Friday, December 18, 2020

The Execution of the Week. Is it coming soon to a TV station near you?

          Donald Trump first publicly advertised his sociopathic blood lust

          with this full page ad in 1989

 Over at the Rectification of Names, the blogger Yastreblyansky suggests that Donald Trump’s next act may be another television reality show.


But instead of being “Apprentice”-like, this show will be “effectively the ongoing Trump presidency as he makes incredible deals for the American people, drains the swamp, and makes America great again.”

 

How will he do that? 

 

“…the apprentice will be working for a government rather than a corporation, on a different project each season; for example creating healthcare for the American people that is much better and cheaper than Obamacare, eating China’s lunch, or building a wall and making Mexico pay for it.”


But where is Trump

really going?

 

I won’t spoil the rest for you. It’s a hoot! Get yourself over to Yastreblyansky when you’re done here and read the piece in its hilarious entirety. However, I don’t think that’s where Trump is really going. And no, I’m not saying he doesn’t want a reality show. I’m saying that his mind has taken a turn too dark and too ominous for light entertainment about launching a government program.

 

Trump’s blood lust was merely incipient when he took out a full page ad in the New York Times years ago to advocate the execution of five teen-agers who turned out to be innocent of assault and rape. Besides, New York State was no longer executing anybody for anything by then. 


But his urge to kill human beings has now bloomed into a tangible thing. After 17 years with no Federal executions, and despite the fact that support for capital punishment is dribbling away, the U.S. government has carried out more executions in one year that all the state governments combined. 

 

Nor is that enough for Donald Trump. He and his outgoing Attorney General, Bill Barr, have arranged for five more human beings to get snuffed before Inauguration Day, including the only woman on death row. She will be the first woman to be executed by the Federal Government in 70 years.

 

President-Elect Biden has vowed that there will be no Federal executions on his watch — so what’s a poor bloodthirsty sociopath like Donald Trump to do? Here’s what I think. I think he’s going to launch a TV series called “The Execution of the Week.” 

 

Beheadings, stonings, 

and so bloody much more!


Each week Donald Trump will go to a different country and witness a different execution by a different and more barbarous method. 


One week it’ll be a public beheading ordered by Jared Kushner's pal in Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. 


Another week, a trembling political dissident in China gets shot in the back of the head with a bullet that his family was forced to pay for. 


Yet another week, Trump will go to Moscow where we’ll witness the FSB kill a journalist by squirting novichok in her eyes. And so on. Did I mention stoning an adulteress and a homosexual to death in Brunei? We could have two brutal executions in one night!

 

The shows will be an hour long. During each, we’ll hear from an advocate for the accused, from proponents of the death penalty, as well as interpretations of the law in the nation Trump is visiting. Legal commentary will come from some of the last remaining Fox News commentators who Trump still likes, like Judge Jeanine Pirro. 


Outside “experts” will also get called in to comment on the guilt of the condemned person or the incontrovertible appropriateness of the sentence — learned deep thinkers like Rudy Giuliani and Tucker Carlson. 

 

Kiss my hard and 

glistening ring


Finally, the accused themselves will be given an opportunity to plead their own cases, and grovel on their hands and knees before Trump, begging for their lives. Trump will be wearing a special gold ring, which the condemned prisoners will be required to kiss. But Trump’s answer will always be the same: 

 

“Forget it," he'll sneer, "you’re executed!” 

 

At that point, America’s formerly MAGA audiences will get to watch an actual life getting snuffed out, while Trump stands and applauds approvingly. When it's over he'll grab Melania's hand as the two board his own private aircraft. They'l fly to a palatial house called Far é Gargle at an undisclosed location in an undisclosed state.

 

No doubt Trump expects that the ratings will go through the roof. 

 

Given this nation’s recent pathological history, he’s probably right.

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