Just speaking my mind...

Donald Trump never apologized to President Barack Obama over all that "birther" nonsense. Not ONE public apology.

I have been listening to Trump's bloated, self-important ravings since the 70s. He has always struck me as a spoiled rich kid (he is) with a limitless appetite for sucking down attention the way a black hole sucks down matter and light. In my opinion, he's a misogynist, a closet racist (or should I say a pretend not-racist?), and certainly a classist. He is the kind of bully that uses words just carefully enough to be able to make crude denials. And there is a point where an ego gets humongous AND fragile enough, that it shades into pathological, and Donald's got one of those. I think he really would be our worst President ever. -Even if the allegations of brutally raping underage girls are proven false.

OTOH, I'm from Michigan, and I'm just old enough to have watched my home state go from prosperity to poverty, from the best of the First World, to a patchwork of the Third, and largely due to NAFTA. We had a growing black middle class, and now we have a growing black prison population. Nearly all of it from Mr. Clinton's policies, which Ms. Clinton helped push. They and their friends helped wreck my state. Now Ms. Clinton wants me to vote for her, so she can - what? -Finish it off? -Or just spread the economic disease to the rest of the Nation? Not happening, not even with a gun to my head. I think SHE would be our worst President ever. -Even if the allegations of recklessly endangering national security, and US intelligence personnel, are proven false.

The Dems appear to have successfully blindsided, cheated, and denigrated Bernie, over and over, and he has finally thrown in the towel. The vast majority of super-delegates obviously DIDN'T really care about stopping Trump, since they didn't switch their votes to the candidate most likely to defeat said windbag. SO, we would appear to be stuck with the major-media-preferred matchup of Trump vs. Clinton.

After long, nauseating contemplation between those choices, I have come to the conclusion that Clinton may actually be the better choice, ONLY OF THOSE TWO, insofar as she will PROBABLY stick to conventional arms when she starts MORE needless wars on the far side of the planet, as opposed to nuking Canada and Mexico until nuclear winter ensues, and kills all life on earth.

If you have a reason why the leader of the "birther movement" wouldn't do that, especially if it was over an issue challenging his ego, please detail your reasoning in comments, and include your latest psychiatric evaluation.

I just think that we are stuck with Trump, because the major media networks will apparently forgive him any trespass, spin away his stupid, pan away from his most miserable blunders, and cover up every slimy, evil thing he has ever said or done in the past. And because most people still think it's news, and not entertainment. Meanwhile, said media have demonstrated a propensity towards Clinton-bashing that just won't quit. Not that I think they don't deserve it...

IMHO, "pulling the lever" for either one of the two probably-criminal heir-apparents would likely require a lobotomy soon after, so one could live a hollow semblance of a normal life. Without the constant screaming, and bashing one's head against a wall. So of course I had planned to write Bernie in, even if somebody must use white-out, or some "voting"-system daemon running in the background, to correct my "mistake".

Looking at this strategically, the Dems have screwed the pooch. With an absolutely brilliant combination of hamfisted election fraud, AND snot-nosed arrogance, they have driven away much of their traditional support (us), and now will try to scare us into supporting their candidate by painting Trump as worse than he really is. If that is even possible. And while he may be the worst CANDIDATE, what the Dems have not figured out is that they have become the worst PARTY. Yes, Donald is a dick, but as an entity, the Great Donkeys have finally succeeded in out-dicking him.

I may vote for Dr. Stein, even though I actually would have preferred Bernie. -Just for the satisfaction of getting into a screaming argument with some Dem that will tell me I'm voting for Trump, by so doing. -Just so I can tell anyone within earshot that I'm done voting for criminals, including the ones doing all that voter fraud. Jill Stein, because I was a Bernie supporter, so I must be a sexist. Jill Stein, the woman without any CRIMINAL INDICTMENTS PENDING. Realistically, she hasn't a chance, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS THE BEST REMAINING CANDIDATE, because the major media will black her out even harder than that other Democrat that was running; what was his name again?

