How I want to remember DJT.
If nothing else, Trump lost the election -- again -- and this time he also lost the Electoral College.
But I won't rest easy until he's gone.
Trump might be lazy, but, as others say, his feral survival instincts...
Here's to the new year...
Sorry, Hippocrates, it's nothing personal.
But your name's close enough.
This is about Josh Hawley's play for the wingnut base in 2024.
Moderate Republicans=the null set.
Too bad the corporate media still can't figure it out.
True, all this seems more bark than bite, but I still don't trust DJT, and won't be surprised if he at the very least probes for any cracks in the wall, so to speak. His feral survival instincts...
Accepting the obvious is better than not accepting it, but I don't think commendations are in order.
He's still an asshole.
Though I wonder if the moderates will compromise and count, say, three fifths of the non-white vote.
The Trump stages of grief.
Finally. But he'll still be the whiny narcissist he's always been. And his minions are still armed and dangerous.
Oh, they'd try it if they thought they could get away with it.
Have a good weekend.
The more I think about it, the more "normal" DJT seems, at least insofar as the GOP has been batshit insane for generations. Trump is the logical outcome...
The cult is alive and well in Michigan, despite the fact -- the fact -- that DJT lost the state. He lost.
He also lost the vote nationally.
Sigh.
Update: they changed their votes, but still...
And you can probably go further back than Ronaldus Magnus for the sheer assholery, to Robert Taft (son of William H.), or even Herbert Hoover, but Reagan seems to be where they decided what the hell, no one cares about policy or even reality, so fuck that. And...sadly, they're probably right about their base. To the base, politics is just another reality TV show and fuck the libs when you can't own them.
Oh, and let's give a nice, sarcastic round of applause to the major media (golf claps or slow claps), which for decades enabled lies and bullshit under a both-sides/we-just-report regime. Oh, and special thanks to the NY Times, which has done this for even longer (Google their original reporting on the rise of a right wing movement in Weimar-era Germany).
As for the Dems, sigh. I dunno, here's hoping Biden can work some magic, but consider: Nancy Pelosi (to her discredit) claims she quotes/cites Reagan in speeches...and do you think that's kept the wingnuts civil? Laff.
I think Dave Neiwert is right: we're stuck with this for a long time. Hell, we've been stuck with it for a long time, but it was just a few of us on the left who bothered to notice...
Playing at a Four Seasons near you, um, I mean near the I-95 off-ramp just outside Philadelphia.
Between the crematorium and, ah, the bookstore.
I think TTOTUS (Tantrum Thrower in Chief, maybe Trumper Tantrum Thrower) is still in denial...maybe anger...and I doubt he gets much further before January 20th.
Also, keep in mind pretty much the entire GOP is going along with this.
I still can't get over the fact that the "popular," that is, actual vote, isn't particularly close, and what's left to count will likely increase Biden's lead substantially.
Trump. Lost. That's it.
But...as this thread points out, he might be a loser, but he'll be vicious, ugly, and underhanded. Duh.
Oh, and the rest of the GOP is right there with him. They've been branded.
Christ, Trump's poor, pitiful me statement today made Nixon's won't-have-me-to-kick-around anymore speech look like the surrender of Vercingetorix.
Describing it as sore loser would be an insult to sore losers...
More Opera Buffa tomorrow, presumably.
Though, sadly, I expect there will always be the wingnut welfare, plus the ghost written memoir...and even more chat time with the Fox Noise talking heads.
But in the capacity of ex-president and private citizen, or let's goddamn hope so.
Back tomorrow.
Emphasis on acting, though, given the circumstances, the best we can hope for. Watch TV, play golf.
Anything else would certainly be catastrophic.
Or maybe just tired, period.
Post debate analysis: I won, because I didn't watch. I read ratings were down. Good. Time for Trump to fade away, and the only shame is that the rot is so deep that Trumpism or whatever you want to call it, will remain with us for a while (hell, it predated Trump--he just was the distilled essence)...
Have a good weekend.
