MAGA’s Creed

Decades before Trump, M*A*S*H’s Major Frank Burns articulated today’s MAGA Cult’s Creed:

“The way I see it, if we don’t all march in step, if we don’t do as we’re told, if we don’t
follow our leaders (Donald) blindly, there’s no hope of saving our freedom.”

 

The Human Dilemma

                              Wisdom ————- Ignorance

                              Compassion ——- Superstition

                               Courage ———— Fear

                                Love —————– Anger

Looking For Love

In Johnny Lee’s lyrics, Donald Trump is “looking for love in all the wrong places.”  For the erstwhile President, love is business, The Art of the Deal.

In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Niece Mary L. Trump, Ph.D., chronicles how Donald’s emotionally alien parents raised a child bereft of love.  A gnawing awareness of this lack, of never experiencing life’s most essential human relationship, morphed into searching for love in appearances love.

Donald’s buying the Miss Universe Organization and three “arm candy” wives are iconic.  The tawdrier level includes wife Ivana’s accused him of rape, conviction for of raping E. Jean Carol, probable sexual trysts with Story Daniels and Karen McDougal, the infamous “grab ‘em by the pussy” boast, and cherished “Love Letters“—doubtless the only Donald ever received—from North Korean despot Kim Jung Un. 

Today a lonely, lovelorn old man faces the consequences of looking for love in all the wrong places.

Deportation: Joe v Don

On the heels of the House’s bogus impeachment and Senate’s refusal to convict Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas of failing to secure America’s borders, the fact is, yearly and in-total, Joe Biden’s Administration has deported tens-of-thousands more who do not meet America’s residency statutes than Donald Trump’s Administration deported.

Karl Rove on January 6

At the January 31–February 2, 2024, Rancho Mirage Writers Festival, archconservative Karl Rove voiced thought about the January 6, 2021, assault on America’s Capitol, Congress, and Constitution.  Donald Trump’s fans might find the Republican icon’s transcribed comments instructive:

“If (Biden’s campaign) were smart, they would take the January 6 and go hard at it.  And they would say, ‘He wants to pardon the people who attacked our Capitol.’

“I worked in that building as a young man.  To me the Congress of the United States is one of the great examples of the strength of our democracy and a jewel of the Constitution.  And what those people did when they violently attacked the Capitol in order to stop a Constitutionally mandated meeting of the Congress to accept the results of the Electoral College is a stain on our history, and every one of those sons-of-bitches who did that, we ought to find them and send them to jail.

“And one of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Trump has now said, ‘I’m going to pardon those people because they’re “hostages.”’  No they’re not!  They’re thugs!  Those people, some of them had automatic weapons at a hotel in Virginia hoping to  be called up.  We had people saying, ‘Where is Nancy Pelosi?’  We had people who were, you know, taking desks and siting at the desk of the Speaker of the House, and attempting to find people to bring them to justice, and saying, yelling at the police, saying, ‘Kill them.  Kill them all!’

“And so, what Trump has done is beyond me.  He could have said, ‘You know what?  I trust our jury system.  I trust law enforcement.  Anybody who assaulted the capital ought to be’—I mean he said it once or twice—but now he’s got, he’s appearing in a venue with people who assaulted police officers with an intent to take the Capitol by force.

“So, you know what?  I‘m a Republican.  I don’t want a Democrat President.  I want to have a Republican President.  But, we’re facing as a country and as citizens.  And you know what?  Everybody gets to make it, as to what kind of leadership we’re going to have, and to me it is a mistake on the part of the Trump campaign to allow the President’s impulses to identify himself with the people or assaulted the Capitol rather than people who stand for law and order.”

Behind Karl’s sincere and high-minded respect for America’s Capitol and Institutions, and his puzzlement at Trump’s failure to call for the rule of law to hold the rioters accountable—the cockroach in Rove’s rational soup—is his failure to appreciate that President Donald J.  Trump orchestrated and ordered the “sons-of-bitches” to attack our Capitol, Congress, and Constitution!

Footnote: Every January 6 “hostage” was tried in a court of law and found guilty by a jury of their peers. 

On Easter

Along with millions of Christians, on Easter Sunday President Joe and First Lady Jill attended church.

Bible peddler Donald celebrated the Resurrection with 77 tortured, hate-filled, online screeds.

What a poor, sad mind.

Gaming the System

To forestall chaos and controversy, football, baseball, basketball, and other “games” are played according to mutually accepted rules.  Umpires, referees, and other “officials” ensure the rules are enforced.  On and off the court or field, contestants never resort to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening an umpire, referee, or other official.

Likewise, cultures function according to mutually accepted rules or “laws.”  Magistrates, judges, and justices ensure the laws are enforced.  In and outside the courtroom, citizens never resorted to character assassination, name-calling, slandering, and threatening magistrates, judges, or justices—before Donald John Trump!

I am puzzled by the motive behind Donald’s egregious, outlandish, assaults on judges, their family, and staff.  By intimidating and threatening umpires and referees a rogue coach might seek to ensure his team’s infractions are ignored.  By intimidating and threatening judges and jurors a rogue ex-President seeks to ensure that judges rule in his favor and jurors absolve his of alleged crimes. 

Until now, witness intimidation, jury tampering, and judge bribing were perhaps more common than we like to believe, but clandestine.  Today, Donald’s blatant attempts to game the system are open and notorious!

About Energy

At ages 81 and 77, do Joe Biden or Donald Trump possess the mental acuity to lead America, indeed the Free World?  Proponents and opponents point to candidates’ pronouncements seeming to reflect a grasp of the facts or delusions and lies. 

In less than a month I will have ridden Ol’ Earth around Ol’ Sol 87 times.  I like to believe my blog demonstrates that octogenarians are not always doddering old fools.  Some exhibit the cognitive dexterity to tackle and express reasoned consideration of thorny issues. 

For me the larger challenge posed by being President of the United States of America is having the energy, the physical strength, to perform its day-to-day tasks: the meetings, travel, speeches, rallies!

I am awed by Joe’s and Donald’s apparent stamina!  Their exertions appear to flow from a gut-level determination which very few of us, certainly I do not, possess.