Snapshot of Trump Supporter/Enabler In Action

ETA: The headline says it all -- "Trump fires intelligence community watchdog who defied him on whistle-blower complaint."  And, does it via a late Friday night letter to the intelligence committees, including impeachment manage Adam Schiff.  Trump doesn't have confidence in him. Right.  Like the navy captain relieved for his alleged poor judgment in protecting his crew, including by making public things being ignored.  We need people like Jared Kushner (Ken Doll) who -- after solving Middle East peace -- apparently has been put in charge of the pandemic response since the actual serious person was relieved by Trump back in 2018. 

In a sane world, we would have a means to no-confidence this guy, and he would be gone, but we do have impeachment. We see how that went.


Response [posted under someone's actual name though who knows if it is really his] to a blog about how Trump responded to the crisis and what could have been:

We must be watching different countries. I see a President who,after an initial misstep, has done his best to depoliticize the issue.Is this really about COVID, or about the author?

The link to his defunct blog shows a final post from 2015: "There's been a lot of attention to Donald Trump lately, rather more than I think is deserved. (The Huffington Post had it right putting him in the entertainment section.) Still, I think the Trump Phenomenon, if not the person, are worthy of some note."  And, after the guy is actually elected, we basically have more of the same, this time telling us there is nothing really to see here once the person we shouldn't worry about becomes the titular head of the Republican Party. As I recall, this is the same guy who diminished the Mueller Report as anything really of note and when pushed didn't actually really respond to the refutations either. 

Anyway, two people cited multiple cases where Trump politicized the issue. (One can click the link above to get the full comments being referenced here.)  He responded with two talking points about how Trump's shots at NY were correct and some Pelosi comment he thought was damning. After calling him out as a troll, including referencing this letter to Schumer (a personal fu to me really, since he is my senator), we get this:

The adolescent response to a factual argument; call someone names.You’re lucky we don’t cut off your food. Maybe some day we will.

Well, that showed me. Just a snapshot of what enables these assholes. I guess we can take a wider lesson here on the basics of reasoned judgment. At some point, Trump was an expected result of that lack of it out there to the extent we had.  I provide this as a snapshot of sorts.  My overall sentiment is to try to argue with people, including those who I disagree with by doing things like directly responding to things they said.  But, at some point, this is rather hard given the caliber of their remarks. 

I dislike calling people "trolls" in part because it tends to close the conversation and we have personal affronts about "name calling." But, if the term fits -- and unlike him I substantively backed it up (again ignored, since he is a troll -- someone not open to actual debate, just tossing out talking points, often in ways that do not invite actual engagement).  Again,  wider lesson here.