Saturday Morning Confusion: Drumpf!

STILL DON'T BELIEVE THAT TRUMP IS THE "ANTI-CHRIST?"

(Good thing I'm not the least bit religious!)

 

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BONUS: We reversed the polarity on the "Way Back Machine" and took this picture of Kim Kardashian 20 years from now!

Mid-Week Mayhem!

 The Pope and trump are on the same stage in Yankee Stadium in front of a large crowd.

The Pope leans towards Trump and says: “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand, I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy?

This joy will not be a momentary display but will go deep into their hearts and they will forever speak of this day and rejoice!

Trump replied; “I seriously doubt that!”

“With one little wave of your hand?”

“Show me!”

So the pope backhanded him and knocked him off the stage, AND THE CROWD ROARED AND CHEERED WILDLY, and there was happiness throughout the land!

(Pope Francis is about to hit Drumpf on the head to shut him up!!!!)

Happy Easter From Drumpf!

 

And then there were none!

 

Oh Shit! (again)

Allan: 

What is happening in the hearts of former President Donald Trump’s supporters?

As an anthropologist who studies peace and conflict, I went to the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, to find out. I wanted to better understand the Make America Great Again faithful – and their die-hard support for Trump.

The event began on Feb. 21, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland, with Steve Bannon’s routine, untrue banter about how President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election, and it peaked with an angry speech from Trump three days later. In between, I sat among the MAGA masses listening to speaker after speaker express outrage about American decline – and their hope for Trump’s reelection.

Everywhere I turned, people wore MAGA regalia – hats, pins, logos and patches, many with Trump’s likeness. I spent breaks in the exhibition hall, which featured a Jan. 6 insurrection-themed pinball machine featuring “Stop the Steal,” “Political Prisoners” and “Babbitt Murder” rally modes and a bus emblazoned with Trump’s face. Admirers scribbled messages on the bus such as, “We have your back” and “You are anointed and appointed by God to be the President.”

Those on the left who dismiss the CPAC as a gathering of MAGA crazies and racists who support a wannabe dictator do not understand that, from this far-right perspective, there are compelling and even urgent reasons to support Trump. Indeed, they believe, as conservative politician Tulsi Gabbard stated in her CPAC speech on Feb. 22, that the left’s claims about Trump’s authoritarianism are “laughable.” This is because CPAC attendees falsely perceive President Joe Biden as the one who is attacking democracy.

Here are my top three takeaways from CPAC about Trump supporters’ current priorities and thinking.

1. There’s a Reagan dinner – but CPAC is Trump’s party

Former President Ronald Reagan runs in CPAC’s DNA. Reagan spoke at the inaugural CPAC in 1974 and went on to speak there a dozen more times.

In 2019, the conservative advocacy group the American Political Union, which hosts CPAC, published a book of Reagan’s speeches with commentary by conservative luminaries. In the preface, Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Political Union, says he often asks himself, “What would Reagan do?”

CPAC’s pomp gala, held Friday, is still called the “Ronald Reagan Dinner.” But Reagan is otherwise hardly mentioned at the conference.

Reagan’s ideas of American exceptionalism have been supplanted by Trump’s populist story of apocalyptic decline. Reagan’s folksy tone, relative moderation and clear quips are long gone, replaced by fury, grievance and mean-spirited barbs.

2. There’s a method to the madness

Many commentators and critics, including groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, view CPAC as a frightening or bizarre gathering of white nationalists who have a nativist agenda.

In 2021, commentators said the CPAC stage was shaped like a famous Nazi design called the Othala Rune, which is a hate symbol. Schlapp denied this claim and said that CPAC supports the Jewish community, but various commentators took note of the uncanny resemblance.

This year, CPAC refused to give press credentials to various media outlets, including The Washington Post, despite the organization’s emphasis on free speech.

Some speakers, including Trump, have been known to regularly voice support for white nationalism and right-wing extremism, including speakers who promote the false idea that there is a plot to replace the white population. I discuss this idea in my 2021 book, “It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US.”

Indeed, the U.S.-Mexico border was a constant topic at this year’s CPAC, which included controversial anti-immigrant speakers such as the head of Spain’s far-right Vox party and a representative of Hungary, whose leader stated at the 2022 CPAC that Europeans should not become “mixed-race.” Hungary will also host a CPAC meeting in April 2024.

Many of the sessions have alarming titles like, “Burning Down the House,” “Does Government Even Matter” and “Going Full Hungarian.” There are right-wing, populist speakers like Bannon and U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz.

Overall, the program is informed by a conservative logic that largely boils down to God, family, tradition, law and order, defence and freedom.

Of these, God looms largest. As a result, CPAC’s hardcore conservative Christian orientation is anti-abortion rights, homophobic and oriented toward traditional family structure and what it considers morality.

Schlapp co-wrote a book in 2022 that warns of the dangers of “evil forces” – what he considers to be progressives, the radical left and American Marxists. Schlapp’s book title even dubs these forces “the desecrators.” Such inflammatory language is frequently used at CPAC, including by Trump during his Saturday speech.

3. Trump believers think he is their saviour

CPAC’s love of Trump is shocking to many on the left. But at CPAC, Trump is viewed as America’s saviour.

