How to Dump Trump

This essay is dedicated to my beloved Sarah who has been an unfailing inspiration in the creation of it...

The Scottish philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) is long-familiar in

philosophical circles for this locution of his: Reason is the slave of the
passions. Yet, DH argued that there is a path for us to follow to achieve some
reasonableness by balancing out our feelings to arrive at some sense in
our lives through an understanding of those emotional arousals. Immanuel
Kant (1724-1804), sometimes called the Prussian Hume, was more
dogmatical. He contemplated marriage once, made a list of the pros and cons
of his beloved, and when he discovered one demerit more than her merits, he
refused to marry her! So goes the myth....

If we examine the national political scenario of the DisUnited States (DUS),

we observe none of the thinkings of DH or IKnor any other philosopher!
but rather an atmosphere in which the passions of the Americans have gone
wild, in which Americans appear to be running amuck as do chickens with
their heads cut off. The behavior of most Americans, disgracefully, is
desperate, often distastefully vulgar and, above all, naive. They are learning
the hard way that they have to learn.

One lesson Americans must immediately note downif they wish to survive
is that they must diligently study the following concept: the American myth
has hit a brick wall. The bitter pill Americans must swallow is that they no
longer are regarded as the world's King of the Mountain, and adjusting to this
reality will cause them untold dashing hopes and brokenheartedness. Many
tears are about to be shed by these wretched people living a misconception
that has now long succored them in their greed, corruption, hypocrisy and
arrogance.

Just one example... In 1968, in Hollywood, Florida, where I had been living, a
gallon (3.8 liters) of gasoline was $0.38. In that same year, the domestic crude
oil price per barrel was $3.32. This fact is cited to explain to fervent American
capitalists and editors of National Review that $3.32 was the cause of a
singularly intense sense of injustice aroused in countriessuch as Venezuela
where I lived from 1975-1983heavily dependent on their oil reserves and
their use as a secondaryeven primarysource of income for their
inhabitants. This unfairness, some have said rip-off, eventually caused the
formation of the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
established for the purpose of raising oil prices to a somewhat more equitable
level for the cost of a barrel of oil. And this it did!to the consternation of the
gigantic petroleum producers and their distributors. (What's good for General
Motors is good for America.) Unfortunately, in the case of Venezuela, with
additional oil income fooding into the country's coffers, a craziness of
spending took rootbut not for schools, hospitals or other Venezuelan
institutions that needed to be updatedto say the least. The intoxicatingly,
capitalistically-maverick Judeo-Christian democratic years (1974-1982)
witnessed some Venezuelans binging on the lucre culled from the exorbitantly
high prices ($40.00!) of their liquid gold. Venezuela was in the pink of graft
and corruption and Caracas was their capital. A time when all, except
Venezuelas poor, were drunk on spending and buying. All you needed was a
telephone, a telex machine, and a rented roomyour mini offce. People
were importing and exporting unrestrainedly. Whisky, cars, electronic
equipment, clotheseven two snow ploughs! If you named it, you could buy
it. Venezuelans were so rich, they qualifed to take out billion dollar loans
in the DUS and Europe which they still have not been able to pay back. The
feverishness was so overstated, my friend Fernando, a government offcial,
came running into my offce one morning at the Ministerio de Informacion y
Turismo brandishing a copy of El Nacional with the new, higher posting of a
barrel of Venezuelan petroleum, then blurted outhis eyes fooded with tears
for all, including me, within ten kilometres, this squawk in Spanish: Were
going to fuck you gringos for good! Fernando could not forgive and forget
as millions of his compatriotsthe decades of exploitation suffered under the
thumb of despotic foreigners. His hate was such that when I asked him, to
calm him down, how he was going to go about f*****g the gringos, he
retorted: We dont know yet, but you can be sure well do it, gringo! Little
did we know, at that time, a Hollywoodish actor was waiting in the wings of
the White House soon to play his most eminent role, soon to bring down the
curtain on the Venezuelan bacchanalia of the late 1970s and early 1980s. At
this time, the population of Venezuela was about 13,000,000 and 60% of this
grouping was under the age of eighteen. There were no schools for all of
them, and Caracas was over-populated with kids roaming all about stealing
and selling stolen goods in order to feed their families.
Instead of bringing Venezuelans into the fold of American democracy, the
DUS's State Department did all it could to protect its interests and the welfare
of American cronies in Venezuela, leading the way for Venezuela to become a
modern socialist country stimulated by hate for the DUS and fortifed with a
formidable antipathy for the shabbinesses that had been dealt out to the
country. The New York Times' foreign affairs editor at the time, on his last leg
of a South American tour, told me in Caracas in 1976 that he could not wait to
get back to The Big Apple because he was sick and tired of visiting these
damn banana republics. Venezuelans themselves had been referring to each
other as monkeys who had fallen out of trees into Mercedes-Benzs.

