TFG is getting really upset with Ron DeSanctimonious (DeSanctus for short) going from top student to valedictorian to class clown, meaning a near carbon copy of the man himself as has been described by most MAGA Republicans by the left for years.
What’s a fella to do? Serve him with an ethics complaint of course!
Trump’s MAGA Inc., a PAC, asked Florida’s Republican leader to investigate DeSantis for "leveraging his elected office and breaching his associated duties in a coordinated effort to develop his national profile, enrich himself and his political allies, and influence the national electorate." So far the ask is a 15 page complaint. DeSantis shrugs it off and indeed many complaints fade away without being pursued. The complaint interestingly is similar to one Trump himself received. The irony train seems to deliver to the Trump house often.
The 2024 campaign season is off to a fine pugilist exhibition, unless you are serious as Putin is in applying genocide to those Nazi Ukrainians. In that case we (TFG and his Meatball) are moon walking away in lockstep. As noted by Seth Abramson the NY Times bestselling author, Trump biographer, and lawyer and reported through Twitter today, the following.
Gov. DeSantis in his soft announce for the presidency is loosely aligning himself with the elements of the MAGA campaign point by point. He may be thinking he can slink on in and inherit all Trumps work if or when the big guy is sidelined by, oh let’s say, health concerns or a prison sentence. He has the accordion hands, the ill fitting suit. Will he be received well by Daddy Vlady? Much as Tucker Carlson aligns with Putins talks, the link attached, shows his mirroring Putin point for point, DeSantis is mimicking, mirroring or shadowing Trump. He wants the base. He wants to steal it is my best guess.
TFG’s MAGA base of 30 million or so Fox demented/adjacent viewers. That attached article is older-ish but still relevant and points to the small size of the base and how much sway it holds, looming large in what are often fearful conversations of stoked revenge. For now the China printed flags say “MAGA”, the “Trump” name and “2024”. That many flags can’t be wrong.
For all the fears, there are logic points that refute them. DeSantis is not a likely national candidate as much as the media presents him to be for now. It’s early and there are way more Fascists to vet for the ticket.
Some problems with words need to be cleared up. We have a lot of them flying around and two, fascist and woke need some help. They seems to be the natural opposites in todays world. Bandying them about. Here’s a MAGA fail as it applies to woke.
There are bunches of similar words that express the fascist worldview and wikipedia is a good place to start. The ultranationalist idea is something we are seeing with the newer labeling mission of the UltraMAGA faction as described by Bobert, and the Christian Nationalism builds on the idea of circling the wagons and fending off,… the woke? Yeah, likely.
There are sparkling points of overlap in todays Fascistic bent. Racism and the revival of an imperialist view we as a planet have been leaving behind.
And here are the fellas we most associate with Fascism.
Woke is considered a bad thing by the right, a thing to be stomped out violently and embraced by the left as a positive badge of a generally empathetic world view.
Today on Twitter, LanaQuest aka RosaSparks says,
“The term “woke: was created by Black people referring to being alert to systemic racial injustices. The first documented use of the phrase “stay woke” happened in the 1930’s when Lead Belly ended his song my advising Blacks traveling through Alabama to “stay woke”.
So, the (fascist) application of racial injustice meets its coin partner (woke) in its response of being alert to it.
Presented as a bookend to the opening photo. A well known, well copied bit from the most wonderful Marx Brothers in Duck Soup.
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This is excellent, Gari! Your 'one small voice' is unique, playful, educational, and addressed to the reader in a personal way, and seems to be loud and clear! Thank You.