Saturday, November 21, 2020

Dying Gasp

 WHEN THE NEWS reported that Trump had summoned republican leaders from the Michigan state legislature to bask in his presence, the intent obvious, one final fearful tremor shot through me. Like Obama said: for Trump to get what he wants, anything goes. Attention and fame, wealth, and power, in that order. I sighed in relief when I heard that the state legislators were not persuaded to send Trump electors to the college. Don't states have laws requiring that the winning candidate from the winning party gets to send its electors? Insiders say that Trump never expected to win election four years ago, was unprepared adn a bit overwhelmed, but grew to love the attention and power, predictably. After four years, he had become addicted to it, and simply could not let go. But, the legislators survived a private little chat with Al Capone, emerged with nary a scratch, defiantly undeterred in their determination to follow standard procedure, to do the right thing. Bless them. Trump's bizarre breach of responsibility and duty, Trump's unprecedented behavior will make the history books. Every other defeated for reelection president in American history has accepted defeat and left at the appropriate time, without all the kicking and screaming. I've always been much more interested in Trump's supporters than in Trump, psychologically, for I consider them morally bankrupt reprobates, merely for sticking with him, and I always will. Either they really hate illegal immigrants, are racists, don't mind pathological liars as long as they have the right agenda, or all three. Donald Trump is far and away the most morally, ethically, and legally reprehensible excuse for a human being who ever gained high office in the United States, his biography and presidency clearly show that, and ye, those who supported him throughout his presidency will remain forever undeterred by reality, even if he is convicted of felonies after he leaves office, as is quite possible. In a nation of reprobates, Trump could probably run against Biden in twenty twenty four from a prison cell, and get seventy million votes. we must resign ourselves to the reality that some people just have what it takes to become a cult leader. That Jim Jones, Charlie Mansion charisma. sometimes a cult leader starts our as a cult leader, then the cult becomes a world wide religion after his dramatic demise. Future historians may one day be writing histories of the emergence and rampant spread of the cult of the True Orange One, or some such bizarreness. It wouldn't be any more bizarre than what we've already seen.

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