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Tucker Carlson Provides Marjorie Taylor Greene With Helpful Caucus Modification Recommendations

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During his evening program, Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson commended Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene for her creativity in promoting white nationalism.  Recently criticized for spouting  “great replacement” rhetoric  by suggesting that the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate with “voters from the third world,” Carlson nonetheless praised Greene for “telling it like it is” with her bold initiative to establish her nativist America First Caucus.

At the heart of the America First ideology is “respect for Anglo-Saxon political traditions.”  When Democrats and a few scatered Republican colleagues voiced criticism of the proposed organization for it’s blatant racism, Greene decided to shelve the idea for now.  But Carlson said that is a mistake, and suggested that with a simple name change  the central idea would have more appeal.

“A lot of what America First emphasizes is already being done in the GOP’s Freedom Caucus,” Carlson said.  Changing the name of the America First Caucus to the Caucasian Caucus would go a long way to clarify things. First of all, America First’s primary objective appears to actually be discriminatory.  Not racist, but discriminatory.  The organization should make it clear our country accepts ALL white people, not just  Anglo Saxons.  Second, believe it or not there is not one congressional organization that is specifically dedicated to voicing only white demands and grievances.  Representative Greene has identified a need that has been neglected for too long.”

When it was suggested what he was proposing was promoting white supremacy just as egregiously as Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson  immediatly assumed his ever familiar appearance of profound, cross-eyed confusion and restated his firm belief that no such thing exists.  “There is no white supremacy in this country.  Show me where there is white supremacy.  Yes some people like myself believe only white people should be living in our country and all non-white people here are occupying precious space reserved for deserving white people, but that doesn’t mean white people consider themselves superior.  We just don’t particlarly care for people with a different pigmentation.  The constitution was written by white people, for white people.  Not one black, brown yellow or red person signed the Declaration of Independence.  Those are the plain facts.”

When Carlson was asked what his understanding was of the “all men are created equal” clause in the Declaration of Independence, his deflective reply focused on the importance of the indivdual liberties gauranteed by our foundational documents.  ” We have pleny of diversity in the white American population.  That’s what’s great about our country. The Republicans and this new caucus Representative Greene is proposing is a perfect illustration.   Just look at what Marjorie Taylor Greene herself brings to the table.  She knows the importance of Second Amendment rights and leads by example.  When she spotted an annoyingly unarmed gun safety advocate walking down the street, she threatened and harassed him for an entire city block.  And she was only carrying a concealed hand gun.  Image how intimidating she can be with one of her assault rifles clutched in her hands.  That’s an image that’s American to the core.”

  MTG-  Busy Making America Great

Carlson went on to catalogue the congressmen he was certain the Caucasian Caucus will attract.  Representative Matt Gaetz he believes is a shoo in since he was already on board with America First.  Gaetz represents that segment of the American white male population that, according to Carlson,  believes in the  uninhibited freedom and duty of white men to give counsel and guidance to adolecent females and provide for their interstate transportation needs.

Carslon also believes all indications are that Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan will also  be eager to join the organization.  Jordan recently confronted the GOP’s enemy number one, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and in typical bombastic, jordanary fashion,  solidly established himself as the future of Republican public health information with his whithering rebuke of Fauci implanted socialistic practices like wearing protective face masks.  Jordan’s showdown with Fauci more importantly cemented him as spokseman for all liberty loving caucasians who are sick and tired of big government imposing rational public health guidelines that selfishly protect the health and well being of the nation at the expense of freedom loving Americans who are simply seeking to do whatever they want.   Carlson is confident the GOP will continue asserting this primary perogative- that the freedoms of individual white people should always take precedence over the common good.

 

 

 

 

Mass Shootings: A Very Positive Indication that the Nation is Getting Back to Normal

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With two mass shootings in the past week, the American public received possibly the most encouraging sign yet that the covid scourge is in rapid decline.   The nation has been cooped up inside so long people seemed to have given little thought to the colossal carnage a couple of assault weapons can inflict.  “It’s hard to get your head around a half million deaths from a virus,” Dallas resident  Tex Wesson stated. “That’s just not something you see in this country.  But a dozen or so people mowed down in a grocery store, now that’s something you can hang your hat on.”

An even more satisfying sign that things are back to normal is the typical Republican stonewalling of any reasonable gun safety measure proposed by congress and favored by 95 percent of the voting public.  With mass shootings in abatement during the pandemic, nothing in the way of saving American lives from ongoing gun violence has even remotly been addressed legislatively.  Now that Republican Senator Ted Cruz has once again assured the nation that absolutely nothing can be done to stem the slaughter, it can be confidently stated that the U.S. Senate is safely ensconced in its pre-covid cocoon of fruitless stagnation.

Welcome back, America!

