The governor of Washington and the woman in Michigan
He’s doing the daily rally. It’s so awful I can’t not share some of the awful. (I’m not watching. I’m just getting the awful via reporters on Twitter. I can’t bear watching.)
There’s a pandemic, and he refuses to call governors who don’t suck up to him enough.
If the governor doesn’t suck his dick the people die.
I want him to die.
Updating to add: here he is saying it.
Jeesis Keerist…!
America might as well be ruled by Mad King George. It’s like an army going into serious battle with a toddler for its commander-in-chief.
Correction: not like. Is.
It is an army going into battle with a toddler for its commander. That bad.
Amazing how much no bottom there is.
Not only does he think this way, he says it out loud. Proudly. Righteously.
Not only does he say it out loud, proudly, but millions love him for it.
His poll numbers are up.
What is this country?
Ben, that country is not a country; it is a continent filled with millions of people who know no other world than that which they’ve gathered through Reality TV and Fox News, with a much smaller contingent of people who have some awareness of the world as it exists. Among the former contingent, not *everyone* supports Trump and what the Republican Party has become, but they all tend to be ignorant of what doesn’t occur in their immediate social circle, and their sources of information are restricted to those which tend to confirm what they already believe.
It must be noted that *all* world leaders are increasing in popularity, and that, relative to Macron and Merkel (for example), Trump’s boost is hardly impressive. (This is popularly termed the ‘Rally Around The Flag’ effect, and also explains why Bush the Lesser’s popularity surged after 9/11 and goes some way to explaining his (not-so-re-)election in 2004, when Iraq War fatigue had not yet properly set in.)
Yet, as we have seen countless times already, idealogues on all sides always say that the cure for every ailment is exactly what they’ve always prescribed, and any failure of their prescription can easily be chalked up to obstinate and ignorant resistance from the fools on the other side. In this particular case, Trumpists have the best of both worlds–either Trump, despite his best efforts, is sufficiently guided to contain the epidemic and so his supporters can simultaneously claim credit for his valiant efforts *and* that the whole thing was a globalist hoax to wreck the economy, or Trump’s tantrums see the epidemic rage for months until a million or two Americans have gone to their graves, and his supporters can say that it was those ungrateful dilettantes on the Other Side whose refusal to give in to all of Trump’s demands which made the problem exponentially worse.
We saw the inverse of this throughout Obama’s tenure, where he and his sycophants made every reasonable accommodation and compromise in order to accomplish *something*, only to see every gesture shat upon and every heroic effort rewarded with lies and ire. Now we get to see the Tea Party’s resurrected spectre in charge, at once triumphant and revanchist, and never, ever able to be satisfied.
In short, Ben, you do not have a country. You have a quarter of a billion wounded animals baying for blood, with another hundred million world citizens trapped in their midst.