June 7, 2024
As a
rule, those who have become president of the United States age rapidly while in
office. Whatever else you might think of our leaders, the job must be intensely
stressful and require an almost incalculable amount of work.
There
is one exception to the rule. That would be the 45th president. Even
historic moron and one of the worst, most incompetent and lazy presidents in
our history George WTF Bush aged more than his eight horrific years as buffoonish
yet dangerously effective leader of the “free” world.
The
typical accelerated aging process did not befall Donald Trump. He seemed
physically unfazed by his almost fatal-to-democracy time in office. However, most
of us who survived all the angst and horror he perpetrated upon the majority of
Americans and the pandemic Trump nurtured, if they did not die from COVID or
drinking bleach as very stable genius Trump suggested, aged at least a little
extra during those calamitous years.
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However, the orange
hybrid-haired hooligan who wants one more chance to destroy America from the
top down has been aging at a rapid pace since being kicked out of office. Maybe
it’s nearly 100 indictments, and now 34 felony convictions, and the threat of
serious punishment if not jail time looming over his head, maybe it’s depression
from his failed coup, maybe it’s all the effort he’s put into keeping the big
lie alive in order to maintain his Svengali-like power to bilk his cult members
from every cent they can spare and some they can’t. And maybe it’s all the
planning for his fascist re-making of America via Project 2025** if the
Electoral College and/or the Supreme Court continue to defy the will of The
People after Trump gets smacked around by the popular vote.
Trump
is loudly proclaiming to anyone stupid enough to listen that he is planning concentration
camps for migrants, a total ban on abortion and letting red states monitor
women’s pregnancies. He constantly croaks about freeing his January 6
hench-idiots from prison, disbanding the pandemic preparedness office, firing
U.S. attorneys who dare defy his illegal orders, requiring loyalty oaths from
everyone serving in government, arresting and/or killing rivals and opponents,
putting local, state and federal law enforcement under direct control of the
president, limiting voting, and countless other fascist wet nightmares Trump
and his flying monkeys have been cooking up. Don’t even get me started on
Project 2025 – the radical religious right wing plan to end democracy in the
USA and turn America into a medieval theocracy.
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It
could be the caked-on/canned tan. It could be horrifically-hued hybrid “hair.”
It could be that he spent four years in Our House sleeping, watching Fux News,
tweeting, worsening a pandemic, throwing ketchup, divulging state secrets to
foes, getting impeached, stealing, hiding and hoarding classified documents,
and most of all golfing, instead of doing the People’s work. The only effort he
ever exerted was fanning the flames of insurrection on his way out the door.
The President Show – Donny Goes to School
In
any event, Trump currently looks like shit and we wish him hell.
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* The “b” is silent.
** The “b” is not silent.
*** Project 2025 includes slashing Department of Justice (DOJ) funding,
dismantling the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of
Homeland Security, gutting environmental and climate crisis regulations to
favor fossil fuel production, and eliminating the cabinet Departments of
Education and Commerce. Oh, and putting church in charge of state.
I. Mangrey reporting.
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