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Guest Post by Eric Peters
Trump isn’t a king – though he would probably like to be and seems to see himself as one. Nevertheless, there is an interesting correlation between Trump and King George III, the one who was king when the American colonies successfully seceded from the empire of Great Britain.
George III went nuts. Check-up from the neck up nuts.
Trump seems to need just that. Once again, he has been posting nutty AI-generated memes, among them images of himself with George Washington, a president who wasn’t nuts. Washington was also a legendarily serious man who always conducted himself with great decorum, something Trump severely lacks.
Though Washington has been dead since 1799 – when he was bled to death by the Faucis of his time – it is certain that, were he alive now, he would be (to use one of his favorite terms) mortified by Trump’s conduct. It is jejune, boorish. Also indicative – of something perhaps not being quite right in his head.
To begin with, how is it that the president has time to order these memes made (he almost certainly isn’t capable of making them himself as not many 80-year-olds are tech-hip) and to review and post them on his social media platform? There is a catastrophic war going on. There are catastrophic repercussions percolating. It is not as if it were a time of peace and prosperity and the president had little to do and needed an amusing (if infantile) diversion. That he spends even ten minutes on this infantile and embarrassing twaddle is insulting. Try – if you can imagine it – Washington having flunkies draw up little sketches of himself in preposterous scenarios and having them published while he was on the run from the battle of Long Island, when he and his troops were beaten by the British. The Continental Congress likely would have rescinded his command on the basis of mental debility.
Where is Congress now?
Naturally, the Democrats do nothing – which is the intelligent thing to do. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a fool of himself. They know all they have to do is wait – and pick up the inevitable pieces. The Republicans, on the other hand, are behaving very much as the Democrats did during “Joe Biden’s” public senescence. That is to say, they are pretending all is well and hoping it will all go away, somehow. This is mortifying to the people who voted for Republicans in the hope that voting for them would make a difference. The turning away from the GOP is as palpable as it probably was back in the late 1850s, when the Whig Party was disintegrating. The GOP (summoning DeNiro voice from Copland) blew it.
Mark this. Not Trump. The GOP.
Just as the Democrats blew it by pretending “Joe Biden” wasn’t senile, which led to the ridiculous Kamala Harris being installed to replace him at the last moment, which assured Trump’s re-election. The GOP is in the midst of assuring the Democrats – all of them – are going to win the next election, which may well end up being the last ones. They – unlike Republicans – have that killer instinct needed to win. They – unlike the GOP, the party of Talk and No Action (unless it is another war for Israel) – will take care of Trump and everyone down the line they can get their hands on. Remember what they did to the “January 6” Trumpsters, many of whom just happened to be there. There was a lot of Hut! Hut! Hutting! and hard time, too.
There will be, again. It will be thanks to the GOP, which seems determined to let Trump sink their ship. What would it take to rouse them sufficiently? Trump walking with his pants down around his ankles on the White House lawn, pursuing a 13-year-old? Probably not even that would do it.
So, we get to wait – for the inevitable consequences of this idiotic, evil war Trump chose to start and which he refuses to admit was a terrible idea. These consequences are likely going to wash over us very soon, as diesel shortages (and price spikes) wreck the already badly gimped economy. That is to say, the real economy – as opposed to the Wall Street grift. The one in which real people have to sweat paying $4 for gas and are rapidly tiring of Trump’s obnoxious and borderline incoherent bellicose babbling about how it’s only a “tiny bit more” and “worth it.”
No, it ain’t.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
Trump isn’t a king – though he would probably like to be and seems to see himself as one. Nevertheless, there is an interesting correlation between Trump and King George III, the one who was king when the American colonies successfully seceded from the empire of Great Britain.
George III went nuts. Check-up from the neck up nuts.
Trump seems to need just that. Once again, he has been posting nutty AI-generated memes, among them images of himself with George Washington, a president who wasn’t nuts. Washington was also a legendarily serious man who always conducted himself with great decorum, something Trump severely lacks.
Though Washington has been dead since 1799 – when he was bled to death by the Faucis of his time – it is certain that, were he alive now, he would be (to use one of his favorite terms) mortified by Trump’s conduct. It is jejune, boorish. Also indicative – of something perhaps not being quite right in his head.
To begin with, how is it that the president has time to order these memes made (he almost certainly isn’t capable of making them himself as not many 80-year-olds are tech-hip) and to review and post them on his social media platform? There is a catastrophic war going on. There are catastrophic repercussions percolating. It is not as if it were a time of peace and prosperity and the president had little to do and needed an amusing (if infantile) diversion. That he spends even ten minutes on this infantile and embarrassing twaddle is insulting. Try – if you can imagine it – Washington having flunkies draw up little sketches of himself in preposterous scenarios and having them published while he was on the run from the battle of Long Island, when he and his troops were beaten by the British. The Continental Congress likely would have rescinded his command on the basis of mental debility.
Where is Congress now?
Naturally, the Democrats do nothing – which is the intelligent thing to do. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a fool of himself. They know all they have to do is wait – and pick up the inevitable pieces. The Republicans, on the other hand, are behaving very much as the Democrats did during “Joe Biden’s” public senescence. That is to say, they are pretending all is well and hoping it will all go away, somehow. This is mortifying to the people who voted for Republicans in the hope that voting for them would make a difference. The turning away from the GOP is as palpable as it probably was back in the late 1850s, when the Whig Party was disintegrating. The GOP (summoning DeNiro voice from Copland) blew it.
Mark this. Not Trump. The GOP.
Just as the Democrats blew it by pretending “Joe Biden” wasn’t senile, which led to the ridiculous Kamala Harris being installed to replace him at the last moment, which assured Trump’s re-election. The GOP is in the midst of assuring the Democrats – all of them – are going to win the next election, which may well end up being the last ones. They – unlike Republicans – have that killer instinct needed to win. They – unlike the GOP, the party of Talk and No Action (unless it is another war for Israel) – will take care of Trump and everyone down the line they can get their hands on. Remember what they did to the “January 6” Trumpsters, many of whom just happened to be there. There was a lot of Hut! Hut! Hutting! and hard time, too.
There will be, again. It will be thanks to the GOP, which seems determined to let Trump sink their ship. What would it take to rouse them sufficiently? Trump walking with his pants down around his ankles on the White House lawn, pursuing a 13-year-old? Probably not even that would do it.
So, we get to wait – for the inevitable consequences of this idiotic, evil war Trump chose to start and which he refuses to admit was a terrible idea. These consequences are likely going to wash over us very soon, as diesel shortages (and price spikes) wreck the already badly gimped economy. That is to say, the real economy – as opposed to the Wall Street grift. The one in which real people have to sweat paying $4 for gas and are rapidly tiring of Trump’s obnoxious and borderline incoherent bellicose babbling about how it’s only a “tiny bit more” and “worth it.”
No, it ain’t.
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[ H/T The Burning Platform ]
