All that glitters

3/4/21, UPDATE:  

    FYI the idol was made in China.
 

I just couldn’t pass this up.

Magic princess!

            What’s with the golden statue of Trump at the CPAC convention? Were they joking? Surely it was a joke. A joke at Trump’s expense? I don’t think so! They are too afraid of upsetting his majesty.

            I’m going to have to say that whoever came up with the idea of the statue wasn’t concerned about optics. At all. Who was their target audience anyway? Was the statute designed by a committee? It kind of looks that way.

            I mean seriously. Trump in shorts and sandals? Does the man even own a pair of shorts and sandals? Besides I question sandals without socks. The guy wears tighty whities (we know this thanks to the paid-off porn star memoirs) so it’s a good bet he’d have socks on with those sandals.

            Too svelte and the tie isn’t nearly long enough.

            They obviously weren’t striving for accuracy. Symbolism perhaps?

            What? Trump covers his loins with patriotism. If that’s true we’re missing the magnificent bulge.

            And then there’s the princess wand with the star.

            What?

Trump is a magic princess?

Optics

            Evangelical Christians may have a hard time waiting to get miniature versions for their churches to go next to their American flags for their worship services. Songs and bible verse selections could get real interesting. Will Franklin Graham be sorry that he didn’t think of it first? That’s the real question. Or is the better real question “when will they start doing human sacrifices?” Well, now that I think of it, they’ve already done that at their services with non-mask wearing for Jesus theology.

            If they substituted a collection plate for the wand they could roll the Golden Trump up and down the aisle during the offering and then 10% of that could go to Trump. I mean after all it’s on wheels! I just love that! Whoever came up with is a genius--make that a Donald-Jenius-Trump Jenius.

            Seriously, after that episode with the cardboard cutout, Marjory Taylor Greene won’t be able to keep her hands off of this one.

Marketing

            It all comes down to marketing. Different sizes for different uses. The Golden Trump statue just cries out to be a Christmas ornament! Then there’s the convention size, stadium size, church size, home shrine size, car bobble head size, pocket size and battery operated size suitable for discreet personal use.

            Normally I would say that I probably went too far with that last one but these are far from normal times that we live in. As I think back to the time when the woman at the Trump rally had on the T-shirt with the saying that Trump could grab her.  And now the shirts are available for purchase on the internet.

And there you have it.

 

What hath Trump wrought?

 Fortress America!

“Our country has had enough.

We will not take it anymore.”

        Donald Jenius Trump made the above comments on January 6, 2021, among others, after being the President of the nation for 4 years. “We the People” agreed with his statement on November 3^rd, 2020 and declined to grant him a second term.

        After he said that his merry band of MAGATrump Head seditionists stormed the Capitol in attempt to overthrow our government. Republican politicians supported his attempt. They supported his attempted coup leading up to the trashing of our Capitol ending a 240 year run of our Republic having a peaceful transfer of power. They attempted to make us like Myanmar.

They failed.

He failed.

Chaos End

        And now we have more fencing, surrounding the Capitol to defend people from the mob of thugs that would bring it down. Some of the very same armed militia types that assaulted state capitols around the country at Trump’s request sewing fear. Widespread fear. Fear founded in lies. The chaos of lies.

        Fear this. Fear that. Fear the Muslims. Fear the brown people. Fear the socialists. Fear the LGBTQ. Fear the border. Fear equality. Fear the non-Christian. Fear minorities voting. Fear the poor. Fear the vote of the people. Fear science. Fear masks. Fear vaccines. Fear helping others.

        The Trump conspiracy-driven incompetent clique ended as it began and was throughout their four year run—in chaos. The chaos of a fortunately bungled coup attempt of people calling themselves patriots as they tried to overturn the results of a legitimate election and overthrow our government by harming Republicans, Democrats and Independents.

Easy Answer.

        How did a person like Representative Greene get elected? That same question could be asked about Boebert, Hawley, Cruz, Ghomert, Cotton, Jordan, Gaetz, McConnell, Graham, McCarthy and all of the other unindicted co-conspirators and enablers. There’s an easy answer. They were elected and supported by people just like them. People that believe just like them and act like them.

        That was the jenius of Donald Jenius Trump. He understood MAGAT Heads completely when he said that he could shoot someone on 5^th Avenue and they would still vote for him. Would vote for a cold-blooded murderer. And vote for a cold-blooded murderer they did. To the tune of 74 million this time.

        A murderer that caused hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths hard lined straight to him and all of his enablers from allies like the Kurds that he turned his back on to our nation’s citizens. Ultimately he killed too many with his incompetence and inability to learn. That contributed to his loss.         They still support him. They still support his coup.

They are Trump.

