Today is Friday, November 15, 2024. The iron grip Donald Dump exercises on his cult party is just unbelievable. Evidence of this comes from a Texas Republican by the name of Troy Nehls who demonstrated how obsessed he is with the twice-impeached, convicted felon, sexual predator, and insurrectionist, when he was interviewed by the folks at MSNBC on November 13, two days ago, and said this: “If Donald Trump says, ‘Jump three feet high and scratch your head,’ we all jump three feet high and scratch our heads. That’s it.” Uh! Does this sound awful to anyone with any kind of reasoning ability? Does anyone need more proof that Dump has hijacked the Republican Party all these years and made it in his own ghastly image? The Texas Congressman embarrassed himself even further during this interview, saying, “The good lord saved America, he just put Donald Trump in charge of that effort.” Don’t you want to retch and curse at the television set for showing this idiot in all of his Trump-deranged glory? Demonstrating his undying allegiance to Dump even further, Nehls cosponsored a bill in April 2024 to rename Washington Dulles International Airport after Donald Dump. The month prior to that, he was snapped wearing a T-shirt with Dump’s mugshot on it – and an upside-down bow-tie, which really added to the image. All of this information is contained in an online article for The Mary Sue by Sarah Barrett entitled “‘You’re embarrassing yourself.’ Everyone is laughing at this Republican’s deranged Trump obsession.”

Before admitting that he would jump three feet in the air and scratch his empty head, Nehls said this about his Orange Leader, “There’s no question he’s the leader of our party. So now he’s got a mission statement (he does?). His mission, his goals and objectives, whatever that is – we need to embrace it. All of it, every single word.” If Dump said to his undying faithful to crash a car into a tree, do you think they would gladly do it?

Late night host and Dump critic Jimmy Fallon lampooned Nehl’s statements to the press. During his Thursday night monologue, he mocked Nehls and outright called him a bootlicker. He said, “Troy, you’re embarrassing yourself.” He also added, “He’s not gonna sleep with you, OK? Is this what we get from Texas now?” Fallon went on to characterize Dump’s Cabinet choices “a battalion of bozos.”

Oh, and the dizzying array of Cabinet picks by a demented wanna-be fascist get worse by the minute: there is pet-murderer Kristi Noem of South Dakota who was pocked to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Other than killing her not-too-beloved dog, Cricket, and some chickens, I believe, Noem has zero experience with immigration issues and virtually none with other major DHS concerns like combatting terror threats. Again, there is Tulsi Gabbard who was chosen to be the top intelligence official in the U.S. government where she is proudly proclaimed by Russian television to be an agent for them, and the last one, Peter Hegseth, who is a Fox News host, but now was chosen by the president-elect to head the more than three-million-person Department of Defense and its $850 billion budget, who has zero management experience and zero defense policy knowhow altogether. The last, as mentioned in an earlier blog, includes the ineffably bad choice of Matt Gaetz as attorney general who has never prosecuted or defended a case and has virtually no experience working as a lawyer. All of these picks are unsettling and worthy of outright rejection, but let’s see if this ever happens. All I can say is that if these Dump loyalists are not stopped from assuming their consequential posts, it will be a disaster for America. The first of many in the next four long years!

Try to have a good weekend.

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