Can you imagine being Donald J. Trump and openly speculating about whether or not you might get into heaven? He’s been doing that recently, speculating. I guess with all of his recent health issues that are completely obvious but totally not happening, an afterlife is on his mind. But, I wonder if he really wonders. (He doesn’t. He knows.) Donny is the physical embodiment of ALL of the Seven Deadly Sins – Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Avarice, Wrath, and Sloth. He doesn’t miss one.

I wrote a rather long and involved piece about the Anti-Christ and how Donny fit the bill in every way. When you fit – perfectly – the biblical descriptions of the Anti-Christ AND you embody ALL of the Seven Deadly Sins, I seriously doubt Heaven is your final destination…

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Twenty-seven. That’s the number of people Team Evil have murdered in boats off the coast of Venezuela as of Wednesday morning. Twenty-seven. He says they’re drug runners. He offers no proof. We just have to take his word for it. Oh, well, in THAT case… I’ll really need to see that evidence. That boy tells more lies before breakfast than I have in my entire life.

But, hey, best case scenario, okay? Let’s just agree, for the sake of argument, that, yes, those are drug runners and they are trying to smuggle drugs into the US. DOES that give the US the right to summarily execute them? The US Constitution says they have a right to a trial. They’re certainly NOT getting a trial.

Donny is calling his murders a “non-international armed conflict.” He really needs the US to be in a war in order to inflict some of the harsher things he wants to do to us. He has tried several times to claim things as wars to give himself special powers. So far, the courts keep telling him these aren’t “wars.” Murdering people in pleasure boats out for a grand day on the water hardly qualifies as a “war.”

“Hey,” says a MAGA, “you don’t know they were pleasure boats, just out having a good time.”
And you don’t know that they’re drug runners, either. My guess is as good as yours. It was once a bedrock principle of the United States that even the worst of the worst get a trial. They get to face their accusers and offer rebuttal evidence, if they can. Summary executions in international waters with no evidence presented and no chance for rebuttal qualifies as murder, in my book…

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Look, I know the right is trying to sanctify the guy, but Charlie Kirk was hardly the best among us and he absolutely does not deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Prove Me Wrong…

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Oh, and speaking of offensive mouths, well, in this case, fingers, have you heard about the Young Republicans and their racist and hate-filled comments? I’ve read many of them. Yech. One wrote, ‘I love Hitler.’ Another called rape ‘epic.’ They “joked” about sending their political opponents to gas chambers. One woman, Annie Kaykaty, a member of New York’s national committee wrote, “I’m ready to watch people burn now.”

Lovely. Such wonderful, well-developed people – the future (and the present) of the GOP. Apparently, there are 2,900 pages – 28,000 messages – of such oh-so-funny racist and/or misogynist and/or violent – yes, more violence from the right – “jokes.” Team Evil trotted out Junior Dumbass Vance, who is trying to dismiss the comments as youthful indiscretions, just the kinds of things kids do.

Yeah, Hitler’s kids. I know, Hitler didn’t have any kids, it’s a metaphor. You know what? I was a kid, once. I popped off. I was flippant. I said stupid things. (Still do.) But they weren’t racist. They weren’t misogynist. They weren’t violent or threatening. They didn’t promote hatred. In short, yes, kids say stupid things, but these ‘kids’ were gleefully spouting a particular brand of evil and hatred decent people avoid.

Oh, and before we go too far down the ‘kids’ rabbit hole, bear in mind, some of these ‘kids’ in the ‘Young Republicans’ were forty years old at the time. These were like-minded people who thought they were in a safe space and let rip with the things they can’t say in public, but really, really want to. These ARE… today’s Republican Party…

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Out of the mouths of narcissistic dictators, eh? When he saw the ‘Time’ Magazine cover of him – which I agree is not the best shot of a person in the history of great shots – he wrote, “They “disappeared” my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.”

NATURE is “disappearing” his hair and the “something floating” on top of his head IS what’s left of his hair. When HE saw it, he saw a “crown,” and was irritated it was a “small one.” Speaking of which, remember the ‘No Kings Day’ rallies taking place near you this weekend, October 18. Frankly, I think the rallies are too little, too late and too few and too far between but anything we can do is better than nothing.

Anyway, I guess the photo was meant to convey power but the most prominent visual – the thing most people are commenting on – is his amazingly prominent waddle. He’s a very fat man with a substantial waddle and when he folds that thing up and forces it into a buttoned shirt collar, it starts to look like… well, I don’t want to say.

But Stephen Colbert suggested he had just delivered a baby from it. The director of information at Russia’s ministry of foreign affairs, Maria Zakharova, wrote, “Only sick people, people obsessed with malice and hatred – perhaps even perverts – could have chosen such a photo.” Perverts? What are YOU seeing, there, Maria? Yeah, me, too – right along with everyone else…

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I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but it looks like Donny’s amazing victory in the Israeli/Gaza war is falling apart. Netanyahu started looking for excuses and “work-arounds” almost immediately. Hamas was late delivering some dead hostages? Well, that’s it, then. The war is back on. As of this writing, Israel has killed 24 people in shootings since the “cease fire” was announced.

I don’t really know, of course. Nobody does. Hell, I hope I’m wrong. I’d rather the brutality stop – even if it means giving Donny credit for the win. But this is a fight that’s been going on for thousands of years and Bibi is motivated to keep the war going in an effort to stay out of jail…

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Our Fearful Misleader, The First Felon, says he has to fire workers from “Democrat” departments. I don’t know what a “Democrat” department is but, so far, he has attacked the CDC the hardest. This guy is suggesting that deadly illnesses can – or will – check someone’s political registry before infecting the person.

There’s a reason the entire world thinks he’s a dumb as a brick and twice as thick…

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There is a ton of stuff going on. It’s very hard to keep up. Is NOW a good time to remember that Donald Trump was best friends with an accused and convicted child sex trafficker named Jeffrey Epstein for fifteen years? Is NOW the time to recall that much of this noise is about burying the Epstein story by simply overwhelming it with fresh, new outrages?