"Each day he [Trump] does things stupider than the last. He is burying the country in his stupid."
"Each day he [Trump] does things stupider than the last. Republicans are burying the country in Trump's stupid stupid."
Since 2016, determined and united Republican voters and officials have dedicated themselves to turning Trump's bad impulses into worse facts on the ground. Metaphorically and literally. Republican voters' unbounded resentment is expressed in the unmitigated power they have given Trump. For a bacchanal of destruction. Usually references to material things are metaphors which help us envision intangibles. Republicans' giving Trump our tax dollars to destroy the federal city DC, makes material their deep seated hatred of federal government and disdain for our labor and welfare. Just as their assault on the Capitol, The Temple of Liberty, to obstruct lawmakers' constitutional transfer of power, was a material representation of their hatred of government - and of the foundational idea that liberty is enacted through representatives of the people coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence. And to pervert that idea by replacing it with 'might makes right' bullying. As personified by Trump as chief executive and commander in chief. John Roberts as Chief Justice. Pete Hegseth and the entire perverted Trump administration.
Republicans have a bent for scraping the bottom of the barrel for their leaders.
They've been here before. Nixon for instance. Memorialized in the political cartoons of Herb Block
Mirror, mirror on the wall
"In this cartoon from the beginning of 1960, Herb Block shows Vice-President Richard Nixon preparing to run for the presidential nomination that year. He depicts him on the basis of his past record as the witch-like character from Snow White. Nixon won the Republican nomination and lost to Senator John F. Kennedy that fall."
Animal Farm - Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium | Exhibitions - Library of Congress
We've encountered stupidity before but, creating a new category of his own, never before have we had to endure this level or brand of "stupid." As Trump himself likes to say, "the likes of which we've never seen."
His 25th Amendment defense will more than likely be, what mental decline? He has always been stupid. You elected stupid and that is what you have. Being a closeted wiseass, I always liked the line "you are what you eat" to spring onto someone, especially when looking at exotic cuisine I am fearful of.... but now, more seriously, "You are what you elect" comes to mind and might encapsulate it all; the stupidity, the greed, the pettiness, the evilness, immorality, the hypocrisy, et al. Remember that when the "Born Again Republicans" start surfacing with selective memory, "I-told-you-so"isms, and embracing their twisted forms of religion as an excuse.
"Each day he [Trump] does things stupider than the last. He is burying the country in his stupid."
"Each day he [Trump] does things stupider than the last. Republicans are burying the country in Trump's stupid stupid."
Since 2016, determined and united Republican voters and officials have dedicated themselves to turning Trump's bad impulses into worse facts on the ground. Metaphorically and literally. Republican voters' unbounded resentment is expressed in the unmitigated power they have given Trump. For a bacchanal of destruction. Usually references to material things are metaphors which help us envision intangibles. Republicans' giving Trump our tax dollars to destroy the federal city DC, makes material their deep seated hatred of federal government and disdain for our labor and welfare. Just as their assault on the Capitol, The Temple of Liberty, to obstruct lawmakers' constitutional transfer of power, was a material representation of their hatred of government - and of the foundational idea that liberty is enacted through representatives of the people coming to consensus through reasoned debate of empirical evidence. And to pervert that idea by replacing it with 'might makes right' bullying. As personified by Trump as chief executive and commander in chief. John Roberts as Chief Justice. Pete Hegseth and the entire perverted Trump administration.
Republicans have a bent for scraping the bottom of the barrel for their leaders.
They've been here before. Nixon for instance. Memorialized in the political cartoons of Herb Block
Mirror, mirror on the wall
"In this cartoon from the beginning of 1960, Herb Block shows Vice-President Richard Nixon preparing to run for the presidential nomination that year. He depicts him on the basis of his past record as the witch-like character from Snow White. Nixon won the Republican nomination and lost to Senator John F. Kennedy that fall."
Animal Farm - Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium | Exhibitions - Library of Congress
.https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/herblocks-
Good info as always Steve!! Thanks!! Oh, Slump is slumping big-time!!
It will be a Götterdämmerung of Graft.
Pity the mirror.
We've encountered stupidity before but, creating a new category of his own, never before have we had to endure this level or brand of "stupid." As Trump himself likes to say, "the likes of which we've never seen."
His 25th Amendment defense will more than likely be, what mental decline? He has always been stupid. You elected stupid and that is what you have. Being a closeted wiseass, I always liked the line "you are what you eat" to spring onto someone, especially when looking at exotic cuisine I am fearful of.... but now, more seriously, "You are what you elect" comes to mind and might encapsulate it all; the stupidity, the greed, the pettiness, the evilness, immorality, the hypocrisy, et al. Remember that when the "Born Again Republicans" start surfacing with selective memory, "I-told-you-so"isms, and embracing their twisted forms of religion as an excuse.