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I was looking back at the post I wrote back in November about Donald Trump. You know, the one in which I said the following:
"Here is my own personal crackpot theory as to why Donald Trump is somehow still in the running for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America.
"My theory is that this is all a calculated ploy by the GOP as a whole, Trump fully in collusion, with the goal of trying to make all of the other potential nominees look more sane/less annoying/less asinine/less scary by comparison. The longer Donald Trump remains in the running, and continues running his big, stupid mouth as he is wont to do, the more likely people in general will be to accept Ben Carson or Jeb Bush or Carly Fiorina or whoever it is that will actually end up winning the Republican nomination. 'Well, at least that one isn't Donald Trump.'"
In that same post, however, I also said this:
"With all of that said, though, no amount of Donald Trump buffoonery will make guys like Rick Perry or Rick Santorum or Ted Cruz more palatable, but then those guys already have even less of a chance than Trump of winning, so I guess it doesn't much matter."
And yet, fast forward to now. Ted fucking Cruz is now the goddamn GOP frontrunner.
Here I thought we were already living in Bizarro World even back then, in November 2015. I thought it was already bad enough that Trump himself was the frontrunner. I couldn't have even fathomed back then that I would be saying something as utterly, horrifically ludicrous as "Ted Cruz is now the GOP frontrunner," less than three months later.
Here's a tweet I saw shortly after the Iowa results that I think is rather fitting:
Maybe, hopefully, Iowa is just an aberration. Maybe, hopefully, as the race continues to unfold, cooler, smarter, less flat-out insane heads will prevail (and I'm not at all convinced that climate-change-denier/would-be-Obamacare-repealer/warhawk/etc. Marco Rubio is such a head). In any case, though, it's truly a terrifying world that we live in these days, if either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz can be the frontrunner, even if only for a (hopefully) short time. All I can hope for is that the asininity of the GOP in this day and age means that Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton or whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being will be a complete shoo-in come November 2016 (and, truly, that's the only reason I can think of that it would be good to have Trump or Cruz as the GOP nominee)[1], but I dreadfully fear that we might actually be stuck with at least four years of "President Trump" or "President Cruz." *ugh*shiver* I doubt that the world will end even if the worst does indeed come to pass, but... it certainly won't be a bed of roses either, that's for sure.
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So... not only was Donald Jizzstain Trump elected as POTUS in 2016, he was fucking reelected yet the fuck again in goddamn 2024. Let weeping Jesus rape you.
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(I really hope I won't have to make a "Ted Cruz" LJ tag, but I fear I might have to. I usually wait until after I've already made several posts about a topic before I go back and tag them as such, and I hope I won't need to make all that many more posts about Ted fucking Cruz.)
[1] - With that said, mind you, I'm still of the belief that the Democrats aren't much better than the Republicans. But the fact that they are better, on the whole, at least marginally, on most issues, than any of the current crop of GOP candidates (but especially much, much better than either Trump or Cruz) means that I still do hope one of them wins over the GOP. (And if we could get as many of those goddamn GOP/Teabagger assholes out of Congress as possible, come November 2016, that'd be great, too.)
"Here is my own personal crackpot theory as to why Donald Trump is somehow still in the running for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President of the United States of America.
"My theory is that this is all a calculated ploy by the GOP as a whole, Trump fully in collusion, with the goal of trying to make all of the other potential nominees look more sane/less annoying/less asinine/less scary by comparison. The longer Donald Trump remains in the running, and continues running his big, stupid mouth as he is wont to do, the more likely people in general will be to accept Ben Carson or Jeb Bush or Carly Fiorina or whoever it is that will actually end up winning the Republican nomination. 'Well, at least that one isn't Donald Trump.'"
In that same post, however, I also said this:
"With all of that said, though, no amount of Donald Trump buffoonery will make guys like Rick Perry or Rick Santorum or Ted Cruz more palatable, but then those guys already have even less of a chance than Trump of winning, so I guess it doesn't much matter."
And yet, fast forward to now. Ted fucking Cruz is now the goddamn GOP frontrunner.
Here I thought we were already living in Bizarro World even back then, in November 2015. I thought it was already bad enough that Trump himself was the frontrunner. I couldn't have even fathomed back then that I would be saying something as utterly, horrifically ludicrous as "Ted Cruz is now the GOP frontrunner," less than three months later.
Here's a tweet I saw shortly after the Iowa results that I think is rather fitting:
Reminder:
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) February 2, 2016
Donald Trump is a performance artist who plays a sociopath on TV.
Ted Cruz is the character Trump plays on TV.
Maybe, hopefully, Iowa is just an aberration. Maybe, hopefully, as the race continues to unfold, cooler, smarter, less flat-out insane heads will prevail (and I'm not at all convinced that climate-change-denier/would-be-Obamacare-repealer/warhawk/etc. Marco Rubio is such a head). In any case, though, it's truly a terrifying world that we live in these days, if either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz can be the frontrunner, even if only for a (hopefully) short time. All I can hope for is that the asininity of the GOP in this day and age means that Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton or whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being will be a complete shoo-in come November 2016 (and, truly, that's the only reason I can think of that it would be good to have Trump or Cruz as the GOP nominee)[1], but I dreadfully fear that we might actually be stuck with at least four years of "President Trump" or "President Cruz." *ugh*shiver* I doubt that the world will end even if the worst does indeed come to pass, but... it certainly won't be a bed of roses either, that's for sure.
(EDIT)
So... not only was Donald Jizzstain Trump elected as POTUS in 2016, he was fucking reelected yet the fuck again in goddamn 2024. Let weeping Jesus rape you.
(/EDIT)
(I really hope I won't have to make a "Ted Cruz" LJ tag, but I fear I might have to. I usually wait until after I've already made several posts about a topic before I go back and tag them as such, and I hope I won't need to make all that many more posts about Ted fucking Cruz.)
[1] - With that said, mind you, I'm still of the belief that the Democrats aren't much better than the Republicans. But the fact that they are better, on the whole, at least marginally, on most issues, than any of the current crop of GOP candidates (but especially much, much better than either Trump or Cruz) means that I still do hope one of them wins over the GOP. (And if we could get as many of those goddamn GOP/Teabagger assholes out of Congress as possible, come November 2016, that'd be great, too.)
