The shoe never drops

Everyday, I check out Trump's Twitter feed to see what offensive, inaccurate, or ignorant thing he has written that morning.

And everyday, I think, "Surely this is the comment that rallies Americans to see what kind of man we have leading our country."

And everyday, I'm disappointed.

I'm not disappointed because there's a paucity of idiocy or manipulation found in Trump's tweets and comments and actions or anything--because there's not--I'm disappointed that it doesn't seem to matter to anyone else.

Sure, it matters to my like-minded friends and family and politicians, and most of the media, of course.

But not to anyone else.

Trump mocks a disabled reporter

I'm thinking the other shoe is going to drop and Trump will be exposed for the man he truly is--whether exposing his racism (s***hole countries, fine people on both sides in Charlottesville, Mexican immigrants are rapists, promoting fake "Muslims are evil" videos), or ineptitude (announcing major policy changes without discussion or input from his experts: tariffs, opening a Jerusalem embassy, banning transgender individuals from the military) or misogyny (bragging about grabbing women by the p****, backing accused child molesters for Senate, dismissing credible charges against him for assault/harassment, paying hush money to women claiming affairs) or paranoia (Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, Mueller and the probe is a "witch hunt", "Spygate"), or out-and-out deception (too many statements to list--on Politifact only 16% registered as more than half-true).

And, everyday, as hard as it is for me to believe, that shoe never drops.

The GOP backs Trump as long as he tends to their agenda. Trump's supporters rabidly believe every piece of garbage he spews forth. Business execs love the money with which he's lining their pockets.

So the shoe never drops.

But tomorrow's another day.

The terrifying folks on Twitter

Sure, the daily lies and threats coming from Trump are scary, especially when he undermines everything from law enforcement to the judicial system, or when he promotes conspiracy theories and (fake) anti-Muslim videos or how racist rally-goers in Charlottesville include fine people.

But Trump doesn't even scratch the surface of the real conspiracy followers--the terrifyingly almost-terroristic tweeters that promote "bringing the pain." Honestly, I had no idea this kind of pointed delusion existed. EVERYTHING is a conspiracy against Donald Trump or America or Conservatism (it is totally possible that such messed-up vitriol exists for liberal-leaning Tweeters, too, but I have not found them in the hashtags of those commenting on my tweets). And, again, horribly scary alert, HUNDREDS of people like or retweet this filth (For example, "Pizzagate," the incredibly disgusting fantasy that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring out of the basement of a pizza restaurant is still promoted as fact--despite the fact that one of these heinous figures shot up the restaurant, then found there wasn't even a basement).

Here are just three, very randomly chosen--and INCREDIBLY scary--posts from these very twisted people (I will not be including hashtags or Twitter handles so as not to promote them, I just want to share how brutally warped and threatening their posts are):
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Perhaps, WE THE PEOPLE ... 75M Strong w/ 300M+ weapons will take to the streets as well. We’ve had enough of the criminal enterprise of the Lib Left & the high crimes by Obama & his Deep State. We will preserve OUR CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC COME HELL OR HIGH WATER!

These people must suffer and be made examples of so this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. The cries of justice have reached a crescendo. (Accompanied by photos of McCain, Obama, Biden, the Clintons, and Pelosi)  Reply: The pain needs to be excruciating.

Remember, this always happens when bad news about (((Them))) is about to break (Accompanied by a picture and headline from Santa Fe shooting). Replies: Whenever the Dems ...are in trouble, there suddenly appears to be a  mass shooting event. 

The pattern is becoming quite obvious, wake up people.

 And when Donald Trump (intentionally or not) does something that jibes with their completely twisted beliefs, these people take it as a sign that Trump is on their vile side. For example, I guess Catholics are bad news--the Pope is pictured smiling and talking with Obama, and then Merkel, while the Pope is standing stone-faced next to Trump, drawing praise from these scary people that Trump is not friendly with the Catholics.

I'm all for freedom of speech (obviously, since I tweet and write a blog), but this is scary, hate-filled speech--not the garden variety, such as "Trump is a moron," or "Hillary belongs in jail." These are words that promote the most vile, terrifying thoughts of confused and deranged people--even suggesting violence--and make it seem, for some, I'd imagine, normal.

So, maybe I'm the last one to realize there are really people out there like this. Or maybe I just can't believe it. 

I thought Trump's tweets and conspiracy theories were scary.

In comparison, though, Trump's tweets are chillingly tame.

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When is a Republican not a Republican?

Wisconsin's sole GOP wunderkind (now that Reince Priebus and Paul Ryan have been put out to pasture) is Governor Scott Walker. Although his star does not shine nearly as bright as it did seven years ago when he led the surprise attack on public workers by stripping their negotiated benefits and eviscerating their unions by engineering legislation known as Act 10, Walker's little light still flickers as he attempts to garner re-election in the face of the GOP/Trump fiasco.

Obviously, he's figured out that the best way to do so is to embrace more humanitarian measures--ones actually proposed or backed by Wisconsin Democrats.

from jobsanger.blogspot.com

That doesn't mean he believes in them, it only means he believes that doing so will get him his coveted re-election.

In doing so, he's proposed such humanitarian things as putting money back into Wisconsin education (albeit after record-setting cuts through his tenure and dilution of public money now going to private schools), and addressing (finally) severe problems at juvenile detention facilities around the state (after originally creating more problems by consolidating them in an earlier budget).

Oh, yeah, he's also introduced what economists have called "a mystifying piece of tax policy that has no clear long-term economic purpose." As the Washington Post recounts, many merely call it an election year bribe. Which is not to be confused with the bribe of gutting Wisconsin environmental considerations to get potentially thousands of jobs with Foxconn.

And, perhaps most damning of all, Walker has gone from disdain for Trump to acceptance and now love for the ethically-challenged and morally-corrupt President of the United States. And why not? Trump has helped champion some of the non-humanitarian policies that Walker truly embraces (think NRA, anti-immigration, anti-union, anti-public education, anti-environment, over-the-top-pro-business, etc).

So a vote for Walker is a vote for humanitarian causes. 

Well, until he gets re-elected and starts governing again like he really believes.