I am aware facts don’t seem to matter to a lot of Republicans in general and even more troubling, amongst the Republicans in Congress. For example, the Big Lie that has not yet died and continues to carom around the rightwing ecosphere like a motorized billiard ball despite the FACT that it has proven to be false. Jim Jordan, the Representative from Ohio, who failed in his third bid to become Speaker of the House, has not yet acknowledged that Biden won the election.
So far this year, the Republicans, who have a slim majority in the House of Representatives have taken 18 votes and have still failed to elect a Speaker of the House which is currently paralyzed in the face of urgent issues both domestically and abroad. It took Kevin McCarthy 15 voting cycles to attain the Speakership and to do so, he had to make unprecedented concessions to the MAGA wing of the party which ultimately led to his ouster. Jim Jordan, Trump’s pick for Speaker, tried and failed to grab the gavel but failed after three cycles of voting. One must wonder how the hell the Republicans expect to run the country when they cannot even coalesce around a leader in the House of Representatives in which they have the majority.
Donald Trump is the current unofficial but de facto head of the Republican party and the front runner for the Republican presidential nominee. This is a man who, despite the hype, is a failed businessman many times over. He has filed for bankruptcy five or six times and has a string of failed businesses behind him – Trump Airline for one. Trump University was forced to shut down because of illegal business practices and was ultimately determined to be a scam. More recently, Trump and his sons have been found guilty of fraud in the operations of their family business.
As we all know, Trump has been impeached twice and is currently facing over 90 felony indictments in four different jurisdictions. Let’s also not forget that he lost the White House after one term, lost the Senate and the ‘red wave’ that was supposed to provide a large majority in the House of Representatives never materialized which is why they are operating (if you can all it that) with a razor thin majority. Despite the hype, Trump has a long track record of losing!! When are people going to wake up and smell the coffee. The man is a one-man wrecking crew. The myth is that everything Trump touches turns to gold. The reality is that everything Trump touches turns to shit and almost everyone who is lured into Trumps orbit pays a price, up to and including jail!
Trump surrounds himself with sycophantic people who often have the same lack of moral compass as he does but when the shit hits the fan, Trump casts them aside to take up residence with everyone else he has thrown under the bus. The list is long: Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer who went to prison; Michael Flynn, Trump’s first National Security advisor who pleaded guilty to a felony and who Trump pardoned; Roger Stone, convicted and avoided prison because of a Trump pardon; Paul Manafort, convicted and sent to prison but pardoned by Trump; Alan Weiselberg, CFO of the Trump organization, convicted and sent to jail; Rudy Guiliani, Trump attorney who is facing felony indictments, civil suits and crushing legal debts, not to mention sanctions from the ABA; Sidney Powell, former Trump attorney who just pled guilty to counts involving election interference in Georgia; Kenneth Chesebro, another attorney in Trumps circle who pled guilty to charges of election interference; Herschel Walker, Trumps pick for the Georgia Senate race who lost; Jim Jordan; Trumps pick for Speaker of the House who lost; and the list goes on and on.
It is beyond me that people cannot look at this data and draw the obvious conclusion that Trump has a long track record of LOSING and surrounding himself with losers! He may be the consummate con artist, but he is not a winner – in business or in politics. Bernie Madoff was the ultimate financial con man until his house of cards came tumbling down. When it did, a lot of people got hurt financially, some losing their life savings. Trump has turned out to be the ultimate political con artist. However, it appears that the Trump house of cards is getting shakier and shakier.
More people in Trump’s orbit are beginning to accept plea deals with prosecutors to save their own butts, which might finally prove the undoing of Donald Trump and show to the world that, like the Wizard of Oz, the Wizard of Trumpland, is nothing but a fraud. So, while we can wait for the various prosecutors to pull back the curtain and expose Trump, we can continue to watch the three-ring circus in the House of Representatives which is, of course, the result of Trump acolytes who have learned from the master – throw grenades and leave a trail of destruction in your wake!! This country deserves so much better.
