Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing- winning...and boobs
Republicans have sacrificed their souls to Donald Trump because they believe he will save America...he can't even save himself.
(shamelessly liberated from Gary Herstein)
Plenty of things in the world today are legitimately worth worrying about. There’s the potential for World War III in the Middle East. There’s a better-than-decent chance we may wake up on November 6 and realize we’ve elected a doddering and felonious proto-fascist as our last democratically elected President. And there’s a good chance that America may turn Margaret Atwood from a talented Canadian novelist into a freakin’ prophet.
In the words of the wise and all-knowing prophet, Forrest Gump, “Stupid is as stupid does.” Combine that with the late Tip O’Neill’s words of wisdom, “You get exactly the quality of leadership you deserve,” and you may have a handle on America’s future.
It’s the sort of thing
has been warning us about for what seems like forever now.Monday was Solar Eclipse Day — and there was plenty of stupid to go around, from Alex Jones calling it a deep state conspiracy to Sarah Sanders declaring a three-day state of emergency in Arkansas. but the crowning peak of idiocy had to be the dipshits at Fox News, because they found a whole new angle for their low-wattage audience to get worked up over.
“that means a real opportunity for smugglers and cartels and migrants to come right in.”
are you fucking serious, Fox? a surge of border crossers during four minutes of totality? what are they going to do, use slingshots to rocket themselves across the border during that brief moment of darkness?
‘Course, the real shock was that the shitferbrainz at Fox News didn’t figure out an ironclad way to pin this on Sleepy Joe Biden. Then again, that they were able to bring it around to the “crisis at the border” was sort of an unspoken slap at the President. Fox’s “low-information” audience has been conditioned to know who’s responsible for the billions and billions of evildoers streaming across our southern border and who will soon be raping our wives and daughters.
do these fearmongering imbeciles not realize that it gets dark for hours every single night, and somehow the world still manages to function?
Meh, clearly no.
I have to assume that the talking heads at Fox News aren’t witless and moronic cementheads (unless perhaps that’s part of the job description). Still, it can’t be easy swallowing your pride every day before you go on set and spout inanities and declaim things you know to be untrue and inflammatory.
Does Fox News really pay well enough for a talking head to allow the company to break their spirit, crush their will, and turn them into a company-line-spouting automaton?
I wouldn’t know, but based on the results, I’d have to response in the affirmative.
It’s not just Fox News and its talking heads spewing bullshit of dubious provenance. It’s also rank-and-file Republicans toeing the Trumpian line, even at the cost of their own dignity, integrity, and whatever shreds of self-respect they have left.
The latest example is Republican Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, who by most accounts, had been, until now, a pretty level-headed guy. That was until he was interviewed by ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, who’s not exactly renowned as a hard-hitting journalist.
Still, it was easy enough for Stephanopoulos to make Gov. Sununu look like the craven, morality-free, ethically challenged Republican he is.
[T]here are no “good Republicans.” There may have been some once, but that is no more.
For this week’s Sunday Shows post, we will focus on New Hampshire Republican Governor Chris Sununu.
Sununu got a lot of mainstream political praise as a “normal” Republican when he turned down running for Senate in 2022. He even tried to have others endorse Nikki Haley, who, in comparison to Trump, also gave off that “normal” Republican vibe.
But that’s all about maintaining Republican power, pure and simple. Sununu’s appearance Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” demonstrated that nicely.
Stephanopoulos, understandably gobsmacked by what he was hearing, kept giving Gov. Sununu opportunities to redeem himself. And the Governor, who kept missing the offramp provided to him by Stephanopoulos, was a 24-car pileup looking for a place to happen.
Despite his interview providing multiple opportunities to cleanup the disaster he was creating for himself, Gov. Sununu was having none of it. He wanted America to know that he would support Donald Trump NO. MATTER. WHAT.
Why? Because the Republican barrel has no bottom, that’s why.
SUNUNU: I mean, this has been going on for over a year, and his poll numbers never seem to go down because of the issue.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Well, yeah, you're going to politics, though. I'm asking you about right and wrong. You think it's -- you're comfortable with the idea of supporting someone who's convicted of a federal crime as president?
SUNUNU: Oh, no. No -- I don't think any American is comfortable with any of this. They don't like any of this, of course. But, I mean, when it comes to actually, you know, looking at each of these trials, as they, kind of, take place whether it's this year or next year, or as they, kind of, line up, right now this is about an election, right? This is about politics….
STEPHANOPOULOS: I’m asking whether you’re going to be swayed by it. […] I mean, you're a governor. […] You're an elected official. I’m asking whether you're going to be swayed by it [multiple Trump trials and convictions].
