Did you know that one luxury hotel in the District of Columbia raised its prices for Wednesday and Thursday night this week?
Yes, that one.
And when I tell you why, you’ll see that it’s just another example of Donald Trump milking his followers for every dollar he can get out of them.
This Thursday is March 4th, the date we used to inaugurate presidents until we changed it in 1933. According to Trump’s Qanon crew, it’s the date he will be inaugurated as our 19th president.
Say what?
That’s right. The Qanon loons believe that according to an obscure 1871 law that said nothing of the sort, the U.S. was changed from a country into a corporation, and the last legitimate president was Ulysses S. Grant, who was elected in 1868. If you think this through, it couldn’t be more flawed.
For one thing, that would seem to mean that Trump himself was not legitimately elected in 2016, when he won, or 2020, when he didn’t.
And what changed to somehow make him a legitimate president now?
These are the people who said in early January that Trump was going to be recognized and inaugurated on January 20th, and when that didn’t happen, they changed their story. It’s actually quite reminiscent of the folks who said the world would end on a certain date. When it didn’t happen, they said it was a miscalculation and the world was actually ending in three months.
These are very sick people.
They refuse to take responsibility for their own failures in life and insist the only reason they’re not rich or famous is that the system is somehow rigged against them. Only people like this could find reason to believe that a candidate who lost by seven million votes could claim he had really won.
Trump is never going to run for president again. He’s going to be too busy running from the law, and he’s going to be 78 years old and morbidly obese in 2024.
That said, he can certainly poison the well by continuing to stoke the anger of the confused and resentful people like those in Qanon, and January 6th showed us what people like that can do when they get riled enough.
As for riling folks up, there are rumors of stirrings at 122nd St. and Riverside Dr. in New York City.
The late President Grant just realized he’s been president for a century and a half.
And boy, will he crack down on the crazies.