Trump’s Real MAGA Legacy. The Coarsening Of America

There are already a plethora of reasons to damn Traitor to all eternity as a bartender in a gay karaoke bar. Right now the current red alert, led by former GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney, is the warning that a Trump return to the White House would signal the end of democracy as we know it. Big deal. We knew that in 2020, which is why we kicked his fat ass out by some seven million votes.

But even when we bojo El Pendejo Presidente next November, it isn’t like the storm clouds will suddenly disperse, the sun will shine brightly, the birds will trill in ecstasy, and there will be a national five minute break to sing kumbaya in national harmony. Trump’s too deeply entrenched MAGA cult philosophy has already done it’s insidious work.

One of my favorite feel good zone out movies of all time is Remo Williams. Joel Gray is brilliant in the role of Chun, a Korean martial arts master hired by a secret government agency to train up an overweight New York cop, played by Fred Ward as a secret assassin. At their first meeting, Chun levels a two finger charge into Remo’s gut to get him to sit down, and folds his legs lotus style, grumbling, I can see that the deadly hamburger has already done its evil work. And that is exactly what The Cheeto Prophets toxic philosophy has already done. And if you just bother to look, you can see it everywhere.

By now you all know that Teri works in retail, in a clothing store. This is obviously the busiest time of the year, and her hours load is heavy. The other night she came home and once she was off of her feet with a cold one, told me about her day, one of my favorite parts of her getting home. And the horror story she told me locked everything into crystal clear focus.

She and her manager, who is also the store manager and a friend were doing what is called go backs. This is simply taking stuff from the check out lines that wasn’t purchased, and putting it back on the shelves or hanging it up. And especially at this time of the year, it means picking sh*t up from the floor that people just dropped and hanging it back up aqain.

While they were doing that, her manager picked up an item off of the floor to hang it up, turned to Teri and said, I swear to God Teri, these people are savage animals. At which point Teri nodded and said, Tell me about it! I thought last year was bad, but this is off the charts!

Welcome to MAGA world. Christmas is exactly three weeks from today. If you’re going out any time in those next three weeks, please Dios, early, then try this experiment. When you have your cart, before you actually start looking for what you want, just take five simple minutes wandering the aisles, and look at how the shoppers are treating each other, the employees, and their surroundings.

It will turn you into an instant, permanent online holiday shopper. To hear Teri tell it, it’s like the Ernie Hudson line to the Mayor in Ghostbusters, Your Honor, I haven’t been with the firm that long, but I can tell I’ve seen sh*t that would turn you white! Welcome to 2024 retail world in Trumpmenistan.

In Teri’s eyes, you have shoppers who use their carts as battering rams and suicide vehicles to but their way in to the spot they want to be in. They try on a shoe, and when it doesn’t fit, they drop it on the floor outside of the box. Teri has seen shoppers literally grab an item out of another shoppers hand with a snarled I saw it first!, and put it in their cart. They paw through a rack of clothes, just dumping clothes they don’t want on the floor while the look for the ones they do. And they leave their monkey spawn to run wild in the toy section, ripping the packaging off of toys they have no intention of buying. And it’s bad enough so that employees can tell the difference from last year’s holiday season.

Let’s be clear. This isn’t everybody who comes into the store. In fact, it’s a small minority. But remember this, Trump’s loyal GOP base is about 34%, which means it’s about 17% of the electorate. Maybe not so surprisingly, that seems to match the troublemaker quotient in the store. But Trump is desperately ramping up the rhetoric, and more and more they’re acting out.

When you look at Trump’s philosophy and campaign rhetoric stripped to it’s simplest message, that message is, It’s not just OK to be a f*cking animal, it’s your God given right as a true patriot to be a f*cking animal! And since Trump’s base is basically the underclass who respond so well to his message of having been serially screwed over by others, it’s not surprising that they feel enabled.

But words alone are not enough. My beloved mother had a favorite saying, If Jim Rosenwinkel said he was going to jump off of the roof, does that mean that you have to jump off the roof too? And so Hair Twitler has set the example, brazenly lashing out at judges, prosecutors, their spouses and children, court clerks, and anybody else who dares to look at him crosswise. Trump is walking the talk, and that spurs his lowlife mob on to emulate him. And they are.

This is the lasting legacy of Trump and his MAGA philosophy. We can and will beat His Lowness in 2024, which will put an end to all of this Trump for President nonsense once and for all. If a cholesterol cardiac doesn’t do away with him, and orange jumpsuit should substitute nicely.

But even if we use the ass kicking of The Tiny Thumbs Dictator in 2024 to oust the majority of MAGA House reps in swing and competitive districts, unfortunately that will not spell the end of the MAGA philosophy.

Simply because after nine long years of The Scruffy Guru not only telling his supporters to be insensitive *ssholes, but leading the way in showing them how to be insensitive *ssholes, And getting rid of Trump is not going to suddenly lead these idiots to some miraculous Come to Jesus moment. Not only are they incapable of seeing the light, they’re totally resistant to seeing the light. At this point, they love being insensitive *ssholes.

And so once again, as with so many things that the politicians f*ck up, politics can’t fix this. Once again it is We the People who are going to have to clean up that mess. It is going to be up to law enforcement, the store employees and managers, and most importantly fellow shoppers to hammer home once and for all that this kind of conduct is unacceptable. As Oliver Hardy often opined, Well, thank you Donald. Here’s another fine mess you’ve gotten us into! Harumph. Harumph indeed.

I thank you for the privilege of your time.