(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . In the Weeds of Good and Evil [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-23 By David Glenn Cox All things to all people and absolutely nothing to anybody. Donald Trump promises an IRON DOME over the skies of the United States. Wall? What about our wall? Shouldn’t we build the wall first? Wouldn’t it be easier to hold up an Iron dome with a wall? What are we defending against this time…space invaders? Space Hispanics? But it only illustrates Trump’s message. There is no Trump message. Whatever you want Bubba, I want that too! “Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others.” ― Groucho Marx You say you’ve got space Aliens in your back garden friend? Vote for me and I’ll fix it! Claims in the stratosphere with results in the gutter. It’s so extreme to just be random but it’s too random not to be so extreme. Without the wild claims, who would listen at all? I watched a few minutes of the Trump Ape Fest 2024. As the crowd hooted and chanted metaphorically beating their chests and throwing turds in excitement. “Ooga! Ooga! Ooga! USA! USA! Trump! Trump! Trump!” Promise them anything because they aren’t really paying any attention anyway. It’s like any cult scenario, it doesn’t matter what orange Fonzie says. They didn’t come to hear him say “hey” they came to see. They came to see the TV celebrity comb his hair and sit on his motorcycle at Arnold’s. Nothing Donald Trump says or does has any relevance to anything. Any similarity to the way things eventually turn out is merely coincidental. And that’s all well and good for the simple types and the hoosters in the hustings. However, large donation types are lucid enough from time to time to understand. Donald Trump has screwed every person he’s ever done business with in the ass. To write this person a check of many zeros is to understand that you’re buying nothing. Trump has no allegiance to anybody except himself. They are not buying Donald Trump; they are selling themselves cheap. If you feed Donald Trump once you can be sure, he’ll be back for more. And they will have to give again to stay on Mr. Trump’s good side. “Boy, that Amalgamated Glass Company sure makes some shitty products, don’t they?” But a funny thing happened on the way to the You Tube. Trump’s speech video after 24hrs had less than 100K views. They don’t care what he says. He’s a cult figure and they don’t care what is said about him either. A convicted felon can fill a hall, and the crowd sees nothing wrong with that. But speaking to an alleged Christian crowd, Trump apes his support for the ten commandments. I thought it was alright, I guess, if you like Charlton Heston. “Ooga! Ooga! Let’s put the ten commandments in the classroom, and all our educational problems will be solved.” And we can live in a wonderful world again. Pure 100% delusional thinking. Politicians used to promise highways and schools and such, to lure voters. Today, Republicans promise to put ancient religious texts on the walls of crumbling educational façades. It was its absence which was the cause of all our problems in the first place, despite it never having been there before. Remember, there was a time in our past when everything was topsy turvy in this country and the commies were trying to take over. So, we put “In god we trust” on our money and everything magically got better. The Comic Book Code made America safe from the degenerate illustrators with leftist leanings. Tipper Gore’s CD warning labels just changed everything, didn’t they? A renaissance of culture and learning. Political gold as the Louisiana Governor says, “He can’t wait to be sued!” Sure, why not? It’s not his millions of dollars, it’s yours. He makes traction, loses, and makes more traction as poor, poor Opie beaten and defeated and left on the side of the road to Jerusalem. He’s just trying to do good and them heathens is out to knock him off his donkey! Ooga, ooga! Not to be outdone, Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says, “I thought of putting up the ten commandments first and now Louisiana’s got the jump on us!” Like it’s the space race or deadly weapons research or something. Patrick laments his stupidity was usurped by some other idiot’s stupidity from the next state over. If only the Texas legislature had been stupider, he could have been first. Patrick just doesn’t want to wake up someday in a world of holier than thou Louisianans. “Buddy, if Jesus wasn’t coming, I’d kick your ass. Hot-button issues that don’t cost nothing are rare. So, the original authorship is important. What do you do when you have a terrible, nay, hopelessly flawed candidate? “Boy, I can’t wait to get sued!” You change the subject and reduce the issues to the lowest common denominator. Then just put a pinch of Redman chewing tobacco between your cheek and gum and spit, “They’s agin religion! They’s evil, we’s out here trying to do right by putting up the ten commandments. In your underfunded crumbling schools with your stupid kids, and if your IQ is under 75, you’d probably see that! Tick, tick, tick how long before the next chapter of Amazing Shark Stories or Tales of Electric Boating? Over here! Look at me! Look at me! Never mind Donald Trump’s failings! Look at Me! Never mind the court’s guilty verdicts. Look at me! Trump is on God’s side, and the Democrats are on Satan’s side! Clearly, putting up the ten commandments in public schools is an obvious unconstitutional fraud that will be struck down sometime after election day. Commandment number two says something about making no idols. You know, graven images or shrines? Like building shrines in every classroom in public schools, which god would certainly approve of. As it takes all notice off the bleating bailing orange braggart. Never mind if Trump’s becoming incoherent, you like god, don’t ya? Keep it super simple for the super simple and don’t make them study long on it. It’s a morality play in the weeds of good vs. evil! “I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkeys” – Mark Twain [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/23/2248210/-In-the-Weeds-of-Good-and-Evil?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/