Subject: Kissing Trump's Fundament
Dear Leader is a broken-inside bottomless pit of need. you’ve heard of “what have you done for me lately?”

with Donny, it’s “what are you doing for me right now?” mixed in with “what have you been doing for me all along?” — praise must be lavish and unceasing. loyalty must be unwavering. step out of line just once, and you’ll be discarded faster than one of Donny’s overripe diapers.

it was never a secret that one goal of Project 2025 was to purge the government of Democrats — but a lot of Republicans now waking up to the fact that the long knives are out for them, too.

Paul Ryan got taken to the woodshed for insufficient fealty...

[CNBC's] Joe Kernen: “so now you’re calling for unity.”
Paul Ryan: “I am calling for unity.”
Kernen: “well that’s nice. it would have been nice before the election.”
Ryan: “he won.”
Kernen: “and the other thing I thought was funny was when you said ‘hey, look — I want Trump to succeed.’ you know who that sounds like? it sounds like a Democrat.”

that’s not some bobblehead from Fox News or Newsmax reading the riot act to Ryan, accusing him of sounding like some fuckface commie Democrat. that’s Joe Kernen on CNBC — ostensibly an arm of the so-called “mainstream” NBC News. Ryan probably wasn’t expecting a dressing-down when he sat down for his interview — but Kernan’s a member of the MAGAsphere, and he’s never going to forgive Paul for the unspeakable crime of not voting for Dear Leader.

ousting the dissenters is pretty much page one of the Totalitarian’s Playbook. the first thing old Joe Stalin did after seizing power was to purge the Communist Party of anyone who didn’t toe his ideological line.

Stalin called them “enemies of the people” (sound familiar?) and 750,000 of them ended up on the wrong side of dead.

Donny’s got himself a quite a lengthy shit-list — and once you’re on it, there’s no fucking way you’re ever getting off. Jeff Tiedrich