Demonizing An “Illusory” President

In folklore, vampires do not cast shadows. In R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.'s “Obama's coming obscurity,” is he implying that the outgoing president is somehow supernatural? If not, why does he make the fantastic claim that Barack Obama lacks a shadow on a sunny day? (Show Tyrrell photographic evidence otherwise—he'll eat his hat, or yours.) He states, “The reason he [Obama] casts no shadow anyplace is that there is no substance to him, not even a smudge. He is almost a totally illusory figure.” Certainly, this concept works perfectly as a political metaphor—but not as objective truth. Why, then, is this learned scribe making such a wild assertion?

Now that the GOP is assuming power, it's vital that like-minded commentators not engage in the same deluded and childish whimsy as progressives. Indeed, the reality of a Trump presidency—and complete Republican control of Congress—is an indisputable repudiation of Obama. His prized legacy is a carcass on President-elect Trump's cutting room floor. Only Mr. Obama's willful impotence to champion America, rather than condemn it, has rendered him “insubstantial”. Yet, Mr. Tyrrell's “shady” mythologizing pales before this ideologue's concrete failures. Facts that show marginalized Obama, not in shadow but in stark relief.

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Blathering “badder” Ginsburg

“I can’t imagine what the country would be with Donald Trump as our president. For the country, it could be four years. For the court, it could be—I don’t even want to contemplate that. Now it’s time for us to move to New Zealand.”

“He is a faker; he has no consistency about him. He says whatever comes into his head at the moment. He [as she] really has an ego.”

— “Objective” Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

It's no surprise an egotistical crone supports a lying witch. (Still, as every American citizen, jurist Ginsburg is entitled to her personal opinions, warped as they obviously are.) As she was appointed to the high court by Hill's philandering hubby Bill, it would be somewhat understandable if her stated reason for support of the coronated Democrat was misguided nepotism. But it's not. This veteran of the Supreme Court is just another partisan; an unapologetic ideologue wearing a black justice's robe. How can a person charged with faithfully interpreting the Constitution—an ultimate arbiter of our laws—support a plainly immoral, lawless creature for U.S. president?

The mind frankly boggles at Ms. Ginsburg's shameless audacity. In what alternative universe does one as she publicly excuse the candidate constantly under threat of multiple federal indictments, but criticize the populist outsider who isn't? This “great legal mind” is so pickled she can't imagine a Donald Trump presidency? Obviously insulated by her lofty perch, she is so far removed from reality she feels threatened by the pro-Constitution Republican (pledged to make America great again)? Does this Big Sister timeshare in “The Twilight Zone” or just perpetually reside in George Orwell's “1984”?

Barack Obama's fascist “fundamental transformation of America” has completely mangled Ronald Reagan's First World beacon of liberty. Now, America is an unrecognizable ultra-constitutional husk, no better than a Third World banana republic. Indeed, the wrongdoing of Obama's imperial “leadership from behind” has seeped like sludge into every major aspects of the executive branch: the White House, the weaponized IRS, the incompetent EPA, the blind Justice Department—and the hobbled FBI. Even the politically cowed do-nothing Republican Congress is not immune. Further, with the tragic passing of conservative icon Antonin Scalia, even the Supreme Court hangs in the most precarious balance: philosophically stalemated 4 to 4. This razor's edge is borne out by Ms. Ginsburg's fellow travelers on the bench. Specifically, I refer to the high court's “Leona Helmsley,” the coddled Sonia Sotomayer. One more rotten apple such as these (the next president may chose as many as three replacements) will doom the country to unimaginable leftist ruin for decades to come.

It's no laughing matter. Even given millennials' misbelief that TV's “Judge Judy” (Sheindlin) is a member of Ruth Ginsburg's elitist country club. (Much as one wishes she is, she's not. Yet, Ms. Sheindlin's no-nonsense adherence to law makes the future New Zealand bound Ms. Ginsburg the real faker here). A simple truth: a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Judge Judy's America.

