A game of strategy and cunning, played with passion and power, but seeking to bring the masses to new heights of societal accomplishment?
Not so much, no.
A Game Of Thrones?
Played with axes and hatchets and a lust/hate relationship with the wenches amongst us?
Bet yer arse, there, middle agers.
Friday, Donald Trump accused Hillary Clinton of being "an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler" of her husband's alleged affairs and accused her of destroying the lives of his accusers.
The
remarks are the first time that Trump has raised the former president's
alleged affairs and Hillary Clinton's behavior amidst a flurry of
accusations since becoming the Republican Party's presumptive nominee.
Trump had previously accused Clinton of being an "enabler" to her
husband's behavior, but he ramped up his rhetoric on Friday.
"She's
been the total enabler. She would go after these women and destroy
their lives," Trump said, adding, "She was an unbelievably nasty, mean
enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful."
Trump
did not expand upon what he believes Clinton did to "destroy" the lives
of those women. A message left with the Clinton campaign Friday night
was not immediately returned.
The
brash billionaire on Friday sought to get ahead of what he believes will
be an onslaught of attack ads against him, focusing specifically on
sexist remarks he has made.
"So
what they're doing is $90 million of ads on Donald Trump and it has to
do a lot with the women's issue. But I'm saying to myself, nobody in
this country and maybe in the history of this country politically was
worse than Bill Clinton with women," Trump said to cheers at a rally
here.
Trump predicted the Clinton
campaign would use crude comments he has made about women and sex in
interviews with talk radio host Howard Stern against him in attack ads.
Trump
has used a range of words to describe women he's disagreed with, such
as Rosie O'Donnell and Arianna Huffington, including "fat pig," "slob"
and "dog."
"Don't forget, I was never going to run for office," Trump said in his defense.
He
also retweeted a tweet calling Megyn Kelly a "bimbo" earlier this year,
and in the first GOP debate, suggested that Kelly was on her period as
the Fox News anchor asked him a prodding question.
And
he suggested that then-GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina was too
ugly to be elected last fall: "Look at that face! Would anyone vote for
that?" Trump said during an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
Wow.
First off, with his irrefutable history of "respect for women" on display, a paraphrase of the old saying immediately leaps to mind.
"With respect like that, who needs disrespect?"
Second, speaking of display, this latest "sneak preview" into the forthcoming "high road" route Mr. Nobody Respects Women More Than Me" obviously hopes will take him to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, puts on display one of Trump's more unique, but certainly no less honed, skills as a mass marketer.
Give the people what they want.
Whether or not it has anything even remotely to do with what the people need.
And what the people, at least's Donald's People, want right now is not a seat at an energetic and inspirational political pep rally.
What they want is front row center at a WWE grudge match.
Or, for the more NPR/PBS types amongst us, a couple of court-side seats at Ye Olde Roman Coliseum.
Complete with lions and tigers and bitches.
Oh my.
One in search of spirited, but salient, debate or discussion on the issues of the day might reasonably question what Bill Clinton's testosterone soaked behavior has to do with the price of the tea in China, let alone the future of America.
If for no other reason, pretty sure that Bill's name is going to be nowhere to be found on any ballot in any voting booth come November.
But in the slash and burn and slash and slash world of Trump's America, that distinction matters less than not at all.
I mean, get real, okay? Roman Reigns and Big E and the Miz don't waste a moment bothering with laying out specific plans for growing the middle class, providing reasonably priced health care or point-counterpointing the finer points of who might best both lead and serve the nation, let alone conduct the contest to achieve leadership with grace, style, gamesmanship or, here's an oldie but goodie, statesmanship.
They just smash the shit out of each other with folding chairs and send the crowd into an orgasmic frenzy with an adrenaline rush that makes heroin seem like saline solution.
But, hey, it's all just part of the show, right?
Given that domestic abuse is ostensibly an issue high on the priority list of a lot of thoughtful and concerned Americans, it has to rank as one of the great ironies that the first Presidential election in American history in which one of the two major candidates is, for the first time, a woman also pits that woman against a brutish, graceless, abusive man.
Of course, we should pay no attention to all of that abuse we've heard him spewing for the last six months/twenty years, though.
Because he was "never going to run for office."
Just our sorry sad luck that he changed his mind.
Fortunately, turns out "nobody has more respect for women."
Frankly, I think we should hold him more accountable and demand that he prove worthy of our respect for his, thus far, non existent respect for women.
At the very least, Donald, put it on a cap.
That way, we'll know you mean it.
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