This Is Howlingly Funny — Until You Realize These People Can Vote

Another entry into the tragi/comedy that is life in the Era of Trump. The lowest common denominator of our culture, the man about whom it has been said: “It’s almost impossible to believe that he exists. It’s as if you took everything that was bad about America, scraped it up off the floor, stuffed it in an old hotdog skin and taught it to make noises with its face.”. Here’s what his disciples have to say about America. And to America.

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— Ed Garzzi (@ruff_ryder39) April 3, 2024

This is the bread and circus crowd. This is bubble land. Even Trump has enough awareness to realize that these people are fools and so he brays, “I love the poorly educated.” We know you do. And this is why.

The comedy here is plain, but the tragedy is that these people operate on the same principle as the Leopards Eating Peoples’ Faces party. That is a fictional group that Charlie Sykes invented. Its premise is that the party members believe that their enemies will be eliminated by leopards who eat peoples’ faces, but the leopards would never eat their faces. And alas, at the end of the day, they find out that when the leopards have gone after a few groups ahead, groups of people they didn’t like and wanted to see destroyed, that they’re going to come after the party members and eat their faces, too. Ergo, nobody is safe.

And these people don’t know that. They think Trump will do massive deportations and become a dictator for one day only and all kinds of ridiculous things, but it won’t affect them. They’re not worried that their Medicare or Social Security, or their children’s or grandchildren’s might be affected, because Trump won’t do that to “them” only to The Other.

And unfortunately, they won’t find out the truth until it’s way too late. And by that time, by the time it’s too late for them, it will have already been too late for the rest of us.

What these MAGA folks don’t understand is that a man who hates and tears down individuals and groups as savagely as Trump does, is a man without compassion or decency towards anybody. It’s not a matter of Us v. Them. It’s a matter of Trump v. The World.

That’s always been his posture. Trump finally won over Daddy’s approval when it became obvious that his brother, Fred Jr., was going to go his own way and do his own thing — and at great personal cost. Defying Fred Sr. was not easy.

And Donald knew he wasn’t qualified to be the killer, the deal maker, the mogul that his father wanted him to be and so he decided he would fake it until he could make it. And he can never make it. He simply doesn’t have the brains or the patience or the discipline that it takes to become a success. He’s a lazy, shiftless fuck up looking for the easier, softer path to success in life and there is none.

But be that as it may, Trump has operated as if this next deal, this next venture, whatever it is, is going to The Real Thing — the thing that will show that he does have it going on and that his father would be impressed by him. I have no doubt whatsoever that if Fred Trump could look on from the other side and see what a hash Donald has made of things that he would be just as appalled as the yous and mes are, looking at this shambles.

MAGAs are not deep thinkers. MAGAs don’t want to think at all. They want a strongman to push The Other around and they’ve got Donald to do their hating for them and do their dirty business. They simply don’t know and you can’t tell them, what the price tag has already been for Trump’s excesses in our public life and what more and greater damage he could do if restored to power.

These are the hard core loonies, right here. There is more than a cultural rift going on in America right now, it’s closer to a battle between two species. Remember the Morlochs and the Eloi from the book/movie The Time Machine, by H.G. Welles? That’s a lot closer analogy to the divisions in America nowadays than any label of political affiliation. We’re way beyond such trifles as Democrats v. Republicans. We stepped off a ledge and into an unknown place back in 2016, when this madness got started. The day Trump was sworn in and gave his dark American Carnage address, even Dubya quipped, “That was some strange shit.”

The GOP threw us all off the ledge because they were fresh out of ideas. Even though they knew full well who and what Trump was, they eventually folded, to the man and to the woman. It was only after January 6 that a very few courageous souls decided to speak up about stopping Trump.

Was that too little too late? Hard to tell. All that we know at this point is that we need to do everything we can to get out the vote and save this country. Because MAGA believes that Trump is what America needs. And America needs Trump like a forest fire needs jets to crash into an adjacent oil field that is upwind from the fire.

We have to get out the vote and hope that there is more sanity than insanity in this country. It has gotten that basic. We’re about to go the way of late thirties Germany and hand the keys over (for a second time) to a homicidal lunatic who will stop at nothing to save his own ass legally and financially. And he’ll do it on your back and mine — and on theirs, on MAGAs. They just don’t see it.