it hit me earlier today when i was discussing obamacare that if mitt romney had won we would have had the original 100% version of obamacare instead of the GOP congress version... and it made me kind of wish i hadn't phonebanked for obama's 2nd term...

because trump wouldn't have been a thing. ever. he just would have shut up after the whole birther truther thing won romney the election... or he would have run on the DNC ticket this time and romney/ryan would have run a train on his ass. a democrat candidate literally, not just talking about it, but really sexually assaulting women? on a regular basis for decades? partying with convicted sex offenders and currently awaiting a hearing on a very specific rape case involving a 13 year old girl? that dude would have been murdered by the christian right.

also his border fixation certainly could have been spun as a concern for union labor or average living expenses, and he could have bitched about overpopulation instead of saying racist stuff and it would have come off as vaguely left-leaning in some regard. not left leaning, but definitely close enough for the dnc.

besides that, most of what he espouses is reagan/clinton/clinton oligarchic top-down socialism-for-the-rich, so he's basically hillary in terms of policy.

either way, i really just hate right wing talk radio for letting this dude happen. they were just goofing around about psychic vampires and chemtrails and steel beams and vaccines and the international bankers and lizards and zionism and kenya and ancient aliens and every 6 to 9 months they get a bug in their bonnet about gold prices skyrocketing and everyone buy buy buy gold and it's supposed to be funny because it was always so transparent, but it's not really funny because it hurts real people. real people were fooled by it, and didn't just listen to it for entertainment purposes.

they believed it for real, because they needed something to believe in. they don't have gods anymore in any meaningful way. they don't have any belonging to community anymore.

now, they've joined this elite and special club of people that know better than what "the media" reports. they believe trump's rape trial is all "made up," if they know about it at all. they're among friends. they've willfully suspended disbelief in something bigger and surrounded by more gold than themselves. it's fitting that he used to own the teen usa pageant: the most depressing gods often requested virgin sacrifices. epstein was just paying tribute.

if you're a trump supporter, i don't blame you for hating hillary. i get it. you've heard about emails and benghazis and ashtrays flung across limos for so long, with such frequency, and in tones that convey such levels of importance that there's no way you'd think it was just stuff that happens. she must be bad. i mean, she is bad, but not for the reasons they say she is. she’s bad for the reasons we hate the old piddle-fart in middle management that won’t retire and get out of everyone’s way. she’s bad for the reasons non-human primates and human primates alike hate seeing work unfairly rewarded. she’s bad because she’s a lady donald trump. she had to work harder to get there, and she’s vastly more qualified, and she’s smarter, and she’s nicer, and she’s more controlled, and she’s never raped ivanka trump, but she’s rich beyond most people’s wildest dreams, and most of it was donated by people that just need her to play ball for like a minute so they can 2001-2007 us into buying big-ass overpriced overborrowed houses so they can by big-ass overpriced overborrowed bombs again. they miss it, so they set up 2 options. first female president. big fucking whoop. second radical leftist president? now i’m listening... and i’ll let you guess who the first one was.