I come from small town in Southern Illinois that is MAGA. It has a MAGA Congress Critter (Mike Bost) who’s the little brother of a classmate of mine. Trump even held an event some time back at the Southern Illinois Airport between my town and the one six miles away where I went to college. My FaceBook feed is filled with lamentations, even wild (to the point of batsh!t insane) predictions the midterm results leading to all manner of disaster. However I get lots of other stuff, both from the few fellow non-MAGAs from the same town and people I know from around the country, as well as various progressive groups I enjoy seeing.
I stopped regular logging into my FB years ago but have more frequently checked it out this year. It’s a good way of taking MAGAs temperature and seeing their thoughts (not actual thinking, but thoughts regurgitated from RWNJ outlets) and lately check in daily. This morning I saw a parody using a scene from the movie Downfall (I haven’t seen the movie but need to do so I think) where Hitler is confronted with the reality that he and his dream are basically f**ked. He blows up of course. The potential to parody it as it being Trump getting the bad news of the midterm results has been too much to resist. I saw one in a tweet and it’s too good not to share (this is how it appears on YouTube:
There’s another one on YouTube that you’ll also enjoy. It’s over four minutes long and not quite as funny but still enjoyable as hell:
Tell me something like this did NOT happen on election night, and more than once since. Dictators, even wannabe dictators like Trump HATE being mocked. So, I’m doing my part to spread this kind of thing and I hope our readers will help by sharing these! I’ve said before and I’ll say it again, I’m glad Trump only got hit by a bit of shrapnel in Butler, and that the idiot at his golf course in Florida was so stupid as to have his rifle visibly poking through the fence. The last thing I want is for him to be martyred. No, I want him to leave the White House humiliated and have to suffer that humiliation for a while. With some added humiliation of more stuff like this. Him in a prison cell would be great but we’ll have to settle for actual reality like him roaming Mar a Lago at night in a bathrobe rage tweeting, or perhaps him sitting in his skivvies like the Martin Sheen character at the end of the movie Dead Zone only not actually putting the gun to his head. Instead he’ll be crying about wanting to but he’s too ‘perfect’ to go through with it.
In the meantime, what I’ve put up here is a good start.
Friends, I know everyone begs you for money. I promise, among all those asking for spare change, we are the smallest and the hardest working. We’re a group of old, disabled people, except for one writer in his mid-50s. The rest of us are in our sixties and seventies, and this is a labor of love. All we’re asking for is the chance to keep telling the truth about Trump and help ensure democracy survives. If you can help, please do. Thank you. Ursula
