Trump Is The ScapeGOAT
America's bullshit predates King Cheeto by a few hundred years.
Here’s a fun tweet:
Here’s a screenshot just in case Jay Arnold realizes how stupid this is and deletes it, or locks down his account, or blocks everybody.
Arnold, who is a writer/director, claims that “Every miserable thing happening in America can be traced back to Trump” which has earned him thousands of retweets and over 32,000 likes. Surely this viral tweet will continue to gain traction as people agree or disagree with its deeply sophomoric argument.
Every miserable thing? Seriously?
I guess it’s splashier than saying “Some of the miserable things happening in America can be traced back to Trump.” That would get you maybe 13 likes and a quote Tweet from some MAGA dude with an egg avatar who can’t quite figure out how this damn social media site works.
Look, how does one even rebut something this obviously silly? Trump was a monster in many ways. His presidency resulted in some very bad things, including a radicalized Supreme Court. But Trump didn’t even do that on his own. Trace that back to Mitch McConnell and his strong-arming of Obama.
Of course, many of the miserable things in this country can be traced back to colonialism, slavery, trickle-down economics, pollution, climate change, decadence, mental illness, ancient gun laws, the Electoral College and the list goes on and on and on and on and on.
Trump is a convenient scapegoat, but the bad things in the world started long before he arrived. Many of them paved the way for his presidency. But presidents always get too much credit and too much blame. The political machine is much bigger than one man (or woman) and the fallout of historical wrongs, systemic mistakes and inequality, and all the rest still has a more profound impact on all of our lives than Trump by his lonesome.
But he is a very good scapegoat. The very best. All his friends tell him that. No president in history has ever been treated so poorly. Not even Abe Lincoln!
I always think about the line in "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where the President of the Universe describes his job as, essentially, the guy people look at and blame for shit so the real people in power can do their thing. Funny cuz it's true.
Good points.
Even a hard-core conservative (not Republican) like myself agrees that Trump is a horse's a--.
And therein lies karma.
No Trump isn't the source of all misery, but ugly people get more than their fair share of bad karma.
Look at Dreyfus; he wasn't a German spy and certainly didn't deserve Devil's Island.
But apparently he was an insufferable pr--k and when the mob came for him, he had few supporters.
Lesson for all of us.