What Would Saint Charlie Kirk Say About Trump's Incivility to Women?

I wish someone in heaven could ask Saint Charlie Kirk - and report back to us - what he thinks of  Donald Dumb's uncivil and definitely un-Charlie-like vulgarities. Saint Charlie was a racist, a white supremacist, an extremist MAGA influencer who fooled credulous religious young people ... but he was civil and courteous. 

I think the creep Donald Dumb should be clinically diagnosed as "demented". His recent spell of unnecessary and increasingly abusive language towards women is consistent with his long history of misogyny and degradation of women (African women are "low IQ", women are to be grabbed by the pussy, his fornication with porn actresses and prostitutes, his sexual harassment and alleged rape of various women, his abuse of teenage girls under the guidance of the Child Sex Supreme Guide and friend Jeffery Epstein, etc.).

But what is particularly striking is the increased frequency of these spells of abuse to women. It seems that his sick brain is losing the self-control that normal people have in social settings. 

Last Thursday, CBS News chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes asked the loser Donald Dumb about the suspect in the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. The suspect, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, is an Afghan national who was granted asylum by Trump's own supposedly strict immigration program. Cordes pointed out that the inspector general of the Justice Department found that Afghans who entered the U.S. after the fall of Kabul in 2021 had been thoroughly vetted by Trump's own administration (the dictator's own incompetent slaves Kash Patel and Pam Bondi). Cordes asked the president: "So why do you blame the Biden administration —"

"Because they let him in. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they came in on a plane, along with thousands of other people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions because you're a stupid person," the Jerk-in-Chief responded.

Not only that, but the fact that the National Guard troops the dumb imbecile-in-chief deployed in Washington DC (as a MAGA marketing ploy under the guise of fighting hypothetical crime) have themselves become victim of that crime means that Donald Dumb's policies are pathetically failing. Donald Dumb is creating crime where none existed. The troops have been mowing lawns, picking up garbage, helping the elderly cross the streets.... because there is no sufficient crime to warrant their presence. National Guard troops are trained for war combat, not community policing.

This complete disaster, which was bound to happen, is all Donald Dumb's making. He knows it but he refuses to take the blame, as per his usual megalomaniacal character. While it might look good for his herd of MAGA morons that he is doing something about crime, this episode falls under the category of the unintended consequences of superficial, not well-thought through, off-the-cuff actions that one sees taken by "heroes" in bullshit American Hollywood movies which I am sure inspire Trump. And that is at the heart of the problem. Americans in general, and the Idiot-in-Chief in particular, live in a ficitional world fabricated by their own movie industry: Americans do tailor their lives to match the fictions, they believe that hapless but testosterone-laden action, rather than deliberate thought, is sufficient because "it looks good". For Americans with little culture, life imitates art. They live their lives according to what they see in silly, cheap, violent movies and games. That is why Americans have been losing every single war since WWII. 

The posturing, the show, the patriotic bullshit, the theater.... are primary when the US decides to go to war. The depth of intellectual preparedness by the US government and armed forces always appears to be shallow on substance but heavy on appearance, PR, and other superficial metrics. It's that American business invention called "marketing" that has taken over serious, and yes academic, inquiry into major decisions like going to war. Didn't George W Bush like an idiot roost himself on an aircraft carrier and declare "mission accomplished" even as his soldiers were being mowed down in Iraq by improvised explosive devices? 

Instead of looking back at history to try and comprehend present actions and their consequences, Americans worry more about the "looks" of their actions. Which is why there is often an emphasis on quantity and less on quality in American undertakings. American invasions are by the millions of troops deployed, millions of tons of materiel and equipment, massive disinformation campaigns (again, Bush's lie that Saddam Hussein has WMDs as a reason for invading Iraq)... all generally ending in disastrous failures with millions of people dead. During the Vietnam war, which the Americans like morons inherited from the French, stupid patriotism clashed with sensible opposition. Net outcome? Patriotism failed, the opposition won, the Communists won, the Americans lost with 50,000 dead US soldiers, and all of that heartache and torment to see Vietnam become a perfectly functioning Communist country and a "friend" of the US.

On Wednesday, the president assailed New York Times correspondent Katie Rogers, who co-authored an article on his age and physical stamina in his second term. He called her "third rate" and "ugly, both inside and out." The president's insults at Cordes and Rogers are just the latest in recent weeks that have targeted female reporters. While speaking to members of the press on Air Force One earlier this month, the president snapped at Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey, telling her "Quiet. Quiet, piggy."

Earlier, while hosting the journalist-chainsaw-chopper Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in the Oval Office, dumb Trump berated ABC's correspondent Mary Bruce because she "dared" ask about the 2018 chopping-off murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. A US intelligence report at the time concluded that MBS personally ordered the murder of Khashoggi. Incidentally, I think the French should offer MBS a few of their vintage guillotines because they retired them; Guillotines work on heads, but also on hands, legs, torsoes, etc.

Donald Dumb lashed out at Bruce of "embarrassing" the crown prince with her question and then called her a "terrible person and a terrible reporter." He said her question was "horrible" and "insubordinate." How dare a journalist ask difficult questions of entitled dictators and autocrats like himself?

The Society of Professional Journalists condemned Trump's attacks on Bruce and Lucey, which it said were not isolated and instead "part of an unmistakable pattern of hostility — often directed at women — that undermines the essential role of a free and independent press."

"Journalists are not props at a photo op — they are watchdogs for the public," Caroline Hendrie, executive director of the group, said in a statement. "When reporters ask hard questions about the murder of a fellow journalist, that is not an embarrassment. What's embarrassing is a leader trying to silence those questions."