I guess Rupert Murdoch and I have more in common than I think. He has adopted my favorite pet name for Donald Trump, Trumpty Dumpty. It is a no brainer. If anybody embodies the clueless egg, sitting on a wall where a short fall can obliterate him, it is Trump.
Likewise and more to the point, once Trumpty Dumpty fell off the wall, that was it. There was no way to put the mess back together. It was yolk all over time and nothing to be done about it. The modern day Trumpty Dumpty has washed out in 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022 and if the GOP is dumb enough to keep him as its standard bearer, it is highly unlikely that anything will be different in 2024.
Now the GOP is up to bat for another Georgia runoff, and the last thing they want is Trump around. Hence, the New York Post is divorcing him, the Wall Street Journal is denouncing him and even Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan doesn’t want Trump to stump for Herschel Walker. The first two minutes of this are all you really need to hear, although the entire thing makes sense. Last night’s grotesque GOP underperformance was the point of no return for a lot of GOPers.
It’s no wonder this attitude is being taken. Trump has endorsed candidates from Wingnuttia, people who don’t belong on the ballot. This is why the GOP is losing as badly as it is. Normal people going to the polls don’t want to vote for Trump’s freak show candidates. That much is being made pretty clear.
The Wall Street Journal pointed out today that if Blake Masters wasn’t the candidate, Doug Ducey would have been and Ducey could have won that senate seat in Arizona. Very possibly so. But Trump said he would go to war with Ducey because Ducey refused to be an election denier and so Masters, an avid, rabid election denier went on the ticket.
The Wall Street Journal was not the only outlet to hang Trump out to dry today. The National Review tap danced on him, too.
The core conceit undergirding Trump’s position at the head of the party has long been that, unlike others, he wins. Sure, his apologists say, he may be crude and ill-disciplined and unpredictable and rough, but he’s the party’s only hope of keeping out the Democrats; he and he alone has shown that he can do that. Now, this is no longer true — if it ever was. Because of Trump, Joe Biden is the president of the United States. Because of Trump, John Fetterman will be a U.S. senator. Because of Trump, the two runoff elections in Georgia in 2021 yielded two Democratic senators, which yielded the American Rescue Plan, which yielded turbocharged inflation. Because of Trump, the Republican Party found itself unable to capitalize on a huge midterm opportunity to send the Democrats the stinging rebuke that they so richly deserved.
Trump only won in 2016 because of two reasons: 1) People were curious to see what the freak show man could actually do. He was different. They wanted to see if he could actually deliver; and 2) Hillary Clinton was loathed. Tragic but true. As intelligent, experienced, decent a person as she is, she was painted differently and perceived altogether unfairly. That went on for decades before she ran for president. It was what it was.
Trump was an abomination and he never had any staying power. But still the GOP hoped that they somehow had found a winning formula. Now they know better.
Oh, this is going to be fun watching the Last Days Of Trump. Maybe he should do his own show, The Apprentice: Last Days. Or how about, The Apprentice: Doom Edition. I like that one, too.
The nice thing is that a lot of republicans are waking up to what McConnell said a few months ago. Candidate quality under tRump is the pits. Apparently, the American public agrees.
How about “The Apprentice – Orange Constipation”?
The Apprentice – Kool Aid Edition?
If they’re hoping this is going to make the runoff go their way, they’d best think again. Walker is a dumpster fire just by himself and the fact is he LOST in terms of numbers on the first vote. With no Brian Kemp on the ticket and enough support from us, Warnock will get a full term.
You make an excellent point. Republicans were already at the polls to vote for Kemp, others. This time it’s Walker on his own. Plus, I have no doubt but that he’s going to do more self sabotage between now and the runoff.
Still, when all is said and done, the fact that he’s even gotten this far horrifies me. The man is absolutely the worst candidate I have ever seen. My head spins.
