Hey, I want to forget the Trump years, too. If the memory-wiping technology from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind were real, I’d be among the first in line. If necessary, I’d replace all my Trump-adjacent mind detritus with fake memories of me vigorously massaging Ted Cruz’s thighs, shanks, buttocks, and perineum with hot, viscous fluids over and over and over again as he bellowed like a calving cow elk. That’s how awful my Trump memories are.
But, hey, until the FDA approves over-the-counter home lobotomy kits on an emergency-use basis (at least one of those emergencies being my recurring flashbacks of Trump devouring an increasingly moist and glistening series of meats on sticks), I’m stuck with them. And so are you. Nikki Haley on the other hand? She seems determined to forget:
For the nontweeters:
“To have our Generals say that they are depending on diplomacy with the Taliban is an unbelievable scenario. Negotiating with the Taliban is like dealing with the devil.”
Is it now?
Oh, Nikki …
CNN’s JAKE TAPPER: “There’s a story from The Military Times in January 2018 where then-[UN] ambassador Haley says, ‘The U.S. policy on Afghanistan is working. We’re seeing that we’re closer to talks with the Taliban in the peace process than we’ve seen before.’ There is this attempt to memory-hole the last four years under President Trump of an attempt to have a peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban. By the way, the Afghan government was excluded from those talks by the Trump administration. And, look, I’m not faulting the Trump administration for attempting to achieve some sort of peace deal with the Taliban. I mean, you don’t make peace with your friends, you make peace with your enemies. That’s how peace deals work. But there is this attempt by former Secretary [Mike] Pompeo, Vice President Pence, Trump is all over the map on this, Nikki Haley, etc., and their supporters in Congress to pretend that there is something demonstrably different about what Biden did than what Trump would have done.”
If the past few years have taught me anything, it’s that Republicans will say literally anything, no matter how weird, nonsensical, or false. In fact, the more hypocritical, the better. They know their fans don’t remember much of anything—nor do they want to. It’s all about owning the libs, after all, and if you can criticize a liberal for something you’ve done numerous times in the past … hey, it’s all part of the clown show.
And, of course, Ambassador Haley is enthusiastically slapping on her greasepaint as we speak.
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