“Hey, is that Donald Trump’s car?” – American Psycho
Biden likes all-mail voting, Trump prefers all-male voting.
The battle of the Left against Trump continues, as it will for every day of his life. There isn’t really an end to how much he’s rustled the collective jimmies of the Left. It’s especially fun to watch it play out in the Twitter™ X® feeds of Leftist celebrities like John Cusack, Ron Perlman, Steven King or Rob Reiner.
It’s actually amazing to watch the chemicals soak their brain as their amygdala gets hijacked by someone not even in the room (great example here: LINK). And I’m glad that I’ve never been in a small room on a hot day with Cusack, Perlman, King and Reiner – imagine the smell.
Why is that? Trump is a focus. If you go back in time, the Left was similarly fixated on Bush I, Bush II, and Reek, er Mittens Romney. As noted by the commentor El B on last Wednesday’s post Leftism Is A Death Cult That May Kill Us All – Wilder, Wealthy, and Wise (wilderwealthywise.com),
I imagine the next article will be titled, “There’s no good reason you should have to be alive to vote” so at last Pa Wilder can vote Democrat.
Do what you will, there is going to be some benevolence, as well as some malice, in your patient’s soul. The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. There is no good at all in inflaming his hatred of Germans if, at the same time, a promiscuous habit of charity is growing up between him and his mother, his employer, and the man he meets in the train.
C.S. Lewis wrote The Screwtape Letters, where the quote above originates. It was written as if from a demon to his nephew, showing how Evil might best subvert society. In 2023, I think it could simply be a text from Soros to his kid. Lewis absolutely nails this concept, and does it in a simple, cogent, readable paragraph. Sadly for humanity, Leftists live this way, and thrive on it.
All of the hate of the Left has a concrete and local focus, and all of their compassion is spread in such a diffuse manner that it becomes meaningless. This is why these monsters pretend that handouts from the government (from money coerced from actually productive people) to those who meet some nearly arbitrary criteria is the same as actual charity.
I just donated $100 to a charity for blind children, but I doubt they’ll ever see the money.
But back to Trump. After he first said “Build the Wall®” the Left went into overdrive with hate towards Trump, pulling out all of the stops. “Europeans won’t think nice things about us!” they said. My response to that one is actually very, very simple, “So what? My ancestors left there for a reason and we have better steak here and don’t have to share a continent with the French.”
Trump’s presidency wasn’t a failure, but it was close, and it showed off his biggest weaknesses: the chose people based on how much the complimented him, and not based on either actual competence or actual loyalty. His personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, was a prime example. He hired a corrupt caricature of a sleezy lawyer to do business for him, and was shocked when the guy actually turned out to be sleezy.
Who knew???
Trump didn’t build the wall, didn’t stand up to Congress, and blinked when he had the chance to cross the Rubicon and stand for actual election integrity since, yeah, we know that the Left stole the election, and the receipts to back that statement up are starting to pile up. He did add some okay Supreme Court justices, but I think he should have added the Zodiac Killer, Ted Cruz.
I’m telling you, it would have sucked to have been killed just because I’m a Sagittarius.
Had Trump said, “I’m staying here, not because I demand the power, but I will stay here until a President can be rightfully elected to replace me. I declare that elections will take place in November 2021. I will not be a candidate, and will in no way serve past January 20, 2022 regardless of the circumstances. This is necessary to ensure that the legitimacy of the Presidency of the United States remains unsullied.” Oh, sure, he’d have said, “I, your greatest President, will stay in office because you deserve a system that is excellent in a way only I can give you.”
Then, he could have done that, and retired a hero to the middle and the Right and it would have been talked about for 500 years. The Left would have grumbled, and might have lost their demon and the coming inevitable crisis might (stress, might) have been pushed down the road a decade or more.
After Caesar crossed the Rubicon, I believe his first words were, “Can someone get me some dry socks?”
