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Mary Trump's advice to Donald's GOP opponents: 'Just call him what he is. He’s a loser.' [1]
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Date: 2023-06-05
On Monday, former vice president and mild suppository Mike Pence decided he wouldn’t leave us hanging any longer and threw his hat into the ring as forcefully as a milquetoast toady with the personality of microwaved toaster strudel possibly can. The question now on everyone’s lips (everyone but Pence, whose mouth remains firmly sutured to his ex-boss and would-be murderer’s oleaginous glutei), is “hmm, is he going to actually run for president, or is he just waiting around to see if Trump finally loses his long, courageous battle with canned hams?”
With Pence’s long-awaited decision (well, no doubt someone was awaiting it, and you have to admit it did take a long time), there are now no fewer than nine officially declared GOP presidential candidates. They are, in approximate order of impotence, Pence, Ryan Binkley, Larry Elder, Vivek Ramaswamy, Asa Hutchinson, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, and Donald Trump. One of these candidates has been indicted for business fraud, is likely to soon be charged with violating the Espionage Act, was officially declared a lying sexual assaulter by a jury or his peers, and incited an insurrection against the U.S. government that nearly got one of the other candidates on the list killed. So naturally he’s the frontrunner—and his declared opponents are terrified of challenging him in any direct or meaningful way. Guess they don’t have enough material. Or they’re simply cowed by his scintillating wit and intellect.
In fact, other than a mild rebuke from former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson—the answer to a circa 2025 trivia question that literally no one other than Asa Hutchinson will know—Trump skated through his gauntlet of feckless foes unscathed after being found liable by a jury for sexual assault and defamation.
So what gives? Are these fools actually running for president? Or are they just waiting for a deus ex machina to clear the way? In fact, one of the few potential candidates who looks eager for a fight is former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whom Trump also attempted to kill. (Don’t worry, Ron, Nikki, et al. He’ll get around to the rest of you in due time.) Given how deeply unpopular Christie is, early reporting that he may enter the race just to enfeeble Trump makes a lot of sense. But what about the rest of these clowns? Are they ever going to step up and try to lay a glove on Trump, or are they merely there to split the sane vote between the vanishingly small cohort of lucid GOP voters?
Well, Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump, who’s never been shy about criticizing her unctuous uncle, is wondering the same thing. And she’s making her frustration known. Speaking with MSNBC host Katie Phang, Mary Trump questioned these candidates’ hands-off strategy in light of their top opponent’s numerous—and glaring—liabilities.
Watch:
PHANG: “You’ve made it clear Donald’s an opportunist, and he showed he’ll do whatever it takes to get what he wants, but he loathes humiliation. Do his opponents for the GOP primary take a page from Donald Trump’s own playbook and go for the jugular?” TRUMP: “Katie, it amazes me that they've not done that yet, and again, I think it’s because they’re restrained by their fear of his stranglehold on the base. And I guess they should be, but if they were serious people, they would understand that they have a huge opportunity to take Donald out without having to contradict him in terms of policy—as if there is such a thing on the right these days. … Just call him what he is. He’s a loser. He loses constantly. He’s never legitimately won anything in his life. He is a thin-skinned baby who has nothing to offer but white grievance. If I were one of these candidates, I would simply show up to a debate with a bowl of mashed potatoes, because his very first experience of humiliation was when he was being a total brat before my grandmother put dinner on the table and my dad [Fred Trump Jr.], just in order to shut him up and stop him from tormenting his little brother Robert, took a bowl of mashed potatoes and dumped it on Donald’s head. So, he hates that story. He has never been able to laugh at himself in a healthy way. So … it’s really not difficult to get under that extraordinarily thin skin of his.”
Exactly. Because other than Trump’s spastic colon of a personality, numerous scandals, clear incompetence, utter dearth of knowledge on any subject, existential legal entanglements, and unsettling ocher aura, there’s literally nothing to attack him on.
Seriously, though, what are they waiting for? Will they finally speak up if and when Trump cuts Christie open like a tauntaun on the debate stage and proudly wears his hide to a rally in Des Moines the next day? Or are they just counting on special counsel Jack Smith to deliver the death blow they’re all too afraid to attempt?
This country could scarcely survive another four years of the Tsar-struck pumpkin-spiced Gotti. If Pence, et al., want to believe they’re really patriots, it’s high time they prove it. Unfortunately, that seems about as likely as a January 2025 Mike Pence inauguration.
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