Trump's "back to work by Easter" thing cultists loved, never mind! Betrayed and left holding the bag, Trumpsters now back plan to wait!

Trump cult dummies never looked so duped, especially now, after Trump changed his mind about getting people back-to-work by Easter..."that beautiful Easter day."  Outspoken cultists now own it.

Here's Trump's wildly irresponsible "evolution" on getting our nation back-to-work...against the invisible enemy.

Conspiracy Against Trump's Reelection: Don't take my word for it...



Exposing the Cruel Intentions of Freedom and Liberty: The Trump cult immediately jumped on board, exposing the "family values" lie; a bizarre willingness to sacrifice themselves for Trump; blind allegiance to "late stage capitalism" (the hypocrisy and absurdities of capitalism as it digs its own grave); and an unquestioning "whichever way the Trump wind blows" support for utter and sometimes dangerous nonsense.

Who are the fools left holding the Trump back-to-work bag? I'm relishing this...let's start with Dumb Ron Johnson...

Ron Johnson: “Each year, approximately 48,000 Americans commit suicide and an estimated 67,000 die of a drug overdose,” he wrote. “That level of individual despair has occurred in a strong economy with near-record low levels of unemployment in virtually every demographic.”

I am not saying “the cure is worse than the disease.” I am saying it is unrealistic to choose between economic devastation on the one hand and millions of deaths on the other. Wisconsinites know that is a false choice. There has to be a middle ground that takes our livelihoods, both physical and economic, into account. - Rep. Mike Gallagher

Sacrifice yourself for Capitalism...

What's Next? Public Health Emergencies Unconstitutional and Threat to Liberty and Freedom: You can be sure this bizarre effort will take off soon, despite seeing both Democratic and Republican governors ordering stay-at-home orders, lockdowns, and nonessential business closings. Will  there be a day when our own government can't help ourselves?

(On temporarily suspending civil and criminal jury trials) Wisconsin Supreme Court Activist Justice Rebecca Bradley: “Justifying the suspension of the people’s constitutionally guaranteed rights based on a public health emergency nullifies our Constitution.”

Small government Republicans are arguing that government could order people to stay on their jobs during a pandemic, siding with the whims of big business:

WILL published a legal analysis that argued Evers' emergency powers could face constitutional challenges, particularly if the pandemic persists for a long time. Strong arguments could be made that Evers' actions violate the rights to free speech, due process, peaceably assemble and worship as one chooses, wrote WILL's president, Rick Esenberg. Evers' orders shutting businesses could also be construed as unconstitutionally taking something of value without fair compensation, he argued. 

Trump Cultists deny growing mountain of evidence...continued.

How's the U.S.'s private for-profit health care free market handling the sudden demand for services and supplies to treat the coronavirus? Oh come on, if this were Medicare4All, Republicans would be trashing government health care, saying I told you so for failing to keep up with patients and testing. But the infallible free market? Not a peep.

Keep Testing Down, Keeping Infected Numbers Down: While the Trump/Republican echo chamber blame countries with national health care systems for having more people infected, they purposedly fail to mention that those countries are testing massive numbers of citizens. That's why the US has lower numbers. Even infected medical staff can't be tested because they're not part of the targeted group due to a lack of test kits.

Obama-to-Trump Voters are Biggest Idiots: There, I said it. You have no excuses, none. From GQ:

Trump Voters Wanted to Blow up the System. Well, Here We Go. 1. Trump’s decision was apparently made without consulting with America’s European allies, who were blindsided, panicked Americans who surged into European airports, paying as much as $20,000 for a last-minute flight home.

2. If, four years ago, you thought, ‘oh, what’s the difference between a Hillary Clinton and a Donald Trump;

3. You get a president who shuts down the global health security team in the National Security Council so that there’s no one but his son-in-law to advise him when a global pandemic reaches our country’s shores.

4. You get a president who doesn’t care about whether people live or die, he just wants the numbers to look good for him, wants the number of cases down and the numbers on the stock indices up, and the best way to do that is to keep Covid-19 testing and public information at a minimum.

