Monday, November 23, 2020

Chekov's Republicans


If you show an unhinged fascist mob willing to follow an obviously deranged racist conman into ruin in 2020... (from the WaPo today):

How Trump placed a ticking time bomb at the center of our system

So is this really how it’s going to be? Will it now become a fact of our political life that Democrats will be required to win future presidential elections by steal-proof margins in order to prevail?

With President Trump’s attempts to overturn the election continuing in Michigan and Wisconsin, more Republicans are distancing themselves. They are “subtly urging” Trump to accept reality and are “losing patience” with his antics, we are told.

But in the very formulation that some of these Republicans have adopted — and in the sheer numbers who have refrained from going even this far — there is grounds for serious pessimism about what all this portends...

...you will use definitely use that unhinged fascist mob to do terrible things by 2024. 


No Half Measures



7 comments:

Unknown said...

"How THE REPUBLICAN PARTY placed a ticking time bomb (TRUMP) at the center of our system..."

FTFY Sargent Greg. Fer cryin' out loud, call it correctly. Reality isn't difficult, nor subjective. IT'S A DUCK.

Anonymous said...

Wow. It's almost as if, when you spend decades creating a nationwide network of hate-based propaganda clearing-houses, thinly disguised as news programs, churches and talk radio stations; and when millions of US citizens spend decades taking in the vomitous output of those propaganda outlets, internalizing it, and using it as justification to ac on their worst impulses... it's almost as if, when you do all these things, bad stuff happens.

Who'd a thunk? I mean, nobody could have seen that coming, right?

Mr XD said...

OOOw, "subtly urging" AND "losing patience" in the same sentence. Sounds like a mutiny for sure.

Jason said...

I've read more than a few political pundits and social scientists who try to explain the mindless insanity of the core right winger. They mention income inequality, loss of middle class jobs and manufacturing, the changing demographics and other valid but shallow reasons. They never mention the decades long skull fucking the midwest and south was getting from the insular political media diet of far right wing assholes and Fox news. I don't think there's any other meaningful reason for why republicans have gone ass over tea kettle.

Robt said...

One thing is for sure,
We do not have enough Sanitariums for the mentally insane.

We must rely on science . If it be chemical or sounds of Woodstock treatments.

Anonymous said...

Someone's going to say "Trump became president today" on Inauguration Day. Who you got?

Robt said...

I am still waiting for him to pivot into being presidential.

Not in the Alternative Facts GOP dictionary definition.

That involves golfing with Tiger in the woods.