What Didn't You Understand About This?

Rot is the center, is the activating force, is the real reason that an incompetent pretender to mafia bossism can run the press, the judiciary, the election system, and the Constitution of the United Staes of America ragged.

The rot is a lot of our people.

I encounter them in bars, and they think I look like one of them, so they immediately assume I am a member of their farcical fantasy football clique; so I have some idea of how they think.

And that's the point.

They don't think.

They can't think.

They all have been beset with some brain worm that has eaten most of what the rest of us think with.

Here is what I said a few days ago, that I would have expected, and surely had hoped would get a lot of traffic.

But it didn't.

So here it is again.

I god damn think - I god damn believe - that Washington called trump out in 1788.

And I god damn want America to at least think about what Washington said.

And I'd like more than 10 page views.

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For some time now I have been having a vague realization of some kind of clarity that has been forming in my conception of the MAGA crowd; it crystallized recently.  

MAGA is not even remotely a philosophical or political grouping.  

It can best be described as a big drunken tailgate party that got massively out of control and doesn't know what to do next now that the beer has run out.  

The main attraction to being MAGA seems to be being seen and being heard and perceiving one another as influencers.

And being hunted down and ridiculed by Jordan Klepper.

And contributing to donnie's legal defense fund.

And the hats, sweatshirts and MAGA/trump certified Bible are all really big attractions.

It's just too bad that the fabric of our nation and the world's dependency upon that fabric will finally come un-woven with donnie nominally in charge again.

George Washington once alluded to a condition that he considered, if it ever were ever to occur, fatally terminal for the health of our Republic.  

In a letter to Lafayette in 1788 he said that the only way the office of president could be transformed into a dictator or monarch would be if the people had entered "the last stage of corrupted morals and political depravity".

And he said additionally, "and even then there is as much danger that any other species of domination would prevail. Though, when a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes."

Looks like Washington, 236 years ago, saw donnie and MAGA with clarity.

"Corrupted morals and political depravity" have worked their way through the system and have become dominant.

And donnie is going to win and "it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes."

In any event, he has no quarter from which to come, he being all over the place all the time.

But his morons, those of "corrupted morals and political depravity" love him sans quarter.

I can hear Washington as he plants his seal in the hot wax on the letter to Lafayette, "Oh what's the use?"