Remember when a candidate's children were, at best, just a
smile and a wave as in the Nixon and Johnson girls, a small time soap opera
star/alcoholic as in Steve Ford, young and dumb would be drunks as in the Bush
daughters? Or better yet remember when they were two poised, beautiful young
black women who were a credit to their parents?
We now must
examine two words for applicability. The first is "nepotism": The practice among those with power or
influence of favoring relatives or friends, especially by giving them
jobs." If this sounds all too
familiar, it should. The second word is less common in usage, yet sadly
applicable in this case: "sinecure": "a position requiring
little or no work but giving the holder status or financial benefit."
One assumes
that in the case of the Trump litter the apple hasn't fallen all that far from the tree, so it seems to me
that we should be aware of both these terms. All three children have been given
(the correct word) high level , and consequently high paying jobs, in the Trump
organization. There is striking similarity here to the Bush clan, wherein two
of the three sons were wastrels, yet with family money both managed to rise to
power while sinking to their level of incompetence.
Neil Bush was a
named defendant in lawsuits regarding a failed Colorado S& L. He was
responsible for part of a mere $49.5
million "settlement" in the
case, however, it should be noted that the Silverado S$L collapse cost us
taxpayers around a billion dollars. Of course Neil was the President's son at
the time. The U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision found Bush's conduct
"involved significant conflicts of interest and constituted multiple
breaches" of his fiduciary duties, yet he was not charged; weird, huh?
Of course other
brother, George, made this look relatively minor as he, having failed in almost
every single business endeavor ever, failed as President, thrusting the US into
a war that should never have been fought in a place we never should have gone
(and both his father and dad's then SecDef, Cheyney had publically said so in
1991!), and destabilizing the region, leading to the rise of ISIS.
Third son,
little Jebbie, was merely a semi-competent Florida governor. Although that
whole "Terry Schiavo is alive" thingy was a classic example of Bush
willingness to play to the worst of our emotions while ignoring the law. Of
course that's how his bro got to be president anyway (that whole ignoring the
law thing in 2000 when the USSC chose our "leader.")
So now we have
three clones of the man who would be king, who work for daddy in jobs he gave
them and who are alarmingly vocal and present in his coronation ceremony. There
are several alarming possibilities here. First, they could all be assholes on
the level of the paterfamilias. From the
looks, attitudes and personality of the two sons, I'd say that's a lock.
Second, they could each be as much of a bigoted dumbass as their dad. Again,
based on their analyses of him as "warm, humane and kind," I'd bet on it.
Finally, and
most alarming, There are a number of
relatively influential and important Executive branch jobs to which
Trump, if elected, could appoint these
spoiled and ego stroked children. Based on his business practices and his
overwhelmingly inflated sense of "I know everything, and I'm the smartest
man I know," it could happen. Now
think about that tonight before you try to go to sleep!
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