According to his base, Trump delivered on abortion by appointing Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. They believe that, despite evidence of mixed results, Trump had wide successes at securing the border and creating jobs. For example, during Trump’s time as president, the U.S. economy lost nearly 3 million jobs, and apprehensions of undocumented migrants at the border rose.

Trump’s CPAC speech, like his campaign speeches, harped on such supposed achievements – as well as Biden’s alleged “destruction” of the country.

Conservatives roll their eyes at liberal fears of Trump the despot. Like all of us, they acknowledge, that Trump has flaws. They say that some of his comments about women and minorities are cringeworthy, but not evidence of an underlying misogyny and hatefulness, as many critics contend.

Ultimately, CPAC conservatives believe Trump is their best bet to defeat the radical-left “desecrators” who seek to thwart him at every turn – including, as they constantly complained at CPAC, social media bans, “fake news” takedowns, rigged voting, bogus lawsuits, unfair justice, and lies about what they call the Jan. 6, 2021, “protest”.

Despite these hurdles, Trump battles on toward the Republican nomination for presidential candidate – the hero whom CPAC conservatives view as the last and best hope to save the USA.

This article is republished from The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization bringing facts and analysis to help you make sense of our complex world.

It was written by: Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University - Newark.

(Wrong Finger Drumpf!)

Drumpf!

 

       



                          

   

DRUMPF!

 BREAKING: A reporter who has covered Donald Trump for two decades sounds the alarm about his profound cognitive decline and predicts that he's about to get even worse.

The media has been so fixated on all of Trump's court cases that they've failed to notice his mind is completely falling apart...

MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire was speaking with Morning Joe's Joe Scarborough, who stated that: "I think it's going to be harder and harder for the campaign to manage this guy who in just my opinion looks like he's in a serious state of decline and seriously is so confused."

Before their conversation, Scarborough mocked Trump at length for once again mixing up Barack Obama and Joe Biden during a Fox News interview.

"He's still thinking about the guy that he started the birther conspiracy theory about back in 2011," said Scarborough.

"Yeah, I mean I was a Metro reporter with the New York Daily News and covered Trump from time to time, fifteen, twenty years ago," Lemire said. "And it's very clear he's not the same guy he was then and that post about presidential immunity also had the great Trump tell of this era, which is when he goes to all-caps."

"When he goes to all-caps, and it is an all-caps screed, particularly about his legal predicaments, you know it is a window into how upset and anxious he is," he went on. "And that was the night where he had been posting overnight repeatedly about E. Jean Carroll and other, quote 'witch hunts' and then yesterday morning went so far as to say this, to have needing that 'full immunity' for even events that cross the line."

"This is something that feels like not only, of course, a scary projection of what could come in a second Trump term where he would say, 'I could do whatever I want and can't be prosecuted,'" he added.

Scarborough jumped in to say "this will happen" if Trump wins another term. He and Lemire then both agreed that Trump has basically confessed to crimes by admitting that he "crossed the line" and needs immunity.

There can really be no arguing here. Donald Trump is in obvious cognitive decline. Simply watching any one of his recent interviews or rambling speeches will confirm that fact.

The man belongs in a mental facility, not in the Oval Office.

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BONUS!

Hail Drumpf!!!!!!

Ever wonder where Donald Drumpf got the idea that he couldn't be prosecuted for any crimes?

The only problem is............ DRUMPF AIN'T NO KING!!!!!

 

Is the arrest and prosecution of Trump proof that the Democratic party is attempting to make a one-party state?

Allan: Is the arrest and prosecution of Trump proof that the Democratic party is attempting to make a one-party state?

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No. It’s more proof that Republicans are trying to make a one-party state. Let me explain.

Gary Hart had an affair. His career ended. John Edwards had an affair. His career ended. Anthony Weiner sent risqué photos. His career ended. Al Franken took a prank photo. His career ended. Rod Blagojevich tried to sell Obama’s Senate seat. He was impeached, removed, indicted, convicted, imprisoned, and hi career ended. Andrew Cuomo was accused of sexual harassment. His career ended. Because the Democrats don’t have a lot of tolerance for people who will bring the party down. That preserves the two-party system.

Now, let’s compare that to Republicans. Ollie North perjured himself to keep Reagan from being impeached. Both are Republican heroes. George Santos has lied about more things than I can remember and still has his seat. Six Republican Congressmen asked Trump for pardons for their roles in the January 6th insurrection and still have their seats. Donald Trump boasted that he is a pedophile, sex offender, and tax evader. is famous for having affairs, is famous for committing fraud, encouraging Russian interference in the 2016 election, committing at least ten acts of obstruction of justice to cover his actions, repeatedly violating the Emoluments Clause and the Hatch Act, attempting to bribe a foreign leader into helping him smear a political rival, obstructed Congress, tweeted a classified photo, violated the National Defense Authorization Act, asked states to manufacture fraudulent ballots for him, asked states to disregard the results of their elections and declare him the winner, tried to seat fake Electors, tried to prevent his loss from being certified, called for the Constitution to be terminated, stole classified documents and refused to return them, was found liable for a sexual assault, was indicted for financial crimes, was indicted for crimes related to stolen classified documents, and is still the Republican frontrunner. And he even commuted the sentence of the aforementioned Rod Blagojevich. None of these people would still be welcome in the Democratic Party. That’s the GOP trying to destroy themselves and create a single (Democratic) party state.

I hope that helps.  

William Weir