The Picnic Nazi

[Kishkumen]

No picnic for you!

Donald Trump disinvited US Senator Rand Paul from the White House picnic. It is an act so petty and stupid that only the name Trump makes any sense out of the report. Surely, one might think, no one could be so small as to disinvite the generally MAGA cooperative senator from what boils down to a work party. But Trump is a 79-year-old toddler.

I want to thank the shortsighted and unwise Trump voters everywhere for reducing our level of discourse to pre-school-level drama and nonsense.

https://youtu.be/Q0MbR4uHPho?si=0s3ik-GyzIxrOCLV

[Some Schmo]

I wonder if Rand can retain his seat after saying the same sort of thing he's been saying his whole career. Or is it woke to oppose tariffs now?

[Kishkumen]

I wonder if Rand can retain his seat after saying the same sort of thing he's been saying his whole career. Or is it woke to oppose tariffs now?

Woke=disagree with Trump

That's the only definition that really matters. It does not mean that anyone will actually be dumb enough to call Rand Paul woke, but the end result is the same. Woke is just another tool in the Trump cult toolbox. Whatever leads to Trump is good, in the cult mindset; whatever challenges, disagrees with, or criticizes Trump is bad.

[Gadianton]

Here's a mind-blowing incident revealing just how tangled the mind is of a chicken soft taco cult member. The day after the election my frenemy was over the moon, he wanted to read an email he got from a relative of his who he admires a great deal. It was actually a well-written letter. The gist of it was the man's "prayer" that taco would "listen to both sides" and be judicious and wise. For a lot of people, the taco mythology endears a respectful and kind man of the upmost integrity. Even if the typical online version is happy with a troll who pisses off the opposition.

If I'm ever in argument territory again, I really need to bring up that letter and ask what he thinks. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the response will be something like, he could be that leader if people would let him and get over their TDS. Which is trivially true for any leader. If everyone had just accepted Hitler then the world would be united under one nation.

[Kishkumen]

Here's a mind-blowing incident revealing just how tangled the mind is of a chicken soft taco cult member. The day after the election my frenemy was over the moon, he wanted to read an email he got from a relative of his who he admires a great deal. It was actually a well-written letter. The gist of it was the man's "prayer" that taco would "listen to both sides" and be judicious and wise. For a lot of people, the taco mythology endears a respectful and kind man of the upmost integrity. Even if the typical online version is happy with a troll who pisses off the opposition.

If I'm ever in argument territory again, I really need to bring up that letter and ask what he thinks. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the response will be something like, he could be that leader if people would let him and get over their TDS. Which is trivially true for any leader. If everyone had just accepted Hitler then the world would be united under one nation.

Yes, be judicious and wise. Let's wait for that one. Maybe jackals will start building rockets for space travel, too.

I get it. I would have been thrilled if my worries about Trump had turned out to be unfounded. I dearly wish he had not staged a coup on January 6! Imagine if he had just been adult enough to accept that, in a very evenly split electorate, he had come up short that time. I would have been happy to put the mediocre first term of Trump behind me as something like an incrementally more disturbing version of W's flawed presidency. I would have said to myself, "well, on the whole, his administration was not as bad as I feared, and the guardrails of our constitutional republic held."

It was January 6 that, more than anything, proved how unhinged and unacceptable Trump's "leadership" was. Then, when Republican congressional leaders condemned J6 in the first flush, I was relieved. Perhaps the GOP had a core of sanity after all. There may be Greens, Boeberts, and Gaetzes in the mix, but the adults in the room will come to their senses and see that the Constitution, law, and order prevail against the lawless Trump.

But then GOP leaders walked it all back and bought into the big lie. They refused to convict the only sitting US president ever to stage a coup and try to remain in power illegally. It was a set of events so nightmarish, so bizarre, that I realized the GOP could not be trusted as a party. It was not that there were Greens, Boeberts, and Gaetzes. It was that there were only a couple of people like Romney and Murkowski. The GOP died when it refused to convict Trump for attempting a coup to remain in power. Now they are the MAGA party. They should not be called anything else. If journalists in this country had a backbone, and were not instead the mouthpieces of the billionaire class, then they would refuse to call the GOP anything but MAGA party.

TDS literally is the cult of Trump. Anyone who believes having a president like Trump is acceptable and conducive to Constitutional government is truly deranged. When these cult members chose the cult of Trump over the Constitution, they invented Trump derangement syndrome inasmuch as they realized they were deranged and then they, in true Trumpian style wherein every confession manifests as an accusation, they called people who criticized the object of their worship victims of TDS.

What is it to be TDS in their deformed imaginations? Anyone who does not worship Trump as they do has TDS. No, guys, TDS is worshipping a man who staged a coup against your government, violated the Constitution, and diminished the freedom the Constitution provides you as a citizen.

When the Constitution is violated, every citizen loses.

[canpakes]

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure the response will be something like, he could be that leader if people would let him and get over their TDS. Which is trivially true for any leader.

No mature leader would give a moment’s thought about what random folks from an opposing party have to say about him, nor would it keep any actual, mature leader from acting responsibly or doing the right thing.

Trump’s first presidency was a display of impetuous, divisive, vengeful and immature reactionary BS. He has simply gone all in on that again his second time around. He doesn’t have the capacity to be better than that.

[Kishkumen]

No mature leader would give a moment’s thought about what random folks from an opposing party have to say about him, nor would it keep any actual, mature leader from acting responsibly or doing the right thing.

Trump’s first presidency was a display of impetuous, divisive, vengeful and immature reactionary BS. He has simply gone all in on that again his second time around. He doesn’t have the capacity to be better than that.

Indeed. Well said.

[Moksha]

An authoritarian tyrant like Trump does not wish to tolerate a maverick libertarian like Rand Paul. Now that the big Puscht is near, he desires supporters who will seig heil on command.

[Kishkumen]

An authoritarian tyrant like Trump does not wish to tolerate a maverick libertarian like Rand Paul. Now that the big Puscht is near, he desires supporters who will seig heil on command.

Yeah, he really is that small. He does not tolerate dissent of any kind.