Editorial piece at GQ by Drew Magary.
It goes on like that.
Earlier this week, the Washington Posts David Fahrenthold uncovered yet another Donald Trump scam job, in which he used over $250,000 in charitable donations to help pay off his legal bills. And, because this is Trump, that sordid (and almost certainly illegal) bit of money laundering is just ONE despicable detail of the story. There are many more, including Trumps club trying to welch on a $1 million hole-in-one payout (out of all of Trumps bad qualities, his steadfast refusal to pay people what he owes them, while bragging about it, is the most enraging), along with the old bit about Trump blithely ignoring local ordinances so he could put a big, dipshit flagpole up at the Mar-A-Lago club, with his lawyers statingwith a straight facethat a smaller flag would fail to appropriately express the magnitude of Donald J. Trumps . . . patriotism (NOTE: Until recently, Trump didnt know what the stripes on the flag symbolized).
None of this is surprising, of course. Trump is a liar and a crook, and he commits abominable acts at such a frenetic pace that they get lost in the fury surrounding whatever horrible thing he does next.
Regardless, in the end, people are still gonna vote for this man. Maybe not enough to get him elected, but still: itll be in the tens of millions. (Note to the people causing the polls to fluctuate: What the fuck is wrong with you? I gotta meet the five percent of people who saw Hillary come down with pneumonia and were like, Forget her, gimme the dictator with dryer lint hair.) Nothing that Trump says, no damning piece of Trump reportage, and certainly no opinion piece like this one will stop his voters from pulling the lever. Nor will anything stop Trump from being the officious, braindead goon that he is. He will never answer for his crimes, and theres a frighteningly large portion of the electorate that will always love him for that.
And so Id just like to say to that portion of the electorate: Fuck you. No, seriously. Go fuck yourselves. Im not gonna waste any more time trying to convince you that youre about to do something youll regret forever. Im not gonna show you old clips of Trump saying rotten things. Im not gonna try to ANNIHILATE Trump by showing you records of his hypocrisy and greed. Im not gonna link to a John Oliver clip and be like, THIS. So much this. Nothings gonna take down Trump at this point, so Im not gonna bother. No no, this post is for ME. I am preaching to the sad little choir in my soul here.
Because while Trump is a miserable bastard, YOU are the people who have handed him the bullhorn. YOU are the people willing to embarrass this nation and put it on the brink of economic ruin all because you wanna throw an electoral hissy fit. YOU are the people who want to revolutionize the way America does business by voting for its worst businessman, a disgusting neon pig who only makes money when he causes problems for other people instead of solving them. YOU are the thin-skinned yokels who clutch your bandoliers whenever someone hurls the mildest of slurs at you (deplorables), while cheering Trump on as he leaves a bonfire of truly hateful invective everywhere he goes. YOU are the people willing to overlook the fact that Trump is an unqualified, ignorant sociopath because DURRRR HILLARY IS BAD TOO DURRRR.
It goes on like that.