Lying Like Normal People Breathe
Guess Who?
I imagine we are all pretty darn sick and tired of everything to do with the 2024 election. I know I am. It has kind of taken over The Storm. By Norm. But, given that this is the most consequential election of my lifetime, I feel compelled to keep writing about it. Thanks to all of you for hanging in with me.
All right, let’s get with it.
The convicted felon Republican candidate for President has made a lot of statements, assertions, and promises over the years. Okay, let’s just call them what they are - lies. He lies like normal people breathe. We all know that. I figure, with the election right around the corner, perhaps we should remind ourselves of a select few.
As a candidate in 2016, he said, “We are going to win so much. You’re going to be so sick and tired of winning.”
We weren’t.
We, the 99%, never got the chance to get sick of winning. The only people who possibly got sick and tired of all the winning were his wealthy friends who got tax cuts. Yeah. They did some winning. The rest of us? Well, we just got sick and tired.
He was the first President since Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression to leave office with fewer workers employed than when he entered. Does that sound like winning? His bungling of a deadly global pandemic resulted in the deaths of thousands and thousands of Americans. Does that sound like winning? His scandal-ridden administration produced constant turmoil, two impeachments, and an insurrection. Does that sound like winning? The fact I could go on and on like this - does that sound like winning? Didn’t think so.
He said he was going to build a wall on our southern border, and have Mexico pay for it.
He didn’t.
The border wall thing could be characterized as a cosmic-sized joke, if it were the least bit funny. But, it isn’t. Perhaps “scam” is a better word. “Scam” is more in keeping with the way the convicted felon does business, anyway.
He had four years to build an impenetrable wall when he was President. He unambiguously said he would do so, many times. Why didn’t he? Maybe it’s because he was the laziest, stupidest President we have ever had, by far. We know he has never had the slightest interest in actually doing a President’s work. What did he ever do besides golf, watch TV, meet with his deluded sycophants for a daily session of having his ass kissed, and bloviate for the cult?
The only meaning the border has for him is as a political weapon with which he can batter his opponents. He openly admitted that when he had his enabler morons in Congress scuttle a border bill that had much of what conservatives wanted. This means one of two things are true: Either the border crisis is real and he chose to let it go on for his political benefit, making him a traitorous, America-hating liar, or the border crisis is a lie created for political purposes, making him an traitorous, America-hating liar.
By the way, the sections of border wall that were built or replaced have not been impenetrable. Border crossers still go through, around, under, and over. Building a “big, beautiful wall” has been a scam to rile up the cult enough to keep the contributions flowing into the convicted felon’s pockets. That’s all.
He said America was much better off four years ago.
It wasn’t.
Four years ago, thousands of Americans were dying every day, due in large part to his colossal mismanagement of a deadly global pandemic. He said the pandemic was not that serious and it would simply go away by itself, and would be over by Easter. He derided the scientists, speculated on injecting bleach as a cure, and touted horse de-wormer as a treatment.
A few years before the pandemic hit, he closed the White House’s National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense, a group set up by President Obama to deal with, guess what, global pandemics. As a result of disbanding this group, when covid exploded around the world, we were woefully unprepared. Nice going, dumbass.
Who was President when the country was shut down? Who was President when stores had no toilet paper? Who was President when hospitals were overflowing with patients and had to store dead bodies in refrigerated shipping containers? Who was President when millions of Americans lost their jobs? Who was responsible for the horrific mess that was left for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to clean up?
He was.
How could anyone possibly say we were better off four years ago? With this felonious imbecile, whenever something goes wrong, there is always an excuse. It is always someone else’s fault or responsibility. The buck stops where? Everywhere, other than his desk.
He claims to have created the "greatest economy in the history of our country".
He didn’t.
This laughable whopper is almost too easy to refute. A simple Google search will provide all the statistics needed to prove this is a lie. He inherited a good economy from Barack Obama, gave himself and his rich pals a nice tax cut, and added about $8 trillion to the national debt. And, the Republicans made nary a peep. Apparently, Republicans only care about the national debt when a Democrat is in the White House.
He said as a result of his tax cuts for the wealthy, typical middle class American households will see a $4,000 increase in income. Okay, a show of hands - Any middle class people out there in Substackland whose income went up by $4,000 as a result of those tax cuts for the wealthy, please raise your hands. Go ahead, don’t be shy.
