Hey everybody, this is Michael, and this is Episode 2 of Surly Words, which is my video
project, and it has a name now.
Yay!
And yes, I'm still calling it a video project, or if you used to call it a blog, or a video
blog, because whenever I use a phrase like that, I really feel like I'm in some bad movie
from the late 90s or early 2000s, where everyone's talking about shit like hackers and being
in the matrix and still using modems.
So yeah, not using that phrase.
But I am going to be doing this on a regular basis, and coming along with that, it will
be on a regular schedule, so that way you don't have to wait for me just to post a random
link on Facebook saying I did another video.
Yay!
It's going to be on Tuesdays and Thursdays from now on, so feel free to take a look on
those days.
I have something new for you, and it will hopefully be entertaining.
So this is Episode 2.
You're probably wondering what I want to talk about for Episode 2.
Now, Episode 1 was all about politics, so I kind of figure I'm going to do something
completely different this one, and talk about politics.
What can I say?
I like politics a lot, so I talk about it.
If politics isn't your thing, I'm sure there's a cat video or a video of someone doing something
stupid and injuring themselves out there with your name on it.
It is the internet, after all, there's plenty of crap to watch.
Politics isn't your thing.
Feel free to come back on one of those days that I mentioned, and I should have another
video for you, and it will hopefully be on a completely different subject, and you should
hopefully enjoy it.
But my video, whatever it is, my project, so my subject matter.
We're going to talk about politics on this one, and we're going to talk about a certain
kind of politics being practiced by a certain kind of person.
Yeah, I'm going to talk about Donald Trump.
I don't really want to talk about Donald Trump.
I've been trying to avoid talking about Donald Trump since he started running for president,
because he's not really worth talking about.
He's such a colossal joke that he is really just a waste of my time, your time, the country's
time.
But he's finally gotten me to the point where I've just got to get something off my chest,
and then hopefully not have to talk about this guy ever again.
So why am I needing to vent?
So Donald Trump did an interview this week with CNN, where he said Latinos love him and
he has our vote.
This is despite the fact that over a hundred and thirty thousand people have signed a petition
asking for Saturday Night Live to cancel his planned appearance on that show.
Think about that for a second.
A meaningless appearance on an ancient comedy show that hasn't been funny since the last
Reagan administration.
And that is, it's on a Saturday night.
I mean seriously, who's going to be watching?
If you have nothing better to do than watch SNL on a Saturday night, then TV is the least
of your problems.
But yeah, something is insignificant as I'm appearing on that show.
Over a hundred and thirty thousand people have gone out of their way to sign a petition
asking SNL to not let him do it.
He's pissed off that many people because of his comments about Latinos.
But yeah, we just love you Donald, sure.
Now that delusion of his isn't what really got me irritated.
He's had that delusion since he started running for president.
Everyone has to have their own delusions, I figure.
Sure, all that you have that one.
What got me is in that interview that I mentioned that he did with CNN, he called the groups
that started the petition a bunch of scammers.
Now this is the same guy that has previously labeled Mexican immigrants as being drug traffickers,
rapists, murderers, criminals, and some that he assumes are good people.
This is the same guy who said that Jeff Bush has to like immigrants because he has a Mexican
born wife.
Now this guy whose delusion trumps all insists that he will win over Latino voters while
labeling many of those same Latinos as scammers.
Okay, I'm not going to go into the many reasons why it would be a complete freaking disaster
for this country to elect Donald Trump president.
Those reasons should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain cell.
The second the man opens his mouth.
I am however going to use the power of my bully pulpit, or my $20 webcam at least, to
say a few things about Donald Trump and his just insistent nonsense concerning Latinos.
Donald Trump likes to pretend his success was earned through hard work while encouraging
the beliefs of those in our populace who demonize Latinos as being lazy, parasites, welfare
recipients, criminals, so on and so forth.
Here's the thing about that.
Donald Trump hasn't earned a damn thing through hard work.
On his website, Trump calls himself the very definition of the American success story.
That is a direct quote from his website, from his biography.
The very definition of the American success story.
I guess he's right in the sense that inheriting your father's already successful company and
using that to succeed yourself is definitely part of some people's American success story.
There's some different stories I could tell though.
Maybe I'll tell you a story about my father who fought in Vietnam and then fought personal
demons for much of his life with very little help from the government that was more than
allowed to send him off to war in the first place, or maybe I could tell you a story about
my brother who joined the Marines out of high school, served during the first Gulf War,
and then I could compare those stories to the story of someone like Donald Trump who
got five draft referments so that he wouldn't have to serve in Vietnam.
Five.
He found five different ways to avoid having to serve his country.
Okay.
Okay, okay, maybe you're not interested in the military thing.
Maybe you don't care about the military thing.
You should, but if you don't, fine.
So let's talk about something else that I'll tell a different story.
Maybe I could compare Donald Trump to my siblings and my brother-in-law who have worked hard
their entire lives, been decent, good people, good members of the community, raised great
kids, some of whom are now themselves looking into serving their country in the military.
I mean, wow, look at that.
Just thinking of my own family, I've already found at least three different examples of
people who are way better people than Donald Trump.
And that's just one Mexican-American family.
There are literally millions of Latinos in this country who have similar stories, stories
about hard work, sacrifice, being anything but parasites or scammers.
You may be thinking in your head at this point, but you're talking about people who are American
citizens.
Donald Trump's talking about immigrants.
Okay, fine, let's talk about immigrants.
I have yet another story.
Not long ago, my car broke down and I needed a call roadside assistance.
The tow truck driver that came to get me was this really polite, well-spoken gentleman
who recently immigrated here from Mexico.
