Yes the Trump trial continues. Things have been fast moving and technical and trying to keep up would give me a headache under the best of circumstances and lately that’s not been the case for me. I’ve also tried to keep tabs on other news and saw a short but provocative tidbit regarding Trump’s VP ‘Selection Sweepstakes’ which has been an ongoing saga in the news. It’s a KKKlown KKKar circus almost on par with Trump’s criminal trial. Watching the increasing amount of ritual self-humiliation wannabes are engaging in during this attempt to be the next Mike Pence (clearly the saying about being careful what you wish for never enters their thoughts) is entertaining. At least if you enjoy sick, twisted entertainment.
In any case, as this article from Huffington Post states former Bush 43 speechwriter and GOP talking head David Frum has weighed in with his take and it’s brutal. Look, if Trump didn’t have to have a VP he wouldn’t. For the moment he doesn’t have any choice but to pick somebody but if (for now) he could get away with it he’d just stand up a life size cardboard figure of himself with the letters Trump VP emblazoned (gold letters of course) on the suit jacket. However, for now he’s going to play the game and pretend like it matters. And being Trump have some fun in the process by seeing how much of that self-humiliation he can extract from as many hopefuls as will throw their hat in the ring.
Pence brought one benefit and one only to Trump – all those Evangelical voters. The rest of the time Pence was a cypher who sat there with that “adoring gaze.” When Nancy Reagan directed it at her Ronnie it was amusing in a creepy, Stepford Wife kind of way. With Pence directing it at Trump it was just creepy and silly. And mocked, which Trump probably enjoyed I might add. However, the time came when Trump no longer needed Pence to deliver the “Christian” MAGAs. They’ve cast aside their God and Jeebus and now worship Trump. Then, when Trump actually needed Pence to go to the mat for him Pence refused.
Oh, Pence searched high and low for a Constitutional way to do what Trump wanted, to refuse to accept various selected state’s electoral votes and substitute fake slates of electoral votes to be counted. But he couldn’t and the coup failed. From Trump’s point of view if a VP can’t or might not help him ignore the Constitution then why the hell should he have a VP in the first place? So Trump wants even less than a Mike Pence. The linked article cites an individual you’ll remember who lays it out bluntly saying Trump’s looking for an “absolute human zero” in a running mate. HuffPost notes that over the weekend George W. Bush’s former speechwriter delivered that assessment during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur. However Frum wasn’t done. Not by a long shot.
Frum went on to talk about how Trump will spot Presidential ambitions any potential running mate might have and that for Trump that simply won’t do:
“Anything that smacks of talent or character or independent judgment is going to be anathema to Trump,” said Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic.
Instead, the former president wants “a contest of self-humiliation” from which he can select “the most negligible person,” he continued.
Yep. I’d say Frum has nailed it. Or rather Trump. And Frum’s kill shot?
It could be someone who “adds gender or racial diversity to the ticket,” Frum acknowledged. “But the prime criteria is zero-ness. And so we’re watching ‘America’s Top Zero.’”
Of course Trump has to have a living person instead of a cardboard cutout or life size dummy (yes, I know it would be redundant) as a running mate. If he HAS to have someone a human sized Amoeba would do quite nicely. Come to think of it an amoeba that couldn’t do anything would be better because unlike Trump it couldn’t do any actual damage. (unless it was one of those brain eating amoebas and being anywhere near Trump could turn it into one!) Just stuff it into a human shaped mold and give it a name that strings together names MAGAs will love Trump would readily approve of. He could shape it however he wanted depending on which MAGAs he wanted to appeal to or which enemies he’d like to threaten. But being a simple, single-celled organism with no brain it would be the “zero” Frum says Trump wants to have for a running mate.
In the meantime, we have a collection of GOP wannabe VP candidates doing their level best to become a humanoid version of an amoeba – a human zero. It’s not actually a funny thing to watch. Rather it’s more like seeing an awful car wreck with mangled bodies on the road, and as they die trying to prove they love Trump more by tearing at their gaping wounds. Such is the Republican Party Trump hath wrought.
Makes perfect sense, he can’t have someone that either thinks for themself or out shines him. He is pretty much a zero or perhaps a minus.
So as a running mate he wants someone even less appealing than him?
Well, that’ll be a ‘winning’ combination, won’t it?
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give it up