Trump Has Made the Left Fucking Stupid

Donald Trump has made the American left fucking stupid. I honestly can't think of a more eloquent way to put it than that. In one of histories most vicious ironies, the greatest legacy of Orange Man Bad may be that he drop kicked his enemies IQ in half to match his own. Like a Reddit troll, the Donald dared the left to overreact and then nailed them for taking the bait. The mainstream left has never fully recovered from the Reagan Revolution. They had the opportunity to take the grass roots infrastructure of McGovern and the Antiwar Movement and pivot to its natural successor, Ralph Nader, but they chose to go another way with it instead and ended up giving the Democratic Party back to the right with the Clinton Regime. 

Your regular rank and file Democrat has never been more hysterically unhinged than they are right now on the cusp of a Biden victory. Their response to an unthinkable Trump presidency has been a binge on Russophobic Cold War paranoia and an open armed embrace of the psychotic neocons in the "Intelligence Community," who saw Trump as merely a threat to brand marketability. Your average garden variety leftist now sounds like a politically correct Joe McCarthy, out to deplatform anybody who smells like borsch and questions the omnipotence of their geriatric savior-elect. Sadly, even the far left doesn't seem too far behind the caboose of this crazy train.

We've seen this recently with the exile of two of America's last great left-wing journalists, Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi, to the social media outback of Substack. Both of these gentlemen were goddamn rock stars during the Bush era and rightfully so, but after just four short years of Trump hysteria they've gone from A-list muckrakers to persona non grata for the unforgivable crime of bringing up the unpleasant fact that Russiagate was a totally baseless farce cooked up by the same clowns who sold us the Iraq War. Greenwald has gone so far as to abandon the bottomless billionaire piggy bank he helped build known as The Intercept after it's editors violated his contract and refused to publish a piece for observing another unpleasant fact, that Joe Biden's son is an errant scumfuck. The left, even the far left, have responded to this blow by shrugging and saying, "Well, he talks to Tucker Carlson so he can suck it." This is the motherfucker who helped break the biggest story since Watergate with Edward Snowden, but he talks to Tucker Carlson so he can fucking suck it.

Glenn committed the cardinal sin of damaging the shit caked name of our great grey hope to destroy the great orange menace. The far left has never closed ranks behind a lesser evil the way they have with Joe Biden. From Angela Davis to Noam Chomsky to Code Pink, they've all decided that the threat of Donald Trump is so deadly that endorsing a corrupt lifelong warmonger is the only solution. On no occasion has a candidate been coddled like that racist imbecile and now that racist imbecile is our president. They kept him on ice in some Delaware bunker for the last six months except for the off coherent day when they could afford to push him over to his adoring press corps to answer questions about ice cream flavors until he called some random ass-kisser the N-word and it was time for more Geritol. This man is clearly batshit bonkers even by post-Reagan standards and no one but those morons on Fox News will say dick about it or his crackhead trust fund brat of a son. This is a dangerous ecosystem to build a presidency on. Some might argue that it's one ripe for the very fascism it supposedly defeated.

This all becomes justifiable as long as you buy into the notion that Donald Trump is an unprecedented tyrant who has brought us all to the brink of a Fourth Reich with his Alt-Right reign. Even morally responsible leftists have chosen to throw objectivity into the wood chipper based on the notion that they're doing what they have to do to save democracy. But what has Trump done to makes him any worse than any other president? When you look at the man's few actual policies, he looks pretty fucking basic. In fact, compared to the regime he followed, you know, the one Biden was actually a part of, he looks downright mild. The Obama Administration destroyed half of Africa to overthrow Gaddafi and set the stage for the rise of the Islamic State with their scheme to kill Assad in the sequel. Obama nearly quadrupled the size of the police state currently at Trump's disposal and afforded the executive office with the ability to murder random American teenagers by remote control on command. And in spite of all of Trump's race baiting bluster, Obama and Biden out-fashed the shit out of Mr. Border-wall by deporting more undocumented immigrants than any regime in modern history.

So I'm sorry, maybe I'm missing something here, but where is the goddamn fire and why did we need napalm to put it out. On every single goddamn issue, Biden matches Trump on evil and frequently doubles it. When you turn off that asshole's Twitter account, Trump looks a lot like a right-wing Jimmy Carter. Half a jackass who can't seem to shoot straight at the broadside of a barn. Speaking as an anti-imperialist who puts issues of war and peace front and center, Trump's record reads like a list of failures and even a couple half-decent decisions. He helped push Saudi Arabia's war on Shiites on the Arab Peninsula to genocidal proportions (think Jimmy on East Timor) and pointlessly pushed Iran back into sanctioned poverty to please his hyper-Zionist donors, but he belly flopped big time in our own hemisphere, making Maduro more popular than ever with his half-assed cockeyed coups and overthrowing Evo Morales just to have his party comeback with a vengeance in Bolivia's recent elections. America First was always a pose but Trump has generally resisted calls within his own administration to make things way worse everywhere in the Middle East but the West Bank. How is this the next Hitler?

You want the beef? Here it is. The establishment hates a loser. That's why they hated Carter, that's why they turned on Bush during his second term and pushed forward a superficial token agent of change with Obama, and that's why they hate Trump. Trump is embarrassing. He's an openly racist imbecile that makes our daughtering empire look like a wolfpack of inbred hillbilly cannibals. The establishment clearly prefers carefully closeted racists like Biden and Obama, who can ethnically cleanse the Rio Grande with a smile and then cover up the smell of fascism with a glorified air freshener like DACA. The only thing unprecedented about Trump was that he was never supposed to happen. The same media who pretends to hyperventilate every time that asshole cracks a fart gave his ridiculous 2016 rodeo round the clock coverage because they figured their darling Hillary was a shoe-in. They badly underestimated how toxic the Clintonian brand of globalist neoliberalism had become to Rust Belt America. They blew it. They got a practical joke elected president and now they want us to unite and turn back time to when they successfully sold us eight more years of Bush as change we can believe in.

The left has taken the bait and swallowed it whole. Nobody gives a fuck about war anymore. They just want free shit. If 2020 or 2016 had been run fairly, they would have got it with Bernie. They would have gotten another drone strike progressive White House slaughtering poor people on four continents while they kept us happy with free healthcare and affordable education. And that seems to be enough for the left in this country. A Faustian Socialism that's willing to look the other way as long as the empire doesn't bring the war home like Trump did and uses the right pronouns. This is what latter day morons like Noam Chomsky think they can push Biden into, as if that strategy has ever worked before. Anyone who interferes with this casserole of delusional fantasy can now be cast off as part of some mythical Red-Brown conspiracy to hand the White House over to Putin. And that is Trump's legacy, and Biden's as well. May god have mercy on our souls.

I know, I know, your offended. Queers like Glenn Greenwald and I were built to be seen not heard. Just ignore my latest heresy and ship me off to Bolivia. If I'm to be exiled, I'd like it to at least be to a shithole country who hasn't sold off the left half of their souls to Max Boot. Gracias.

Peace, Love, & Empathy- Nicky/CH

Soundtrack; songs that influenced this post

*  Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

*  Karma Police by Radiohead

*  Crank by Catherine Wheel

*  Game Shows Touch Our Lives by the Mountain Goats

*  What Goes One by the Velvet Underground

*  Motion Sickness by Phoebe Bridgers

*  Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey

*  I Wanna Be Your Dog by the Stooges

*  In the Street by Big Star

*  Here Comes Success by Iggy Pop

*  Northside by Jesse Kivel

*  (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding by Elvis Costello