Trumpism, the GOP, and Matty P - 8/22/2022

There has been a lot of angst among members of the Republican Party over what Donald Trump did to it. I read the Wall Street Journal, and they've been particularly critical of Trump and Trump supporters, I guess because we're not being pragmatic and supporting traditional GOP type candidates in favor of Trump endorsed interlopers who would dare to challenge those same traditional GOP types. We're handing things to Democrats by not choosing the practical candidate from the GOP establishment in favor of someone who wants to overturn the GOP apple cart.

Before I go further, I have no idea why Trump endorsed Dr Oz. To me it was a terrible choice and I'm not a Trump mind-numbed robot. I'm not in PA, but if I were I probably wouldn't vote for him, either. So Trump endorsements don't control my choices. Back to that "GOP apple cart".

I'm not a Mitch McConnell fan. Not even a little bit.

Trump didn't steal me from the GOP. Let's get that straight. In 2014 I left the GOP before Trump came on the scene. At that point I was completely fed up with and tired of Mitch McConnell and the others like him. I did not believe they cared a bit about me, that they represented me, or that they were loyal to us as a GOP voting block. They were and still are sellouts as far as I am concerned. I might have tolerated same, but I got sick and tired of their weak feigned support of Conservative principals. They let progressives, liberals, and Democrats have far too many wins, and more importantly, far too many easy wins. They didn't fight for me. I never felt they did. I felt they fought for their own financial enrichment, period. So I left the GOP and became an independent. I figured 'let them see me as a swing voter'. Let them campaign for my support. Let them work for my vote.

Trump came along in 2015 and in 2016 I came back to the GOP to support Trump. I didn't come back because I was any more enamored with Mitch or Ryan or any of them. I came back to support Trump, who I believed and still believe represented me better and who I believe loves our country more than either of the two conniving establishments do.

So when the WSJ and establishment Republicans try to understand why I and others like me aren't lining up behind their choices for the GOP, which are 100% continuation of the establishment and a repudiation of Trumpism, I can only say my vote wasn't yours to begin with. Trump brought me and millions of others to the GOP to support him. He didn't bring us, nor am I here, to support your tired line of bullshit and your weak-asssed efforts where you pretend to support me, but to see you time and again cave in to the left and march to the orders issued by your owner donors.

We aren't divided because of Trump. We got Trump because we were so divided.

It's not Trump and Trumpism that is causing weakness and division. It is you, the establishment Republicans, who are shooing us toward the door because we won't sing along with the songs in your tainted hymnals. Figure out why we came in when Trump came along. Show us with actions first, words next, that you want to Make America Great Again and that you will put America First. Show us that you will fight the left's progressivism like relentless rabid attack dogs. That's not who your military industrial and pharmaceutical masters are telling you to be? Well, choose. It's them or us. I won't support you if you choose them. My vote isn't in your hip pocket. You can bet your ass it's not.

Liz Cheney, Good Riddance - 8/17/2022

I'm going to make this short and sweet this morning. I am delighted that Liz Cheney was defeated in her bid for re-election for her seat in the House of Representatives representing Wyoming. I'm going to give you, I suspect, a slightly different perspective on the whole thing than what you're getting from liberal or conservative media of all types. Follow along.

Good riddance!

 

1. January 6th protesters were well within their rights to protest the execution of the 2020 Presidential Election in its entirety. The fact that an election so important left so many of us with legitimate questions about the run up to, execution of on Election Day, and the counting is inexcusable. I'm not even going to list the grievances I know that I share with many millions of Americans. None of the grievances I have were conjured up by Trump. Not a one.

2. January 6th trespassers and rioters were wrong. The then President, Donald Trump, asked that the protesters act peacefully and lawfully, if I recall correctly. But some got carried away and did wrong.

3. Taking #2, above, into consideration, who were the instigators? I have seen many, many allegations that Capital Police and the FBI had undercover officers, agents, and informants inserted into the crowds of protesters. So far, so good. But here's the rub: some of these cops are alleged to have instigated illegal activities. I struggle with "entrapment" in that if you're not a criminal and someone suggests you commit a crime, to the largest extent, you own it if you do it. But it's not an undercover cop's place to incite, inspire, and encourage crime. "Let's go over there and do this!" "Let's go over there and do that!" According to much of what I've read, that is exactly what happened. It happened in Michigan with the absolutely phony Whitmer kidnapping. To what extent did it happen on January 6th?

