Trump is the bad guy and he's got to go. But I have a very strong feeling that he is not going anywhere anytime soon, if ever. Here's why:
What was once the Republican Party and has now morphed into the Trump Cult Party is more energized than the Dems, by far.
They have one candidate and they are passionate enough about him to build pipe bombs and send them to all his enemies in politics and the media; to run down anti-Neo Nazi protesters with a Dodge Charger in Charlottesville. That is devotion on a scale we have never seen in my lifetime.
Trump has kept his lunatic base engaged since Day One with campaign-style rallies throughout his first term. It's unprecedented - the guy has been running for re-election the whole time. It's ingenious, it's diabolical, and it's working. They wear the official red hats and home-made clothing with Trump's name and face splattered all over it.
They are an army - albeit a dipshit army - and they look like one too. Pointy white hoods come to mind.
They are kicking ass, yet they've been tricked into feeling like perpetual victims so they are perpetually pissed off. Anger is a stronger passion than, say, Obama's hope. These rubes are broke, their dicks don't work anymore, and they are fucking pissed. And Trump makes them feel tough and empowered, and like they could fuck a porn star vicariously despite their limp dicks.
Speaking of limp dicks, let's have a look at the Dems.
Not only are they not all marching in lock-step behind a single galvanizing candidate, they are in the middle of a civil war. Democratic voters are totally split, right down the middle, between two totally different candidates - besides their age and race: Joe Biden, the safe/boring moderate, and Bernie Sanders, the self-described revolutionary democratic socialist.
Now, I'm not playing favorites. I'd vote for a pile of dog shit if it meant getting rid of Trump. I don't give a shit who it is, as long as they can win. That being said, here's what's going to happen:
When the Dem Civil War ends and one of these old creeps gets the nomination, just like in 2016, there is not going to be harmony in the jackass party. There will be no much-needed unity. A good chunk of the side that loses will revolt and vote for Trump, or just stay home on the big day.
And if Biden wins the nomination, the revolt will be even more pronounced because these Bernie Bros are a bunch of fucking babies. NPR reported that 12 percent of Bernie supporters, more than one in 10, voted for Trump in the general election in 2016.
But it won't matter because Trump will slaughter both of these goofballs with very little effort. Bernie is toast because he calls himself a socialist. It doesn't matter that none of Trump's base understands what that word means. They have been told, day after day via Trump media, that socialism is very bad and very scary. Fox News and pals have been pumping this message since Bernie came on the scene, so five years at least. Although I'm sure they caught a whiff of it during the Obamacare era too.
It's crazy but it's also smart and achieves their objectives. Television is a powerful tool. Roger Ailes understood this and so does Trump, who has lived in the media since his tabloid days in New York City when he would pretend to be his own publicist.
Just the other day, Trump gave away his predictable game plan for beating Bernie. On Thurs., March 5, Fox News' Bret Baier asked Trump who he would rather face in the general election - Biden or Bernie.
"I’ll tell you, I was all set for Bernie, because I thought it was going to happen. And you know how we get ready for things, right? So mentally I’m all set for Bernie - communist, I had everything down, he’s a - I was all set," Trump said proudly.
"I think he's a communist," Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity before the Super Bowl. "I mean, you know, look, I think of communism when I think of Bernie."
Not just a socialist, a communist. And it will work. Game, set, match. It's the oldest smear in American politics. Even if most of the Red Hat Army don't know what a communist is, it doesn't matter. They know it is familiar and bad. Maybe even unAmerican, which is ironic given that their guy is a traitor dick who literally has Russia's backing and help, again. Russia, of course, has a wee bit of communism in her history.
So game over, Bernie.
Why is Biden fucked? He, too, has already been smeared. The whole reason Trump wanted Ukraine to announce an investigation of Biden on a major TV news network was to smear him. It doesn't matter if there even was an investigation that followed the announcement, what Trump wanted is the announcement. That is the platform for the smear, if not the smear itself. It is the shadow of a doubt in the OJ case. It's Mark Fuhrman.
In mid-January, it was reported that Russian military hackers had targeted Burisma - the Ukrainian gas company where Hunter Biden got paid a shit-ton of money to "work" - back in early November. Why would they be doing that? Same as it ever was, to quote David Byrne. 2016 all over again.
Except, this time, instead of hacking the DNC (although I'm sure that is happening too because why not?) and leaking damning internal emails at the most politically damaging time, they will execute the same playbook but with Burisma emails that make Hunter Biden - and therefore, Joe - look like corrupt dickheads. Drain the swamp!
From there, they run wild with the Corrupt Joe & Hunter Biden campaign. It turns out, Trump never needed Ukraine to announce a fake investigation to slime Biden because the impeachment trial was much more effective at churning out that message for weeks - and much more credible coming from the U.S. capital, not random-ass Ukraine. Then again, one thing leads to another.
Further worsening Dems' chances this year, every Democrat elected president since JFK has been a generational change agent: JFK, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. Every one of them were young and representative of a change from the old ways. Biden and Bernie - 77 and 78 years old respectively - do not represent a generational shift, obviously.
Trump will win because he will cheat. Again. It cannot hurt to have KGB alums and Russian bots working day and night to get you re-elected.
Americans think we won the Cold War; we didn't. We declared ourselves the winner, packed up and went home. Russia meanwhile, kept fighting bitterly, covertly. They were fighting the long fight for decades while we weren't even engaged. And now they are reaping the rewards. They finally won the damn thing.
