Fear and Loathing Wrapped Up in a Box

Anyone who claims to know incontestably who will be sworn in as president in January of 2025 is either delusional or a Bond villain who can control the future through five-dimensional chess manipulation of world events.  The rest of us can just fuss and fret.  But one thing is absolutely true.  The pundits on the Left have completely lost their minds about the current polls.  All and sundry are writing articles that sound like they have foam spouting from their noses, mouths and ears, while screeching to the heavens that Donald Trump is the bastard love-child of Vlad the Impaler and Catherine the Great and that he will swill the blood of innocents and pile up mountains of Leftists’ skulls around the White House.

Now granted, I could only wish this were true.  Even the idea of Nancy Pelosi and OAC lashed on the pillory makes my mouth water.  But alas, none of their rabid imaginings is even slightly accurate.  Trump is a conventional American citizen.  His delusions of grandeur are of the monetary variety.  He would like to be much wealthier than he is but he has no blood lust.  Mores the pity.

For the most part these dire predictions of a Caesarian coup d’état are a scare tactic meant to frighten voters into seeing Dementia Joe as the lesser of two evils.  And I have to give them credit.  The sheer volume of their caterwauling has been impressive.  It seems like the Atlantic has devoted all their resources to seeing just how many separate “authors” they can convince to provide these hysterical hit pieces on the subject.  And the Washington Post and the New York Times are not far behind in the project.  My favorite is Joe Scarborough ranting about how Joe Biden is the friend of “Big Oil” and therefore Trump’s promise to “drill baby drill” is an empty one because we’re already doing everything that can be done to bring down the price of oil.  Morning Joe in this clip is apoplectic.  When his demented partner Mika Brzezinski tries to interject a comment, it looked like he wanted to slap her to keep from being interrupted.  But, so what?  What good does it do that these people are bouncing off the walls and spinning out of control?

Well, no physical good.  None of us can put money in the bank from it.  It doesn’t shorten Joe Biden’s term in office.  Certainly not.  But there is such a thing as schadenfreude.  There is a satisfaction that can be had from watching the people who hate you, suffer, even if the suffering is merely baseless psychotic panic.  It’s still fun.  In fact, maybe it’s even more fun because it’s completely a figment of their fevered imaginations.

Now in a way it’s not completely baseless panic.  Some of it is a flashback to election night 2016 when against all odds Hillary Clinton went down in flames.  I remember Rachel Maddow and such other idiots as Miley Cyrus screeching and sobbing and mourning the end of the world; “It was her turn!”  The idea of Trump coming back haunts their dreams and frightens them out of their tiny wits.  So, imagining that their fear is a well founded one based on Trump’s bottomless evil plans to destroy “our democracy” makes sense of their fear.

So even though nothing tangible accrues to me by reading these screeds I read them for the pure enjoyment of experiencing the fear of these awful people.  So, all you lefty scribes, keep it coming.  It’s the nicest Christmas present you could give me.  Ho, ho, ho.