 

 

 

Valentine’s Day

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Well here we are.  January’s come and gone and I haven’t accomplished shit.  My New Years resolution was to put Trump in my rear view mirror and head down any scenic highway that leads to normalcy.  And then January 6th happened.  Now it’s Valentines Day.  Wouldn’t you know it it’s 5 below zero and there’s at least three inches of snow in the drive.  Actually it’s seven or eight in some places if you count the drifts by the garbage cans and the ridge of what is now an impenatrable barricade  of ice at the end of my driveway thanks to the asshole driving the city snowplow.

So that’s just my luck and now I can’t get out and buy that Valentines Day gift for my wife.  This year I was going to make it super special.  Like, it’s our 50th or something like that. I know she would never want me to take the chance driving around on these slick streets, and then you throw in covid and, well of course it just doesn’t make sense to take those kinds of risks. It’s a shame.  I know she really looks forward to this day every year, er, I mean we do.  I guess I’ll just have to make the best of it and watch basketball all day.  It all just sucks.

 

IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BEING HELD HOSTAGE?

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Honesty, WTF is going on in the Republican Party.  A couple days after the January 6th insurrection at the National Capitol Building, the Republican Minority Leaders of both  legislative houses issued very forceful statements condemning Trump’s involvement . A few days after that, McConnell and McCarthy  both made  political U-turns that figuratively slammed my brain against the side of my skull.  Concusion therapy required some diligent periodical research.  Specifcally I was curious what would drive the Republican heirarchy to forgive a president that committed sedition and insurrection.  If that isn’t impeachable, what is?

Most of the articles I read universally concluded it was all about power, that basically for the Republicans nothing is out of bounds as long as it helps to regain power, and there certainly is power behind 70 million Trump votes. Naturally money and ethical abandonment play a part in such Machiavelian conduct.  But power is what it is all about.

Then I ran across this. Our Domestic Terrorism Problem

These people are bat shit crazy.  Do you suppose a few of these nut jobs got to the people walking the halls of our hallowed government buildings?  Maybe all the threats and destruction that went on the 6th of January actually served their intimidating purpose.  How much of the Republican vacillation and cowardliness is due to fear of losing power as opposed to outright fear of bodily harm?

Consider Lindsey Graham. After Joe Biden was finally declared the winner of the presidential election on November 7th, Graham, the next day, urged the president to fight on and not concede.  The day of the Electorial College count,  January 6th, after the Capitol Building had finally been cleared of insurectionists, he said “enough is enough.”  He basically denounced the “big lie” and said the election was compeltely legitimate.  A couple of days later he was accosted at the DC airport by a dozen Trump supporters calling him a traitor, and a few days later quickly mended fences with Trump, flying with him on Air Force one to Texas and later in the week castigating fellow Republicans for considering Trump’s second impeachment. During that speech he emphasized those who participated in the storming of the Capitol should be punished to the full extent of the law, but mentioned nothing about Trump’s participation.  I suppose without a spine it’s fairly easy to squeeze through tight spaces.

So, scardy çat or ass kisser? Only Lindsey knows,  What is going on in the GOP?  According to Colorado Dem. Jason Crow, in a conversaion with a few of his fellow Representatives, a couple of them broke down crying  fearing for their lives if they voted for impeachemnt.  Some History of Intimidation in Congress. This article also points out how history is repeating itself with regard to racism.

The crazy shit thought?  I guess there’s nothing more intimidating than a ranting psychopath, and especially one of those with a gun.  Brings to mind Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.  Here is a card carrying QAnon conspiracy theorist who has openly endorsed hate and violence, including the suggestion of a “bullet to the head” of Nancy Pelosi, likes to pose in photos with White Supremacist leaders, and claims California wildfires were ignited by a space lazer controlled by Jewish bankers.  As more and more of her craziness has been revealed, various members of congress are starting to wonder if Minority Leader McCarthy shouldn’t have a word with her and at least consider pulling her from her committee assignments.  This would seem to be a good idea in light of the fact she is slated for the educational committee and in her mind the Parkland and Sandy Hook Shootings were both a staged hoax.  Ya. I know. WTF!

So McCarthy says he will talk to Greene.  But there’s a problem. Trump loves Marjorie Taylor Greene- says she’s a “rising star” in the Republican Party. McCarthy just spent an entire day at Mar-a-lago spit polishing Trump’s ass. Demoting one of Trump’s fellow “birthers” seems fraught with the risk of Trump’s wrath.  Stay tuned.

