None of this is normal
Another detail of Bannon’s beheading fantasy:
Speaking on his podcast, the War Room, which was distributed in video form on a number of social media outlets, the far-right provocateur appeared to endorse violence against Wray and the US’s most senior infectious diseases expert.
“Second term kicks off with firing Wray, firing Fauci … no I actually want to go a step farther but the president is a kind-hearted man and a good man,” Bannon said.
Ahhhhhhhh no. No he’s not. That’s the very thing he isn’t. It’s the very worst thing about him – the all too obvious fact that there isn’t the tiniest trace of ordinary normal human sympathy and kindness in him. He could see a frightened lonely puppy crying and he would kick it out of his way. He could see a little girl wailing in anguish as she’s rescued from a man who abducted her on the street, and he would wish he could molest her himself. He is not kind-hearted, to anyone, ever. He’s both callous and cruel, and he’s utterly selfish. Kind-hearted is the thing he most is not.
That’s important. It matters.
Also: Newt Gingrich.
The increasingly heated language around the election has also included interventions from more mainstream figures, including the former Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich, who appeared to call for election workers in Pennsylvania to be arrested.
Speaking to Sean Hannity on Fox News, Gingrich amplified Trump’s false complaints of election rigging and mused about what he believed was the solution.
“My hope is that President Trump will lead the millions of Americans who understand exactly what’s going on,” Gingrich said. “The Philadelphia machine is corrupt. The Atlanta machine is corrupt. The machine in Detroit is corrupt. And they are trying to steal the presidency. And we should not allow them to do that.”
“First of all, under federal law, we should lock up the people who are breaking the law,” he continued. “You stop somebody from being an observer, you just broke federal law. Do you hide and put up papers so nobody can see what you’re doing? You just broke federal law. You bring in ballots that aren’t real? You just broke federal law.”
Except that he doesn’t know that anyone is doing that.
Yes, evidence to back up these wild pro-Trump assertions is pretty short. It is not something the likes of Bannon can be bothered with as they chuck their bullshit around, hoping some of it will stick to something.
Yeah, with other R presidents, like Reagan and Bush 43, you could see that they were humans, even though they had horrendous ideas and godawful policies. They loved their wives, and their wives loved them. Their children were not just Russian bots who did their bidding. They had pets.
Trump has wives for status, and children to pass on his glorious Trump genes (in his delusions). He does not love his wife, his kids, or anyone. He has no pets, and no friends. Even all the supporters are just greed heads who want to increase their own wealth and status, and know that a Democratic administration might not hire them to pad their resumes and their pockets.
Speaking of greedheads:
Yep. He has sunk lower than he ever sank before. I didn’t know it was possible to get lower than under the belly of a snake, but everyone in the Trump administration has managed.
Do you think so? I reckon he’d make the rescuers give the girl back to her abductor then demand that he himself gets to molest her first as payment.
Maybe none of this is normal, but the problem is that “normal” is moving in that direction. Or at least, it seems that way to me. After all, much of what we have come to expect in the last four years was unthinkable just five or six years ago.
How far have we sunk, when Gingrich is described as ‘more mainstream?’
OT: AP calls election for Biden.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9