SUNUNU: Yeah. Look, nobody should be shocked that the Republican governor is supporting the Republican president.
Well, sure…but if the Republican Presidential candidate is a convicted felon, shouldn’t that change the calculus? Shouldn’t that be a bridge too far for any good and decent Republican? It should be a bridge too far for any good and decent AMERICAN.
But, like too many MAGAnauts, Sununu holds a double standard when it comes to the GOP’s standard bearer. He may not be “perfectly comfortable” with the idea of a Republican candidate, but he’s “comfortable with the idea of supporting someone who's convicted of a federal crime as president.”
Of course, if that “someone” happened to be a Democrat, Gov. Sununu would’ve already sharpened the blade on the guillotine.
Stephanopoulos even tried appealing to Gov. Sununu’s patriotism. After all, in the wake of January 6, it was Gov. Sununu who said,
It is clear that President Trump's rhetoric and actions contributed to the insurrection. The domestic terrorists who attacked the United States Capitol must be held accountable and prosecuted.
Pretty straightforward, yeah? So, you wouldn’t think that Gov. Sununu would try to weasel out of that, would you? Au contraire, mon ami…you misunderestimate the depravity of New Hampshire’s Governor, who hasn’t met a side of his mouth he couldn’t elucidate from.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you stand by that statement?
SUNUNU: A hundred percent, of course. They have to be prosecuted, and they are being prosecuted. That's good.
I think he -- his actions absolutely contributed to that. There's no question about that. I hate the election denialism of 2020. Nobody wants to be talking about that in 2024. I think all of that was absolutely terrible, but what people are going to be voting for, what I -- what -- the reason I’m supporting not just the president, but the Republican administration. That's what this is.
So, what have we learned from the above? How about that Gov. Sununu believes, like too many Republicans, that winning at any and all costs is a perfectly acceptable equation? If it costs them their integrity, their self-respect, and their souls along the way…well, that’s just a cost of doing business.
And winning covers a multitude of sins.
Of course, politics has never been about ethics or morality. It’s always been about winning. Nothing else matters because the runners-up achieve precisely nothing.
Who finished second to Barack Obama in 2012? Go ahead, I’ll wait….
That’s precisely my point (It was Mitt Romney). No one remembers the first loser.
The problem for the GOP is that it’s becoming more closely associated with rhetorical bomb-throwing idiots and zealots like Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA), a legislator possessed of zero political or personal heft and even less credibility. She knows this but has nonetheless managed to become addicted to the spotlight that being batshit crazy has brought her. She’s so over-the-top batshit crazy, in fact, that she’s eclipsed all of the other Right-wing lowlifes in the GOP Freedumb Caucus- no mean feat, that.
That’s not something to aspire to, BTW. Still, Gov. Sununu’s interview made it clear that one could barely slide a sheet of paper under the difference between supposedly “mainstream Republicans” and the Freedumb Caucus.
Sununu brought up “culture change,” “cancel culture” and “wokeness” to make clear that the line between him and somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene is so faint it can be blown away like dandelion petals. Stephanopoulos kept asking questions, appealing to Sununu’s decency, but to no avail.
One would go broke betting that appeals to Republican decency would bear fruit, but most decent, rational folks (i.e.- non-Republicans) understand where things stand. The electorate is, for the most part, pretty well baked in. MAGAnauts aren’t going to change their allegiance, no matter what happens between now and Election Day. Biden supporters are set as well. There’s the squishy middle, the size of which remains debatable and fluid and is, of course, where the race will be and always is won.
Same as it always was.
Between now and November, attempts will be made to dredge up “scandals” on both candidates, and they will almost certainly turn out to be nonevents, at least to their supporters.
I think I can speak for most of America when I say that I wish we could speed things up, have the g—d——d election today, and be done with it. Alas, the calendar decrees we must be subjected to six more months of silliness, bullshit, accusations, insinuations, and unproven allusions regarding one candidate’s lack of moral fiber or physical and mental fitness.
Of course, this election will say much about America and its citizenry. What it will say is difficult to know at this point, but it will be revealing and probably not complimentary.
In the interim between now and Election Day, there will almost certainly be as much legal news and analysis (about Donald Trump) as election-related news. Never before has a former President been tried on criminal charges and faced the possibility of prison time.
That gets us to the possibility of what happens if Donald Trump is convicted of a felony, sentenced to prison time, AND wins in November.
My brain hurts just pondering the possibilities.
If it does happen, one thing would be certain:
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