On one single day this week, I read several articles about Donald Trump in two newspapers, a magazine and on my computer.
I jotted down the following words that writers used to describe the man: “maverick,” “rebel,” “renegade,” “feckless blowhard,” “rampaging bull,” “huckster,” “low-rent carnival barker,” “unfit for office,” “rebellious,” “insolent,” “offensive,” “wildly impolitic,” “ill-mannered,” “vulgar,” “insulting,” “most paranoid,” “bloviating,” “incendiary,” “rude,” and “foolish.”
Interesting to note that the writers, all who seem to dislike the man, come from both the left and the right. Yet, despite all the distaste for The Donald, at this very minute his lead over the other candidates has grown. Are there Americans who believe and like what he says, or are they just fed up with the usual B.S. that comes from the mouths of our ordinary elected officials?
On at least two occasions, I mentioned that Donald Trump could never get enough Latino voters to vote for him. If by some miracle he does get nominated for the top slot he would have to pick an Hispanic running mate like Rubio or Cruz. After saying that I received an e-mail telling me that billionaire Mark Cuban announced that he would consider being Trump’s running mate if he was asked. By looking at his last name, the sender of that e-mail is assuming that Mr. Cuban is a Latino of Cuban descent. Not so. When his grandfather made the immigration stop at Ellis Island he changed the family name from the Russian “Chabenisky” to “Cuban.” Good try, but wrong.
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I’ve been listening to some of the political discussions from many of the candidates and the talking heads on the tube, and there are three words that pop up regularly. Listen carefully and you will be hearing thoughts and theories about “social security reform.”
English translation of this seemingly innocuous phrase is “social security cuts.”
We older folks who are already collecting benefits might have to think about giving something back, along with many government remedies, or in a matter of time, the United States of America will fall into that same troublesome trap as Greece. Please don’t tell me about all of those safeguards you think we have. What are you going to do when you wake up one morning and find that those safety measures failed? Say “oops?”
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About two-thirds of this country are still skeptical about Kerry’s Iran deal. According to an ABC News-Washington Post poll, 64 percent of Americans say they are not confident that it will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. How can we trust a country that still says “Death to America” and “Death to Israel?”
Just in case you are the only one on the planet that has not yet heard comedian Jackie Mason’s latest explosive one-liner about the Iran nuclear deal, here goes: Mason tells us that inspections of New York City restaurants by the city’s Department of Health will be more thorough than the scrutiny of Iran’s nuclear facilities under the deal negotiated by a team headed by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for the Obama administration. Don’t you wish you said it first? This comes from a man who earns a great living saying funny things.
I am StanG