Well, there you go.  No matter how you try and get around it the commmon denominator to all this chaos in the Republican party is Trump.  Power quest and bullying and intimidation are certainly Trump trademarks.  For reasons difficuilt to fathom, the Trump voting base, ever clinging to his populist, anti establishment mystique that incorporates racism and anti-immigration,  is willing to look beyond his crimes, divisive rhetoric, incompentence, corruption and moral degeneracy.  As far as craziness goes, the average Trump supporter would consider Trump’s narcisistic personality disorder to be a diagonisis leved only by those bent on defaming him.  But there is no escaping his promotion of consipracy theories, a number or which are related to QAnon.  What he did on January 6th was in no way normal and absolutey impeachable.

Trump is the Republican party, still.  He is the power, the intimidation, the crazy.  Continuing to defer to Trump as the de facto leader of the Republican Party  is to risk labeling the party as the Lunatic Party.  Hauntingly, it is the party that elevated to president someone who once bragged he could shoot someone on New York’s 5th Avenue and get away with it, and proven right.  Five people that died in the Capitol Building on 1/6/2021 would be alive today if Donald Trump had not been president.

Homeland Security just issued a Terror Advisory Bulletin that bullet points several threats to national security posed by Domestic Violence Extremists.  Political commentator Nicole Wallace  relevantly called the warning statement the “manifesto” of the Trump militant base. Terrorism Bulletin

The years of condoning all of Trump’s deceit have put the Republican Party in a difficult fix.  Whether it’s sheer embarassment, want of power, or lack of courage, too many  congressional members of that party find themselves unable to do what is right and tell the truth- that widespread fraud in the 2020 presidential election was a big lie and President Trump committed acts of insurrection and sedition. That is the only way this country will even begin to heal.  The unity Republican elected officials are demanding Democrats initiate will only be possible after Republicans concede to, and explain to their constituents, the truth.  It’s that basic.

I sympathise if it is true that the threat of physical violence is the reason an elected official chooses to flush courage down the toilet.  But doing the right thing is the critical part of the job. It is so confoudingly perplexing why so many Republicans insist on maintaing fealty to Trump. As more absurd conspiracy theorists carve out  larger niches in the party, more mainstream conservatives will leave.  Over 9,000 Arizona Republicans changed party affiliation after the January 6th riot.  The party deserves someone better.  And it needs someone better. There are plenty of Republican leaders who favor comprehensive immigration reform without Trump’s attatched racism for one thing. If Republicans keep going down their current path of attempting to restrict voting rather than expanding their voting base, it is an absolute forgone conclusion and demographic fact Democrats will strenghtn their grip on power. There can not possibly be a more logical time to cut Trump loose, and If the Republicans can’t figure out a way to do it,  their party might have to confront a 21st century Bull Moose conundrum that will likewise ensure a long string of Democrats in the White House.

Historian Jon Meacham commented a few days ago about abstractive dilemmas past presidents periodically have had to deal with.  He said FDR had to negotiate between capitalists and labor.  Truman and Eisenhower had to confront the extremes of McCarthyism and Communism.  And Biden, of all things, is in the ridiculous position of having to forge his administration through the 21st century’s clouded view of what is fantasy or reality.  That should be a jarring realization of what is happening to our country.

 

 

 

These are Not the Words and Deeds of a Normal Human Being

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These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

This is me, gaslighting. I’ve heard it’s a great way to get your messaging across. I thought I’d give it a try.

Geezus crapp where to start.  I am smothered with blogging material.  I have typed up pages of shit the past two days and it’s more disorganized than the Trump response to the pandemic crisis.  So what I intend to do is try and address one topic at a time.  Here goes.

First off, just a quick shout out for Rick Wilson’s book “Everything Trump Touches Dies.” It would seem to be a perfect companion read to what follows.  Hold off your purchase though.  I would guess there will be a second edition coming up. Certainly the Republican party should be added to the list of things Trump has sent to the grave. Here is my blog about that.

And in a freakishly twisted fashion, Donald Trump has actually initiated the demise of his own political career, and subjected himself to criminal charges of insurection in the process.  If you are president of the United States, these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

Before I go through a compressed time line of Trump’s crazy behavior on the 6th of January, I should point out the ingrediants for self implosion have been obvious for a long time- Trump’s narcissistic tendencies and a consuming compulsion to lie are primary.  Secondary are all the enablers and contributors of misinformation- Republican sycophants and social media trolls.  I could detail that in muliple pages but in the interst of time I will save that for later. Maybe. If I can summon any enthusiasm.

OK, so Trump has his crowd in front of him and things are looking good.  Acolytes address the throng one after another.  Rudy Giuliani: “trial by combat.”  Congressman Mo Brooks: “time for kicking ass.”  Donald Jr.: “we’re coming for you.”  After a suitable period of priming has passed, the president himself addresses his minions with catchy phrases like …the election is an “egregious assault on our democracy” and “you will never take back our country with weakness.”  Trump’s got ’em where he wants ’em now, and sends them on their way to the U.S. Capital. At this point you could easily say these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being, but regardless, Trump is quite pleased with the way things are going.

