All The World's a MAGA Stage...

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man 

in his time 

plays 

many

 

parts...

(Hat tip to derek guy for aggregating these.)

As I may have mentioned once or twice or several hundreds time before, they are all reprogrammable meatbags.   No point debating them or arguing with them or engaging with them for any reason.  

In fact, this was me in May of 2005.  From a post entitled "The Black Hole where the press used to be".  

For those of you doing the math at home, that was going on 26 21years ago,

And page-by-page it followed the same tired You-Must-Be-Shitting-Me Bush nomination playbook. Specifically, a lavish and mindless defense mounted by the infinitely reprogrammable Golem of the Religious Right: that Reliable Fucktard Militia, trained to hold themselves ferociously blind to facts of any kind – no matter how staggering -- that might conflict with the pronouncements of Dear Leader. Always painting anyone standing in their Shining Path as Christ-hating traitors at 100,000 decibels.

And as long as we've taken a swerve down memory lane, this is me from November of 2005:

These reprogrammable pinheads get their “facts” from Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter…and fall apart like Santorum when asked to name Just One of these fiendish Liberal Overlords, and point to Just One of their “lies”. Where is the Liberal Fox News? Where is the Progressive CNN? The Lefty Hate Radio to balance out twenty years of Rightwing AM lies?

And to any student of modern history, doesn't this all sound frighteningly familiar?

The Christopaths believe we are living in the End Times, under siege on all sides by the forces of Darkness, and the Republican Party is the anointed agent of The Lord.

The bigots believe they are at war. That the Negroes and the Jews are in league with the Commie Liberals to steal their jobs and their country. That their glorious Jim Crow Nation can rise once again, and the Republican Party is the place where that Segregationist Reformation can begin.

The oligarchs laugh and laugh and fund the whole filthy mess so they can loot the Earth unmolested.

There is considerable overlap between these factions, but each of them have each been steeping in their own wholly delusional and poisonous mythology for so long that in a very real sense they are not capable to recognizing reality.

Even when reality comes home in body bags.

The burning Right Wing lust for Fascism – for a White Christian Military Strongman who will brutally enforce Fundamentalist ideals of Order and Decency by any means necessary -- has made more inroads, faster, under George Bush than I ever thought would happen in my lifetime and, no, it hasn’t arrived with jackboots and swastikas. It never will. As Huey Long famously said, "When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in an American flag."

It will come swaggering across the deck of an aircraft carrier in a flight suit, looking straight into the cameras, and lying to the American Public.

But none of it is possible without the Moderates. Those I referred to as our own version of the Good German. Men and women who aid and abet and go along with it all because they want their fucking tax cuts and, in the end, they’d rather Rule in Hell than Serve in Heaven...

Never, ever let a Never Trumper lie to you that the base of their party went spontaneously fascist five minutes ago and that no one could have predicted it. 

Burn The Lifeboats