Donald Trump projects his own shit onto everyone else. I realize that's not exactly news, but that is actually the point - that he just keeps hammering on it until you throw up your hands and give in.
Blue Gal and driftglass call it a Denial Of Service Attack.
Bob and Chez call it the Tennis Ball Machine.
Olbermann calls it Chaff.
And I can tell you, I'm struggling not to blow it all off and walk away. For the 69 days since the election, this whole thing has felt the way I image it feels to be stuck in a war zone.
Unfortunately, I think it might just get worse after Friday.
There's no indication this guy will feel constrained in any way on anything at any time.
Here's a quick scorecard from Dana Milbank at WaPo - talking about why The Peddler-in-Chief don't get no respect:
To Trump’s many self-assigned superlatives, he can now add another: the sorest winner. With charity for none and with malice toward all but his supporters, he has in the past two months set a new standard for gracelessness in victory.
When a well-heeled practitioner of Both-Siderism like Dana Milbank puts up a column that never once says, "...but the Democrats...", maybe there's been a bit of a shift. I won't hold my breath, but wouldn't that be nice?
Anyway, Trump likes to throw shit, and the method to this madness is to keep us from seeing the shenanigans he's really up to because we're trying to deal with all the flying shit.
Apply that to Washington, and you've got a US Congress using Trump's shit-flinging as cover for their skullduggery too.
And of course, when they think he's no longer useful, they can impeach Trump, selling that little project to us like they're a bunch of fucking heroes righting a terrible wrong and bringing the country together and blah blah blah.
With a few minor tweaks, it fits too perfectly with the usual GOP formula:
1) Fuck it up.
2) Point at it and say, "Oh look - it's fucked up".
3) Propose your "solution".
And won't that be a kick in the head? We'll be rid of Trump, and it'll only cost us our Healthcare Coverage, Social Security, Medicare and a whole package of rollbacks of basic protections on Civil Rights, Environment, Consumer Finance, etc - plus we get President Mike Pence in the bargain. Lucky us.
Grease up and bend over, America - nobody goes unfucked.