5. You get a president who doesn’t believe in science when it doesn’t suit him and who, as recently as three days ago, declares a virus that had already claimed thousands of lives around the world a “hoax” and “fake news”—or a president that simply focuses, falsely, on how well his administration is responding to the crisis—because the pandemic might hurt the economy and jeopardize his reelection.

6. You get a president who thinks he can do anything, who off-the-cuff announces a rally in Florida, where the governor has suspended all official travel as medical experts advise people practice “social distancing” by avoiding crowds.

7. You get a president whose response to an invisible virus is to blame foreigners.

8. Maybe it's because the Republican Party has been peddling a dystopian anarchistic anti-government pipe dream to them for the last four decades.

9. Now, it turns out, a functioning government is a good thing to have when a global pandemic arrives on your shores. It turns out that maybe reforming an imperfect system is wiser than just taking a sledgehammer to it, better than trashing them in favor of a one-man, megalomaniacal savior, better to have a functioning system than dancing on its rubble while crowing about the death of the “deep state”—or “the political establishment.”

10. To those 63 million Americans, I say this: you wanted to smash the system and you got what you wanted—in spades.

GOP Health Care System, Private Sector Profits: No ones in a hurry yet, says the guy nicknamed the Grim Reaper who took a 3 day weekend and then delayed making any decision on how the federal government will help every American during the Coronavirus outbreak, Mitch McConnell...victim:

And the genius president who never understood how all parts of our economy work together, still bragged about those sugary Wall Street highs...that fell yesterday 12.94 percent:

The Trump Economy...

Low-income households (about $14,000 a year) saw their inflation-adjusted incomes rise 2.4 percent...while they grew more than twice as fast, at 5.5 percent, during the last two years of the Obama administration. “This far into an expansion, with unemployment as low as it is, we shouldn’t be seeing incomes for low-income households falling in over a dozen states, and growth slowing down in a dozen more,” says Thea Lee, president of the Economic Policy Institute. “Stock market highs may be great for wealthy households at the top, but they don’t help families at the bottom put food on the table.”

Trump Deficit:

The federal deficit has grown to more than a $1 trillion, and gross domestic product is pretty much right where it was when he took office. Experts say that despite a trade war, tax cuts and more government spending, the Trump economy isn’t all that different from the Obama economy.

Tax Cuts Pay for Themselves Scam: After the Bush tax cuts and the failed Brownback Kansas Comeback, where debt piled up and supply-side economics failed, Republican voters once again celebrated the massive Trump tax cuts that, no surprised, didn't pay for themselves:

"The tax plan will pay for itself with economic growth," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. Corporate tax revenues fell 31% in the first year after the cut was passed. Overall tax revenues have declined as a share of the economy in each of the two years since the tax cut took effect.

Victimhood and Trump cultists...real or imagined?

My Trump cultist friend sends me stuff like this all the time, because well, all liberal lefties are the same and bound together mentally like the Borg...

So I immediately thought of this recent funny Facebook post from a former Trump voter:

The Trump, Walker, Cultists war against the Ghost of Communism!

My Trump cultist friend in Milwaukee claimed Elizabeth Warren "wasn't just incompetent, the bitch was a F**KING liar." So I texted him and said he was afraid of Elizabeth Warren. He admitted he was afraid...:

"...of communism, yes, of anti-American Socialist policy. That('s) what this election is all about John. CAPITALISM VS socialism."

McCarthyism/Cold War did not end in 1991 for Trump Republicans: PolitiFact rated "manipulator and no-genius" Scott Walker's claim Bernie Sanders was a "communist:"

Blame this on your typical "right-wing knowledge and curiosity" vacuum. But if you're going to repeat something this ridiculous so often, wouldn't you likely check to see if your claim is accurate? PolitiFact:

-Walker offers no hard evidence of his claim, which one expert calls "scare-mongering."

-Sanders' policies line up with democratic socialism — which focuses on democratically achieved expansion of social welfare programs — not communist hallmarks like authoritarian rule, government ownership of all private property or an end to capitalism.

