What Will Happen to The Trump Toadies?

[Guno צְבִי]

Look to Nixon’s defenders, and the Vichy collaborators, for clues.

All cults come to an end, often abruptly, and Trump’s Republican Party is nothing if not a cult. While cult leaders are generally incapable of remorse — whether they be totalitarian rulers, sexual Svengalis, or the self-declared messiahs of crackpot religions — their followers almost always pay a human and reputational price once the leader is toppled.

Such Trump collaborators are kidding themselves if they think that post-Trump image-laundering through “good works” or sheer historical amnesia will cleanse their names of the Trump taint as easily as his residential complexes in Manhattan have shed their Trump signage. A century of history — and not just American history — says otherwise.

Another parallel is exemplified by the Trump collaborator and donor Gordon Sondland, even now, somehow, still the ambassador to the European Union. He’s a zhlubby discount-rack answer to Joseph Kennedy, a far more successful and clever mogul who served as Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassador to the U.K. from 1937 to 1940. Until FDR shut him down, Kennedy tried to conduct a rogue foreign policy to advance Chamberlain’s appeasement efforts to the point of counseling the Nazis that they could get away with brutalizing Jews if they would just do so with less “loud clamor.” Much as Sondland, Trump, and Giuliani thought nothing of leaving Ukraine vulnerable to Putin’s aggression by holding back military aid, so Kennedy thought that Hitler should be free to conquer expendable smaller countries in Eastern Europe. “I can’t for the life of me understand why anybody would want to go to war to save the Czechs,” he wrote in a draft of a speech before the White House nixed it. As went the Czechs then, so have gone the Ukrainians and Kurds today.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/...aborators.html

[Nordberg]

You are looking for plans, long term or short. Trump has none. He is freewheeling it while serving president part-time. He wants people who will follow his orders with no personal opinions. Trump has appointed 25 percent of the federal judges. He knows nothing about them. He off ramped the job to the Federalist Society. Nobody voted for them, but they run justice.
Trump does not have the discipline or intellect to create a plan.
After Bush was out of office, you could find almost no one who said they voted for him. After Nixon, nope I didn't vote for him? Trump's cult will suffer memory lapses. Trump who?

[evince]

how many Trump back tattoos will there be?

[evince]

geeebus


that made me think of the fact that some assholes already have one

shudder

[ThatOwlWoman]

how many Trump back tattoos will there be?

I don't know, but it might be a good idea to invest in tat-removal equipment and/or services. We can give poor Stretch a freebie.

[evince]

or charge it double

[ThatOwlWoman]

The idea of TRE45ON doing "good works" to redeem his filth-covered reputation is hysterically funny. What will it be? Another foundation where donations for children's cancer research and to help vets is treated as a piggy bank? A wildlife refuge for endangered bedbugs? Free or low-cost mammoplasties for flat girls? 12-step programs in every major city for pathological liars?

[evince]

They will do what all people like them do


deny they ever supported or voted for trump


the idiots on the right did that here


the second Bush proved to be an idiot


they denied they supported or voted for him


the dead give away they were lying was they carried his water all day long on here

[evince]

trump will make his amends by sucking off the other prisoners for bags of cheetos

[Loving91390]

Haters !