While we were on the drive to get my car over to the dealer, he told me about how he came
to this country, how he routinely works 10 to 14-hour days or more, rarely gets to see
his wife or his children sometimes, and was willing to make all those sacrifices, not
to mention coming to an entirely new country, learning a new language, adapting to new ways
in a different society, so that he could provide for his family and earn a better life for himself
and for them.
Again, that's just one example out of the stories that millions of immigrants and native-born
Latinos have lived and are living in this country.
And that's the kind of story Donald Trump has never had to live a day in his life, despite
all the smoke and mirrors he uses to hide the fact that not only does the emperor have
no clothes, but the emperor is a big fat giant asshole on top of it.
I find it personally hilarious that Donald Trump of all people wants to call anyone a
scammer.
This is the guy who brought us Trump Airlines, which failed, Trump Vodka, which failed, Trump
Mortgage, which failed, and Trump Casinos, which went bankrupt four times, almost as many
times as Donald Trump dodged a draft in Vietnam.
This is a guy who has pushed everything from bottled water to board games to stakes to travel
websites, to magazines, to football teams, to for-profit universities, all of which failed
every single one.
Not only has Donald Trump never had to really work hard a day in his life, unlike the millions
of Latinos he insults on a regular basis, he's the ultimate scammer.
He is the ultimate scammer.
Donald Trump pushes his business skill as one of the reasons you should vote for him.
Sadly, I now see why people believe it, because Donald Trump really is the ultimate scammer.
He's been doing it for years, leveraging his name and his false reputation as some kind
of business success, and now he's aiming for the biggest scam of all.
He wants to be our first Ponzi president, and he's convinced the gullible, the desperate,
the foolish sort of people who usually fall for scams to buy into his latest and biggest
con.
And it would be the con of a lifetime for a man who has been America's biggest and most
renowned con artist.
America almost admired the sheer ballziness of his scam, if this latest con of his wasn't
genuinely hurting people, like the Latino man in Boston who was beaten with a metal pole
by two other men who used Trump as their validation, saying that he was right about immigrants.
When a scam goes from being fraudulent to outright dangerous, that's when a line's been crossed.
So at this point, I'm done telling stories, and this is my time to ask questions.
And this is my question.
When is the Republican Party finally going to say enough, and dump Trump?
Has the GOP gotten so desperate to win back the presidency that they're willing to let
a dangerous scammer become the king of the scammers and their next candidate for president?
Are they finally going to draw a line and say that Donald Trump is too much even for
them?
That he's not just bad for the Republican brand, and oh dear, dear, is he bad for the
Republican brand, especially among Latinos?
I mean, seriously, GOP, if you think most Latinos are ever going to vote for you again,
if you let Donald Trump be your presidential candidate, you are more deluded than he is.
But not only is he bad for the Republican brand, he's bad for the country.
And the Republicans want to win back something even remotely resembling a reputation for
being sane.
If they want to win back anything even resembling support among the Latino community, the best
way they could start doing that would be to tell Donald Trump to finally take his fricking
circus act somewhere else, and that he just flat out cannot be the Republican candidate
for president, that they don't want him.
They're trying to come up with these sort of under the table sort of ways, going for
groups like the Club for Grove to try to stop him.
You can stop him very easily.
Just say no.
You can't run for our nomination because you are a monumental asshole, even by Republican
standards.
That's all you have to do.
Just say no.
You can't sit with us.
You can't run as our candidate, no, because you suck, and you're a con artist.
That's all the Republicans have to say, or option two for them is they can go ahead and
keep embracing the crazy and eventually be ruled by the crazy.
That's pretty much how the Tea Party got their foot in the door, and look where it's gotten
the GOP now.
They can't even nominate a speaker of the House.
They can't even govern themselves, and they expect to be able to govern the country.
They didn't put their foot down with the Tea Party when they should have, and if they failed
to put their foot down with Donald Trump, then they're basically done.
They'll still be able to win backwards holdouts like the places that unfortunately dominate
the House of Representatives at this point, but seriously, but even if some inexplicable
events occur and the Republican Party isn't done and done in by nominating a man like
Donald Trump as their presidential candidate, does it really matter, as one of the two major
political parties in this country, which unfortunately, until a viable third party comes along, are
the options we're stuck with, as one of the two major parties, the Republicans have a
responsibility to stop being crazy, and to stop pushing crazy on the rest of the country.
It's time for the Republicans to step up to the plate and finally start doing that,
because Donald Trump is nothing more than a con artist, and if the Republicans allow
those thumbs to sink that low to nominate this complete scam artist as their presidential
candidate, I can't think of a greater abandonment of their responsibility as a political party.
I just can't.
So that's the question on the table.
The question at this point isn't why is Donald Trump such a douchebag?
I don't think anyone will ever answer that question.
Science hasn't advanced that far yet, but the question is, are the Republicans going
to keep putting up with his nonsense, and are they really going to pick him?
I've got to wonder, but at this point, as I said at the beginning of the video, this
is the last time I'm going to talk about Donald Trump, because he's a scam artist.
He's not worth my time.
He's not worth your time.
He's not worth the country's time, unless, of course, the GOP really does go off the
deep fricking end and actually nominates this clown.
I won't have a choice, and I guess we won't have a choice, but to talk about him at that
point, but until then, if that horrible, horrifying possibility happens, I've got no more time
to waste on Donald Trump, because you know what, unlike him, and like all the other Latinos
in this country who actually work for a living, I don't have time for scammers.
So no more Trump, done with Trump.
And that's it.
That's all I have to say about that.
If you feel like saying something about it, feel free to leave a comment, email me, post
something on Facebook, I'll respond, and that's it.
And keep an eye out on Tuesdays and Thursdays for more of these wonderful videos.
Thanks for watching, and bye.