Although Trump told his MAGA army he would be tagging along with them, he changed his mind and decided to return to the White House and watch events as they developed on television. I can just imagine him sitting on a couch with Stephen Miller munching  popcorn.  Now, how things proceeded next is detail related by Senator Ben Sasse.  I want to emphsize I am not making this up.

According to Sasse, Trump was “delighted” when he saw  the initial breach of the Capitol building.  Apparently, things were going precisely as planned.  In fact it has been reported he was surprised when others (admittedly “others” have not been identified) didn’t seem to share his enthusiasm.  These are definitely not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

But it got even worse.  In the middle of all the mayhem, with the members of congress hiding in terror inside building bunkers, Trump and Giuliani made phone calls to senators, not to offer help or inquire about their situation, but to ask if they might do the president a favor and overturn the election. These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

Wait, there’s more. When Trump finally showed some alarm, it was not because of all the destruction and chaos going on. The optics that bothered him were of the insurrectionists themselves.  He didn’t appreciate their “look.”  There has been no reporting that I know of that has clarified what appearance is expected of a true Trump vandal. My guess is modified buffalo skull headgear is a bit put-offish for him.  You probably shouldn’t count on any production of MAGA hats sized and constructed to accommodate that type of accessory. Anyway, these are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

So to sum up, what unfolded at the U.S. Capital building on January 6th was planned and instigated by the President of the United States, and all pretty much went according to his plan.   The execution of violence, carnage and death upon and inside the building that most of us hold as our nation’s most sacred, and emblomatic of what our country stands for, is the perfect revenge for a sick autocratic president bent on airing his grievance of failing to be re-elected.  These are not the words and deeds of a normal human being.

That book I mentioned at the beginning- “Everyting Trump Touches Dies.”  If the title seems a bit hyperbolic, consider the fate of Mike Pence. To him I imagine there  is something chillingly literal about it when you hear an angry mob’s chant  that includes your name and the word “hang” in it.

It is so ironic that Trump’s final MAGA rally as president, his favorite vehicle for pumping out his lies and airing his grievances, the place where he could do that so successfully and with such resouding approval and applause, turned into a political  Frankenstein that threatens to shatter the reality he created with all his lies.  How he became so absorbed in the moment and found it so despirately necessary to keep feeding his ego because in his mind all the chaos was  justifiable, and was such a riveting form of entertainment for him, is something  psychologists will be studying for years to come.

There is a lot to unpack here.  As incomprehensible as it sounds , we have got to figure out how to persuade people to grasp and appreciate what is true.  And after all of this I think we will have to institute some sort of mental competency assessment of our presidential candidates. I mean this guy was just too much. He has left an odorous trail of things we need to fix. I keep saying that, Trump commits something else nefarious, and I repeat.   As we know, the repetition is desensitizing.  But between the phone call to Secretary of State Raffensberger and this “in your face” sedition, Trump has flat out proven beyond a shadow of doubt he is unfit to hold any elected office of any kind. This is not something we can just let pass, as we have been accomstomed to doing.  These are not the words and deeds of normal human being.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s Trump’s Party. Give It to Him

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Holy crapp!  You believe this? Thanks to Trump, the Republican Party is devouring its own.  The radical elements have to remind you of the French Revolution.  Go to www.thedonaldwin.com and you can’t help but  imagine neo Jacobins in MAGA hats threatening as many Republicans as Democrats. There is an abundance of hyper- militants recommending marshall law. There are even  a few modern-day Robespierres lurking about demanding beheadings.  Now Trump has completly shit on congressional Republicans by vetoing the military spending bill and refusing to sign the virus stimulus bill- all part of his unhinged program of retribution and ambushing congressional Republicans.  In the line of fire is the American public.  Lamentably the man who convinced so many he is the fixer of all things would rather attend to his paranoic narcissism than deal with the suffering of millions and an economic crisis.  And if there is one thing we have learned about Trump, it’s that he will use his reality show instincts to milk the distressing circumstances for all they are worth.

Republicans of course can’t blame anyone but themselves for the grip Trump has on their gonads, and all indications are he is not about to let go any time soon.  Naturally, sane conservatives in the Republican Party have to be wondering what to do to stop Trump’s personal Reign of Terror.  Thomas Friedman has the answer here.

Yes.  Start a new party.  You won’t believe this but Tom and I must have been communicting telepathically. I’ve been thinking on this for a couple weeks.  Maybe it’s unrealistic but It certainly makes sense.  Mr. Friedman’s salient point is as Trump’s power decreases, only crackpots like Michael Flynn will remain as close advisors and Trumpworld will become even more extreme and so detatched from reality the principled  party members will finally say “enough” and create their own party. However, Mr. Friedman’s explanation omits critical details.

