The RNC's Alternative Truth

 The republican national committee, apparently a wholly owned subsidiary of Trump Enterprises, censured GOP house members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger the other day. In doing so they attempted to rewrite recent history as only true Trumpists can. Part of the statement read: " Representatives Cheney and Kinzinger are participating in a democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse, and they are both utilizing their past professed political affiliation to mask democrat abuse of power for partisan purposes."

Oh yeah, rather like all that legitimate political discourse at Ft. Sumter on April 12, 1861.

In the RNCs defense republicans every where the last half decade, or so have been enamored with, as Kellyanne Conway once so eloquently put it, "an alternative truth." This ranges from the two women on the capitol grounds CNN reporter, Donie O'Sullivan interviewed on Jan. 6th. Those two vile hicks insisted there had been no violence that day. Their statement was at odds with Fox News influencer, Tucker Carlson, At the same time he was sending out panic ridden texts begging Trump to call off his supporters. These days he is telling his audience the FBI infiltrated the crowd and instigated the insurrection. That would be the same FBI which was then headed by arch republican Bill Barr.

Yes, not even those of us who did more than our share of blotter acid and psilocybin in the 60's and 70's ever found reality so twisted out of shape.

Of course all this nonsense originates with The Big Orange Guy himself. To this day he claims the election was stolen from him and that then Vice President, Mike Pence had the authority, no, the duty, to single handedly overturn the 2020 presidential election.

On the same day the RNC censured Cheney and Kinzinger Pence told a Federalist gathering in Orlando, Trump was, "wrong." Trump responded with a statement saying Pence was a tool of Mitch McConnell who never liked him, plus he should be investigated for not overturning the election.

Unfortunately for Brother Don, every secretary of State, every county election official, and the people who actually counted the votes in all those contested states--a huge chunk of them republicans--know he is lying out his ass. Hell, even the hand picked by the Arizona GOP, Cyber Ninja outfit knows it. In fact the only people who still say the election was rigged is Trump himself and his hardcore cultists.

All of which begs the question, why the fuck is the RNC backing a horse so dead dog food processors won't even touch it? 

Tradition? Stupidity? Fear? I don't know, maybe we should check with former members of the Manson family, or closet Nazis, or even those poor fools who still think the confederacy was based on something besides slavery. 

Whatever the case we can only hope, as author John Wooley said the other day, Don Trump fades away just like Sarah Palin did. In other words there is a point in time when people and the media finally realize exactly how moronic, irrelevant, and passe he really is.

Indeed.

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