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Vote Against The Crook, It’s Important: He Hates America

If it’s Tuesday, it must be the twenty-fourth and penultimate installment in the series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race. It was the most intense electoral experience of my life; formative too, it gave me an intense dislike of all forms of extremism.

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.

The latest reason to vote against the crook is that he hates the country he presumes to lead. It’s driven by his Xenophobia and nostalgia for an America that never existed except on venerable sitcoms like Leave It To Beaver or Father Knows Best. Tucker Carlson may think Trump is our daddy, but sane people do not:

I remember when the Mothertucker hated the Insult Comedian. He needs him now that he’s been shitcanned by Fox and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Elon Musk. BTW, I agree with Tim Walz that Elmo is a dispshit.

As the campaign has rolled on, Trump’s rhetoric has grown more extreme:

“Former president Donald Trump painted a dark picture of the United States under the Biden administration at a campaign rally here Thursday, comparing the country to “a garbage can for the world” because of illegal border crossings.

 

“First time I’ve ever said ‘garbage can,’” Trump said. “But you know what? It’s a very accurate description.”

Presidents are supposed to be the patriot in chief. Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama understood that, so does Kamala Harris. The Kaiser of Chaos does not. Challengers usually criticize the incumbent’s record, not the country itself. He’s been doing it since 2015. The malakatude, it burns.

The theme of Trump’s inaugural address was not uplifting like Jack Kennedy’s:

Trump’s inaugural was intended to scare the shit out of both supporters and detractors:

Why the difference? Jack Kennedy loved America. Donald Trump hates it.

One of Trump’s 2016 mantras was: Only I can fix it. It should have been: Only I can fuck it up. That’s what Trump is, a fuck up. What else can you call a guy who lost money running a casino but a fuck up.

Speaking of Kennedys, Trump recently pledged to let Jack’s idiot nephew Bobby Junior attack our health care system:

“I’m going to let him go wild on health, I’m going to let him go wild on the food, I’m going to let him go wild on medicines”

Bobby Junior isn’t the only one with a brain worm.

I feel the need for a musical interlude:

Trump fails to appreciate the gravity of his remarks. Did he conflate gravy with gravity? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Earlier this year, I wrote a post that compared Trump to Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, MAGA Yippie. That was when some of the dimmer bulbs on the left actually thought the Democratic convention in Chicago would be a bloodbath just like 1968. They were wrong about that, but I was right about this:

Performative politics is, of course, Trump’s jam. He may not know much about history but Steve Bannon does. Bannon is influenced by the New Left of the 1960’s, especially the Yippies. Like Bannon and Trump, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin were nihilists who wanted to burn the system down. They were motivated by animus to the Vietnam War whereas Trump’s arsonist tendencies are rooted in his selfish desire to stay out of jail. Either way, he’s a MAGA Yippie.”

Steve Bannon was released from jail today. He’s bound to like the tone of the Trump campaign. Bannon does not deny his inner fascist, he embraces it. He hates America too.

The most dangerous manifestation of Trump’s America hate is his dictator love. His idea of a foreign policy is palling around with dictators. He even had the balls to give Putin a ball at the infamous Helsinki summit at which he definitively pledged his troth to Putin.

Trump also had the balls to tell Joe Rogan that Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were the “enemy within” and more dangerous than his little buddy Kim Jong-Un. The only real enemy within is an Insult Comedian with a dead nutria pelt atop his head.

Repeat after me: Vote against the crook because he hates America. Only patriots should live in the White House.

The last word goes to Jefferson Airplane: