He Shotguns a lot of Stuff

 This is how a friend of the Omnivore who really ought to know better apologized on behalf of Trump, whom he voted for (once--did he vote for Trump a second time? Probably--but The Omnivore really doesn't want to know). This Omni-Friend was engaged in the favorite pastime of "Never-Trump-Until-It-Looks-Like-He-Could-Win" pundrity.

This dance is done by capering around enjoying the lib-owning and looking in the mirror repeating over and over "they're trying to groom kids and move Pakistanis into the coutnry" in an attempt to actually make yourself believe it.

So when Trump is super-stupid? He's 'shotgunning stuff' (whatever that means: if we're going with that, he tried to shotgun the Constitution--but even at close range, he missed). No, you can't say: "Yeah, my guy is stupid and venal--but if I vote for that then by the transitive property, I'm stupid and venal so, uh, no--no--he's really smart--he's so smert--and he's just 'shotgunning' stuff."

Yeah.

Sympathy for the Deebil

Matt Lewis who writes conservative crap for The Daily Beast holds his hand to his forehead while lamenting what Ru-ru Murdoch of Fox did to his beloved conservative party. Why, Ru-ru, after whom Matty would have named his babies if he thought Trump would win this cycle, dropped his pantaloons and took a shit on the party that was still Matty's precious while Sarah Palin was ascendant and McCain was reviled for telling a radio personality that constantly using Obama's middle name was kinda an appeal to racism.

The Omnivore assumes his Omni-friend would hold, if Palin won, that she just machine guns a lot of stuff or whatever term of art is used when someone does something dumb and venal--but is keeping those goddamn Pakistanis out of the US of A. You've gotta take a stand somewhere, right?

No--Matty was soooo mad at 'Obamna' that he'd have taken a philandering dirty-money narcissist liar over him seven days of the week (and twice on Sunday--because as he'd probably tell to you: he's a good Ghod-fearin' Christian).

The fact is that Fox DID heavily contribute to the fall of America (we're fallin'--sorry Charlie Daniels). He's not wrong about that. The reason he should keep his fucking mouth shut is because he's only lamenting what indignities was inflicted upon on his beloved (partah) AFTER things had gotten so bad he was afraid he was gonna lose.

While that strain of populist crap was powering voting he liked? THAT was when he kept his goddamn mouth shut.

After all, shotgunning a lot of stuff is fine--so long as you're on the right end of the shotgun.

Turn This Thing Around (I Will Not Go Quietly)

Don Henley had some advice, by way of verse, that anyone who wants to criticize Trump should take. You don't get to straddle the line like someone using a latrine trench: if you want to trash talk your former lover, do what Joe Walsh (not Matt--fuck Matts forever) or the Lincoln Party guys did: Start vocally supporting Democrats.

 Yes, they're going to import those Pakistanis like there's no tomorrow, but they aren't going to pull us out of NATO or sell us out to Putin. They are also a lot less likely to strom the Capitol and suggest suspending the constitution.

It's a balancing act that hangs on the width of a single hair--but there's a right side and a wrong side. Maybe guys like Matty could figure out which is which.