Tuesday, September 20, 2022

GOP Outreach

All Rubio is missing is the international pedophile rings. Oh, wait! Where goes Trump, goes the GOP all.

And just when you think that somewhere behind the blather and empty phrases and meaningless "threats" and barrage of verbiage, there's a Machiavellian intent to be the next Hitler:
Yes, in her forthcoming Trump tome, set for release on October 4, New York Times scribe Maggie Haberman reports Trump spent the days following his loss telling aides that, despite a long-respected custom to do otherwise, he would not be leaving the White House on January 20. “I’m just not going to leave,” Trump told one aide, according to Haberman. “We’re never leaving,” the then president told another person. 

I mean, I'd read this about Maggie's book before; but then you think about it, what Trump was proposing was to be a spoiled child who wouldn't go on the family trip because he'd just cross his arms and stay in his room.  "THEY CAN'T MAKE ME!" Which, given that he's a, what, 72 year old man at that point, is pretty astonishing.  And makes me ask again:  why does anybody treat this superannuated toddler like he's serious? He has no power, but we just keep giving it to him.  It's like the news talking about Trump going full "Q" in Ohio over the weekend.  So?  Do you secretly fear he really is going to bring "The Storm"?

 "Q" are the idiots who gathered for days on Dealey Plaza, waiting for JFK and his son to return to them from the dead.  They're the idiots who think there's an international pedophile ring run by Democrats who rape children and drink their blood and are so good at it there's no evidence of it, until Trump brings "The Storm" and provokes mass arrests and, for good measure, mass executions on television because, apparently like Mike Lindell's "proof" of election fraud: once it is revealed all will fall down and realize it is true, at once!  Even the Supreme Court will have to agree!

Yeah, it's a religious (tinged) type of belief, similar to the vision of Jesus returning in clouds of glory when every eye shall see and every ear hear (full disclosure:  I'm not down with such an apocalyptic vision as the true "endgame" of Christianity or history, at all).  But that is, to be fair, why it's nuts; because nothing in human history works like that, or can, or will.  And Trump has no interest in "Q" anymore than he does in Christianity, except as it can be a tool for his self-aggrandizement. And the minute it can't be, he's bored with it again.

I remember in the '70's, before disco (which was a mid-decade thing), we had "Jesus Freaks,"  Young people who acted like hippies but suddenly loved Jesus, and ran around shouting "One Way!" and sticking their index fingers in the air. (They were very Johannine Jesus freaks.)  Everybody thought they were crazy except the fundamentalist and evangelical churches, who, before Falwell, weren't all that interested in anything but saving souls and staying pure, i.e., apart from other Christians who weren't fundies or evangelicals.  They were a bit leary of the "freaks," but struggled to accept them because their theology (the freaks', I mean) was fundamentally fundamentalist/evangelical.  Point is, nobody mistook 'em for Nazis.  I know "Q" has changed the meaning of the symbol, or at least tried to.  But I see a bunch of Jesus freaks there, especially because Jesus freaks were mostly white.  And it's still "Q" and Dealey Plaza, and mostly people who are stone nuts.  If that's the crowd Trump is reduced to selling himself to, I think the GOP is gonna go the way of the Whigs a lot sooner than expected.

Trump was a toddler with a shotgun when he was in the White House.  Now he doesn't have the shotgun; and he's just a 74 year old toddler.  If "Q" is all he has, he really does have nothing.

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