Trump supporters have heads of granite that not even a pile-driver can dent

 

After Mitch McConnell found his own “safe harbor” in acknowledging Joe Biden’s election victory after the Electoral College confirmed this fact, Donald Trump expressed his “disappointment” and disbelief that he could lose the election after having received 75 million votes. Actually, it was closer to 74 million, but in any case it was still not quite the over 81 million votes for Biden, a fact that Trump seems to relegate to the reptilian portion of his brain. For one thing, Trump also greatly benefitted from the voting changes in response to the pandemic; for another thing, if he thinks the votes he received is “tremendous,” then what the hell does he think 81 million is? Oh, yes, it had to be “fraudulent” because it was bigger than his number.

Meanwhile, that walking conspiracy theory, Sen. Ron Johnson, and the village idiot Rand Paul insisted on holding a committee hearing to somehow pretend that a margin of 7 million votes is not enough “proof” that the country has spoken. Save for a handful of senators and election officials, you could swap out Republicans with any Fox News, Newsmax and OAN conspiracy propagandist and you’d be hard-pressed to tell the difference.

Out on the streets, the extreme-right racist Proud Boys are no longer content to just “stand by” as Trump instructed them to, and over the weekend rampaged all over Washington DC to express their “discontent” over the Electoral College vote. If we had any other person as president, he would be calling for calm; but not this so-called president—he chooses to feed into it because he enjoys this kind of thuggish support—some of it armed—because it feeds into both his sense of power, and his sense of victimhood.

To people who are offended by those who are base, bigoted, braggarts and bullies, it is incomprehensible that a so-called human being who inhabits all four of those “qualities” could possibly be fit to lead anyone, let alone a whole country. Trump has managed to please tens of millions of people who he has provided “substance” to their hatreds and prejudices, people who never once think of the needs of those outside their insular social spheres; their “view” is the only “right” view no matter how much harm it causes.

I received a letter from a family member who lives in a very “red” southern state, and like the rest of the family is just as “red” in political and social believes. Not all are “radicals,” but when you regard your views as logical and rational, yet to them it is “communism” or “socialism,” then you know that the disconnect is impossible to bridge. This letter was in response to one I wrote after the election, which I believed was well-reasoned and reality-based. I should have known better:

Looks the Dems, biased media, George Soros, Mikey Bloomberg and other billionaires—these two spent at least 2 billion to help buy the election for Biden. This Jan.20, you will the get the bought and paid for leader all you Liberals want.

George Soros, of Jewish-Hungarian extraction who made it his personal mission to support and assist in the establishment and maintenance of democracy all over the world, has been the far-right’s perpetual punching bag and bogeyman, which only goes to prove the right’s authoritarian impulses. Forbes reported before the election that 23 billionaires supplied the Trump campaign with at least six-figure donations. As for Biden being “bought and paid for,” he certainly wasn’t the “choice” of progressives; he was the “choice” of those who believed he was the “safe” choice, and his cabinet choices seem to indicate a desire to be “moderate.”

It is hard for me to believe a person that can’t carry a conversation without stumbling and stammering, forgetting even the state he is in, won’t even take the softball questions ask of him and only answers the pre-arranged questions he has been prept on.

I can tell this correspondent doesn’t watch too much late night talk shows with their monologues and commentary about Trump, because he would have discovered that Trump’s frequent garbled phrasing and mangled wordplay are the stuff of comedy legend. As for “softball” questions, he is being a bit hypocritical when he forgets that Fox News hosts typically throw Trump Hoppity Hop-size rubber balls that he can’t possible miss, or simply ask for his “opinion” on the latest insane conspiracy theories he retweeted and let’s him go on for an hour without interruption or even asking for “clarification.”

His rallies range from 6 to 26 people and a few of his rallies with cars in the parking lot, where the people had to remain in their cars with NO QUESTIONS ASKED. The other candidate has from 10,000 to 45,000 supporters at his rallies that last for over an hour.

Well, you know that there is a pandemic going on, but unfortunately I have not been able to convince him it is “real,” despite the fact that the state of Tennessee is in the top-10 in virus cases and is nearing 6,000 deaths—four times what it was before the third-wave started.  As for those attending Trump’s rallies, we can’t account for stupid, for stupid is as stupid does.

Or how about the 1,800,000 mail-in ballots from Michigan that were sent to voters and the 2,200,000 votes that were returned to be counted. The Republican vote auditors that were run out of the building ballots were processed and counted. And keeping anyone from seeing into the site. Go Detroit Go!!!

This conspiracy theory of course has no basis in fact, just random numbers thrown into and picked out of a bingo card basket. The ABC News affiliate in Detroit on election day reported that “According to the Secretary of State's office, there have been 3,326,389 requests for absentee ballots and a total of 2,631,430 received.” The other stuff is equally baseless and disproven conspiracy BS by trailer trash types.

Doesn’t smell like up and up to me. You would think the Dems would like not only the Republicans to see how honest the ballot counting was, but also for all America. How does it smell to you?

Well, it doesn’t smell alright to me, but not for the same reasons. It seems to be that it is his side that never wants honest counting of ballots, seeing their fear that if everyone who is eligible to vote did so, Republicans would probably lose by at least 10 million votes every election.

A person could be write on and on of the negative infractions, like changing the rules for mail-in ballots just a day or two before election day (where?), postal employees ordered by their , superiors to change the post mark to Nov. 3 so ballots could be could be counted.

Let’s see—the state legislatures in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia are all controlled by Republicans. They allowed the “changing of the rules” in response to the pandemic. Voters did as they were allowed to do—Democrat, Republican and “independent” voters all took advantage of the same rules. Trump lost because more people loathed him than “loved” him. Period. Oh, and more dangling conspiracy theories.

The one thing that really bothers me is Biden says not America First—take care of the world then the U.S.A.

Another conspiracy theory of the media right. Trump has made Russia, North Korea and Iran more dangerous adversaries because of his neglect of their nefarious activities; we are learning of massive Russian hacking into U.S. government servers, and Trump and his DNI partisan political hack are completely silent on it, because Vladimir Putin is a good “friend.” China? You just have to look at the latest trade deficit numbers to see how far this country is “bought and paid for” by trade with China, and Trump has done nothing to stop that. “America First” is nothing more than the empty sloganeering of fascist white nationalists, and of white grievance. After Trump alienated our European allies, we have mighty few real friends in the world at the present time. If “taking care of the world” means repairing our ties with traditional allies, that’s enough reason to ditch the “America First” hypocrisy.

The point of all of this is that a month after the election, all the asinine behavior of Trump and his allies is still not enough to convince Trumpers that maybe there is something very wrong with this man. Their heads are like granite, and not even a pile-driver can put a dent in their hard-headedness.