DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE LOUDER THAN THE TRUMPCULT
Take off the kid gloves when it comes to Felonious Trump
I haven’t written in a week, mainly because of the same dumb shit that keeps happening thanks to Cult 45 acting the way I said they’d act once adjudicated rapist Donald Trump also became a convicted felon.
It continues to be incomprehensible to those of us here on Earth One that 34 felony convictions still weren’t enough for his base to finally declare they’d had enough. While plenty of Independents are ready to vote for Joe Biden because they can see Trump for the sundowning lying criminal fraud he is, MAGAts are proudly declaring they’re sticking with the felon.
Yes, they’re calling him a felon and embracing it as a talking point. I can valiantly try to make counterpoints, which will fall on willfully ignorant ears, but here they are anyway:
Would the GOP have supported Mitt Romney for President in 2012 if he had been an adjudicated rapist convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 felony counts while facing 54 more, including crimes against the United States?
Would your average Republican invite an adjudicated rapist convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 felony counts (while facing 54 more, including crimes against the United States) over for dinner at their house, and allow them to hang out with their children? You know, if that person wasn’t named Donald Trump?
What kind of blackmail could be so terrible that it makes his loyalists in Congress look worse than being an adjudicated rapist convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 felony counts (repeat as above)?
My eloquent pal Jeff Tiedrich makes so many of my points for me in yet another blistering post where he focuses on Trump’s obvious sundowning and how fucking insane people have to be to be fine with it.
Trump’s campaign—which can’t spend money on renting air-conditioned indoor spaces for its rallies because it owes hundreds of thousands in unpaid rental fees already—let the MAGA cult broil under the Las Vegas sun all weekend, where Trump whined, “What about me?” after it was reported that over 50 people were taken to the hospital with heatstroke.
His opening act, “Still-At-Large” Marge Taylor Greene, took a break from turning herself into Jack LaLanne to compare Trump to Jesus, in the whole being persecuted way.
I mean, sure, they both talked a lot of bullshit to a terrified group of people who needed a crutch to explain away the things that scare them.
*RECORD NEEDLE SCRATCH*
As I was writing, the Hunter Biden verdict came in. What a load of bullshittery this whole sham trial was. Let’s use ALLLL the MAGA talking points, like it was a witch hunt led by an anti-Biden prosecutor.
Because—as I tweeted this morning before the verdict was announced—if Hunter Biden’s last name was Smith this case never would’ve gone to trial.
Also if Hunter Biden’s last name was Smith, MAGA gun lunatics would be supporting him over such a bullshit charge.
Or, as others have pointed out, if it was Don Jr.
President Joe Biden has only announced his love and support for Hunter, and he did acknowledge that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter, either. I’m guessing Hunter’s lawyers will appeal (just like Trump’s), but again, this was actually what MAGA accuses us of doing to Trump.
You know, the adjudicated rapist convicted felon awaiting sentencing on 34 charges and still facing 54 more.
ANYWAY, the Democrats can use this to bolster the whole “nobody is above the law” line as we wait for the fully compromised conservative members of the Supreme Court (hey Mary-Ann Alito, guess what you can do with all of your flags?) to decide on that whole Presidential immunity thing. Which would apply to Joe Biden, just saying, MAGA.
Democrats need to focus on Felonious Trump’s felonies because he’s still allowed to run for President for some reason. Private citizen Hunter Biden’s legal issues have no impact on our national security, but Donald Trump’s do. Also, Eric, Don Jr, and Ivanka are all criminals in their special awful ways, just ask those kids with cancer that the Trumps stole from.
Help the cause by never letting up on the ridiculous false equivalence arguments from the right. Also, the MAGAbots are extra MAGAbotting, so it’s also completely fine to just block all of them without engaging and instead focus on positive things about the Biden-Harris administration that not enough people know about.
This next month is going to be extra awful now as we await Trump’s sentencing in New York. Why not lean into the whole “Self-Care Summer” trend (which I totally just made up) and take a break from the awful with a sexy rock and roll love story with a feminist throughline?
Yes, that was my latest awkward transition into pushing my book The Sound of Settling, because I’m getting close to my next big sales milestone of 700 copies sold and I’m exhausted from all these months of self-promotion.
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