The Misanthrope in Chief

In the Trump Administration's ongoing efforts to ensure it is one day regarded as the least-intelligent and most-vile political entity in the history of mankind, it has dismissed a suit filed by Cody Wilson.

Granted, this doesn't appear unduly hostile. Or particularly dim. Until you learn that Cody Wilson is a gun rights advocate, and in his suit he alleged that the Obama Administration's refusal to grant him the right to post blueprints for printable guns—guns that can be created on 3D printers—on the Internet amounted to a refusal of his right to free expression.

So the Trump Administration awarded Cody his freedom of expression. Even taking into account Trump's puerile obsession with undoing any and every action of the Obama White House, this amounts to incalculable stupidity.

Predictably, the incalculable stupidity doesn't end there. 

Another gun rights activist, David Kopel, weighed in as to why we needn't be concerned that every garden-variety thug in the nation is doing cartwheels at the news they will soon have government-sanctioned access to an unlimited number of untraceable weapons.

In Kopel's words, this won't happen not because crooks are clumsy gymnasts, but because they have a thriving black market from which to acquire their weapons. On planet Kopel, felons, terrorists and drug cartels have little interest in obtaining untraceable, easy-to-conceal (and presumably cheaper) plastic guns.

Yep. He said that.

(Now might be a good time to mention that opioid abuse cuts across all economic, racial and class divides.)

In the war that Donald Trump is waging against his predecessor, it's okay that the nation's citizenry be reduced to collateral damage in the hopes that the Trump-whore is able to sate his insatiable ego.

Going way out on a limb, what do you suppose would happen if someone posted blueprints of Mar-a-Lago and exposed its vulnerabilities? Or if the weaknesses of the Secret Service detail guarding the Trump-whore were chronicled and shared with the World Wide Web?

Think that person would enjoy the same consideration as the brain-damaged, can't-get-laid hater named Cody Wilson? 

Or would that person be perceived as a threat (freedom of expression nonwithstanding)?

The mind reels.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Fuck Trump. And fuck the people who voted for him.