So. President Trump. Better to just get on to the acceptance part of this little slice o' Hell. The tumor of ignorance, media-driven controversy, and scape-goating hatred has finally metastasized, and spread.

President Trump.

If I had a scrap of religion left in me, this would be the part where I say: God help us all.

Curiously, this confirms me in my atheism, since if there really were a wise, compassionate, just God running things, there would already have been twin lightning bolts descending from Heaven, into the major Parties' Conventions, and a blinding bright message in the sky saying "Election 2016 -- DO OVER!" But there wasn't. So...

President Trump. It makes my entire brain slump just to type the fucking words.

Quick experiment here.

President H.R. Clinton. Nope. Same result.

So. Trump.

And frankly, there is this part of me that can't really abandon my semi-Christian upbringing, and still wants to help the man. And most of the folks I have interacted with here at C99P strike me as basically kind and thoughtful. So I'd like to ask for your help in creating a meme, a movement, call it what you will.

I call it the Barack Obama Experience, or B.O.E. And I want it for Donald. I want to see Donald grow, mature, and evolve as a human being, don't you? Don't you want to see him challenged and improved by character-building events? I think we all want that. Or at least, doesn't he deserve more grey hair and wrinkles? And that's why we need to help Donald find out what it's like to be the First Black President of America.

There are two basic points to be enacted. Notice how much simpler this is than all those fancy "Progressive" three-point plans.

First, we work our asses off to get down-ticket socialists or socialist-sympathizers or even liberals elected. Or even Democrats. Or just anybody up to and including born-again far-right nutbars, as long as they promise that they will fight every single thing that Trump is for, every day, all day, regardless of their personal convictions. And if Trump does a complete 180 on any issue, they have to promise to oppose THAT, too. Ideally, we should be aiming for a Congress composed of 95% women and minorities, but we may have to settle.

Our yardstick of a suitable candidate must be whether they will behave like attack dogs trained to go berserk at the sight of blond-dyed hair. The kind of dogs that lunge snarling at the end of their chain so hard that it sounds like a plucked guitar string. If somebody asks "What about Donald Trump?", and any given candidate for Congress suddenly has the veins standing out on their face like ground-roots, and fills the air with spittle-flecked invective against The Donald, if said candidate seems to be near choking, trying to get all the insults out at once, they should have our vote. We need people in Congress that will reflexively and even mindlessly fight The Donald on every issue, even if he calls for World Peace and Free Beer. That's the easy part of enacting the Barack Obama Experience.

The second part of the plan is alerting every American citizen to the FACT that Donald Trump is not one of them! I think I have at least four years of rabid truth-seeking in me, how about you? I'll be working on the official pledge, and post it, but it's going to be hard, with all the foreign-controlled media on his side. And I'll be reasonable. If he can show proof that he was born here, and not in Jamaica, I'm sure the American People would all breath easier. If he can offer something better than the ludicrous forgery released to the press, years ago, claiming that Jamaica, a FOREIGN NATION, resides in New York State somewhere, well SURE, I'll accept it. If he can show us any proof that can't be dismissed with the most convoluted, paranoid, irrational theories, then I will happily offer to never publicly apologize, ever.

Are you with me? Can we duplicate the entire Barack Obama Experience for an entirely-too-likely President The Donald? -Or as I prefer to think of him, President Pumpkin? -All the blind-siding, unwarranted attacks, all the snide comments, all the snark, all the not-so-subtle prejudice, all the failure to respect him, or the office he holds? Can we support economic brinksmanship to oppose even his most uncontroversial proposals? Can we block every single appointment he tries to make? Can we sue him for waking up in the morning? Can we oppose and ridicule him without any concern for reality, for four long years? Can we do that? I think we can.

Oh, and by the way, he's a Hindu cultist. -And not one of those wholesome, hard-working, mainstream Hindus like you may live and work with. No, he's a member of one of those cults that was driven underground by all right-thinking Hindus, centuries ago. The kind of cult that would even pretend to be Christians to hide whatever nefarious business they were up to. The orange face-paint. Dead give-away.