This is starting to get spooky. Once Donald Trump gets wind of this, there will be some serious hell to pay vis a vis his speechwriters and his comeback rally, if that’s what it was, on November 15.

Nobody liked it. That is general consensus. Oh, yes, Lindsey Graham liked it. Melania liked it. Jim Jordan liked it. Paul Gosar, a few others, liked it. But for the most part, the old guard GOP hated it, and now we find out that right-wing extremists hated it, too.

This is not good. When you have a speech that flops this badly, it means that there was a failure to read the room. And you know Trump isn’t going to accept the blame. Heads will roll, once this gets around.

And he was not alone. Not at all.

Whoa! Doggies! Katie bar the door! His most ardent followers hated his speech?

That is what we are to believe. And you know what Fox News’ reaction was, right? Oh yes, Sean Hannity had people come on and talk about how great the speech was, but the irony there was that Hannity had the speech minimized down in the corner. Had the speech truly been great, methinks that Hannity would have left it up on the big screen and not eulogized it until later.

But whatever you want to speculate about Hannity’s choices last night, this isn’t ambiguous at all.

And you know that local Florida politicians were not impressed with the speech, right? I believe that’s what prompted this cartoon.

So who all, now, wants Trump to run? Because we know Ivanka wasn’t there last night, she’s getting out of politics and Don Junior was out west killing animals after paying some guy to flush them out of the wild for him. A real manly man, that.

And we know that almost everybody hated Trump’s new applause line, about executing drug dealers:

“We are going to be asking everyone who sells drugs, gets caught selling drugs, to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts,” Trump said Tuesday to cheers from his supporters at Mar-a-Lago, the social club he owns in Palm Beach, Florida. The line was part of an hour-plus-long speech announcing his plans to challenge President Joe Biden in 2024.

Trump has long mused about executing drug dealers, and first publicly mentioned it after a meeting with Singapore’s leaders in 2018. His emphasis on the topic as he kicks off a 2024 bid, however, shows how likely Trump is to deploy his unchecked instincts for authoritarianism if he wins the presidency again.

He’s not even bothering to hide the authoritarian roots of his proposal. Trump explicitly credits President Xi Jinping, the dictatorial leader of China, with giving him the idea.

“In China, when I was with President Xi, I said: ‘President, do you have a drug problem?’” Trump said Tuesday night at Mar-a-Lago, recounting Xi purportedly saying the problem was solved by “quick trials” where “by the end of the day you’re executed.”

Here’s what GOPers said about Trump’s latest great idea.

“That’s a lot to think about,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) said.

“That’s not a policy I’m aware of,” Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) said.

“Seems a little extreme,” Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) said. “But I will say that we’ve lost, the past couple of years, hundreds of thousands of lives.”

Doesn’t exactly sound like a ringing endorsement, does it? So Trump missed the boat with this group of Republicans, yet even that authoritarian riff wasn’t Mussolini enough for MAGA.

I don’t know. I don’t see where Trump is pulling support these days. Everywhere you turn, he seems to be losing it. Hemorrhaging it, in fact.

I’m sticking by my initial opinion, which is let’s see what we’re talking about after the December 6 Georgia runoff. I believe that Trump is going to rue the day he did this early announcement and I believe DeSantis will be cackling.

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  1. At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised if certain Republican pols not named Liz Cheney are seriously considering executing Trump over making more of a mess after costing them in the midterms.

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    • They have a means to “execute” him, which is to have him disqualified from running. They could have done this with 1) Mueller report; 2) Impeachment One; 3) Impeachment Two; 4) 2021 Georgia runoffs. Maybe, at long last, they will do themselves and us a favor and rid the playing field of him, on December 6.

      I believe Warnock will win because he was 35K ballots ahead and Democrats are fired up. GOPers in Georgia are not. Say, anybody heard from Newt lately? Just asking.

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      • Oh, I consider Warnock’s reelection damn near a mortal lock. I’ll do my part but it’s looking mighty good. And eff Newt Gingrich forever.

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        • Heat’s too ex-wives, whom he served with divorce papers during battles with severe illness, would agree. So would every gay person in GA (and in Atlanta there are many).

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  2. Great idea! Let’s execute all the CEOs and their subordinates responsible for the thousands of opiod deaths. That should take care of the problem of evil capitalists! Haha!

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  4. I almost wish he would go all Mussolini – and end up with his naked carcass strung up by the ankles in the public square, just like ole Benito. Those authoritarian fans and junkies don’t seem to know what happened to past dictators. They don’t die peacefully in their sleep.

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  5. I see one big problem with his war on drugs. A good part of the right wing hillbillies is that after moonshine got tacky they shifted over to meth. That’s where a good part of the meth comes from. They have their backwoods hideaways when they have target ranges and training camps. And they have the meth lab. Just saying. They probably not going to vote for a compadre that plans on executing them. Seems kinda backhanded and silly to me. Oh well, time to change the channel on these clowns anyway.

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