My suggestion for a new party  may be more radical, but to me more likely to accomplish the necessary result.  Republicans should not splinter off and call themselves something else. Republican leadership of all stripes should just tell Trump he can have his party.  The GOP, as it exists today, is the Trump Party.  Political pundits everywhere insist that this is fact. So call it that.  Heretofore it should be called exactly that- the Trump Party.  Are you still with me?  Can you imagine the gigantic boner he would get at the suggestion of naming an entire political party after him? Logically you would think this could be just the antidote his delicate pschye needs to supress  the feelings of inadequacy of being labled a loser.

Think about it. Nothing makes Trump happier than to see his name plastered on anything, and his political brown-nosers and MAGA army would be able to stand united and triumphant under the official banner of that whom they worship.  The whole lot of them would be enthralled to wallow in orgasmic joy at the simple thought of such kinship.  You get the idea. Republicans simply explain the obvious- that the Republican party has been gas-lighted and transformed into something so unrecognizable to the original,  Trump might as well officially rename it as his own.  And Republicans inclined to separate themselves  from Trump  then reclaim their party and remain, well, Republicans, and get back to the business of being true, normal, conservative Republicans.  Can you imagine?

Republicanism would at last be able to revert to being the party of lower taxes and less goverment, a pro-life agenda, remorseless military spending, unconstrained access to guns, labor union restrictions, free trade, privatized Social Security, all the regular Republican stuff.  But above all, the party would retain our form of democracy, which is where Republicanism and Trumpism indubitably  diverge.

If you have sort of given up, and like the idea of having someone make decisions for you, then the authoritarian rule of the Trump Party is the place for you.  And we’ve all seen the back side of the tees with the chronological reigning order of various members of the Trump family.   If it’s your dream to establish a  monarchy, with the king father succeeded by princes Junior, Eric, and Baron, and princess Ivanka, you are in luck.  Just head on over to Trump Party headquarters. How this concept is supposed to work in this country is profoundly mysterious, and I can’t say it is something any of the founding fathers had in mind though.  Why someone would want to use the democratic institution  of voting only to elect someone who is bent on usurping the whole process is kind of what has the rest of us scatching our heads.

Notwithstanding this rather counterintuitive preference for authoritarianism, unfortunately there is one other defining difference between  Republicanism and Trumpism that truly is an American abstraction.  Make no mistake the Trump party will include  a social plank that is nailed, deck screwed, and securred with heavy duty construction adhesive into its platform.  It is racism. There is a reason white supremacists are attracted to Trump.  He has displayed blatant racism time and again. Certainly neo-Natzi’s needn’t waste their time at the Trump Party enrollment desk. They’ll be grandfathered in.

And this is the grand paradox of the Trump Party.  Sign on to this and you sign on to racism.  If you belong to the Trump party, going forward you will be understood to clearly be racist.  The concept is not necessarily anything inovative.  Racism pretty much defined George Wallace’s American Independent party in 1967. The propitious anomaly  here is many of the Trump supporters who were single issue voters, or those who simply found Trump’s anti-establishment, disruptive persona appealing, but not particulariy interested in Trump’s racism, will migrate back to the updated, conservative, Republican party.  Can you see where this is going?  Eventually the Trump party will go the way of Wallace’s American Independent Party- wither away and die.

It would be a testament to the American belief in universal equality if racism would self implode as the Trump party disintegrates, but we have a national history of never wanting to let it go.  I honestly think the  legacy of the Trump administration will be that it exposed so many weaknesses in our constitution and institutuions, and as disruptive as that has been, the one benefit to it all is that we now have the opportunity, and should recognize the responsibility, to fix the mess.  Maybe the most alarming revelation of the Trump administration is the surprising depth and intensity of racism that still exists in America. In light of this realization, hopefully there will be a commitment, individually and collectively, to address social injustice and to the educational rescources required to gradually eliminate the national embarassment of racism.

“Ignorance is not so much the shame as not being willing to learn.”  Ben Franklin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Puppies or Gift, Graft, and Grift

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You’ve all seen it.  That ASPCA commercial, you know, the one that shows video of sad, shivering dogs and some cats staring into the camera with at least one eye that appears to be in serious need of antibiotic intervention.  It is a heartbreaking presentation of animal cruelty and neglect and I would have to guess hits its desired marketing effect, except for one thing.  It sort of overshoots the mark.  It’s nearly impossible to watch the entire thing. It is so gut-wrenching the second it comes on the air my wife immediatly grabs the remote and switches channels. Over the top or not, the need is definite.  Give if you can.

