Mika Mouse read from another wastful, insightful analysis of Drumpf and Lindsey (The Atlantic)
I mean, we ALL have known what Drumpf is about (NOTHING) from the get-go. But it's reassuring, every time, to be validated by another version.
Woke up to Mika MOUSE on MSNBC reading from a column about Lindsey GRAHAM and Kevin McCARTHY. Bingo. The part about “the whole Repuke party” being collaborators in the WW II, Vichy sense – from the Base to the Top, with the “base” including the sense of DEGRADED, SERVILE, IGNOBLE, CRAP. The latest descriptive about Drumpf moved from “Drumpf-fatigue” to “exhausting” for the country.
Funny how Lindsey’s boyhood nickname in his parents’ dive bar was “Stinkball” and Drumpf’s staff called him “Senator Freeloader” (pot/kettle) for all the freebees of free golf games and Chik-fil-a he gobbled up at Drumpf venues, how open he is about switching sides and positions “to stay RELEVANT”. And going back all the way to the bar, he always kissed up to “Alpha Males.”
I’ve nailed Drumpf’s lack of ORIGINALITY since 2015, all the slogans that WORKED for OTHERS in their original debut, such as AMERICA FIRST (from Nazi Charles LINDBERG, isolationist). Including pop music (Village People). I sampled his Apprentice circus for a couple of seasons and saw that his main interest was MARKETING – slogans, catchy gimmicks, stunts. No problem for him in stealing them from others, like being fed by others from History. New ones like “space force” don’t work. And he instantly MOVES ON from those that fall flat and never looks back.
In this article he is credited with a rare bit of self-insight, how he knows that if he LOSES, *that* will ONLY be all there is about a "legacy."
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/kevin-mccarthy-lindsey-graham-trump-devotion-2024-election/661508/
Why Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and so many other cowards in Congress are still doing Trump’s bidding
By Mark Leibovich
…. (Drumpf’s) political act was largely derivative. His promise to “drain the swamp” was treated as some genius coinage, though in fact the platitude had been worn out for decades by both parties. Nancy Pelosi promised to “drain the swamp” in 2006, just as the Reagan-Bush campaign had vowed to “Make America Great Again” in 1980. ….
… he is a uniquely tiresome individual, easily the sorest loser, the most prodigious liar, and the most interminable victim ever to occupy the White House. He is, quite possibly, the biggest crybaby ever to toddle across history’s stage, from his inaugural-crowd hemorrhage on day one right down to his bitter, ketchup-flinging end. … ….
… Without the complicity of the Republican Party, Donald Trump would be just a glorified geriatric Fox-watching golfer. I’ve interviewed scores of these collaborators, trying to understand why they did what they did and how they could live with it. These were the McCarthys and the Grahams and all the other busy parasitic suck-ups who made the Trump era work for them, who humored and indulged him all the way down to the last, exhausted strains of American democracy. ….
… Consider again the doormat duo—McCarthy and Graham. I’ve known both men for years, at least in the weird sense that political reporters and pols “know” each other. They are a classically Washington type: fun to be around, starstruck, and desperate to keep their jobs or get better ones—to maximize their place in the all-important mix. On various occasions I have asked them, in so many words, how they could sidle up to Trump like they have. The answer, basically, is that they did it because it was the savviest course; because it was best for them. If Trump had one well-developed intuition, it was his ability to sniff out weakness in people—and, I suppose, in major political parties. … ….
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