The Lion's Roar
A joint by Lion Coore - IF YOU LIKE IT, PASS IT ON
Trump, Jerseys and the Golden Shower of Karma.
Remember that time when God told Abraham to murder his son Isaac?
Then, Abraham, being the obedient servant took
out his knife and tied the boy to the altar.
As he was about to thrust the blade into his Isaac’s heart, the Lord
called unto him “Oye! Stop right dere” the voice said from heaven, “The I and I was
just testing yu. Everything is Irie, blessings onto you…” (Yes, in my mind God has a thick Jamaican
accent).
The Bible story made me wonder if a
deed is either good or evil on its own
merit, or does it depend on who gave the order.
If Abraham had killed his son, would that be an evil act? Or does the fact that it was ordered by our
Lord, makes the deed a good one?
I’m asking this question because, in recent days, my fellow Americans have been outraged that a foreign power has had a major influence on who will lead the USA. I cannot understand why this is such a big deal when the removal and replacement of other countries’ leadership is, kinda like our thing.
For example, in 1953, the US orchestrated the overthrow of
the democratically elected government in Iran.
Then there was the Bay of Pigs in 1961 and the many subsequent attempts
to assassinate Cuba’s leader, Fidel Castro in the ensuing years. In 1983, the US military invaded the tiny
island of Grenada and removed their government, then a few years later in 1989,
the American armed forces invaded Panama and deposed their leader. In 2004
instead of sending in troops to Haiti, according to the then President,
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the US sent a plane and kidnapped him from his country. In recent years, the US have orchestrated
regime change in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and now Syria – to name a few.
So what’s the big deal if Russia has followed our lead and decided who the next American leader should
be? First, let’s assume that it’s in
Russia’s best interest to install a friendly government in the US, then
logically, given the US’s track record, it would be foolish for Putin to have
the capabilities to influence the US elections and not use it. It is then hypocritical for America to cry
foul when we’ve been doing the same thing in different countries all around the
world.
So I ask you this question, is it an inherently evil act for the US to decide who the leader of a foreign country should be? Or is it only evil if America is NOT the country doing the deciding?
Which jersey are you
wearing?
It seems like we live in a world now where everybody cheats,
but people are only irate when their team loses. In the Democratic Primaries, Hillary’s team
was caught red-handed colluding with the DNC to ensure that Bernie Sanders would
not win; she even got debate questions before the actual debate. There wasn’t much outrage on the part of the Democrats
about cheating and Sanders lost as planned.
Now that Trump is on the hot seat for colluding with Russia, the
Democrats do not have the moral authority, in my opinion, to reprimand Trump
for cheating, when they gave their candidate a pass for her transgressions.
From where I sit, it looks like the United States of America
has lost her way. It is as if the period
of enlightenment took humans out of the dark ages and into an era of reason,
then the dichotomy of America's two-party political system has lifted us out of the age of
reason and firmly placed us all in a
field of ignorance. We’ve become a
population on a giant football field supporting one of two angry opposing
teams. Half the population is wearing Trump’s jersey, and the other half is wearing Hillary’s, and no matter what
the infraction of their team, regardless of how ugly a foul or how despicable the
team’s behavior, the supporter is bound to defend the jersey on their backs.
So it means that if Trump decides to walk out to the podium
at a Press Conference without trousers or underwear, his mouth pouting and his orange
dingaling swinging in the wind, his supporters must still find a way to defend
this position.
“Well, all the doctors say it’s good to let it hang freely –
it’s a medical thing.”
“Listen, he told you that there was absolutely no problem down there, but yawl didn’t believe. So he had to prove it.”
“Hey, you can say what you will, but my President’s got balls baby!!”
Unfortunately, this is just
how things are, and I’ve come to accept it.
The country is hopelessly divided; Obama couldn’t bring us together, and
the odds are that Trump won’t even try.
Will we ever remove those jerseys and become the principled, rational,
ethical beings that the Founding Father’s hoped we’d be by now, or is this race to
the bottom a blood sport to the death?
Only time will tell.
In the meantime, try as we
may, we’ll never find out what allegedly happened between Trump and the ladies
in that hotel room. The only thing that
we know for certain is that, like a golden shower of karma from the Gods, those Russian
prostitutes have pulled their panties to the side and pissed all over
the entire American public. It has left
the country with the unpleasant taste of our own bitter medicine. There’s absolutely nothing
we can do about it…And so it should be.
