Well, it’s been an interesting week. We had that moment where the Turnbull government and the ABS achieved consensus on the cause for the problems with the census. Yes, they certainly put the “con” back into consensus. Serial idiot Neil of Sydney complained that this just showed how terrible the lefty public service were, which is strange because Turnbull and the ABS were blaming IBM for the whole fiasco.
Whatever, I’m wondering if Turnbull’s tactic of getting angry and blaming someone else will the way that the Liberals approach everything from hereonin… Oh silly me, that’s all they have. From Abbott blaming the Labor Party for everything from industrial accidents to deaths at sea to the GFC, and Hockey blaming them for his inability to make any progress in returning the Budget to surplus to Peter Dutton suggesting that the asylum seekers on Nauru were just reporting sexual abuse to make him look bad… I wonder if he used to try that line when he was a cop… Anyway, it’s modus operandi of the Liberal Party. (That’s latin, for the benefit of anyone like Neil of Sydney who has trouble dealing with anything that happens outside of Australia!)
And speaking of outside Australia, did you happen to catch Trump’s performance this week. Trump suggested that President Obama was the founder of ISIS. At a later interview where it was actually suggested that he meant that Obama created the circumstances which allowed them to develop, Trump insisted:
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS. I do. He was the most valuable player. I give him the most valuable player award. I give her, too, by the way, Hillary Clinton.”
Now that would seem fairly clear to the average person. When I said that he was the founder, I meant that he was the founder.
Of course, we are talking Donald here. Or The Donald, as some refer to him. Personally, I would have thought that “The Donald” was Donald Duck, but I guess Trump is more deserving of a definite article than a cartoon character.
Anyway, apparently, when The Trump said that he wasn’t meaning people to take him literally. Like, he didn’t mean people to think that Obama was a person of Islamic faith who was trying to destroy America. No, no, no sirree. As The Candidate explained, he was being “sarcastic”, and it was all the fault of the media…
Mm, maybe he picked this up from Turnbull. When there’s a stuff-up and people might blame you, get very angry at somebody else and say that heads will roll… Although, that’d probably be a mistake when talking about ISIS because people might consider it tasteless.
To quote The Rump’s tweet directly:
“Ratings challenged @CNN reports so seriously that I call President Obama (and Clinton) “the founder” of ISIS, & MVP. THEY DON’T GET SARCASM?”
Which is a strange accusation, because – apart from the fact that ending the tweet with a question mark tells us that Trump doesn’t seem to get punctuation – sarcasm means saying the opposite of what you mean. Sort of like when I say, “Andrew Bolt is a genius”. Clearly, that’s wrong and I’m using sarcasm to suggest that only someone who believes that the Liberal Party has no factions could seriously think that.
So it seems that The D.T. is the one who doesn’t understand sarcasm. I suspect that the word he was searching for was “hyperbole” where one exaggerates for effect, but I can’t be sure. I mean, The Trumpster goes back on what he’s saying faster than Turnbull changes taxation policy.
Whatever, we can be sure that words fail Trump. I’m waiting for him to suggest that it was Obama’s decision to invade Iraq that led to the planes flying into the twin towers.
But then, we still couldn’t be sure that it wasn’t sarcasm.
