The "real enemies of the people" are those who still support Mango Mussolini
How can we continue to respect those who still support a sociopath like Donald Trump?
In an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, the ABC News reporter revealed that in his book "Tired of Winning," someone who has previously not come out publicly against Trump dropped a bomb on the former president.
"He lacks any shred of human decency, humility or caring," the former White House official told Karl. "He is morally bankrupt, breathtakingly dishonest, lethally incompetent, and stunningly ignorant of virtually anything related to governing, history, geography, human events or world affairs. He is a traitor and a malignancy in the nation, and represents a clear and present danger to our democracy, and the rule of law."
Once upon a time, not so very long ago, I promised myself and my readers that I would no longer acknowledge the name of the 45th President. I was tired of the feeding frenzy of attention that accompanied his every thought, word, and deed. And I was tired of participating in that shit show.
Well, fuck that. Things have taken a significant turn for the worse.
The time has come for me to acknowledge that Donald J. Trump poses a clear and present danger to these United States of America. And to those who continue to applaud him and cannot see or are too stupid to acknowledge that threat, I offer only a hearty “Fuck you!” Because you are the problem, and your ignorance and arrogance might lead America down the path to seeing American democracy destroyed.
But for your blind, arrogant, and über-ignorant hero worship, Donald Trump would be selling snake oil to poor villagers in the mountains of Montenegro.
I know; stupid is as stupid does…and yes, y’all sound unbelievably intellectually bereft.
So, fuck you AND the horse you rode in on.
If seeing and hearing 45 channeling Adolf Hitler over the weekend didn’t give you the chills, perhaps it’s time for you to forfeit your voter registration card. You clearly haven’t been paying attention, and we don’t need you boogering things up any more than they already are.
Why am I so upset? Because while y’all have been chanting “TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!” he’s been referring to his opponents as “vermin” and promising to exterminate those of us who dare to think differently. In New Hampshire over the weekend, he quoted Hitler verbatim, describing those he believes are enemies of the people just as Der Führer did.
Of course, you can laugh this off as showmanship, and many Trump supporters have, but I’ve always believed in Maya Angelou’s words:
When they tell you who they are, believe them.
Donald Trump has been telling us who he is since he descended the escalator in Manhattan’s Trump Tower in 2015. And millions love him because he hates the same people they do.
While fewer people are willing to step out and speak up in defense of Trump, there are still those with an entrenched interest in being part of TrumpWorld. They either believe they can profit from it directly, or they can make connections that will lead them to a more lucrative future once they’ve served their time in it.
What they don’t realize is that loyalty when it comes to Donald Trump is a one-way street. He demands absolute, unquestioning loyalty from those around him, but he will throw them under a bus in a heartbeat at a moment’s notice if it will turn to his advantage. People are disposable, relationships are transactional, and no slight, whether real or perceived, goes unanswered.
Donald Trump is a sociopathic, megalomaniacal psychopath who cares for no one and nothing but his own interests and self-aggrandizement.
The worst part is that there are still people like Steve Bannon, who’s been tossed aside by Trump at least once, who will rise in defense of Mango Mussolini. In Bannon’s case, he’s still pushing the propaganda that Donald Trump is a “badass” and that the “world fears him.”
If the “world fears him,” it’s because the international community understands how utterly unbalanced that man is, and they don’t know what he might be capable of. When you’re talking about the man who has access to the American military’s nuclear launch codes, that’s indeed reason for the world to fear him.
What cannot be underemphasized is the Trump campaign’s reaction and defense of his language. As is usually the case, any time their master takes a trip on the wild side, his apologists leap to his defense by going on offense. This usually takes the form of “How could any rational person believe that Donald Trump would speak or act like Adolf Hitler?”
“And if he did, that’s a ‘YOU’ problem, Comrade Vermin.”
Again, when someone tells you who they are, you’d be well-advised to believe them. Given that Trump has already had four years in the White House to give Americans a glimpse of who he is, channeling Adolf Hitler shouldn’t come as a great surprise.
Trump and his minions would take America down the express lane to authoritarianism, and to deny that would be to ignore the ample evidence before us. This isn’t breaking news, y’all.
If, [insert name of preferred deity here] forbid, Trump succeeds in winning next November, we can guaran-damn-tee that America will look very different come 1.20.25.
