Have You Hugged a Republican Today? in Distress

It’s working. Reports from within the White House that are leaking out, paint a picture of a man who is tearing the dead squirrel off his head. He ignores his advisors. His staff members are setting up rogue twitter accounts talking about his tantrums and egomaniacal rants. He’s finding out that he can’t just sign an Executive Order and make what he wants happen. Best of all, he’s already starting to face some Republican dissent.

This is really important. The Democrats don’t have enough votes to accomplish anything on their own. So, if we want to stop Trump from his idiocy, we need support from the Right.

Enter John McCain. Way back in the day, when I still leaned to the right myself, I was a big supporter of John McCain. Back then, he was a centrist-a Republican who wasn’t afraid to cross the aisle for the right thing. He was a man of integrity and no one could ever question his love of America.

He ran in the primary against George W. Bush when Billy Clinton was a lame duck and he lost. I think that was the end of the John McCain I knew and respected. The John McCain you probably know is the crotchety old man who is a far-right conservative nutcase. The guy who bent over for the Tea Party and ran as a “Maverick” with some batshit crazy Alaskan, Tina Fey wannabe against Obama in 2008.

He lost. He became even more bitter. He became even more crotchety. He got even older. I’d pretty much written him off. He sold out because he wanted to be the president so badly. But a man like that, he can’t sell out–he faced torture in a POW camp and came away so instead of being a sell out, he had to convince himself that he believed what he was preaching. And he’s been spewing hard right rhetoric ever since.

I don’t know if was Trumpy the Clown making fun of him for “getting caught” that pissed him off, or if in his senility he’s starting to come back to his true self, or if he thinks someone is going to elect a 114 year old man president next term; but John McCain is fighting his own party.

He’s called the ban on immigration from Muslim-majority countries to be a recruiting boon for ISIS radicals.

He’s threatened to codify Russian economic sanctions into law to prevent Trump from being able to lift them.

He called Trumpy’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership a “serious mistake.”

He’s called the idea of levying a 20% tariff on imports from Mexico to pay for a border wall to be “insane.”

A victim of torture in a POW camp himself, he’s also made it clear that he will vehemently fight any effort to reinstate waterboarding or any other form of torture on terror suspects.

He’s opposed to Trump’s appointment for budget director.

Marco Rubio and Lindsey Graham are other prominent Republicans (google Republicans against Trump to find a full list) who are speaking out against Trumpy the Clown.

Listen: It’s really important that we make a big deal of this. If you think the attitude of the country is lost on Republicans, you’re wrong. But they are painted in a corner. If we can show them some love and make them think that doing the right thing is a path to reelection and saving their own political careers, instead of going down with a sinking Trumptanic, we can get more of them.

We need them. Good-dog them. Talk them up. Call them “real Americans.” Praise them for putting America before politics. When they slip over to our side, we have to show them some love. We have to make it attractive to their colleagues to do the same.

The Republicans have to look at things. We have mid-term elections in 2018 and they could face a wipeout if the tone and tenor of the country stays the same or gets worse. Let them know that standing up to Trump earns your support. You don’t have to promise your vote. Just promise your support and your consideration. But we need to lionize these guys. Pave the way for more.

And keep after Trumpy the Clown. He reads about the dissent and it drives him crazy. A man like this cannot work within the framework of a government. He’s going to try to pull and end run and isolate himself and force his way and our government WILL fight back. Our justices on the Supreme Court, who have lifelong job security no matter what Trumpy the Clown says are not going to bow down and kiss his ring. They are a bunch of old fuckers who are going to tell him to go fuck himself if he challenges them (he already had the Judicial Branch of the government removed from the president’s website–it’s back now, after backlash and talk of a test-coup).

Your tweets. Your Facebook posts, likes, shares, all of your social media pressure is getting to him. It’s why I keep posting on twitter to #TrumpyTheClown. It’s why it’s important to retain or share the posts of celebrities and news publications that go viral because he looks at those numbers. The number of retweets and shares is important to him.

He’s seething because a judge imposed a stay on his Muslim-ban. He’s already cracking.

So. Keep the pressure on #TrumpyTheClown and for goodness sake, hug a Republican any time you find one standing up to President Pumpkin Lice Far-Tay.

Oh! And support Starbucks and Kal Penn!

Peace out mah ninjas!