Yeah. Didn’t think so. My hand was not up, either.
Yes, it’s the ol’ “trickle down theory” again. It has been proven time and again that the trickle down theory is bullshit. It has never worked to the benefit of the middle and lower classes and it adds a shit-ton to the national debt. It works great for rich folks, however. And, that’s all he cares about.
He claimed he won the 2020 Presidential Election.
He didn’t.
He lost that election by more than 7,000,000 votes. 81,000,000 people voted for his opponent. He lost the Electoral College 306-232. The American voters spoke loud and clear. They did not want a lying liar degenerate to be President of the United States anymore. Many of us thought, okay, that is the end of our four year nightmare. We believed the LOSER of the election would simply fade away into the ether. Oh, how wrong we were.
He claimed, without a shred of evidence, that the election was rigged, that it was stolen from him.
It wasn’t.
A question never answered by election deniers is, “Where is the proof?” The question was never answered because, of course, they did not have any proof. Lots of simpleminded horseshit theories, but no actual proof. Not a single shred of real, stand-up-in-a-court-of-law evidence. It was totally made up. Surprised? Me neither.
There were 62 court cases contesting some aspect of the 2020 election, in multiple jurisdictions across the country, many of which were presided over by Republican judges. One very minor case was won in Pennsylvania, only to be overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. So, the record is 0-62. Some of his cultist sycophants went to jail for various offenses related to attempts at stealing the election. As of now, the bloated orange perpetrator of the scheme to overturn the 2020 Presidential election has avoided prison. Unfortunately.
He took an oath to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”.
He didn’t.
He attempted to thwart the will of the voters because he could not face being the LOSER of the 2020 Presidential election. As a last resort, he sicced a violent mob on the US Capitol to stop the certification of the election, which obviously was a seditious act, and a gross violation of his oath.
And, what was he doing while the riot was going on? Well, he watched the spectacle unfold on TV, refusing for hours to do anything to stop it. Why would he? I’m sure he was all a-tingle watching his cult members shit all over our democracy in support of him.
Directly addressing the women of America, he said, “You will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger . . . You will no longer have anxiety from all of the problems our country has today. You will be protected, and I will be your protector."
He won’t.
Wow. In a lifetime of ridiculous, hurtful, disgusting, obvious lies, this one might be the worst. There cannot be a single, clear-thinking person on the face of this Earth who believes this adjudicated sexual assaulter, this disgusting scumbag who lustfully fantasizes about dating his own daughter, this good friend and party pal of Jeffrey Epstein, this subhuman turd who cheated on every wife he’s ever had, this degenerate creep who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy, this worthless asshole who used his position as owner of the Miss Teen USA pageant to barge into the contestants dressing room, unannounced, while the young women were in various stages of undress, would be a “protector” of women.
Damn. It is just so deplorable and pathetic. Him claiming to be a protector of women, is like being told by his favorite cannibal, Hannibal Lector, “I’d like to have you for dinner.”
Some folks wonder why I call him a lying liar, or a convicted felon, or many other nasty names every time I write about him. Well, it’s because I do not want his atrocious behavior to be normalized. I do not want us to give in to outrage fatigue. I want people to remember the awfulness and repugnance of what he does each day, every day. The worst thing we can do is to forget or minimize just how truly loathsome and dangerous he is, and has been, for this country.
He is nothing more than a convicted criminal out on bail, so I will continue to hammer away at him until there is no reason to hammer anymore.
Postscript:
For those who need a reminder, this is how your ballot should look. You’re welcome.
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Unfortunately the 48% who are in the Trump cult don't care what he says or does. It is quite scary. There are many similarities with the start of Hitler's rule years ago. Let's hope that he does not syphen off enough votes from the other 52% who are not yet in the cult. Keep sharing your thoughts, Norm.
Good work, Norm. He was a bad president and a worse human being. If he wins 11/5 -- or if he doesn't -- things will be forever changed in our wonderful country. How we elected this guy once and will possibly elect him again -- is a true American tragedy. When the Reds finally figure it out -- those with brains that do figure it out -- it will be too late.
Shame on Republicans. Shame on their lack of conviction and spine and love of country. I will never vote for another. Ever.