As a cautionary tale, see the untold collateral damage of electing Democrats/progressives. That specifically means all politicians surnamed Clinton—and their bad judicial appointees like the appropriately nicknamed “Notorious RBG.”

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In Purple Rain with Ziggy Stardust

In the sexually liberated 1970s, trendsetter British rock legend David Bowie made gender bending chic with his glam alter ego Ziggy Stardust. That traditional of music—and androgyny—continued in the 1980s with Prince. (Both cultural icons are sadly deceased in 2016.) Like Bowie, Prince pushed the envelope for personal and creative expression. For a time, the Purple One was also known as The Artist. He of many monikers even went so far to adopt an unpronounceable love symbol (very much like a combination of the zodiac signs for male and female) in place of his birth name Prince Rogers Nelson. In this way, both entertainers were born to authentically stand out. And they did in talent, appearance—and everything else.

Still, what would any rock star be without a stunning supermodel at his side? For 26 years until his death, Bowie was married to such a woman, Iman. An interesting development despite a libertine's voracious appetite with a history of many lovers of both stripes. On the other hand, Prince was a conservative Christian (reportedly opposed to gay marriage). He was also meterosexual with an overly “pretty” and manicured gender-fluid persona. (Same as Bowie, being a defining sign of his time certainly escalated record sales.) Yet, in tight pants and silks what other straight guy could get away with wearing a feather boa—or frilly lace—and sweep any woman off her feet while in high heels? There's little doubt men held on tightly to their significant others when these musical geniuses were around.

Beyond the groundbreaking music, artistry and showmanship, both men inadvertently “fathered” a modern Western tolerance for gender and sexual diversity in all of its guises. Those brave and very public examples are remarkable cultural legacies in themselves. They've contributed to a domino effect that has positively influenced the views and social customs of today's youth. How else could a “non-binary” boy (neither identifying as male or female) be crowned prom queen at New York's Fiorello H. La Guardia High School?

Given the school's theatrical pedigree which inspired the 1980 movie and TV series “Fame,” might this be an attention-getting stunt? Something goofy teenagers (of any generation) are known for: a boy chosen for a role traditionally reserved for a girl? Surprisingly not for the individual in question, 18 year old Matthew Crisson. Interviewed by the local affiliate Fox 5, he said:

“I had always struggled with social anxiety and reaching for things I really want. Being prom queen was the first time I stepped out of my comfort zone and proved to myself that I have courage, and I have strength, and I have confidence.”

Beyond that, the even more amazing thing here is fellow student and prom king Kristion Matas's posted reaction to what some might view to be a rather dubious position:

“Its June of 2016 people are being terrorized for their gender, race and ethnicity. Trump is about to be our president! … But y'all arguing about prom king and queen. Y'all bullying people on social media acting like animals but its ok though. God don't like ugly. Congratulations to Matthew Crisson on winning prom queen! You deserve it. Sincerely the prom king of 2016.”

While the grammar is highly suspect, the poignant response of obvious acceptance is not. For further emphasis (and visual clarity), two emojis follow: a face with tears of joy and another blows a kiss.

After almost 8 years of polarizing, politically useful race-baiting how out of touch is “suave” Barack Obama now? How irrelevant is his intolerant creature Black Lives Matter?

The one mitigating factor in an otherwise happy story of tolerance and inclusion is several understandably upset young ladies left out of the loop. Among several gripes was this gem: “It just sucks that men win everything and we thought we at least deserve that.” Ah, the woe of an expectant lady denied what she feels is rightfully her due, a queenly prize.

Synchronistically, that's a fate corrupt Hillary Clinton will deservedly share this November. How does one know? Perhaps anyone in the habit of looking beyond surfaces—of a gender bending rock star or prom queen—can see into the heart of any matter including politics. If that holds true, the infinite wisdom of this 2016 prom king predicts another changing of the guard. Not at a school dance, but at the White House. ATrump presidency. That will preclude from high office another lady running solely on the empty selling point of her gender.

