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They held the Iowa caucuses yesterday, and I don\u2019t regard the results as being of any particular importance, given how unrepresentative they are of the country as a whole. (Mike Huckabee won in 2008, Rick Santorum won in 2012, and Ted Cruz in 2016.) The only reason Trump won in 2020 was that he ran unopposed, about the only way he can actually win an election.<\/p>\n
He essentially ran unopposed this time, since the only other significant candidates were a pair of \u201cme-too\u201d clingers who ran as Trump-lite: Ron DeSantis and Nicki Haley. Those two dead-enders managed to get 40% of the Republican vote, which shows just how weak Trump really is.<\/p>\n
Haley\u2019s birth-name was Nimarata Nikki Randhawa, and MSNBC actually showed one voter opining that it wouldn\u2019t be right for a \u201cHin-doo\u201d to be president. Despite that, Haley was mad because MSNBC was \u201cdividing us by race\u201d for simply pointing out that country white evangelicals aren\u2019t going to strongly support Haley because of her skin color. Haley, MSNBC didn\u2019t create those bigoted clowns. And trust me, they weren\u2019t watching Joy Reid anyway. She\u2019s not one of the \u2018good ones\u2019 in their books.<\/p>\n
DeSantis was already a bad joke, between his elevator clown boots and picking a fight with a cartoon mouse and losing. He wasn\u2019t as big on god-flogging as Trump, so wasn\u2019t seen as sufficiently godly.<\/p>\n
So Trump fetched up with 51% of the vote. I was expecting him to get 60% or more, between the high number of fools in the GOP and the weak field arrayed against him. So even if the ratings-driving media is trying to hype his chances, the results show his fundamental weakness.<\/p>\n
MSNBC devoted five full hours to this non-story, and I managed to miss most of it so I could play Solitaire and watch an animated movie. (I would point out that while I didn\u2019t do so good playing Solitaire, the movie, Maboroshi<\/i>, on Netflix, was pretty damned good).<\/p>\n
But I did catch one gem that made MSNBC\u2019s entire wasted night worth a glance. Barely able to contain their laughter, Joy and Rachel Maddow explained \u201cThe King David Hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n
King David lived around 1,000 BCE, and yes, there is evidence that he actually did exist, although outside of notoriously unreliable holy writ, little is known about him.<\/p>\n
But the religious accounts are satisfyingly florid. A simple shepherd, he killed the giant Goliath with a slingshot, and got noticed by the reigning king, Saul. Saul took him in to the palace, but then expelled him when he decided David was plotting to kill him and steal his throne. But before then, Saul has made David rich for killing the giant, and among other marriages, David marries Saul\u2019s younger daughter, Michael. The dowery is 100 Philistinian heads, although accounts differ as to whether that was cranial-type heads or the other kind, foreskins. Either way, it made a lot of Philistines very unhappy. He\u2019s also got about eight other wives and unknown numbers of concubines of varying gender, something that\u2019s always fun to point out to bigoted morons who want America to observe \u201cbiblical marriage\u201d only.<\/p>\n
Jehovah gets annoyed at Saul for failing to commit genocide (the Amalekites, look it up) and sends the angel Samuel to name David king. After various intrigues and production of a family lineage that makes it apt as well as physically likely that he was the father of the Abrahamic religions, he becomes King, and is sufficiently murderous and Machiavellian enough to keep even Jehovah happy. Between the smiting and the slutting, David made Trump look restrained and faithful.<\/p>\n
All right, so intellectually, morally, and romantically, David was a hot mess. (For his wives and concubines, \u201cconsent\u201d was not an option.) But he\u2019s \u201cbeloved by God\u201d and the father of the true religions, all 15,000 of them that we know about. What to do, what to do? Zealots hate ethical quandaries.<\/p>\n
Thus was born the King David Hypothesis. God chose David because he was flawed, and the fact that he was flawed showed that God could make David have a good heart and be a great king despite all the murdering and raping and conniving. Because of God, David was great because God made him so and his flaws just showed how good God was at his job.<\/p>\n
Thus and so, the reasoning goes, even though Trump is flawed (the polite way of saying \u201ca hot mess\u201d), God has chosen him to be Der Leader to show that God can take even the vilest spittoon of a person and make him great. So even though Trump is about as Christian as a rabid pig, Christians are duty bound to support him because God wants him to be great.<\/p>\n
Ah, the religious mind! The wonder of it all!<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the portion of America that isn\u2019t religiously insane continue to watch Trump slide. He went on to claim this was his third, and greatest win in Iowa (neither statement was true), and his main lawyers in the trials about tax fraud and defamation of E. Jean Carroll, Joe Tacopina and his two partners, Chad Seigel and Matthew DeOreo, up and quit the same day of the caucuses, showing his continued inability to keep lawyers for any length of time. Even lawyers have standards, even if the standard is only \u201cFuck you, pay me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Trump continues his mastery of the religiously gullible. The morning after his win in the caucuses, he posted \u201cPresident Trump: Suspend my campaign?\u201d The grift is if he doesn\u2019t get a million donations, he\u2019ll drop out of the race.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, the religiously insane are actually a small part of the population. Even amongst the GOP ultra-committed who turned out in -30F wind chills to caucus, he only managed half the vote against a nothing field.<\/p>\n
So don\u2019t let these nuts alarm you. He\u2019s going down.<\/p>\n
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