Trump and Vance were like two neighborhood bullies ganging up
to attack a kid they know they can’t handle one-on-one.
I’ll say more:
Is Trump purposely backing up Putin?
In this case Trump is a traitor.
Is Trump unaware that he’s backing up Putin?
In this case, he is insane.
We have learned about J.D. Vance that he is absolutely Trump’s dwarf clone.
The Republican Party goes deeper every day in its bottomless pit of shame.
I would go further and say that Trump needs to have revenge on anyone who has in any way opposed him, disagreed with him, criticized him, ignored him, indeed, anyone who has not given him the acquiescence and praise that he knows are his due. So the target of his lifelong vendetta includes all refined, learned, idealistic, courteous, and wholesome people, in government, in business, in the arts, in society.
Andrew Bailey, Attorney General of the State of Missouri, has brought a suit against Starbucks’ DEI program, alleging that it violates anti-discrimination laws and keeps people waiting longer to get their coffee. MAGA wants to replace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with white homogeneity, white prejudice, and virtual segregation, as part of their 2025 program to lull the United States into a falsehood-induced dream of self-satisfied racism.
The Pope lately wrote to the American bishops to denounce the War on Immigrants of the MAGA administration. And what happens ? J.D. Vance, a convert to Catholicism, has offered us a lesson in alternative theology, and Tom Homan, “speaking as a lifelong Catholic,” has declared that the Pope “… ought to focus on his work and leave enforcement to us. He’s got a wall around the Vatican, does he not?” Both of these cynics have found the Catholic label convenient, convenient until their fascist politics conflicts with Catholic social teaching.
J.D. and Homan should leave the Catholic church and join up with the evangelicals and find comfort in their politicized religion.
Nothing new from Trump. The sometime real estate mogul now wants to acquire Canada and Gaza, to build Trump Towers in Canada and golf courses in the new Gaza-lago.
The giddy MAGAs are romping around D.C. like conquering barbarians celebrating their victory by mindlessly destroying everything and everyone they can, like, e.g., Russians in Berlin at the end of WWII.
For his part, their Beloved Leader is eagerly playing “Imitate the Great Dictators of Old.” Stalin and Hitler were compulsive about “retribution,” demanding vengeance for any real or imagined slights. These tyrants took special pleasure in forced deportations of masses of people, especially when this involved concentration camps, and Trump wants to do the same. Trump has created his own version of the Nazi SA with his pardon of Thugs of Jan 6th and is turning I.C.E. into his own SS. Maybe, soon the military will have to swear allegiance to Trump. For Little Donald, its election to the Dictators’ Hall of Fame or bust.
Nominees whom Trump has gathered from the highways and byways are being approved routinely by the Rubber-stamp Congress. We knew the Republicans have no shame, but who knew it is so very bottomless.
I’ve been wondering what public outrage or what lack of knowledge and experience could have prevented a nominee’s selection and approval. “Loyalty” to Trump is the baptism of MAGA, that forgives all crimes and failures.
Indeed, far from being an impediment, a criminal conviction, an abject failure, or a history of invincible ignorance could only recommend a potential appointee to Trump and to the Republicans who are little better than the nominees they are approving.
I see my senator Josh Hawley has been re-elected. I would apologize for my home state voting for Josh, but Missouri being what it is, his victory was inevitable. Josh has a love of disasters surpassed only by old men’s, so the recent public fits of insanity in New Orleans and Las Vegas are meat for his table. I read that he wants to subpoena the outgoing directors of national security and the FBI to appear before a let’s-waste-some-time-and-maybe-be-photographed session in the Senate. Josh’s craving for attention is insatiable.
There are manifold explanations for Trump’s success in the late election, lots of criticism of Biden for delaying his exit, criticism of the Harris campaign for lack of dynamism, criticism of the Democratic Party for misunderstanding the American people, and so on.
I’ve not seen anyone complain about Merrick Garland’s delays in prosecuting Trump for insurrection and about Fani Willis screwing up the Georgia case. Am I naive to think that if these two had done a better job Trump might really have been on his way to jail?
Of course, there’s Judge Aileen Cannon’s contribution to Trump’s escape from prison. Am I the only one who thinks she is simply corrupt?
And the Supreme Court and their gift of immunity! If a sitting president murders his wife, is he immune from prosecution if he claims that the murder was required by his presidential office?
And I would complain also about the American judicial system. We have had a dramatic manifestation of what we’ve known all along, that if you have enough cash and connections you need never go to jail.
And who would not call insurrection a grievous crime, one that can’t be blown off like more routine offenses like statutory rape, accepting bribes, or gross nepotism? But I guess so many well-placed people were complicit in the insurrection that the powers that be decided to obfuscate and downplay the greatest crime to occur in my lifetime.
We are hearing more these days from Trump’s creatures and from the Archcriminal himself about the mass deportations they intend of illegal aliens. These sociopaths mean business. They can’t wait to start spending the $86 billion that is said to be “the minimum” required for their project, and they mean to employ police, ICEers, the U.S. Army, and, of course, a private army of “contractors” to carry it out.
They haven’t said much about their detailed plans for the mass deportation. Do they know if we have enough cattle cars, box cars, and livestock trailers to transport all these criminals back to … Yes, back to where?? Anywhere over the border, to Canada or Mexico? To their countries of origin? Do we have concentration camps large enough to house this horde of aliens while they wait to be shipped out?
And do we have much practice in mass deportation? We surely do. We deported the Indians, murdering most of them in the process. We deported the blacks from Africa and made slaves of them. We rounded up the Japanese and “relocated” them to prison camps. Do we, in our time, have enough brutal and thoughtless men who can measure up to the brutality and mindlessness of mass deportations of the past? Just listen to Mr. Homan.