by Noah
Welcome to the end of democracy! We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn't get all the way there on January 6th, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it.
-Conservative (Nazi) activist Jack "POS" Posobiec as he began the CPAC proceedings this past weekend
Last weekend was quite a weekend for Republicans. They held one of their CPAC mini-Nuremberg parade festivals wherein they doubled down on ending democracy, using killing democracy as their all too predictable go-to phrase and one by one they seemed to rush up to the podium to declare allegiance to Vladimir Putin and their Russian promised land. Fortunately for them and unfortunately for decent people, none of them broke any bones in their Ich bin ein Nazi race to the stage. At least this time neither the stage, the walls, or the lighting patterns were in the shape of swastikas. I suppose they either thought that wasn't such a great way to convince non-republicans to sign up. Or, maybe all that stuff hadn't returned from the repair shops in time for the freakshow. Instead, the speakers made up for it by speaking in variations of Hitler's speeches even more openly than ever before. Most of the time, the whole thing reminded me of the films of the Madison Square Garden rally held by KKK and Nazi groups in February of 1939. Yeah, I watched some of it. All the people there looked and sounded like the kind of people that, before Reagan, were locked away in insane asylums for their own good and ours. Now, we put them on TV. Freedom! Freedom!!!
Ah, but, leave it to the Republican Party's Dear Orange Menace To Society to inject a bit of representation for black people. The dishevelled former guy went deep into the Confederacy to South Carolina and appeared at the Black Conservative Federation confab. I guess black conservatives weren't welcome at CPAC so they had to have their own separate get-together. Anyway, Trump got up on the stage, reached into his bag of racial stereotypes, and proceeded to spew a patented fusillade of racist nonsense about black Americans being able to relate to him because he's been indicted and arrested, and, get this; also likes sneakers and he just happens to have some to sell, gold ones with a nice big T (for Trump, not Traitor).
"I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing, and a lot of people said that’s why the black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing, but possibly, maybe, there’s something there."
Gotta love the "a lot of people have said." Nice touch, eh? "Some people are saying." He was just trying to plant the idea of course. You know, like in "I'm indicted and arrested and you're black, you're all criminals, so you know how that feels." "You've been found guilty of rape. Me, too." and, "Who here doesn't have 91 federal indictments hanging over their head?" Who knows, maybe, deep down he feels that he's discriminated against because he's orange. Then, he rambled on and on about his sneakers and spoke about all black people liking sneakers like him, so they have that in common. I suppose by August, he'll be announcing that he's opening up a fast food restaurant chain called Trump Soul Food™. Maybe he can get Karl Rove out of retirement to rap a theme song for the commercials. Then, he'll partner with Colonel Sanders or the bigots at Chick-fil-A to pass out buckets of fried chicken as part of his next black voter outreach event. Trump's national propaganda outlet FOX-PRAVDA joined right in of course. Could there ever have been any doubt?
I can hardly wait to see what the Republican Party comes up with this weekend. The pro-Trump Roberts "Supreme" Court already has already shown a deadly head start.