We’re banning books while we muzzle and starve our teachers.
We’re sending the cream of our public school student population to charter schools, leaving the most difficult kids behind.
We’re creating the perfect set of conditions for a democracy to implode.
Let’s suppose that Trump has 50 million supporters, and let’s admit that, for most of them, there is no crime that their leader could possibly commit that would affect that loyalty. Or, put more specifically, there is nothing he could do that could cause them to vote for a Democrat.
Yet based on the look on his face, it appears that the fellow at left may be a counter-example.
He’s clearly pissed, perhaps because he knows that he’s very likely to spend a considerable chunk of the rest of his life in a filthy state penitentiary. Then, when released (disbarred and disgraced), he’ll have to find some way forward.
Of course, it’s possible that he’s angry at himself for having been stupid enough to have fallen for the con.
In any case, it’s just another example of what happens to people who have anything to do with this sociopathic criminal.
When I was a marketing consultant to the Fortune 100 tech companies, there was a thing known as “business bullshit bingo,” where meeting participants would keep track of the use of various corporate clichés and shout “bingo!!” as soon as they heard any five out of the hundreds of possibilities like:
We have to get our ducks in a row
It’s basic blocking and tackling
We’re pushing the envelope
Let’s grab the low-hanging fruit
It’s not rocket science
It’s a win-win situation
Think outside the box
I’m not sure anyone ever risked his career by actually doing this, but the concept was somewhat funny.
At left is an analogy from today’s Republican party. Kudos to its creator.
Regarding the meme here, a message to its author: Present day Trumpers, i.e., those who think their leader has done nothing wrong, will never regard their loyalty to the former president as any form of “stink.” They will go to their graves believing that Trump is an honest servant of the American people who was corruptly persecuted by the radical left.
From Jayson Allen:
This from MSNBC correspondent (and Harvard graduate) Joy Reid. Good one!
DeSantis, whose singular appeal is limited to the very most hateful and ignorant Americans, is trailing Trump by about 50 points, so we won’t get to see him in the general election.
And yes, there are people who would vote for a grizzly bear for president rather than a Democrat, so he might get, say, 30% of the popular vote.
As I posted earlier, we don’t see this level of hostility and abject stupidity in any other country in the developed world.
Yet, keep in mind how Donald Trump would have been regarded in any other country in the developed world; he would have been laughed off the debate stage as the criminal conman that he so obviously is.
We stand alone in our ignorance and our hatred.
I was raised by fairly strict, and decidedly conservative parents, and my father carried (actually, flew) a weapon in World War II (a B-17) but he had no interest in guns and the like in peace time. I wish these kids had the same advantage.
In most of these family portraits, even the little girl withe the angelic smile has a derringer or a Saturday night special. Maybe these folks come from a more sophisticated branch of MAGA America.
Seriously, it’s a sad aspect of U.S. society that many of us believe we need weapons of war to protect ourselves and our property, mainly from the Democrats who are, for yet another decade, trying to overturn the 2nd Amendment and “take away your guns.”
Do you see this level of abject stupidity in any other country in the developed world? Of course not. We stand alone as a sick, demented joke.
As we go into the first debate of the Republican presidential candidates leading into the 2024 election, presented by Fox News and moderated by two of its hosts (pictured), try to imagine any set of Republicans prior to this one agreeing to appear under the aegis of a “news” source that is clearly and admittedly based on lies.
Fox coughed up close to a billion dollars to settle a defamation lawsuit from plaintiff Dominion Voting Systems, which proved to a jury that Fox News knew that Trump lost the 2020 election, but repeatedly broadcast the lie that the voting was rigged and that Dominion was largely responsible for this crime.
Try to imagine any Republican you can remember: Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 41, or Bush 43 agreeing to have anything whatsoever to do with such an entity, let alone using it to forward their political careers.
Fast-forward just a few years, and Fox is the very home of the GOP.
I dedicate these words from Sophocles to all those who hope Trump suffers a fatal heart attack, or dies of some other cause.
Trump’s death will do very little to restoring sanity, decency, and honesty to America’s Republican party. In fact, it would probably impede the process.
Healing can only occur in the context of a close and objective examination of what has happened since the 2020 election and the application of justice accordingly.
