Years ago I asked that question. As scandal after scandal, vile rally after vile rally took place, I asked of MAGAts, what would it take to make them open their eyes to what they were supporting?
What would it take to make them realize they had been willingly marinating in a sewer of bigotry and racism and misogyny and callous disregard for human life (unless it is white and monied, of course).
What would it take to make them listen to the words being spoken when he did not think anyone could hear? I still am dumbfounded at how an excited yell ended the run of Howard Dean, yet 'grab them by the pussy' only endeared that sack of sewage to them more.
What would it take to make them see how his words were the literal definition of stochastic terrorism - how many more, like Heather Heyer, needed to die for that light to dawn?
What would it take for them to see how completely unfit a bankrupt reality show character was to setting foot in the Oval office let alone on the world stage?
What would it take to see how cozying up to dictators was completely anathema to what this country stands for?
What would it take to make them understand that people they actually knew and *gasp* loved were literal targets of his administration?
Mocking a disabled reporter at a rally did not do it. Mocking a literal prisoner of war and revered senator did not do it. Calling for punishment against any woman who sought out abortive care. Ripping families apart at the border. WIthholding visitor logs at the White House. Advising people to inject bleach or put light bulbs in their bodies or clean the shelves of horse dewormer to combat COVID. OVER A MILLION FELLOW CITIZENS DEAD BECAUSE HE COULD NOT BE BOTHERED TO TELL YOU TO WEAR A MASK OR GET VACCINATED - EVEN THOUGH HE DID BOTH.
None of it turned their heads. Like any good cult member whose head is filled with painful cognitive dissonance, they simply doubled down, bought more flags, coughed in our faces, printed ever more vile t-shirts and buttons, and now join him in the march to completely dismantle this great experiment called The United States of America.
I have written several times this past week about his choice of VP candidate, James Donald Bowman James David Hamel James David Vance J.D. Vance JD Vance. A power hungry, shape shifting ghoul who realized years ago that the easiest route to the political top was to play the rubes. To say the bumper stickery things they could easily process. To play to their imagined fears. To target people they did not like. To blame the people they blamed.
Despite being married to a woman of Indian descent, and having three children with brown skin and Indian names, he gladly joined forces with the side that openly targets anyone with brown or darker skin. A man with an Ivy league education, married to same, who now openly castigates education as indoctrination and supports the abolishment of the Department of Education. A man who wants to track your menstrual cycles (read: fertility, hello, Handmaids Tale?), punish you for traveling for an abortion, and views you as lesser than should you be childless. Well, he does view as you as more than in one instance. If you are childless, he believes you should pay more in taxes.
I said earlier this week that given how his past statements about Trump, his Hillbilly ELIEgy BS, and his feelings towards women have been front and center, I did not see him being long for the Trump world. Add to that the endless couch fucking memes (and the AP all but retracted their headline midweek about him NOT sexing up his loveseat as they admitted it was not properly vetted) and now the provable searching he has done for dolphin porn?
Well, your Maybelline Mussolini will not stand for being embarrassed for much longer. If I had to guess, he will pull Vance, throw him under the clown car wheels, back up and over him a few times for good measure, and replace him with someone equally abhorrent and equally unvetted. He will simply point to how our side switched the candidate at the top of the ticket, so he should get to do it, too.
Whatever. Again, his choices, which I am sure will be again influenced by Tucker Carlson and the Heritage Foundation, will just be another shade of Dumb and Dumber Vile and Viler.
But back to the wannabe dicktator...
Last night, while speaking to an assemblage of faux Christians at TPUSA (Turning Point), he dropped this bomb.
Trump: You have to get out and vote. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four years, it will be fixed, it will be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore.. In four years, you won’t have to vote again. pic.twitter.com/DBGcBr3Wht
— Acyn (@Acyn) July 27, 2024
ARE. YOU. LISTENING?
This is the ultimate in what will it take questioning of you.
You claim to be patriotic. You claim to love this country. You constantly drone on and on about the founding fathers. Your allegiance has been to a crybaby loser whose sole drumbeat for nearly four years has been about election interference! and stolen election! Yet here he is - saying it out loud - that if he gets back into office there will not be voting ever again.
That doesn't make you a little uneasy? That doesn't strike you as unpatriotic? Illegal? AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION?
Small aside: Anyone who still claims to be an undecided voter in this race? GTFO. You are an attention whore who loves being pursued and courted or simply a willfully ignorant buffoon. The choice has never been so stark. One side openly campaigning to destroy our democracy and one side working to save it. It's not a difficult choice. Unless you're just fucking stupid.
Look, the man is undeniably a coward, a blowhard, filled more more hubris than a Goodyear blimp is with helium. And that is fine. In the public square. Even on your favorite reality TV program. Let him puff his chest, lie about his accomplishments, bankrupt everything he touches, cavort with porn stars and other sexual deviants. He is allowed to blather as much as he wants from any street corner in this nation.
But not from the Oval Office.
Because in the Oval Office these promises will be made real. Pr0ject 2O25 will be implemented. People you love will have their rights stripped away, their very lives literally endangered. Your wife's menstrual cycle, hell, her BODY, will become government domain. Your taxes will go up, billionaires' will go down. Agencies that protect everything from the integrity of baby formula to the water that comes out of your tap will be gone. And now, he is on the record as saying you will never need to vote again.
If this country's media were not bought out largely by the same billionaires whose taxes will go down, last night's words would be above the fold on every newspaper and the leading story on every news channel. But they're not.
Because if they were, maybe, just maybe, that would finally get your attention.
Ha.
Who am I kidding? You'll just throw on your Grab My Pussy t-shirt, buy another flag, and continue your slackjawed march to oligarchy.
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