Positive Thoughts For Disillusioned Trump Supporters

 

Bad news, MAGA, it’s increasingly looking like you’re going to have to eat some crow in the coming months as you come to realize your hero has more in common with Moe Howard than Albert Einstein or Dudley Do-Right. It’s looking a lot like one of those Three Stooges shorts, where they’re plumbers who are called to fix a leaky sink, or carpenters sent to build a staircase, or chefs who are supposed to cater some high society social event. It’s been less than three months, but the administration’s shortcomings are already becoming hard to deny. There has been no peace deal done in Ukraine and there are lot of frightened grandmothers who aren’t sure if their social security check is going to be deposited.

Internationally, it is safe to say our list of allies grows thin. While it might work to say one person or one nation is taking advantage of the relationship it has with you, when you say everybody or every country in the world is taking advantage of you, you start to lose credibility. And Donald Trump has said this about virtually every country in the world. Now it could be they are indeed all out to take advantage of the United States, but as a resident of a madhouse once said “They called me crazy and I said ‘no, you’re the ones who are crazy,’ but they outnumbered me. At some point, if you ever want to get out of the nuthouse, you’re going to have to find a way to get along with the entire rest of the world.

Liberals are not going to make this easy for you. With all the bravery their timid hearts can muster, they’re going to call you stupid losers and rub it in. They won’t care if the world is on fire, all they want is to do a victory dance while MAGA is forced to watch. You’re going to learn that they’re not the adults in the room they claim to be. But, then, you knew this already, didn’t you?

I sympathize with you MAGA, I really do. Although I never thought Donald Trump was hand-chosen by God to make America great again, there’s something about the smugness of the liberals that makes it impossible to root for them. So I’m going to do you a favor and give you some comebacks you can use when liberals get in your face and laugh their insufferable liberal laughs over your grudging admission that Trump wasn’t all you had hoped he might be.

What To Do When A Liberal Gloats Over Trumps Shortcomings.

-Insist the economy is doing great and question why people just don’t see it. Say that the problem must be messaging and that the Trump Administration just has to do a better job of getting their message out.

-Blame Putin. Tell liberals Russia kidnapped the real Donald Trump and replaced him with a lookalike who is really a KGB agent. They might fall for it. And even if they don’t, they can hardly call it a stupid theory after their allegations of spy porpoises and energy weapons being used in Cuba that caused brain injuries.

-Apologize. Tell your liberal friends they were right and you were wrong. Say that Kamala Harris should have won. Then insist she take over for Trump. In three months’ time, everyone will forget about Trump’s failures in light of Harris’s colossal failures.

-Say that Trump was wrong for trying to avoid a war in Ukraine and insist we up our level of involvement in the proxy war to dangerous new levels. This will cause a nuclear war, killing every human being and most animals species on Earth. Since no one will survive, you wont have to apologize and nobody will be around to gloat.

-Oppose the Gaza genocide. This alone will make you morally superior to any Democrat who remained neutral or silent on this issue. When a liberal mocks you because you voted for an amoral moron, simply say “Yeah? Well at least I didn’t remain silent while a genocide was taking place!”

-Say it was God’s will that Trump failed and that Trump was His tool to destroy the most evil nation on the planet: The United States.

-If you are one of the billionaires who profited from the Trump tax cuts, simply move to another country and build yourself an immense estate where you never have to encounter a liberal again.

-If you are a hundred-billionaire and own your own social media site, censor any post that includes the phrase “I told you so.”

-Take consolation in the fact that, should a Democrat succeed Trump, he will continue supporting 95% of Trump’s agenda. Tax cuts for billionaires will not be rescinded. Deportations will continue unabated and might even increase. Government agencies will continue to be defunded or privatized. And the best part of all: you will still get to see fresh images of children being shot in Gaza, medics murdered, entire families living in tents or being treated in hospitals blown up. The only difference will be that they will not make cute little cartoon videos glorifying these sorts of war crimes, because that would be vulgar.

-Rest assured that within a decade Democrats will be hugging Trump and sharing candy with him, just like Michelle Obama did with George W. Bush. These people have no memory. Yesterday’s worst enemy becomes their new best friend. Just ask Dick and Liz Cheney, Mike Pence, Bill Kristol, and John Bolton.

Is Donald Trump A Russian Agent?

