Revised March 11, 2025
I'm looking forward to the 250th Anniversary of US independence, to see how Trump and the MAGAts spin his rise to absolute power and fascistic policies while simultaneously celebrating a revolution against alleged tyranny and for liberty, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. I'm wondering how they will deal with the irony of such a celebration led by a president who is a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and insurrectionist. Can you imagine a Trump speech denouncing Benedict Arnold as a traitor? Arnold was a Boy Scout compared to Trump.
2024 was a leap year, and on November 5th, American voters took a leap of blind faith -- into the abyss. That is proving to be agonizing for many of them, including his supporters.
Irony is an enduring feature of the human condition, but the current world fairly drips with it. The world should be getting better, given our vast experience and knowledge, but it is getting worse.
Irony extends even to the dates of key elections. The UK held a General Election on the 4th of July, American Independence Day! The voters declared independence from the Tories, who suffered a landslide defeat after 14 disastrous years in power.
That gave me hope for the US, whose election was set by law for November 5th. By happy coincidence, the 5th of November is the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot in Britain. In 1603, a group of Catholic opponents of the Protestant regime of James I (and VI) concocted a plan to blow up Parliament and the king at its opening. The plot was discovered just in time. In Britain November 5th became known as Guy Fawkes Day after the plotter who planted the gunpowder under Parliament. "Remember, remember, the 5th of November!"
A presidential election in the USA is always a leap into The Twilight Zone, given the existence of the Electoral College and the massive fortunes spent on electing clowns. But this election outdid all the previous ones in its fantastically outrageous mockery of the democratic process, not to mention its sheer lunacy and incompetence.
If the campaign and election of 2024 were the script for a dramatic film or TV series, producers would reject it out of hand as ludicrous. No one would believe it for a moment. Its only hope would be to rewritten as a comedic farce loaded with slapstick and infantile dialogue, a kind of political Beverly Hillbillies.
When was the last time a convicted felon with scores of outstanding indictments against him ran for president? This snake oil salesman, father of 10,000 lies and nearly as many illicit affairs, sold bibles (!) to the faithful to raise money for his campaign. The scenario drips with unintended irony. Trump doesn't read and certainly doesn't heed the GOOD BOOK. He's broken virtually every commandment on a daily basis. "His" bibles are produced in China, a country he has repeatedly threatened and condemned. But they are cheap and profits are good. Never mind that a bible is a book you can get for free in the USA. Just visit your nearest motel and cop a Gideons.
Trump supporters swear that GOD sent him to save America from satanic "libtards and commies." Somehow, this godlike savior didn't manage to come up with a way to save a million or so Americans from the Covid pandemic. Bleach didn't work. The US, with 4% of the world population, racked up 20% of the deaths. How quickly we forget.
To MAGAts, Donnie the Blessed is both savior and savvy, and most important, is opposed to gun control, their political litmus test. Trump agrees with them that guns are not the problem, people are. The solution appears to be eliminating people, because guns without people will not be a problem. With RFK, Jr. handling federal health services, that goal should be met.
Another irony arises from the fact that Trump, a convicted criminal, ran against Kamala Harris, a successful former prosecutor. The felon should not have been able to run, but he won, which is all you need to know about the abject state of the USA as it heads into the 250th anniversary of its existence.
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