Before Victor Frankenstein went into his lab to show that humanity could create life, unable to dig up the bodies himself, he paid grave robbers to do the work. He may have anticipated that they would follow his directions to get only the best of the deceased, but either through desperation or dishonesty those he employed violated that expectation when it came to the brain.
If you saw the movie (as opposed read the book), you know how that turned out.
He had created a monster and that had things go off into the weeds in spite of his best intentions.
In the 2016 election cycle the Republican party, hoping to get the best candidate to run for president and potentially undo the good President Obama had done, had quite a few candidates, and the best known ones went very deep in their negative opinions of Trump.
But it must be remembered, they were running for office.
Lindsey Graham was one. At the time he said
“I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office.”
“Donald Trump is not a conservative Republican. He’s an opportunist. He’s not fit to be President of the United States.”
“You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”
He now accepts that if he is to be reelected to the senate he needs Trump’s support and that of his supporters in his home state. Graham has said,
“What concerns me about the American press is this endless, endless attempt to label the guy some kind of kook not fit to be president.”
Strange as they were just passing on what he had said.
“I am the happiest dud in America right now. We have got a president and a national security team that I’ve been dreaming of for eight years.”
After he was invited to play golf with Trump, he was filled with praise even speaking directly to Trump in a TV interview,
“It was a fun day, and Trump’s the best golfer. You’re the best golfer.”
“To every Republican, if you don’t stand behind this President, we’re not going to stand behind you,”
During impeachment he was Trump’s best defender,
“I am trying to give a pretty clear signal I have made up my mind. I’m not trying to pretend to be a fair juror here.”
Although he had been a good friend of John McCain, and spoke against Trump going negative on him during his campaign,
“When it comes to criticizing Sen. McCain and his service, I think that’s a huge mistake,”
Graham has yet to correct the insults Trump has thrown at McCain especially after his death.
When asked about why as he faces a re-election challenge, his attitude changed, Graham got honest and explained,
“If you don’t want to get re-elected, you’re in the wrong business,”
Ah, principles.
Ted Cruz was also less than a fan of Trump before his election.
“Unlike Donald, I didn’t inherit millions of dollars. Instead, my dad cam as an immigrant from Cuba with nothing,with $100 in his underwear.”
“I thinks in terms of a commander in chief, we ought to have someone who isn’t springing out of bed to tweet in a frantic response to the latest polls. I think the American people is looking for a commander in chief who is stable and steady and a calm hand to keep this country safe.”
“We need a commander in chief, not a Twitterer-in-chief.”
“Donald can’t defend his own record. Whenever you point out what he’s actually said, he just screams, ‘liar.’ He insults you. He attacks you. He makes it personal, and he gets very rattled. He doesn’t like anyone pointing to his actual, substantive record. And I think that’s a sign of weakness.”
When Trump insulted Ted’s wife’s looks, he hit back with,
“It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often, but if you mess with my wife, if you mess with my kids, that will do it every time. Donald, you’re a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”
He called Trump a “narcissist” and “serial philanderer” whose “morality doesn’t exist” for him.
“This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies — practically every word that comes out of his mouth.”
“I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. … that pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I’m going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say, ‘thank you very much for maligning my wife and my father.'”
Now we have had from Cruz,
“President Trump is a flash-bang grenade thrown into Washington by the forgotten men and women of America. The fact that his first year as Commander in Chief disoriented and distressed members of the media and political establishment is not a bug but a feature.”
“President Trump is doing what he was elected to do: disrupt the status quo. That scares the heck out of those who have controlled Washington for decades, but for millions of Americans, their confusion is great fun to watch.”
As his praises came out like a deck of cards in a game if 52-pick up, Cruz’s presidential nickname “Lyin Ted” became “ Beautiful Ted”.
In 2016, Mitch McConnell advised Republicans that they could run ads against Trump to create separation from the polarizing GOP frontrunner if they believe it can help their reelection efforts.
As Trump became more popular, Mitch stated,
“He needs someone [as VP] highly experienced and very knowledgeable because it’s pretty obvious he doesn’t know a lot about the issues,”
“I object to a whole series of things that he’s said — vehemently object to them. I think all of that needs to stop. Both the shots at people he defeated in the primary and these attacks on various Musli Safed is a natural tadalafil 20mg india sexual stimulant. Therefore, browse around for more now cialis 20 mg it is considered one of the leading and most effective products is Kamagra Oral Jelly. It is true that pdxcommercial.com viagra sale whenever you try to urinate. Thus, this kind of generic medicine has been in buzz and discussed levitra without prescription pdxcommercial.com by thousands of people suffering from erectile dysfunction. ethnic groups in the country.”
