Prickly City by Scott Stantis for September 22, 2020

5 1/2 years late.

For New Yorkers, 50 years late.

To understand the corruption, chaos, and general insanity that is continuing to engulf the Trump campaign and much of the Republican Party right now, it helps to understand the predicate embraced by many Trump supporters: If Joseph R. Biden Jr. wins the presidency, America dies.

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One does not have to be a champion of the Democratic Party to know this chthonic portrait is absurd.

But it is also essential, because it allows Trump and his followers to tolerate and justify pretty much anything in order to win.

And “anything” turns out to be quite a lot.

In just the past two weeks, the president has praised supporters of the right-wing conspiracy theory QAnon, which contends, as The Guardian recently summarized it, that “a cabal of Satan-worshipping Democrats, Hollywood celebrities and billionaires runs the world while engaging in pedophilia, human trafficking and the harvesting of a supposedly life-extending chemical from the blood of abused children.”

Trump touted a conspiracy theory that the national death toll from COVID-19 is about 9,000, a fraction of the official figure of nearly 185,000; promoted a program on the One America News Network accusing demonstrators of secretly plotting Trump’s downfall;

…encouraged his own supporters to commit voter fraud; and claimed Biden is controlled by “people that are in the dark shadows” who are wearing “dark uniforms.”

Trump believes his own government is conspiring to delay a COVID-19 vaccine until after the election.

He retweeted a message from the actor James Woods saying New York Governor Andrew Cuomo “should be in jail” and another from an account accusing the Portland, Oregon, mayor of “committing war crimes.”

The president is “inciting violence,” in the words of Maryland’s Republican Governor, Larry Hogan.

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This is just the latest installment in a four-year record of shame, indecency, incompetence, and malfeasance.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/predicate-fear/616009/

“Hypocrisy only matters if you have shame” — Seth Meyers

“This election isn’t to prevent authoritarian rule in the U.S., because it’s already here.” — Francis Wilkinson, Bloomberg Opinion

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people — does not even pretend to try.

Instead, he tries to divide us.

We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort… three years without mature leadership.”

That is a savage slam by a political opponent against a sitting United States President.

But wait — that is not from a hostile Democrat.

It is from General James Mattis, Trump’s own Defence Secretary from 2017 to 2019.

But never in U.S. history has there been such an avalanche of condemnations from the top military brass.

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These have been provoked by more than 12 separate issues.

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/us-military-leaders-line-up-to-condemn-commander-in-chief-trump,14328

Stantisfernuthin’ letting out the truth, a bit?

What fatigue? I can’t wait to vote for Trump again. Best president since Lincoln. MAGA 2020

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Well, Lincoln’s U.S. death toll was because of racist southern ‘conservatives’ chose to wage war against the United States.

Trump’s U.S. death toll is again because of racist southern ‘conservatives’… that chose to wage biological warfare against the United States.

President Trump has done more to lower the Democrat unemployment than any Democrat in history. Between all the Democrats shills in the media who have hissy fits and melt downs over every little tweet that he puts out to all the liberal so called “psychoanalyst” that are raking in the buck dealing with the dem meltdowns.

How much lying does a person have to do before they are diagnosed with a pathological condition? You can’t trust Trump to give you a weather report, a vaccine schedule, or a plan for the future, any plan.

I am SO tired of that grumpy-I’m-mad-at-you-and-you’d-better-be-afraid puss. NOBODY BUT YOU CARES IF YOU’RE UNHAPPY, DONNY! Oh; but then, HE’s the only one who matters, so….

The hate on the left for the president and Republicans is truly astonishing.

I see Stantis has joined the herd of mindless minions of the Democrat Party. I once had hope for him. May he and George Soros carry on.

Can’t be.

As any of His Disiciples will tell you — and everyone — any and all thoughts or utterances that are negative about The Messiah are the result of Trump Derangement Syndrome and only TDS.

That’s because even though Trump has NO religious beliefs whatsoever, never attends church, and has never read ANY of the bible, ALL his so-called sins are totally, totally forgiven.

Because he hates Those People.

Just like His Disciples.

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It’s documented that he offered to pay for an abortion at least once.

How many of His Disciples would swear — on a bible — that they actually believe he’s never paid for an abortion, ever?

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200,000 deaths — not a problem. “It is what it is.”