Sorry, but I feel compelled to talk politics tonight. I’ve held off for as long as I can but now I have thoughts and emotions that need to be expressed or I am going to lose my mind and wander the streets naked and filthy and preaching of the coming apocalypse.

And I’d have a point.

I still maintain that we don’t know what Trump will actually do. But we do know what he can do, and that’s a lot less than people think.

A lot of people are assuming that the Republican House and Senate will be all too eager to bend over and assume the position for Trump. But what they are missing is that half the party hates his stinking guts, especially the part owned by guys like the Koch brothers.

The Donald’s support is exclusively populist. The power structure doesn’t like him. He’s embarrassing, he’s unpredictable, he’s unstable, and he is interested in nobody’s interests but his own.

And they hate that kind of thing. King lizards like the Kochs don’t want sociopaths like themselves in positions of power. They want sycophantic toadies eager for their approval. Trump is their worst nightmare.

You can see this already by how the markets responded to a Trump victory. They dropped like a rock from space. Trump means uncertainty and uncertainty is always bad business. I am sure Trump will try to throw the financial class a bone of some sort, like a cut in corporate taxes, but they will only be happy with someone who does what they are told, and The Donald sees absolutely no reason why he should do that.

After all, in his mind, he’s basically King of the World now. He has less of a reason to care what the elites think of him than ever. Not only that, he can rightfully claim he has a populist mandate, and is therefore “doing the will of the people”.

So we at least can guarantee that the rich scumbags will remain Trump’s implacable foe and do whatever they can to shit on his parade.

Also, I don’t think Little Donnie’s populist halo is going to stay on for very long after he gets into office. He has promised things to his rabid masses that are physically impossible to deliver. And sooner or later, he is going to fuck them over.

Maybe not even intentionally. He will simply trip over his own dick and say the wrong thing and his people will feel like he is not a REAL conservative any more.

Especially if he does something only a dirty pinko commie America-hating flag-burning faggot liberal would do, like make decisions with common sense and restraint.

In a way, there is a potential silver lining to that turd salad. And it has to do with Trump’s dominant personality trait, his enormous ego.

Or rather, his vanity, which is not the same thing. He is intensely worried about what people are saying about him and what they think of him. He’s become the monster he is because he found a group of people that feed his ego like never before. They worship him. They adore him. They believe in him like he is the Second Coming, and have invested all their faith, hope, and dreams on their Great White Dope magically making everything as wonderful as it never was in the past.

A guy like Trump can’t resist that. It’s the drug he craves the most in the world and what’s more, it’s the primo uncut penthouse grade of it.

And that means he will do whatever he needs to do to stay in their good graces. He can bullshit off things like The Wall and rounding up all the Muslims and illegal aliens (because how would you even) but the minute he’s in office, they are going to expect something big and impressive from him.

Time for their hate-Jesus to turn some water into wine already.

And these people have been whipped into a rabid frenzy and THEN had their boy win, something that none of them thought would really happen. That makes his win a miraculous event in its own right to them, or at least, for those of them who voted for him wanting him to win.

As with Brexit, I am sure for a lot of them it was a protest vote. And there’s video evidence of the look on Trump’s face when it was announced he had won, and he did not look like he thought he was going to be king of the world.

He looked like he was going to throw up.

So who knows how long he will even last in the role? We’ve seen how rapidly the job ages a person and Trump is already 70. And there’s always a chance he will at least try to just run away and quit when he gets bored with the job.

Add that into the other factors, and Little Donnie might not have the job for long.

But that would leave the US of A in the hands of Mike Pence, and that seems far worse to me, because either he will remain the hate filled intolerant bigot he has been so far and thus do his best to turn the US into a fascist theocracy, or he will suddenly transform into exactly the kind of errand boy for the elite the Kochs want him to be.

We’d be better off with the later but not by much.

So in many ways, better the mad king Donnie, who is corrupt but incompetent and does have some good intentions, if only by chance, than a fully competent Nazi clone like Pence who looks like his idea of a good time is putting sinners to the rack.

Honestly, the old joke about Quayle become deadly serious when contemplating Pence :

I hope that the Secret Service has orders saying that if Trump dies, shoot Pence.

And maybe use a silver bullet dipped in holy water, just in case.

I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.