What Happens To A Useful Idiot Who Becomes A Useless Idiot?

Having served his Master's purpose, not wisely or particularly well--but wholeheartedly--Donald J. Trump finds, much to his surprise that his Master no longer has any use for him.

Oops.

This must be causing some concern in whatever parts of Traitor Don's brain that are still semi-functional.

All that treason for naught. #SAD.

Sure, he will sooner or later be confronted with a bevy of New York state charges. And there's a pretty good chance that he will face a few Federal charges as well.

Sure, he will probably lose everything.

Sure, his beloved (well at least one of them is beloved) older children may all go to prison, too.

But he's spent his entire adult life bullshitting in court, drawing out law suits, dissembling, lying, bribing, blackmailing, and threatening people.

And somewhere in that low wattage brain of his, he's no doubt convinced himself that he will skate once more. Because he always has before.

The thing is, though, that his Master doesn't care about any of that.

No, his Master plays a brutally straight forward game of Realpolitik. Not a lot of grey areas. Not a lot of nuance.

The question is, will his Master be content to bury him under an avalanche of the Kompromat that they've been collecting for many years?

Of course, it could be something more dramatic. More final. More in keeping with his Master's M.O.

So, my advice to Donald J. Trump is "Don't drink the tea."

Or do. No one really gives a fuck anymore.

What Fresh Hell Is This?

A sometime contributor to The Arizona Republic, Jon Gabriel, who publishes something called Ricochet, which from all appearances is just chock full of Conservative/Libertarian nonsense, recently wrote an opinion piece for the paper stating that he thinks Kamala Harris isn't cut out to be Vice President. With that sentiment in mind, perhaps we should recall some of her predecessors:

Richard Nixon was Eisenhower's veep. Enough said.

Spiro Agnew was Nixon's veep. And, quelle surprise, a convicted crook. Birds of a feather, I guess. 

 

Gerald Ford replaced Agnew and all he did was pardon Mr. I Am Not A Crook for his various crimes.

 

George H.W. Bush was neck deep in Iran-Contra while the Great Communicator and Mommy consulted their astrologist. 

 

Dan Quayle was out spelled by a child. 

 

Dick "The Dark Lord" Cheney gleefully led George "Simple W." Bush deeper into the Middle East abyss that we still haven't emerged from.

 

And Mike Pence was last seen cuddling up to the man whose followers desperately wanted to hang him not so long ago. Grovel much?

 

Quite a list, huh? All they have in common was their white maleness, their sterling Conservative Credentials, and that "R" beside their names. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Not cut out for? Don't make me laugh.

 

In Too Deep

There's an old saying attributed to Will Rogers, "if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."

Apparently, the Republican Party never learned that lesson.

They continue to spread Trumpie the Clown's Big Lie.

They refuse to sanction an investigation into the insurrection on January 6th.

They encourage fake election "audits" in various states.

They keep lying....about everything.

These are all losing gambits.

And yet, they persist.

Why?

Because, like criminals everywhere, at some point they find themselves in too deep to stop.

For many years, the Goons on Parade party has been run like The Mob, complete with an omerta.

They've taken huge, yoog, amounts of money from various sources--including the Russian government. And people don't give you that much money and expect nothing in return, now do they?

They've undermined our alliances with our allies and encouraged our enemies.

Practically every Republican in Congress has been tainted. 

Practically every Republican in Congress is complicit.

Their crimes are so many, and so antithetical to American Democracy, that were they all exposed, the Republican Party would quite simply cease to exist.

There is no turning back from this sort of, oh, let's call it TREASON.

So, best to keep digging. Keep shoveling as much shit as they can, to try and confuse the issues. Keep bleating about "unity" and "bi-partisanship", words that to a Republican mean "keep doing what we say and no one gets hurt."