On the day before the election, Donald Trump stood before the American people and declared that he was organizing an army of lawyers to rush in and ply their trade at every polling place where the total did not favor him. What you say, the message of a loser? Of course, because basically, down deep, that’s what Trump is. He already knows he’s lost this race but, being the cheating, lying, backstabbing disgrace to humanity he is, he will never be able to face the truth. There will never be a minute when Trump stands up like a man and acknowledges that Joe Biden has beaten him fair and square because Trump doesn’t acknowledge the existence of fair and square. Trumpworld only understands cheating, duplicity and criminal behavior.
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Last Thursday night we were treated to an occurrence that to my knowledge is without precedent in political history. Donald Trump took to the TV screen and began a liturgy of lies that easily out lied anything he has uttered during a time in the White House in which he has lied some 30,000 times to the nation.
And then in mid-sentence all the networks cut him off. What the hell happened? This was the President.
Who had the stones to pull the plug on him? Well, my guess is that there was not one hero that made the decision to black out the Fat Liar. That would be far too dramatic. We have already had way too much fiction in our politics in his election. It’s my guess that the network heads came together when Trump announced his plans to skunk the elections and decided that they had to do something to protect our democracy. The social media platforms are already doing some little bit and now it was the grownups turn to contribute. So when Trump started his bilious “Milleresque” list of fake grievances they all decided to have some spine and cut him off. It was a message, a message that stated, “We will no longer give you a platform for your lies.” Of course it didn’t come until the results showed that Trump was all but gone but it did finally come.
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As the Trump Empire disintegrates and slides into the swamp, the artificial attempts to salvage something from the election are just too pathetic to deal with. Trump, his brats and the few ass-kissing sycophants that remain, wallowing at the bier can’t give up because their menu of misdeeds is threatening to bury them under a mountain of indictments the moment the Fat Liar walks out of the White House. They will keep whining about final counts and the ones who want to run in 2024 will hedge, but the reality is, they all know Trump is dead and buried and all that’s left to do is light the funeral pyre and push the raft out into the Gowanus Canal.
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Roy Blunt of Missouri who will head the Inauguration Committee talks about having Trump on the stage as Biden is sworn in. Yeah that’s really about to happen. They will have to put a ring in his nose and drag him out. And why would anyone expect that? This is a man who had shown no understanding or interest in civility throughout his entire life. He is interested only in what’s in it for him. Losing the election didn’t change his personality; it only made it worse. If he, by some bizarre circumstance, appears on that stage on that day, it will only be because he has found some profit in showing up. ******
I’ve said it before and it’s still true; Chris Christie is a very smart guy and he showed it again this Sunday by skirting the question of how Trump would actually leave. Bill Maher hasn’t been smart enough to do that. Maher keeps beating the drum that Trump will never leave the White House and will cause a civil war. That’s as much bullshit as QAnon. They are both wishful thinking for fanatics.
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Now that most of the shouting has quieted down a little, it’s time for Americans to explore a way to reunite the country. Don’t get me wrong. That will never completely happen because there will always be crazy people and stupid people and fanatics who haven’t got the mental acuity to understand a logical premise. But that group certainly isn’t 48% of the country.
Right now it’s the Democrats who want to make changes so it’s their job to create logical, understandable and functional plans for those changes and present them to those who voted against them in the previous few elections. As stated above, everyone isn’t going to buy those plans but if they make sense and are presented correctly, enough will buy in and the projects the Democrats want to put in play will find success.
We cannot lose sight of the fact that those whose minds we want to change have been listening to a combination of lies and pure bullshit promulgated by the likes of Donald Trump and Moscow Mitch McConnell for decades. That means you can’t just tell people stuff and expect them to embrace it. First you have to break up the bridge they have been crossing as long as most can remember and then you have to get them to go along with a new bridge. It’s not an easy job and to accomplish it you will have to have a hell of a new bridge.
There are a lot of uninformed people running around this country with bullhorns, shouting about things they know nothing about, especially socialism. Every time I hear one of them babble that Joe Biden is a socialist, I think, “God, I hope so.” I say that because the two most important government programs in this country are Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. And in case you weren’t watching they are both socialist in nature, as are a lot of other programs that help those that need help. That doesn’t mean the country is turning to Socialism or Communism or any other “ism”. It just means that we are solving some of the problems of Capitalism, which is the economic plan under which this country operates.
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So Trump isn’t anywhere near conceding the election despite all the real evidence that he has just gotten handed his hat. The administration claims that an army of lawyers will be released by the Trump campaign to file cases against all manner of voting fraud across the country, none of which actually exists anywhere but in Trump’s twisted brain. But what’s the real story behind this?
It’s pretty insidious. This morning I received 32 emails, by actual count, asking me as a “loyal Republican and great Trump supporter,” which obviously I am not, to donate to a fund that will attempt to overthrow the results of an election that has as of this moment been as clean and transparent as any election in U.S. history. Sure there have been plenty of accusations by the liar Trump but so far, no real proof of any fraud.
So what’s it all about? It’s all about debt; Trump’s debt, and how much he and his campaign fund owe and will never repay. The law says that any money raised by a campaign, no matter what they claim it’s for, can be used to pay off its debts. So the loser and con man Trump is doing it again. He is claiming that he is fighting for a fair election while using the money he is raising from the suckers to pay his election debts and refill his personal coffers. This is exactly what he did with the infamous Trump charities when he raised big bucks for charity and spent those bucks on portraits of himself that were to be hung in his various golf courses. It’s the long con folks and Trump is running it again, this time with his own supporters as the suckers.