We're Gonna Nuke a Hurricane This Time, Aren't We?

 

So, last night I posted, then pulled, a blogpost about Rep. Andy Ogles' proposed Amendment to have Trump serve a second term.

That man's brains are going to be banana pudding with no vanilla wafers by then, but ok. https://t.co/XzTnGe2lts

— Vixen Strangely (@VixenStrangely) January 24, 2025

I was expanding a little on the idea that Trump is very old, actually, and manifestly not as competent as he was even during his incompetent first term. So, what the hell would be left to re-elect?  When I got up the next morning, I realized how ill-conceived that idea might be. Trumpism is juche. It is revolutionary and divorced from typical Republicanism and seeks independence from reliance on other nations by just like, taking whatever it is they have we rely on. You know, capitalist juche. No allies, just a little bit of taking hints from Russia and China. And constant propaganda. 

It wouldn't matter if Trump's mentis was compost.  The GOP has gotten used to ignoring that Trump is, in fact an idiot. Only a really bad fuck up might save us. 

The problem is--how bad? And tonight, the GOP confirmed Pete Hegseth, a white knuckle black out drunk and possible rapist and spousal abuser, with nowhere near the experience he ought to have, for Secretary of Defense. 

Because what could go wrong? What have we got to lose? 

A lot. I don't know if the Republican senators and JD Vance, who should know better, thought about what an underqualified pick to SecDef would mean for morale, what it would mean to more experienced folks who kept their professional and home life both straight and maintained good conduct while they advanced in their rank and experience. What it would mean to them to see their service highly politicized along with an acceptance of war crimes and the undoing of the continuing program of integration of our armed forces to bring out the best in a wide pool of our diverse American volunteer force. 

But I don't think what we are going to see will be good, and I think the people who confirmed this guy failed in their critical imagination to truly look at the "cons" of this decision. 

They are treating this like a game. Confirming this guy is a "win". Will they say the same for the abominable choice of giddy-ass gadfly Tulsi Gabbard for DNI? Have we lost all contact with reality? 

Which brings me back to the title of this post--would Trump nuke a hurricane? This is not a joke. This is the kind of mind-product you would expect from a person who bitches about windmill cancer, thinks magnets stop working underwater, and thinks there is a secret spigot that brings water down from the Pacific NW to LA because of "halfpipes", and his dopey brain thinking that because north is "up" on a map, water must be flowing "downhill".  This is the same dumb motherfucker who thought people should maybe drink disinfectants or shine a bright light up their butts to stop Covid. 

He's a very special little guy, but he's NOT smarter than a 5th grader. He literally lost money owning casinos. House money. He had the genius idea to teach people to flip houses going into the 2008 crisis that had a lot to do with bad mortgages. And he strongly encouraged them to go into credit card debt for courses because they'd make it up! When he associates "political asylum" with "mental asylums" and brings up Hannibal Lector, I can't be sure he doesn't think his weird word association game is real! 

And I felt like maybe people know better and are just being bad by going along with him, but I have this weird, horrible thought that maybe some of the people in office right now (Tommy Tuberville, Ron Johnson, Marsha Blackburn, etc.) could honestly really be astonishingly not at all bright. Or even below average. 

And if Trump has enough of those, he can totally make a "nuke the hurricane" kind of choice and people could go along with it. Invade Greenland, Quebec, Panama, annex Baja--I don't know. These people are out of their goddamn minds.  End FEMA and let the states handle disasters themselves--what have we got to lose?  

Louisiana. We could just lose Louisiana that way. Just like a bad Sec Def can affect recruitment and retention, discipline and more. Just like we could go from threats by a stupid old con artist to a hot war on our border because our president has a cold, idling brain.

I wish more Republicans had a spine, or at the very least a conscience. They are looking to reap a whirlwind if they can't start thinking and acting independently.