The Reek of Desperation (Or, “Come Back, I Can Also Turn Into a Pig!”)
By: Matt Leclair
Tags: Biden, Trump, Politics

If TV news gave tribute to all 311,000 faces of Americans whose lives have been cut short by Covid-19 for only 60 seconds each for 24-hours/day, it would take over 215 days to show them all. Starting today, at one-minute-per-life, that broadcast would take until July 21, 2021. The “pro-life” political party in America is the “pro-execution” party. Every day is opposite day for them. Republicans are the extremist wing of a religion that used to be called Christianity and is now better known as Trumpism, or QAnon, a grievance-based religious faith founded on whatever today’s flavors and facts may be on these here Internets.

Democrats aren’t asking for three terms for Biden/Harris because Republicans are being so unfair to them in preparing for a peaceful transition. Democrats aren’t saying that when they are voted out, they shouldn’t have to leave if they don’t want to go. It’s really messed up that Republicans support Trump in his circle-jerk of deluded thoughts. Frankly, it’s psychotic.

Every time I read a Trump tweet, I imagine him sitting on the toilet in the White House or squashed inside an airplane lavatory. Or grumpy-looking, swashbuckling next to a golf cart. The Donald is still disputing the election because he isn’t done siphoning the rest of the gasoline out of his supporters’ gas tanks, simple as that. It’s important that Republicans eventually recognize and accept that Trump lost, unambiguously, his run for reelection. Voters were played by a guy who couldn’t even build a Wall to Nowhere correctly.

It’s important to hammer this point home, even over the persistent yelping and howling because, transitively, those who voted for him came out as losers this time, just as the Democrats and she-who-shall-not-be-named emerged as losers four years ago. In political sports, you either win or lose, and you get over it. There’s no ambiguity. If you’re wearing a red MAGA baseball cap, then you’re sad now because you lost the championship. This championship has sailed, sorry guys.

Until Republican leaders face the reckoning of their failure to connect with voters, their party will shrink and encapsulate evermore inbred, obnoxious, and violent beliefs, perpetrated by Alt-Right media networks like Fox News and nihilist media networks like Facebook and Twitter. Putting the winners and losers of this year’s election exhibit on-display and front-and-center (albeit temporarily), for all to see, is crucial if we are to move past this, forgive each other, and reintegrate America — or truly to integrate America for the very first time. This purgatory state only inhibits the restoration of unity, order, and civility. The losers of this election need to be shamed a little for their behavior or nobody will learn the lesson of these past four years.

The lesson is (or ought to be) that America can do better than the likes of Donald Trump. If we can’t do better than the circus sideshow of Trump’s Presidency, then we deserve the worst of what’s yet to come from Coronavirus, Russian hackery, and China out-superpowering us. The other lesson is that if ever the political leader of a country behaves without morality, then morality no longer applies to its citizens. The only thing that matters in a dystopian society like that is whether or not the guy on top can take power and hold it. Biden took it and did so honestly. This is the first I’ve heard in the past four years of Republicans complaining about anyone’s alleged dishonest behavior. It just figures they’d have it backwards about which guy was the one trying to cheat.

Even if in some bizarro otherworldly hidden 12th dimension of space in which Trump is right about Democrats being so well-organized and politically effective that they were able to steal independent elections simultaneously across all these many states while Republicans were in charge, such a false memory still misses the larger point in such a fictional tale, which is that Trump lost at stealing his own re-election. He lost at cheating, by failing to rally enough cheaters, even in the Gangster’s Paradise he created for himself during his presidency.

In the fabricated scenario he paints, Trump was out-conned, out-fleeced, and out-mob-bossed in the Art of The Steal. He was the loser, either by legitimate means or in his own flying monkey fantasies. Just as important as the fact that there was no sign of conspiracy by Democrats, in Trump’s America it was made OK to fudge the numbers and take things without permission. Trump himself OKed and normalized those behaviors. So even if the other side employed slight-of-hand somewhere (still no evidence of it), he couldn’t win at his own game.

Republicans just don’t get it and until they do, they won’t get over it. And they need to because America is waiting on them to move forward. They are in the way and clinging to the ankles of a failed leader who lost a simple popularity contest. It is false idol worship, plain and simple.

I haven’t heard whining like this since there was an honest black family-man serving in the White House. These election fraud claims are just the lies about Obama’s birth certificate all over again. Finish your tweet and get off the pot Donald. Other people need to use the bathroom.