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Dear Mainstream Media: please stop reporting what Dopey Donald Chump says about everything, he’s a psychologically disturbed 13 year old (with apologies to teens)

We realize he's the nominee of a freak show of a party–did you ever read AEI's Norm Ornstein?–but he's also the clearest threat to what remains of democracy in the American plutocracy.  He's also a narcissistic sociopath, clown, and life-long fuck-up:  ask anyone in the real estate business in New York over the last forty years.   If he farts, you can ignore it.  If he tweets, you can ignore it.  

You should do so before civilization ends.  We've just concluded the first election cycle in my lifetime in which an honest person who actually supports regular people has garnered millions of votes.  That wasn't Hillary Clinton, and that wasn't Dopey Donald Chump.  That humane candidate lost, alas.  Hillary Clinton is reprehensible, a war-mongerer worthy of George W. Bush, a Nixon Republican, an empty vessel like her husband Bill.   But at least the Clintons are parochially decent and mildly prudent plutocrats, unlike the mentally ill ignoramus whose opinings you report.

There's only one serious question about Dopey Donald Chump, the proto-fascist and narcissistic ignoramus worth contemplating.  But it would not be polite to write about it here.  So, please, just ignore him.

Love,

Brian

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