And that difference won’t be a change for the better.
For some time now, Trump insiders have been working on “Project 2025,” which is nothing less than a plan to blow up the federal government and remake it in the image of Donald Trump.
In short, that means it would become an autocracy in which every government agency would be molded to the President's whims and react to his every command. There would be no separation between the executive, judicial, and legislative branches, as they would all exist primarily to serve Trump’s interests.
This is not your normal Presidential transition.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve gotten a pretty good idea of what Donald Trump would do if given a second chance in the White House. And it is neither exaggeration nor hyperbole to say that it looks an awful lot like a set of plans meant to give the former president the power and unchecked authority of a strongman.
Trump would purge the federal government of as many civil servants as possible. In their place, he would install an army of political and ideological loyalists whose fealty to Trump’s interests would stand far and above their commitment to either the rule of law or the Constitution.
With the help of these unscrupulous allies, Trump plans to turn the Department of Justice against his political opponents, prosecuting his critics and rivals. He would use the military to crush protests under the Insurrection Act — which he hoped to do during the summer of 2020 — and turn the power of the federal government against his perceived enemies.
“If I happen to be president and I see somebody who’s doing well and beating me very badly, I say, ‘Go down and indict them.’ They’d be out of business. They’d be out of the election,” Trump said in a recent interview on the Spanish-language network Univision.
Project 2025 is, for all intents and purposes, a Christian Nationalist’s wet dream that would destroy American democracy as we now know it.
If you think I’m being hyperbolic, you can read “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise” here. You couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. Tim Miller from The Bulwark warns that we must take this seriously. As Miller says, the people behind Project 2025 might be clowns, but they’d be the clowns running the show in a second Trump Adminstration. And it would be, at best, a ruthless abuse of power. At worst…I’d rather not go there.
And, quelle surprise, Steve Bannon’s “War Room” is the media home of Project 2025 and Trump’s ever-growing retribution plans. Yes, Trump fully intends to go after his “enemies,” a list that grows by the day.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts released a statement praising the release of “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise”:
“For over two years, the Left has ignored the voice of everyday Americans leading to crippling inflation, biological males dominating women’s sports, rampant violence, and a crisis in education not seen in decades. Our country is all but unrecognizable.
“This is why the conservative movement is coming together to prepare for the next conservative administration. Heritage is convening the conservative movement behind the policies to ensure that the next president has the right policy and personnel necessary to dismantle the administrative state and restore self-governance to the American people.
“‘The Conservative Promise’ is just the first step in preparing future conservative leaders for the task of serving their country, and it will continue to guide the movement-wide coalition. We know what time it is; the conservative movement is on offense to restore our great nation.”
That’s three paragraphs and some flowery language to camouflage what’s essentially the Right’s desire to ash-can democracy and make America Donald Trump’s playground.
The first edition of “Mandate for Leadership” appeared over 40 years ago. However, this is the first edition that’s become a no-holds-barred handbook for a Right-wing dictatorship- a playbook for American authoritarianism.
Project 2025 will create an AmeriKKKa of, by, and (most importantly) for White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals. The rest of y’all can wait for whatever crumbs are left.
The worst aspect of it is that it will allow Donald Trump to go after the “vermin” he’s promised to eliminate. And, given that he’s using Adolf Hitler’s words, one has to wonder if he’ll also use Der Führer’s methods.
Trump also has big plans for America’s “immigration problem” because, as any REAL American knows, this country belongs to White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals.
That’s right- no Jews, atheists, minorities, LGBTQ, left-handers, Packers fans, or other deviants allowed. While I’m making light of it now, the threat to those of us who don’t fit into the White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexual box face is genuine.
America is not yet lost. We still have time to keep democracy on track and rescue it from those who cannot govern and wish only to rule.
I don’t know about you, but I’ll metaphorically display my middle finger to those who would destroy democracy with the only weapon I have- my vote. I hope that you’ll join me in telling America’s proto-fascists that their tyranny and autocracy aren’t welcome here.
Because if we don’t get off our asses and vote, this might be the last opportunity we have to do so.
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Funny how everything in the Heritage Foundation declaration is a bald-faced lie. Inflation (which Biden inherited) is going down, nowhere do trans-females "dominate" their sports, etc., etc., etc.