And regarding his late endorsement of Trump, there was this,
“I’m not going to speculate about what he might say, or what I might do. But I think it’s pretty clear and I’ve been pretty clear publicly about how I think he ought to change direction and I hope that’s what we are going to see.”
Now whatever Trump does is perfectly okay because Mc Connell is getting his judges.
These are just examples of how the GOP went from opposing Trump, but then defending him and allowing him free rein to continue doing this.
They were allowing the monster to evolve, to grow.
But within the Republican Party, especially as a result of those odd daily appearances at press conference updates on COVID-19 which were short on information from experts, but overflowing with Trump’s opinions and speculations, as people are dying there was some degree of introspection and the reality that the monster they created had left the lab and was endangering those who made him.
Lindsey Graham suggested that instead of daily appearances he should keep it “a once-a-week show”
West Virginia Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia admitted the briefings were “going off the rails a little bit” and suggested that these briefing be what the public assumed they were going to be by letting “the health professionals guide where we’re going to go”
Indiana Representative Susan Brooks simply pointed out the obvious that “they’re going on too long”
What the public was seeing in these daily reality show episodes could very well adversely affect those Republicans in the House and Senate who were up for re-election and known to be close with Trump. That whole birds as a feather thing.
The party had backed and made excuses for Trump. It reframed what he actually said to be what he actually meant to say.
They excused his name calling and promotion of conspiracy theories on twitter as its just being him.
They supported his claims about the great things he has accomplished even as it is researchable enough to show either he was taking credit for the work of predecessors or the results that he claimed just weren’t there.
The best deals that no one had ever seen before were made, but never actually materialized onto anything real.
And although they had acquitted him of impeachment, some in the GOP, claiming he had learned from the experience and would be more reserved and presidential, are beginning to see, and some to acknowledge, that the acquittal just gave him license to increase his less attractive habits.
Case in point:
Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger, after Trump’s 6th tweet about a baseless claim that Joe Scarborough might have killed an aide in 2001, tweeted his objection to them with a caution.
Trump had tweeted,
“A lot of interest in this story about Psycho Joe Scarborough. So a young marathon runner just happened to faint in his office, hit her head on his desk, & die? I would think there is a lot more to this story than that? An affair? What about the so-called investigator? Read story!”
There were no questions about the death as an autopsy revealed the aide had an undiagnosed heart condition, with the coroner concluding she passed out and fatally struck her head as she fell.
Scarborough was not in Florida at the time the incident happened either.
So. Kinzinger tweeted,
“Completely unfounded conspiracy. Just stop. Stop spreading it, stop creating paranoia. It will destroy us.”
The 2020 elections are gearing up to be a tough one for Republicans, and the last thing they need is to have the president coming across as crazy which would not help those connected to him in their bid for re-election.
You see, morality and ethics aren’t important, how one’s actions affects a re-election is.
The stupidity of Trump’s tweets on the subject was so obvious, his news Outlet, FOX, even tried to slow him down.
Brit Hume of FOX tweeted
“30K retweets for this discredited tale, based on a three-year old post from some wing-ding website. This is why even his critics should want DJT to play a lot of golf, because when he does, he’s not tweeting crap like this.”
This was also on the Memorial Day weekend.
As we approached 100,000 people dying from COVID-19, Trump golfed and tweeted against a veteran running for re-election in Pennsylvania.
He tweeted that Representative Conor Lamb, a Marine Corps veteran, is an “American fraud” and “puppet for Crazy Nancy Pelosi” because Trump favored his opponent.
Although Trump called him a Pelosi puppet, Lamb did not vote for her to become speaker in 2019.
A major reason for Trump’s childish attack on this veteran was that in 2018 he had won against the candidate endorsed by Trump.
Endorsing Lamb’s opponent Trump crowed,
“Sean Parnell is an American Hero. Connor Lamm [sic]has proven to be an American fraud, and a puppet for Crazy Nancy Pelosi. He said he would NOT vote for her for Speaker, and did. Will kill 2A. Voted to impeach (on nothing). A TOTAL & COMPLETE Sean Parnell Endorsement!”
So Trump is either uninformed or lying as can be seen by his misspelling of Lamb’s name and his claim about his having voted for Pelosi.
This is embarrassing for a president who dodged the Viet Nam War, and the anti-veteran pejoratives is an embarrassment to this pro-troops Party.
Letting him roam free has created a monster who, like Victor Frankenstein’s, may turn around and destroy them.
And it is becoming hard for the GOP to pretend everything is just fine.