Latter Days

At the annual Nuremberg rally - er, Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Trump revealed the Coming of the Apocalypse by declaring to be the "warrior, justice and retribution" of all those patriots and defenders of the state who have been sinned and libeled against by the radical left.

Also, at the same underattended conference, 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, speaking to a bunch of empty chairs,  made a statement that was as well reported as the conference was attended.  She said that "wokeism" is a virus more deadly than a zoonotic virus of any pandemic.  This is going on while anti-abortion governors crack down on abortion pill distribution.  Walgreens has already decided not to offer abortion pills in at least twenty states. 

And though black women like April Ryan and Zerlina Maxwell say it's up to the sistas to save America, Fani Willis, the one sista who could actually do that by indicting Trump for illegal interference in the 2020 Georgia presidential electoral college vote, might not get that chance.  A bill quickly circulating through the Georgia state legislature will give the state government the authority to remove district attorneys like Willis for abuse of power, defined as "black women who investigate and obviously hate white men."  This racist bill will allow Trump to escape indictment in the one slam-dunk case against him, although he says he will continue running for President if he's indicted to fulfill his promise of destroying the bleeding-heart liberals who want to make us give up our American way of life.

This is happening as the Florida state legislature may consider a bill "canceling" the Florida Democratic Party for its support of racism . . . in the 1850s and 1860s - while Ron DeSantis continues to ban black history from being taught in schools . . . even in February. 

And in Tennessee, the governor has singed a bill outlawing drag shows, which will likely punish cable providers with fines and imprisonment for their corporate officers if they air "RuPaul's Drag Race" in the state.  (Yeah, and maybe they'll ban Hillary Clinton from visiting Tennessee for being a drag king - those pantsuits!)  The RuPaul program, a celebration of drag-queen culture, is a favorite of New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, who, to the Make America Great Again crowd, is an obvious obstruction to their agenda, and she is clearly un-American for her solidarity with transsexuals and for her environmentalist agenda, and of course every true-red MAGA Republican knows what a threat to the Republic AOC and Jennifer Lopez are as Puerto Rican women for their solidarity with undocumented immigrants as well as J-Lo's anti-American, pro-migrant, indecent 2020 Super Bowl halftime show performance, the likes of which are likely to be banned in Tennessee if the Super Bowl is ever held in the state. 

I just have one question . . .

When did this country suddenly become Utah?

The last days are here.  Blow your trumpet (or your harmonica), son. 

CCRAPAC

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past weekend was meeting not of conservatives but a meeting of Trump supporters.   And Trump himself was happy to show up and kvetch about the election being stolen.  

From what I heard of Trump's speech - about thirty seconds, which was all I could take - he didn't attack President Biden as much as he attacked Republican members of Congress who voted to either impeach or convict him, and he's ready to get revenge on them - even the ones who are voluntarily retiring at the end of 2022, such as U.S. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania. I shudder to think why will happen to them!  The other speakers were just as scary, complaining about some sort of liberal plot involving women and people of color to destroy everything from the Muppets to plastic toys, and possibly even rock and roll or country radio (get sat if you don't like hip-hop, dudes, you can afford it!).  It less resembled an American conservative conference in Orlando than a Nazi rally in Nuremberg.    

Interestingly, only two-thirds of CPAC attendees supported Trump's effort to run for a second nonconsecutive term in 2024 in a straw poll.   The greater fear, of course, would be if Trump anoints an heir apparent to carry out his policies and drive the nation further into uncertainty.  That was how James K. Polk won the Democratic presidential nomination and ultimately the Presidency in 1844.  Former President Andrew Jackson still controlled the Democratic Party at the time despite having been out of power for eight years, and when he told the party to nominate Polk, the party listened.  (In a bizarre twist of fate, Martin Van Buren, who won the Presidency in 1836 because of Jackson's support, was trying for a comeback in 1844 after his loss to Whig William Henry Harrison in 1840.  He almost pulled it off, but he was noncommittal on the issue of annexing Texas, which Jackson strongly supported.)

The idea of Trump getting a minion of his own in the White House is just as terrifying as the idea of his own return to the Presidency.  At least when Jackson installed Polk, we got California as a result.  If these climate-change deniers get back in, California could burn into oblivion. 😨