A republished edition. Memorial Day weekend 2026. I added a few minor things.
     It’s BAAACCCKKKK!!! I labeled the picture for this edition, “God-silla Trump.” The whole thing is as if they’re going to Trump Church. Maybe Trump IS America’s Jim Jones?
    Sunday now, and suddenly he’s gone. I am sad: my neighbor was carving what looks like a big wooden penis. I was secretly hoping he would put it between the legs with “pedo” carved into it. I admit I was tempted to shoot a sharp dart at a very crucial spot on the big balloon blowhard.

    It’s not like I haven’t seen this before. When we lived in Tennessee, 3 miles down the road, was a store with great gravy and biscuits, sausage and biscuits and the Trump Bus with all the signs for sale, memorabilia, Trump flags, and other promo stuff. Hey, I always found it odd, but free speech, blah, blah blah…
    Where we live now is a tiny, often sleepy, little Adirondack village, in what they used to call “The Central Adirondacks.” Down the road, maybe 1/4 of a mile, is a place they often call “The Ern” because at one time part of the tavern sign didn’t light up coming one way. The other way it was “The Tav.”
    Right next to it, this Memorial Day weekend, is a Trump trailer with tons of Trump stuff for sale. Again: free speech, blah, blah, blah. There’s a truck running around with a Trump flag more than half the size of the truck, I swear. Saw this in Tennessee too, though not quite that big.
    I think what finally inspired me to type this today was the Trump blow up punching bag-like inflatable. No punching allowed, I’m sure, not that I would, though I do wonder if some politically incorrect kid got punished for thinking it was like my old Fred Flintstone blow up I had as a kid. I swear it was close to 40 feet tall, but a terrible likeness.
    Look, ya’ll can believe whatcha want. AGAIN: free speech, blah, blah, blah, but there’s at least one serious question here…
    How is this NOT a cult? Yes, Joe Biden doesn’t inspire huge inflatables, but neither did Obama, or Clinton. Not even Bush, that I recall. I don’t recall many if any huge flags.
    I also don’t recall drawings of any of them well cut, like they weren’t old guys, or riding tanks holding flags, having a halo, Jesus blessing him… etc. Or his more current creation: him as Jesus. Not “a doctor…” (A lie, are you surprised? You shouldn’t be.)
    I don’t recall huge CarterObamaBiden flags. Or images of them as if they’re JesusGodHolySpook… OK I do recall some mocking: a vastly overweight Trump on a cross. Such mocking that used to be a both sides thing.
    And I sure as hell don’t recall any (bad portrayal), gigunda inflatables, except once a Trump baby? It was intended to mock him. But this is different. It’s more like worship.
    Last time you had to get into The Ern you had to walk between his legs. Now we’ve gone from, “You (don’t just) like him, ya looovvee him…” (Thank you Sandra Bullock.) to worship.
    I wondered back then, if like Catholic holy water, walking in you were “blessed” by getting a poo-doo?
    Seriously, especially in a tiny town it’s as if ya’ll think Jesus had come to town. 40 foot Jesus. Ya love him, I get it, but this certainly qualifies as cult-like behavior. Sort of like Osama followers on 9/11, only instead of planes the 1/6 attack. Would you have approved Biden fans doing the same? Erecting a gallows, trying to catch Mike Johnson to hang him? Trying to bust through to those they wished to hang and when a cop orders one of them to stop he or she gets shot?
    You know damn well you wouldn’t. So morals, ethics and the law only apply to those you disagree with?
    Remember all the noise when Gore just wanted the count completed, not recount after recount, after recount, when even the counters hired by the recount demanders constantly came to the same conclusion: Biden won? Hell, they tore apart machines. And weren’t ya’ll the ones who also defended kneeing a person to death who had stopped resisting? Shooting a disarmed, helpless citizen in the back 10 times? All because your deity demands such behavior?
    YES, I used “deity,” because this isn’t the behavior of those who just prefer a candidate.
    Jim Jones comes to mind, only seems like you want to force everyone else to drink your Flavor Aid.

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