Two things you can take to the bank: The GOP will have a convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin this July. It will be the shitshow to end all shitshows. If you thought for a moment that 2016 blew your mind, I guarantee you, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Yes, 2016 was divisive and it was hostile. It was a surreal tour de force, culminating with Donald Trump, with colored lights and a smoke machine, accepting the nomination for president. That was something to see. But I’m willing to bet right now that this year’s convention will be 2016 on steroids — and LSD.
The way things are shaping up now is that there are two camps within the GOP. There’s the Old School GOP, represented by the Paul Ryans of the world and you’ll hear the MAGA opinion on him, as articulated by none other than Donald Trump, Jr., in a moment. Then there is the MAGA-fied New Republican Party, as exemplified by Mike Lee — who hated Donald Trump’s guts back in 2016 but now he loves him to pieces. Apparently the same group of space aliens that did mind conversion on Lindsey Graham got their hands on Lee as well. Or, Lee is a characterless sack of shit and an opportunist. One or the other. Let us begin.
Former House Speaker Paul Ryan has told me he won't attend the GOP convention in Milwaukee if Trump is the nominee
Trump Jr. today in Iowa: "He's the RINO that the America first movement despises, so if he doesn't show up to the convention in Milwaukee, no one gives a damn." pic.twitter.com/9I9maXRGOM
— Matt Smith (@mattsmith_news) January 12, 2024
Now we see Mike Lee, before, and Mike Lee after.
Funny how many Republicans have made it clear that their entire identity before 2016 was simply fake and that their real identity is just opportunistic sellout.
— Bob Sampson (@bobsalpha1) January 13, 2024
They all hate tfg, they just want to keep his racist base… that is the bottom line!
— Rietta McBlueWave 🌊 🟧 (@McelroyRietta) January 13, 2024
You see the sell out. You will see more of it before July 15. And even people that you would think would never sell out to Trump at this point are selling out right and left.
In yesterday’s episode of the “Trump Trials,” Ben Wittes and I [Charlie Sykes speaking here] found ourselves searching for an explanation from the world of absurdist literature.
Until recently, for example, it would have been unthinkable for any political party to support, much less nominate a convicted felon for the presidency. But, I remarked, in the GOP, pledging fealty to felons is now required.
Even Chris Sununu, the governor of New Hampshire who has been very critical of Trump, and endorsed Nikki Haley, tells Kaitlan Collins, “Yes. I will support him even if he is a convicted felon”.
Even after all these years, it’s still shocking.
Even Chris Sununu has sold out. Even if Trump is a convicted felon. Can it get any more batshit than this? Yes. I totally believe that it can. I believe that as nuts as all this is right now today, the second week of January, by the time it’s mid-July and the GOP convention goes forward, things will be one hell of a lot more crazy.
These are the moments of semi normalcy, the last remnants of GOP law and order, if you will. When it gets down to the GOP convention and Trump is, potentially, a convicted felon, then opportunists selling out will take on a new dimension that nobody has ever seen before. At that point, the GOP might as well change its name officially to the Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces party, because that is exactly and precisely who they will be at that point in time. But will they have enough self-honesty to admit that? I doubt it.
Wait and see. All signs point this way.
The question is: How many convention goers will be out on bond awaiting trial?
they’ll be fist fights on the floor over trump. minimum.
outside, well cars slamming into people over trump.
I’m thinking more like the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago only much worse. Think of Don Jr.’s dealer handing out unlimited free doses of cocaine mixed with PCP and meth. And LSD, peyote and other psychedelic drugs.
More likely they put it in the candles inside, and in slushies outside. I expect fist fights at the least, possibly Trumpies driving into the liberal side. Inside the convention space, delegates from.states Trump didn’t carry will be attacked by Trumor cultists. Think H.P. Lovecraft kind of insanity but without the horrors of Dunwitch. Maybe he’ll cater the after party with fish sandwiches frorn Mickey D’s.The cops will be overrun, no matter how man LE types are borrowed from nearby towns.. I hope the governor has the Guard ready and just awaiting the word to go. They need to be in an armory or somewhere nearby. They will be needed.
He will be nominated with fireworks and the 1812 Overture, as if it is the 4th of July.
I second what Scott Samuel Jackson says. LSD is a mind expanding drug. Anyone experienced takes it in a controlled setting, preferably in small groups. Not in an atmosphere of uncontrolled constant chaos and negativity the 2024 GOP-NAZI Party convention is expected to be. The drug of choice for MAGAts planning on attending should be everything but mind expanding drugs like LSD: The MAGAts love pain killers, amphetamines, cocaine, sedatives & alcohol. Those drugs are favored people who already has significant portions of their brains shriveled from overstimulating & wiring their neural circuits in an endless loop of hate and fear.
Meth would be the drug of choice. Trump’s fans come from.areas where it is popular. LSD can be mind expanding or terrifying depending on whether it’s a good or bad trip. I am 74,_A child of the ’60s and saw enough to know it should be used in a clinical setting like Ecstasy Trump.would want his people hopped up.and ready to party, applauding him and giving him standing ovations. Meth is cheap.and would have the right effect.
I hope another drug they dispense emulates Chicago.
Liberal doses of tear gas, applied randomly at all hours of the day.
Denis the speed would work but no one in that crowd could face their inner demons psychedelics would produce. Remember they can’t face ordinary reality even though they are pampered in ways most of us can’t imagine. There’s no way they could handle psychedelics. Warriors they are not. They’re infants, twisted by remaining so, when they should have matured into adults.
There is one absolute here. If Donald Trump scams his way back into the WH, America will absolutely cease to be the leader of the free world. The western democracies will start pulling back from the US as an unreliable trading partner and they will, most assuredly, pull back on sharing military cooperation with an American government that is more cooperative with Russia, Hungary and various other despot regimes than the established western world. The despots will have Trump as their useful idiot.
Oh it will be much worse than that. Civil War. History may not repeat, but as Twain said, it does rhyme. Some people are not going to tolerate a nazi dictator in the white house. Fact.
Back in the day we would take lsd just to go watch the clowns act like the idiots they are. I’ve seen these people that just have these enlightened trips. Boring. Basically you all go sit around in a circle and wait for some hallucinations to come strolling by. Good luck with that.
Remember ther GQP is now the party of chaos and “look over there, squirrel” while they’re stealing your paycheck, your health care, your social security money and your freedom.
Whiled it’s nice to poke fun at these idiots, think “Top Down” for a moment: tRump, Widdle Stevie Miller, Mike Flynn and Roger Stone running things.
Not so funny now, is it?
Scott’s right.