In Venezuela, Pepsi was favored over Coca-Cola...the Rockefeller family once

had owned a seventh of Venezuela, but was forced to sell its real estate to the
Venezuelan government because their land had been infltrated by
communist insurgents....The Rockefeller family built a chain of
supermarkets called CADA and then sold all the food outlets to wealthy
Venezuelan businessmen...FORD furnished Venezuelan politicians and
businessmen with armored limousines. American greed, corruption and
hypocrisy was a hallmark for Los Doce Discipulostwelve families that
controlled a very large part of the Venezuelan economy and who enriched
Miami banks and Miami condominium constructors. These familiesalways
rich enough to send their children to American universities!at the expense
of their fellow countrymen, kowtowed to the DUS's capitalistic beck and call,
inducing the Venezuelan people to become all the more furious with foreign
interference in their country and evermore extremely unfriendly towards the
Americans. (Americans, never walk along Avenida Libertador in Caracas!)

Let us ratchet up some of the DUS's infuences and interferences into the
affairs of others and their countries. It would be nice if we could give the
Americans a lesson that they will never forgetalways hoping that they will
eventually come to their senses and hop off their bandwagons of greed,
corruption, hypocrisy, and arrogance. Is it possible that Americans could be
so naif as to think that the post-World Wars' History is something that can be
blanked out with a ficking of the pages of History books? That the millions of
deathsin Asia alone (the Asian continent constitutes 59.69% of the world's
population; the North American continent 7.79%)are events that are now
out of sight, out of mind? That Hiroshima and Nagasaki have evaporated in
the minds of the Japanese? That North Koreans are so absent-minded about
being bombed (estimated 3,000,000 killed) by Americans during the Korean
War and, for good measure, mortals inundated by foodscaused again by
American bombings of their irrigation systemsthat ravished rice felds and
brought on a famine that occasioned incalculable numbers of deaths? That
during the Vietnam War millions more were sacrifced in B-52 onrushes
ordered by Henry The Carpet Bomber Kissinger, and that today the
Vietnamese are happy doing business with the DUS? That the Cambodians
and Laotians are jumping for joy today that more bombs were dropped on
them than all those let go during the Second World War? (Americans are a
wonderful peopleif they aren't bombing you.) That all of these attacks,
against international law and without regard for the lives of non-combatant
children, their mothers, their fathers, their grandfathers, and their
grandmothersso often referred to as collateral damage!can be laid to
rest in the consciences of sentient beings? Come on, America, work you way
out of The Labyrinth of Your Stultifying Hypocrisy in which you fnd
yourselves imprisoned! Start by asking yourselves why. Ask why your military,
political and industrial-militaristic war lords found it just dandy to assassinate
millions of children, elderly folk, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, and
grandfathers from the bombing bays of B-52s fying at 30,000 feet. Why? To
make the distribution of wealth fair for you? To show what tough guys you
are? To demonstrate that the Christian-Judaic capitalist system is the best of
all arrangementsnot a hotbed of Greed, Corruption, Hypocrisy and
Arrogance? Americans, are you holding on fast waiting for the next Wall
Street crash (creative destructiveness) to set asunder the fragile economic
system of Western Civilization?

Oh! Americans, what frst-class phonies you are! And now you expect the
world to believe your are looking out for their beneft by calling for a just
playing feld for all nations throughout the world to play on when in reality
globalization's dilemma is that underdeveloped countries are pilfering as
taught them by developed ones since 1601! Already you have begun to pass
yourselves off as victims! In the horrors of your discontent, you have
allowed your country to be split right down the middle into two camps of
protagonists: those who hate on one side, and those who hate on the other
sidealways asking what the DUS can do for them, not what they can do for
the DUS. America, Land of Spoilt Brats....Absolutely disgusting. This is Fall
of the Roman Empire stuff. Is there one American who has read Edward
Gibbon's (1737-1794) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire?
Or, even the Bible: A house divided will fall. Do Americans really know
how to readwithout pictures or images? Are they as dumb as donkeys
frolicking in their barn?

The latest soap-opera-like scandal that has caught the pundits' attention and
ruffed the feathers of the insincere segment of American society is the
discovery ( ! ) of the peccadillos of one Big Pig Hollywood mogul (Harvey
Weinstein is uglier than The Hunchback of Notre Dame) who has been turned
into a kind of whipping boy so that uneducated journalists, game for a Pulitzer
Prize, and documentarians can, with their moralistic aplomb, make an
exaggeration of an exaggeration, and shock the American people into
understanding something they have all along known! As if there are not
millions and millions of American men (Little Pigs) slapping their wives,
girlfriends, and lovers all over the place and using these women as their sexual
play toys; and, that there are not millions and millions of American women
(Little Pigs), many divorces, who dream they could be sexually abused by
some Big Pig in Hollywood who might pay off their mortgage, and give them
the moolah to send their darling son to Harvard Business School where he
can study for an MBA and be programmed to be a jerk for the rest of his life.
A woman in New York City, for instance, does not have to fy out to the West
Coast to hunt up some Big Pig. All she has to do is hop into some corporate
headquarters, take the elevator to the top foors where the executive offces
and the president's penthouse are, then strut aroundlike a dummywith a
confused, lost expression on her face and then just get hookered up.
Where am I? I'm not kidding you. Instead of being a second-rate lover
(Little Pig), maybe she will luck out and convince her companion to get a
divorce, marry him, and then in a couple of years get herself divorced! Is not
this the American way? Was it ever the same old story, a fght for Love and
Glory? Advice to Little Pig parents for their Little Pig children: tell them not
to marry someone for their money; marry him or her for the money of their
father. In that way, your Little Pig can have his or her cake and eat it, too! The
real American Dream realizedeven if it took the collateral damages of
bombings effected throughout the world to keep the DUS economy alive and
kicking. Little Pigs always want to become Big Pigs.

