Coming This Week: The Biggest RNC Clown Show In 28 Years

"It's always worth it to get the best seats in the center and enjoy our master's best melt downs!"


The  RNC begins this week, which elicits the question: Why would anyone with anything between the ears pay attention to what these screwballs claim, or their over the top displays of Trump love?   As most sensible citizens can agree it will most likely be the biggest clown show on Earth.  I have no intention of watching that 4-ring (4-day) circus, but predict the following "highlights" over the week:

1) Trump will resort to more  lies  about the alleged "great economy".  Like Adolf Hitler, his hero, Trump believes the more you tell a lie the greater chance it will be believed.  This may be one reason he keeps repeating the "strongest economy" ever which is bollocks.

Fact:  He has claimed more than 360 times that the economy on his watch was the “strongest ever.” Not even close.  No way and no how. Annualized growth under Trump ranked seventh among his 11 predecessors. And growth actually slowed during each of Trump’s three years.   Lastly, his terrible handling of the pandemic directly translated into the enormous problems we now face: an economy in its worst crisis since the Great Depression.

How Trump keeps an edge in polls (over Biden) concerning the economy and its performance is a question for the political cognoscenti to address.  All I know is he doesn't deserve any edge at all.   People who signal in polls they prefer Trump for the economy are either blind, brain dead,  fact-free ignoramuses  or inbred fools and morons.  There's no other explanation.

2) "Freedom" dog whistles to be sounded - on guns and masks

First, by Missourian Mark McCloskey who  - with his wife Patricia - will live on in infamy for the stunt they pulled back in May - pointing weapons at racial justice  protesters.



Expect Mark to wax  long and hard on "liberty" and how owning a gun - preferably an AR-15- helps to define it  Especially if you can point a loaded weapon at black protesters under the pretense they might raid your  property.  McCloskey's bunkum will be especially important given how the NRA has recently fallen from grace after reports of their financial shenanigans and misdirected funds.

Second, expect a known anti-Masker to claim - likely in a prerecorded session- how masks are an infringement on personal liberty and after all, shouldn't one be permitted to do with one's own body what he will? No thought that masks protect others from your germs.  

 3) Fear mongering on steroids:

- Expect to hear this canard (with some minor variations)  endlessly repeated: 

"If Biden wins expect Antifa goons to ransack cities, beat innocents and wreck businesses."   

Trump will also bellow: "If you like socialists and carnage then elect Biden!"   Of course, the truth is we've already seen all the carnage compliments of Trump, including infants separated from mothers and locked in cages, and innocent protesters being shot by impact weapons, tear gassed and beaten with truncheons.   Trump said it was done in the interest of "law and order.".  What's truly choice here is the most defiantly criminal resident ever invoking the "law and order soap box to dog whistle to whiteys, white racists, that he is their only protection against the "socialist, radical" hordes.  No one ever said the RNC lacked a sense of irony!

4) Making excuses and specious justifications for inaction on the HEROES Act.

For not putting another cent into a new stimulus program, and continuing to assert (without any viable data) that if a $600 bonus unemployment had been approved, people would have just sat on their bums all day eating Twinkies.  This inaction now as it is estimated 40 million Americans could face eviction by year's end, and 17 million will need food stamps - which Trump now plans to reduce access to by adding a new stipulation, i.e. that the person be able to produce pay slips to show s/he has been working.

The Repukes will also continue to have Trump's back (butt?) by insisting mail voting is a pathway to perdition, and will lead to massive fraud or even - god forbid  - unfairly taking the election.  All of which is nonsense given that-  as I showed in my August 21st post -  mail ballots are basically fool proof, hack proof, and Trump proof. Which is why Trump hates them.

5)  When the 4 days are concluded the foul air lingering in the location - and over the airwaves and "Twitterverse" - will surpass that left behind in 1992 when Pat Buchanan bloviated about the "great culture war."  See:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?31255-1/pat-buchanan-1992-republican-convention-address

The bottom line is don't expect anything constructive to come from this four day liar and traitor extravaganza.   It will be the same ol' lies and distractions we've been subjected to for 3 1/2 years, mainly how the country will go to hell in a handbasket if the Dems are given control. (Especially if they take the Senate too).  Oh, and how great leader Trump has been, as if the ongoing debacle people have beheld with their own eyes and ears doesn't count.

Wifey and I have concluded we will get more out of binge -watching the Game of Thrones, which is what we plan to do.

See Also:
Republicans’ ‘uplifting’ convention becomes a festival of fear

And:

Get Ready for TrumpFest, America — There's No Republican Party Anymore

And:
Republican Convention Takes on the Weighty Task of Boosting Trump’s Bruised Ego

Trump's Latest Trash Talking Should Make Him Unelectable

Donald Trump's latest trash talking about Hillary is beyond belief. I had to play the clips (featured on Chris Hayes 'All In') several times before I could absorb the magnitude of it. As political journalist Chuck Todd noted on the NBC News just minutes before, if any ordinary mortal had spewed the vomit Trump did before an audience of howling groupies in MI (who Trump himself described as "nine thousand maniacs"), he or she would have been fired on the spot.

