MargaretHelen: Ten Monkeys Tweeting On Ten IPhones Would Make A Better President Than Trump

[niyad]

Ten Monkeys Tweeting On Ten IPhones Would Make A Better President Than Trump

Margaret, I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself and rejoin the world again. I figured enough time had passed since the election and surely Trump had finally made that pivot and started acting like a President. So I tuned in to CNN and… Nope.

Now, I’m not sure if Meryl Streep is overrated. I mean she’s no Scott Baio, I’ll give you that. But that’s really not the point, is it? The point is that the man-child about to become our next President couldn’t come up with a better retort than that? “Meryl Streep is one of the most overrated actresses…” as a comeback has about as much intellectual maturity as “I know you are, but what am I?” And he couldn’t even do it in 140 characters. It took him 16 minutes and 417 characters to write the literary equivalent of “I’m made of rubber and you’re made of glue.” Good Lord, he can’t even use an ellipsis correctly. Three dots, Donald. Three.

Honestly, ten monkeys banging on ten typewriters could have come up with a better response in less time. And it should come as no surprise that Trump had already forgotten a year earlier telling the Hollywood Reporter that “Meryl Streep is excellent.” We can only hope a year from now the man also forgets he was elected President and just wanders back to Trump Tower never to return to Washington. Of course that would leave us with Pence… Three dots, Donald. Three.

But it’s really not about Streep being overrated as an actress or Trump being outperformed by a group of typing chimpanzees. It’s about the fact that Trump actually did mock a disabled person. It’s about the fact that disrespect really does invite disrespect, and violence really does incite violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we all really do lose. Trump made fun of and imitated a disabled person. It’s all on video and rather than believing what we all can see, we are being told we didn’t actually see it. Just like we are told that Meryl Streep is the most excellent……….. No wait…….. Meryl Streep is the most overrated……. No wait…..

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[guillaumeb]

1. Ten monkeys with typewriters might even come up with a sonnet.

But seriously, recommended.

Trump is going to enable bullies in this country to freely exercise their meanness.

[niyad]

2. that is already happening. but, I think some of them are going to be in for rather large

surprises.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. I don't think it would take that many. nt

[renate]

4. "... she's no Scott Baio...."

I do love Helen.

[sheshe2]

5. Ha! Love it

[niyad]

6. somehow, I knew that you would!!