Yesterday got me thinking about how republicans continue to offer very little of substance. Republicans are like onions or Russian nesting dolls (Matryoshkas). You peel away the layers and there’s nothing left. There’s no core — just an empty space where their basic humanity should live.
Pressley sez: They are like squeaky toys. You chew at them for hours to uncover and understand the noisemaker, only to find it’s just a bunch of stale air smelling of latex and spittle, being squeezed through a bladder.
There are two glasses on the table. One is half-full, the other is half-empty. Someone* picks up the half-empty glass, finds out it’s too heavy for him to raise to his lips, so he spills it out all over the table and puts it back down. There are still two glasses on the table. One is half-full, the other is the republican party.
*The someone is orange and is busy learning how to lie in Russian.
If a committed republican saw a possible solution to any of the problems facing America, they would tuck tail and run as fast as possible in the opposite direction, screaming, “The socialists are coming. The socialists are coming.” This is why committed republicans should be committed.
tRumpisstas have abandoned the bleak and dismal conservative philosophy put forward by the nihilistic teabaggers in favor of the intellectual vacuum of tRumpism. tRumpism isn’t a political philosophy as such. It’s more of an anti-philosophy, with no coherent principles to prop it up.
tRumpism is:
- Lacking in structure and consistency. Basic premises change following the shifting whims of tRump.
- Devoid of any ethical or moral foundation. Even most of the prosperity Christians don’t really try to justify tRump’s actions any further than: “it’s ok because of the judges.”
- Heartless in that it’s main recurring feature is the conscious generation of fear throughout the population.
- Desolate of compassion. The demonization of others is one of the ways they generate fear.
- Barren of honesty. To support tRump is to swallow and accept endless mountains of lies.
- Destitute of honor. By embracing and repeating the lies, they have forsaken their integrity.
By embracing and to some extent deifying tRump, the tRumpisstas have pushed their misbegotten hero’s faults to the forefront. Since he has no talent, skill or strength to compensate, we are left with a dangerous fool pretending to a competence he is incapable of achieving.
tRump is:
- Vacuous. I don’t recall ever running across a man less interested in learning.
- Visibly Exhausted from all his public spats with people that refuse to kowtow to his bullying. His pettiness and vindictiveness still shines through, but he’s wilted under the pressure of near universal condemnation.
- a Miserable excuse for a human being. We all know it. He’s spent his entire life cheating at everything.
- Inadequate to meeting the challenges facing the country. He has proven it every single time he’s been presented with any choices. He has always chosen the path that does the most damage to the body politic, public health or national standing. Thank dog he’s
- a Wretched administrator.
- possessed of a brain Uninhabited by thoughts of anything except tRump.
- Pathetically unfit for the office he holds.
- a Pitiful example of what happens when you lower the Barr.
Ok, what did I miss? Help out my tired brain and fill in the blanks with your comments. The theme for both lists is concepts loosely synonymous with “empty” as they relate to tRump and tRumpism.
Note: I have a copy of Melania and Me, but haven’t opened it yet.
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niftywriter gave us another quality uplifting GNR today: Fear Never Builds The Future, But Hope Does - Tuesday GNR
