how the Wingnut Grievance Bubble turns Republicans into sad losers

here’s the latest in Weird Shit Donny Believes

Little Donny Convict believes a lot of stupid shit. windmills cause noise cancer. exercise is bad for you. horse goo cures covid. you can stop a hurricane by nuking it. magnets don’t work if they’re wet. he’s better looking than Kamala Harris.

lately, Donny’s come up with a new dumb-ass belief — and please sit yourself down, because this one’s a fucking doozie: everybody wanted Roe overturned.

reporter: “you were influential in picking three Supreme Court Justices to overturn Roe v. Wade. do you have any regrets about the overturning of Roe v Wade?”
Donny: “well, they wanted to overturn it for fifty-two years. for fifty-two years they’ve worked to overturn Roe v Wade. they wanted to bring it back to the states. all legal scholars, all Democrats, everybody wanted to bring it back. this is for years and decades and decades.”

Donny’s insistence that everybody — ‘all legal scholars, all Democrats’ — wanted Roe gone is, of course, pure unadulterated horse shit.

if anything, public support for Roe has grown over the years — and the overturning of Roe has been a disaster at the ballot box for Republicans. we’ve seen this play out in election after election. right now, every Republican with a race to win is desperately trying to sweep their anti-abortion past under the rug.

but not Donny. he’s out there giving interview after interview, bragging about being the guy who ended Roe.

of course, Donny says shit like this because he lives in a bubble. as with all emotionally-fragile autocrats, he’s surrounded himself with compliant yes-men. there’s no one on Team Donny who’s going to sit him down and say hey fucknut, why do you keep going out there and shooting yourself in both feet on this loser issue?

nope, all Donny’s got are the big, strong advisors — blubbering like babies as the tears of gratitude pour from their eyes — saying sir! sir! how do you come up with one winning strategy after another? we’ve never seen anything like it!

Donny’s little yes-man bubble resides within a much larger bubble — one that for years has been causing conservatives to make one unforced error after another.

I’m talking about the Wingnut Grievance Bubble — the self-enclosed feedback loop where lunatic fantasies, feverish delusions, nutty conspiracies, repugnant behavior and harebrained notions are amplified. these people watch themselves on Fox News and Newsmax all day long. whatever crackpot ideas rattle around in their heads are never challenged.

naturally, any time a Republican steps outside of the Bubble and into the real world, they end up stepping on an endless series of rakes.

here’s an example: inside the Wingnut Grievance Bubble, everyone knows the Biden crime family is corrupt, because everyone knows the Biden crime family is corrupt. it’s gospel. so Shirt Sleeve Jimmy and Hog Romancin’ Comer Fudd go out and hold hearings based on absolutely no evidence — because who needs evidence when everyone knows the Biden crime family is corrupt? — and they end up looking like fools, being completely pantsed by Democrats like Jasmine Crockett and Jared Moskowitz.

here’s one particularly delicious example: inside the Bubble, everyone knows that millions of migrants are streaming across Joe Biden’s wide-open borders, because everyone knows that millions of migrants are streaming across Joe Biden’s wide-open borders. so when a bunch of MAGA vigilantes decided to take the law into their own hands and headed down to the Texas border to fuck some migrant shit up, they were shocked that they couldn’t find one border-crosser.

bored and amped up on their own toxic masculinity, they ended up beating the shit out of each other.

here’s a more recent example. inside the Bubble, everyone knows that democracy is bad, because everybody knows democracy is bad. so the Heritage Foundation goes and makes an entire public website promoting Project 2025 — their plan to end democracy — because who need to hide shit that like when everybody knows democracy is bad?

now, as a result of the Heritage Foundation’s arrogance, Donny Convict is forced to wear Project 2025 like a millstone around his neck.

here’s an example from just last week. inside the Bubble, everyone knows that real men don’t cry. they tamp that shit down. the only acceptable emotion that a Real Man™ is allowed to express is rage. and so when Gus Walz had a perfectly normal reaction to seeing his father become the Democratic nominee for vice president, the worst people in the world imagined that mocking a teenager was was an acceptable thing to do.

they all ended up looking like the cruel assholes they are.

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the big debate between Kamala Harris and Donny Convict is only fourteen days away but uh oh! — it looks like Donny is already frantically casting about for any excuse to turn tail and run.

here’s the little weasel, posting last night on his crappy app.

“I watched ABC FAKE NEWS this morning, both lightweight reporter Jonathan Carl’s(K?) ridiculous and biased interview of Tom Cotton (who was fantastic!), and their so-called Panel of Trump Haters, and I ask, why would I do the Debate against Kamala Harris on that network? Will panelist Donna Brazil give the questions to the Marxist Candidate like she did for Crooked Hillary Clinton? Will Kamala’s best friend, who heads up ABC, do likewise. Where is Liddle’ George Slopadopolus hanging out now? Will he be involved. They’ve got a lot of questions to answer!!! Why did Harris turn down Fox, NBC, CBS, and even CNN? Stay tuned!!!”

and, sure enough, this just in from CNN:

Former President Donald Trump’s campaign is casting fresh doubt on whether a September 10 debate will take place on ABC amid a dispute over the rules, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

Trump’s team, according to the source, would like for the microphones to be muted throughout the debate except for the candidate whose turn it is to speak, as was the case during the first debate with President Joe Biden.

turning the mics off during the Biden debate was an idea that looked super fucking awesome on paper, but was a disaster in real life — as Trump kept shouting loudly enough to be heard in the studio even when his mics were off. it was distracting and threw Biden off his game. so naturally, Team Trump wants more of that shit for the Harris debate.

“Enough with the games. We accepted the ABC debate under the exact same terms as the CNN debate,” Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller said in a statement. “The Harris camp, after having already agreed to the CNN rules, asked for a seated debate, with notes, and opening statements. We said no changes to the agreed upon rules.”

of course it’s all pretext. Donny just wants an excuse to bail.

time to dust off the the chicken Donald balloon.

bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk! bawk!

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please tell me that The New York Times is just trolling us now, and that they don’t actually believe the shit they print.

hello? is it me? am I on crazy pills?

Donald Trump is a quadrice-indicted twice-impeached once-convicted popular-vote-losing adderall-huffing insurrection-leading ear-diapering testimony-ducking judge-threatening lawyer-ignoring debate-avoiding witness-tampering day-one-dictatoring disabled-veteran-dishonoring inheritance-squandering rube-fleecing clown-makeup-smearing language-mangling sneaker-hawking serial-sexual-predating draft-dodging casino-bankrupting butler-bullying daughter-perving hush-money-paying real-estate-scamming bone-spur-faking ketchup-hurling justice-obstructing classified-war-plan-thieving golf-cheating weather-map-defacing horse-paste-promoting paper-towel-flinging race-baiting tax-evading evidence-destroying charity-defrauding money-laundering diaper-filling 88-count 78-year-old fluorescent tangerine felony factory.

on what planet does that sort of quote-unquote “character” stack up against the everyday plain and simple decency of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz?

if Team Trump wants to make this election about character, then bring it on.