10/19/21: Another day, another Loser Donald outburst. Two actually; but let’s stick with the first for now. After Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) tells a reporter he does not believe Trump will be the party nominee in 2024, you had to know Trump would explode.
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Trump never dodged bullets. Powell did. For his country. |
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Once again, the hurt Trump felt deeply, was the hurt he felt for himself.
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When Cassidy added, “President Trump
is the first president, in the Republican side at least, to lose the House, the
Senate and the presidency in four years. Elections are about winning,” you knew
a tantrum was coming.
When the
reporter said it appeared “clear” Cassidy would not be voting for Trump in any
case, Cassidy responded, “I’m not.”
It’s
possible that Trump nerves were already frayed. By a 58% to 35% margin, in a recent Quinnipiac poll, Americans were already
hoping he wouldn’t run in 2024.
Trump had
no choice but to issue another one of those periodic statements from his desk,
these statements serving as a kind of extension of his old Twitter account,
without the limit of 280 characters per tweet. (This allows Trump to sound even
stupider than he formerly did.) But what we get is vintage Trump-Twitterspeak.
First, he calls Cassidy a “RINO,” (a “Republican in name only”) which is
typical, sloppy logic from Rejected-President Don. Off the top of my head, this
blogger might note that Trump has called former GOP Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, Sen. Mitt Romney, Sen. Richard Shelby, Sen. John Thune, Sen. Pat Toomey, and Sen. Ben
Sasse RINOs. He went to the trouble to tag Sasse as “Little Ben Sasse,” in one of his juvenile
outbursts. Trump has also intimated that Sen. Mitch McConnell might be a bogus
Republican, and for good measure referred to the former Majority Leader as “an
old crow.”
Did we
mention that Loser Donald really enjoys juvenile insults?
(I am
really hoping someday McConnell will respond, and refer to Loser Donald as “a
fat Horny toad.”)
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ANY REASONABLY
ASTUTE OBSERVER should be able to understand that Loser Donald is a small,
petty man. His second tantrum of the day was directed – and Trump has done this
before – at a man who had just passed away, reminding us yet again that Trump
is devoid of any shreds of human decency. His “target” this time was the
deceased Gen. Colin Powell, a decorated combat officer, architect of the quick
Gulf War victory in 1991, and Secretary of State in the George W. Bush
administration. No-Class Don decided it would be fun to insult the memory of a
man who had just died, as he had done before, following the passing of Sen.
John McCain and Rep. John Dingle. In Dingle’s case, the president intimated
that he might be “looking up” from his place in hell.
Once again,
the hurt Trump felt deeply, was the
hurt he felt for himself. Powell might have gone to the Great Beyond, and his
family might be mourning. Trump couldn’t have cared less. He couldn’t let his
hurt go. This was all about him. First, he chastised the free press. “Wonderful to see
Colin Powell, who made big mistakes on Iraq and famously, so-called weapons of
mass destruction, be treated in death so beautifully by the Fake News Media,” he
whined. “Hope that happens to me someday. He was a classic RINO, if even that,
always being the first to attack other Republicans. He made plenty of mistakes,
but anyway, may he rest in peace!”
The problem with that formulation is that the
only Republican Powell ever attacked was Trump himself – whereas, as we have
seen above, and will see in a moment below, bashing other Republicans is just
what Donald does. As a man of honor, Gen. Powell had long since admitted his
mistake in supporting claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction. Such claims were used, of course, to justify the invasion of Iraq eighteen
years ago. Powell had served in and been wounded in Vietnam, unlike Trump.
Trump had once claimed he faced his own
Vietnam, by risking contracting STD’s and having sex with multiple
women, while others dodged bullets and bombs, and tried not to trigger booby
traps overseas. Trump had attacked Powell before, just not while his family was
at his gravesite. After Gen. Powell endorsed Biden in 2020, No-Class Don tweeted: “Colin
Powell, a real stiff who was very responsible for getting us into the
disastrous Middle East Wars, just announced he will be voting for another
stiff, Sleepy Joe Biden. Didn’t Powell say that Iraq had ‘weapons of mass
destruction?’ They didn’t, but off we went to WAR!”
Trump called Powell
“highly overrated,” for good measure, in the same way, when he got mad, he called
Gen. James Mattis, his first Secretary of Defense, the “world’s most overrated
general.”
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“Ruining America, right alongside Communist
Democrats.”
