I am still wondering what the hell we are supposed to do with the people who voted for Trump upwards of three times, the anti-Americans who are somehow still with him, and the abhorrent, lazy, self-serving people who can’t be bothered to vote at all.
America is a complete disaster area that is littering the world with our radical right-wing trash, and ten of millions of us who predicted this would happen are owed a damn apology, and need to be listened to exclusively going forward.
So let me say this with precision: We were right about all of it.
And while that won’t change one damn terrible thing that has happened since that pitch black November night in 2016, I do think that for mental health purposes, it is important during this time of war and want, that the real patriots in this country hear this from time to time.
And let me be crystal clear about this, too: Predicting all these atrocities had nothing to do with possessing a brain, and everything to do with common decency.
A serial liar, and career woman-abusing bigot should have never been given the time of day much less a place on a ballot determining who would ascend to the most powerful position in the world.
That this is even minimally debatable is the problem.
America is hanging by a thread, and exposed to the corrupt whims of a mad, sociopathic convicted felon and wannabe king, and his hand-picked, bought-off conservative Supreme Court jesters, who have handed him the keys to the faltering American kingdom.
If you saw Trump’s so-called speech last night on God knows what, or even small snippets of the thing, it simply has to be clear as day that this wreck of an old man is nothing but a blown inner-tube with a malfunctioning release valve.
He is incoherent to the point of his own distraction, and the only thing we got last night for certain was confirmation of his endless capacity to lie with reckless abandon, and that things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Essentially, Trump has dragged this nation to the edge of the cliff, and is threatening to give us a final shove if we don’t submit to his incompetency, and start seeing things his way.
He’s not governing, because he has no talent for it. He’s not reversing course, because his broken transmission is stuck in fourth gear, and the padding on his brakes failed around the time his racist parents threw him out of the house, because even they could no longer stand to be around him.
He’s a runaway maniac careening out of control and using the rest of us as human bumpers.
He spends his day relentlessly insulting and rooting against the 70 percent who didn’t support him, and flat screwing the 30 percent who did.
I guess I am making a big deal out of this today, because every now and then the “We Told You Sos” need to rub it in everybody’s faces to keep our release valves functioning.
So hear this: Trump will kill every person on earth to avoid the insult of admitting he was wrong about anything.
I’m not wrong about this, and it should scare the hell out of anybody who has been paying any attention to this unnatural disaster.
He’s been wrong about everything except for the fealty of his base, and an inhumane Republican Party that will stay with him no matter what, because they somehow can’t find their way out of the corner they themselves have backed into. Like Trump they have no brakes. Trouble is, they are stuck in reverse, and won’t stop until they’ve reached 1852.
No surprise that while in the middle of typing all this, Trump continued the scapegoat phase of his failing regime. Trump fired his puppy-killing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem three weeks ago, and today Attorney General Pam Bondi was kicked down the stairs behind her.
This will not surprise even a single one of us Anti-Trumpers, because the first to go from this repellent White House was always going to be the revolting women like Bondi and Noem, who traded their self respect for the chance to be seen for who they really are.
Trump hates everybody, but he really hates women.
He has proven time and time again that he possesses an endless allegiance and affinity for grotesque, abusive men like Pete Hegseth, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Stephen Miller just as long as they dutifully stay in line.
Incompetency had little to do with Bondi’s firing, though there’s not a Anti-Trumper you’ll speak to who didn’t know she lacked the qualifications for the most important law enforcement position in the country.
No, Bondi is gone because apparently she was incapable of lowering herself completely into the sewer, which is a baseline qualification for anybody who works for Trump. That she didn’t eat and swallow the tens of thousands of mentions of her former boss in the Epstein Files, sealed her fate.
Still, she wanted to prove to everybody that her lack of self respect was fully intact when she released this bizarre statement after her firing:
"Over the next month I will be working tirelessly to transition the office of Attorney General to the amazing Todd Blanche before moving to an important private sector role I am thrilled about, and where I will continue fighting for President Trump and this Administration."
I suggest we take that as a threat.
So now another unqualified white man, Blanche, will take over until Trump can nominate an even more unqualified white man as a permanent replacement to Bondi.
Blanche was Trump’s personal attorney before infesting our DOJ.
Rumor has it the grotesque Lee Zeldin is a frontrunner for the job. Zeldin is currently working 24 hours a day to make sure our air and water are plenty polluted in his capacity as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Whoever gets Trump’s stomp of approval will be confirmed by the lawless Republican Senate with the disgraceful Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) in tow.
Here’s where I also remind you that attorney generals are supposed to work for US, not the president. I feel the need to point that out because like a dumpster full of other discarded normalities, Trump’s incestuous relationship with his attorney generals is both gross and thoroughly un-Democratic.
You also won’t see that mentioned much, if at all, in today’s reporting, because so much of the atrocities happening right now have been completely normalized.
Say, did you know the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti are still out there free as a bird to kill some more, because people like the odious Bondi are protecting them?
See what I mean?
Normalized.
Look, all this wasn’t written in a huff today to make you feel any better or worse about what is going on in America right now.
It was written because every now and then, people need reminding that there are a bunch of us who aren’t surprised by any of it, and even warned this would happen.
We are owed a damn apology, but if you can’t bring yourself to do that much, the least you can do is just shut up and start listening to us.
(D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here, and follow him on Bluesky here.)