4. And this is where I fall off the Liz Cheney bandwagon. She's a never Trump (fine if you don't like him, but not fine in a criminal justice situation wherein you put damaging Trump ahead of doing the right thing for all the other people in the Jan 6th situation). If the Republicans on the Committee aren't asking questions about the undercover cops and agents, then who will? The January 6th Committee was nothing more than a show trial to get Trump. Where Cheney had a chance to ask the questions me and many millions of others wanted asked: about the election and about the entrapment activities on January 6th, but instead chose to help Speaker Pelosi rid D.C. of Donald Trump, once and for all, that's where I decided she can go fuck herself.

Goodbye Liz. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Note: Having doubts and serious questions about the 2020 election, all the shady and questionable shit I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears isn't anti-democracy. Stop it with that bullshit. Cheney wasn't protecting democracy. She was trying to rid D.C. of Trump. I realize you have Trump Derangement Syndrome and can't differentiate between the two, but I wish you'd try.

I Fear for Our (formerly?) Great Country, An Angry Rant - 8/16/2022

Democrats Have Crossed the Rubicon with the Mar-A-Lago Raid on August 8th

As a primer, I recommend this excellent Margot Cleveland piece from the Federalist yesterday.

Excellent Margot Cleveland Federalist Article

More than anything else, I've spent the last year and a half, almost two, astounded by what seems to be a complete and total disconnect between the left and the right. And as much as some, perhaps most people might want to blame Trump for the disconnect, I do believe the Trump phenomena is a result of the division, not the cause of it. Let's just presume for the sake of this discussion that Trump is destroyed by the Deep State and Democrats this time. Then in 2024 we'll have a different candidate on the GOP side. Whether that's Florida Governor Ron DeSantis or someone else, we will see the same demonization, vilification, and underhanded, dishonest attacks made against the new GOP candidate as the old. I expect the attacks to be vicious, relentless, and mostly based on unfounded innuendo and baseless accusations, a la Justice Brett Kavanaugh. But here's the kicker: the people making the attacks, and their like-minded politically aligned people will deeply and truly believe every single thing, every single word of it. The result? Even if the 2024 candidate is NOT Trump, they will truly believe him or her unfit for the office, and that belief will color every single thing they say and do before, during, and after the election.

Cernovich can be a knucklehead, but this tweet says it all.

If you read the Margot Cleveland article I linked, and if you think about what's going on with Trump right now, and put that all in the context of Cernovich's very accurate assessment in this tweet, you get it. Lemme take this to where it seems to be going.

They're not going to let up until Trump is finally arrested. Who's they? The whole, entire fucking left. The politicians, the media, and the vocal left on social media and everywhere else. The Deep State. The entrenched D.C. bureaucracy. In their eyes he's evil, unfit, and any and all allegations are believed true and egregious, regardless if they are or aren't.

And then there's me and people like me. I've got no other or better way to say it. The Mar-A-Lago raid pissed me off. Not like so many other things have. All the shit they've done to Trump has pissed me off. But this latest one for me was different. It hit me in a whole different place and a whole different way. Incredibly, Trump's worst crime in their eyes, in your eyes if you're the lone lefty with balls enough to read my stuff, was not accepting the result of the 2020 graciously and conceding to their power like the loser they see him as.

Well, look here. You motherfuckers cheated in the election. I can't say I know and have proof it was enough to change the outcome, but you cheated. Trump BELIEVES the cheating did affect the outcome. You may not like that, but he does and as such he has every fucking right to believe it and say he believes it. Maybe you shouldn't have stopped counting in the middle of the night. Maybe you shouldn't have changed the rules contrary to your state constitutions for Covid. Maybe, just maybe some portion of the 2000 mules is true (some of it is, period).

Well now you've got the Presidency. Of course in it you have an ineffective, demented has-been, a small man who looks smaller every day, a pipsqueek of a man who looks evil and vile, spiteful and hateful with his DOJ's unnecessary and totally unacceptable attack on his predecessor and likely 2024 opponent. Mr. President, Mr. Attorney General, Mr. FBI Director, this doesn't end well. Nope. Why not?

Because I know how I feel about the way they're doing President Trump. Lemme tell you. I feel like this is an attack on me personally. You see, when I voted for Trump, twice, it was as much or more a rejection of the D.C. establishment as it was anything else. And they know this. They know we voted AGAINST THEM. And all this? All this is to punish us. To force us to bend at the knee and accept their power and control. This is about way more than Trump. This is about the Trump movement which is a fight to have a government controlled by our people, not special interest after special interest and international and domestic financial giants who buy and own our elected officials. The power is flexing and fully invested in hammering us back into our rightful place, fully disempowered and unable to affect them or their efforts moving forward.

