The Stravager

I don't doubt that someone in the Trump White House has a master plan.  I just don't think that person is Trump.  I think Steve Bannon has a master plan.  I think Reince Preibus has his own ambitions.  And I think that Conway has decided that her career is over and might as well ride this horse until it dies under her.  Trump is driven by his ego, his id, and his crippling narcissism.  He needs to be loved, feared and above all respected.  He lashes out via his Twitter account at all of his detractors because he cannot stand the disrespect he is receiving from all sides.  There is no ability for him to absorb and reflect on the criticism.  He must deflect it and turn it back on the critic.  Since he sees the world in terms of winners and losers so his critics are ridiculed for things like circulation, (newspapers) ratings, (news programs) being washed up, (actors) or crime statistics. (congress members)  Of course the truth o...

I still have a hard time saying it.  President Donald Trump.  My stomach turns a bit each time I think about it.  But it was predictable.  That is not to say that I predicted it, or that anyone other than Michael Moore did.  But it was predictable.  This is because seeing the movie Idiotocracy seemed to me more of a future documentary when I saw it.  This is because the number of people who believe the crap that Fox News put out has been growing and growing.  This is because no matter how many times Andrew Breitbart would put stupid stuff on his web pages or support the stupid "veritas" jack ass and all his selective editing and entrapment style "journalism" people kept reading it and posting it on Facebook.  This is because the guys who lied us into war with Iraq still get invited to talk to America via the major news programs on all three network and all of the 24/7 news channels.  All this stuff was going on before Trump announced hi...