OUCH! OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH, OUCH!

I think Jim Jones’ followers had it easier. The current cult is getting demolished.

A string of them lost seats, because the cult leader turned its head in a different direction.

This morning, I read a Sam Dworkin article that said that the mayor of Salem, OR, lost her office to a challenger. The incumbent mayor couldn’t be bothered to attend town halls, or debates, and outraised the challenger 3:1. But the challenger reportedly knocked on 7000 doors — imagine bothering with the people you want to represent.

In TX, the four term senator who was up for re-election lost to a total sleaze, because the cult leader — the bizarre creature that lives in the White House — gave its blessing to the sleaze in the primary. Republican voters in TX voted against their own well-established interest because some aimless, idiotic, totally self-centered, nonsensical liar, who keeps fucking up everything it can imagine, is in constant and high speed grift mode, and never made a promise it was willing to keep, told them it preferred someone else.

The cult leader is shooting itself, and all other Republicans, in the feet. That’s gotta hurt. It’s probably worse than bone spurs.

I also read this morning, for what it’s worth, that the adorable and endlessly devoted Lindsey Graham, who is also a four termer, ain’t lookin’ so good in terms of keeping his seat five months from now. It’s like all anyone has to do to beat these people is be alive.

And it’s all because the cult leader is a complete mess, causes endless trouble, while grifting the hell out of the United States, won’t stop itself, or fails to recognize the self-imposed damage, and a sizeable enough proportion of Republican voters don’t seem to get the message. And they might be hypnotized, so they don’t yet recognize how much ordnance their feet keep absorbing.

It’s certainly clear why they keep adopting methods of cheating in ways that distort who votes where, but they don’t realize how much they’re motivating people to vote. And they can corrupt the voting districts, but they can’t control how ballots get filled out. They’re either unaware of how unpopular they are, or they don’t believe it, or they don’t care. It looks like it has meaning when the small proportion who are motivated enough to vote in primaries mindlessly follow the cult leader. But when the incumbent mayor of Salem, OR, who has a 3:1 fund-raising advantage gets knocked out, or someone in TX who has a 10:1 fund-raising advantage gets knocked out, the cult doesn’t know how to react, other than to try harder to cheat more.

I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: I do not know what the Republican/conservative platform is. My best guess is that they don’t, either. They’d behave very differently if they had the slightest idea what they were doing, or in what direction they wanted to go. In the meantime, their feet just absorb more gunshots.