{"id":26654,"date":"2023-12-07T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-07T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=26654"},"modified":"2023-12-06T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T00:09:03","slug":"fear-and-loathing-wrapped-up-in-a-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/07\/fear-and-loathing-wrapped-up-in-a-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Loathing Wrapped Up in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 The rest of us can just fuss and fret.\u00a0 But one thing is absolutely true.\u00a0 The pundits on the Left have completely lost their minds about the current polls.\u00a0 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\u2019 skulls around the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Now granted, I could only wish this were true.\u00a0 Even the idea of Nancy Pelosi and OAC lashed on the pillory makes my mouth water.\u00a0 But alas, none of their rabid imaginings is even slightly accurate.\u00a0 Trump is a conventional American citizen.\u00a0 His delusions of grandeur are of the monetary variety.\u00a0 He would like to be much wealthier than he is but he has no blood lust.\u00a0 Mores the pity.<\/p>\n<p>For the most part these dire predictions of a Caesarian coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat are a scare tactic meant to frighten voters into seeing Dementia Joe as the lesser of two evils.\u00a0 And I have to give them credit.\u00a0 The sheer volume of their caterwauling has been impressive.\u00a0 It seems like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheAtlantic\/status\/1731671597814063415?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Atlantic has devoted all their resources to seeing just how many separate \u201cauthors\u201d they can convince to provide these hysterical hit pieces on the subject<\/a>.\u00a0 And the Washington Post and the New York Times are not far behind in the project.\u00a0 My favorite is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2023\/12\/06\/scarborough_on_trumps_dictator_comment_theres_a_sickness_with_some_americans_wanting_authoritarianism.html\">Joe Scarborough ranting about how Joe Biden is the friend of \u201cBig Oil\u201d<\/a> and therefore Trump\u2019s promise to \u201cdrill baby drill\u201d is an empty one because we\u2019re already doing everything that can be done to bring down the price of oil.\u00a0 Morning Joe in this clip is apoplectic.\u00a0 When his demented partner Mika Brzezinski tries to interject a comment, it looked like he wanted to slap her to keep from being interrupted.\u00a0 But, so what?\u00a0 What good does it do that these people are bouncing off the walls and spinning out of control?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no physical good.\u00a0 None of us can put money in the bank from it.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t shorten Joe Biden\u2019s term in office.\u00a0 Certainly not.\u00a0 But there is such a thing as schadenfreude.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 It\u2019s still fun.\u00a0 In fact, maybe it\u2019s even more fun because it\u2019s completely a figment of their fevered imaginations.<\/p>\n<p>Now in a way it\u2019s not completely baseless panic.\u00a0 Some of it is a flashback to election night 2016 when against all odds Hillary Clinton went down in flames.\u00a0 I remember Rachel Maddow and such other idiots as Miley Cyrus screeching and sobbing and mourning the end of the world; \u201c<strong>It was her turn<\/strong>!\u201d\u00a0 The idea of Trump coming back haunts their dreams and frightens them out of their tiny wits.\u00a0 So, imagining that their fear is a well founded one based on Trump\u2019s bottomless evil plans to destroy \u201cour democracy\u201d makes sense of their fear.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 So, all you lefty scribes, keep it coming.\u00a0 It\u2019s the nicest Christmas present you could give me.\u00a0 Ho, ho, ho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who claims to know incontestably who will be sworn in as president in January of 2025 is either delusional or a Bond villain 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