The need is everywhere.  I must get at least four or five charity donation requests daily in the mail now, not to mention the dozens that appear every time I open up my e-mail.  Most of those are political, so now that the election is over part of my daily routine involves  tedious unsubscribing  housekeeping.

I certainly don’t feel left out, but apparently many people other than I recently received a Save America PAC donation request. – Gift, Graft, or Grift.  This is really hard for me to get my head around.  The president of the United States is so determined to retain power he is willing to take a blow torch to democracy and then make use of the chared aftermath to unscouplously cash in on a fire sale.   Even by Trumpian standards this is pretty ballsy.   I’m not totally surprised that there are still millions of people buying into Trump’s lies and conspriacy theories.  That’s what he does and you have to hand it to him, there has not been a world leader so proficent at gas lighting since Hitler and Dolchstoblegende.  The guy sees no shame in wringing every last dollar  out of his bewitched supporters before he exits the door. But wow what a waste of money.  Think of the actual good 170 million could do.

Which brings a thought to mind.  I am unshakable in my core belief in the goodness of humanity, that we can all put our differences aside if we just focus on what is normally decent in society. Love, understanding, compassion.  That’s what we need.  I believe that deep down, if we are presented with a binary choice, we are  wired to select whichever one subconsciously fulfills our essential need to embrace comforting rectitude.  So here’s my challenge. To my way of thinking it poses a fascinating exercise in human psychology.  From the photos pictured below, which one represents the charity you would be more willing to donate to?  Where would you prefer to send your hard earned cash?

                         

Wait. WHAT?  You actually chose the crazy man over the forlorn puppy? Are you shitting me? What the fuck is wrong with you, you stupid son of a bitch?  Sure maybe the dog isn’t house-trained, but does anyone truly know if Trump is?  Come on!  You can’t be fucking serious.  I give up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TRUMP WINS!

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Mr. President.  You won!  What you have secured, quite possibly for a time well into the next decade, is the imperishable devotion of an entire politcal party. I realize at present it is difficult for you to dwell on anything but the sting of losing the election, but for Pete’s sake you received 72 million votes! That’s pushing 10 million more than you got last time. That’s nothing to shake your Sharpie at.  47% of the voting public loves you! You are the Republican party, it’s driving force.   No one can take that away from you, apparently because there is no one in the Republican party hierarchy that has not had their testicles revoked.

You have got to quit moping about and look at the bigger picture here.  You still can be THE MAN!  Think about it.  Despite having no political experience and known cheifly as the star of a mindless reality TV show, you captured the attention, and still retain the admiration, of millions of Americans.  Amazingly, much of the nation at large saw  something in you, a crude rawness that holds the kind of attraction likened to the power of Neodymium magnetism.  Even though you lost the election, surely you must realize how fortunate you are to be able to continue to live in your very own enchanting reality.  It will be forever historically quesioned how someone like you, with a propensity for screwing, litterally and figuratively, practically anyone who veered into your business and social orbit, was  an unabashed racist, a man with monumental business failures that were providentially bailed out by a rich father or abstracted financial institution, was a proud draft dodger and tax cheat with no conscious regard for the truth, was born into silver spoon and golden toilet privilege completely detached from the common man, who in fact quite often publicly loathed anyone he considered socially and economically  beneath him,  was regardlessly deemed by so many  to be just what the country needed and clamored for.  You sir, are a staggering testament to what can be achieved with little more than an aptitude for unscupulous fortitude.

But damn it man, we really need some  leadership right now.  This virus is out of control and no doubt is about to get even worse.  It is nearly certain that within two weeks after Thanksgiving many of our nation’s hospitals will exceed capacity.  And ya, great, the stock market hit 30,000, but have you seen the 21st centurry bread lines going on.  I know you watch TV.  Those are people waiting anxiously for basic sustenance, not hanging around in hopes of receiving a hot equities tip. It is obvious you are emotionally checked out.  If you don’t want the job, why are you so doggedly struggling to get it back. It’s understandable that you would be exhausted. But as president, you need to suck it up.  You can’t play golf and watch TV all day.  Not now. The country is in crisis.  Do something, anything, like, get in front of the cameras and tell everyone to mask up. It is you and you alone those gripped with intransigence will listen to. You’re the supreme dealmaker.  Stoke a fire under Senator McConnell and get a relief package passed so the recently impoverished can eat and pay rent.  You fought a valiant fight.  You might have lost the election, but you, Donald Trump, are a loser only if you don’t finish what you have been elected to do- serve the people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Armed Militants Storm Michigan Capital Building to Protest Hand Washing Guidelines

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Lansing MI:  Citing yet another example of governmental restriction of constitutional liberty, over two dozen robustly armed patriots charged into the Michigan State Capital Building this morning to demonstrate against all forms of regulatory hand washing.  “We are sick and tired of our governor telling us what to do,” said local resident and free lance sperm donor Fred Wickster, as he nervously fidgeted with the safety switch on his gleaming 60 round Saint AR-15.  I’m not about to wash my hands just because some bureaucratic bitch says I ought to,”  Wickster loudly and confidently informed his surrounding confederates, and any of the other unfortunates who were in the building as the result of lamentably bad timing . “It’s time we stopped washing our hands and get back to normal.”

