The Saga of Don Poorelone and the MAGA Minions
Overheard in a dark Republican closet:
“You know…Joe has done a good job. Way better than our boy.”
“I know, I know. Sigh…. We were just talking about the strategy for this year in that meeting I was just in.”
“What strategy? …There’s a strategy?
“Yeah, we paved the way for Biden to stay in as president. We guarantee it by running Trump. We can’t oust him so why not give him his head and let him go down big time?”
“How the hell does THAT work?”
“Think about it. Biden gets all these great things passed and we get to go home and brag about it. The rubes don’t remember when it got passed but they’re all happy that we’re anti-Biden. We can all weep and wail and say how sad that we’re losing the country to OLD Joe. Our guy looked so good on paper. But 91 counts?”
“…Oooooooh…”
That’s about as good an explanation for what is going on in the Republican Party these days as can be expected. Clearly, the GOP is going through some, umm, adjustments? Ronna was working very briefly for NBC? The House passed a budget? Well kinda, not really, but for a while, maybe. But that, of course, brought about a rerun. Last time a Congressional budget got passed, Matt got Kevin canned. Now Margie wants the same thing. She thought that Matt looked so cool canning Kevin, she wants some of that spotlight and decided that MagaMike should be canned for the same reason. The only problem is her timing. This is a really bad time for Republican infighting. Which can only mean news cycle after news cycle of Republican infighting. Margie did not garner leadership support for her stupid idea.
Of course, the media has to stir the pot. Someone asked Clay Higgins what he thought about Margie’s idea to oust MagaMike and even Clay thought it was dumb, even though Margie is a friend of his. You remember Clay, he was the MAGA-sleuth who found ghost buses on Jan 6 videos. If that guy thinks Margie is acting stupid, then you have a “depth of stupid” reference point. Yessiree! Margie is as mad as an old wet hen. MagaMike started wearing long pants and got help from the Democrats to pass a bill to pay the bills. He got it done and that ticked Margie off. She wanted to watch the destruction she could bring about. Kind of like an arsonist hanging out to watch the fire he started burn out.
Oh heavens, we cannot slight Don Poorelone.(Good one Neil). Seems the Don has run aground some legal issues in the State of New York. The judge in that case about the porn star pay off seems hell bent on starting the trial on the 15th of April. That’s not in the far future. In the meantime, he only got his bond reduced for the tax evasion charge to a mere $175 million. They were ever-so-nice and the court gave Don 10 days to come up with the cash or he could start looking for knee replacements. Rumor has it that there were three amounts in consideration but the appellate court played rock paper scissors and $175 million won. That same rumor suggests the court is trolling Don Poorelone.
The Don has apparently begun to encounter the reality the courts abide in. One thing has always been true for Don Poorelone, he has always been able to demand that everyone in his sphere dance to his tune and live in the reality he himself so generously basks in. Come on in. The water’s fine. Here, have some champagne. You like blondes or brunettes? But the courts just do not play there. The damned courts play with facts. Can you imagine? I mean, what is a fact, right?
That whole dance Don Poorelone does with judges and courts and doxing court employees is underhanded even for the Mob. But for someone who is running for the office of the President of the United States? It appears that the Republican Party is in total agreement with this insane approach to campaigning. Hell, Ronna was singing his praises from the rooftop not that long ago. She insisted that there were lots of reasons for him to question the election even though it is none of his business and he really has no right at all to interfere in any way in any election.
Yet there is the Speaker of the House of Representatives obeying the orders of this pussy-grabbing huckster from New York City, no less. Hell, the Don’s even got problems there. He has women problems. What with the porn star pay off and the defamation of a woman he raped, things are catching up with him. But still MagaMike is being a good little boy and doing what his daddy tells him to do.
I can sort of understand why MagaMike has that good-boy programming running, him being a big church-goer and all. I can even understand about Comer Pyle and Jr. Jordan. They grew up in the shadow of Appalachia and family trees in those parts can sometimes get pretty tangled. But when people gang up on you to hold an intervention for your health and well-being, one hopes you can take the time to listen and see if you can find another way to live. But when the Democrats did that with Comer and Jr. they doubled down on how stupid they can be just to please their daddy. There’s no hope for either of them. The best part is they were so damned sure they had Old Joe caught with his hand in the cookie jar, but there’s a problem. You can’t get ice cream from a cookie jar, duh. Joe had no reason to have his hand in a cookie jar. Now if there had been an ice cream jar…. Well, we’d just have to see what would happen, wouldn’t we?
Yep, the Republicans are going through some adjustments. They have trouble keeping the lights on. They can’t understand that isolationism did not work in the 30s and it won’t work now. Back in the 30s we were limited to telephone, telegraph, and tell-a-woman. Now there’s Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter) and 1000 more social networks that let everyone know what everyone is doing all the time. How can an international trader be an isolationist?
Yet Don Poorelone and his minions are all calling to abandon NATO, Ukraine, and all our treaties, even with Mexico and Canada. It’s hard to imagine something more asinine. How in the name of Sam Hill can you maintain a healthy economy by cutting yourself off from the world in which you wish to be recognized as an economic leader. Don’t you have to lead the parade to be a world leader? How are you going to wave if you ain’t in the parade?
I think this is the problem with the Republican adjustment. It’s taken way too long already. We’re still fiddling around with getting ammo to Ukraine. We’re still fiddling around with stopping the genocide of the Palestinians. Why? Because we’re arguing about whether we’re going to pay our bills. Why are we arguing about our bills? Because Don Poorelone told the Republicans to argue about paying the bills so he can buy time to come back around and screw with everyone just to get even? I don’t know that I need retribution unless you’re volunteering to dole out some money? Unless you’re paying me off, I don’t think I’m interested in what you’re selling. You never have good merch anyway.
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