I do not envy the right-wing media their task at hand. They have to 1) Find a scapegoat and 2) Walk back the incredible damage that Donald Trump’s cartoon landed them in on Thursday. These are not easy tasks.
The hew and cry for the scapegoat at Mar-a-Lago is universal now. The reason for that is that the plain, Occam’s Razor truth of the matter, that Trump himself okayed his foray into the ridiculous, is not one that is easily digested.
Ergo, the search for a sacrificial lamb goes on, concurrently with lavish praise of the new Trump “policy,” which is what they’re calling the hastily cobbled together on-camera blather that Trump did within hours of the NFT funding fiasco blowing up.
There’s an old expression in Hollywood, “Never be desperate because people can smell it.” This is not a new notion. Harlan Ellison once said, “Desperation hangs on somebody like panther sweat. You can’t disguise it,” or words to that effect.
I can smell a whole zoo partition of panthers right now, even through the internet. Man, does it stink to high heaven.
And the faithful are jumping ship in droves. Tim Gionet, aka Baked Alaska, who has been a prominent troll since 2016, jumped the Trump ship and swam over to Kanye West’s campaign earlier today. That’s leaving the Titanic and swimming to Pearl Harbor the night of December 6, 1941, but maybe he’ll figure that out for himself.
Gionet, who earlier in the day said he believed Trump’s digital card gambit means he “can’t win” in 2024, wrote a follow-up missive in which he questioned his own decision to storm the Capitol building on January 6th, 2021.
“I can’t believe I’m going to jail for an NFT salesman,” he lamented.
Earlier this year, Gionet pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing inside a Capitol building, for which he faces up to six months in prison.
Before that, Gionet was also convicted of assault for pepper-spraying a bouncer who kicked him out of a bar in Arizona.
Although Gionet was once a major Trump supporter in his first two presidential campaigns, he has now apparently switched his allegiance to rapper Kanye West, who has taken to openly praising Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and denying the Holocaust.
The trading cards were just a means of Trump doing an end run around his campaign war chest and putting the proceeds into a digital account. That’s the long and the short of it. And it blew up pyrotechnically in his face.
Back to the drawing board, Donnie.
Another one from Ellison’s opening introduction to his collection Approaching Oblivion “Reaping The Whirlwind” applies to Trump at this point: “You’re approaching oblivion, YOU KNOW IT, and you won’t do a thing to save yourselves.”