I’m sorry, but this is just getting fucking ridiculous. Trump’s Big Lie has been wildly successful. For Trump. For the rest of the GOP, it’s like a cinematic blend of Nightmare on Elm Street and Groundhogs Day. They spend all night getting chased through a dumpy mansion by Freddie Trump, only to sigh in relief as they jump through a window into a new day, only to close their eyes and find Freddie Trump chasing them again.
Even Larry Elder, after all of his strum and drang came out today and conceded to the fact that in California, he’s about as popular as genital warts. But not Trump, and not the rest of the brainless howler monkeys of the GOP caucus. They’re still screaming about rampant voter and election fraud in the California election. This is so completely self destructive for the GOP.
Everybody knows what a maniacal KC Chiefs fan I am. And as heartbroken as I was by the results of last year’s Super Bowl, the one thing that even a whiny brat like me couldn’t do was to run out and complain about how we got jobbed by the officials. We got our asses kicked for three hours on national television, and anybody who tuned in saw it. To have even suggested it in an article would have had all of you swearing off of me as a moron dotard. Which is exactly what sane GOP voters are starting to do to the hard core Big Lie backers.
But it’s even more self destructive for the GOP than that, and if no one else in the GOP is willing to admit it, at least Mitch McConnell is. I have written recently about Trumpenstein’s flagging fortunes as the Diktator of the GOP. But no matter what, he is going to have a rock solid base of 30-35% that would follow him right down to Davey Jones locker. And that is a ticking time bomb for the GOP going into 2022.
In the aftermath of the January 2021 Georgia Senate runoff special elections, Mitch McConnell bitterly complained like a two year old about Trump’s goddamn Big Lie. Post election polling showed that there was a portion of the Trump base that sat out the elections, feeling they were rigged. And not just a few, so many that Warnock and Ossoff, an African American and Jewish man in Georgia won by larger statewide margins than Biden did in November.
And as ex NBA flake Dennis Rodman used to say, And the road show continues. Trump is going to continue to bang the drum on election fraud to cover his pathetic failure, and the spineless GOP toadies will continue to parrot the talk, even though they know that it will deprive them of critical Trump voters in 2022. And at the same time, the sane moderate GOP voters out there, along with independents, you know, the ones that GOP incumbents used to swing back to for general elections? They’ll continue to get more and more disgusted with the infantile behavior of their elected representatives. What could go wrong?
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Yup. Think you nailed it.
You’d think with as much as he’s continued to cost them, the GQP stooges would be quietly working to get Trump in that richly deserved prison cell. But noooooo, because they’re first class simps with the collective brain wattage of a Christmas bulb, they keep attempting to chase the dragon that is the Trump voter base.
Oh and given how bad Trump’s businesses continue to tank, it DIDN’T work out for him.
Heck, a nice suite with locked outside doors would do, especially with the stories about his insane demands and childish behavior.
Just like a drunki, it requires that hard moment of clarity slap to convince them. and I don’t tjoink that last night was enough to do it…Maybe in 2022, if they lose 30 seats in an election they were projected to retake the House and Senate, THAT will do ther yticl…
Dammit – I’d actually managed to put that Super Bowl out of my mind. (Is it too much to hope for a Chiefs vs. Bears Super Bowl someday? That way I can be happy no matter who wins!) I agree that our Chiefs got a thorough ass whupping, and much as I hate to admit it even a completely healthy Mahomes might not have been enough. Ok, I whined about the game, but my whining was contained to Tom Brady who I fucking can’t stand. Given the antics that went on during his time in New England some of his career and Super Bowls are tainted as far as I’m concerned. Not to mention that while certain quarterbacks get some star treatment Brady has long been in a special category beyond even “Jordan Rules.”
Your article however is about politics and I’m still worried. Why? Because by this time next year a lot more GOP controlled states will have given GOP elected officials the authority to overrule county election commissioners. To toss out votes and change the outcomes they don’t like. Sure, there will be litigation but at this stage I don’t see SCOTUS riding to the rescue. Our only chance is federal voting rights legislation – strong legislation taking that power away from GOP controlled states. At least in federal elections and for those “originaists” it’s there in the plain text of the Constitution that the feds set the rules for federal elections. It’s not going to happen unless we either do away with the filibuster entirely or go back to old rules and allow the GOP another Strom Thurmond in the late 50s defiant stand. And even then we still have to get Manchin and Synema on board to vote for meaningful legislation.
I’m not without hope, but at best I see this as a bar fight like my idiot youthful days when me and some pals were in another small town in southern Illinois and the other patrons knew where we were from. “Winning” was making it out the door and to the car with no broken bones and minimal bleeding. That’s how I view next year’s midterms. Survival (more or less) without sustaining significant injuries.
“For the rest of the GOP, it’s like a cinematic blend of Nightmare on Elm Street and Groundhogs Day. They spend all night getting chased through a dumpy mansion by Freddie Trump, only to sigh in relief as they jump through a window into a new day, only to close their eyes and find Freddie Trump chasing them again.”
Actually, there’s a horror film that already blends the two: “Happy Death Day.” In the film, a college student is killed and then wakes up in her dorm room and begins reliving her “death day.” After a couple of times, she finally starts trying to change things to see if she can end the cycle (without ending up permanently dead). The film is generally considered a blend of horror and dark comedy with a touch of rom-com and send-up of college films.