Trump has finally achieved one of his life goals, being a super something….unfortunately it’s not the kind of hero he reads about in his comic books. His happens to be of the evil doer ilk. He has now been dubbed a “super-spreader” of the covid virus. No matter, like a sentence that contains the preposition “but” everything after it doesn’t really count, trump just reads the word super and the rest is irrelevant. We all know he has what might be charitably described as a “short attention span” but come on man, it’s two words. Or maybe just one.
Trump is the typhoid mary of our time. Mary mallon however, was unaware that she was infected, as she had no symptoms. But everywhere that mary went typhoid was sure to go. She was responsible for multiple outbreaks of the disease at the turn of the 20th century throughout new york. After she was identified as patient zero in 1907 she was forcibly incarcerated at age 39 until the end of her life. From mje’s lips to god’s ears. But sadly it is unlikely that trump will face the same fate, unless he finally gets his just desserts for his lifetime of financial crime. Everyone but my mother in law has him in their cross hairs, well she’s dead, so there’s that, plus she was pretty slow on the uptake so perhaps not the best example.
His tax returns have suddenly appeared after eons waiting for them to be made public. It was fortunately courtesy of the new york times so there was no legal mumbo jumbo about their having to remain secret. It should not have been a revelation to most sentient people that his entire life has been one yuge con. He was a world class business failure, despite inheriting gobs of money from his equally sketchy daddy, a role model for his future dealings. The upside to being a massive business failure, especially in the real estate business, is that you can fudge figures in a quasi-legal way. He was able to write off all of the financial losses (real or inflated) to offset his tax requirements, hence his $72K refund, which is, in a rare inadvertent trump true fact, under audit (whatever moronic bean counter managed that colossal fuck up…I want him auditing my tax return, please). Good luck trying to claw back that dough! But good news, he coughed up $750 in income tax a year for the last two years, almost enough to cover his annual brylcreem tab.
We all fully suspected that he was a tax cheat, among other things, but the revelation that he owes over $400K to god know whom, was a stunner. I mean that’s a hellova tab. And I suspect that whoever loaned him that money did not do it out of the goodness of his or her heart, I’m pretty sure that some sort of payback, financial or otherwise was attached. But I bet that person, persons, foreign governments, gangsters, sketchy banks or whomever had little notion that this feckless, irresponsible, incredibly inept (read: low iq) blowhard would ever become president of the united states. Obviously, not the voting public’s finest hour for sure. But what a bonanza for the loan sharks!
Yet here we are, a reality tv dimwit channeling his best inner mussolini up there on the truman balcony facing his adoring, if delusional, fans, his each and every pompous ridiculous boast blanketing their upturned maskless faces with an unhealthy dose of virus.
Mark twain wrote that people must pledge “Loyalty to the nation all the time, to the government when it deserves it.” I think we’re off the hook on that second pledge.
my jaundiced eye 