Boy, I’m sick of Trump being so reckless in his ad-libs and of the mainstream media’s deceit and disgusting double standards. The second I read Trump’s quote to a gathering of religious conservatives at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by the conservative group Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach —“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians!”—I knew exactly how the Axis would spin it, and I was right. Harris pounced, the Times pounced (then they changed the heading to provide the context after the initial story ran), CNN pounced, they all pounced. See? There will never be another election if Trump wins! He just admitted it!
Assholes. The former President was talking about how Christian conservatives aren’t motivated to go to the polls as often as they should—I never heard that before—so he said that if they all vote just this once, he’ll fix everything in four years so they don’t have to bother voting again. He was not saying they wouldn’t be able to vote again, of course. It was a stupid thing to say but not a sinister thing to say. And journalists really think that Trump supporters don’t care if they never get to vote again. They have such disdain for the “little people.”
Anyone who isn’t Trump-Deranged or determined to use anything Trump says to prove he’s Hitler could understand what he meant. But nah. The news media is committed to pretending Harris hasn’t said what she has said that is genuinely scary, and distorts what Trump says to make it seem scary when it’s just harmless, typical Trump blather.
This is how you rig an election.
And they know it.
Of course, Trump is an asshole too. He’s done this so many times before; the man has the flattest learning curve in political history. There was the sloppy Charlottesville comment that Biden has lied about ever since. There was the “bloodbath” line: Biden (and others) keep lying about that one too no matter how many times it has been explained. Then there was Trump’s statement to Hannity that he would “only be a dictator on Day One”, when he would “dictate” that we close the border and “drill, drill, drill.” How did the news media report this? “Trump says He’ll Be a Dictator on Day One.”
Yes, they are despicable, yes they are unethical, yes they distort, lie and set out to mislead the public—but Trump knows that. Why does he keep handing them easily manipulated rhetoric to lie about?
In related news, the New York Times thought it was newsworthy that one of Trump’s nephews decided to cash in during an election years and author a Trump-smearing book. Naturally it has sensational and damning accounts of what this creep claims he “heard” Trump say, because no publisher would give him an advance or publish the thing if it didn’t have stuff like that in it. Relatives and associates who sell out and cash in like this are scum no matter who the victim is, and nothing they say or write should be regarded as anything but the attempt of a desperate low-life to exploit a relationship with someone famous for 15 minutes of fame and fast cash.
Let’s see how many accounts the Times publishes from all of the angry, abused and disgruntled ex-employees Kamala Harris has accumulated over the years. My guess is that the first one will turn up some time in 2025.
Ethics Alarms 
As I commented to my best friend:
“The next four years I think will be very interesting for evangelical political interest.
Trump certainly required them to win in 2016. And he paid back their support with the 3 SCOTUS justices.
He’s going to have their vote this year.
But he won’t have any reason to appeal to them in his lame duck session.
And if his attempt at re-crafting the GOP is the one that holds, it will be interesting what level of tolerance evangelicals will have for issues they care about to be diminished in that re-crafting.”
It’s seeming that the evangelical vote isn’t as easily loyal as I thought if he’s having to pander that blatantly. But even this bloc (which I’m part of, but not in an electorally determinative way) is concerned about the direction of the ongoing two party shake up.
Sure it is a weirdly stupid line but how do they get past the four more years part. That part tells me that he will be there for only four years.
Well, of course. And the journalists and Democrats who are claiming the quite means what it doesn’t know that. They just think they can convince enough stupid, lazy, apathetic citizens who believe whatever the news media tells them to make the lie worthwhile.
I wonder whether maybe all they’re succeeding in doing is confirming the biases of the Trump Deranged. Maybe we underestimate the native intelligence of Trump voters. They know enough to discount everything the media say. Which reminds me, I just saw the “Defund the Media” sticker we bought a while ago. I need to put it on the back of our car.
Oh, there are plenty of people who haven’t focused on the election and are vulnerable to all the fear-mongering about how Trump will end democracy. At least, Democratic strategists think so.
I thought the same thing when I read he’d said “it will be the last time you have to vote.” As we know, he loves BSing with an audience. He has a flat learning curve when it comes to politics because he’s not a politician. He’s a manager who wants to fix a bunch of problems he sees. He doesn’t want to be a successful politician; he wants to fix what he sees is wrong with the country. He doesn’t have time to learn how to be a successful, professional election winner. He’s in a hurry.
There’s something about Trump that really blows my mind; he walks around with no less than a dozen of his own feet in his mouth and an arrogant smile plastered to his face and then he opens his mouth and shoves in more feet and his political followers seem to exude a “thank you sir, may I have another” attitude. I just don’t get it.