Behold The Power Of Cheap, Blatant Propaganda

"Let's put this amazing book in every school in America." The kids need a good laugh. And a stiff drink.

What if a former Trump suck-up staffer wrote a book of cheap Trumpian propaganda, and no one gave a damn about it? If it fell in the forest and no one reads it, does it even count as a book? Or can it be recycled into toilet paper?

I don’t care enough to pursue those questions for the answers. Still, Donald Trump is proudly promoting The Plot Against the King, a children’s book of slavishly Trumpian porn, which somehow re-imagines the 2016 election campaign without Russian involvement. Trump loyalist and erstwhile rent-boy Kash Patel has outdone himself to remain in Mango Mussolini’s good graces.

Former President Donald Trump is peddling a children’s book written by a former member of his administration that stars “King Donald” and reimagines a kingdom where the “Russionians” weren’t a factor in the 2016 election.

Now Trump wants to distribute the book to children across the land. “Let’s put this amazing book in every school in America,” Trump posted on Truth Social last week.

Of course, Trump would be spontaneously ejaculating over a beer commercial that made him look good, so a children’s book is perfect for his double-digit IQ. What better way to poison the minds of the younger generation than with trashy Right-wing propaganda?

And his knuckle-dragging band of mouth-breathing sociopaths will, of course, throw their money at him.

“The Plot Against the King” was written by Republican and Trump loyalist Kash Patel, the former president’s hand-picked Pentagon chief of staff.

Conservative publisher Brave Books is presenting the work as both fairytale and fact. It calls the book a “fantastical retelling of the terrible true story.”

“A key player in uncovering one of our nation’s biggest injustices tells the whole story — for kids! Kash Patel ..... brings a fantastical retelling of Hillary’s horrible plot against Trump to the whole family,” says a statement by the publisher. Patel says in his own statement that he believes it’s important for people to know the truth in the fairytale.

The Trumpbots aren’t even bothering to hide their trafficking in cheap, poorly constructed propaganda. When Patel himself says that “he believes it’s important for people to know the truth in the fairytale,” you must know that the truth has been put off on an ice floe to die ignominiously.

The pathetic thing about the book is that it’s transparently shameless. It’s pure propaganda, and everyone involved knows it- well, except for Trump, who may genuinely believe that it’s all true since it makes him look good. Anyone with even a minimal grip on reality will understand that the only thing real about this book is that it’s real, pure propaganda.

Right. This is PRECISELY how fascism begins to worm its way into our consciousness, y’all.

Until now, book bans have been the exclusive province of Conservatives who are terrified of their progeny learning things like tolerance, compassion, and understanding. So they don’t want their kids exposed to anything that might run the risk of making them feel bad about themselves.

Oh, yeah…and Critical Race Theory (CRT) isn’t taught in public secondary schools…but you can never be too careful, right? You can never know when some clever Left-wing teacher will try to sneak a wee bit o’ CRT into their Art or Science lessons, knowhutimean? Or maybe into some after-school soccer practice.

But, “King Donald” might encourage Liberal parents who don’t want Right-wing propaganda fed to their children to demand that it be banned from schools. And it would be difficult to argue with them; more obvious and blatant Trumpian propaganda would be hard to find.

The fact that Donald Trump was ever elected President is stunning enough. How such a grade-A, world-class, top-shelf, USDA Prime assclown managed to win the electoral college and then spend four years destroying America is something historians will spend years trying (and probably failing) to understand.

Now we have a book of pure fantasy whose undeclared purpose is turning the brains of American children to oatmeal, much like King Donald.

Welcome to our new idiocracy. Kash Patel will be your guide, so sit down, shut up, buckle up, and hold on.

Here be propaganda worthy of Josef Goebbels, y’all.

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