Mary Trump's great, but I think I've reached my limit when it comes to wanting to "understand" Trump

[Miles Archer]

There's a lengthy post on Facebook, based on a YouTube video she did, where she explains the roots of Trump's unfiltered misogyny, and his deep, unimaginable contempt and hatred for women. She says he got it from Fred. I don't doubt that.

Problem is, I've been hearing these things since 2016. I don't know ANYONE who gave two shits about Trump before he got into politics. Everyone I've known has seen him as a boorish pig, a really pathetic cartoon. That changed with his blatantly racist "birther" attack on Obama, because he was no longer seen as "harmless." And YES...he and Fred got busted LONG before the "birther" bullshit with their New York housing discrimination lawsuit, but they wrote a check, took a victory lap for not admitting guilt, and in all honesty, I never HEARD about it until YEARS later when the NYT resurrected the story under a banner of "How Trump Got His Start."

I just dismissed him. I thought he was a pig and an asshole and I still do, but obviously, when he became president, he wasn't as easy to ignore.

So Mary's latest piece, addressing the "Piggy" thing, is astute, probably painfully accurate, I can't fault her at all, and I've stopped giving a fuck about "why" he is the way that he is.

That will make sense to some people who read this and maybe not to others. I've explained it to the best of my ability. This fucking week...especially his "shit happens" take on Kashoggi while in the midst of fellating Mohammed bin Bonesaw...I don't care about the origins any more. I want America to get its shit together and vote and make sure we never end up in a place like this again.