American Calmage

Created
Mon, 12/08/2024 - 23:00
Updated
Mon, 12/08/2024 - 23:00
Like nobody’s ever seen Shitposting is a way of life for the former president. He has been doing it since long before the internet, PCs and cell phones. As Maureen Dowd noted (not in so many words), everything’s a dick-measuring contest for Donald Trump. He never loses. To hear him tell it, as Cole Porter might put it in lyrics: He’s the top | He’s the Colosseum | He’s the top | He’s the Louvre Museum Everything and everyone else is crap. Trump’s first speech as president trashed the country as American carnage, a wasteland of rusted out factories and a depleted military, a nation awash in drugs and gangs and crime. Long before Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota applied the term weird to MAGA Republicans, former president George W. Bush on the platform that day described Trump’s inauguration speech as “some weird shit.” Trump and Republicans still trash the country as awash in crime, victimized by Democratic permissiveness. They’re really not going to like the latest crime data describing the Biden era (Axios): “Americans are safer today than when Vice President Harris and I took office,” Biden said in a statement. Axios has more positive data Trump will ignore or smear as fake news. The world Trump inhabits in his own mind bears little resemblance to the real one. He claims falsely that countries south of the border are emptying prisons and mental institutions to send migrants to the U.S., bringing violent crimes and drugs and diseases of unspecified nature with…