Goodbye
By Chris S. Coray, The Unmuddled Mathematician
On Tuesday a minority of voters in America (but a vast
majority of voters in Utah and Rich County) elected Donald J. Trump as the next
president. The election was fair, not
rigged, as Mr. Trump often claimed.
What follows is the longest sentence I have ever
written. I am sorry. The good news is that at the end are a couple
of very short ones.
What follows is a partial list of what Mr. Trump said
or is. He spent 5 years as the leader of
the birther movement, claiming President Obama was not born in this country; he
said that John McCain and other American POW’s were not heroes (Mr. Trump had 5
deferments from military service and has never served) as he preferred those served
but were not captured; he admitted in what he called “Locker Room Talk” that
because he is a star he could get away with horrible behavior with women (at
least 12 of whom have come forward publicly); he said that a federal judge
born in Indiana could not be unbiased because the judge has Mexican ancestry; he said a deportation force should be created
to deport all undocumented persons; he
made fun of a disabled person by mimicking the motion caused by the disability;
he is the founder of Trump University (now defunct and is being sued); he
thinks climate change is a Chinese Hoax; he said he knows more about ISIS than
our generals; he said that women who have abortions should be punished
criminally; he made fun of a gold star family; he is the first presidential
candidate in 40 years not to release his
tax returns (one of which shows a 900 million plus deduction in one year); he said that immigrants from Mexico were
rapists, drug dealers, murderers, and he supposed “A few good people”; he used
horrible profanity and vulgar language at his rallies and even during the debates;
he was fined by the IRS for improper use of his “charitable” foundation; he has
promised to build a wall across the US—Mexico border and get Mexico to pay for
it; he is an adulterer; he has called women fat pigs, slobs, and eating
machines.
Mitt Romney held a public meeting in which he said much more
than I have written and has not retracted a word, in all of which I concur
completely.
In order to write this column I must be in a frame of mind
that contains joy and a sense of well being.
Those feelings do not presently exist.
I am finished.
Goodbye.
