By Beau Elliot
“Nasty woman,” huh? Good work, there, Trumpster.
Your two words in the final “debate” managed to produce a tsunami of “Nasty woman” logos on T-shirts, tote bags, and hand-held signs — not to mention a hurricane of tweets — all, naturally, signifying American women’s deep and yearning desire for you to grope them, too.
Everything’s quite so perfectly clear in the wading end of the gene pool.
Oh, and all those women who have said you attacked them with unwanted sexual advances? Yeah, you’re right; you should sue them all. After all, they don’t have your financial means, your battalion of gleaming, high-priced attorneys, your fame. (Hmm — it might be quickly sliding into infamy. Better move quickly before it slides all the way into the slop pond.)
Just like all those small-business owners who worked on your various projects over the years whom you refused to pay more than 30 cents on the $1 promised when they signed on. They couldn’t afford to fight your layers of lawyers, either, so they accepted your art of the deal.
Just a trade-off, eh?
Speaking of trade, outside of buying Chinese steel for your projects, you don’t seem to much care for trade. Take NAFTA.
OK, you don’t want to take NAFTA. I understand. You’re sensitive about trade. Well, except for all that Chinese steel. No wonder you think that China is stealing us blind.
But did you know that NAFTA was signed by a Republican president, George H.W. Bush? And in the following congressional votes, Republicans outnumbered Democrats: House 234-200 (132 GOPers in favor of NAFTA); Senate 61-38 (34 Republicans voting yes). That means 193 Republicans in favor to 129 Democrats. I did the arithmetic so you wouldn’t have to do it at home in Mar-a-garitaville.
I understand you’re running as much against the Republican establishment as you are against “Nasty Woman” Hillary Clinton. But still. The RNC and GOP leaders have money, and ground workers, and an apparatus to get out the vote. Did you really think big rallies would make up for that?
Maybe they will. You love being unconventional. But being unconventional in the debates wasn’t such a great help, then, wasn’t it? You lost all three, to a woman who, conventionally, prepared. And you made fun of her for being prepared.
Yeah, that worked out well. I suppose that in your universe, wherever that is, a well-prepared woman is one who carries around all sizes of condoms in her purse.
(It’s not the size of the hands, fool.)
And about that rigging the vote that you’ve been so fond of lately — you’d have a better chance of rigging a three-masted sailing ship all by yourself than rigging the vote in the U.S.
I mean, voting for U.S. president is not a national vote, it’s carried out in the 50 states and overseen by the 50 states’ officials. You’d have to be a billionaire to bribe them all and rig the vote. Hmm.
In truth, Republicans rigged the vote after the 2010 census. They took control of most of the state legislatures and gerrymandered the heck out of the congressional districts so that they could control the House.
I think you’d have to say the Trumpster has gone nova.