The assassination effort on Donald Trump last weekend is a catastrophe; a disaster for democracy, a catastrophe for America and, above all, a disaster for the entire world, since it indicates Donald Trump will be re-elected. And it is a catastrophe for Donald Trump, who, whatever one considers his politics or his character, is still a living animal, and as such, like Eamonn Holmes, can suffering.
Recently, I had a standup unique, Standard Leeon Sky Comedy, which even came as a surprise to me. I want somebody had actually shot me last weekend. The resulting promotion may have driven some traffic towards my work. Here’s hoping I’m at least injured by a shooter while it’s still readily available to see on the Now streaming service. (Did you see what I did there?)
When the complimentary world’s last line of defence versus a Trump MacTatorship ™ ® is Joe Biden, we are currently doomed. I’m giving up stopping drinking. Stubborn Biden is too self-centered to end up being the focus of an appeal raising catastrophe, choosing rather to let the world burn while he holds on to his candidateship, a limpet in linen pants, sitting there smiling, like something useless made from felt you ‘d win at a taking a trip fair.
The now inescapable re-election of demagogue Donald, and the execution of the puritanical Project 2025 program by Oliver Dowden’s Heritage Foundation pals, makes a Handmaid’s Tale–design Christian fascist America a certainty, ending not just the shared knowledge worths of the postwar western world, however likewise the Fifty Shades of Grey females’s erotica franchise. And Trump’s fandom for nonrenewable fuel sources will accelerate the unavoidable termination of all life in the world, the only favorable being that he might yet see his Scottish golf courses recovered by increasing seas.
American liberals and intellectuals with ways and cash, like Kacey Musgraves and the vocalist from Tool, need to currently be thinking about escape alternatives as the country starts its descent into the hell of an evangelical spiritual dictatorship. Trump’s presidency will, nevertheless, reinforce ties in between Trump and the Clacton constituency of his right-hand male Nigel Farage, which is poised to be bulldozed and made into a personal golf course-cum-leisure facility-cum-seaside taken file storage system.
I’m joking, obviously. The tried assassination of Trump and its butterfly flap effects are no joke. Last Saturday, a piece of Trump’s ear was shot away by a shooter. Trump, with a clearheadedness Biden may have gained from when attempting to keep in mind the name of the president of Ukraine, had a hard time to his feet and, in a spirit of peace and reconciliation, screamed: “Fight! Battle! Battle!”, energising advocates who 3 years back required entry to the Capitol intending to lynch Mike Pence, the Hartlepool monkey of American politics.
What if it had been Trump himself who had been shot away, and just Trump’s ear piece had been conserved by security? Could Trump’s meat ear rim itself have been convinced to run for the presidency? Could Trump’s ear flesh piece have beaten Biden in a democratic election? Nearly. And would an America governed by a little severed piece of Trump’s ear have provided the world a more safe and secure future than an America governed by Trump, or an America governed by Biden? Once again, the response, regretfully, is a definite yes.
The American Christian right thinks that Trump, in spite of his apparent ethical corruption, is an enormous tool of a God set on forming America into their own twisted theocracy. Evangelical Christian America thinks their selectively myopic divine being in fact stepped in to conserve Trump from the shooter, while leaving a brave volunteer firemen to take the bullet. Blessed are the firemens. How much more helpful to this ethically equivocating God is an easy severed ear, unencumbered by allegations that it attempted to reverse an election, or paid an adult movie star hush cash, or took categorized files, or sexually attacked a female in a department shop. The ear would be innocent and pure and excellent, like Jesus, or the coming kid.
And if an ear had, as Trump did, consistently hung out with the unsavoury sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his young good friends, it is not likely it would have had the ability to do anything unsuitable, due to its being an ear. And needs to the ear be discovered to have actually lost the general public trust, it could, due to its failure to safeguard itself or argue its case, be quickly ignored by the Republicans without excessive difficulty. Ear today, gone tomorrow.
Envisioning various methods the Trump shooting may have played out raises deep ethical concerns. Thinkers call this idea “eliminating child Hitler”. Would it be ethical for somebody to take a trip back from the future and eliminate Hitler in his cot in order to avoid the 2nd world war? And would it be ethical to take a trip back in time and perform an attack on Trump that guaranteed future federal government by Trump’s ear alone? Obviously not. And the concept of changing Trump himself with Trump’s own ear is, at this phase, neither ear nor there.
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