And the shitshow continues
As of this writing, the Senate has its knickers in a twist as Tommy Tuberville's GOP colleagues try to move the military promotions that Tupperware is blocking until the Department of Defense stops giving leave for female members to cross state lines for reproductive healthcare—aka abortions. He keeps objecting to unanimous consent to move the promotions, and as evidenced from this exchange his colleagues are getting fed up:
Meanwhile, another mouth-breather on the GOP side, fake hillbilly J.D. Vance, has decided to block all appointments to the Department of Justice:Sullivan getting angrier as Tuberville continues to object. He says the Chinese and the Russians are watching this and thinking, “Gosh I can’t believe how dumb these guys are.”
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) November 2, 2023
Both of these arsonists are merely servants of the Big Cheese, Donald Trump. Tupperware and Fake Hillbilly are furthering his cause of sowing chaos as the walls close in around him.pure bullshit https://t.co/anPNYPNeC7
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) November 2, 2023
Of course, we have to ask: why? Both of them had solid careers before they decided to get on the careening-out-of-control Trump Train. Vance, in fact, excoriated Trump vehemently, calling him "America's Hitler." What changed?
Power and prestige. For whatever reason, they're betting that Trumpism is America's future, and they want to get in on the action from the get-go. They see a future of filthy lucre and untrammeled power if they grab the ring now.
Here's the problem: it's a fantasy.
I firmly believe that Trump is not long for this world. The trials he's facing will lead to his final quietus. And once he dies, his movement dies with him. Oh, eventually someone else will come along. But we will have a break, much as we did after Adolf Hitler ate his Luger in that bunker. And none of his sycophants have any chance of replicating the vile hold he has on his followers. They will crawl back under their rocks, fulminating again against a world they no longer comprehend. Some will decide to follow their leader into the afterlife; I, for one, won't weep at them unaliving themselves.
Hitching your wagon to an authoritarian is a mug's game. Eventually, their day is done, and no one is around to replace them. You have wasted your life attaching yourself to a loser, and you, too, will be lost.
In the meantime, however, they will cause a lot of damage. And they will go against all the principles they once claimed to hold dear, like a strong military or law and order. They, too, will be discarded, garbage from a garbage time.
One way or another Trump will be finished. One way or another Tupperware, Fake Hillbilly, Cancun Cruz, and the rest will reap the opprobrium they so richly deserve. One way or another we will survive and thrive. Of this I am sure.
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