Aftermath

        Republicans have been successful in making America an armed camp from top to bottom at least for a few days. Troops in a walled off capitol made necessary to protect the transfer of power from their armed mob of MAGAT insurrectionists still intent on overruling the will of the majority of people to satisfy their desire for a fascist nation with their kind of white people in charge.

        What’s the answer? What do we need?

More guns!

More walls!

More security!

        The Republican answer is always that more guns are needed. A nation that is awash in guns needs more guns. More guns are needed on the streets, homes, schools and at the Capitol to protect us! More fencing! Security checkpoints! More riot shields. More bullet proof vests. More barbed wire!

Everywhere in their Amerika!

Loyalty is a one way street

        Who pays for all of the above? All the troops called in? All the damage that was done to the Capitol? All the legal expense of dealing with traitors now and in the future? All the ongoing extra security needed?

We the taxpayers!

        The cost so far from Trump’s attempt to overturn the legitimate vote that he lost, is a half billion dollars. That’s on the low side. All the costs have yet to be added up. What’s more, the costs will be ongoing. And they will only be able to charge a fraction of the thousands the people that should be charged for their treason.

        The majority of rubes that Trump et al got to do his dirty work won’t be charged. There are too many and all the cases of those that should be charged would clog up our courts. Trump could have pardoned all of them en masse like President Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers. Trump didn’t.

        Loyalty is a one way street for the fraidy leader that did not even walk with the insurgents like he said he would. He could have walked at the front and led them.

        He could have walked right in to the Capitol, past the barricades and guards. He could have led the “troops.” Who would have stopped him?

        Who should really pay? How about….

Trump the multi-billionaire who caused it.

Crows

        And MAGAT Heads around the country are crowing on social media and in the news that they are proud of what has happened. Bragging that they trashed the Capitol and tried to overturn the vote of “We the People.” Those that weren’t able to vandalize wish they had been.

        There are already 2024 flags waving in the land. They are preparing for the next one and will “be better.”  

“Trial by combat!”

Left behind

        Say goodbye for awhile to the America that former President Donald Jenius Trump would have stuck us with. Brought to you exclusively by Trump the Jenius, his MAGAT Heads, the Republican and Evangelical parties along with their various militia thugs. His very own paramilitary Republican Guard to do his bidding. His supplicants.

        The religion of Trump remains. He is the forever victim, forever whining. Even now he’s watching TV and plotting. Plotting how to do what he does best to our nation. Plotting chaos to help Putin. Away from the MAGAT Heads that he never brought to the White House or entertained at Mar-a-Lago. Too low class for him to associate with.

        Plotting.

And cheating at golfing.

 

We are there

 

Civil War sounds so ugly.

            There is no “civil” war. It is decidedly uncivil.

            There was no “peaceful transfer of power.” Trump saw to that. The failure of the mob to accomplish his goals quietened him. Goals that were discussed at a Trump Tower meeting the day before. Goals to attempt a coup and overturn the vote of “We the People.”

            But only temporarily.

Soft Civil War

            We are engaged in Civil War already. It’s a soft Civil War with relatively few deaths. So far. January 6^th was another trial run just like the attacks at state Capitols. Probing. Checking things out. We came within a hairsbreadth of losing the Republic. Five lives were lost that day. One hundred forty Capitol Police were injured, some severely. Injuries that they will carry for a lifetime.

            The lawful vote of the election was rejected by the majority of Republicans with cries of non-existent voter fraud giving them an excuse to condone the violence, egged on by an immoral President.

            The people that they convinced stormed the Capitol to stop the vote count that was taking place.

True believers. True Trumpers. True MAGATrump SEDITIONISTS. Not Country. Not Party. Trump. 

His immorality is their immorality.

Treason for Dummies

            Who are these people; the people that reject our Republic and democracy?

            Who would the majority of these people be? Would they be the same people that believe every filthy made up conspiracy that White Supremacists pump out? Would they be the followers of the made-up Q? How about every racist organization that was represented in the mob that trashed the Capitol? The ones that believe President Obama is Muslim and isn’t a natural-born citizen? The criminals that showed up at state Capitols with long guns to intimidate legislators when Trump asked for liberation? Every seditious MAGA Trump (MAGAT) supporter that believes every lie they’ve been told by people like Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy, Q, Greene, White Supremacists, Confederates, Russians, Proud Boys, militias, Giuliani and Trump?

            The answer?

All of the above.

 “Stand back and stand by!”

            That’s what Trump said to the Proud Boys. Then he turned them loose on the Capitol to try and overturn the vote of “We the People”. They looked for people to harm, to kidnap and to kill.

            When Senator Cruz was speaking to the Senate he claimed that 39 % of Americans believe the vote was rigged. Well, duh. Practically every Republican leader in the country has been promoting that lie for literally months. Trump promoted that lie before the vote even took place. He promoted that lie after he won the 2016 election.