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Trump's convention inferno

Megafires are a phenomenon in nature when debris like branches, dead leaves and dry pine needles are allowed to collect year upon year, sometimes decade upon decade. Add to that hotter and drier climates, and Man's understandable intention to suppress fire. These conditions result in uncontrollable, earth-scorching super-fires such as the one in Yarnell, Arizona in 2013 that killed 19 brave souls; the entirety of the hotshot crew sent in to extinguish it. In 2016, the political landscape has an analogous experience: front-runner Donald Trump. Will he destroy the GOP (as the “Paul Ryan” establishment fears) or will his bile produce a healthier more determined conservative response to intrusive big-government, our woe-filled country, and terrorist-infested world left in shambles by eight years of Barack Obama?

The answer is unknowable 'til election day, but the political tea leaves can be read. Trump is a complete wild card: a sword that cuts both ways. The positive is his true genius is in marketing himself as an “outsider” (who truthfully cannot be “bought” because he is already a billionaire.) While he is not a professional politician (a good thing), anyone who has the “for sale” Clintons to his wedding isn't exactly a babe in the woods when it comes to politics. Essentially, Mr. Trump is running a insurgent third party-style campaign within the umbrella of the Republican Party and it has the elites shaking in their loafers (also a good thing). However, his straight-talk is so unfiltered, his answers so unconsidered they are flippant (read: women “punished” for having legal abortions. Seriously?). One wonders if he is actually a Republican or the progressives caricature of the misogynistic Frankenstein monster they wrongly think a Republican is.

Indeed, Trump's populist rage against insulated do-nothing Republicans and lawless, spendthrift Democrats are the layers of brush, political dead wood Mr. Trump's “firebrand” candidacy is blazing a trail rapidly through. Yet, same as any fire can warm, it can just as readily singe. Is Mr. Trump the former, the latter or both? That is the fundamental question that frames his surprisingly successful candidacy.

On the other hand, there is Ted Cruz, the safer, happy medium between maverick and Washington insider. He has won Wisconsin primary by a robust 13 percent. Will he have the electoral juice to secure the Republican nomination (and defeat Hillary Clinton) or the class to put the people's will first given the current likelihood of a Trump presidency? That means waiting 'til 2020 or beyond (At 70, Trump will best “oldest” Ronald Reagan's 69 years). Complicating all of these moving parts is the economic tipping point for a country given its ever-mounting 19 trillion dollar debt. With a University of Pennsylvania degree in economics, perhaps a businessman like Mr. Trump is better suited to make the hard choices of the near future to rescue America from insolvency? In any case, at only 45, Mr. Cruz has plenty of time. But for what precisely? With the Supreme Court vacancy needing a strict constitutionalist, I wonder if the country would not benefit more in the long-term from 30 years on the court than eventually (perhaps) the executive branch.

Add to this already tangled mess, the self-preserving interests of Republican party leaders, elected officials and deep-pocketed special interests (read: the aforementioned “forest decay” fueling Donald Trump's “megafire” candidacy). These power players are so invested in maintaining the status quo they are ironically willing to facilitate the convention chaos that will likely result in at the high cost of handing the presidency (and the philosophical balance of the Supreme Court) by default to the corrupt Democrat. Even now, these elitists unhappy with Trump (uncontrollable) and Cruz (unlikable) scheme for a brokered convention to insert a hand-picked third option ( Paul Ryan?) who will lose in the general election. (Indeed, how is this top-down exercise any different from Democrats' superdelegates where the fix has been in for Hillary Clinton since day one?) This is the nuclear option that shatters the GOP: new and loyal general election voters will be disenfranchised, Trump might renege on a third party run (and who would blame him), and the rank and file will further suffer under Hillary's version of Obama's legacy-preserving third term. Meanwhile, the GOP elites will “lose” gracefully over Manhattans, and the smoke not emitted by the glow of their self-satisfied cigarettes will be the American Way on fire.

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