One thing Trump did was completely transform the face of politics. Just as the Left didn’t vote for Biden, instead voting against Trump, Trump unmasked the utter weakness and complicity of the Republican politicians (not the Right) in creating the landscape we have today. It was especially instructive watching Trump eviscerate ¡JEB! ¡JEB! had been the consensus candidate for the establishment, but Trump sucked all the air (and ¡JEB!’s soul, it looked like) out the room.
This was also inevitable. The system has stopped serving the interests of the heritage American middle class for decades. Vox Day put it very well the other day when he noted that the Republican debate featured two Indians arguing about who could give more money to Israel.
I think there are a lot of people who would vote GOP for $20. Heck, vote twice and you can afford a Big Mac®
Will Trump survive the trials? I think not. The original charges are (mainly, as far as I can tell – IANAL) to be farcical. Trump’s later attempts at covering crap up? Not so much. There are legitimate charges that could bring him down if Trump did really try to have records or videos erased.
Regardless, the RINOs are doing everything they can to hide the only candidate that they have that has national impact, the only candidate who is leading in the battleground states, the only candidate who stands a chance against the corrupt vote harvesting system set up by the Left.
Then what? Après moi, le deluge (After me, the flood) is attributed to Louis XV, and is said to foreshadow the French Revolution. Since we need more rain here, I’ll adapt the phrase for our current problem:
Après Trump, qui? (After Trump, who?)
The only person on the Right who can even come close to Trump in charisma and poise is Tucker Carlson. Tucker seems to have as much charisma, but can also add in an intelligence and poise lacking in Trump. Could he manage being President? I have no idea, but when compared with the rest of the candidates on the Right, he leaves them all in the dust.
Longer term who will emerge as a leader? Some corporal that fought in Afghanistan and is fed up?
We’ll see. The current crop of mainstream politicians on the Right and Left make ¡JEB!’s charisma vacuum look like Robert Downy, Jr. Most of their policies are, at best, simple replays of politics that are 20 years into the past, with less of a likelihood of solving our problems than using a 4-year-olds fingerpainting to design a passenger jet, though that might be exactly what Boeing® does nowadays.
I’ll vote for Trump in November 2024 if he’s not in the slammer, obviously. It amuses me to watch the Leftists get in a froth-ridden frenzy against Trump. It’s almost like Leftists don’t believe Biden won the election.
Nice reference to the corporal…..I’ve always said history is a pendulum, and just like Weimar Germany swung far right with their corporal, I think that we’re looking at history echoing there
Far left*
Yeah, Antifa existed before the actual fascists. One breeds the other.
good one John!
Thanks! Was it the stripper?
Back in early 2020, Jeb!!!! had a slush fundraiser on a Saturday at a CC in Charlotte. Decided to mingle with the locals at a nearby neighborhood bar.
Whtta bozo. Knew he was dead meat after few minutes.
Best ever in town was when Mick dropped into The Thirsty Beaver at 1230AM and nobody bothered him.
Yeah, the Mick must have been dozens of times cooler than Jeb.
John – – I concur that Ted Cruz would be an excellent choice for Supreme Court. He is not eligible to run for Pres or VP since he was born in Canada, his parents were Cuban refugees, not citizens and in fact his father did not become a U.S. citizen until after Ted Cruz began his climb in political offices.
Remember that to be Pres or VPres one has to be a natural born citizen. Means: citizen at birth whose parents are both citizens at time of birth. Just being born in the country is not enough.
BTW, Nikki Haley, Bobby Jindal, Marco Rubio, Tulsi (The Hottie) Gabbard, and Vivek Rammaswammy are not eligible. But neither is VPres KamelHo, but the rules never apply to DemonicRats….
Just ask WoeBama…. Ain’t I right, ?? You tell ‘em, Barrak Hussein !!
