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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:33 PM Jul 2020

Call Me Evil, But ...

… I am SO enjoying watching the GOP committing political suicide – especially given the fact that it is a slow, excruciatingly painful demise.

Rather than simply putting a gun to their heads, they have chosen to hang themselves by inches, twisting in the wind while dangling at the end of a rope that oh-so-slowly cuts off their breath until they finally choke to death, blue-faced and gasping for air until the very end.

Perhaps they see themselves as modern-day martyrs, dying for the noble cause of Trumpism – or, more likely, they are just too stupid to realize that despite the requiem masses attended by their disciples, they will be remembered not for their adherence to their so-called ‘principles’, but for their lack thereof.

As American citizens continue to sicken and die of Covid-19, the Republican powers-that-be persist in struggling as the noose tightens around their throats, insisting that their imminent demise is nothing more than the result of a fake-news hoax perpetrated by a deep-state conspiracy, funded by extreme left-wing crazies who have somehow managed to convince the entire world to play along with their wildest scheme yet by faking the deaths of their relatives, their neighbours, their coworkers, their friends.

To say that’s a hard sell would be the understatement of a century. And yet, the Republican Trump-humpers are still trying to sell it, as they cling to the dying vestiges of a party doomed to suffer and die from its own self-inflicted wounds.

It is human nature to empathize with a victim of suicide, to contemplate what went so terribly wrong in their thinking that drove them to choose death over life, what led them to such incredible despair, what caused them to believe that things were so hopeless that ending it all was a viable alternative to living to fight another day.

But in the case of an entire political party being willing to wrap a rope around its neck and welcome the executioner’s signal to drop the floor beneath its feet is beyond all imagining.

One can only wonder what such willing-martyrs-to-the-Trump-cause hoped to gain by destroying our country by destroying themselves – and no doubt their reasons for doing so will perplex historian for decades to come.

In the meantime, witnessing the slow-and-painful strangling of the party that enabled a corrupt, self-serving traitor is satisfying beyond words.

So call me evil if you will, but I am enjoying every last gasp of those who supported the mother-fucker currently in the White House, and I savour their last fear-induced dance as they struggle against the hangman’s noose they have wrapped around their own oh-so-deserving necks.

The fake-billionaire reality-show host is going down – and in the ultimate series ender, his audience is going down with him.

Now that’s entertainment!




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NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
5. No need to do so ...
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:39 PM
Jul 2020

... they are willingly diving into the shallow end of the tub of their own accord.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
7. meh, when (if) Trump is gone the republican party will..
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:44 PM
Jul 2020

.. disown him saying, "he was never a real republican anyway".

The media will talk about a "new republican party".

Their voters will still vote for them.

The republican politicians who decry Trump will be lauded and the party will probably never be held to account for all they have done to enable this tyrant.

NanceGreggs

(27,813 posts)
9. And exactly who ...
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:56 PM
Jul 2020

... are these "Republican politicians who decry Trump"?

We now live in a world of instant replay, where every quote is preserved and easily retrievable, and no one can hide from past statements.

Denying past support and/or enabling of Trump's treason and corruption is no longer an option.

 

aidbo

(2,328 posts)
12. They don't have to be decrying Trump now, I was speaking about the future.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 09:13 PM
Jul 2020

We have lived "in a world of instant replay" for many decades now ,and many politicians are often not held to account for deplorable actions in their past. Look at John McCain or George W. Bush.

I could be wrong, but I am pessimistic so if I am wrong it will be a good surprise.

paleotn

(17,781 posts)
16. Some stink can't be easily washed off...
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 10:46 PM
Jul 2020

Particularly once a re-energized Justice Department starts in on them. Jan 2021 won't be the end, but merely the beginning of endless Republican scandal and exposed criminality focused on the Donnie years. "For the good of the country" isn't going to cut it this time and Dems know it. The republican base is now conditioned to love Donnie and all things racist and stupid and that's not going to change for a long while. Most folks would rather not be associated with racist and stupid. So it's going to take a long, long time to unmake this bed.

OAITW r.2.0

(23,862 posts)
8. And it only cost 300,000 American lives (projected thru 1/21/21)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 08:50 PM
Jul 2020

to make the case to the American people!

The Republican cancer started with Nixon, grew with Reagan and the Bushes, but has finally metastasized under Trump. The Republic's chance for survival is gonna take Democrats and 75% of the voting population to save it.

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