Today is the big day, says Tony Norman. Donald Trump’s second swearing-in (Pittsburg Post-Gasette):
It’s Friday the 13th, 2021. Do you know where your Antichrist is?
If you’re a believer in absurd things like Christian nationalism tinged with QAnon, Aug. 13 is the day Donald John Trump is to be “reinstated to the presidency of the United States.
Before the end of the day, the twice-impeached abomination of desolation will receive the full constitutional powers accorded every president. He will then pardon his supporters and punish his enemies in the mother of all Twitter rants.
The Democrats who temporarily thwarted him by rigging the election in November will be rounded up — including the current occupant of the White House and his vice president. Their pedophile ring will be crushed by his attorney general in waiting, Matt Gaetz.
There is much more tongue-in-cheek Bible-referencin’ from Norman. “For generations, it was assumed that in the End Times, American Christians would reject the Antichrist — not root for his success.” Yet, here we are.
It might be funnier if there weren’t so many QAnon believers across the country with brains spongified enough to believe it. Or to believe Mike Lindell, the MyPillow dude headed for historical infamy if not the asylum. He’s already headed for court first, along with Sydney Powell and soon-to-be-bankrupt Rudy Giuliani. (And Giuliani calls Powell “crazy.“)
It might be funnier if a QAnon lunatic had not been charged this week with killing his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter with a spear gun because he believed his wife “possessed serpent DNA and had passed it on to his children.” He murdered them because he believed they would grow into monsters.
It might be funnier if our democracy were not hanging by a thread already, even as GOP presidential aspirants in Florida and Texas practice genocide-by-Covid on their own populations, many of whom seem to welcome a Covid apocalypse.
It might be funnier if the madness was not spreading worldwide.
“I am frightened by what is coming,” said a hospital administrator in Houston. Dr. Esmaeil Porsa was only talking about the growth rate of the latest Covid wave, and about full hospitals and staff shortages.
But for Trump believers, today is the day of their savior’s return, as Tony Norman heralds:
Donald Trump will then spit on his adoring enablers, and they will respond to their spontaneous baptism with cheers.