Because I care about you, I feel I have to speak up. It\u2019s like being in a bar near closing time and seeing a friend hanging on the words of a smooth talking douchebag. I know he\u2019s telling you things you want to hear, and there\u2019s something in his swagger, but I know he\u2019s lying, and right before he sat down next to you, I saw him take off his wedding ring and slip it into his pocket, right next to his Tic Tacs and the bottle of Roofies.<\/p>\n
I know you feel abandoned. I know you\u2019re hurt and vulnerable, and I know he\u2019s saying all the right things, pushing all the buttons, and I know you probably aren\u2019t going to listen but I have to try.<\/p>\n
First off, he\u2019s not the guy he says he is. It\u2019s like he wants to leave with you, but he can\u2019t take you to his house. He\u2019ll tell you it\u2019s because he\u2019s having a new, bigger ballroom put in, and the contractors have the place a mess, but it\u2019s really because his wife is there and she thinks he\u2019s on a business trip to Cleveland.<\/p>\n
Trump is appealing to you because he says things that piss off all the people you hate, and he rails against the corrupt system and the rich, urban liberals who run it.<\/p>\n
But nobody has benefited from the corrupt system as much as he has, and if you had to describe him in three words, they would be Rich, Urban and Liberal.<\/p>\n
I know that last one surprised you, but hear me out. He shares exactly none of your values. Look at any position he took on anything prior to 2008. He was for gun control and universal health care and he was pro choice. Until he decided to run for the GOP nomination, every position he ever took on anything was pretty much the same as Clinton. He knows enough to tell you he does, because he has a showman\u2019s instinct for the applause line. A con man\u2019s sense of just how to lead you on. He just wants the applause. He wants the thrill of conquest, of winning. He wants you votes and your virtue, and then he’ll lose interest.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll be honest with you, you are making it easy. He knows saying he\u2019ll throw Clinton in jail will get the applause, because he\u2019s smart enough to read the tee shirts people wear to his rallies. It\u2019s like how if you see a guy in a New England Patriots shirt, you can get on his good side by saying Deflategate was a bullshit frame job, or if he\u2019s wearing a Jets jersey, you know he just needs a hug and a good cry. You wore your heart on your sleeve, and he read the play.<\/p>\n
But he doesn\u2019t really love you.<\/p>\n
He knows enough to say he\u2019s for veterans, but he dodged Vietnam, a star athlete who couldn\u2019t go fight because of sore feet. He went so far as to call \u201chis Vietnam\u201d his worry about getting STDs sleeping with lots of women while men his age from families without money or connections slogged through rice paddies getting shot at. He dumped on John McCain\u2019s service and all POWs by implication. He slung mud at the grieving parents of a fallen hero. He vastly overstated his donations to veterans’ charities.<\/p>\n
He knows people are hurting because of outsourcing of jobs, so he talks tough on China, but that\u2019s where his products are made. He knows that lots of people fear immigration, so he stokes those fears, promising to build that wall.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not even going to go down the road of being nominee of\u00a0 the party of traditional values, because really? He can to point at Bill Clinton\u2019s scandals, but he\u2019s the only guy running who can make Bill look like an Eagle Scout.<\/p>\n
So he can say things that you want to hear, but none of it means anything. Even if his ideas were good, even if he actually had a plan to accomplish them, even if he actually believed<\/em> them, they are just not going to happen. Hillary isn\u2019t going to jail. Republicans have been investigating her for twenty years and they haven\u2019t made anything stick. As President, Trump wouldn\u2019t have the authority over a special prosecutor that he thinks he would, and even if he did, Clinton\u2019s lawyers haven\u2019t let her down yet. There\u2019s not going to be a wall, because it\u2019s not a very effective way to deal with illegal immigration, and the cost and resources to build it and patrol it would be massive.<\/p>\n And, sorry, but if you think for a second that he can get Mexico to pay for it, I can\u2019t help you. If you bought that line, — unexplained, like all of his promises– I’m surprised you can dress yourself. Knowing Trump, and knowing the construction industry, and how he deals with contractors, if the wall is built \u2013and it won\u2019t be\u2013 it may be built by Mexicans<\/em>, but it won\u2019t be built by Mexico<\/em>.<\/p>\n I know that it\u2019s almost closing time, and I know you can\u2019t bring yourself to go home with Hillary, but don\u2019t go home with Trump. I think that, best case, you\u2019ll call tomorrow in tears, and worst case you\u2019ll wind up in the trunk of a Buick with your mouth duct taped.<\/p>\n It\u2019s ok to go home alone. Or even that nice Johnson boy. You know that won\u2019t be long term, he won\u2019t be President, but it will feel good and you won\u2019t have shaved your legs for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Because I care about you, I feel I have to speak up. It\u2019s like being in a bar near closing time and seeing a friend hanging on the words of a smooth talking douchebag. I know he\u2019s telling you things you want to hear, and there\u2019s something in his swagger, but I know he\u2019s lying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,39,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doomsday","category-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it","category-fuck-this-guy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inkandbourbon.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}