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But what if it had been Trump himself who had been shot away, and only Trump’s ear fragment had been saved by security? Could Trump’s meat ear rim itself have been persuaded to run for the presidency? Could Trump’s ear flesh fragment have beaten Biden in a democratic election? Almost certainly. And would an America governed by a small severed slice of Trump’s ear have offered the world a more secure future than an America governed by Trump, or an America governed by Biden? Again, the answer, sadly, is a resounding yes.
The American Christian right believes that Trump, despite his obvious moral corruption, is a massive tool of a God bent on shaping America into their own twisted theocracy. Evangelical Christian America believes their selectively myopic deity actually intervened to save Trump from the gunman, while leaving a heroic volunteer firefighter to take the bullet. Blessed are the firefighters. But how much more useful to this morally equivocating God is a simple severed ear, unencumbered by accusations that it tried to overturn an election, or paid an adult film star hush money, or stole classified documents, or sexually assaulted a woman in a department store. The ear would be innocent and pure and good, like Jesus, or the unborn child.
And if an ear had, as Trump did, repeatedly socialised with the unsavoury sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his young friends, it is unlikely it would have been able to do anything inappropriate, due to its being an ear. And should the ear be found to have lost the public trust, it could, due to its inability to defend itself or argue its case, be easily dispensed with by the Republicans without too much fuss. Ear today, gone tomorrow.
https://www.vox.com/24134257/biden-economy-inflation-wages-interest-rate
Exaggerating the harms of inflation doesn’t help working people.
https://youtu.be/5yt4pX2FeCE?si=rxudT13mx1jWizHJ
https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5403
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/what-are-the-most-powerful-climate-actions-you-can-take
Voting tops the list for the world’s leading climate scientists in a year when billions of voters go to the polls
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/08/1249484871/bid-to-oust-speaker-johnson-fails
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/21/biden-trump-campaign-finance-00142555
Trump is spending significant amounts on legal services, while Biden is lagging behind both Trump and Obama as an incumbent.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/20/nikki-haley-vows-to-stay-in-2024-race-after-raising-16point5-million-in-january-.html
Donald Trump has beaten Nikki Haley in both the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries so far.