YULETIDE CHEER FROM THE BASED AND RED-PILLED

       With all of the pandering that the New Right has been doing lately to the Megachurches, one would think that Christmas Day would be a time when they exalted such traditional values. However, as we might have expected from a political movement that opened its own convention with an invocation to a deity whose followers ritually consume cannabis, Christian themes were few and far between.

     The son of the GOP's Official Figurehead did post a meme fantasizing about the New Right's proposed future foreign conquests:

      Apparently, Junior has forgotten what happened the last time that Dad thought about waging winter wars in cold climates. As for repeating Bush's adventures in Panama, the utterly dismal state of our system of canals and inland waterways should be addressed before seizing other countries' facilities. It also doesn't seem to make any sense that Party promising to deport 11 million immigrants now hopes to absorb ten times as many foreign nationals by seizing their territory.

     Nonetheless, though, the nominal President doubled down, making threats to all enemies, foreign and domestic:

     “Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in repair money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about anything,” 

    “Also, to Governor Justin Trudeau of Canada, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, their businesses would immediately double in size, and they would be militarily protected like no other Country anywhere in the World,

    “Likewise, to the people of Greenland, which is needed by the United States for National Security purposes and, who want the U.S. to be there, and we will!

    “Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, ME,”

    “ I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky souls, instead, I will say, GO TO HELL! We had the Greatest Election in the History of our Country, a bright light is now shining over the U.S.A. and, in 26 days, we will, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. MERRY CHRISTMAS!”

    Meanwhile, the de facto President-Elect, Elon Musk had some Christmas cheer of his own: offering to donate a billion dollars---not for the purposes of actually doing anything that might benefit anyone; but instead renaming Wikipedia after his own dysfunctional male sexual organ. The equally neurotic Republican Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, bought billboards throughout Latin America to spread these words of Holiday Cheer: “How much did you pay to have your daughter raped?"  and “Danger Ahead. If you cross you will regret it forever!”

    So, if people haven't already noticed it, what we've seen in these statements issued during the Christmas Season is a very fair specimen of the moral and spiritual levels of the Incoming Government. I'm equally certain that the True Believers will hand-wave all of this aside as some kind of joke; even if that's true, it's hardly appropriate for this particular holiday. In any event, like most of these kinds of statements, there's something ominous underlying the 'humor.' Freud pointed out over a hundred years ago that such 'humor' is "a form of catharsis for repressed hostility." Repressed Hostility ceases to be a laughing matter once the jokesters actually have power enough that their hostility no longer needs to be repressed. 

    Since this too is one of the most important holidays in Christianity, we do have to ask ourselves whether or not Jesus would speak to us today encouraging world domination, glorifying crimes against refugees, and suggesting obscene names for online encyclopaedias. We are told however that "by their fruits you shall know them," and American Christians ought to start examining the fruits that the New Right is offering before swallowing them.