Oh, and as to The Hottie, Tulsi: she was born in an American protectorate. It is not US soil so she has a weird status, because she would have to be naturalized due to citizenship not being automatically granted to those born of indigenous persons in the protectorate known as American Samoa. See: https://sites.bu.edu/dome/2022/02/24/u-s-citizenship-and-justice-for-american-samoa/
Yes, she served in our military and thus became eligible, like many others who earn citizenship that way, later serving as the first Hindu in Congress as well as the first American Samoan Congresscritter.
I would vote for Tulsi for Prez in a heartbeat. That she is also a hottie is just a bonus.
Tucker has got to rise above just pointing out the mess we are in and move on to the challenge of fixing it.
Where the heck is the downvote button?
It’s . . . weird . . . how all these people who shouldn’t be eligible are drawn to it. And how no one seems to care?
Seriously!
I can’t help but wonder if the ‘application process’ (i.e. – signatures from potential voters, residency, etc) required to get on the ballot shouldn’t include the formal citizenship requirement explicitly stated. Seems odd to have the requirement on record – but never apply it.
Yup.
yes, they don’t seem to care. Like the ineligible “special counsel” – because he’s a .gov attorney – on one of Little Biden’s cases. He’s not eligible to be special counsel, yet he is.
We are going to need more rope.
After a fair trial, of course.
Thank you kind sir for your thoughtful essay
Thanks for coming by! And commenting!
“the only candidate ate”
You mean the candidate with his own gravitational field, his own weather patterns, and orbital path?
Thank you! Fixed and updATEd.
The emoto-vindictiveness of the Left, permanent hysteria including obsessive focus on Trump, betrays the obvious fact that the Prog/Woke/Left is a creature of collective female power. Weak men (Dem or GOP) tag along for the ride, and it’s a fat ride indeed in an empire, even late-stage.
O yeah queen Jezzie has LOTS of willing eunuchs dancing the Empire Glut! She had lots of prophets and priests too. Until they met Elijah.
To repeat, the U.S. is a nation under spiritual control of a feminine demon for at least a century, with power increasing. The current ascent of the ‘divine feminine’ in politics is reflected in totalitarian, lockdown Amerika and its constant motion widdershins.
The late-stage empire is where wealth is more important than honor, and women will abandon families and young children, and . . . oh, wait, all of that sounds familiar.
What if OBrandon’s handlers want failed nation status and welcome mat for external enemies?
They view their fellow travelers as comrades with visions of high apparatchik positions.
The mean girls of the faculty lounge HR department are in for a rude shock and gives me good feelz.
Ted “Small Hat” Cruz just loves him some Israel but then again so do all of the members of the big brothel that we aren’t in. (apologies to Carlin)
Does Tucker ever wear the Criminals In Action lapel pen of the birds that mock?
Pajeet and Pajetta preezy of the steezy?
Yes we can, si se puede?
But what about Abrams/Big Mike for the “historic” feelz?
Mexican Tranny/Fetterman’s Wife 2028.
Whoa, Abrams/Big Mike? That would be the most testosterone in a campaign since 2016!
It seems pretty clear to me that, leading up to 2016, DJTrump was the preferred candidate of the Left, the easiest for Hillary to defeat. And, they may have been right about that, except that she wasn’t even able to beat him. Now, the Left may be trying the same strategy: give Trump all the political publicity, so everyone can see how bad he is. Don’t they ever learn?
It starts as farce, and is repeated as tragedy. We’re in the latter part of that sentence.
I have to say that until recently, I could never figure out exactly *WHY* the progressive/Left were trying so hard to make DJT *even more* popular – by piling on more and more at least semi-bogus indictments – and thereby further energizing his base.
Then it hit me: They’re giving cover for certain governors of certain ‘key’ states – in order that they can ban him from the ballots (on 14th Amendment grounds, of course!). Make sure the only candidate you *can’t* beat (w/o MASSIVE ballot box shenanigans) is taken out of the race by deeming them ineligible to run! This is the only rational explanation I can come up with to explain their actions.
