{"id":1242,"date":"2020-10-14T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2020-10-14T21:16:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:16:06","slug":"i-am-pissed-off-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/14\/i-am-pissed-off-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I AM PISSED OFF NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m really pissed off now.<\/h2>\n

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I\u2019m really pissed off now. Polls tell me that Americans believe that Donald Trump is losing to Joe Biden and they have the unbridled effrontery to use the words \u201closing badly.\u201d And yet, I see that Trump is losing by low double digits, on the order of 10 to 12 points. That\u2019s what pisses me off. That number is too small.<\/h4>\n

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In Europe it is a different story. Europeans were asked who they want to win the presidential election in America. In Britain Trump is losing by 48 points. In France and Germany it\u2019s 50 and 60 points respectively. In Denmark Trump is losing by a whopping 74 points. That\u2019s why I\u2019m pissed off. Even those numbers are too low. Trump should be losing everywhere by 99 points. America\u2019s numbers are inexcusable.<\/h4>\n

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I am, as I say, really pissed off. Because I don\u2019t need to be a fly on Mike Pence\u2019s head to know what\u2019s really going on inside Donald Trump\u2019s White House. We have amassed enough outrages in four years to prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, let alone a reasonable one, that Donald Trump is an arch criminal \u2014 and he is only interested in using the presidency to feed his gluttonous ego and enrich his bank account at the expense of all Americans.<\/h4>\n

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For my part, I\u2019m pissed off because I keep seeing Trump too often given the benefit of the doubt by an overly polite press. For them to still take anything Trump says at face value, including the now obvious lie that he gets tested for coronavirus every day, is tragically naive. How many times does Donald Trump have to lie before the press stops believing anything he says and starts questioning everything?<\/h4>\n

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The press owes us a debt for putting Trump in power in the first place, for giving Trump billions of dollars worth of free publicity, for stooping to lend credibility to the outrageously ludicrous claim that Hillary Clinton\u2019s emails somehow endangered democracy. In a way, the press really has promulgated a lot of fake news, starting with the fake notion that America\u2019s fake president with his fake hair and his fake tan deserves a shred of respect or implied legitimacy.<\/h4>\n

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With Trump you can easily assume the worst about him and be right almost all of the time. There is absolutely no percentage in ever believing anything Trump says, let alone giving him the benefit of the doubt. Speculating about the true number of a serial killer\u2019s victims and getting the number slightly too high is no sane person\u2019s idea of an injustice. And unless you personally know a serial killer, chances are Donald Trump is the worst criminal you know. He\u2019s a rapist, a murderer, a thief, a traitor, a conman, a liar and a malignant narcissist. If occasionally he gets accused of something he didn\u2019t do then I, for one, don\u2019t plan on missing any sleep over it.<\/h4>\n

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Then there\u2019s Fox News. I\u2019m really pissed off with Fox News. It is a federal crime for a news organization to knowingly promulgate false or misleading stories that endanger the public safety during a national crisis. Yet Fox News has repeatedly broadcast stories casting doubt on the efficacy of social distancing and mask-wearing and hand washing during the pandemic, and frequently misrepresents government measures to keep people safe as violations of their Constitutional freedoms.<\/h4>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission, tasked with ensuring compliance with federal law, has repeatedly refused to hold Fox News to account for these criminal outrages. Fox has, in effect, murdered thousands of its viewers by arrogantly and unapologetically promoting this crap. They know what they are doing and they don\u2019t care who gets hurt.<\/h4>\n

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I am also really pissed off by Trump\u2019s parade of arrogant press secretaries, press secretaries who continuously abuse the podium to snidely tell members of the media \u2014 the men and women who represent the American people\u2019s right to know \u2014 that the truth is none of our business. Press secretaries who sneer at us and treat us like children. Press secretaries who think they are above us and are better than us, better than who we actually are \u2014 their goddamned employers!<\/h4>\n

