Quicksand

I’m going to borrow a movie scene in order to lay the groundwork of yet, another humorously entertaining article.  The movie is “The Replacements” starring Gene Hackman and Keanu Reeves.  It’s a football movie about guys coming off the streets to take the place of Pro players out on strike.  Hackman plays the coach and Reeves is a former college standout quarterback trying to turn this collection of combatants into an organized competitive team.  When Hackman suggests these guys talk about their worst fears, Reeves talks about how things can go from bad to worse in a game.  The more you try to fix it, the deeper you sink, like quicksand.  Politics is not supposed to be like the movies.  Movies are escapism, for entertainment purposes only. However, the Republican Party seems to be encroaching onto the entertainment field and for some of us, it’s enthralling academy award winning material.  I don’t think anyone can actually write a screenplay about all the antics the Republican Party pulled in this 6 week long election process, which finally, we hope, came to an end yesterday with a 1st ever televised electoral college telecast.  Whoa, must see TV, eh?  How many times can a Presidential Candidate be elected?  In football terms, the Republicans threw 60 long ones with 57 incomplete passes and 2 Supreme Court interceptions.  Wow!  2 SCOTUS rejections in the same week. The Trumpster called it “The Big One!”  Well, the bigger they are, the harder they fall!

So what’s next for the elephant herd and their delusionary, misinformed, alternate reality, gun toting, voter fraud claiming, stop the steal, secessionist speaking supporters?  And what about those 126 House Republicans and 17 State AG’s who signed onto that Texas lawsuit that the Supreme Court threw out?  There are shoplifters doing time for penny-ante stuff and these sorry political sad sacks get away with seditious crimes of treason?  Not only do most of us not know where to begin with all this Republican ballyhoo, what’s even worse is we have no idea as to if it will end.  I believe they don’t want it to.  They like wallowing in their own misery, which pisses us off since we have to put up with it.  It’s never easy to explain Trump and the Trumpublican Travelin’ Salvation Snake Oil Salesmanship Show.  However, I have angled the entire debacle down to one single irrepressible item.  We are now into the middle of December.  This is when all these lists appear as to who, what, when, where, how and why a certain item holds down the top slot.  We always have the usual deciding factors such as the movie, singer, song, book, person, entertainer, play, player, game, story, invention, recipe, word, car, truck, mother, dad, student, baby, joke, jargon, jingle, jive and stupidity of the year award.  Some categories are shoo-ins for the top spot, but others, not so easy.  Well, CNN just made it a no-brainer: The “Lie of the Year” award goes to the “Covid Cover Up!”  Lie of the year?  Are you kidding me?  That’s what it has come down to with the Trumpublicans?  And there were so many lies to choose from!  They’re trapped, you know.  Quicksand!  Stay tuned…..!

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