Is this not what that decrepit Hollywood (the military-industrial complex

wants to bomb Pyongyang!) has taught the American society? Hollywood has
made America a nation of blithering idiots. Elizabeth Taylor (Some of my
best leading men have been horses and dogs), Marilyn Monroe (Hollywood
is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and ffty cents for
your soul), and Zsa Zsa Gabor (I never hated a man enough to give him his
diamonds back & I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I
keep his house). God bless Hollywood and all the bombs the DUS has still
not dropped! Don't you see what Hollywood has done to you, America? It has
made blathering fools of you! Yes! You can't trust anyone anymore. Your own
family members. Your politicians. Your bosses...ad infnitum. You are of the
herd mentality, exactly what Nietzsche said you would be: window snoopers
looking for something evil that can be told to the world in a tweetto make
your self-righteous selves glow with sanctimoniousnessyou stuck in the
labyrinth of your Hypocrisy. How could a people who bomb children almost
every day be scandalized by a Hollywood Big Pig who wants to use his stable
of starlets to satisfy his pathological yearnings for more and more? And look at
all the others who have prostituted themselves now coming out of the
woodwork with their sexual confessions of abuse probably to get publicity
ware out of their revelations of sexual naughties! Can a human being actually
die of hypocrisy? Stupidity?

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Of course, I have not forgotten about how to dump Donald Trump (DT)!

But, I possess an enduring reservation concerning two elements: frstly, if I

have understood correctly the schizoid personality of the American people, I
have to demure before I would accord with them, concerning their avid desire
to impeach; secondly, that the elimination of DT would put the DisUnited
States back on some right track it never ever even was on. I am then puzzled
even more, by this fact: DT won about 60,000,000 popular votes; Hillary
Rodman Clinton (HRC) won about 63,000,000 popular votes. Yet, very few
savants afford us the information that almost 50% of the eligible American
voters did not vote. Half of a whole is half and half of a half is 25%. May we
assume that HRC and DT actually enjoy only 25% of the popular votes of the
DUS's eligible voters?; and that, again distastefully, if 50% of the qualifed
voters did not vote, what really can be said of American Democracy and its
pretense that the rest of the world should follow in its footsteps? Can someone
please enlighten me?

Now to do away with DT...

DT is a megalomaniac. He is not a narcissist; but, American journalists are

dopey. (Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]): The megalomaniac differs from the
narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming and
seeks to be feared rather than loved.) DT is a megalomaniac who suffers from
a lifelong habit of getting what he wants. (Will someone please tell me how
the American Psychiatric Association permitted DT to slip through the slats?)
He always paid to have his way when he practiced his commercial affairs. He
has not yet understoodwhile he on-the-job-trains to be president of the
DUSthat politics is not business. DT has always surrounded himself with
yes-men and women many of whom who have already demonstrated that they
are not exceptionally bright. DT's personality requires that he must be almost
constantly being assured of being himself. There is little that can be done to
alter DT's emotional aberrations. Therefore, it is best to ignore him, and even
offer him a sense of compassionif not empathy. He is an emotionally
disturbed individual and to hate him, or what he stands for, will yield his
opponents absolutely nothing. Instead, loathing him will only reinforce the
resolve of the individuals who nurture his sickness of being omnipotent and
grandiose. If those who defend DT are rid of, his downfall will quicken and,
Americans, by ignoring DT, you will not later be castigated for being cruel to
a mentally disorientated person. Americans, you are not very good at picking
presidents, are you? They either get shot, or they are carted away to some
Presidential Psychiatric Clinic (library!). Or, do you think they are selecting
your presidents for you because they think you are so dense? Without DT, on
whom are you going to foist your hypocrisy? And who do you think will take
over for DT? The Fairy Godmother? Remember, Americans, when Tricky
Dick was suffering his mental breakdown, a United States Army four-star
General Alexander Haig, babysitted the crybaby Nixon and kept the White
House on an even keel. How many generals are babysitting DT? (Harry S
Truman (1884-1972): I didn't fre General Douglas MacArthur because he
was a dumb son-of-a-bitchalthough he was. But that isn't against the law for
generals. If it were half to three-quarters of them would be in jail.) Really,
what we need here is resurrect some South American caudillo or a South
American general with sunglasses to help the DisUnited States, this banana
republic, escape from its enduring, schizoid misery.

Have a nice nightmare, Little Pigs & Big Pigs!

Authored by Anthony St. John

Calenzano, Italy
27 October MMXVII
www.scribd.com/thewordwarrior
Twitter: @thewordwarrior

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