I say this with love, Ursula: how long can you stay “horrified” before you admit to yourself that you’ve been getting it wrong? It strikes me as a very insidious form of denial, an expectation that what you’re seeing is just an anomaly and the world will go back to making sense ANY second now. Mind, the opposite tendency of going full cynical nihilist and disillusioned is no answer either. But at minimum, acknowledging that you got some parts of this wrong and recalibrating your POV seems more productive than just telling yourself that this never should have happened.
On the matter of Walker, we should be GRATEFUL he got this far. Had he been more of a Kemp or Youngkin type, Warnock may not have had a fighting chance.
I’ve never before in my lifetime, seen such a quagmire in Politics’, before, during and after election cycles … First, Trumpty gets pardoned from our House pursuit, not just once, but twice by McConnell GOP regulars, no trials just, “Forget it, not happening”, the positive force that traveled through Trumpty’s spine just enlarged his stupidity …
From then on, GOP on Trumpty Dumpty, and his cavorting with dangerous actions, completely stupid International fondness for murdering whackos and absolutely stupid handling of stuff like the injection of bleach for Covid, REALLY?
Time after time, the Trump mentality, showing itself for what it is and IS NOT, the GOP was totally silent … Now, with the document problem and others, time to kick the blowhard’s ass into prison for a very long time, before any BS about him running in 2024 … I’m positive, the Warden’s would frown on allowing ANY BS broadcasts from the Freak’s prison cell … 🙂
Bush II left office in 2008 as one of the least popular presidents ever. His never ending disaster in Iraq, the collapse of the financial system etc. At the end of his term he turned the shit show over to Obama and crawled into a hole and disappeared. That allowed the tea party to reinvent the gop, begin 24/7 opposition, and in the end was the 2010 red wave.
12 years later trump is crushed in the election, never quits, never even concedes, inserts himself into every race and in the end maybe a red ripple, if that. keep bringing back trump republicans, he is the gift that keeps on giving
An excellent summary of the last 20 years of Republican mistakes. They’ve gone from trying to rule the world to being unable to rule large stretches of this country. As for Trump, I call him “the gift that keeps on taking”.
Traitor Tot is much more accurate! No Traitor Tot casserole though…YUCK!
Here’s to hoping former guy spends the next month or so campaigning for Walker. Between Walker’s being more than a little cray, more than a little hypocritical, and lying just about as much as Trump, Warnock ought to get a nice boost.
Hey Mango Man! I hear Georgia is quite nice this time of year. Go do some of your klan rallies for the next month.
I would love to hear Trump and Walker have an hour-long conversation.
😂😂😂
I’m surprised by the NY Post, the way they massage tfpresidunce’s b@lls, to now trying to distance themselves. 😁
The “conventional wisdom” on the right is, elect a businessman run the country like a business.
This is what Trump gave us. He “ran” the country like one of his businesses.
Poorly and for his own personal enrichment.
Dear Murdoch Empire: For six years, you excused Trump’s lying, corruption, election meddling, sedition, and theft of classified documents. And NOW you want to kick him to the curb?
They got everything they wanted from him. I even think they realized a while back he had become a liability that could cost them some of their gains but the MAGA’s reaction was a problem for them. However, three straight elections where Trump has cost the GOP has I believed caused the Murdochs to order Fox to prep the ground for crushing Trump and annointing a new leader of MAGA world. But the point is that they have no more use for him so they are cutting him loose. Just like Trump has spent a lifetime doing to other people. Thinking about him in recent times, especially right now in those wee hours of the night breaking into a cold sweat thinking “Murdoch is doing to ME what I’ve done to everyone else!” makes me smile. Hey, I take my entertainment/enjoyment where I can find it!
And I’ve been trying to tell everyone that this was ALWAYS how it was going to end while they were having night sweats over Trump like he was a Bond villain. It didn’t even require that much thought or insight, just an accurate understanding of how these people work and the competence level of the players involved. Three elections later, I seem to be one of the few who are unsurprised that we got here.