Will bandaged ears become like crucifixes worn in His Name?
Donald Trump showed himself to the nation last night 07-15-24 to hosannas from the multitude. No one poked a finger into his side but, Hark! His near-miss survival of a bullet to the head not quite three days (51 hours) earlier is heralded as a modern-day miracle. Political loaves and fishes. The gift that keeps on giving.
Who was the last American political figure to have been … what’s the term? Destined for political immortality? Maybe Reagan, who (incidentally or not) was the last President — present or former — to get shot and be re-elected.
We’ve mocked the treacly porn depicting the risen Jesus Christ Himself embracing this equal opportunity sinner but hold on for the miracle of Stately Manor! Sez here that Donald Trump entering the hall the first night of the Republican national convention was an almost spiritual moment, his right ear bearing the bandages of his near martyrdom in place of wounds on hands and feet. The faithful are convinced that he took a bullet for them and, like John Cameron Swayze’s Timex watches, kept on fighting. The contrast is brutal: Mommy has to help his Democrat opponent down from the debate stage.
Rapturous as was the audience at Fiserve Forum in Milwaukee — we could feel it pulsating from our b&w Philco — Trump the man was uncharacteristically subdued, even a little Zenlike. If stagecraft, it was effective. If sincere, maybe there was a Come to Jesus moment in that Pennsylvania farm country. (Jesus did consort with prostitutes and laborers.) Who can naysay a near-death experience?
When Trump took a seat in his box, he wasn’t quite misty-eyed, but you could see a degree of gratitude and emotion in his eyes rarely seen in a public appearance. — The Dispatch
Uncharitably (for that is our mien), Joe Biden keeps getting smaller and smaller. Honey, I shrunk the presidency. Like those political cartoons of Jimmy Carter barely peering over the Resolute desk. The President’s sudden ubiquity all over television smells like desperation. Do-over! Do-over! (Wasn’t that Joe working those foot exercise machines for those Ellipse commercials?) The Dispatch (no MAGA outlet) again:
While the primetime events were getting underway in Milwaukee, NBC News aired an uncut interview with President Joe Biden. … The result was hardly helpful to Biden. The 18-minute interview with anchor Lester Holt featured a President still struggling to answer questions fluidly, complete sentences and ideas, and even get basic facts correct.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: The adulation for Trump is in inverse proportion to the sense of resignation, regret, and even resentment against Biden. From his own Democrats! Right now, they’re looking for their own savior.
10 responses to “He is risen, isn’t he?!”
“The 18-minute interview with anchor Lester Holt featured a President still struggling to answer questions fluidly, complete sentences and ideas, and even get basic facts correct.”
Knowing your…um…feelings about unconfirmed unsubstantiated explanations pulled from the nether regions (“Must everything be a conspiracy?“), you think DementiaJoKe’s being fattened up for slaughter?
The Gotch
Nikki Haley just endorsed Donald Trump, for the sake of the nation. Sooo……, will all those Haley fans finally stop with their TDS?
Y’all…hello, checking in here as a former Democrat a sort of penance. Milwaukee tonight (Tues.) was an absolutely amazing convention night…. one of the best ever. Tomorrow with Vance will be something else, probably. Thursday night (like this past Satirday) will be truly a historic evening. Hear me and hear me well: There is ONLY 1 responsible voting choice this November. They won’t be able to steal it this time.
“checking in here as a former Democrat a sort of penance.”
A former (non-participating as we say at the meetings) Lefty himself, while on a run a while back The Gotch noticed a sign that said “democrat puppies for sale;” figuring the seller was just a product of MMSD INDOCTRICATION, he pressed on.
Running past the house a week later, the sign read “Republican puppies for sale.”
When asked about the difference from last week to this week, the seller said: “They opened their eyes.”
The Gotch’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitress…
The Gotch
Come on, man. Nobody wanna talk to me???
Donald Trump is turning the wine into champagne, even as the Democrats are finally spitting out the Kool-ade.