I was livid to know that Trump had to take the Fifth in a hearing in NY being conducted by a DA who ran on the promise of "getting Trump". Evil. I was livid when I heard about the Mar-A-Lago raid. Unacceptable. I was livid when I read they took Trump's passports. Total fucking insanity. They act like that was an innocent mistake. My fucking ass it was a mistake. They saw the whirlwind it created and gave them back and called it a mistake. It was no mistake. It was overreach. I was livid when I heard that Rudy Giuliani was the target of an election interference. Listen up leftist fuckfaces in and out of government: we have a right to question the results of 2020 and to say so anytime and anywhere we want. We have a right to hire lawyers, investigators, and dig in to find answers to things that appear at best to be questionable. The unfair and unacceptable treatment of January 6th protesters is how people who dare to question the absolutely questionable are and will be treated.

Unless someone can talk some sense into the Deep State and leftists in D.C., I fully expect we will see President Donald J. Trump in handcuffs. I believe it will be perhaps the biggest political, social, and legal mistake in our lifetimes. Some people who will be as angry as I will over it will act out. I am sorry to say that, but that is foreseeable and is totally predictable. For what? For fucking what? A flex of muscle to intimidate us who dare to disagree with the way Washington does business these days? This won't end well.

I fear for our country. Are we still great? Some of us want greatness. I have no idea whatsoever what the other people want. And you motherfuckers have absolutely no idea what an insurrection is or what an insurrection looks like. Seems to me you're doing your best to find out. I fear for our country. Can cooler heads prevail? Biden, Garland: the ball is in your court. Can you be the cooler heads we need, or are you the evil vengeful pricks you are showing yourselves to be right now.

Unifying? My ass Joe. We've never been so divided. I blame you. I fear for our country.

Never This Divided in My Lifetime - 8/13/2022

Let me start with this: I do not think Donald J. Trump is infallible, perfect, above the law, or incapable of wrongdoing, mistake, or misjudgement. He has a massive ego, he always has to get in the last word, he feels compelled to respond to insults and slights in kind, and far too often when he could make a point clearly and definitively, he instead takes a low road that undermines what might otherwise be an effective and relevant case or argument. Yeah, he's an asshole. But at least a part of his brusque and bellicose natural tendency is badly needed in our country right. It was in 2016, 2020, and still is headed into 2024.

See, Republicans and Democrats alike are mostly corrupt. I'm sure there are exceptions who are on the up and up from both parties, but both parties are owned and controlled by special interests, often foreign who do NOT have the United States' best interests, nor the American people's best interests at heart. In order to remain in control and in power, these politicians and special interests have discovered the best way to keep their stranglehold on Washington is to keep us divided and at each other's throats. Behind the curtain, though, away from our prying eyes, both left and right are getting rich at the hand of the same special interests.

 

Trump threatens all of that. He is no doubt a highly imperfect vessel, I conceded that here at the outset. You can't convince me he doesn't love our country and love our people. He was a billionaire before he was President, and as such was nearly impervious to the power and influence of the special interests who own enough of the other politicians in Washington to have a firm grasp on the throttles of power and control.

I have felt a simmering loathing deep in me for the left. Most of what they put forward seems to me to be either illogical, immoral, impractical, or a combination of two or all three of those. Granted, I can often see an underlying good intention, but the road to hell is so paved, as the cliche says. You can name any of the debated issues of our time, and if we disagree about it, chances are it is one of those three characteristics where our opinions will differ. A healthy dialogue about any one of these issues, under those three lenses, would help us to narrow our misunderstanding and maybe find small areas of agreement we could build on. I can't find much healthy dialogue, free from insult, innuendo, slander, or dishonesty. So lacking meaningful dialogue, and seething at those insults, innuendos, and slanders, I wind up deep in an echo chamber, where my own thoughts, even where moderate, aren't ingested for comprehension and mutual understanding, but rather become just a stepping stone to some further and further place. As positions migrate further and further, these here going this-away, those there going that-away, the divide gets continually wider and deeper. As I read and hear the stuff from the left as it migrates further and further, and as it is delivered in the form of insult, innuendo, and slander, I seethe. I loathe. I despise. It is hard not to respond in kind. Very.

