Strangely Blogged: Pure and Simple Disgust
RAMAPHOSA: I am sorry I don’t have a plane to give you
TRUMP: I wish you did. I’d take it. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it
RAMAPHOSA: Okay pic.twitter.com/TgvODTok9P
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 21, 2025
I took a bit of a vacation from political blogging because every time I look at Trump and company, all I can feel is pure and simple disgust. I can barely scrape it together to rhetorically fluff the corruption and assholery into something mildly amusing, anymore. In the clip above, the president of South Africa has been subjected to an ambush of white genocide claptrap by a senile racist lunatic, and levels Trump with a quip about his obvious corruption–and Trump, unknowingly sells it: of course he would take a plane from anyone. He’s a taker, a crook.
And everyone knows it.
In this past week, Trump has demonstrated his wildly inappropriate and out of touch lack of temperance and proportionality with respects to journalists, celebrities, elected officials, the truth, in ways that continue to display the stress points of his ego and unfitness.
Here I was thinking Trump was in office partially because he sold more books. Perhaps we will be waiting until 2029 for that.
But I really think we need that discussion right now, because I already can barely handle my disgust.
