Raise your hand if you love America. For what it is; for what it can be. Nope, sorry, MAGA folk. You lost that claim when you gave yourselves over to Donald Trump.
The last weeks have seen what some might call a role reversal. More accurately, because the truth has always been out there, it’s a perception reversal: Democrats and liberals, it turns out, are the ones who love the real America. MAGA Republicans don’t. They resent what it is and fear what they’re told to believe its future will be if not for Trump. They resent its strength-deriving diversity. And, like Trump, they reject its laws, especially those protecting fair elections and equal rights.
Compare the Harris/Walz rallies to Trump’s and Vance’s. Who presents a positive vision of America and its potential? Whose audience is chanting, enthusiastically, “USA! USA!”? Which candidate said to a huge, happy crowd, “We trust the people, we see the people, we know the people. You know one of the things I love about our country? We are a nation of people who believe in those ideals that were foundational to what made us so special as a nation. … We love our country.” (Okay, MAGA nation doesn’t believe, but still...)
Which candidate, speaking from the darkness of Mar-a-Lago, said the US is “a very, very sick country right now”? Which voters marinate in the carefully crafted animus they feel on hearing that?
“We’re not going back” is the opposite of “Make America Great Again.” It’s “Again” that says it all. MAGA is about going back to the time of straight, white, native-born, male-dominant, Christian majority, where everyone else knew their place: silent and submissive.
“Not going back” is about liberation from the oppressive heaviness of Trumpism’s doom, gloom, and dishonesty; its rejection of America’s founding ideals, the nastiness (and craziness) of a Trump rally. “Not going back” is a joyous expression of relief, hope for democracy, an end to Trump’s autocratic fantasies.
When his crowds chanted “Lock her up,” Trump stood silent, basking in the wave of fawning lawlessness. When some in a Harris/Walz crowd started shouting “Lock him up,” both Kamala and Tim shut them down. Let the courts take care of it, they said. Our job is to defeat Trump at the polls. That difference is everything.
Echoing creepy JD Vance’s desperation in facing heartland’s Tim Walz, Trumpists have sunk to attacking his military record. After 24 years in the National Guard, he retired to run for Congress, a year after which his unit was deployed to Iraq. Had the Guard thought his retirement affected mission readiness, they could have disallowed it, which they didn’t. Like the Swiftboating of John Kerry, it’s what Republicans, footstepping the invective of Lee Atwater and Newt Gingrich, do to people demonstrating the decency their leadership lacks. (We pause to recall five-times-deferred Trump’s fake bone spurs and saying avoiding STDs was his “personal Vietnam.”)
JD has more: claiming the Harris/Walz campaign is resorting to name-calling and bullying, he ignores Crooked Hillary, Crazy Nancy, Birdbrain Nikki Haley, Lyin’ Ted, Ron DeSanctimonious, Sleepy Joe, whatever Kamabla is, and more. When Trump and Trumpists accuse someone of something, it’s they who are doing it. Psychiatrists call it projection.
Unless applied to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima, “meltdown” is an overused cliché. But what better describes Trump descending ever deeper into madness as Harris/Walz surge past him in polls, their massive crowds outnumbering his? Last weekend he claimed their Arizona crowd was faked; that there was no one there; that it was all AI. Robbed by Foxotrumpification of the ability to recognize lies, believers believed.
From a favorite troll, I received the Trump-referenced “proof-positive” picture. Since I sent him video proof of her overflow crowd and technological debunkery of Trump’s confabulation, I haven’t heard back. Distinguishing fakery requires intellectual effort that MAGAs have been taught to eschew.
On loop, Trump is also claiming the polls are fake. The only way he loses, he bleats, is by Democrats cheating, deliberately prepping the soil for another, more deadly insurrection, in which he’ll revel as before. Despite repeatedly experiencing it, he’s incapable of graceful acceptance of defeat. Nor are those who, hearing his lies and seeing his incoherence, believe him still. Even when he says (wishes) Joe Biden will retake the nomination.
So desperate are the Project 2025 masterminds to implement their power-cementing, democracy-ending agenda that they’ll continue to prop up a man whose increasingly obvious deterioration makes him unfit to preside over dinner, much less our country. Likely, they see that as a plus, making him all the more easy to convince he’s in charge, while they call the shots. Think about it.
[Edit: originally this had a paragraph about Trump not being able to land in Bozeman because of owing money. It was evidently false info, so I deleted it. Sorry.]
Skyriver here
ReplyDeleteDuring one of his demented rants, TFG will ejaculate what he's really thinking:
"How dare this uppity n* woman challenge me"
He's already said as much in private, and his brain is an unfiltered overpressured sewer so it' only a matter of (little) time
Skyriver! Long time...
DeleteNice to feel some joy again
DeletePS My old id stopped working ¯\(°_o)/¯
That's exactly what it is. I say it here and everywhere often enough that people know what I'll say.
DeleteIt's all racist based hate filled foundation of shit.
"Watch the first two acts of Mississippi Burning" I always say. It shows how the confederacy responds to racism.
They talk about far fetched reasons. Knowing you think they are 1/2 stupid to start with. They change the subject. They are good ol' boys who control everything to keep it exactly as it was in 1855.
They simply find new code words and new outrage to feed the lemmings.
Mitch McConnell said the Nazi's priority for the 'mercahn people was "Deny Obama a second term" with that sinister grin.
Obama as POTUS was the ultimate affront to the white power terror groups. The KKK is really no longer. The KKK is like a hood ornament is to a car. It's all the scattered militia groups now. They learned after that last big takedown and general bad publicity. They needed to rebrand. From Reagan to the Tea Party. All of it voted into being by "the greatest generation" and the "boomers". From there everyone has done worse, not better, than their parents did. 40+ years flat wages etc. Assassinating anyone who's a leader in the civil rights movement. And that was just Lincoln era politics. The 60's was a replay.
I was born exactly 100 years after the civil war in 1965. These racists did nothing but get worse. They got their asses handed to them and minorities can't be enslaved for profit. They have to work for themselves now. And 100 years later? It's still a shithole. Last in every category. Unless it's bad. Then they are perennially 1st.
But it is all racist hate exploited by polluters mainly. Can't have black folks taking white jobs right? I mean seriously? How much more out of the closet does one have to be to be labeled a racist piece of shit? Hide behind the word "christian" is how. Now we are persecuting their religion and freedom of speech right? "states rights" and "privatization". "More law enforcement" and so on. It's all control based tools to use on whomever they want.
These racists have gone nowhere. They never had anywhere else to go and they rejected outside help.
Hate is a great tool. Hitler used it and Drumpf is mimicking.
"TFG will ejaculate"
DeleteI KNEW it was a man!
Benito played YMCA by The Village People
ReplyDeleteIt's a song about gay men meeting in the shower at the YMCA. It was the only real hookup place back then.
I wonder if he knows that or if the producer knows. It's a huge troll. Or ignorance.
Also? His ear has healed perfectly. Not even a scar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6DfJUw6Mm8&t=101s
Things you'll never see Cheeto do in the wild.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/harris-walz-and-spouses-make-voter-calls-from-pennsylvania-phone-bank-217397317742
Then there's this yappy mutt.
ReplyDeleteThey are delibertly playing to the racists.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/16/politics/video/mace-kamala-mispronounce-name-digvid