WE’VE SAID all
this before. Trump has zero class. Trump cannot feel empathy. No president has ever
hated more individuals and more broad swaths of the U.S. population. If we
stick to just Republicans, the list of those Trump came to hate is long and his
favorite insult is to call them RINOs. In the wake of the massacre in El Paso,
in 2019, Dee Margo, the Republican mayor warned Trump he was spreading false
information about crime in that city. Naturally, Mayor Margo got hit with the RINO label, albeit in
private. The “Little” insult aimed at Sasse reminded me of a time Trump
attacked former GOP Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, as “Liddle Bob Corker,” giving his
response another juvenile twist. In the fevered mind of Donald J. Trump, Rep. Liz Cheney is a RINO. So is former
Attorney General Bill Barr (who did
more to derail the Mueller Report than any other human on earth). Barr’s
predecessor, Jeff Sessions never got the RINO tag, but Trump made up for it by
calling him “slime.” Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson was tagged as a “lightweight RINO.” That’s worse than a garden
variety RINO, right?
Still. It’s
better than “slime.”
Trump is a
born hater and attacking others is one of his sinister skills. When the Washington
Post reported on December 4, 2020, that 25 Republicans in Congress had
acknowledged that Joe Biden won the November election, Trump labeled them all
RINOs and howled about how he wanted the list. When 17 Republican senators
advanced the Biden infrastructure bill, Trump slapped all 17 (we have some
duplicates on these two lists) as RINOs, and said they were “ruining America,
right alongside Communist Democrats.” This time, both senators from North
Dakota, both from Idaho, Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska and Sen. Rob Portman of
Ohio got tagged. So did Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of the
greatest Trump bootlickers in all this land. Every one of these lawmakers had
been a Republican for longer than Trump, himself.
Logic, of
course, has never been Rejected-President Trump’s forte. Hatred is. And Trump hates
a lengthy list of fellow Republicans. That list would include former President
George W. Bush, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, former Sen. Jeff Flake, Rep.
Adam Kinzinger, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, former GOP Rep.
Justin Amash (now an independent), Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, and all the state
officials who said the Georgia vote in 2020 election was legit, particularly Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. Trump tagged longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove as both a
RINO and a “pompous fool.” Former GOP Congressman Joe Scarborough, now an MSNBC
host, got accused (without a shred of proof) of having committed murder.
Because hate and not facts is what fuels Mr. Trump. Sen. John Cornyn ended up being
called a “weak and ineffective” RINO after he made it clear he wouldn’t be
supporting Trump’s efforts last January to stop the imaginary steal. When Trump
called Maryland Governor Larry Hogan a RINO three weeks after the election, Hogan fired back nicely,
tweeting, “Stop golfing and concede.”
With this
herd of RINOs stampeding across America, you had to wonder. Who would Donald blast
next?
Abraham
Lincoln?
Trump went
on to claim that Sen. Cassidy “begged” for his endorsement in 2020, “begging”
being one of the ex-president’s favorite words of insult. He clearly believes it
makes a critic sound weak. Save for him, Trump hinted, Cassidy would have
failed in hopes of re-election – which is illogical in itself.
“Now, Wacky
Bill Cassidy can’t walk down the street in Louisiana, a State I won by almost
20 points,” Trump claimed. “He could not even be elected dog catcher today, the
great people curse him.”
“Wacky,”
and the “dog catcher” line are also Trump go-to favorites when he’s hurling the
slurs.
And for
fun, we should point out that Cassidy won his race in 2020 by twenty-one
points.
Out of
office now just shy of nine months, Trump is still as small as ever.
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NOT ALL POLITICIANS are alike, and politics matters. The U.S. Senate votes, 52-48, to confirm Dr. Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services. Levine, a four-star admiral, becomes the first openly transgender individual to serve in the Cabinet. Only two Republicans join the majority and the other 48 announce they will continue to stir up as much fear of the transgender population as possible.
Hey, who’s that peeing in the next bathroom stall! Run! Go load up your AR-15!!
LGBTQ advocacy organizations applaud the vote. Many religious groups, which form the GOP base, hate it.
FUN FACT: Trump does have his fans,
including Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Like Trump, Gaetz has zero class. In a since-deleted tweet he too took a cheap shot at
Gen. Powell, who succumbed to the coronavirus even though he had been fully vaccinated.
“Post-vaccine breakthrough infection kills more people than Iraq’s WMD’s ever
did,” Rep. Gaetz sneered. Sneering being one of his skills. (See: 10/20/21.)
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