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I\u2019m really pissed off by the myth, perpetuated by Trump\u2019s apologists, who claim that Trump is a genius yet we can\u2019t see his grades, a billionaire yet we can\u2019t see his taxes, honest yet he refuses to answer subpoenas, COVID-free yet we can\u2019t ask questions of his doctors. We the People have the right to know, and it royally pisses me off that our right is being denied every single goddamned day.<\/h4>\n

I\u2019m pissed off that we can\u2019t get straight answers to the simplest questions. For example, was Trump infectious when he met Joe Biden at the debate? Did Trump deliberately try to put Biden in mortal danger by intentionally exposing him to a lethal pathogen? Thanks in part to the cult of deception that constantly cloaks this disgusting White House we may never know. A trail of incompetence, chaos and arrogant indifference to the health and well-being of the American people follows Donald Trump everywhere he goes.<\/h4>\n

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If Trump knew he was infectious during the debate then it makes his criticism of Biden\u2019s frequent mask-wearing habits even that much more immoral. In all likelihood Trump knew he was infectious even as he mocked Biden for wearing masks and having small, socially distanced crowds at his own events. This is the toxic consequence of this toxic presidency and it pisses me off that Trump isn\u2019t being held accountable for it daily, by every sane American.<\/h4>\n

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I\u2019m really pissed off that this criminal usurper of the People\u2019s House, this short-fingered vulgarian, this deceitful bastard, continues to spread lies by implying that many other people participate in his disgusting lies. His constant refrain that \u201ca lot of people are saying\u201d whatever lie he\u2019s making up on the spot is a daily threat to American government credibility and an affront to intellectual prudence.<\/h4>\n

I\u2019m pissed off that Trump\u2019s day and night repeating in tweets and in speeches that the mainstream media is \u201cfake news\u201d is beginning to erode people\u2019s conviction in their ability to discern the truth. Trump is deliberately destroying our confidence in what we see with our own eyes and, as such, poses a clear and present danger to the ultimate fate of knowing, of understanding the difference between what you can know and what you only wish for. He is trying to conflate scientific truth with magical thinking, and it\u2019s working. And I\u2019m really pissed off about that.<\/h4>\n

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I am, as I say, pissed off. I\u2019m pissed off that we have to constantly worry that there really are enough people in America, right now, to give a man like Donald Trump 270 electoral college votes. That kind of thing should happen only in some Soviet-dominated backwater of the 1970s. That should happen in North Korea or Iran. That shouldn\u2019t be possible in the America I know.<\/h4>\n
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If you never read another word about polls and our chances in November read this. It isn\u2019t any longer about polls, it\u2019s about turnout. Biden can beat Trump in all the polls in all the world but if far more Trump people than Biden people actually turn up to vote then Trump can still beat Joe Biden. That\u2019s the scary part about only having a 10 point margin. That and the fact that there simply shouldn\u2019t be enough Trump voters in the United States of America to make our pathetically small margin of victory possible.<\/h4>\n
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The most important election in the history of the United States is just three weeks away. This is the election that will decide whether or not America has the right to continue as the world\u2019s beacon of freedom. I\u2019m pissed off that there\u2019s even a shred of a possibility that we could actually lose to this crass and illiterate and hateful and vindictive fool, and I want you to be pissed off too. So stand up, turn up and vote, and let\u2019s win. Let\u2019s win by a landslide, by a humiliation, by a rout, by a devastating victory so complete and decisive as to fill with the mortal agony of dread anyone who ever dared to support this ignorant, malignant monster. And then let\u2019s put Donald John Trump in prison\u2014 for life.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m really pissed off now.   I\u2019m really pissed off now. Polls tell me that Americans believe that Donald Trump is losing to Joe Biden and they have the unbridled effrontery to use the words \u201closing badly.\u201d And yet, I see that Trump is losing by low double digits, on the order of 10 to… (2 comments)<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-larrynorton","post-1242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democracy","no-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bppg-k2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}