Your Saturday Cartoon: "I Love Trump! He Speaks His Mind!!!!"
by Noah
Leave it to Republicans to resurrect one of the oldest racist tropes known to humankind; immigrants steal pets for food, or some other nefarious purpose. And, of course they went way back since that's where they want us all to live, but this "Haitians are eating our pets" insanity is all about whipping up a frenzy for deporting immigrants, a Republican purification program that Trump has proudly boasted "will be a bloody story." There's the nazi bloodlust of the Republican Party and its voters right there. And, as you will note at the very end of this post, it is very hard to keep up with all the insanity coming from republicans these days. There is no exaggeration that they won't meet and raise.
You know where this particular manifestation of Republican madness illustrated in the above cartoon is going, don't you? If you've followed the de-evolution of the republican mind for over 50 years* like I have and watched it go all pedal to the metal in more recent times, you have to take a look at yourself in the mirror and know that this Republican mantra of "Immigrants are stealing and eating our pets" isn't gonna just stop there. There's always a next step when it comes to insanity and you can bet there will always be a next step with Republicans. They've been pushing the envelope of their insanity for decades and those who should have pushed back and said stop have always been way, way too naive or "nice" to do so. That goes for the Democratic Party, the occasional 3rd party/3rd way frauds, the media hacks who give equal microphone time to loons that would have once just been relegated to screaming from a soapbox in the park, and the general population itself.
Already, as I write this Thursday afternoon, some Republikook, inspired by the Republican Dear Leader, is phoning in bomb threats and threatening to blow up schools and government buildings in Springfield Ohio which, to Republicans, is the current hotbed of immigrants eating pets. If you need a hint as to the step in Republican madness and delusion that is bound to follow, I will just remind you that the man all Republicans look up to and adore has quite an unhealthy fanciful relationship with, quote, "the late, great Hannibal Lecter," a person who is all too real in his mind.
For over a year now, the brain-rotted Diaper Don has been expressing his fascination with his pal Hannibal and what's most interesting is that his public celebrations of his imaginary friend are always incorporated into his diatribes about immigrants at his rallies. The connection in Trump's very ill mind is plain to see right there and it's a connection he clearly wants his followers to make. At the debate this past Tuesday night, we saw Trump explode into a lecture about immigrants in Springfield stealing man's best friends, our furry four-legged family members, and eating them. Many Republicans from "Ted" Cruz and J.D. Vance (a man who, himself, reportedly has googled the words 'woman' and 'dolphin' together, come up with an X post about a woman being violated by a dolphin and re-posted it himself) on down have been pushing the same thing, Judging from a tsunami of republican social media posts I've been seeing, republican voters have adopted this crap as a new gospel in the creed of republicanism. The next step? Do you have to ask? C'mon, the leap to migrants eating humans with a nice chianti is only weeks if not days away from being the next republican fever dream. And then? Who knows, but when Trump literally turns himself into his imaginary friend, I hope someone is keeping an eye out for truck loads of chianti pulling up in front of Mar-a-Lago.
You think not? The GOP's Dear Leader has already told us, among other things, that kids are getting "transgender surgery" at our local schools and assorted Republican groups like the ridiculous nazi book burners of Moms For Liberty are backing him up. Do I even have to bring up FOX-Pravda and their freakish imitators? The saddest and most disturbing part of all this has been the coverage of post debate focus groups where republican voters told reporters that they were still "leaning towards Trump." One clown I saw this morning was saying "This is a tough choice." Yeah, let's hand over the economy and the nuke codes to that screaming manic guy! Nothing's gonna dissuade all these mental cases. If you want to be some kind of entrepreneur or just make a bunch of quick money, I suggest you invest in the soon to be burgeoning market for straightjackets and tranquilizer guns. The supply ain't gonna meet the need! There's definitely going to be a shortage. No company or even group of companies can make enough for every Republican voter in time.
*Back in the Nixon years, "The De-Evolution Of The Republican Mind" was the name of a weekly 5 minute segment of a radio show I used to do. That was before I gave up on radio and the journalism world in general.
Addendum: Well, it's already happened. Trump's latest gal pal, republican politician Laura Loomer (from Flor-i-duh, no less) who feeds him information about what's going on in the world, is now doubling down on this Republican trend and tweeting about Haitians now eating humans. To be fair and you know I'm always fair, a few Republicans, notably MTG and some freak senator from South Carolina appear to be objecting to Ms. Loomer being so close to Dear Leader but I doubt that it really has to do with what she says and I'm sure they will soon be parroting everything she has to say about anything.
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