As I paused the DVR control and examined the faces of those Trumpie groupies, I compared them with the separate stills from one of Hitler's rallies captured by his Third Reich filmographer Leni Reifenstahl, on a separate TV set. What struck me was the similarity. These yahoos were literally drowned in a hate fest, just as Hitler's groupies were. Who would have believed 50 years ago that America could havc mutated to this point to unleash such political deviants upon us?

Incredibly, assorted Fox News puppets insisted he meant nothing vulgar. As one female spokesperson for Trump's campaign put it: "He meant slung to the ground!" Uh no, dearie, the word was "schlonged" - described by most U.S. media as a "Yiddish" term but in fact many Germans use it as an Anglicized alternative for "fucked". (In strict German there is no specific counterpart, though "fucken" is used by semi-literate boors of the lowest classes, like in the slums of Munich, Berlin or Dresden. "Schlong" for penis, also - I am told- is a common Anglicized term used by actresses in German porno films.)

So, let's not get cute here, Trump knew damned well what he was saying and what he meant, and anyone who needs to "interpret" his remarks is a moron.

Hillary herself, to her credit, took the vile epithets and calumny in stride at a separate meeting, where she counseled a girl suffering from asthma not to be intimidated by the bullies. She also described how she has had a long experience with this lot, and indeed she (and Bill) have, dating back from the mid -1990s, when the right wing nexus tried to pin Vince Foster's murder as well as drug dealing out of Mena, AR on them. All of this was finally exposed in a superb Newsweek article entitled 'The Right Wing Web'. (February 22, 1999, p.34)

As Trump himself crosses each new barrier of impropriety, under the phony mantra of "attacking political correctness", his hate mongering fans are in a state of near euphoria. I even read yesterday in The Denver Post (p. 11A) how the Ku Kluxers now see him as their man, their voice. They want their members to bone up on the issues and pay attention to Trump with a view to catapulting him to high office.

Ain't gonna happen! Already the new polls show 50 percent of Americans affirming they would be embarrassed to have this turkey as their president. Of course, it vastly breaks down along party lines with only 20 percent of Repubs in the embarrassed category while 82 percent of Democrats are. But what do you expect when the R-party has mutated to become one of poltroons and knuckle draggers?

Jeb Bush to his initial credit, began to knock Trump (after the latest remarks) as the "chaos candidate" but then quickly attacked Hillary for cultivating "victimology". Huh?  So wait, Jebbie - you effing loser, it was Hillary's fault that Trump used such crude and abusive language? To be sure, as one MSNBC guest noted, this latest outburst ought to seal Trump's fate certainly for female voters.

Meanwhile, historian Michael Beschloss - appearing last night on Rachel Maddow- insisted there is no history for such venomous rhetoric (including inciting a mob against reporters) other than segregationist George Wallace back in 1968. Wallace also used vitriolic, racist and degenerate rhetoric in trying to stir up the semi-literate masses. He tried to do it again in 1972, but was felled in Laurel, MD by a would be assassin's bullets. That was Arthur Bremer from Milwaukee.

Incredibly, it took that turn of events to temper Wallace and in later years he actually regretted his hate- spewing rhetoric. By the end of his life he'd almost become a changeling.

A recent (Dec. 5th) article in The Economist really puts the Trumpies in perspective noting (p. 30):

"The anxiety Trump supporters betray by looking for scapegoats says most, of course, about themselves. Typically members of the white lower middle class, they are at once jealous of the small privileges that distinguish them from the toilers below, and bitterly resentful of the faraway government that provides their Social Security, VA care and Medicare.

Remonstrating in hard times, they are the "radical centre" in academic jargon, who turned out before for George Wallace, a populist southern Democrat who ran for President four times in the 1960s and 70s."

The article then identifies the iconic Trump supporter of this "radical center" with a character  from a John Updike novel named Rabbit Angstrom "from whose flabby mouth dripped endless expressions of impotence, anger and glum humor...having retired to Florida to nurse his disappointment".

As WSJ author Bret Stephens also noted in a recent op-ed outburst of establishment GOP despond, "Why Don't We Just Elect Hillary Now?",  the upending of the GOP race and the tilt to Trump cuts across the whole freakish Republican coalition. What had once been an unholy alliance of business -Wall Street types, evangelicals and libertarian followers of Ayn Rand has now metastasized (according to The Economist, ibid.), to become "pro-Trump Tea Party agitators, racist evangelical Christians (who believe Obama is really a "Muslim" with a fake birth certificate) and national security obsessives" (who believe Snowden is a "traitor")

The Economist's final words on this (and bear in mind this is before Trump's latest venom directed at Hillary):

"Almost none of Mr. Trump's jokes are good jokes. It would be good for America if the end of him, as seems likely, is in sight"

Let's hope it's sooner rather than later. As one savvy political analyst pointed out, Trump's actual testing of "the law of political gravity"  will start with the first caucuses and primaries next year. Then we see an end to power by polls, and whether the Trump rise is just another mirage. (Like Pat Buchanan in 1992).

See also:

http://gawker.com/donald-trump-believes-his-supporters-are-morons-hes-ri-1729279807

And:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jack-lessenberry/65310/they-created-trump

And:

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/p-m-carpenter/65307/a-red-white-and-black-christmas-with-donald-trump