Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The (Continuing) Tale of the Pink Nightmare

Let's start here:

"But the vast majority of Republicans are reflecting what I'm hearing every day, the last day or two, from Republican voters," Walsh explained. "I have never heard Republican voters this angry and fired up, and 'I'm behind Donald Trump now all the way.' I haven't heard this in a long time. You can bet those Republican office holders are hearing it as well."

Begala thought the outrage was irrelevant.

"Well, the theory is, 'Oh, we must not offend the Trump base, we must not trigger them.' You know what triggers the Trump base? Everything," Begala said. "Sunrise, sunset, Sesame Street — for real, Dr. Seuss, everything pisses those people off, but they're not the majority."

"Doubling, tripling down, quadrupling down on the Trump base has gotten the Republican Party this, lost the House, Senate, and White House in four years," Begala explained. "That hasn't happened in 90 years."

Then let's just consider:  Trump PLANNED the assault on the Capitol.  He didn't stir those people to anger with his charisma and rhetorical skills on Jan. 6.  They came to D.C. ready to overthrow the government.  And Trump had the bully pulpit, for the last time.

This thing?  Trump is already fundraising off of it.  People upset and "fired up" will be bored again by November, especially since Trump is not on the ballot.  Hell, they'll have forgotten about this by September. And the more the rest of the country thinks of Trump in November, the more they're gonna turn out to vote against Trump or anything related to Trump.  So if the GOP makes November about Trump and 15 boxes of documents, the GOP is dead meat on the butcher's tray.
Yup; all... 40 (?) of them! I tried to exclude people like Marco Rubio and Charlie Kirk, who wouldn't join a pillow fight.  Be afraid, be very afraid.

The last violent crowd moved to action by Trump thought they were gonna take on a bunch of geriatric cases in Congress, and stop a Constitutional proceeding, thereby installing Trump as POTUS because they didn't have a clue how succession, or even elections, work.  See, e.g., Bad Legal Takes today.
This is illustrative of the support for Trump: These twitter clowns are gonna take on the U.S. government?  Yeah, right.

Politically, that's really not going to carry any elections, unless Democratic voters just don't show up. And where are they going to be aimed? At Mar A Lago? At an FBI building? A federal courthouse? These are children playing cops 'n' robbers. They don't have a clue.  They also don't have a target; or a date; or somebody planning it.d How many users are on "Truth Social"? As many people as in the 1776 Restoration Movement, f/k/a the People's Convoy? Remind me again what they accomplished: Oh, that's right: not a damned thing. And Q was going to swamp us all, right? The storm was coming that would sweep us all away. Instead it split into factions, with one group haunting Dealey Plaza waiting for Zombie John John to lead them into the light.  You still hear about Q, mostly in connection with CPAC.  Tell me again the last time CPAC was a political player in any national election.

Yeah, I'm having a hard time being scared by people who look to Donald Trump, Jr. to lead them into battle.  Or maybe Eric Metaxas will cry "Aux armes, les citoyens!" and be the first to leap over the barricades into battle:
I'm not holdin' my breath.

But while I've got you here:
"What would you expect them to say?" Pelosi asked rhetorically. "The FBI Director was appointed by Donald Trump and so, they are going after the FBI with a director that was appointed by Donald Trump. But on the other hand, facts are truth — facts and law, that's what it's about. I mean, we were all surprised — everybody was surprised by last night. And it's amazing how it consumed all the air and oxygen around him [as we're] trying to pass legislation."

I think Hawley just wants us to forget he ran through the halls of Congress like a rabbit on Jan. 6.

And just because I've now seen 3 pictures of the place, thanks to recent news, I only post this for the picture: 

Heavens above that is an ugly place. It's a pink nightmare! And I say this as someone who painted his first house pink (it had a dark green roof, white trim, and green decorative shutters. The effect was quite charming. It was a tiny two-bedroom ship-lap siding cottage built in the '40's.  I sanded every square inch of the exterior with a belt sander (still have the sander) and plugged every hole at every corner (it had more than four).  Sadly, gone now. So it goes.). It's not the color, it's the hideous ostentation. 

Thanks for letting me say that; it's been bugging me for almost 24 hours now.
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