One of the things I have long meant to write about has been the effect that DonOld Drumpf's political popularity and presence in our public lives has had on my own personal and familial relationships. I have not really discussed this at all for the simple fact that I have been, and still am to some degree, unsure of how exactly to succinctly describe, much less deal with the sorrowful and jarring disappointment that comes with finding out that people who you have known for decades, or even for your entire life, aren't the people you have come to believe them to be. There is no delicate way of approaching such heart deadening disappointment.
And believe me, I truly would be very open to having a candid conversation with any of my Drumpf supporting MAGA friends and family about this subject, however that offer would be predicated upon the following fundamental set of established and documented facts and truths being agreed upon by all involved in that conversation ahead of time:
- Donald Trump was born in to fabulous wealth.
- Donald Trump has never worked a day of authentic manual labor in his entire life.
- Donald Trump wrecked every business venture he ever launched and bankrupted most of them, even multiple casinos.
- Donald Trump blew a $400 million inheritance on cocaine, hookers, and living the celebrity jet-setting lifestyle of the rich & famous.
- Donald Trump is a serial adulterer. His first wife was an American and he cheated on her. He has had two immigrant wives subsequently and cheated on both of them.
- Donald Trump has been credibly accused by over 25 women of sexual assault and rape by one.
- Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging that he could grab women by their vaginas and get away with it because he was a celebrity "star."
- Donald Trump had a decade-long, close personal relationship with a known pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
- Donald Trump turned to foreign sources of cash when American financial institutes and banks ceased doing business with him in the 80's and 90's due to his massive risk rating.
- Donald Trump is banned from doing business in the state of New York.
- Donald Trump's family is restricted from being involved in charities in the state of New York.
- Donald Trump was fined $25 million when a DOJ judgment found he had been operating a scam "University" pyramid scheme.
- Donald Trump's 2016 campaign team had six senior members of that team who ended up being convicted felons.
- Donald Trump LOST the 2016 popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly three million votes.
- Donald Trump publicly asked for electoral assistance from the leaders of both Russia in 2016 and China in 2020.
- Donald Trump was impeached the first time for public corruption due to his attempt to extort the Ukraine government into manufacturing criminal dirt on the Biden family and announce it publicly in exchange for then POTUS Trump releasing military aid to Ukraine.
- Donald Trump presided over the most significant mass-death event in US history, the Covid-19 pandemic, and his incompetence and negligence resulted in hundreds of thousands more deaths than would have occurred had a more able leader been in office.
- Donald Trump LOST the 2020 election by seven million more votes to Joseph R. Biden, and to date not one iota of verifiable fraud in the 2020 election has been proven in so much as one single US courtroom.
- Donald Trump challenged the outcome of the 2020 election more than 70 times in state and federal courts across this country all the way to the US Supreme court and he lost EVERY SINGLE CASE.
- Donald Trump was not happy with his failed legal challenges to the 2020 election results and so he then conspired with enablers and MAGA Republicans to overturn the results of the 2020 election and when that effort failed, he incited a violent mob of MAGA supporters to attack the US Capitol building and halt the certification of Joe Biden's election win, and that attack resulted in the deaths of several civilians and law enforcement officers and injuries to hundreds more.
- Donald Trump was impeached a second time in 2021 for inciting that seditious riot.
- Donald Trump is a multiple deferments Vietnam war draft dodger who has made several derogatory statements about US military veterans and used the grave of a soldier interred at Arlington cemetery for a crass photo op.
- Donald Trump has been criminally indicted four times by grand juries.
- Donald Trump has been convicted of 34 felonies by a jury.
- Donald Trump was found guilty of defamation twice by court juries and was hand multi-million dollar judgments.
- Donald Trump was found to have "technically" raped the woman who he defamed in those two cases.
- Donald Trump was aided in the 2024 election by Russian interference (again), and by the nearly $300 million dumped into his campaign by a carpet-bagging, South African billionaire and world's wealthiest individual.
Those are the basics. The list could have been much longer.
But simply put, if those basic, documented truths cannot be acknowledged by all parties involved in that conversation, then there is no point in the conversation proceeding and therein lies my dilemma when approaching the subject of how Drumpf's political ascension has affected personal relationships. For you see, I learned long, long ago that to debate and argue with people who have no concept of reality, and who willfully ignore it is akin to administering medicine to the dead (an old Thomas Paine analogy). And that is where that situation sits.
---TFG
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