On Dictators

President Trump said something very funny the other day. 

This is noteworthy because by and large he never says anything funny. He is genuinely without any sense of humor. Which goes along with his lack of curiosity, literary knowledge, taste in music and generally any attribute one might expect to find in a human being.

What was this funny quip? He called President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, a Dictator.

This is funny on its face value because in 2019 Zelenskyy beat Petro Poroshenko in a landslide victory 73% to 24%. In a free and fair election recognized by countries who hold free and fair elections (which previously included the US.)

It's also funny because he used the word as a pejorative. As if to say that anyone who is a recognizable dictator should be shunned. And cut off from any US support. And this came after he successfully (?) campaigned on the notion that he himself would BE A DICTATOR on Day One of his presidency.

Of course he's not our Dictator. That would be Elon Musk.

It's all so performative. 

We know, by everything he has said and everything he's done, that he has no concept of what constitutes a Constitutional Republic. Nor any respect for the notion of democracy. The besmirching of Zelenskyy is simply a prelude to tossing the whole Ukrainian kitski and kaboodleski back to his patron, Putin.

Fact is, Trump loves dictators. 

He speaks glowingly of their strong man techniques. Whines about how "his generals" don't hang on his every word like the Chinese and the Russians. And would love nothing more than to rule with an iron fist, albeit, given his physical shortcomings, a very tiny iron fist.

You kids might be too young, or forgetful, to remember this, but Trump's love of dictators manifested itself in a very embarrassing and somewhat gay way -- not that there's anything wrong with that -- years ago when he started receiving Love Letters from Kim Jong Un.

Who could forget when he stood next to a representative of the DPRK and clownishly displayed the oversized card purchased at the Pyongyang Hallmark Store...

"We fell in love"

Crowd at the Nazi rally groans.

"No (he chuckles), we really fell in love," he tells the fevered masses earnestly. They demure and give him the validation he so desperately demands.

And this man has the nuclear codes to destroy all of humanity. 

WTF?