th<\/sup> 2024<\/i><\/p>\nWell, that whatever-the-hell-that-was at Madison Square Garden last night boiled everything down to just two possibilities: either Donald Trump completely lost the election, or America completely lost its mind.<\/p>\n
I thought that comparing the Trump MSG rally to the 1939 German-American Bund rally was a bit over the top. Yes, I\u2019ve been saying for some time that Trump and his followers are fascists with disturbing amounts of Nazi influence, but I figured that this would be their single biggest audience draw since the convention, and with barely a week left until election day.<\/p>\n
And yes, it is unfair to compare the Trump movement to the German-American Bund. The Bund were far more restrained, diplomatic and less bigoted and vile.<\/p>\n
The tone was set early, when comedian-in-waiting Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a \u201cfloating island of garbage.\u201d So what\u2019s the difference between a Puerto Rican and our Tony? Tony sank.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t even the low point. It just set the general tone. The other speakers were the same B-listers that have worked so hard to keep audiences entertained while waiting for the always-hours-late Donald Trump: Hulk Hogan, Elon Musk, Stephen Miller, Don Junior and Rudy Giuliani. They all spewed their usual blend of bigotry and lowest-common-denominator demagoguery.<\/p>\n
Junior claimed Trump was reclaiming his title of King of New York, which is kind of like the Chicago White Sox claiming they\u2019ll be facing the Dodgers in this year\u2019s World Series. Even before this debacle, Trump couldn\u2019t get 20% of the vote in New York City. They hate him, and have for many years, and for many reasons.<\/p>\n
I checked always-dependable Faux News for their take. They had one headline, \u201cTrump supporters outside Madison Square Garden say deep blue New York is in play\u201d (In their world, the Dodgers are playing the Toronto Maple Leafs) with a blurb about how \u201cexhilarated\u201d they were about the rally. I couldn\u2019t help but note that that was from BEFORE the rally. I\u2019m guessing that the ones that made it to the end of that marathon event were feeling…well, deflated.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sure if you want to watch it for yourself, it\u2019s all over You Tube by now. It\u2019s only six hours long, and the Trump speech by itself is only an hour and twenty minutes. If it helps, think of it as cinematic history. No, not Leni Riefenstahl; I was thinking more of the role Alex played in \u201cA Clockwork Orange,\u201d when his eyes were taped open and he was forced to watch disgusting and vile acts of violence and depravity for hours on end while experiencing acute nausea.<\/p>\n
Indeed, Trump\u2019s rally makes for a good Ludovico technique of aversion therapy; watching that Trumpenorgy will give you a deep aversion to fascism, nazism, and hopefully ignorance and stupidity. Bit of a shame you won\u2019t be able to watch a Rangers game ever again, though. Well, Alex had to give up Beethoven; the Rangers are no great loss.<\/p>\n
The rally should have finished the Trump campaign off. If it didn\u2019t, then it finished America off. The two cannot coexist. If there\u2019s anyone out there who is doing the Olive Oyl bit and can\u2019t decide between Trump and Harris, go to YouTube and watch the rally. Just don\u2019t say I didn\u2019t warn you.<\/p>\n
Seriously, if you haven\u2019t made up your mind, watch that rally. If you STILL can\u2019t decide, then maybe voting isn\u2019t for you and you should go back to dithering for three hours each evening over what color socks you should wear in the morning.<\/p>\n
Trump is ramping up the bile and nastiness at a time when he should be petting kittens and expressing approval of apple pie and baseball. Maybe kiss a few babies, only watch where you put those lips.<\/p>\n
Instead, he\u2019s showing America as the worst that it can be. If there is a floating island of garbage in America, then it took up residence in Madison Square Garden last night. And that island of garbage is sinking rapidly.<\/p>\n
Last week I estimated Harris would win by ten million votes nationwide.<\/p>\n
After last night\u2019s spectacle, make that twelve million. A lot of people who watched that aren\u2019t going to vote for Trump now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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