MAGA 2024: RIP GOP, LOL!
They know Trump can't beat Biden, so they're laughing all the way to the destruction of our democracy
The Trumpcult wouldn’t know the truth now if it smacked them in their dumb fucking faces.
You can show them real videos and they’ll cry about “deep state fake AI” even though they never post real photos of their compromised corpulent cognitively declining Dear Leader.
But they’ll happily share any doctored videos of Joe Biden that make it seem like he’s lost in a field, wandering off stage, or frozen in place.
I shall now present two examples of the willfully obtuse MAGA cultery.
EXAMPLE ONE
The New York Post—the Murdoch-owned propaganda rag not even good enough to wrap rancid week-old dead fish dredged from the Hudson River near a sewage facility—tried that once again after our legitimately elected President was in France for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
A heavily edited video circulated of President Biden seemingly wandering away in a field after a paratrooper had landed. He had actually walked towards another paratrooper who had also just landed, and spoke a few words to him. Then an aide takes the President by the arm to rejoin the group he had been standing with, because folks, they’re on a schedule here.
Joe Biden loves to talk to people, in case you didn’t know that about him. The gift of gab, as the Irish say. He’s notorious for staying late at events because he wants to meet everyone who wants to meet him. I’ve witnessed this for myself twice when I wanted to meet him, and I also witnessed his aides trying like hell to get him out of one place because they’re running so late to get to the next place.
Of the many real human qualities Joe Biden possesses that adjudicated rapist convicted felon Donald Trump doesn’t, it’s his natural curiosity about other people that makes him a great public servant. He loves to hear their stories. His genuine empathy comes through when he learns about their struggles, and his joy is real when they share their triumphs.
The right hates this in the same way they hate how much Joe Biden loves and supports his son, Hunter.
Meanwhile, adjudicated rapist convicted felon Donald Trump wasn’t there because he’s already surrendered his passport and has been banned from entering 37 countries.
But he WAS in Detroit over the weekend to use any Black person he could find at a staged photo op at a Black church.
You can probably guess what actually happened. Yep, mostly white people in the not-at-all-full pews (probably because #TrumpSmells, PEE-YEW) while one of Trump’s favorite go-to’s-of-color, Ben Carson, meandered in front of them for a few minutes. And then Trump spewed some lying bullshittery IN A CHURCH.
Of course, that’s not what Trump’s KKKampaign manager, KKKaroline Leavitt, tweeted. It’s not what his favorite Hatch Act violator, Crypt Keeper KKKellyanne “Alternative Facts” Conway, claimed on Faux News.
8000 people, lolllz. And another 100,000 were outside because they couldn’t get into the church.
Stop telling us we aren’t seeing and hearing what we’re seeing and hearing, Cult Freaks. We know how scared you are of what’s going to happen on July 11th at the convicted felon adjudicated rapist’s sentencing. We know he’s not going to show up to debate Joe Biden, because all the President has to say in response to anything out of Trump’s lying sundowning puckered orange anus mouth is, “Convicted felon says what?”
And that’s only because I don’t expect Joe Biden to keep saying “adjudicated rapist” over and over.
But seriously, once it’s clear Trump’s going to pull a no-show, I hope the Biden campaign turns all of that free air time into an opportunity to showcase the Biden-Harris record of success in comparison to Trump’s list of felonies.
When Trump was staging his photo ops in Detroit, the MSM should have countered that coverage with a nice little package about Joe Biden being the first sitting President to join a picket line when auto workers were on strike. That solidarity with the union earned President Biden the earliest endorsement ever from the UAW. I find that much more important than anything Trump lied about on Saturday.
The MSM is still not reporting accurately on how successful Joe Biden is because the Trump campaign is still staging a clown show that gets ratings. While King Baby was bloviating in Detroit, George Clooney and Julia Roberts hosted a fundraiser in Los Angeles for Joe Biden which included a conversation with Barack Obama moderated by Jimmy Kimmel. Jack Black trended for his awesome Stars and Stripes shortalls and his impassioned speech supporting Joe Biden. They raised nearly $30 million in one night. Is that the lead story anywhere?
Of course not.
But guess what is making the rounds? A clip of Obama taking Biden’s hand to “lead him” off stage to make it seem like Joe is super fragile.
In reality, Obama was gently reminding his former VP that they needed to go, because they’d been enjoying the standing ovation at the end of the show long enough and they were on a schedule and they needed to jet. Joe Biden would’ve been happy to shake hands with every last member of that audience, but the man also had places to be in the morning.
Weird how that clip was everywhere at the same time this photo of sundowning Paw Paw holding on to Jr’s thumb (wtf) because he’s got a wonky leg for a medical reason we haven’t been told about was also going viral.
Gah, I bet it’s all shriveled like an overlooked chicken drumstick.
MY POINT HERE IS, we need to be #LouderThanMAGA all day every day until Election Day. The GOP wants to start making $500 bills with his picture on them. They want to name tidal waters after a traitor who can’t stop talking about an ocean full of batteries and sharks. They want to rename Dulles Airport for him (rename the airport yes, after him? FUUUUCK NO). The MAGA Madness must end. ENOUGH ALREADY. The MAGA Cult will never care that Trump is a felon because they think the destruction of our democracy is hilarious. We need to MAKE FACTS MATTER AGAIN FFS.
*exhales* Fuck, and it’s only Monday.
Back to the real reason I started this Substack: I’m still just shy of selling 700 copies of The Sound of Settling, so I once again seek your assistance. Sharing is caring, dontcha know. And you know because I keep telling you, so let’s do all of ourselves a solid and get my beloved book to finally blow up so other people can worry about selling it and I can focus on adapting it and the follow-up into a streaming series.
Did you watch the Sunday June 16 edition of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He took apart the GOP version of Mein Kampf aka Project 2025 masterfully.
Yesterday was the Silverton Strawberry Festival. There’s a memorial in the park to honor the Civil War dead. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve started a poem “I’m sorry, Mr. Lincoln”. RIP GOP. I wish it didn’t have to end this way for the Grand Old Party.
I shook the hand of Sen. Wayne Morse (OR-D) in 1967, at an 8th grade graduation in my two-room schoolhouse. My dad was an Eisenhower Republican. Dad was beaming shaking Sen. Morse’s hand. Two good men. Politics was politics. Good people were available in both parties.
Sen. Morse had been a Republican. He switched parties in the early 1950’s. I’ll make no judgment about him switching parties. But hello 👋🏻 , it’s weird #woo that he switched parties after he was kicked in the head by a horse. (Gawd, that sounds like an interesting story for a movie.)
Love you to the moon and back 🌙💜💫 xoxo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Morse