 

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I always try to look at the other side of any issue, even if it’s one I’m deeply invested in. Take the idea that Trump is and has been a Russian agent. I personally believe it has been an extremely dangerous bit of propaganda meant to gin up enough hatred of Russia that U.S. citizens would not only tolerate foolish escalations with a nuclear-armed country but would actually cheer them on. Nevertheless, I always take time to look at every important issue from various angles in order to understand it more fully and not become too invested in my own interpretation. Thus I asked myself today if there could be any truth to the idea that Trump was in fact doing the bidding of the Kremlin.

The notion is crazy on the surface, something out of a cheap spy novel. No, worse than that, it is something out of a Boris and Natasha cartoon. But perhaps that is my own bias speaking. I mean, after all, it is as good an explanation for Trump’s behavior as any other. The alternatives being that A. Trump is a super genius whose machinations are so complex that no mere mortal can comprehend them B. He’s an idiot who’s out of his depth when it comes to something else besides making real estate deals. A doesn’t seem real likely, so I therefore tend to go with B. But if Trump were being controlled by Russia in order to destroy U.S. standing in the world, it might look very much like this.

It doesn’t appear that the U.S. has a single ally in all the world, that Trump’s behavior has completely isolated us. It’s almost as if Andy Kaufman had come back to life and was performing his Tony Clifton character while wearing a Trump mask. This must surely be working out in Russia’s favor.

So while it all seems on the surface very unlikely that an otherwise sober and cautious Russian foreign policy would venture into doing something so extremely risky and unwise, the results are definitely in Russia’s (and China’s) favor. And while it is almost unimaginable that someone as vain as Trump would allow himself to be a witting tool and is too mentally and emotionally unstable to be used as an unwitting tool, the end results tend to back the theory.

There is one flaw in the story, however. Let us grant for a moment that Trump has been a witting or unwitting implement used by Russia to destroy the country Russia is most threatened by. This flaw is the Democratic Party. This flaw is Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. You can’t blame Russia or Trump for them. Democrats had four years in office and were completely incapable of doing anything to make people want to support them. Donald Trump didn’t destroy the Democratic Party, nor did Russia.

Four years of Democrats in charge did nothing to abate the downward spiral the U.S. was on during the first Trump term. In fact, it accelerated it. During this time the world got a deeper glimpse into what a world ruled by the U.S. will look like going forward, and it was not a pleasant sight. Far worse than the vulgar behavior of Trump, Biden’s presidency showed just how reckless American foreign policy had become: risking war with a nuclear power, while giving carte blanche to an Apartheid state turning it up a notch to ethnic cleansing and genocide. Along the way they made as their closest allies the very worst people in the world: ethno-fascists (Zionists), Neo-Nazis (Banderites), fundamentalist terrorists (in Syria), and mercenaries and weapons manufacturers of all stripes.

The Democrats did nothing to undo the damage Trump had done. They didn’t issue an apology to Iran for Trump’s assassination of Iran’s national hero, General Soleimani, did not try to restart the Iran nuclear deal, did not cancel Trump’s tax cuts to the richest Americans that the rest of us must pay for with interest.

America’s reputation continued to fall lower under the rule of Democrats. While European vassal states were happy to have a fellow empty suit in charge in the U.S., the rest of the world, the ones that had the most to lose, became even more disillusioned with the United States and all it stood for. As bad as having Trump as a spokesperson for our country was, having an obviously cognitively impaired old man was even worse. And had Kamala Harris been elected, it would have made the charade even more obvious and unforgivable. No, if Putin had decided to bring Trump to power in order to give the U.S. a black eye on the world stage, he needn’t have bothered. The U.S. was willing to do the job for free.

So I am going to stick with my original analysis — that The United States is a dying empire incapable of righting its course. Anyone with intelligence, integrity and courage will never be permitted near the reins of power. A corrupt ruling class will do whatever is required to ensure that no threat to their privilege arises. Russia, like the rest of the world, is merely trying to hang on, doing its best to avoid the very real and existential threat that a nuclear-armed empire bereft of any of the virtues that once made its existence tolerable can cause. If the United States is on a self-destructive path towards its own demise, it only makes it worse to try to shift the blame onto other actors. Once we realize there is no other actor that is at fault, we can start accepting responsibility for our own behavior and thus start to make things better.