 

These  Michigan men seem well equipped to remind the public of their constitutional right to not wash their hands 

Herb Ridgewetter, a septic tank cleaner who lives on the Eastern Upper Peninsula, said he is taking the protest to another level by refusing to bath altogether.  “This is BULLSHIT!  BULLSHIT,” he  proclaimed, not realizing he also managed to take the discussion to another decible level.  Holding a semi automatic short barrel in each hand and brandishing crossed leather bandoliers that stored 100 rounds of ammunition acrosss his upper torso, Ridgewetter understandably commanded attention.  Whether it was this lethal appearance or his  overwhelmingly odious presence, even the stallwarts in attendance were ironically obliged to extend him the courtesy of six feet of separation recommended by the CDC. “These hands are instuments of the Lord,” Ridgewetter went on to forcefully profess.  “And only the Lord , not some phoney shit-assed politician or prissy scientific know it all, can tell me what to do with my fucKING HANDS!!”

Conspicuous for his comparatively understated display of explosive armament was Arnold Flackman, an unemployed man from rural Battle Creek.  He was holding only a Remington Wingmaster 16 gauge that he uses for bird hunting, although he also had a 20 inch machete strapped to his belt, “Just in case,” as he put it.  Flackman said he was at the event on behalf of all the restuarant workers of America.  As a recently terminated Chipotle employee, he recalled being constantly berated for failing to wash his hands.  “It was mortifying,” he said   “My hands were always dry, even bloody, from all the washing.  You don’t know what resaurant workers go through, all the constant badgering.  I mean what’s next in this country.  Are we going to have dentists showing up on our doorsteps to check if we’re brushing properly.  Who’s going to stop all this harassment?  My free hands are not going to be constrained by the shackles of some random civil decree,” he said, as he used his free hand to wipe away nasal mucous dribbling downward from the nose hole in his modified ski mask.

While he twirled the barrel of one of his Vector CR-21’s in rythmic circles,  Mr.  Ridgewetter seemingly made clear the mission statement of the entire group.  “This isn’t about hand washing or mask wearing or any of that bullshit.  It’s about freedom.  You mess with our freedom, we mess with you!”

 

The Futility of Understanding Trumpworld, Where Down is Up and Bad is Good

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NOTE: I started writing this a couple days ago.  With the news this morning that President Trump  and his wife have been infected with covid I sincerely hope they are asymptomatic, or have mild cases.  It is no secret I do not think he is, or has ever been, a competent leader of the nation, but I would never wish him or anyone the misfortune of infectious misery.  It is everyone’s wish and in our best interest that the President and Melania have a quick recovery.  

When President Trump revealed that he knew back in January that the corona virus was a terrifyingly contageous pathogen and then eight months and 200,000 deaths later tell a worshiping crowd of supporters that no one should worry because it hardly affects anyone, you would think that would be an indication to most people that maybe this man should not be in charge of anything, let alone the well being of over 300 million citizens.  But talk to a typical attendee of a Trump rally and you get the impression the important thing to remember is whatever the president says last.  Asked why they feel so unconcerned about placing themselves into confined space and not wearing face coverings, most will reply they don’t believe the virus is especially harmful, and you will even get a few who say the whole pandemic is a hoax.  There will curiously be a few elderly citizens who seem to be a bit on the contagiousness fence, but perfectly fine with resigning themselves to whatever fate has in store for them.  If it’s their time to go, so be it.  All is well and good.

I suppose this is fine, and good, for the person expressing his willgness to travel to the great beyond, since whoever it is seems to be expressing some kind of confident courage, or even patriotism, willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in the name of Trumpism and positive economic outcomes. But this is bad, bad for the misguided supporter (no one wants to see you go) and mostly for the rest of us. Besides self protection, the more important reason for social distancing and  wearing a mask is to protect others and prevent this god awful stuff from spreading. Not abiding by basic pandemic protcols is bad and selfish, not good.  For Trump, of course downplaying the disease meshes nicely with his self-centered, narcissism.  It’s all good there.  Instill a false sense of security. People feel it’s perfectly safe to gather and spend money and the economy improves and Trump looks good.  Untill it turns bad again when people infect other people, the economy stagnates, and the whole cycle gets even worse as we head into the flu season.

