Thank God that's over, the Republican National Convention. What a crap-fest of screaming nonsense. Didn't those people know that thing was being televised?
And all of it topped off by a 70-minute acceptance rant from the Big Monkey himself, Donald J. Trump.
Let's see if we can make any sense from his ramblings.
He weeps for Americans murdered by illegal Mexicans, but that's a given. Who's on the side of the murderer?
Still, make no mistake: Trump is blaming somebody here. He's blaming Obama (and by extension, Hillary Clinton), for allowing such a thing to happen.
Trump, we have to imagine, would not have let it happen.
How? I think we can only assume Trump would have had the Mexican offender executed on the spot for trying to enter this country. (Mexico doesn't have the death penalty, so it'd be up to us to put the monster down.)
Now this is just an implication of his outrage, not a stated position, but how else could Trump be sure the man would not sneak back into the country and kill more Americans?
We now have to assume the coming Wall would have Immigration Courts built into it, along with high-speed industrial-capacity gallows. Bodies could then be buried right there in the Wall (like getting buried in the Kremlin Wall, but not as big an honor). Or the dead could be fired back into Mexico with giant slingshots.
What Trump needs you to remember is that he will be the Law and Order President. And we will see the result of that on Day One, when American Law will again mean something. Crime will be a thing of the past.
He'll do this just by being Trump, apparently.
(And, of course, by hiring the right people to get the job done. Obama, in contrast, always looked for the wrong people, to make sure nothing ever got done, guaranteeing innocent Americans would get murdered by illegals. Or, for that matter, murdered by legals. President Obama, Trump need not spell out to the convention crowd, is truly despicable.)
Trump spent a lot of time excoriating the big, multi-country trade agreements that stole all those American jobs.
Trade agreements and illegals—the twin sources of job loss in America. And Trump is going to land on both those evils with fire in his eyes and murder in his heart.
Trump will personally renegotiate all trade agreements, and if he can't get his way, he'll walk away—whatever that means.
One actually specific thing Trump said (specifics were rare in the speech) was that he would not sign any multi-country trade agreements. He would deal with other countries on a one-to-one basis. And no agreement would be signed if even one American job could be lost. (Sounded like he said that, anyway.)
Since Bernie Sanders also pounded those same trade agreements as being responsible for American job loss (though economists would disagree), Trump is sure all of that man's supporters will flock to The Donald's camp.
Trump says the fact Sanders didn't get the Democratic nomination was proof the system is rigged. Had nothing to do with the fact Clinton started out the heavy favorite and Sanders didn't have time to change enough minds. It was entirely those damn super-delegates! (Though Trump didn't mention those guys specifically.)
Trump says American companies would not be allowed to fire American workers and relocate to another country—"without consequences."
He doesn't say what those consequences would be.
But it they leave anyway, despite the alleged consequences, don't fret. Trump's big tax cuts will brings all those jobs "roaring back" into this country. That and his removal of business restrictions, which he will do "very very quickly."
(There's a political joke: A Liberal is a man who hasn't be mugged yet. Here's another: A Conservative is a man who hasn't yet lost a child to corporate greed and indifference. It's an annoying fact: Only a federal government can regulate relative safety into the practices of American Big Business.)
More on immigration: If those bastards aren't taking your job, they're taking your life. Acts of terror by ISIS sympathizers are on a path to kill us all, and Trump is going to put a stop to it.
No Muslim will be allowed to enter his America until we can devise a vetting process that is one hundred percent accurate. And if that takes awhile, so be it.
Hillary, on the other hand, wants as many rabid jihadists as possible to be jammed into this country. Go figure!
Speaking of the massacre in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Trump says he would protect the LGBTQ community from the "violence and depression of hateful foreign ideology." (He probably meant "oppression," but it sure sounded like "depression" to me.)
Trump failed to mention the Orlando shooter was born in the United States.
Trump's once-potential running mate, Newt Gingrich, recently suggested the vetting should contain this question: "Do you agree with Sharia law?" This test, he says, needs to be applied to all Muslims currently living in the country. Those who like Sharia would be deported. Not clear what would happen to those born here. Maybe they could find room in the Wall.
(It would also make sense—and just out of fairness—to make sure everybody who believed the Bible's Old Testament to be the word of God would be kicked out of this country. Sharia is, after all, largely based on OT pronouncements. And let's not forget: The OT is, like ISIS, of Middle Eastern origin. Oddly, it's exactly the sort of "hateful foreign ideology" Trump is determined to protect us from!)
Trump would take care of ISIS in a hurry, mostly by getting other countries to weigh in. (A sign in the crowd: "ISIS Lives Don't Matter".) Think slaughter—and plenty of it. (We covered Trump and ISIS last time.)
Domestic matters: Trump would solve the VA hospital crisis by allowing vets to go to their own doctor or hospital for treatment. This makes sense, but it's nothing new. Still, by saying something sensible, does that prove Trump is not a complete lunatic?
(Son of a bitch!)
Trump says he will work to remove wording that prevents churches from promoting political candidates without losing tax-exempt status.
He didn't mention a corollary position: Letting blatantly political groups like Tea Party folks claim tax-exempt status. Maybe that's coming.
Trump laid out a long list of things going wrong with America, things he's going to fix, quickly and easily. He also says he's the only one who can get it done.
If America's infrastructure is falling apart, he will roll up his sleeves and personally rebuild those roads and bridges. By implication, Barack Obama doesn't give a crap about such things. (Never mind the President has implored Congress to tackle that problem on numerous occasions.)
In his speech, Trump makes a lot of promises, mostly offering no specific solutions, just saying he would take care of it, and fast. ("Believe me!")
And maybe he will. Check this out:
The one major claim Trump could have made, he left on the table, unsaid. Things may well get done during Trump's presidency, not because he's a miracle worker, but simply because he's a Republican (sort of).
If the Republicans retain control of Congress, they may well pass the laws Obama has been begging them to pass but they couldn't, lest some of the credit accrue to a Democratic President.
If Trump asks, they'll do it (or at least think about doing it, which is more than Obama gets). How come? If the Republicans can make that man look good, maybe he'll get a second term as President. Four more precious years without the threat of veto.
In this instance, the system is indeed rigged.
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