Houston? Do We Have a Problem?
Trump's base has an obsession for the orange criminal that is genuinely something we should envy - and fear.
So, a 76-year-old man sells his DJT stock at $26 and loses $450,000 (three days after he sold it, the price of DJT stock went up to $41). He lost so much that he is now ending his relatively comfortable retirement and returning to work. His family won’t speak to him. Who does he blame for this?
Himself.
No one forced him to buy the stock, so his blame is well-directed. No one stood on his front porch with a 9-millimeter pistol pointed at his head, forcing him to put his life savings into a stock that most analysts consider to be a bad investment, if not an outright grift (they consider it a grift because the man behind it is a master grifter with very few business successes to suggest that things would turn out otherwise).
The man says that the loss of his life savings is an example of why you should only put some of your eggs in one basket. Here, too, he is right. The most amazing thing is that his affinity for Donald Trump does not seem to have suffered in the slightest way. It seems to have even increased. In a video of the man explaining how he lost everything, he talks about Trump as if he were referring to Jesus up on the cross.
Now, having lost his shirt, this man, too, is “up on a cross.” Broke and ‘unretired,” the man can mix into his grunts and “have a nice one” while ringing up late-night coffee and sandwich customers at the local Racers Gas & Go tales of how “they” came after him, too. Now he’s broke, but the “Mexicans and transgenders are rolling in the bucks.”
“It’s not right, man. We are losing our country, and they are giving it to the illegals and queers. Shit’s going hit the fan if they steal the next election from us.”
Donald Trump’s followers, the hard-core ones who make up about 30 percent of our nation, are literally out of their minds. Some people don’t like when I call them stupid, so I won’t. I will just let you draw your own conclusion about their intellectual health. These people vote, procreate, and even raise children to follow in their footsteps. Their movement is powerful, not because they are a set of truths etched into stone but because nothing is in stone. Everything is possible. Any lunacy, lie, hallucination, or exaggeration can be today’s truth, and when confronted with any facts to prove them wrong, with the agility of ducks floating out on a lake in a rainstorm, a simple flick of the ducky shoulders and they are again dry as a bone.
Trumpism is a cult, and like any cult, there is no reasoning with its members. If you have ever watched any of the actual footage showing followers of Jim Jones, the People’s Temple members express themselves in ways very similar to Trumpists. The words spoken were so far from any truth that when the world learned of how hundreds downed their Flavor-Aid in the Guyanese jungles in November 1978, few asked how so many could have willingly done such a thing. 918 people died, including 276 children.
In the link to the video above, none of the Trumpists believe Biden is actually the president. Either the military is running the country, Trump, Obama, or one guy says that “it’s a movie.” These people aren’t joking. They come to these events, throw their hard-earned money at Trump, and then complain about not having money and how everything is so expensive—like the retiree who lost $450,000 on DJT stocks.
The scariest thing is, though, this cohort of crazy is a guaranteed vote for Trump. It’s almost like Trump has a voter handicap, which permits him to play by different rules thanks to this is the core of tens of millions of cultists.
Biden is losing votes by the second because potentially millions will choose not to vote for him to protest the war in Gaza. What they aren’t understanding is that if Biden loses, the ant — democratic chaos that will be unleashed as a result of Trump’s victory will be much worse for Gaza and the world than a Biden victory. Trump’s cultist numbskulls state unequivocally that there is nothing Trump could do or say, and nothing could happen in the world, that would prevent them from voting for him.
That certainty means that in every state, Biden needs to earn every single vote while Trump needs to stay alive to be guaranteed the support of an army of lost-in-outer space whackos.
Houston, it does not seem like we will be able to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. There is a problem.
Great read thanks