I have already confessed to being at a loss for words to adequately describe the abomination that is Donald Trump. But recently, one thing I keep thinking after watching the news is how utterly without redeeming features he is. My default analogy is that at least Hitler loved dogs. And music. And had some actual talent as a painter.
I was thinking of this yesterday while walking my dog (shout out to Hitler!) and started to mentally review the dictators I’m most familiar with, to compare them to Trump. Qaddafi came to mind first, and he had the redeeming feature of great style. He’s one up on Trump right there!
So let’s review historic dictators to see if any are as worthless as Donald Trump.
Stalin excelled in seminary school and earned a scholarship to Tiflis Theological Seminary in 1894. Good job, Stalin! Your dad didn’t have to pay to get you accepted!
Castro went to law school and was passionate about social justice.
Saddam Hussein also went to law school on his own merits and “did much to modernize Iraq’s infrastructure, industry and health-care system, and raised social services, education and farming subsidies to levels unparalleled in other Arab countries in the region.” Well done, Saddam!
Kim Jong-un was educated in Switzerland and after his father’s death, implemented some economic and agricultural reforms. Not bad, Kim Jong-un!
Mussolini was a journalist who studied Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche. (Trump = Covfefe)
Mobutu Sese Seko, with his trademark leopard-skin cap and carved wooden staff, was a a true style icon, and I’m still looking for a facsimile of that hat.
Pol Pot played the violin and was fluent in French.
Augusto Pinochet taught classes in military geography and geopolitics and was the editor of a magazine, Cien Águilas (‘One Hundred Eagles’).
François Duvalier aka Papa Doc was a physician, and was active in a United States–sponsored campaign to control the spread of contagious tropical diseases, helping the poor to fight typhus, yaws, and malaria. He was also a master of Haitian Vodou! Who among us doesn’t love Haitian Vodou?
I could go on, but you see my point here. That bastard Donald Trump is the most patently worthless human being in the history of the world. Why did god make him? I heard a guy on TV noting Trump’s “incandescent stupidity and malevolence.” Incandescent gave me a little thrill. If only I could be as elegant in expressing my contempt!
All I can do is take comfort in his notable hair-loss and commensurate panic as I try not to think of him winning the next presidential election. If that comes to pass, there won’t be enough cyanide capsules in the world to put us out of our misery.
Totally agree, Sister Wolf. When I think how much time, resources, head space, etc. we’ve wasted on this asshole it burns me up. But when I then think that the reason we’ve had this plague is because of 75 million of our countrymen (men and women), I think Adolf Hitler.
When I was young, being Jewish, I was afraid the Nazis, or other anti-Semites, would come to kill the Jews again. Then as I got older, went to law school, and learned about the United States and its laws, I realized that it would be hard to happen here.
So that got me wondering how did it happen in Germany in the 1930’s, a well-respected, seemingly civilized society. I could not come up with an answer. Yes, they had war reparations, massive inflation, a Depression like us, but still, to elect that guy and then support him as he went about killing millions of people and trying to take over the World? It made no sense.
Until I saw the 2016 Trump rallies. Then I totally understood how it happened in Nazi Germany. Rabid, mindless idiots, rooting for someone they know nothing about, who doesn’t give a shit about them and would be fine with all of them dying after they voted for him (and many did due to his mishandling of the Covid epidemic), acting as if they were (and are) at a football game rooting for their favorite team to win at any cost and perhaps becoming violent as rabid soccer fans in the U.K. do.
Whether it can happen here, of course it can happen here.
Hahaha! Oh thank you for the laughs—I just love your kindergarten praise for despots.
And incandescent! What a fantastic
word.
Also, even Caligula built a couple of aqueducts.
Tom Isenberg – Yes, yes, and yes. But how to we account for 75 million rabid idiots??? Is it lack of education? Poor nutrition? A flaw in human nature? Some primal desire for a strong daddy??
Alison – Hahaha yep, thank YOU! I thought of Caligula but then forgot, so thanks for confirming that he’s better than Trump!
For what it’s worth, I think the 75 million brainfucked idiots certainly has something to do with piss-poor, or no, education. That and too much salt in our (my) beloved processed foods, and staring at phone screens all day. Maybe it’s our precious bodily fluids…maybe there’s not enough fluoride in our bottled water.
I watched, on YouTube, the Turnip (because without my glasses on, Turnip in print is indistinguishable from Trump, just like the humanish-looking person-thing is from the hideous vegetable) giving out with a bunch of shouted shit posing as a “speech” in some little gymnasium in New Hampshire, was it? or somewhere.
Anyway, apparently it was hot in the place, and greasy, orange-tinted sweat (I’m sorry) was squirting out of every crack and crevasse on the creature’s head, an indescribably nauseating spectacle, and I thought, maybe it/he has a medical application. Maybe video of the naturally larded-up Trump, or the exhibit himself, could be shown to those who need to have vomiting induced! The video representation would’ve worked for me, and I didn’t even need to vomit, but I clicked away before it could take effect.
I don’t know if it can compare to Adolf’s autobahn or VW beetle, but sometimes a big splattery puke can be therapeutic. Is that a redeeming feature?
Hell yeah the 20th century-sized horror can happen again, especially with 75 million uneducated idiot worshippers of the main uneducated idiot running around loose, creating havoc.
Oh yeah, I forgot – all incandescents have been banned! All but one, anyway.
Stalin was also pretty hot when he was younger, something Trump can lay no a claim to.
Miggs – Haha, excellent point.
Bevitron – I have also been noticing how deeply disgusting his face is, and of course his carriage, like a big fat lumbering bear crossed with Frankenstein’s monster, His orange face appears to have the texture of a pitted highway, with the squinty pig eyes adding to the horror. If the 75 million could see him gluing his hair in place, they might start thinking things over. Or not, I guess.