The American visceral hatred of The Donald, Episode XXVII

I have been a near-obsessive student of both German and American politics since 1969, when I completed my University thesis at Liverpool – then one of the finest politics schools in the UK – that boasted both Fred Ridley and Bob Kilroy-Silk among its lecturers and tutors on the campus stretching from Upper Parliament Street to the Catholic Cathedral (known to local Scousers as The Wig-Wam).

I visited the US Library of Congress to research the mountain range of evidence against the Nazis in 1968. It was vomit-inducing stuff: but I’m here to tell you that Hitlerite ideas never got even close to the hatred of Donald Trump that exists in 2024 as the POTUS November election draws near [at what sometimes seems like the pace of a snail on valium].

Throughout the 1930s, the influential German ‘Bund’ anti-semites were unalloyed admirers of the Nazi regime. The wheel has now turned full circle, and the Hate Figure Donald Trump is perceived to be “the new Hitler” when in fact – if you look at his views about neocon interference in the affairs of others [from Ukraine to Germany] – Trump is a isolationist who calls any form of imperialism “anti-American”.

But the dislike of Trump among the banal leftists who now run the DNC contains a degree of vitriol I’ve never experienced before.

What’s more, it’s being exported vigorously among hacks who should know better. Read this Economist extract, and weep:

‘Mr Trump, meanwhile, has a dismal record: supporters tried to overturn his election loss in 2020; he faces federal charges over his alleged participation in that scheme and has been convicted of felonies relating to his 2016 presidential campaign. On July 13th, at a rally in Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old man shot at Mr Trump, grazing the former president’s ear and killing a bystander. After this assassination attempt, politicians of all stripes urged allies and rivals to lower the political temperature. Mr Trump, who showed rare restraint in the aftermath of the shooting, has since returned to his divisive rhetoric in speeches.’

It’s utterly inaccurate crap from start to finish.

Meanwhile, the Biden psychodrama took a new turn following some further investigation by online diggers during Friday and Saturday last weekend when a story ran [and took hold] alleging that the POTUS hisself [for lo, it was he] developed a “serious medical condition” that required Air Force One to make a return journey to DC in under three hours….the normal scheduled time being 4.4 hours.

Joe’s contraction of an as yet undiagnosed faster-than-sound horror close to busting the sound barrier remains a mystery, although UK tabloid The Daily Mail records that, during the flight, “the plane shook alarmingly”.

This is how the Establishment US media dealt with the episode:

This is little more than standard State mendacity: ‘No evidence’ [Reuters]; ‘False reports’ [AP News]; online chatter falsely claims [NBC]; ‘Reports falsely claim’ [Yahoo Canada]. The online engines from Brave to Zoho are rammed with bot-written, tin-man denials of the med emergency referred to in the piece, which is usually [for me] de facto confirmation of the story.

Last on parade there thought they’d kill it good and proper like by saying reports were “100% false”. It was only a matter of time before it was floated out there that the reports of Trump having been hit by a bullet were quite possibly 150% false – thus proving yet again that The Donald was an attention seeker and pathological liar. This was the FBI director’s defence for making something of a cod’s ass of the security at the rally: “Yuur wull, s’Trump innit, eh? Whadyer expect? I mean, am I right or wot?” All that fuss, he continued, “but my guess is that Fibber Trumpy-Rumpy-Pumpy was only hit by fiddly little bit of shrapnell, I mean “what a wuss!”‘

By next Tuesday, we’ll be at 200% when it “emerges” that the former POTUS had a bottle of Heinz tomato ketchup in his pocket. Then 250% by Friday week, when the USSS bullet directional audio research unit will be able to confirm that, in fact without provocation, Satanic Agent Donald Trump opened fire on Thomas Crooks, and the disgraced former White House Putin spy now faces a 639 year sentence for premeditated homicide.

REALITY CHECK: This part is genuine….Team Trump requested 24/7 surveillance of the roofs in the rally location [using drones] several times during a 36 hour period prior to the assassination attempt. It was flatly rejected by the FBI.

Are you by any chance getting the same impression as me?….that is, the USSS doesn’t give a flying duck whether the Donald lives or dies?

I started out thinking that this episode was a socio-cultural tragedy and nothing more. But when the facts start to overwhelm the theory, the open mind must come back into play.

What all open-minded thinkers always suspected is that Sleepie Joe is and always was Sleazie Joe. His supporters now need to follow the example of anti-ideology commentators and accept apolitical empiricism. Get a load of this: varietal sources in Washington have slightly different versions of the deal struck by the Biden Crime Family to DeChernobylise the Demrat POTUS ticket, but this is how – give or take a billion bucks here and there – it appeared to John Day [who usually knows his onions] at the end of last weekend:

‘Team Biden was reportedly “asking” for a $3 billion presidential library, a $100 million book deal, and pardons for Joe and all family members’ as the price for standing down.

Nice work if you can get it, huh?

Whether Joe-Joe got what he wanted is unclear. But if he did, dumping a personal endorsement of Kamala Harris on the DNC was an odd way of saying “Thank you”

Predictably, there was a post-pulling-out bounce, and Harris suddenly had a 2% popular vote lead over The Donald. But in an Electoral College State-by-State system, such is meaningless data. It remains true to say that a large and powerful minority in the DNC would rather have the New post-Biden generation’s mettle tested than ham-fisted Harris setting out to fail.

There are two possible pathways from here on: BSD’s in the Party could select and lock in a new nominee before the convention in Chicago, which begins on Aug. 19. [Kamal’s prezz support has made that ten times more tricky]. Or the second option – not faced since the hubble-bubble of 1968 – an “open” convention in which, theoretically, we could end up with a Bugs Bunny>Mickey Mouse ticket.

Other more considered signs within the DNC ranks point strongly to a powerful injection of reality at last among those who would rather nominate Marine Le Pen than Chaotic Kamala.

Alternatively again, the 2028 thinkers might at last get a word in edgways. Trump can only stay in the Oval Office for one Term. The gallant Dem loser could be seen as a winner in ’28 if this time around he/she halts the landslide expected for Trump.

But don’t hold your breath: contemporary Democrats lack profound thinking equipment.

Before all this nonsense returns to Old [ie, real] Normality, it would be good be aware of New Normality signs designed to test our acceptance of the latter…viz:

*Pennsylvania is so named because it is the the world Capital of pencil production

*Oregon was founded by Irish cook and trillionaire Seamus O’Regon in 1771

*“Texas” itself comes from the Caddo word for “friends”. The Caddo were a confederacy of Native American tribes that dominated East Texas.

*In a bid to persuade people that everything was new in America, everything got named ‘New’…New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York and so forth. But the main bloke in charge of State names, Fidel Havabanana, was close to being suicidally bored. Having invented the name Newtah (and accepted that his irony was lost on the apparatchik to whom he reported, one Herbert Y. Featherduster) his boredom turned to recklessness.

All was going reasonably well until Fidel Havabanana sufferered a rush of blood to the head, and put forward a radical new name for Hawaii: ‘Well hello cheeky,’we’ve all got your number, let’s play pink oboes together.

By the time none of us can tell excrement from excellence, the WHO will raise the heat under another pot of man-made virus and that, in theory, will be that.

And on that glass-empty note, I leave with an update of opinion polls showing that Meeow Harris the dead cat’s bounce lasted just 48 hours: Trump now leads her 44-41%. Given time, who knows? Maybe the legacy US media might get round to telling us the Swing State situation.

Enjoy the weekend.

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