Honeymoon Trip to Soviet Union? Or a mayoral business trip?

It wasn’t exactly a traditional honeymoon, but Sanders and his wife left the day after their wedding to be part of a 12-person delegation for a sister city program between Burlington, Vt. — where Sanders was mayor — and the city of Yaroslavl.

Walker's total lack of self awareness shined through with this tweet, somehow forgetting Trump's love for authoritarian strong men dictators:

Compare that to Trump's authoritarian love affair. Not even close:



Walker's blind spot for dictators might have something to with his own mastery of authoritarian power when he was governor. Walker's angry final comment to a reporters question in the video below is chilling.  It was during a ceremonial signing that gutted the incoming Democratic governors powers. Note: Take a look at Walker's now infamously laughable Venn diagram debacle. He really is a dumb man:



This is also true of democratic socialism...

Russell Muirhead, a professor of political science at Dartmouth College, said:

"Democratic socialists are committed in the first case to persuading citizens of their particular policies and views, and if they can’t persuade, they refuse to try to implement those policies. Democracy comes first. Communists are so sure that they have the whole truth that they’re willing to impose their policies even if they can’t persuade other people, even if it requires a sustained and brutal application of violence. That’s why we associate communism with tyranny."

Not Robots, it's Trumpbots who are the real threat!

The following article at AlerNet, by Jeremy Sherman, got it exactly right about my cultist and Trumpbot friend in Milwaukee. It should help end that empty frustrating feeling that you get after wasting many of your best arguments on someone who is by default, always right and always wins:

Throughout history people have fallen for an easy way out of life’s complications by just pretending that they can do no wrong ... they find trumped-up rationalizations that they pretend trump all challenges to their absolute authority ... be completely undisciplined, no consistency in the playing of those trumped-up trump cards, discipline to play with absolute confidence whichever cards work in the moment paying no attention to reality, or the meaning of the things you say since all that matters is keeping up the appearance of winning. 

Call it trumpbotting, acting like a robot programmed to pretend to trump every challenge, sorting all wins to you and loses to whoever challenges or threatens your authority. To trumpbot you need to know almost nothing and yet you get to act like a complete and absolute know-it-all.

For a trumpbot to stay on message, there can’t be a message other than a relentless “See? I win!” Trumpbots cloak themselves in whatever fake crusade justifies declaring total war against all of their competition. It gives trumpbots a fake high horse to attack from, and a claim that their passionate commitment to their moral cause, proves that they’re right about everything.

They’re ready for your reaction whatever it may be. If you scold them they’ll call you a prude. If you walk away, they’ll call you a chicken. If you try to be nice to them, they’ll call you a wimp. If you act out, they’ll call you upset. If you attack them they’ll scold you for being uncivil. They’ll posture automatically and robotically any which way to maintain their false appearance of invincibility.

How do you beat people whose sole goal is remaining unbeatable? How do you correct the incorrigible? How does having standards ever beat have no standards other than winning?

Don’t try to persuade a trumpbot. Talk past the trumpbot to the audience. He’s just a specimen of mindless, mechanical, pretend invincibility. 

Whatever your standards, a trumpbot will make you wrong for having them. 

Anyone can become a trumpbot. He thinks he’s special. Far from it. He’s just another in a long line of people for whom reality is too scary to face ... learning how to shut down know-nothing, know-it-all trumpbots who pretend they’re done learning ... With trumpbots it’s not that the emperor has no clothes. It’s that the emperor is nothing but clothes, a suit of armor with nobody home.

How "Real" Americans feel Judged, Resent Criticism, are maybe Racist, "Proud" to make sacrifices, and glad to settle for nothing!

Paranoid Trump Cultist think they're always being "judged," as if we care: Who are these people, thinking they're always being judged, those picked on "real Americans" (a phrase never uttered by Democrats, liberals, or progressives). They even brag about how they're willing to settle for nothing...because, well that's life. 

NPR recently talked to Iowan's about their conservative attitudes toward Trump, their sick, juvenile, and authoritarian leader. Personally, this should be a regular interview topic for journalists, so everyone understands what we're dealing with, and the dark hopeless thinking of so many desperate Americans.

