If it’s Tuesday, it must be the tenth installment in the weekly series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race.
A reminder of the unofficial slogan of the race from hell:
In 2024, we’re flipping that on its head and voting AGAINST the crook. It’s even more important.
This week’s reason to vote against the crook is his alarming tendency to channel Adolf Hitler on the stump. Trump insists that he’s never read Mein Kampf, which I believe because he only reads books about himself. There is, however, the old story that he kept a volume of Hitler speeches on his nightstand. Is it true? Beats the hell outta me but it’s plausible given his rhetoric.
Speaking of pictures, the good people at Meidas Touch News created this nifty photo montage thingamabob:
Not only is Trump a racist asshole, he’s a throwback racist asshole with his rants about communists. There are still American commies? Who knew? I thought the only ones were the writers and readers of The Jacobin, which is The Onion of the miniscule Marxist set.
I know the Kaiser of Chaos has never dived into the turgid prose of Mein Kampf, but Stephens Miller and Bannon have. They’re behind the Nazi Lite message of the Trump campaign. Bannon is one of the most influential people on the far right. He’s kept his promise to “flood the zone with shit.” That flood of shit is one reason Americans are in such a vile mood this election season. Wading through shit is not fun.
Do I think Trump is a bona fide Nazi? I think he’ll do whatever it takes to win the 2024 election so he can call off his stalled federal trials. He’s cornered and desperate people do desperate shit, which means he deserves this:
I’ve never punched a Nazi, but I’m told it feels good. Trump also deserves the Moe Howard treatment:
Not even Moe could slap any sense into Donald Trump.
Back to the roots of this series. David Duke, of course, is a Nazi who would the dig the Unified Reich video. Duke is a Holocaust denier who celebrates Hitler’s birthday every year. I have no idea what if anything Donald Trump believes in other than himself. He’s like a small child pulling the wings off flies, only in his case the flies are an entire country. Stop pulling, asshole.
Repeat after me: Vote against the Hitler quoting crook, it’s important.
The last word goes to Elvis Costello followed by Todd Rundgren:
Programming Note: I’ll be back either later today or some time tomorrow with my thoughts on the closing arguments in the Trump porn star hush money election interference trial.