s derangement is so compete, so astonishing, so head-scratchingly WTF-you-can’t-be-serious, from claiming he helped clear rubble on 9/11 (he didn’t) to swiping 20 grand from his own bogus “charitable” foundation to buy a six-foot painting of himself (he did), to claiming he never supported the Iraq war (he did) to, oh dear God, roughly 10,000 other shameless and instantly discredited lies, it’s no wonder the media is taking heat for not sufficiently holding his inane statements to the fire. How can they? How do you possibly find a foothold? When everything you say is hateful, bombastic nonsense, there’s nothing particularly exceptional to report on. It’s all sludge. It’s all garbage. What Paul Krugman called his “big liar” technique – it’s just what’s expected now. And Trump knows it.

It is sad to note that, in elections past, one candidate suffering a mild health issue on the pitiless campaign trail might elicit a genuinely kind, tactful word from his or her opponent.
Trump, of course, laced his “get well soon” with the gross chyme of sneering innuendo, adding his typical “something’s going on” to bait his easily manipulated base to wail about conspiracy and cover-up, as he happily moves on to lie about 9/11 and corrode everything humanity stands for.

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