GARBAGE MAN

Are Trump supporters garbage?

The short answer is yes.

Let me explain: Human beings are massively defective mentally. We are stupid, crazy, and unaware of it. That's just how we roll. We evolved to have the illusion of smarts in lieu of actual smarts.

(By and large. It's a bell-curve spectrum. Some folks really are smart; you can identify them by their doubts. Stupid people are cock-sure. The vast majority of the human population is stupid, stupid-adjacent, or very effing stupid.)

Unfortunately, if you pound enough poop into ordinary human beings, they are liable to turn into garbage. That's just how it works.

(Metaphorically speaking, it's a kind of chemical reaction.)

And Donald Trump is nothing if not a mountain of radioactive poop.

(Just to be clear: poop equals lies, idiotic statements, and stupid mistakes a certified moron can't help but double-down on.)

Trump is also a vigorous purveyor of his product. He will force bucket after bucket of poop into his followers, completely overwhelming any model of poop deflector they may have installed in the past.

If you are at all susceptible, he will turn you.

Once turned, you will happily disseminate his poop to others. You'll become a mini-Trump poop dispenser, passing along his poop to friends and family, infecting their vulnerable human minds and turning them all into carriers.

(In this pathogen model of politics, Trump is Patient Zero.)

If you start out Republican, you are at greater risk.

You're already splashing around in that pleasant pot of luke warm water—but then the Trump-heat is turned up. In the end, you'll be fully boiled and ready to serve: MAGA-worthy for the rest of your life.

Obviously, some Republicans manage to resist the process. They leap from the pot while they still can. They warn others about the allure of the pot. They may even ask fellow Republicans to make the jump and vote for the Democrat (this time, at least).

Impossible to say if this trend will last.

But garbage people want to live. They want to mate with you and propagate.

So be warned: When Donald Trump finally totters off the stage, MAGA-worthy folks will gather up the available materials and build another on.

Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.

THE ENEMY WITHIN

Donald Trump has lately been talking about the "enemy within" and what he will have to do to defeat it. He says it might be necessary to engage the National Guard. Or, if it's "really necessary," the military.

Who is he talking about?

He mentions the radical left, who are of course crazy.

(All of Trump's enemies are designated crazy.)

At the end of his rant, he says something like "we can't let it happen again."

This is a hint as to the identity of the enemy within, which is so much more dangerous than China or Russia.

What is it that Trump desperately wants to avoid in the future? What could "happen again" that absolutely must be stopped?

I think he can only be referring to the "theft" of the 2020 election.

The problem is, Trump is having a lot of trouble identifying the perpetrators and their methods. Who stole the election, exactly? And how did they do it?

And how would he employ the military to defeat these anti-democratic monsters?

The need to use the military is another hint.

The target must be large and widespread in order for the military to be the right tool to use to deal with it.

So, what enemy of Trump qualifies: the Democrats, obviously.

Democrats are the ones who benefit from the defeat of a Republican presidential candidate.

Democrats are numerous (crucially, more numerous than Republicans), and they can be found pretty much everywhere, especially in large cities.

On more than one occasion, Trump has said Democrats hate America and are trying to destroy it.

When Democrats gang up to keep Trump out of the White House, it's clear (to Trump) they are targeting him because he is the only one who can thwart their evil plans.

But how can he do that in just four years as president? How can he fix the problem so that it stays fixed for all time?

He has to eliminate the Democrats, once and for all.

That's a big job. You'd need an army to do something like that.

Problem is, Trump can only gain access to an army by winning the 2024 election.

The only army he can field without winning the presidency involves militarizing his supporters. Now, many of those guys are already heavily armed. And there are right-wing militias available for getting the hard work done.

He'll need them.

If the next election is "rigged" (i.e., the Democrats win), Trump will need to mount a much more successful assault on the Capitol.

This time, there will be guns.

If his people can succeed in putting Trump back in power, he can finish the job of pacifying the nation with the actual military, which will now be at his disposal.

Maybe.

He'll need to place super-loyal commanders in position to make his orders stick.

(This is one point of friction that might ignite a new Civil War.)

So, what will Trump do with all his political prisoners?

Assuming they are not summarily executed, these "lunatics" will have to be housed someplace.

Which is where the new migrant camps come in.

Trump could use millions of illegal immigrants to build vast camps for housing Democrats awaiting trial for treason (or whatever convenient charge can be made against them; another available charge: "interfering with a Trump").

Could this scenario be the reason Trump plans to build large illegal migrant camps instead of simply deporting them?

I guess time will tell.

NO MORE LIES!

The office of the President of the United States is too powerful (read: dangerous) to allow it to be filled by a lying scumbag. We need to insure that such a person cannot hold that office.

We do that by not allowing such a person to run for that office.

Somewhere earlier I suggested three tests that would need to be passed in order for someone to be a candidate for the office of president: 1) the written test emigrants must pass to become citizens of this country; 2) an FBI background investigation to determine if the proposed candidate could conceivably be given a security clearance (the idea that a scumbag liar could be handed nuclear launch codes simply because he managed to bamboozle enough voters is bizarrely ridiculous—any nuclear power willing to do that should be sanctioned by the world); 3) review by a panel of psychologists to see if the candidate is a goofball unfit for office.

(Some may disagree, but I'd be surprised if Donald Trump could pass any of these three tests.)

Now, during a campaign by any approved candidate if falsehoods are presented as truth in any social media post or during videos of rallies, etc., the candidate would be given 24 hours to amend or withdraw that statement. If the candidate refuses, he or she would be subject to arbitration. If the candidate fails arbitration, the candidacy would be terminated.

Should the candidate agree to amend or withdraw the offending statement, the candidacy could continue. But if this situation recurs, upon the tenth such faulty statement, the candidate would be subject to immediate arbitration, where the campaign's continuation would be on the line.

I suspect there would be many protests and appeals and lawsuits. So be it.

Truth must be a threshold requirement. No person should be allowed to lie his or her way into the presidency. Human beings are simply too susceptible.

For that reason, the voters themselves need to be vetted by similar tests to form the body of the electorate. Some level of competency must be enforced.

(More protests and lawsuits on the way, you bet!)

So who would run this arbitration process, this extremely consequential fact-checking?

I don't know. Retired judges? Retired military and industrial leaders? Retired college professors? Folks like that. (And of course they all must pass the three tests to serve.)

There is no group of potential arbiters that would not be assailed by somebody.

Nevertheless, a thing might be done that can be maintained above the sea of grumbling humans. (We have here a planet of energetic grumblers.)

American adults vetted to be presidential voters could also be those folks who perform the role of "direct government," which could replace our current system of "representative government."

Electing representatives to perform in Congress was necessary at the time of the founding of this country when communications and transportation were rudimentary. You had to elect someone who was enough like you to act on your behalf in that room in Washington. Let him vote his conscience and hope for the best.

We now have the technology to dump all that, eliminating both elections and reelections, along with all the corruption these processes engender.

Oh, and by the way: no more political parties!

And here's a bonus: without a physical congress, there's no possible career path through congress, so nobody can be blackmailed into supporting a presidential candidate who threatens to "primary" a member of his own party, thus destroying that person's political career.

If a potential presidential candidate simply can't stop himself from uttering lies, exaggerations, and delusions, that person need not apply. He or she would be better served by a podcast and a sponsor with very deep pockets.

Say what you want, a-hole, and take the consequences.