We simply don't know how to talk to each other anymore. Trump's appeal? He calls the bullshit as he sees it. Does he go too far? Probably so. No, definitely so. But as I am bombarded with insult, innuendo, and slander, only Donald Trump steps up on my behalf. This is what I think my friends on the left don't understand. Look at the shit Hillary Clinton said about me/us in 2016. We were "deplorable". We were racist, homophobes, zenophobes, on and on and on. Not only did I not hear ANY, not one, not ANY of my friends on the left object to her doing so, instead you cheered her on. Yeah, you did. As outspoken and vocal as I am, only one person, my nephew, asked my to explain why I supported him. Everyone else assumed, presumed, and bought off on the inflammatory leftist stereotyping and insults. At the same time I saw many of my friends on the right do likewise to the left. So the divide deepens. It widens.

For the record, I have never stopped wanting to understand my friends on the left. That doesn't mean we, having mutual understanding, would agree. It'd be less divisive than buying off on political propaganda and assumptive stereotypes. Show me why you think my position is illogical, immoral, or impractical. Find a way to do that without calling me stupid, evil, brainwashed, or dishonest. If you can't, then scroll on. You're not worth talking to anyway.

TDS Wack-O-Meter - 8/12/2022

The New TDS Wack-O-Meter:

You may be a wacko, infected by the leftist virus, TDS, the full name of which is Trump Derangement Syndrome. This simple test will help you determine if your dislike of or distrust of President Donald J Trump is healthy and normal, or if you are a fully deranged left wing wacko, beyond help or reason.

Take the following true/false test. Give yourself the number of points in parenthesis for each question for which you answer: "true":

1. Donald Trump colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 presidential race vs. Hillary Clinton, true or false? (2)

2. Donald Trump paid a Russian Hooker to pee on a bed that had been slept in by a former US President of a rival party, true or false? (3)

3. Donald Trump called a report about Russians paying bounties on US Soldiers to the Taliban fake news. Donald Trump was lying when he did so to protect his fragile ego, true or false? (2)

4. Donald Trump called Neo-Nazis "fine people", true or false? (2)

5. Donald Trump advised peopleat  to drink bleach to fight Covid, true or false? (3)

6. Donald Trump cleared protesters with tear gas so he could stage a bible photo op, true or false? (2)

7. The Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation, true or false? (4)

8. The election in 2020 was fair and untainted, as no court found evidence of major fraud, true or false? (2)

9. January 6th was an insurrection to overthrow the government of the USA, true or false? (3)

10. Donald Trump was so angry on January 6th that he attempted to forcibly take the wheel of the Presidential limo known as "the beast" to take it to the Capitol, true or false? (2)

Scoring:

0... It's great you're a Trump supporter. He's not as perfect or infallible as you seem to think. I do commend you for not watching CNN or MSNBC, though.

2-5 points... You are a skeptic, but your skepticism is in a reasonably healthy range. We should all maintain a healthy skepticism of our leadership, regardless of personality or party.

6-10 points... You have mild TDS. You might consider doing some of your own fact checking rather than taking what you read from the NY Times, Washington Post, or hear on NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC, or ABC as factual and accurate. Ask yourself if your favorite sources of news information are impartial and just as critical of candidates and politicians from the left as they are of Trump and the right.

11-15 points... You are fully infected with TDS. You are closed minded and simple. If you discovered evidence that provided incontrovertible proof of corruption on the left or Trump innocence of any allegation, you would hide it for what you think are the country's best interests. You are beyond help.

16-25 points... You not only have severe TDS, you are a wack-a-doodle-doo fucking moron of epic proportions. You may not hear people talking about how stupid you are, but I promise you, they do. A lot! Ask your parents how much they had to donate to your high school to get them to issue you a diploma. There are reasons why you didn't get that job you wanted or the promotion that you sought. To save your dumb ass the trouble of trying to figure it out, let me tell you plainly: you're really, really stupid, and you're a gullible follower totally incapable of taking on more responsibility or of taking a leadership role in any organization except the Democratic Party. But don't get too excited about that. The Democratic Party doesn't really care for you either, they just like to amass large numbers of really dumb motherfuckers like you for their own power and gain. They know you're too lazy to think independently or critically, and that you're dumb enough to take one for the team while they laugh behind your back.

Banana Republic, USA - 8/10/2022

The FBI raiding Mar-A-Lago has descended the US into banana republic status.

