In case you missed it, it was a circus…at the Republican presidential debate in Detroit. Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump nearly turned the GOP debate into a “literal dick-measuring contest.”…. It was a vulgar and absurd debate that literally hit below the belt as Trump bragged about the size of his manhood. In fact, one site even declared, Trump’s penis the winner of the GOP debate. Sigh. For context, Trump was responding to rival Marco Rubio’s insinuation that he has small hands, and as a result, a small penis.Trump was eager to speak up and defend the size of his hands and his member. He said, “he referred to my hands, ‘if they’re small, something else must be small.’ I guarantee you there’s no problem. I guarantee.”
So this is what American politics has devolved into? Four grown men vying to be the leader of the most powerful country in the world…and bragging bout the size of their dicks? Have we really reached the point where those with the maturity of junior high schoolers are having a dick-measuring contest on national television (one refereed by Fox News Channel)? Has their ever been a less distinguished gathering of moral and ethical lightweights than the four remaining GOP nonentities gathered on stage in Detroit?
Trump, clearly still stung by being referred to several years ago as a “small-fingered vulgarian,” did everything within his power to prove the accuracy of that description. For him, it wasn’t about actually debating his opponents on the issues facing this country. It wasn’t about doing what he could to sell Americans on his belief that he’s the most qualified person to lead this country into the future.
No, it wasn’t about anything substantial, anything that actually MATTERS. It was about cheap personal insults, juvenile accusations, and the wholly inappropriate extended discourse on the alleged, self-ascribed, above-average nature of his physical endowment.
Then again, choosing a Republican based on the size of his dick (Good thing Carly Fiorina dropped out of the race, eh?) makes as much sense as, and perhaps more than, any other reason. It’s not as if Republican primary voters have demonstrated themselves to possess much in the way of intellectual agility or discernment. Let’s face it; if you’re supporting Donald Trump…well, let’s just say I don’t want you engineering bridges I have to traverse, knowhutimean?
Any thinking Republican- and yes, I’m fully aware these rarely-seen-in-the-wild animals do exist- would have to have been aghast at the juvenile, imbecilic nature of the debate. While the casual observer could have been forgiven for thinking they’d stumbled across a skit from Saturday Night Live, this was, in fact, an honest-to-God scheduled debate moderated by talking heads from Fox News Channel. It was supposed to be a serious, sober discussion of the issues.
Instead, we get dick jokes. One of these four men, mostly likely Donald Trump, will at some point become the GOP nominee for President. Be afraid, Republicans; be very afraid…and say hello to our new idiocracy, eh?
