What Will Happen When “The Base” Realizes it’s Been Snookered?
I suppose everyone has heard that speech Bridgegate Christie gave the other day where he got booed for saying Mar a Lardo’s #1 resident guest will be convicted of felonies. It was not noteworthy that New Jersey’s favorite rotund bridge blocker got booed. What was noteworthy was what he got booed about. Believe it or not, he got booed because he told the truth. He even went so far as to say that those who were booing the truth were reprehensible. I’m not sure they were reprehensible but they were not honorable people either. The speaker is a presidential hopeful but was not the favorite of the crowd.
You know, even baseball players get some pretty jiggy compliments thrown their way and that’s just because they play for some other team. That goes with the game even if you’re #1. What Bridgegate was talking about wasn’t a bad play on his part it was a bad play by the #1 world champion. You know they threw Pete Rose out of baseball for dishonest behavior. Pete was an all-star player too. He didn’t disrespect anyone and he only made that one-off field error. Well, it was betting on baseball games even if he played in them. But it ended his baseball hopes and dreams. You know what, there were a lot of fans that cared about that too. Baseball continued however.
What did not happen with the Pete Rose scandal was not one other player committed the same error, that we know about, at least. Resident Guest #1 has broken the rules of the Office of President and that will have consequences, no doubt. What we see so far it that every wannabe tribal leader in the whole country is looking at #1 and saying, “Yeah lie to ’em about judges, Attorneys Generals, Biden, the Justice Department, proclaim a witch hunt, put on your best mean face and act as innocently as you can while claiming to have done nothing wrong and maybe this time the gods of elections will make you the winner, yeah that’s the ticket.” Shades of Kari Lake.
I don’t get how the Ms. Lakes of the world miss the fact that #1’s brilliant strategy would only be followed by someone who was not included on a group chat when we all discussed that the dude lost the election. His minions have lost their elections too. They didn’t get the memo either? The authoritarian positions the whole Magadoodle lot of them has championed is just not popular enough to get them elected. Just look at the proposed abortion ban in Ohio that not only got voted down, the folks in Ohio want those rights written into the constitution of the state. That’s a pretty clear statement, I’d have to say.
The Magadoodle contingent of the populace do not understand that the power they perceive themselves to have only exists in their little corner of the globe. When the wind carries them away from that little place into the larger world they must attempt to control that larger world in the same way they controlled the little corner of their tribal-like existence back before now. That Karefully Krafted Karen Komportment has never worked in the history of mankind. But for some reason those who support that “strongest guy in the world approach” see that behavior and say, “Oh wow bruh. The dude is telling the judge to mind who he’s talking to. Remember when he used to fire all those people?” Okay, okay. In full disclosure, that’s not a direct quote but I think you can catch my drift.
Put yourself in their shoes for a moment. They have had a fantasy for the past few years. It seems to have been something like, “Golly jeepers. I hope I can be an apprentice. If I ever grow up. I want to be a billionaire too. Then I’m going to tell judges and lawyers and Congress to kiss my royal red ring just like, sigh, my hero.” I suspect it might be devastating as hell to find out that your hero is a fake and a fraud. It might force a repressed boo out of anyone who has suddenly realized their fantasy of wonton raping, pillaging, wall tagging, and high octane racism all the while keeping the harem in check is being threatened not by “the deep state” but by your hero himself. It just don’t feel good to realize you’ve been snookered, you know.
Vengeance is weird. People do things that defy reason. Take Mary the elephant as an example¹. Mary came into town with the circus one day. The next day there was a parade and Mary was as always at the front. This day she had a brand new handler who was a homeless man and was hired to take care of the elephant just the day before, in spite of having no experience. On the fateful day there they were at the head of the parade and the new handler poked Mary with an elephant hook right behind the ear where, unknown to him, she was sore with an infected tooth. Mary picked up the man and using her innate elephant skills dispatched the handler right there in front of God and everyone and right there at the head of the parade to boot. The crowd was horrified even though none of them knew the recently deceased. A couple of days later the authorities hanged Mary with help of a railroad derrick. About 2500 people attended the hanging. The authorities obviously suffered a knee-jerk reaction to an unusual yet horrifying event. Maybe they had no choice and that would be understandable. But why was it necessary to hang the creature? The easiest solution is because the people’s fantasy of a circus parade did not include a homeless dude mistreating an elephant and discovering the dire consequences of such an act in less time than people could comprehend what was taking place. The only entity the good people of the town could blame for the horrific event was, well, Mary the elephant.
So when Bridgegate declares that #1 is a felon and will not become president nor should anyone with his petulant character ever be president and people boo, you can bet that they’re looking for someone to blame for their discomfort. Don’t act all surprised when they end up blaming the #1 Resident Guest of Mar a Lardo. I mean, the dude used to live in New York and he surely has heard of the Apollo where the public will let you know if they do not care all that much for your act. #1 thinks the public doesn’t see his act. And there exists a devoted cadre of true believers who desperately need someone to justify their feelings of exclusion and will be truly injured to have to acknowledge #1 is really conning them and Bridgegate has it right. Those hardcore blind trust babies will force themselves to believe in spite of what Bridgegate says he knows. And he should know, right? He used to be a prosecutor himself.
It is inevitable that even the hardcore tin-hatters will have to come to at least a partial understanding of how unwholesome #1 can be. He may very well have good policies for putting on the Ritz but he doesn’t get uptown funk. That’s where it’s Saturday night and we gonna give it to ya.
The American public were heroically attached to people like Bonnie and Clyde, Al Capone and even Bill Cosby, too. But when they came to their end, life went on, and all the drama they brought about had done little more than sell advertising copy for news organizations. The public moved on to the next obsession of the day. You don’t know but there’s a good chance that #1 will be demoted to #2 and judging by what’s gone down until now, by his most ardent disciples too. The only thing that could be better than that is if Sr. Cruz moved to Cancun permanently.
References
- Fickett, M., Stansberry, B., & Howard, H. (n.d.). Murderous Mary The Elephant. The Moonlit Road.com. Retrieved November 12, 2023, from https://www.themoonlitroad.com/murderous-mary-the-elephant/
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