{"id":16073,"date":"2022-11-17T15:06:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=16073"},"modified":"2022-11-17T15:06:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T15:06:36","slug":"shootout-at-the-gop-corral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skeeterdaddle.net\/?p=16073","title":{"rendered":"Shootout at the GOP Corral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you were dreading another two years of the interminable election cycle, probably canceling your newspapers and substituting subscriptions to entertainment channels, plugging your ears and avoiding MSNBC and maybe waiting \u00a0til the dust clears in 2024 before pulling the quilts down from over your head and leaving your bed \u2026 well, you got some good news.\u00a0 Trump plans to tip the checkerboard for the Republicans, the House is going to divide up sides for some serious tag team no-holds-barred smackdown wrestling, and you can expect some cliff hanger serials with plenty of violence and mayhem to get you through those lonely nights coming up.\u00a0 Trump is running again and you best believe the Republicans are going to war with themselves.<\/p>\n<p>I guess if you honestly believe Trump won the last election, well, hell, run him again.\u00a0 Just make sure the voting machines aren\u2019t cooked, the dead aren\u2019t voting, \u00a0the ballots aren\u2019t stuffed, the mail-ins are banned, the gerrymandering continues, the lines in the inner cities are long and the polling places few.\u00a0 Just to get the ball rolling, the President-in-Exile announced from his palace in Mar-a-Lago that the new slogan for his campaign will be &#8212; cue the trumpets&#8212; Make America Great and Glorious Again.\u00a0 I guess that first term of his didn\u2019t really make the cut.\u00a0 Maybe hold off on the Glorious and get the Great accomplished.\u00a0 Or \u2026 I don\u2019t know, triple down and Make America Great and Glorious and Glamorous Again.\u00a0 Just need a bigger ballcap to read MAGAGAG.\u00a0 Costs slightly more, all proceeds going to the Trump charity.<\/p>\n<p>Down in Florida they must be drinking the swamp water, all I can figure.\u00a0 DeSantis runs ads that on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> Day the Lord made a warrior.\u00a0 Him.\u00a0 Not to be outdone, Trump wants a glorious second coming, another Rome with him as Caesar.\u00a0 Must be some biblical prophecy needing fulfilled for these guys.\u00a0 If the Lord is working overtime now, adding days to Her week to get the job done, maybe it\u2019s time to take a rest.<\/p>\n<p>You were probably thinking you deserve a rest.\u00a0 Sorry, looks like a long slog from here to election day 2024.\u00a0 Like they say, it ain\u2019t over til the Fatboy squeals.\u00a0 Or something like that.\u00a0 Might be a fine time to read some good books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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