Horsehockey in Milwaukee

The political post I wrote for today about last week's Republican National Convention is below.

I know since yesterday we have bigger fish to fry: President Biden withdrawing from the race for President.  

I'm still pondering what this means for now and for our future.

So up next is the post I wrote for today as written.

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So last week was the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and it was the Fascist Fest you would expect.  

Now don't worry about that fascism. 

If you are a straight white rich Christian male.  

Everyone else, yeah, you're fucked.  

So what went down with the horsehockey* in Milwaukee?

*Horsehockey = network TV approved euphemism for horse shit frequently employed by Col. Potter on episodes of MASH.  

Speaker after speaker held to the Donald Trump line that life in America is a festering hell hole of crime and economic squalor. 

And that for 4 glorious years, America was a land of milk and honey, a virtual paradise, heaven on Earth when Trump was President and by God, it will be again.  

2020 and the pandemic and the dead piling up like firewood never happened.  

Trump announced his Vice Presidential running mate as Sen.  J. D. Vance of Ohio. 

Vance does not believe in marriage equality, thinks "transgenderism" is a threat to America, thinks we need a national abortion ban and that there is NO exception for any woman who might need an abortion.   

While Donald Trump has lamely tried to distance himself from the right wing agenda known as "Project 2025", he has picked a running mate who is in virtual lockstep with almost every line item of this agenda.   

Long story made short: "Project 2025" would turn The Handsmaid's Tale from dystopian science fiction into a  documentary series.  It is the fever dream of white Christian Nationalists made manifest. 

Speaking of fever dreams...

Donald Trump addressed the convention on Thursday. 

For 92 minutes! 

I don't think there is anyone in this world that I find interesting enough that I want to hear them talk for 92 minutes.  

There was speculation that almost being shot in the head might affect the content of Trump's speech. 

For 15 minutes, it did. Li'l Donnie tried so hard to be a big boy and say some platitudes about unifying the country and you can tell he didn't want to do that because he was so lethargic and slurring his words.  

When he got past that and descended into his standard bullshit of grievances ("I really won the election in 2020! Wah! Wah! Wah!"), he became more energetic.  

Nothing is going to make Donald Trump change, not even nearly being shot in the head.   

Trump NOT being shot in the head continued to be attributed to divine intervention and is seen as a sign that Donald Trump is the anointed of God to be President again. 

A narrative that has the white Christian Nationalists really feeling good about themselves.     

Republican believe that God wants their doddering old man who can't form coherent sentences to be President.  

Meanwhile, the other doddering old man running for President is still running for President even as calls from the Democratic Party keep growing in number and intensity that he really needs to step aside. 

We are all so completely fucked.  

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Well now that the other doddering old man running for President is NOT running for President, who knows what our future holds.

I'm not sure if I can but I will try to make sense of it in a later post.