The grown-ups have left the building - Trump thread #136

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As we descend into 4 years of madness...

(thanks @Jaichangecentfoisdenom and* *@AcrossthePond55 for the suggestions)

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/5200273-hands-across-the-water-trump-thread-135

I’m sorry. I can’t put myself inside of maga republicans.

I can’t put myself inside the mind of maga republicans that should say. 🤣🤪

Not all racism is equal ...

I suspect a lot of MAGA folk will have much less problem with a "brown" than a "black" skinned person. It's just the US history.

I am writing this in the UK which has a very similar approach to race as it does class. Replete with what offensive word to use to who. This was what John Cleese was exploring in the episode of Fawlty Towers that has since been tweaked to allow us to pretend it never happened. Much like persecuting homosexuals which also never happened.

Lots of empty space between many of their ears

They believe that just as Jesus has 'washed them clean of sin' so does believing in Trump 'wash you clean of 'otherness'. At least for now.

There are Black, Latino, Asian, and 'others who are not white' in the MAGA cult. IMHO they'll be the first to go if 'the revolution' they all preach about comes. After all, the 'true' white MAGAs already know where they live.

Is it 1933 again ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyeej4ex5wo

One source remembers that "the biggest jaw dropper was after the Salisbury attacks", when two Russian agents used the nerve agent Novichok on the streets of the UK. President Trump was at Chequers with then-PM Theresa May and her team, and seemed reluctant to take the attack as seriously as the UK was demanding.
One of those present explains: "We were arguing about how bad and destabilising that was – he asked why. We said a state with nuclear weapons had used this on the soil of another state with nukes, and he said, 'I didn't know the UK had nuclear weapons.'"

"Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
(George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905)

DH's exBBF, and a staunch MAGA, used to 'preach the revolution' constantly. It's very closely tied to white supremacy. There were an awful lot of what 'them', 'those', and 'they' were taking from 'us' in his rantings.

I don't know if things would ever rise to 'Hitlerian levels' with extermination camps. But I can certainly see 'exclusionary' acts & laws coming to pass. And it seems to me that his desire for 'mass deportations' of people from certain countries is nothing but a pogrom. I doubt very much if we're going to see huge numbers of Europeans or Canadians being shoved into buses and vans in targeted raids.

White people are ex pats
Brown people are economic migrants

I look and sound British so LOVE calling out the racists ranting about "forriners"

You won't get around him with flattery.

Apparently Johnson did.

That same BBC article says Johnson would flatter Trump obsequiously to get what he wanted, while staff next door listening in were crying with laughter.

Meanwhile conversations between Trump and May were entirely different, with "more than a whiff of misogyny, he would shout over her". Trump would try to talk about the Queen or invite May to play golf, rather than address whatever serious topic May was trying to discuss.

@PerkingFaintly and here they go with another 4 years of that!

This is funny, the grift of maga

"tickets are now commemorative". frame the $500 ticket and pretend you were there

So, no refunds? I hope that was in the fine print.

Although TBH a 'true MAGAt' will be happy to lose $500 'for the cause'. Because any money that hasn't already been spent or is returned to the committee will be put directly in Scrotus' pocket.

Another grift.

So, no refunds?

...
No income tax, no VAT,
No money back, no guarantee ...
...

The tiktok blackout scam has ended, all hail trumpski

Can I just pull the covers over my head for the next four years?

I'm thinking something similar.

Real life picture of one of our cats from 8 years ago

tripus mini series on the insurrection is incredibly good

podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-rest-is-politics-us/id1743030473?i=1000682417204

Remembering Janey Godley

It's going to be wall-to-wall Trump today/week (obvs!) so I will have to sit on my hands and not doom scroll. I can't decide if I'll ignore the inauguration completely or maybe sneak a look at the 'highlights' afterwards. I'm curious from a procedural POV as it's being held in the Capitol Rotunda, so will be interesting to see the arrangements. Maybe DH can relay it all to me via interpretive dance so I don't have to look at the 🍊💩.

I will watch the bits on the news but that will be it, the threads on here are easy to ignore.

Agreed. It really brings home how utterly spineless so many Republicans were in not bringing Trump to account. If they had done their job we would not be here now.

I see also that a bonus episode of The Coming Storm has dropped on BBC Sounds. I nearly listened to it in bed last night but decided it would either give me nightmares or keep me me awake all night worrying!