“One of my most toxic traits is that while I’m thoroughly disgusted by my country’s ongoing slide into authoritarianism (and the tackiest form of it at that), I continue to find our semi-senile discursive queen of a president endlessly entertaining.”
I think the reason none of Trump’s would-be successors (Ron De Santis, JD Vance, Ted Cruz) have hit with his base the way Trump has is because they lack his entertainment value.
De Santis has all the warmth and charm of Anton Chigurh, Ted Cruz is so nakedly ambitious he would obviously sacrifice his wife and kids to become POTUS, and Vance is both those things in an off-putting package.
Forgive me for what will be a long comment that might disappear up my own ass but the endless attempt by the Democratic Party to understand (and let’s be honest, recreate) the appeal of Trump does not understand that his appeal isn’t his policies specifically so much as the feelings they represent.
Trump’s ardent supporters feel like the system isn’t working and is set up to screw them and that Trump is going to punish the people who established that system. I would say one of *MY* most toxic traits is that while I’m thoroughly disgusted by my country’s ongoing slide into the tackiest form of fascism, I have a vicious thrill when Trump bullies someone like Ted Cruz or Ron De Santis for what I view as the “right reasons”.
Insulting Ted Cruz’s wife’s appearance and suggesting his dad killed JFK? Gross. Pointing out Ted Cruz is a craven, lying weasel who covets power to such a degree that even his own family probably can’t stand him? Let Donald cook!
Unfortunately, because the Democratic Party is still run by a bunch of dorks who treat the West Wing as a security blanket and an aspirational blueprint they think the solution is to be shitty to trans people and undocumented immigrants.
For myriad reasons (chiefly that for Boomer and Gen X Democrats the 1980 and 1984 Reagan waves that annihilated the New Deal era Democrats once and for all as well as the “rabbit season/duck season” nature of modern politics) the Democrats can’t say, “Trump is right: things are bad for too many people and that’s because of policies that benefit people like Donald Trump. Do you know how bad you have to be that a war criminal like Liz Cheney is disgusted by you?” The response to Trump’s “things are shitty” is “actually things are great, and here’s my good friend the patriot Liz Cheney to tell you why.”
I am convinced that he has never bought groceries or been inside a grocery store. If groceries is an "old fashioned" word, then what are the young kids calling them these days?
“One of my most toxic traits is that while I’m thoroughly disgusted by my country’s ongoing slide into authoritarianism (and the tackiest form of it at that), I continue to find our semi-senile discursive queen of a president endlessly entertaining.”
I think the reason none of Trump’s would-be successors (Ron De Santis, JD Vance, Ted Cruz) have hit with his base the way Trump has is because they lack his entertainment value.
De Santis has all the warmth and charm of Anton Chigurh, Ted Cruz is so nakedly ambitious he would obviously sacrifice his wife and kids to become POTUS, and Vance is both those things in an off-putting package.
None of them have his chops in front of an audience. Not even close.
Forgive me for what will be a long comment that might disappear up my own ass but the endless attempt by the Democratic Party to understand (and let’s be honest, recreate) the appeal of Trump does not understand that his appeal isn’t his policies specifically so much as the feelings they represent.
Trump’s ardent supporters feel like the system isn’t working and is set up to screw them and that Trump is going to punish the people who established that system. I would say one of *MY* most toxic traits is that while I’m thoroughly disgusted by my country’s ongoing slide into the tackiest form of fascism, I have a vicious thrill when Trump bullies someone like Ted Cruz or Ron De Santis for what I view as the “right reasons”.
Insulting Ted Cruz’s wife’s appearance and suggesting his dad killed JFK? Gross. Pointing out Ted Cruz is a craven, lying weasel who covets power to such a degree that even his own family probably can’t stand him? Let Donald cook!
Unfortunately, because the Democratic Party is still run by a bunch of dorks who treat the West Wing as a security blanket and an aspirational blueprint they think the solution is to be shitty to trans people and undocumented immigrants.
For myriad reasons (chiefly that for Boomer and Gen X Democrats the 1980 and 1984 Reagan waves that annihilated the New Deal era Democrats once and for all as well as the “rabbit season/duck season” nature of modern politics) the Democrats can’t say, “Trump is right: things are bad for too many people and that’s because of policies that benefit people like Donald Trump. Do you know how bad you have to be that a war criminal like Liz Cheney is disgusted by you?” The response to Trump’s “things are shitty” is “actually things are great, and here’s my good friend the patriot Liz Cheney to tell you why.”
"...had yet to lodge itself in one of the waffle squares inside his brain."
A+
The Daily Show had a great segment last night about his recent "weave" on drones:
https://youtu.be/U7X1kZZnD8c?si=kYlJS3-rUYHzuIkH&t=145
It’s like he’s never heard the decade-old hit song “Post To Be” that had impressionable zoomers looking up the phrase “eat the booty like groceries”
I am convinced that he has never bought groceries or been inside a grocery store. If groceries is an "old fashioned" word, then what are the young kids calling them these days?
Is that what skibidi toilet means?
Uber Eats
Reminds me of the time when he thought asylum seekers were clinically insane immigrants. And all the Hannibal Lecter references.
Holy shit. He's right. Groceries IS an awesome word. Fuck me.
Wonderful read