Tag, You're It!

Two things I've learned about the Republicans this year.  The first is my comment, about how Republican voters will vote for anything, even a turnip, as long as it has an 'R' next to its name, is unbelievably true.  I used to say it as a joke; not anymore.  Even though all of the GOP voters hem and hawed throughout the year, talking about how unelectable Trump actually was, how he embodied everything the GOP was supposed to be against, when it came time to vote, they all loyally checked his name.

The second is how my other joking comment, about a GOP voter coming home and finding their spouse having nasty, insane sex with their local Republican politician, how they'd immediately scream, 'Damn Democrats!', is also shockingly true.  Republican voters are incapable of viewing Republican politicians negatively, even when they're dreadful, and they'll need to be sent to a deprogramming clinic to ever be able to compliment a Democrat, even one who saves a baby and a puppy from a burning building.

Since the election, Donald Trump basically admitted to defrauding the students at his university by paying $25 million to make a lawsuit go away, has openly talked personal business with every foreign leader he's met with, prior to talking about US policy interests, has promised to dismantle all government funded healthcare (Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security), acknowledged his promise to jail his opponent was an outright lie, meant to fuel the hate rage fantasies of his supporters, has welcomed in racists, KKK sympathizers and Nazi sympathizers into his inner circle, has picked incompetent boobs, corrupt zealots, and unethical billionaires to be his administration, has had it confirmed he indeed received a tremendous amount of help from the Russian government who actively infiltrated the American election, has insisted he doesn't need to hear the daily intelligence briefings (as President), has put out a litany of insanely childish and inappropriate Twitter comments, has delivered on about a quarter of his promise to keep Carrier in Indiana, at a cost of a few million tax payer dollars, and took time out of his busy transition schedule to meet with Kanye West, a hip hop artist who clearly needs an extended medical rest, to say it nicely.

The response from Republican voters...silence.  I swear under their breath you can hear the 'Damn Democrats' they so desperately want to scream.

Can you imagine what these same voters would be like if Clinton would've won, and (forgetting all of what I mentioned above) she would've tried to appoint a cabinet member who didn't have three masters degrees and twenty years of management experience related to the position they were up for?  They'd be screaming about incompetent cronyism.  Instead, they cheer on Ben Carson, a man who thinks the pyramids were not burial sites for pharaohs, but rather grain storage bins, being in charge of Housing and Urban Development!  I go back and forth of whether Carson is more terrifying or hilarious...

I can honestly say, if a President Elect Clinton refused intelligence briefings and instead met with Kanye West, I'd be furious.  Can you imagine how furious Republican voters would be at that?  But Trump does the same exact thing; crickets and tumbleweeds.

The Republican's problem is after thirty years of attacking Democrats, turning every innocent gesture into a crime against humanity, they don't know what to do.  They spent the last three decades investigating Democrats, and when the investigation turned out to be nothing, they'd start another investigation, just because.  Now, with no Democrats to investigate, they're silent.  Their minds have no idea how to process negativity coming from Trump and the Republicans.  They know these next four years are going to hurt everyone who's not a millionaire, but as opposed to say something, they quietly hope the inevitable outcome won't materialize.  They're hiding their shame in reticence.

This unfamiliar territory, being on the receiving end far more than on the giving end, also explains why Republicans blow up at anyone who implies Trump's 'Not My President.'  They've insisted, when the GOP controlled everything, the world would come together, harmony would be universal, and everyone would be a millionaire.  Guess again!  After 8 1/2 years of making up outrageous Obama lie after outrageous Obama lie (Kenya, Birth certificate, Muslim Brotherhood, Rev. Wright, taking guns, death panels, internment camps, forced abortions, Jade Helm!, Benghazi!!!), the Republicans are now the ones trying to deny undeniable reality: their President is a tweeting, embarrassing, self induced smear campaign.

Hillary leads in the popular vote by 2.8 million, almost more than Nevada itself, bigger than 15 other US state's entire populations (many of the same states the GOP touts as the 'real Americans' who pushed Trump to victory), officially enough voters to make her margin of popular vote the 19th largest metro area in the country, bigger than Denver, St. Louis and Baltimore.  FAR more people wanted her as President than Trump.  He won, but he needed to quirkiness of the electoral college to place him, the second place finisher, as the victor.  This wasn't some electoral college landslide either.  He barely won, even with the FBI and the Russian interference, voter suppression at record levels, an obscene dark money advantage and a bias, incompetent media.  He won because 108 million eligible voters didn't vote, not because the vast majority of Americans wanted him as president.  Only 20% of the country wanted Trump, and most of those people were either only voting for him because of his undeniable white power message, or because the Anti-Hillary brainwashing worked.  Instead of trying to unite the country behind him, Trump couldn't help himself; he had to be a jerk.  He insisted the math numbers are wrong and this is a massive landslide, taking a victory lap to rub it in everyone's face.  Now Trump voters are acting surprised when most Americans tell President Elect Asshat and his supporters to 'F-off!'  They drank their own cool-aid, and now reality is setting in; their utopia is further away than ever, they're not millionaires, and they're facing 4 years of protests, divisiveness and outright hatred for their horrifically flawed savior, a savior they themselves know is a disgusting troll of a human being.  They're throwing a temper tantrum.

That makes me so freaking happy!  Good luck the next four years, you racists and idiots!  Hope you're not too thin skinned!