Here's a group of women who watched the State of the Union. They ignored Trump's refusal to shake House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi's hand, but were outraged that she tore up Trump's speech. Very disrespectful? This is jaw dropping bat crazy thinking, but an important look into the mind of drooling Trump cultists to grasp the hopelessness of trying to have a conversation with them.

Iowa woman won't vote Democratic again. She says, believe it or not, "Biden wants to be sneaky about things, while Trump is too damn stupid to be sneaky about every thing (laughing)...I make $875 a month but I live better than most people. It's just the way life is, you gotta roll with the punches." So...why try making life a little better everyday?

Here's a farmer in "survival mode." He also seems to be okay with settling for less. "I'm pretty proud, and I don't want to ask for anything, so we make sacrifices." Again, we're led to believe this is our lot life. As for trusting anyone in government; "I think Trump got caught, and maybe Biden didn't." Expectation levels appear to be at a new low:



Republicans and Trump have destroyed public confidence to the point nothing matters anymore, even if it means holding on to the same social and economic problems we could solve but don't:

The Atlantic: Among liberals, there is a comforting caricature of Trump supporters as gullible personality cultists who have been hypnotized into believing whatever their leader says. The appeal of this theory is the implication that the spell can be broken, that truth can still triumph over lies, that someday everything could go back to normal—if only these voters were exposed to the facts. But the people I spoke with in Tupelo seemed to treat matters of fact as beside the point.

One woman told me that, given the president’s accomplishments, she didn’t care if he “fabricates a little bit.” A man responded to my questions about Trump’s dishonest attacks on the press with a shrug and a suggestion that the media “ought to try telling the truth once in a while.” Tony Willnow, a 34-year-old maintenance worker who had an American flag wrapped around his head, observed that Trump had won because he said things no other politician would say. When I asked him if it mattered whether those things were true, he thought for a moment before answering. “He tells you what you want to hear,” Willnow said. “And I don’t know if it’s true or not—but it sounds good, so fuck it.”

The political theorist Hannah Arendt once wrote that the most successful totalitarian leaders of the 20th century instilled in their followers “a mixture of gullibility and cynicism.” When they were lied to, they chose to believe it. When a lie was debunked, they claimed they’d known all along—and would then “admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.” Over time, Arendt wrote, the onslaught of propaganda conditioned people to “believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true.”

Leaving the rally, I thought about Arendt, and the swaths of the country that are already gripped by the ethos she described. Should it prevail in 2020, the election’s legacy will be clear—not a choice between parties or candidates or policy platforms, but a referendum on reality itself.

Trump "bet that Republican voters didn’t really care about free trade or mutual security, or about the environment, much less deficits...let a lot of long-suppressed demons out of the box."

I think the following just about defines the Trump cultist Republicans (yes the entire party now) perfectly. After reading this opinion, I had to see who wrote this, and shocker, the guy is a GOP consultant. No wonder he nailed it:

In Ronald Reagan’s America, being born an American was to win’s life lottery; in Donald Trump’s America, it makes you a victim, a patsy, a chump.

Trump didn’t hijack the GOP and bend it to his will. He did something far easier: He looked at the party, saw its fault lines and then offered himself as a pure distillation of accumulated white grievance and anger. He bet that Republican voters didn’t really care about free trade or mutual security, or about the environment or Europe, much less deficits. He rebranded kindness and compassion as “PC” and elevated division and bigotry as the admirable goals of just being politically incorrect. Trump didn’t make Americans more racist; he just normalized the resentments that were simmering in many households. In short, he let a lot of long-suppressed demons out of the box.

Trump Cultist challenge: Read the Transcript!

If Trump does win reelection, it should be comforting to know these brilliant "real American" Trump cultists are now in charge of our country. There may come a time when we won't think this is weird anymore!

Have Trump supporters read the Ukraine call transcript? @jordanklepper finds out: https://t.co/N9I4xStMx4 pic.twitter.com/HmOjbuBG9s

— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 17, 2019