Trump, errrr... PO-tu- S Rat, it turns out, is not only a hate monger who bears major responsibility for the white nationalist terror he's unleashed - but he's also a grifter and con man. But we knew that, no? Anyway, it turns out this rat- faced, ambulatory fungal infection still hasn't coughed up the money he owes El Paso for his last rally there- according to The Dallas Morning News. The article in yesterday's paper noted:"Months after his rally, Trump's re-election campaign still owes El Paso thousands of dollars. according to the Center for Public Integrity. The center reports that the total with late fees is now $569 204 according to an invoice sent to the Trump campaign."
If I was the Mayor of El Paso I wouldn't let this piece of shit, pretender and liar step one foot into town unless and until he coughed up what he owed. Hell, I wouldn't let this asswipe encroach on this grieving community anyway, mock president or not. Besides, the El Pasoans themselves have made it clear they don't want his sorry hateful ass there anymore than the residents of Squirrel Hill, PA wanted this plague - bearing rat to show up there after the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre (carried out by another white nationalist and anti-Semite, Robert Bowers.)
The shameless stiffing of El Paso by Trump and his campaign prompted El Paso county commissioner Dave Stout to say (ibid.):
"It's ridiculous and unconscionable. The city of El Paso is an economically challenged community."
Mr. Stout also added that he "adamantly opposes" Trump's visit, adding:
"He's going to be throwing salt into the wound- a very, very deep wound. And this community needs healing, not Donald Trump."
This is especially as he knows, as do we all (with more than air between the ears), that any words of "comfort" or consolation Trump offers will be totally made up and utterly meaningless, mere posturing. You cannot have the hate monger who incited the butchery reading a script from a teleprompter to try now to assuage the pain he himself caused. It's an atrocity and an affront to have the spectacle of this criminal - who incited vile immigrant hatred at a rally in El Paso back in February- now returning to his "crime scene".
Indeed another citizen (Veronica Escobar) quoted in the piece made it clear Trump is not welcome, saying:
"He should not come here while we are in mourning. I would encourage his staff members to have him do a little self- reflection. I would encourage them to show him his own words and actions at his rallies"
That is a well-contemplated thought - but ultimately useless- given this is a hollow man who has absolutely no self awareness, no self control, nor the most rudimentary moral compass. Showing him his own words and actions at rallies would be about like showing a hog covered in its own filth pictures of how it got that way. All he'd do is "Oink!" then crap some more on the one who showed them,
So it seems most sensible citizens of this border burg feel they have no use for a piece of refuse like Trump - who already stiffed them once- showing up to deflect blame and create other scapegoats. Doesn't this "POTUS" know when he's not wanted? How could he if he doesn't even have the decency or honor to pay his outstanding (and long overdue) debts?
While I'm at it, Neil deGrasse Tyson certainly merits a rebuke after making his "objectively sane statements" re: data from deaths, wherein he questioned the media enhancing the import of deaths from mass shootings over those from the flu, medical errors and accidents. Clearly, this smart astrophysicist is totally tone deaf to the emotional intensity of random mass shootings and that such TERROR bears little or no similarity to the flu, medical errors, or accidents. Again, a case of egghead overthinking, and going so far down the rabbit hole of abstraction that the potential for any meaningful communication is lost.
How so? Well, because deaths attributed to medical errors, accidents and flu do not generally incite terror. For one thing, with the exception of accidents, they are almost always assessed ex post facto - so emotional immediacy and intensity are factored out. They may inflict distress, upset, and transcendent grief - but not instantaneous abject terror as in a mass shooting. Where - as in El Paso - one father beheld the skull of his 5 year old child shattered in front of him with the blood and brains all over his clothes. This difference in emotional intensity is something Tyson ought to have known - or at least processed- before sounding off. It isn't even a matter of "nuance" or imposed 'political correctness' from without, as some blockheads might claim. If there is a flaw of nuance, it is wholly on Tyson's (and his apologists') part for failing to discern how his mention of stats to do with medical errors diminish the deaths of those slaughtered in mass shooting terror.
And it's now why critics are telling the Hayden Planetarium head to stick to his astrophysics. I wouldn't go that far, but only warn that if he is going to veer off -specialty to ensure he has his "facts and data" in their proper relation to events, especially in not conflating expected "normal" deaths with those from mass terror.
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by Eric Boehlert | August 6, 2019 - 6:55am | permalink
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