They will hack, they will manipulate social media, they will fuck with us and get away with it. Trump has already gotten away with his treasonous cheating twice in a row - first Russia, then Ukraine.
He literally has no reason to stop. Quite the opposite, he has a green light to proceed. This is why he orchestrated the Ukraine plot right after getting off the hook with the Mueller Report. In fact, the "perfect call" took place one day after Mueller's congressional testimony. I call him Teflon Don for a reason.
Trump will win because he has the power of incumbency, which is a major advantage. Every president in re-election has this advantage, but especially if he's doing a decent job. Now I'm not saying he's doing a good job, but the fact is that his poll numbers are excellent - higher than they have ever been. The guy's approval rating is just below 50 percent!
The average dipshit on the street who knows nothing about politics will always give the president the benefit of the doubt because, Hey, he's the president. He must be doing something right to have made it to the pinnacle of power on the planet, I mean geez.
That's really all you need to know. Once you factor in the inevitable cheating, classic GOP voter suppression, and reliable traditional apathy among young liberal voters, the Dems' goose is cooked.
The red hat shitheads love this crooked motherfucker. They can't get enough. And the other side is fractured, old and uninspiring if not unrealistic. Doomed.
But, "like a miracle," there is a potential game-changer in the mix now.
If not for this coronavirus x-factor, I think it would be a totally done deal. The economy suddenly taking a massive dump, along with Trump playing with the lives of Americans, is the only narrow sliver of a shot the Dems have. I'm not rooting for a deadly catastrophe, but I think it's coming for old folks, and it's plainly obvious that Trump will make it about himself as always.
On Friday he was at the CDC in Atlanta wearing a very tacky "KEEP AMERICA GREAT" hat, with an equally goofy jacket and unbuttoned disco shirt - golf gear basically. Because he was on his way to go golfing. And because, despite the unfolding crisis, his main concern - evident by the ridiculous hat - is not the exploding pandemic, but his re-election. The hat's re-election message was the main message he wanted to transmit in front of the cameras. At the CDC. During a pandemic.
He actually said, at the CDC, while dressed like MAGA Elmer Fudd, that he wants the stranded Americans on board a cruise ship off the coast of California to just stay there. Because if they are let off the ship, that would screw up his "numbers." That's all he cares about. I'm not at all surprised, but it is another example of things he can say privately but should at least pretend is not his focus when talking to CNN cameras. I mean, what a Dipshit.
"Do I want to bring all those people off (the Grand Princess cruise ship)?" Trump asked Friday. "People would like me to do that. I don’t like the idea of doing that.”
“I would rather, because I like the numbers being where they are - I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault ... I’d rather have them stay on, personally.”
That wasn't our fault.
He doesn't even try to camouflage his game plan! But this is his modus operandi - just like showing his hand on Fox News about how he plans to attack Bernie as a communist. Any politician would have the same attack for Bernie, but you don't go blabbing about it beforehand. You let the Roger Stones and Sean Hannitys take care of that, a little plausible deniability. But this guy revels in it.
Now let's take it one step further. Bill Maher has been arguing every Friday night on his HBO show that if Trump loses, he won't leave the White House. And I agree with that, kind of. I agree, hypothetically. For Maher's premise to make sense, Trump has to lose first.
I agree with Maher about the not leaving part, but I'm more worried about 2024. If Trump is still alive then, he will be at maximum power. America will be unrecognizable, a smoldering crater. Everything is a hoax, witch-hunt, coup. He will follow Vladimir Putin's lead and that of strong men throughout the history of the Middle East.
If you think I'm paranoid looking this far down the road, today news broke that Putin is working to extend his term indefinitely. Like Trump, his current and second term is due to expire in 2024. In January, he proposed altering the constitution that limits the presidency to two terms. Yesterday, corrupt parliamentarians offered to grant his wish - surprise, surprise.
“It’s a possible option in principle, but on one contrition: if the constitutional court decides that such an amendment will not contravene the constitution,” Putin said.
Lol. At least this guy tries to make it appear as if he's respecting tradition. He is a much better showman. Because he has to be. Russians will actually revolt, unlike our dipshit Facebook-addled country. We'll just watch it happen - in between episodes of The Masked Singer, of course.
I predict Trump will use the same trick he used when he was accurately called a racist during such incidents as the Muslim ban or the Charlottesville attack by a Trump terrorist. He flipped it around and said the Dems are the racist party because, indeed, several decades ago they were.
When he refuses to leave office, he'll say, Hey, the Dems did it first with FDR! I'm not setting the precedent or doing anything more radical than the Dems have already done. I am FDR!
As if any of his knuckle-dragging followers know anything about FDR. It will be obscene and it will work just fine.
And even if it fails, Don Jr. will be elected in a sham election in 2024. Even if the election is half-ass legit - but I suspect those days are long gone forever - I think Don Jr. will be the next president. They are already very good at cheating and being absolutely shameless. They will only be better at it four years from now. And accomplice Putin is definitely not going anywhere.
That's how fucked we are. We are fucked forever. My elder friend keeps rolling his eyes and telling me to take off my tinfoil hat. But these are tinfoil hat times! Now more than ever. I don't understand anyone on the right side of history who isn't cynical and paranoid at this point. We are in year four of this unimaginable shitshow and it gets worse every day.
Help us, Coronavirus... You're our only hope.