Oh, right – there I go again expecting the opposition (let alone anyone with Trump Derangement Syndrome) to act rationally! 😉
As to 173dVietVet’s contention that many of the existing candidates aren’t even eligible to run makes me wonder – does *anybody* even try to follow the rules anymore? Or is that only for us plebes? 🙄
At the current point in time (and lacking a miracle occuring and/or the arrival of the SMOD) I’m still inclined to vote for DJT, even if he’s incarcerated – and ESPECIALLY if he’s not on the ballot – by writing him in if necessary. I’d be interested in seeing how they’d handle/report that (that is: if a large percentage wrote him in), If they didn’t play it straight – we’d have to figure out a way how to prove that the tabulations were adulterated – and/or go straight to vigilante justice, not that I’d ever suggest such a thing. 😇
We are indeed living in interesting times!
Brian, you are so on top of this! And the RINOs are leading the charge to 14th Trump.
>Trump didn’t build the wall, didn’t stand up to Congress
You just weren’t paying attention. The fight to fund the wall could fill volumes. AND, he did get Mexico to pay through increased fees on money transfers, excise taxes, and junking NAFTA. He even had to pull some shenanigans with the defense budget, claiming that border control is a national defense issue. As the Red Baron said, ‘It was wild fun.’
As to Congress, yes, he wasting 11 months trying to junk the ADA. The real villian, why we still have the ADA, is because of Rand Paul, who insisted that the ONLY path was complete repeal, or do nothing. So we pay extra tens of billions per year to democrat jobs because of Paul. Imagine the balancing act Trump had to pull off, fighting Paul without antagonizing him and his supporters.
The American system depends on cooperation to do things. We usually don’t want cooperation, so they’ll slow down and think things through. That means vocal minorities can slow down, even stop, mute majorities.
But then again, I speak with a hillbilly drawl, and I can’t help but notice that your ‘dumb guy voice’ is hillbilly (ep. 36).
Love you guys. Bye.
He wasted time, and didn’t fight Congress early enough or hard enough when he had both houses.
I’ll note that The Mrs. speaks with a drawl, and I have nothing but respect for folks that speak with a drawl, since those are my people, too, since 1760 or so when Great Grandpa McWilder settled Alabama, and Great Grandpa Wilder settled Virginia.
Love you, too! Take care!
And those weren’t two Indians. Those were two Americans. The Left has racialized everything to point of insanity. Leave us not join them in their mental disease.
I’ll have to disagree. They may have been born here, but they were not raised with American values, they were raised with Indian values. They are, in their core, Indian. That’s wonderful. If Vivek’s name was Brandon or Steve or Fred, I might agree with you.
Indian. Not American. I could move to Japan, and my Wilder children, born there, would not be Japanese, probably not until the third generation.
Abandoned the “vote harder!” game some years ago. I will vote for issues and people up to the county level and no further. I will not lend legitimacy to a system which wants me dead. “Ballots to County; bullets beyond” probably sounds pretty cool in Latin.
I think there are some people that may show up and translate that . . .
Suffragia in comitatum, glandes ultra.
Works forwards and backwards in google translate FWIW.
I like. And you’ll like tomorrow’s post.
Many on the Left consider Tucker Carlson to be the most dangerous man in America for the very reasons you outlined and because he has become increasingly populist in his outlook. Ramaswamy would be a horrible choice: he isn’t opposed to immigration; he just wants to make it easier for more Indians to enter the country and take the better paying jobs. He doesn’t know anything about America or Americans other than what he parrots from conservative talking points and history books. Gabbard is another Trojan horse candidate: she has a history of legislating for more immigration from Pacific island countries and to make it easier for white collar immigration. Keep in mind that she has historically been a Democrat, had previously endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and ran for the Democrat ticket in 2020.
Plus? Vivek was a Soros Minion in 2011.
To be fair John, being in prison is not necessarily a bar to being voted into office. I believe this happened for one or two Sinn Fein Candidates in the lead up to Irish Independence.
Well, it would be pretty cool to be Commander-in-Chief and just order the 82nd to come get you outta the Georgia slammer.