In 2001 after Bill Clinton left office, I felt Republicans who were obsessed with taking potential criminal justice actions against him for his “crimes” were out to lunch. Once the guy left office, it was time to move on. We are not a banana republic where vindictive action against political foes to exact revenge for wrongs, whether real or imagined, is how we should conduct ourselves. At the time I felt the GOP was in the wrong for not letting Clinton go peaceably into history.

Many Republicans remained obsessed with Bill Clinton, long after his presidency.

In 2017 I was glad that President Trump didn’t follow through on his bombastic threats against Hillary Clinton. Defeated at the polls, the best thing for Hillary, who I don’t like at all, not even a little bit, was to let her stew in the disappointment of her own loss. As a matter of fact, I even hoped Trump would pardon her for the emails and all the rest just to permanently cast all that stuff aside so we could move on.

A lot of people would love to have seen Hillary Clinton in an orange jumpsuit.

And here we are. Just as in the way Harry Reid shitcanning the filibuster over judicial nominees came back to bite Democrats when it came to Trump SCOTUS nominees, the viciousness and vindictiveness that Democrats are showing toward Trump, post presidency, will come back to bite them. Between the Jan 6th hearings and now this raid in what is supposedly part of a dispute over classified documents, but which is obviously a fishing expedition looking for anything that might damage Trump, Democrats have inspired a new, far less diplomatic attitude in me toward all this.

By nuking the filibuster, Harry Reid enabled tyrannical majorities evermore in the USA

Post-Biden, I hope Republicans are absolutely ruthless and vicious toward “the big guy”, his family, his staff, and all corrupt Democrats even tangentially connected to him. I hope I get to see some of these filthy bastards in shackles. I hope Biden and his corrupt son are ruined financially by a mountain of lawyer’s bills as they try to defend their corruption. I hope the incoming Justice Department will turn Merrick Garland’s life upside down, examining every phone mail, text, email, meeting note, calendar entry, and other record looking for even the flimsiest of evidence of the political hit job he is attempting to do on Trump right now. I want to see Christopher Wray and every single FBI official who is party to this fired for cause.

Merrick Garland is showing by his actions as US Attorney General us that he is far too small a man to be a SCOTUS Justice.

We don’t raid former president’s home over disputed documents. We just don’t. And we don’t go fishing to destroy our political enemies, at least not using the criminal justice and law enforcement apparatus of the federal government to do so. At least we didn’t used to. I guess now we do.

Has Biden inflation impacted your travel plans? No worry. No need to travel. Joe Biden is bringing a Banana Republic right to your door.

The ghost of Harry Reid says hello, and welcome to Banana Republic, USA. Oh, by the way, I plan to make a donation to Donald Trump today. He wasn't my first choice for 2024. He is now.

Trump for President 2024 - 8/9/2022

Up until early yesterday evening, my position on 2024 has been that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is my first choice, and while I would prefer he not run, that I will vote for President Donald Trump if he is the nominee.

This morning that's all changed. Why? Because last night President Joe Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and FBI Director Christopher Wray descended my beloved country to banana republic ststus, behaving more like third world dictators than leaders of a constitutional republic. They have exhibited behavior more fitting for Vladimir Putin, Adolph Hitler, or Joseph Stalin. The party that loves vaccines more than liberty went full evil despot tyrant last night in an attempt to inoculate us from another Trump presidential term.

Unacceptable. This act was a declaration of war against not just Trump, but against those of us who supported him and his America first, Make America Great Again movement. Where I had been wishy-washy about Trump 2024, I was never and am not the least bit ambivalent about putting America first or MAGA.

The Biden presidency is a failure on every level. The only thing he's good at is not being Trump. And he's not Trump. He's not as smart as Trump. He's not as decisive as Trump. He's not as effective as Trump. Joe Biden isn't as effective as even Joe Biden was 15-20 years ago. He is a shell of a man, a puppet on a string, a true "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" kind of a guy who allows leftist activist operatives trample on longstanding US traditions, for example the treatment of ex-presidents.

Yesterday morning when I woke I was a DeSantis 2024 supporter. This morning I am a Trump 2024 supporter. Fuck the Democratic Party. Fuck the DOJ. Fuck the FBI. Fuck the Deep State. Fuck the GOP establishment. Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck Merrick Garland. Fuck Christopher Wray. And fuck this new vaccine they rolled out last night, an inoculation against Donald J Trump for President, 2024. It's time. Time to donate, volunteer, demonstrate, to speak up and to speak loudly and clearly. It's time to get out the vote. First, to undermine these tyrannical thugs in 2022, and then to elect Donald Trump in 2024. I hope he announces his candidacy this morning.