Whiskey GAS - America rolls on!

Alrighty then…it’s Tuesday morning and I’m already behind schedule! I know, I know, most of you don’t believe I do anything, but trust me when I tell you I’m a lot busier than I want to be. So anyway, I’ll be brief.

Apparently, there’s a whole herd of you who just don’t get it. Judging by the emails I receive, you think I’m some sort of major supporter of The Trump. Really? I would encourage you to read the homepage of this web site where I stress – and this is a quote – “Through the clever (if I do say so myself) use of humor, satire, and parody I hope to provide a different perspective to the loads of crap happening around us.”
I know most of you read this from Facebook (and soon Twitter) and probably have never even landed on the homepage so I thought I would share that.

Now, please keep in mind, everything else is true…of that you can be assured. Cousin Fred is real. Our adventures, whether it’s chasing The Bigfoot (The Trump’s long lost brother) through the mountains in Colorado or hosting a wild-ass all-nighter in a hotel suite in Indianapolis in honor of The Trump, it’s all true.

But a major supporter? Eh…he’s entertaining and an easy target, I’ll give him that. So please, no more emails about who I think he will pick as a running mate. And for goodness sake, no more “insider” information about The Trump’s past girlfriends. You should call the New York Times or CNN, they seem to be the only news outlets interested in that sort of thing.

And while I’m on the subject, let’s start with last week, shall we? So, CNN’s big lead last week, hell, they tied up three days’ worth of airtime over this…was that The Trump had pretended to be his spokesman over the phone to a reporter. There was even a tape. Yes, it sounded just like him on the tape.

Analysts pored over the tape, speculating that it could have been Mr. X (sorry, X, I don’t remember your name) who worked for The Trump at the time (when we still respected him because he was filthy rich) and sounded an awful like his boss.

For three days we had to listen to this nonsense – we’re still having to listen to it since it comes up at least three times in the news cycle. CNN, MSNBC, and even the morons on Fox (cough) News are trying to convince us that it somehow goes to The Trump’s integrity. What?!

In the words of my old colleague, senior German Naval Officer, friend and fellow traveler, NATO Harry (Freier), Whiskey GAS (WGAS) – Who Gives a Sh*t?

Indeed, WGAS. I thought it was kind of brilliant that The Trump did that. At least he found a way to control his message.  I will say, that in my time as a C-level officer in corporate America (yes, that’s true), I never had time to spend talking to some idiot reporter on the phone. I’m guessing The Trump figured if he wanted to get his point across, he’d better do it himself. And why would you admit to the reporter on the phone that you’re The Trump? So she could crow about her exclusive with The Trump?

Goes to his integrity? No…this is more an indictment of the arrogance of the media, I think. Everybody wants to be a Carl Woodward (sic). They can’t stand that The Trump got over on them back in the day. So they’re doing their best to make a case for us to despise him (even more).

The fact that The Trump has gotten as far as he has says a lot about the state of America today. This is more about people standing up to the GOP Elite’s bullying tactics of shoving candidates down the throats of GOP faithful than anything else.

Tea Party? The party is over…the keg of Cream Soda is running dry. It didn’t work for Gingrich when he threw a grenade emblazoned with Contract with America, trying to resurrect Reagan conservatism. It didn’t last with that religious rightwing loudmouth nut Jerry Falwell and his Moral Majority brand of conservatism.

And the Dems are no less guilty of that kind of crap. Remember when they shoved Jimmy Carter out on stage, saying he was the second coming of JFK? How did that work out? Clinton the First did the same crap. Okay, that worked a little better, at least he was reelected.

The Trump, right or wrong (shudder), is the face of America today. We’re getting what we deserve, me thinks.

I don’t care that he pretended he was someone else on the phone with a reporter. She probably got what she deserved. I don’t care whether the stories about his dealings with women in the past are true. Yesterday we heard that some women are recanting. Who knows what the truth is? The New York Times certainly isn’t going to back down at this point. We'll probably never know the full, unvarnished truth, but do we care? We probably should, but deep down we don't...we get what we deserve.

It’s politics in America, people. We get what we deserve (where have I heard that before).

Thank you for listening to my cynical rant. WGAS

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