The GOP, regrettably, needs to be defeated for about, say 8 more years and hopefully they pull their collective heads from their nether regions and regroup. I'd love to see a resurgence of actual conservativism once again in my lifetime. I realize this is a HUGE ask these days, and might as well wish for a unicorn, but you gotta take everything in stride if you want to survive.
Mr. Trump first blipped on my social radar in the '80s on a show called
Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous. I would spend Sundays, after church, forced to watch this dreck with my grandmother at her house. She just loved that lowbrow daytime TeeVee nonsense. For you younger folk,
Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous was more than a song from the band
Good Charlotte. It was an *actual* syndicated network TeeVee show (streaming content networks didn't exist) that
delivered as advertised. Thirty minutes of worshipping the rich and the famous. Fix,
satisfied.
Depravity unlocked. It was kind of a precursor to the superficial fame/rich whoring Kardashian nonsense US citizens ingest 24/7 now, but with Campbell's Soup commercials in between breaks back then. Host Robin Leach fawned over his rich and famous guests like acolytes that were shaping a twisted, superficial version of a 'New America', and Trump came off to me then as a gaudy, spoiled, entitled trust fund brat. I had absolutely no use for him then, nor do I now.
I used to listen to Howard Stern pretty religiously, and that was the second blip. Mr. Trump was the ultimate creepy sleaze bag on that show, but now much older and fatter. This was even before the Billy Bush tape. He ran for president in 2000 for the first time, I believe for the' Reform Party' or something. A bust. A joke candidate just there to soak up the sweet, sweet notoriety. He dropped out because he had like 7% of the vote. I believe he might have been a democrat at this point, but I'm a bit fuzzy on detail. Again, I had absolutely no use for him then, nor do I now.
Mr. Trump was always hawking something: real estate, steaks, flight, education, you name it. First class grifter, in a carnival barker suit. Made for TeeVee. Made for rubes. I never cared for it, thus I largely ignored it to my enormous chagrin later.
By now, Mr. Trump was amassing some notoriety (Blip #3) for many right-wing conspiracies involving president Obama's Birth Certificate and alleging Obama supported ISIS, etc. Bullshit accusations that ultimately turned out to be verifiably incorrect.
It's a trend today, but I believe Mr. Trump's method of bringing blatantly dishonest politics to the US started back then. Once more, I had absolutely no use for him then, nor do I now.
I'm still suffering mild PTSD from the point in time that the GOP, starting in 2015 up until his nomination, decided this non useful idiot was going to be 'their guy'. Now I know, by and large, republican presidential candidates since Nixon have had the personalities of houseplants but they at least seemed to have had the policies and moral clarity by nature to connect with the constituency and win elections. US citizens used to never fret about the personalities of politicians. As long as they believed the policies were copacetic, we really didn't care about how our president lived his life. It just wasn't important.
But all that changed when the GOP unleashed this Orange Virus on us. The GOP shoulders the blame, but they will refuse to accept accountability for their actions at the moment, because their malignant narcissist Reverend Trump won't allow it. So, fuck 'em.
Over 8 years of a solid majority rule, the democrats will continue to make a crazed society more crazy and divided because they cater to the marginalized, no matter how small the demographic, how much it costs, and how unreasonable the ask is..
It's kind of what they do, and they are
really fucking good at it. They have been doing it my whole life, so I see liberals as like the true pioneers of inventing bullshit. They are masters of marketing, communication, and the Arts. And they do not believe any odor emits from their sphincters due to climate change. Regressives will blame, shame anything and everyone, because reasons.
Allow me to reinforce the notion of taking everything in stride if you want to survive.
Biden was simply the decades old plan B both parties seem to use when new blood just doesn't pan out. The DNC predictably ran the unscripted, uninteresting former Obama VP in lieu of anybody interesting (because there was literally
no one more interesting). It worked, thus the democrats seem to be pretty good at this at the moment, but they will eventually fail too. See Hillary Clinton. See Bernie Sanders. The DNC has a serious charisma problem right now as well.
I align more with republicans on deficit, budget, tradition, free enterprise, and owning as much land as you can afford. As a cock Asian citizen myself, I have a deep appreciation for my guaranteed liberty, my constitutional rights, and freedoms most countries envy. I do not say that in jest. I am a proud owner of several firearms and I believe they are crucial for hunting, protection and sport. I can also understand the opposition's argument as well. I just don't fully buy it.
I try not to get too hung up on societal outrage, and so many USMB people seem to hate me for it.
Fuck'em.
So, GOP: Enough of this entitlement garbage, this populism infatuation, the wildly unpopular ideologies the GOP espouses as of late are too much, as they come from a handful of hateful extremists with grievances and specific agendas based on revenge politics.
Enough already.
Republicans shouldn't 'worship' their candidates like televangelists. Perhaps a little critical thinking post-Trump could go a long way in reinventing the party as a vessel for good, rather than corruption.
Prediction?
Based upon the right now, Desantis becomes the republican nominee. He will lose the general.
Badly.