You can catalog multiple instances of how Trump has been able to twist something bad (i.e. voting twice) into something his entreched followers to believe is good (it’s good for Trump therefore it’s good for you).  Out of the massive dumpster overflowing with very, very bad things Trump has said and done, nothing is more egregious, nothing should infuriate us more, than the damage he is inflicting on our election process.  It is very bad for a sitting president to declare he will not abide by one of the lynch pins of our form of democracy- the peaceful transision of power.  That is so bad it should be considered a disqualifying event. Nothing good can be converted from this border-line treasonous avouchment.

Because Trump is such a master of gas lighting, his susceptible supporters will once again believe this is just another aspect of Trump’s disruptive master plan to fix America, and shrug it off. All they will be hearing from now until election day is how rigged the system is with all of the mail balloting going on.  Nothing good will come of this contemptuous, irresponsibley false, despotic ranting.  Trump realizes the odds of his reelection are not in his favor and he is not above doing anything to stay in power, including imploding our democracy.

It is dumbfounding to me to see conservative media get so worked up about some sort of impending, socialistic conspiracy on the horizon if Joe Biden is elected.  Accordingly it is surmised socialism will be so consuming that within four years the country will be under communist rule. For Pete sakes!   Right before our eyes the current administration has undermind our laws and institutions, neutered the checks and balances of the legilative branch by intimidation,  used paramilitary squads to supress peaceful protest, removed adminstrative oversight from multiple goverment departments, verbally attacked the courts, turned the Department of Justice into his own political puppet, and avariciously profited from his position of executive power.  Cronyism and corruption within the current administration has been rampant and our democracy is migrating from a kleptocracy to autocracy.  The man in charge of our special form of democratic government is so consumed by his fear of  losing an election he is panic stricken to point of dismantling it all to save his job.  President Trump has publicly stated the only way he will lose the election is if the Democrats cheat, and not so subtely encouraged radical supporters to “stand by” if he loses. What he is suggesting is a dictatorial coup. This is all currently occurring.  Yet none of that seems to bother his base, or his Republican sycophants.  Their worry is about some manufactured and very bazzar, futuristic conspiracy theory that the Democratic party is contriving to establish communistic rule.  That is absurd.  The finer point is Trump’s fascist demagogery is bad and dangerously seditious. That is not good.

As we have recently found out via his income tax information, Trump has maneuvred through his life using smoke and mirrors.  All of his business conduct, the shady practices, tax  manipulation and evasion, accumulation of mountainous debt, falsifing asset values, it’s all incrimmnating evidence of a fraudulent and disasterous businessman.  But paradoxically, Trump supporters  believe that is all part of his genius and that somehow deception and manipulation are good for the country.   You might be able to say he’s a genius in one respect.  He will probably become recognized as one of the most cunning public figures recorded in history. Unconscionable conduct might be good for Trump.  But it is bad for the rest of us.

If President Trump is so concerned with voting fraud, it is his responsibilty to do everything he can to fix it. The reality is he seems to think it is to his advantage to do nothing and even create obsticles to voting.  And anyway as far as fraud goes there is actually little to fix. Recently  the FBI, Homeland Security, the Brennan Center for Justice, all examined data and concluded fraudulent mail voting to be practically nonexistent.  George W Bush’s Justice Department conducted a five year investigation of all aspects of voter fraud and only found 120 cases worth prosecuting.  It was a different voting issue, but the president’s own commision, headed by sycophant Kris Kobach, which was investigating voter registration fraud, had to disband because of lack of evidence. The most prominent person promoting voter fraud is the President of the United States himself by telling people to vote twice.

And you can not evaluate Trumpism without discussing racism.  The subject is so involved it would be sensless to address it here.   All I should need to say about that is it is bad.  I will say I do believe much of the Trump allure has more to do with castism than racism.  But both intertwine, and Trump has subtely used both to divide the coutnry and that is definately not good.

Trump’s view of the world is transactional.   He is only interested in what promotes or protects him.  Covid is just a numbers game to him- polls, TV ratings, and the stock market. Of course he should be concerned with the economy, but not to the extent of blinding disregard for human life.  One of the reasons he did so little to contain the pandemic was he was aware that initially the virus was overwhelmingly affecting “blue” states.  Of course there are “red” voters in “blue” states.  But not in meaningful enough numbers to him.  That now is his approach to the presidential election.  Trump has sewed divsion in this county so thoroughly he can no longer escape the consequences.  He is counting on his unshakable devotees to keep believing his lies and obviously hoping gas lighting the fabrications will either recruit more followers or, in the absence of that, create presidential election chaos.  His irresponsible, divisive approach with covid has had an incalculable impact on ending over 200,000 American lives.  It’s that same approach that could end the American form of democracy.  All of it should be universally understood as bad.