All I know is what’s on the internet
Going back into the ‘wayback machine’ because Trump never really seems to go away – he is kind of like ‘the gift that keeps giving’ (gonorrhea). Here is the quote of the day from 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump:
“What do I know?” Trump replied. “All I know is what’s on the internet.”
Well.
This actually explains a lot.
Credible sources track Trump comments/claims he made in 2015/16 running at about 75% false (it never stopped for 5 years). But maybe we know why. He clicks on Wikipedia or urban dictionary or instagram <scanning an image with some quote or factoid> or Fox or Newsmaxx and then tweets it out or parrots it in on-air interviews.
He has no credible sources, he never has, and he just makes shit up or maybe even worse, he doesn’t truly think about what he believes.
Ok.
Now ponder this Trump wisdom oldie, but goodie.
“I’m speaking with myself, number one, because I have a very good brain and I’ve said a lot of things. My primary consultant is myself and I have – you know, I have a good instinct for this stuff.”
Well, Donald, that sounds quite reasonable. It’s not as if the world, let alone the Middle East, Ukraine, the South China Sea, is particularly complex or that there are nuanced delicate diplomatic situations or even that it is important to get it right. I imagine just going on instinct makes sense. Or maybe go on the internet because there you will surely find all the answers you will need.
<note some heavy sarcasm there>
When I read what he said at that time I thought of a Samuel Adams quote:
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“If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Samuel Adams
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With Trump we faced a vain man, maybe the vainest of vain, maybe even one with Narcissistic Disorder, and an 
aspiring man – one who aspires with no rules, no boundaries, seemingly no moral imperative, or any trivial nuisance that could get in the way of a win.
Back in March 2016 I stated it this way:
He appears, alarmingly so, to be free of any actual solutions.
He appears to be free, alarmingly so, of any real policy <beyond his ‘good instincts for this stuff.”
He appears to be free, alarmingly so, to offer frighteningly hollow rhetoric.
He is the ruin, not of the country <we will still be standing despite him>, but he is the ruin of what makes the country great <which is not simply ‘winning’ as he suggests it is>.
In my little corner of the world I did everything in my power to convince everyone of the sham Trump is and what he offered.
Why?
I will refer to Samuel Adams again <and let everyone who has not spoken out yet think about these words>:
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“… the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that “if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.” It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.”
Samuel Adams in The Boston Gazette 14 October 1771
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Speak out now. For what we say, and do, today has an impact, an impact that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.
We seek to circumvent the miserableness for the millions yet unborn.
Well. I wrote the original of this in March 2016. One could suggest, given Trump’s resilient fan base, that I failed in my efforts to make people understand what a sham he is, and was. I say that because while I had hoped the exhausting 5 year Trump episode of stupid West Wing was cancelled, it has not and I forge on discussing Trump, trying to make people understand one by one, and walking people through how a grifter is not only what they want but what America needs. I share this today because silence is not an option and simply ignoring him will not make him, or his believers, go away. Festering wounds do not go away on their own. I am not asking everyone to walk the same path I am, just ponder.
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Toby Ziegler <West Wing>:
“We don’t know what the next president is going to face. If we choose someone with vision, someone with guts, someone with gravitas, who’s connected to other people’s lives and cares about making them better; if we choose someone to inspire us then we’ll be able to face what comes our way and achieve things we can’t imagine yet.”
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systems, versus a Builder, vibrantly alive in repose, vision, wacky wisdom, waiting or living, waiting versus living, walk in our footsteps, walking beyond our own footsteps, want to be doing something purposeful for someone, wanting more can help us grow in many ways, wants to persuade, wasted energy worrying, we actually waste a shitload of time, we all have the same amount of time, we are not nudgers, we associate work with who we are, we encourage it, we invest so much time trying to manage time, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless, well rounded learning, what do you do when you get what you want, what has worked for me, what I know opinions, What if life is made up primarily of the in between, What if that is all there is, what is most important to us, what is right and what is wrong, what makes america america, what of the wretched hollow, what we are seeking explanations, what would you sacrifice to win, what you do with your time, what you elect to do with it, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, When you do things right, who's connected to other people's lives, will not demystify uncertainty, window of opportunity can close quickly, with the perspective that time affords, words, words delivered well really matter, Words really do matter, words reflecting experiences, words that become deeds, words used well, words worse than nothing unless they do something, work hard and good things will happen myth, writes presentations and gives speeches, year of anger, you and i issues, You can know a lot, you can solve that kind of problem, you cannot dwell on every moment that slipped by
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