November 8 will hold a special meaning for Donald Trump to the end of his born days. It was the date in 2016 which catapulted him, improbably, into a role he was never designed for or qualified to hold for even five minutes. Six years later it was the date that marked the end of his bizarre reign of the Republican party.
But Trumpty Dumpty is not done. No, Sir, he is not. He is planning to announce a third run for the presidency as the titular head of the GOP and their frontrunner. Or, at least that was the plan on November 7. Today is November 10, and he’s gone from frontrunner to pariah.
But that’s not acceptable, because he needs to run. He needs to stay relevant, for his ego’s sake. He needs the limelight and the cheers. And he needs the freaking cash. Man, does he need the cash. So he’s backpedaling like crazy, framing the Tuesday blue blowout as no biggy, blaming the media for everything, and attacking Ron DeSantis. This is the new three-ring circus, friends, mark it well. These are the three hills that Trump is defending and he will die on one of them, most likely the third.
It’s odd how the things that the people around him report, and tapes of his own recorded conversations and statements, always seem to directly contradict the face he presents to the public. Believe him, not your lying eyes. pic.twitter.com/4Zm8hYy1jM
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 9, 2022
Now the picture you see at the top of this post is Trump on election night at the “victory party.” Jubilant is the opposite of furious. Does the man look jubilant to you?
It continues.
The vast majority of the “wins” he is claiming, are the Republicans in the House who got reelected. Many of them were there before Trump came on the scene. He had nothing to do with them or their races.
That’s the show in ring one and ring two. Now onto ring three, and this is going to be the main attraction, ladies and gentlemen.
Beta Trump pic.twitter.com/xkhimrtquF
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 10, 2022
Isn’t it amazing. The conflation? The confusion? The sheer mind numbing idiocy that you’ve come to expect from Trump? Two different contests, two different years, but Trump has got the math worked out to “prove” that he would beat Ron DeSantis in a primary — I guess — by over a million votes. Or something. I have never understood how this man uses numbers and he’s ostensibly a Wharton grad.
And do not lose sight of the fact that while Trump is jousting with the three dragons described above, the Georgia investigation is ongoing, the New York investigation is ongoing, the DOJ investigation into the materials found at Mar-a-Lago is ongoing and Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have said enough. We’re through.
Fox post on Truth Social this morning. pic.twitter.com/WPUIts2hTc
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) November 9, 2022
And it gets worse. Fox News is out for blood. Orange man blood, to be precise.
Oh, I am going to enjoy watching this son of a bitch get what’s coming to him. This is only the beginning.
Ought to be fun watching the children tear each other apart. Truly popcorn-worthy in fact. I almost wish 2024 was upon us. Almost.
Oh, but this kind of dish must be cooked to season, Spike. Be patient enough to play the long game and the rewards are that much richer.
Wow! Trump got more votes in a presidenial election than DiSantis got in a mid-term non-presidential state election. I’m so impressed. /s.
I’m with you, Spike, in lookng forward to watchng them tear each other to shreds. There will be so many good shredding points for the both of them.
What possible combination of immature ganglia could possibly produce such a low-life, totally stupid, self-aggrandizing, waste of precious oxygen, being the Albatross hanging around all the GOP’s worthless necks?
I expect outright rejection, voiced by several well known senior GOP losers, will end up being the true shitstorm emanating from Dumpty’s key deck … he has already started to push various GOP members into his closet of non-kiss-ups, since he is closer to the long-awaited implosion we’ve wanted to see … The collapse of the Trump Industries in so many directions at once, ALL begging for gobs of cash he has already burned, the possibility of other family members taking extended vacations in those prisons of their own assignment, stands as one of the benefits we may be handed as well … popcorn/buttered, a cold drink, feet up on the recliner, such a wonderful sight !!
He’s got to go very soon, the imitation president, should NOT be allowed to file for 2024, the crashing world around him, Federal charges, State charges and SO MANY unfinished, unpaid worker problems, are rising up like a pissed off Cobra, ready to take a strike of incredible pain and suffering … (har)-(har) 🙂
To answer your question at the top, I defer to the last line of Mickey Spillane’s classic detective novel I, The Jury: “It was easy.”
Trump has cheated Karma for his entire adult life.
And now she is pissed!
Unless we missed something and he has been frog marched to the pokey last night, she’s probably still pissed and also somewhat impotent.
I know, I know, we’re sure it’s coming. I’m not counting this chick until it is hatched, fed, grown, and in the soup pot.
When the indictments drop within the next couple of months, I will prepare a six course meal of crow for you to munch on, Spike…just saying.
To slightly rewrite the Rolling Stones’ first true hit song, “Table’s turnin’/Now it’s his turn to cry. Because they used to love him,/But it’s all over now…”
“Two different contests, two different years, but Trump has got the math worked out to “prove” that he would beat Ron DeSantis in a primary — I guess — by over a million votes. Or something. I have never understood how this man uses numbers and he’s ostensibly a Wharton grad.”
Well, you got to remember this is the same guy who boasted that he got more votes than ANY other presidential candidate in election history (while claiming Biden’s larger total was plain old fraud at work). He’s ALWAYS going to make everything about himself and EVERYTHING he does is better than anyone else, ever. (For some reason, he never wants to brag about his being the most impeached President ever. Wonder why?)
But you bet he was busy urging House Republicans to impeach Biden more times than him.
This must be the New Math my mom was so worried about.
Fifty years ago.
New Math was never like this. (I was in it.)
He is a sick man. But we know that. He’s also in a load of trouble, and is abolutely desperate to announce that he’s running for President again in the vain hope that Garland will be hesitant to indict him or the courts will throw it out.