Literally the Brad o' the Day

      I'll just begin this post right now by stating that the only thing the Republican Party and I have in common these days is that I, too, have no use for most political correctness. This especially applies to Republican scum who beat their wives, draw guns on them and endanger the community. And I don't care very much if Candice Parscale is a dyed-in-the-wool Trump Republican. No woman deserves to get beaten by her husband to the point where when she calls 911 on him, she has bruises all over her body and face. I feel horrible for that poor woman. If you need additional empathy, imagine living with a creature larger and at least twice as strong as you flying into a rage and physically abusing you. That's what's like to be a woman living in an abusive situation.

     Having said that, it needs to be stated for the record that, yes, I laughed when I saw this video of the former Trump campaign manager get body tackled by police in Fort Lauderdale. I laughed when I first heard the news last night about his barricade situation that, after his wife ran out of the house in fear of her life, involved just Parscale and his dog.

     If that makes me a horrible person, so be it. But it wasn't just that situation that got me thinking. And, while I had to laugh at Parscale's life turning into an episode of COPS: Fort Lauderdale, in spite of the terror his poor wife Candice must have lived through, this is part and parcel to the quality of people that get sucked into Trump's orbit, the kind of toxic human intake that the Trump machine sucks in, chews up and spits out.

     Parscale, as we all now know, was demoted  from his role as Trump campaign manager. It was a role that had bloated Parscale's bottom line to the point where he could suddenly afford luxury houses, condos, cars and even a small yacht. Then the gravy train derailed and, despite being left with a pretty cushy life and lots of money in the bank, being deprived of most of his earning revenue took a toll on him so that yesterday, he threatened his wife's life and even his own.

     And, as stated, this is becoming typical of the massive criminal enterprise that is Donald Trump and his swampy life. We got a brief taste of what was to come when, early in the Trump administration, we learned about Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Carl's Jr. President Andrew Puzder. Puzder had been accused by his ex wife of spousal abuse, an allegation that by early February 2017 had been vigorously denied.

     Exactly a year later almost to the day, top White House aide Rob Porter abruptly resigned when news broke that he had abused more than one ex wife. He, too, denied the spousal abuse allegations because, Republican. At the same time, speechwriter David Sorensen was also accused of domestic abuse and he, too, had resigned.

     Trump, true to form, accepted the resignations but called the allegations lies and defended these two wife-beaters because, who can believe women when they make credible allegations against the master sex? And then, there's Parscale.

     And those are just the wife-beaters.

     The roll call of criminals proved guilty and deeply suspected of other crimes from collecting child pornography and sex trafficking to white collar crimes involving money laundering and tax evasion and, in Felix Sater's case, outright assault and battery with a deadly weapon, grows exponentially. It's damning enough when one considers this motley assortment of international criminals are attracted to Donald Trump. It's even more damning when one comes to the conclusion that these are also exactly the type of people to whom Donald Trump is attracted.

     Yesterday, the NY Times published a bombshell article, the first of many to come, after they'd received anonymously roughly 2600 pages of Trump's financials. Just to be clear, these are not the Trump tax returns that the administration's shysters have been bitterly fighting to keep hidden from Manhattan DA Cy Vance, Jr.

     Nonetheless, they offer a clarifying picture of Trump's business dealings, we'll charitably call them, over the past 15 years. Among them:

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     Trump paid no taxes for 10 of the last 15 years.

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     In 2016 and 2017, the year he ran for office and the first year he assumed it, his total tax was $750 each year.

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     Somehow he managed to write off a mansion belonging to someone else that he'd borrowed during a family vacation.

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     $70,000 in hairstyling costs, after ragging on AOC for a $250 haircut on her birthday.

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     Paying his daughter Ivanka nearly $1,000,000 in "consulting fees" as a "contractor."

     And, of course, there are the massive business losses that immediately put the lie to Trump's carefully and elaborately-constructed mythology that he's actually a successful businessman. And Forbes, the legendary money magazine, after taking a look at those financials, concluded that Trump was over $1.1 billion in debt.

     And the note's due in less than four years, giving us another explanation why Trump so desperately wants to hang on to a presidency he never legitimately won, in the first place. He doesn't want the presidency or the obligations and duties that come with it. All the White House was to him was another branding opportunity, with the Oval Office looked at solely as a profit center. He merely wants the problematic immunity that goes along with the presidency. He must know all too well that soon after Nixon left office, the IRS descended on him for back taxes and paying them off bankrupted him.

     The fact is, a person is defined largely if not entirely by the company they keep. Trump has collected around him figures from Russian and American organized crime, he's been closely associated with money laundering, tax evasion and those figures include people who would've been shot dead on the spot if they were poor urban black people instead of rich, white people. The sooner that policymakers come to the conclusion that Donald Trump is a criminal, the sooner we can eject said criminal from the halls of power.

     And then maybe the American people can get back to the business of electing into said halls of power a better class of criminal than Donald Trump.