Headline: Tiny Trump faction bemoans 'pathetic turnout' at Michigan capitol before Electoral College vote. (-Mlive.com)
I like "Tiny Trump faction." We should embrace this, as it is all a matter of perception anyway--newspapers can create reality if you let them, but in fact we all create our own reality. So . . . Tiny Trump stands defiant, if impotent, as the camera pans back and we see that there is a big country, after all, before us, full of farmlands and prairie and cities and factories and high tech corporate campuses and people talking and arguing, but still standing, cue the Bugs Bunny after-the-storm music* and the clouds part and golden rays illuminate the landscape.
*Rossini's Bill Tell Overture
God, I hope the media stops covering every one of his farts once he leaves. So tired of hearing about him and his toxic family 🤮
ReplyDeleteI think the healing process this country needs right now is to be able to shake off the spell Tiny Trump cast when he put himself in the headlines every single day for the last 1,500 days. In the same way you might sit up in bed after a bad dream and let the realization slowly sink in, that it's over, and the scary stuff turns out to be . . . just stupid.
ReplyDeleteNot so fast. He'll have just as loud a megaphone as before. Since his shit sells, he'll be all in the news, conjuring a whole subculture of alleged Americans who consider him a sort of shadow president, presiding over the idiocracy from Mar-a-Lago. Politicians, as they always do, will follow, and President Biden will have them to contend with. My hope is that the black magic fades in about a year and half, enough so that a number of die-hard Republican congresspeople can be seen by their own constituency as the un-American swine they are. I'm not hopeful, unf.
ReplyDeleteWhen thinking about the phenomenon of celebrity and fandom, I think you could compare Trump supporters to the more ardent, fanatical Football fans, don't you think? The psychology of it?
ReplyDeleteIf so, something about football fans I've noticed over the years is that they sort of go away and hide somewhere and don't make a peep when their team is doing badly, and is no longer in the running. My hope is Trump supporters will cool off, perhaps think about their "winning season" with a sort of nostalgia, but remain harmless. Anyway, I just want to feel optimistic and all warm and fuzzy just for a day or two. Just to take a break.