Events have a way of creating unintended consequences. You throw a boulder into a pond, and the ripples flow out from the initial swell. Who knows what flora and fauna may be affected or how? When Joe Biden decided to step down on July 21, three weeks ago, that event was like a mountain falling into Lake Michigan and the shockwaves are still pulsating outwards.
Up until days prior to Biden’s decision, Donald Trump was drunk on vainglory. He figured that his assassination attempt, his “taking a bullet for democracy” was going to do for him what an attempted assassination did for Ronald Reagan in the 1984 election. Trump predicted he would carry 49 states. That was never a realistic notion but held it he did, grifting with merchandise showing the bullet embedded in a glass and his tiny fist raised Fight!Fight!Fight! — until Joe Biden pulled the rug out from him right after the Republican National Convention. Trump was hit simultaneously with a one-two punch the same week. He picked J.D. Vance as his surrogate, the mini me that would attack Biden’s frailty and carry the MAGA message. That was the plan, in any event, but the best laid plans of mice and men oft go astray. To quote the Bulwark,
The JD Vance pick has turned into a fiasco. Vance is a laughingstock and it’s been widely reported that Trump was pushed into the pick by a combination of Tucker Carlson, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Don Jr.
And speaking of Elon, there was the Twitter fiasco last night in which Trump looked like a lispy, beta simp. It’s one thing for Ron DeSantis to get goaded into doing a low-rent interview on an unstable platform filled with amateur-hour tech glitches. But for the former president to also get used by Musk in an effort to prop up his failing company?
More about Elon and Truth Social later. To continue Trump’s one-two punch, Vance immediately went out and fell on his face, then Biden pulled the rug out and Trump can’t do anything about either. He can’t dump Vance. And he can’t wish Biden back on the ticket. These are two irreversible situations and they’re both driving Trump nuttier than he was before. And it’s only going to get worse.
More humiliations are coming. Trump’s convention speech was watched by 28.4 million viewers. Next week, Kamala Harris’s speech is going to blow that number away.
Since none of this can be Trump’s fault, someone is going to have to pay.
Who’s it going to be?
Trump would probably love to fire JD Vance, but can’t. And he can’t fire Tucker, Elon, or Don Jr. either.
He can’t fire Kamala. Or theÂ
mouth-breathers retail investors who are bailing on his stock.He can’t even fire the Secret Service people who allowed a sniper onto a rooftop.
But you know whom he could fire?
The people who wouldn’t stop blathering to Tim Alberta about how smart they were while taking credit for Trump’s successes.
We’ve seen this movie before. Here’s the list and timing of fired Trump campaign managers:
- July 2020: Trump fires Brad Parscale
- August 2016: Trump fires Paul Manafort
- June 2016: Trump fires Corey Lewandowski
Firing campaign managers during the summer before the election is a Trump family tradition.
And it’s not like there isn’t a nest of vipers looking to knife Wiles and LaCivita so they can get back in the game.
Why lookee here at what’s trending on Truth Social right now, as I type:
This has been going on for days. While the #Traitor tags trend on Truth Social, #TrumpIsDone has been trending nonstop for four or five days now, I’m losing track. It might just be a permanent fixture on Twitter from now on. Who knows?
So who to replace Chris and Susie? Trump replaced Paul Manafort with Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway. Bannon’s in the slammer, so he can’t take over the campaign — unless he could run it from his cell. And Kellyanne is registered as a foreign agent for a Ukrainian billionaire and Donald Junior said about that, “That’s too swampy for me.” So it looks like those two are out — although Kellyanne might possibly end up being drafted and Trump will tell his son to go pound sand.
August is half over. Let’s see how things develop as the polls continue to rise for Kamala and what happens at the Democratic convention next week. My spidey sense says LaCivita and Wiles are out. Maybe Alina Habba and Barron can run the campaign, ya spose? Or Junior and Kimberly? Where are those people who used Nazi symbolism in Ron DeSantis’s campaign? They must still be in Florida, right? Hey, if you know anybody that could run the campaign for Donald, drop him a line, would you? I’m sure he would love to hear from you.
What about Plankton the one inch owner of Chumbucket in Bikini Bottom? He is always coming up with new plans to steal the secret recipe for crabby paddies! His computer ‘wife’ Karen,(what a match!), could do the fake news and outlandish conspiracy theories. Since magats live in self delusional bubbles, cartoon characters seem to fit the bill. “if it’s nautical nonsense that you wish…then get on the deck and flop like a fish”!!! Your leader is already flopping around in a cold sweat.
I kinda like Dr. Oz for the role.
Come on Donald, get serious here: fire the current pair and replace them with your beloved Stephen Miller. Just him. He needs no others. Send him into the fray, all foamy mouth and bristling hairs, oh wait, no, forget the hairs. He’ll go through the incompetent boobs at your campaign like a bulldozer, get everyone remaining all fired up (ie terrorized) and then go out front as the face and voice of MAGA. Just what you need. With Stephen and JD beside you, how could you lose?
Maybe it’s just me, but the look on Ms. Wiles’ face in the article’s lead image conveys a deranged attitude…..