            While the inauguration was taking place Trump jetted to his summer palace. His last act as President was a non-act. He hung his MAGAT-heads out to dry by not giving them pardons. And on top of that he condemned (faintly) the violence of the insurrection that he encouraged. MAGAT-heads will face the courts. Trump will face the golf course. That’s his

“Trial by combat.”

Impunity

Not guilty

            There isn’t any way that I can see 17 Republicans siding with Democrats to vote Trump guilty of inciting an insurrection. He is clearly guilty, but if they find him guilty then they are admitting their own guilt as well. They are judging themselves and they are their own jury.

            They have either backed Trump or excused his lies, actions, false conspiracies, behavior and sedition. They will hide behind the Constitution that they have sought to destroy while they continue to incite the Republican MAGA seditionists.

            Everybody should be held accountable!

But them.

Republican Sampler. 

• A current member of the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene, threatened to kill Democrats and FBI agents PRIOR to getting elected. She believes in the Q! (She also thinks the wildfires in California were started by giant space lasers.)
• Republican MAGA Congressional seditionists tried to overturn the lawful vote of “We the People”.
• In Texas, Rep. Kyle Biedermann submitted a bill for the state to secede from the United States. Prior to the 2016 election, the largest secession website in the country was in Texas and run by the Russians. There are other Republican secession movements as well.
• Secession movements among Republicans aren’t new. Sarah Palin’s husband Todd, now divorced, was a member of a secession Party in Alaska and she attended one of their conventions.
• In Oregon, the state RNC passed a resolution calling the attack on the Capitol a “false flag” and that the Democrats were actually the ones that did it. (For reals.)
• Representative Kevin McCarthy said that it was all our fault. (And some Nazis are very fine people too while we’re at it.)
• In Arizona they censured their Representative Cindy McCain, Senator Jeff Flake and Gov. Doug Ducey for not being seditiony enough even though McCain supported overturning the lawful vote of “We the People” in the Presidential election.
• Alaska Republican Jamie Allard defended a 3Reich vanity plate as being benign. She was on the Human Rights Commission and has since been removed.
• Georgia Republican State Representative David Clark was removed from the chamber for refusing to test for Covid. They don’t like wearing masks and they don’t like being tested.
• This is a favorite of mine. Neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier Arthur Jones won the Republican nomination for the 3rd Congressional District in Illinois. Yes, an actual Nazi won a GOP primary. The RNC blamed media for him winning. Classic!
• I’m going to just stop here without bothering to list all the racists that were uncovered in the Trump Administration. Some of you might remember their resignations.

 The Dudes

            I should avoid starting these lists because they could just go on forever and seditious MAGA Republicans will either respond with some irrelevant whataboutism or share some highly detailed erroneous piece of information. The link provides a nice explanation of the concept of whataboutism and I love this line from their definition, “If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything?”

            House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy signed on to answering the above quote affirmatively.  “As a nation, I know we sit back and we’re appalled by what we’re seeing,” McCarthy said. “But I want everybody to take a deep breath and understand: We all have some responsibility here.”

Cray. Real cray.

            But keep in mind that they are using the “Dudes” defense as in some other dudes did it. It wasn’t the seditious terrorists Proud Boys and MAGA insurrectionists. It was Antifa, Democrats and BLM infiltrators! So the crowd that just looked and acted like the people at every Trump rally that has ever been were cunningly disguised imposters with all of their Trump flags, paraphernalia and White Racist gear.

            They were good. They were so good that they fooled the FBI by infiltrating hundreds of Facebook pages with videos posted by people that actually looked like the people they were impersonating.

             So, Republicans are the ‘Law and Order’ Party with the following exceptions and disclaimers:

• Upholding their oaths of Office.
• Sacking the Capitol.
• Their own responsibility for continuing to incite treasonous behavior.
• Being truthful about Trump losing the election.
• Recognizing 62 court decisions about the election being legal and their being zero widespread fraud.
• Holding the President accountable for inciting an insurrection while holding the Seditious Republican MAGA terrorists responsible.
• Being truthful in general.

            So they are the Law and Order Party.

Kind of.

Trial of the Century

            We’re going to have ringside seats to the Senate trial concerning the article of impeachment. There will be lots of really good speeches. LOTs. Evidence will be presented. Republicans will reject it. Make that denounce it. They have pressing party matters to protect. Trump is giving them orders perceived as threats. The party is still his.

            We need to keep in mind during the trial Trump’s infamous remarks to the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by!” until he turned them loose on the Capitol and Congress. In the immortal words of Vice President Pence in regards to excusing whatever malicious act Trump commits.

“Well, that’s Donald Trump.”