by Noah
The soap opera felony election interference trial of America's #1 mental case and fiercest threat to its national security resumes today. Whether he is acquitted, found guilty, or there is a mistrial, the assets of our nation's adversaries, both at home and abroad, will continue to do all they can to assure that he gets back into the oval office.
Normal people have dreams of sensible laws being enforced and evil doers meeting justice and being held to account. Republicans on the other hand have shared dreams of a different sort. The shared dreams of republicans are as good of a reason as anything as to why 74,000,000 people would vote for their traitor of choice. Some of them are deranged beyond all repair. Most, led by people, people with names like John Roberts, Maga Mike, Sean Hannity, Moscow Mitch, and Donald Trump himself are desperately trying to preserve a country where only the votes of white people really matter. That's why other people, people like Samuel Alito and Alex Jones are like gods to them. As time has gone by, it's become harder and harder to tell the difference. To put it another way: Society is already in the hands of the insane.
I suppose, if I was a snarky human, I would say that another republican god, one from the recent past named Ronald Reagan, was a visionary when he emptied the asylums. Perhaps he saw that all of existence is one big loony bin so what's the difference if the crazies roam free or not? So, here we are, crazies everywhere, even broadcasting on our airwaves and doing it with the federal approval of an infiltrated FCC. Republicans will point to unbalanced citizens living on our sidewalks or in tents in the parks, but those people they point at have sanity levels that are no different than their own or the sanity levels of people whose praises they sing, people like Marjorie Traitor Greene, Matt Gaetz (just look at him!), Kristi Noem, Paul Gosar, or the man they all idolize, Donald J. Trump, a man who's unhinged at both ends.
Way too many people look at a candidate, pundit, or social media tycoon that has a head full of misfiring synapses and decide "That's the one for me." I mean, does any sane person among us think that someone like Elon Musk is also sane? Or, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, or some backwoods blonde haired aboriginal from Georgia? Or, some sad fool who actually claims to have worms eating his brain? Republican voters look at people like this and say things like "He speaks his mind."
Other people look at a candidate and tell themselves, "I can temporarily live with that one but only because it lets me live to fight for something better on another day." Sadly, too many of those think that "something better" will just appear by magic. But others are even worse. They turn their backs on the presented process, wash their hands of the whole thing and stick their heads up their ass, preferring, like the sociopaths that they are, to have it all blow up in everybody's face including their own. But what is more extreme than supporting, directly, indirectly, or even inadvertently, a psychopathic Nazi who the sickest, most destructive authoritarian world leaders also love? Yep, there's your 74,000,000 Republican voters and other assets of our nation's adversaries right there. Don't believe it? Watch!
And then there's the flip side of this. Some hapless schlub is thinking that medicare is now actual care for everyone; the min wage is liveable; women have actual rights; voters are free to vote; america has no billionaires and corporations pay taxes; the constitution is actually defended; trump has been in prison since the '70s for all his crimes; america stopped sending arms to israel decades ago because of their various apartheid policies. ALL of these things evolved because the Democrats made it happen; and because they did all this over the years, they have enjoyed majorities and admins for going on 90 years now... and many more.
But, sadly, he awakens in a near min-wage job (or two)…