From Xwitter @RobertMSterling:
It’s amazing how many “legacy” conservatives—writers and old-school bloggers who came to prominence 20 years ago, during the Bush II era—simply don’t get it still. You could see it in their reactions to JD Vance getting selected as running mate, ranging from muted to disappointed to exasperated. These are guys who support Trump and the New Right movement only incidentally and reluctantly, as the least bad option currently available to them. They’re not enthusiastic about having to do so, and they’re still hoping—yearning, even—for a return to the Republican Party of old, governed by Reagan’s tripartite coalition of Chamber of Commerce business conservatives, national security hawks, and Falwell-era Christian conservatives. These people still—after nearly a decade!—view Trump and his associated movement as a fad. An unruly teenage period that will one day pass, after which the adults in the party can lead the GOP back to its respectable roots, and modern-day conservatives will learn proper reverence for the ideology of Ronald Reagan (born 1911) and William F. Buckley (born 1925). Here’s what they either don’t get or refuse to come to terms with: That conservative movement is dead. It died because it simply didn’t work, and it’s a death well-deserved. It died when George W. Bush, the spiritual—and biological—heir of the movement launched an unnecessary war that left thousands of Americans, most of them from working-class backgrounds, dead or maimed on the streets of Iraq. It died when conservatives offered no solutions for the economic malaise affecting middle-class families aside from the standard tactic of cutting taxes, largely for those in the top 0.1% of households. It died when the GOP didn’t do anything meaningful to address the crisis at the southern border or the crisis from the opioid epidemic. It died when the GOP happily supported an agenda of offshoring and deindustrialization, to free up capital to return to the likes of Charles Koch, Mitt Romney, and private equity investors. It died for countless reasons like these, and it is never coming back. Ever. Despite this reality, evident to all but the most oblivious DC think-tank staffers, there remains a faction of the conservative movement that still blithely believes the future lies with the likes of Nikki Haley, Marco Rubio, or Ted Cruz. Intellectual descendants of the Bush clan, who still get their stale ideas from the yellowed pages of old print copies of the National Review. Establishment figures more than happy to return to a platform of foreign entanglement and domestic stagnation. JD Vance, a working-class 39-year-old Iraq veteran, represents the long-term entrenchment of the New Right within the Republican Party, and he heralds the final demise of the legacy Reaganite movement. With JD as Vice President and heir to the GOP throne, a conservative agenda authentically focused on strengthening working-class families, middle-class communities, and an American economy that works for all stakeholders, not just we capital providers, becomes permanently enshrined. What the establishment hopes is a passing fad becomes a decades-long agenda. Because of JD’s youth, his eloquence, and his disregard for their failed ideology, this establishment may view him as an ever larger threat than they view Trump. I don’t think he minds their disdain. I welcome JD Vance’s ascendance. And hopefully the rest of the movement soon does as well.
I have found it interesting how both political parties have changed since the 60’s. From JFK and Barry Goldwater to Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I wonder how history will write this one or just write it the way they want it.
From Bob’s keyboard to God’s ear. I agree with all of this. It explains the RINO, reactionary “Oh give me your Romneys, your Paul Ryans, your reactionary Republicans yearning to vote for Reagan.”
My belief is that the dichotomy today is more of a Uniparty Swamp vs. the rest of us. I measure the validity of this model by the fear and loathing directed at President Trump.
Now that the Uniparty has fired its wad and ramrod Trump still stands strong and stronger with JD Vance. He is young, capable and I hope as honest as pols can be.
Trump/Vance are wonderfully opposite of Biden/Whatsername.
Oh frabjous day!
Longing for the old days is mostly an old white guy thing. Same guys are looking forward to seeing Foreigner at the county fair.
Here’s a hot take: young people struggling to make ends meet don’t give a shit about Democracy and other high falutin ideals. They care about inflation, crime, jobs, Taylor Swift, wars, etc.
Only the people who have it made talk about “saving democracy” blah blah blah. And Jesus if you support the Biden administration you should not be flapping your gums about democracy.
Watch for Ghost of Reagan on RNC stage tonight.