September 9-11: 2017: Republican Party Now a "Cult of Personality."

 

9/9/17: Trump spends the day rattling the GOP establishment. Angered by “disloyalty” on the part of lawmakers who fail to do his bidding, he pushes for primary challenges in 2018. 

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“It’s a cult of personality. He’s fundamentally, at the core, about Donald Trump.” 

Rep. Mark Sanford

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Three moderate GOP members of the House of Representatives decide serving time in the time of Trump isn’t worth the misery and pain. They announce plans to retire. Mark Sanford, a fourth, describes the dilemma his party faces. “It’s a cult of personality.” Trump doesn’t care about party or principles. “He’s fundamentally, at the core, about Donald Trump.” 

True that.

BLOGGER’S NOTE: As far as that “cult of personality goes,” it’s not even a good personality. (See: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, 10/25/17.) 

White House Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly will later describe Trump as the “most flawed” person he ever met. 

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9/10/17: Hurricane Irma flattens the Florida Keys. It moves north slowly, pulverizing homes and bringing storm surge and flooding all the way up the coast to Jacksonville. Damage estimates range from $50 billion to $100 billion. (See: 8/31/17.) 

At one point, Irma is 420 miles wide, more than twice as wide as Ohio.

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9/11/17: The United States marks sixteen years since the attacks on New York and Washington and the downing of Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Trump speaks at a memorial service and manages not to insult anyone.

Trump vs. Jemele Hill.

 

Meanwhile, ESPN host Jemele Hill excoriates him in a series of tweets. “Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/other white supremacists,” reads one. 

“Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period,” she tweets again. 

“He is unqualified and unfit to be president,” a third reads. Well, at least we still live in a country that honors free speech. (See: 9/13-14/17.)

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September 27, 2021: Ford to Build Four Electric Vehicle Plants

 

9/27/21: Gloom settles over Mar-a-Lago, as recounts and court cases and common sense build a clear case against Loser Donald. 

He didn’t win last November. 

He’s still a loser.

 

Meanwhile, Ford Motors bows to reality. Climate change is not a hoax. The company announces plans to build four new factories in Kentucky and Tennessee. The focus will be on the development of electric vehicles, including battery technology. These will be the first four completely new plants Ford has built in the last half century. Billions of dollars will go into the projects, and the main facility in Tennessee will create an estimated 6,000 jobs. Even better, President Biden did not brag about how he created all those jobs on hearing the news. 

Ford is getting into the electric truck business.

 

FUN FACT: Loser Donald really wants to ensure that Rep. Liz Cheney is ousted when she runs for reelection to Congress next year. That means he’s backing Harriet Hageman in the Republican primary to come. 

This tickles the blogger, because in 2016, Hageman rightly warned that if the GOP turned to Trump the party would be saddled with “somebody who is racist and xenophobic.” 

True, that. 

Hageman explains her anti-Trump stand in 2016 this way, although she seems to end up admitting she was a dupe. As The New York Times explains, she now says, 

I heard and believed the lies the Democrats and Liz Cheney’s friends in the media were telling at the time, but that is ancient history as I quickly realized that their allegations against President Trump were untrue. He was the greatest president of my lifetime, and I am proud to have been able to renominate him in 2020. And I’m proud to strongly support him today.