Fucko supporters couldn't be happier. So much so some of them have gone blind. From Slate...
"Brian Schaffner and Samantha Luks asked 1,388 Americans questions about inauguration crowd sizes after showing participants two pictures -- one from Obama's 2009 inauguration and one from Trump's. They asked half of the participants which (unlabeled) photo was from which inauguration and found that 41 percent of Trump supporters picked wrong. That was not terribly surprising. But the question they asked the second half of participants revealed something scary: They asked these people to just assess which photo showed more people. A full 15 percent of Trump supporters said his inauguration displayed more people, despite looking at direct photographic evidence to the contrary."
The Right Wing forum members are also positively giddy about how quickly Fucko is churning out the executive orders. And it's about fuckin' gawdamned time too! They've waited years for this sh*t to come around. The speed in which Fucko is ripping apart the Constitution is reminiscent of how burglars have always worked. Break in, grab the cash, jewels, and silver, and get out before the cops arrive. But Fucko's gang is also the police force. What's the rush? Nobody is going to get nabbed.
I think they're hurrying everything along as fast as possible before any opposition can be mounted. Freedom of the press in Germany was abolished one month after Hitler became chancellor. He moved fast too.
Republicans have been waiting to gut the country since FDR signed the Social Security Act in 1935. They have seen more than enough of their tax money go to poor people and it drives them crazy. They don't mind the hundreds of billions in the budget that go towards the military. That cash will directly or indirectly end up back in their pockets anyway. They lust after the money that goes toward education, veteran's benefits, Medicare, Social Security, protecting the environment, and welfare. That's their money and they want all of it back. And finally finally FINALLY ... the Republicans got a demagogue to rally the rubes and win the presidency.
Fucko is too dim-witted to realize he's just their meat puppet and they'll only let him play at dictator as long as he's useful. The moment it looks like Fucko is a liability, they'll dump him. And Pence -- that great Christian American maniac -- will take over. Fundamentalist Christians are as dumb as a bag of hammers. Anyone who believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old will buy a ton of horseshit as long as it's Christian horseshit.
As much as comedians looked forward to a Fucko presidency ... the joke's on them. He's not funny. I heard one comic say about Fucko, "He's written a new book. It's called Mein Kampf is Bigger Than Your Kampf." Dictators and puppet dictators just aren't funny. When Lewis Black refers to Fucko as Orange Julius (pause) Caesar ... I smile, but I don't laugh. It's too f*cking grim.
I have a friend who lives in the middle of Goddamned Nowhere California. He wrote:
"People, you know, make mistakes when they're doing something, like a home improvement project or some kind of car repair, or electrical hookup, and just before they fire the thing up, when they think they've got everything covered and ready to go, they suddenly see that mistake and think 'Holy sh*t, this is all wrong.' Of course, they then have to stop, rework the plan and fix the mistake.
"But what if some mysterious mind-control entity paralyzes them, and in a zombie-like stupor they do fire the thing up and it does completely fail, even though they know it will fail. Can it be? Can it happen to a whole country? And what is that mysterious mind-control entity?
"Now, you're in Canada, but maybe that only gives you two or three years lead time. Still, two or three years is two or three years.
"... The Italian Partisans, with typical restraint and good taste, strung up Il Duce and his girlfriend. Adolph assassinated himself. But look what it took. Still, that's what people want to see, and that's what must happen."
I think haggling over the exact time of death gives us a false sense of control. Regardless of how accurate we can pinpoint the moment of the demise ... it only proves we're very good historians but terrible revivalists. So ultimately, unless there's a plot twist I'm not aware of ... I'm not interested in a stage by stage analysis of how the corpse of democracy rots. As Gene Wilder concisely said in Young Frankenstein, "Dead is dead!"
We've been living in Canada for the last five years. Fucko is not the leader of our country. When I think about The United States of America, I think about the second summer we lived here.
We were at a concert on the Vancouver waterfront. The orchestra was warming up when suddenly I heard a child wail. I looked over and saw that a little girl had lost her balloon. It was a blue balloon, darker than the blue sky. The air was almost completely still. The balloon rose higher and higher until I could barely see it. Finally, the blue of the balloon and the blue of the sky blurred together and it was gone.
The moment the string slipped from her fingers the balloon was gone. No one was tall enough, or fast enough, or could jump high enough, to grab the string. It was gone. But for a very long while we could still see it. Higher and higher ... farther and farther ... smaller and smaller ... until it vanished.
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