Ukraine's Zelenskyy bravely walked into the Oval Office biker bar yesterday perhaps suspecting it might be difficult or having seen Macron's gentle correcting of Little Donnie Trump on his own playground but he got fully smacked down and rednecked. Maybe Zelenskyy doesn't comprehend the degradation of American rednecks and it's hard to fault him.
Trump's base is evangelical, redneck America.
Most Americans don't comprehend rednecks and these are their people. They've been living with this shit forever but it's one of those things that's hard to believe, that people can be so utterly degraded and devoid of decency. It's hard to believe even while you're witnessing it and that's what many Americans were feeling being faced with such a display of incivility.
I, however, have made a study of rednecks and Zelenskyy was lucky to get out of there without Trump and redneck-in-waiting JD Vance pronouncing him out-of-order and sentencing him to be shot on the spot for daring to not instantly kowtow to Trump and kissing Vance's ass as well. Rednecks think it's fine to shoot people, like Captain America in Easy Rider.
And America is a redneck nation. Somehow the values, if I can call them that, and the mores of the worst people in the country and possibly the world and possibly in the history of the world have become the standard. This is the revenge of the South for the Civil War and desegregation. Tuberville is as representative as anyone, but watch out for Vance.
Vance is the real fucking deal, a veneer of various things but underlying it lots of lies, foremost because it's rooted in the Lost Cause myth, even in Kentucky which was very much not Cavalier country. But, rather, a Scots-Irish shithole of serfs and servants whose main characteristics are belligerence and subservience. Vance might be a butler but he's a killer.
He'll kill to defend the class culture of which he is a part and in which his role is utter subservience and submission. This is about order for them. They are pure authoritarians because they fear disorder more that anything AND they believe human nature is shit, being extreme Calvinist evangelical nutcasese and basically snake handlers. We're handling snakes.
We're all on their program, tempting fate, and we're gunned up to the gills, trigger happy and incapable of living life without conflict. There has to be a feud. Also they are impatient for the end times and judgment day. They want it now. Hence the snakes, but the actual end times, with the whole world blowing up, would be great. America is being run at this level.
If you don't like something you just shoot it or beat up in it, vigilante style ...
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