{"id":7626,"date":"2020-07-10T01:49:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7626"},"modified":"2020-07-10T01:50:55","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:50:55","slug":"gop-living-in-twilight-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7626","title":{"rendered":"GOP Living In The Twilight Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The coronavirus situation is getting worse in the U.S.  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/09\/who-warns-the-coronavirus-is-getting-worse-continues-to-accelerate.html\" target=\"_blank\">The coronavirus situation is getting worse in the U.S. <\/a>and America&#8217;s Impeached CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his sycophantic Republican cronies have resorted to the tried and true GOP method of dealing with problems: deny, distract and gaslight. Remember when <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mick Mulvaney tried to convince the public that quid pro quos were good (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=6993\" target=\"_blank\">Mick Mulvaney tried to convince the public that quid pro quos were good<\/a> and that people would just have to &#8216;get over it&#8217;? Fun times! Then Donald Trump got impeached. Hey GOP: that went well didn&#8217;t it. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Arizona's Governor Doug Ducey (pronounced douchey) did the same thing last month (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7556\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona&#8217;s Governor Doug Ducey (pronounced douchey) did the same thing last month<\/a> and Arizona is now 7th in the nation in number of cases and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"added more cases per capita than any country on the planet in the past week (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/arizona-added-more-coronavirus-cases-per-capita-over-past-week-any-country-world-1516612\" target=\"_blank\">added more cases per capita than any country on the planet in the past week<\/a>. So much winning!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, in typical conservative Republican fashion, they&#8217;re sticking to their guns with pathological liar <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump proclaiming to all this past week that Americans will just have to get over it (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2020\/07\/white-house-hopes-americans-will-just-get-used-to-dying-of-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\">Trump proclaiming to all this past week that Americans will just have to get over it<\/a> and <strong>learn to live with the possibility of getting the virus and . . .yada, yada, yada . . . maybe DIE!<\/strong> And now<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/08\/coronavirus-trump-threatens-to-cut-school-funding-slams-cdc-reopening-guidelines.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Trump is bullying the CDC to relax guidelines in order to send our children back to schools this fall in the midst of a pandemic (opens in a new tab)\"> Trump is bullying the CDC to relax guidelines in order to send our children back to schools this fall in the midst of a pandemic<\/a> which has killed over 130,000 people already (that&#8217;s over 43 9\/11s, folks).  With this kind of leadership who needs enemies. Oh, that&#8217;s right. . .  <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Trump is okay with enemies killing our troops (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2020\/07\/07\/trump-puts-russia-over-us-troops-bounties-duckworth-column\/5380795002\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump is okay with enemies killing our troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cowardly, obsequious Senate Republicans are in quite a pickle and stand to lose the Executive Branch, House and even the Senate by continuing to prop up Trump. It reminds us of the classic Twilight Zone episode called <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Its a Good Life (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/It%27s_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)\" target=\"_blank\">Its a Good Life<\/a><\/em>, in which a spoiled, petulant little boy (played by Billy Mumy) with extraordinary powers terrorizes everyone in the community and no one stands up to him for fear of being &#8216;sent to the cornfield&#8217;. They just repeat over and over how great he is and that everything he does is &#8216;real good&#8217;, while the terror goes on and on and on. Sound familiar?  In 2020, Republicans are living in their own self-manufactured Twilight Zone.  Like this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-vZp3FAQZvU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"video from the Lincoln Project says (opens in a new tab)\">video from the Lincoln Project says<\/a>, may they all suffer the deserved consequences for their fecklessness in letting democracy die in America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"675\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumprepublicans2020coronavirustwilightzone.jpg\" alt=\"In 2020, with Donald Trump as their dear Leader, the Republicans are living in the Twilight Zone.\" class=\"wp-image-7633\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumprepublicans2020coronavirustwilightzone.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/trumprepublicans2020coronavirustwilightzone-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>In 2020, with Donald Trump as their dear Leader, the Republicans are living in the Twilight Zone.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus situation is getting worse in the U.S. and America&#8217;s Impeached CEO\/Dictator Donald Trump and his sycophantic Republican cronies have resorted to the tried and true GOP method of dealing with problems: deny, distract and gaslight. Remember when Mick Mulvaney tried to convince the public that quid pro quos were good and that people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=7626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP Living In The Twilight Zone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,2054,60,8,68,85,963,3,198],"tags":[2070,355,1575,2186,22,2086,1725,147,914,915,9,663,199,98,296,19,661,871,738,785,47,48,694,2204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7641,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions\/7641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}