Gist Say No

How bad is Trump’s mental failing?  When Peter Doocy on Fox did a story on his Easter tweet, he said that there were some “very bad words” in it, so we’ll just have to give viewers “the gist.”

The gist.
 
Yeah, that’s what you want from a president.  The gist.  Sanewash his lunacy.  Don’t show your viewer what the commander-in-chief said, the guy with control of nukes, crazy person who tore up a nuclear agreement and then started a war of choice with no goals or exit strategy.  A war that’s closed off the conduit for 20% of the world’s oil and a third of the world’s fertilizer – which farmers need, and the seasons for planting don’t get put on hold.  You miss the season, and poof, they’re gone.  And Trump insists that no one saw Iran fighting back.  But then, Trump also said that he had completely destroyed Iran’s ability to shoot at our planes – and over the next two days, six of our planes were hit, and two pilots had to evacuate.  (Amazingly, one got quickly recovered, and the other was remarkably rescued.)  And said that the war was going great, and that we were winning victories all over the place – a day before the top general in the Army was fired.  And pushed to retire.
 
So, yes, the gist.  Give us the gist.

That's when you want from the U.S. president and commander-in-chief during a war when he goes off out of control against the enemy who is blocking one-fifth of the world's oil and he's raised holy hell on them.  The gist.

Please, give us the gist.
 
Because the rest that Trump said was so crass and infantile Fox believed its viewers wouldn’t be able to take it from their personal messenger of God.  The good news is that being crass and infantile is a step up from having to give the gist of one of Trump’s standard speeches that go off on bizarre tangents about snakes, windmills and Sharpies and so much else that make absolutely zero sense.

Happy Easter from Trump, president of the United States.  Commander-in-Chief of all U.S. military forces.  And nuclear weapons.
 
What’s been interesting is that there’s finally been a breakthrough on social media.  The past couple of weeks, there’s been little reticence for people to address Trump’s mental failings – and not as attacks, but as pointing out the obvious and “When are the Republicans going to acknowledge it?”  And similarly, people seem to be comfortably addressing Trump’s dementia.  And not as a debating point to smear him, but for explaining the obvious.  Further, Democrats in Congress are talking more comfortably about Trump’s serious mental issues.
 
No “here’s the gist” about it anymore, no dancing around trying to explain what Trump meant, but quoting him directly and saying that this is a problem, blunt and matter-of-fact referencing what is on display out in the open and pummeling the country.
 
Pummeling, like several experts over the weekend suggesting the possibility that the average price of gas could conceivably hit $6.00 a gallon.  It wasn’t a prediction that this will happen, but looked at various realities and explained that the possibility is reason.
 
One political strategist, Kurt Bardella (a former Republican Congressional staffer, spokesman for Breitbart News and right-wing NewsNation contributor, but now a Democrat) wrote about the gas price observations that, “If this holds, it won’t be a ‘blue wave’ in November, it’ll be an extinction-level event that wipes out the GOP.”
 
And Trump goes rambling on, caught between his malignant narcissism and dementia that is worsening – because it’s degenerative.
 
And still the MAGOPs in Congress fall obligingly behind him.  Saying how everything Trump does his great – or at least the gist of what Trump does is great.  Not even troubled by a Trump tweet so "really bad" -- during a war! At the enemy you hope to one day negotiate with -- that even his mothership "Fox News" couldn't quote it.  Which is why this isn’t about Trump, we know who he is…and know that he’s worsening.  This is about the elected MAGOPs in Congress who know who Trump is, too, but choose to enable him and support everything he does – just like lemmings walking off the cliff.  Though unlike lemmings, causing destruction on their way down.
 
That’s not a prediction. Nor even a description of the hell Trump is causing for the country, but also for himself and his party.  That risks "an extinction-level event that wipes out the GOP."
 
It's only the gist.