Nobody should be surprised that ridicule and mockery is the best way to attack Donald Trump. I've been doing it for years and I'm glad that others have caught up with me. Insult Comedians like Trump can dish it out, but they can't take it.
The ridicule is making him even stupider. Comrade Kamala? The Veep comes from the Pelosi-Feinstein wing of the California Democratic party: liberal but not leftist. Only the stupidest MAGA maggots believe this noxious swill peddled by a desperate candidate. His act is wearing thin. The Comeuppance is nigh.
The post title comes from the title track of Rod Stewart's classic 1971 album, Every Picture Tells A Story. I'm old enough to remember when Stewart was a critic's darling.
The Buster-memed featured image is one reason for the title. The other is this revival of a 2021 malaka of the week post about hack MAGA artist Lena Ruseva:
That tweet thread and my post went viral. Sometimes the malakatude doesn't burn.
I love it when I can insert myself into the news of the day without so much as breaking a sweat. Here's another example of Ruseva's kitschy-n-crappy MAGA art:
Space Donald? How weird is that?
I'll let Rod the Mod sing us out of this opening salvo. We will not, however, provided any salvo for Trump's wounds.
Let's move on to the reluctance of former Trump officials who have criticized former President* Pennywise to endorse his opponent. I don't question the sincerity of their Trump critiques, but I doubt their effectiveness. Such tribalism in the face of dictatorship is almost as bad as the Lindsey Grahams and Ted Cruzes of the world, especially those who cower behind anonymous quotes. They're all profile and no courage.
These cowardly tribalists are taking incoming fire from one of the most sincere Never Trumpers: Tim Miller whose book I reviewed two years ago. The title of Miller's latest piece for The Bulwark says it all: They Served With Trump and Saw The Crazy. They Should Endorse Harris.
I prefer short and snappy titles but Miller's disgust with the cowardly tribalists is manifest and includes this list of quotes:
- John Kelly: "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. . . . He's the most flawed person I have ever met in my life."
- Jim Mattis: "He's dangerous. He's unfit." "The president has no moral compass." "This degradation of the American experiment is real."
- Dan Coats: "He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."
- Rex Tillerson: "A moron."
- Mitt Romney: "I think he's not smart. I mean really not smart." "A whack job."
- Gary Cohn: "Dumb as shit."
- H.R. McMaster: "Cannot understand Putin's hold on Trump."
Yet they remain on the sidelines. Gary Cohn is even a registered Democrat. Does he fear for his safety? That's not an invalid concern but as Miller points out:
"I have been told that one answer to this is concerns about personal safety. And I hear that. But lots of people have put their personal safety at risk. I've gotten threats. So have Kinzinger and Duncan and my colleague Sarah Longwell. We all have young kids and none of us has either Secret Service or the scratch for private security. Shaye Moss and Ruby Freeman had to move out of their damn home. That didn't stop them.
Here is the truth: Every person who agrees to be a poll watcher this fall is putting themselves at a risk that is equal or greater to what John Kelly would face if he were to cut an ad for Kamala Harris.
So what it comes down to is something more mundane than safety. These people aren't endorsing Harris because they don't want to deal with the hassle."
Imagine if the patriots who risked execution for rebelling against Mad King George stayed home because it was too much hassle. Sam Adams could have made more beer for Cousin John to consume but instead stood up for what he believed in. What do the people quoted believe in? We know what the Insult Comedian believes in: Me, myself, and I.
I realize that many of our readers have no use for Never Trumpers. I admit that their gratuitous campaign advice to Democrats can be grating and wrongheaded but now is the time for all good people to come to the aid of their country. I learned that phrase in my high school typing class: it stuck with me other than swapping out men for people. Gotta stay current.
It's time for the cowardly tribalists to listen to former Georgia Lt Gov. Geoff Duncan who said this at the DNC: "Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing."
They could do worse than pay heed to Carly Simon:
Did I just say pay heed? It must have been the Adams reference. What's next? A powdered wig? Nah, it's too damn hot for that.
More clickbait from The New York Times:
The op-ed is by National Review chief puke Rich Lowry. It's not an ode to the Kaiser of Chaos but advice as to how he can assassinate the character of Kamala Harris. WTF, NYT? What happened to journalistic responsibility? As always, they're so hellbent on proving that they're not in the bag for Democrats, that they end up in the bag for GOPers.
My countryman Tom Nichols denounces Lowry and other anti-anti-Trumpers in The Atlantic closing with this virtual hand grenade:
"Stepping outside of years of partisan tribal affiliations comes with professional and social costs (and for politicians, electoral consequences). But principles are sometimes burdensome things; that's part of what makes them principles. The behavior of the anti-anti-Trumpers continues to be an inexcusable betrayal of the values they once claimed to hold. Many of them spoke, even passionately, against Trump—and then they shuffled into line. And for what? One more federal judge? A few billion more dollars in the account of a donor?
It's one thing to sell your soul cheaply. It's another to keep taking out second and third mortgages on it until all that's left is debt and shame."
Ouch. They have it coming.
Finally, let's circle back to Lena Ruseva an artist so bad that she makes fellow MAGA painter John McNaughton look gifted. One of Ruseva's weirder paintings is of Trump as a Boddhisatva:
You cannot make this shit up. The Insult Comedian *is* like one Boddhisatva, the one in the Steely Dan song who fleeces his followers:
"Bodhisattva, I'm gonna sell my house in town
Bodhisattva, I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there to shine in your Japan, to sparkle in your China
Yes, I'll be there, Bodhisattva."
The anti-anti Trumpers have sold their house in town as well as their souls to someone who views them with contempt. It's how con artists see their marks. Suckers.
The last word goes to Steely Dan:
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