Stupid is as stupid posts. Dan Bongino was the heir to the Rush Limbaugh throne for a brief while and then the powers that be in right-wing media decided to take Limbaugh’s syndicated show and give the airwaves to various talents in local markets. But Bongino does have a podcast. And he managed to annoy Stephen King, which is never a good idea because King is very direct.
This exchange between these two personalities took place in May of last year but it’s coming up again in the trending tag called #MAGACultMorons. The idea of the tag is that members of the MAGA cult don’t know much of anything and that’s why they love Trump and he them. He can exploit their ignorance to his advantage and they adore him because he’s a dummy like they are. Trump represents their greatest hopes and wishes, the triumph of the stupid, untalented, and lazy.
And maybe America will fall for it again. Anything is possible. I don’t think it will happen but the fact that we’re even seeing him atop the GOP ticket, again, is indicative of major problems in this country, problems that I never thought that I would live to see.
It’s hard for me to imagine that Bongino wouldn’t know who Stephen King is when King is one person who speaks out so eloquently and so often about Donald Trump — and reposts others who do the same.
— Rob Johnson (@llccar1) March 6, 2024
True, Boo. https://t.co/wqTMQPr4GV
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) March 6, 2024
It’s a shame that America got to this spot but the greater shame is that we’re caught here, like a fly in amber. The trickster grifter came down the escalator in 2015. It is now almost nine years later and he still takes up a disproportionate amount of the political oxygen in this country.
And I don’t expect that to change because Trump is symbiotically tied to the downfall of the Republican party. That’s where he gets his fuel. It reminds me of the image of a hawk taking a kitten off of the roof and flying off with it. The kitten digs its claws into the hawk’s’ guts. The hawk can’t shake loose of the kitten or its guts go with the it, and the kitten can’t or won’t let go of the hawk because the fall will kill it.
So away they go, soaring through the sky on their flight of death. And the fact of the matter is, both the hawk and the kitten are headed to mutual doom. And that is Trump and the GOP. It’s a horror story that we all live in. Maybe that’s why Stephen King is so involved with the Trump phenomenon, he recognizes it as the perfect prototype of the genre.
Bongino wouldn’t know whjo Steven King is anyway. To do that he’d actually have had to read a book
*Stephen* (I used the local spelling – sorry about that)
Um, “Steven” is also used in America. Some famous American men named “Steven” include Steven Bochco (best known for creating or co-creating shows like “Hill Street Blues,” “L. A. Law” and “Doogie Howser, M.D.”), Steven Buscemi (the actor who usually is best known simply by Steve but “Steven” is his given name), and Steven Spielberg (supposedly a filmmaker of some renown).
As for that “local spelling” matter, I know you’re Irish but there are a few folks from your part of the world whose names are spelled “Stephen.” Physicist Stephen Hawking, Stephen Gately (from the boy band, Boyzone), and actors Stephen Rea and Stephen Fry.
True – but they’re Brits LOL
Personally, I would spell it Stiofán (but then I do speak Irish)
Well Bongo Brain, King’s well past retirement age but still active doing not just political advocacy but philanthropy. He’s published sixty something books, and also short stories and novellas and had some of that turned into some of the best known movies of all time. Ever see Carrie? The Shining? Stand By Me? The Shawshank Redemption? (and there’s more dipshit) You’ve got your little podcast. Twenty years ago King was known to have sold upward of 350 million books and I’m sure it’s up over four hundred million by now. His net worth is roughly FIVE hundred million. So Danny BOY, maybe you should avoid initiating a dick-measuring contest because you’re embarrassing yourself.
bongo has a dick? figured they all got them cut off when they became con, xtian, pubes. they sure act like they have no dicks….as well as no brains.
And unlike Trump, King (a very nice man I have met at parties) got where he is by sheer talent and hard work. He was raised by a single Mom after his father abandoned the family and he grew up.poor. He went to University of Maine at Orono on a scholarship.
Danny Boy sent to a private Catholic high school. He is also a Big Loser, having for Congress three times and lost all three times There is no way he doesn’t know who King is–and likely resents the hell out of him for being wildly successful and beating all the odds. If King ran for office I can guarantee you that Susan Collins would be unemployed. Mainers love him for his charitable work, which includes donating a new gym for U of M.at Promo (a,really nice gym)
Orono, not Promo. Autistic changed it between when I posted and when it arrived. I blame Skynet.
Autocorrupt is definitely a conspiracy🤣