The Trump cancer (not him having actual cancer, unfortunately)
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:34 pm
There are plenty of people who had their moment in the sun, to advance a cause, then they went to the sidelines (more or less) and accepted their role gracefully.
The greatest example I can think of (for our team) was Barry Goldwater after 1964. He created a movement that bore fruit in 1980, but when he came ruin in the '64 presidential election he moved on personally. He was a good and decent man.
Even on the other side this has happened--I would offer up George McGovern as an exemple.He created a movement that bore fruit in 1992, but when he came ruin in the '72 presidential election he moved on personally. He was a good and decent man (and, later in life, he came to question some of the policies his "heirs" advocated.)
Then there is the shitbag named Donald Trump.
You can say he advanced a worthy cause--bringing working class and middle class populism to the GOP, and asking that it have a seat at the GOP table, too (which had been long dominated by corporatists). Fair enough.
But in 2020 he lead a GOP ticket that gave control of the Presidency, Sentate and House to the Dems. In 2022, the frankly unAmerican process of needng his personal blessing of loyalty TO HIM caused the GOP--through its idiot "MAGA" voters--to field multiple candidates in very important races (Senate, governorships and House seats in particuar) that led the GOP to FAR underperform as it should have. With brain dead Biden in the White House, inflation and crime raging, and cultural leftists running amok carving up children to sacrifice on the altar of Trannyism, promoting racial essentialism, etc., if this is the best the "MAGA Movement" can produce, then fuck the MAGA Movement.
But Trump is not going to be graceful, He is not a good and decent man. And now the GOP is potentially fucked, big time. As my grandmother used to say, when you lie down with dogs, don't complain when you come up with fleas. The GOP is covered in MAGA fleas, dopes who put loyalty to this bozo over the best interests of their country, and Trump is too big of a shitheel not to exploit them (unlike Goldwater).
So the GOP has two choices. Run this fucking clown again in 2024, or not.
As to the former, now that it SHOULD BE clear to everyone what a fucking douche he is, aside from the MAGA cult of personality losers, why in hell would anyone want him? He's rapidly aging (telling me Biden is old, too, is not a response); whatever sense of judgment he ever had is rapidly deteriorating; in his first go-around he accomplished little of his actual 2016 electoral agenda; and he has now been THE key figure in two consecutive electoral clusterfucks.
But if the GOP DOESN'T pick him, then it faces the propsect that he runs a third-party campaign in 2024 that completely sinks the party with divisive infighting, basically putting the lights out on this country (perhaps literally). And not being a good and decent man, it is precisely this kind of electoral terrorism this fucking turd would embrace.
The parenthetical subtitle of this thread is somewhat hyperbolical. I don't wish cancer on Trump--both of my parents died that way. But a Trumpian massive stroke to get him off the stage he won't leave with grace? Hell, yes.
The greatest example I can think of (for our team) was Barry Goldwater after 1964. He created a movement that bore fruit in 1980, but when he came ruin in the '64 presidential election he moved on personally. He was a good and decent man.
Even on the other side this has happened--I would offer up George McGovern as an exemple.He created a movement that bore fruit in 1992, but when he came ruin in the '72 presidential election he moved on personally. He was a good and decent man (and, later in life, he came to question some of the policies his "heirs" advocated.)
Then there is the shitbag named Donald Trump.
You can say he advanced a worthy cause--bringing working class and middle class populism to the GOP, and asking that it have a seat at the GOP table, too (which had been long dominated by corporatists). Fair enough.
But in 2020 he lead a GOP ticket that gave control of the Presidency, Sentate and House to the Dems. In 2022, the frankly unAmerican process of needng his personal blessing of loyalty TO HIM caused the GOP--through its idiot "MAGA" voters--to field multiple candidates in very important races (Senate, governorships and House seats in particuar) that led the GOP to FAR underperform as it should have. With brain dead Biden in the White House, inflation and crime raging, and cultural leftists running amok carving up children to sacrifice on the altar of Trannyism, promoting racial essentialism, etc., if this is the best the "MAGA Movement" can produce, then fuck the MAGA Movement.
But Trump is not going to be graceful, He is not a good and decent man. And now the GOP is potentially fucked, big time. As my grandmother used to say, when you lie down with dogs, don't complain when you come up with fleas. The GOP is covered in MAGA fleas, dopes who put loyalty to this bozo over the best interests of their country, and Trump is too big of a shitheel not to exploit them (unlike Goldwater).
So the GOP has two choices. Run this fucking clown again in 2024, or not.
As to the former, now that it SHOULD BE clear to everyone what a fucking douche he is, aside from the MAGA cult of personality losers, why in hell would anyone want him? He's rapidly aging (telling me Biden is old, too, is not a response); whatever sense of judgment he ever had is rapidly deteriorating; in his first go-around he accomplished little of his actual 2016 electoral agenda; and he has now been THE key figure in two consecutive electoral clusterfucks.
But if the GOP DOESN'T pick him, then it faces the propsect that he runs a third-party campaign in 2024 that completely sinks the party with divisive infighting, basically putting the lights out on this country (perhaps literally). And not being a good and decent man, it is precisely this kind of electoral terrorism this fucking turd would embrace.
The parenthetical subtitle of this thread is somewhat hyperbolical. I don't wish cancer on Trump--both of my parents died that way. But a Trumpian massive stroke to get him off the stage he won't leave with grace? Hell, yes.
