By David Glenn Cox
An eccentric orbit can only become more eccentric. Until finally it either breaks out of its orbit or loses velocity and crashes out of its orbit. Which fate becomes the Republican Party orbit is hard to say. But one certainty says it is very close to the edge of going one way or the other. Marge Traitor Greene visits January 6th defendants in jail and decries their terrible treatment while others on the tour say the defendants are being treated like kings.
It is over the edge to defend violent criminal suspects in an effort quickly running out of fuel. Greene appeals to the base and alienates everyone else. Greene cements her reputation as the House Looney tune. Representative Jim Jordan of the Jim Jordan stunt cycle team was asked about Donald Trump’s latest terrorist threat. Jordan responded that he couldn’t read it without his glasses. Almost a “my dog ate my homework” excuse.
Little Tucker TV Dinner made a big splash of edited clips of January 6th trying to convince the convinced that January 6th was nothing more than a social gathering. But where is the follow up? He’s grown silent as it was so ridiculous as to degrade his own status. “Who are you going to believe? Me or your own lying eyes.” – Groucho Marx
Trump posts a picture of himself with a baseball bat along side a picture of the Manhattan D.A. with a statement promising violence and murder. It is an example of Trump’s desperation and eccentricity of his orbit. Trump’s calls for protest brought out less than a half dozen protestors to the courthouse. QAnon conspiracy theories warned “It’s a trap!”
Yes indeed, a trap. You could be judged as a fool or a tool. As Trump’s orbit erodes, the temperature grows hotter. Trump blusters that even if indicted he’s still going to be a candidate for the Republican nomination while at the same instant making threats against a prosecutor. It all sort of looks bipolar and manic depressive. At breakfast, Trump’s gonna whip the world and by suppertime is making idle threats. “You better not! Or I’ll, I’ll, I’ll.”
Ironically, the only person keeping Trump relevant is the bumbling stumbling campaign of Ron DeSantis. The DeSantis culture war and book banning has earned him as many critics as supporters. Two weeks ago, DeSantis called the war in Ukraine a border dispute. It earned sharp criticism from the establishment Republicans including George W. Bush. These are the people who could and would help DeSantis because they want Trump gone more than the Manhattan D.A.
DeSantis had (had) the best chance to dethrone Trump. But his contrary, coarse, and adversarial statements discourages the establishment supporters and polarizes the extreme. This week Ronnie is “New and Improved.” Now he claims Vladimir Putin is a threat to world peace. Inadvertently agreeing with Joe Biden. “See! I can be on both sides at the same time.”
Florida faces an insurance crisis and a rental crisis pushing seniors from golden years to sleeping in their cars. Not to mention climate change but chooses to focus on woke school books and drag shows. Ignoring the real problems facing the state for Fox friendly attention-grabbing headlines. His negatives build while the positives sink leading Republican voters back to the old tried and true Trump.
If you or I had made the same threat in a social media post, we would have been placed in the Graybar hotel by now. And the best we could hope for is the sympathy of a traitor. Kevin McCarthy’s threat to hold investigations shows his absolute powerlessness and spinelessness. He’s the Dummy and Marge Traitor Greene and company are the ventriloquists. Rather than Speaker of the House, he is the house servant of the extreme and acting as a mouthpiece for them.
So let us now add the judiciary to the Republican enemies list. Kari Lake is the latest victim of Judicial persecution after the Arizona Supreme Court refused to hear her ridiculous case of voter fraud. More grist for the mill as she orbits Trump for an outside shot at the VP slot.
A bad day for Nikki Haley as she polls only 4% at the aptly named Republican retreat. While Mike (Sargent Schultz I know nothing) Pence polls at 7% and he hasn’t even announced yet. Pence criticizes Trump yet refuses to testify to what he knows about him in a pronounced case of Stockholm Syndrome. But I’m sure that won’t come up as a campaign issue if Pence were to get that far.
The problem being there isn’t enough Presidential timber inside the Republican Party for a box of Ohio Blue Tip kitchen matches. In a post Trump environment, they all want to imitate Trump by gravitating to the extreme and nonsensical, until their orbit has become so eccentric as to become absurd.
DeSantis has hit the piñata too early and too hard and so suffers from premature ejaculation peeking too quick and making excuses for his performance.
Alabama recently passed a bill to outlaw puberty blocking drugs for transgender youth until they are adults. Because everybody knows politicians know more than doctors and patients. Politicians know a band wagon approach when they see it and happily climb aboard. Because a state 49th in education can see the need to block drugs for Transgender youth. “Hey, it’s free, and it doesn’t cost us nothing!”
They see the world from inside the monkey cage and can’t see how it appears outside the monkey cage.
Republican Burgess Owens from Utah said, “Many people in this room probably have student loans. However, the blanket bailout that turns loans into targeted grants and saddles future generations with someone else’s debt is not a solution.”
Rep, Burgess has gone through bankruptcy five times himself and has had $1.5 of his own debt forgiven, but sees no conflict.
Trump has taken the Republican Party with him as the lackeys fall all over themselves attempting to protect him from the mean old prosecutors. Yet Trump announced a campaign rally in Waco, Texas, and finds it hard to get any other Republicans willing to share the podium with him. It’s too close to the edge with visions of Branch Davidians and burning buildings.
The Republicans fear the burnout of a falling star. Trump’s erratic and erasable behavior scares them to death. What if he says something else? Something, even more unhinged and more criminal. Something that could doom them all.
“My my, hey hey,
Rock and Roll is here to stay,
It’s better to burn out than to fade away
“My my, hey hey,
Out of the blue and into the black
They give you this, but you pay for that
And once you’re gone you can never come back
When you’re out of the blue and into the black
The king is gone but he’s not forgotten
This is the story of Johnny Rotten
It’s better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he’s not forgotten.
-Neil Young
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