Shit is Wild!
Wild!
I am currently listening to a podcast about the events of January 6th, 2020 titled Will Be Wild. It got its name from a Tweet where disgraced, twice-impeached ex-president Trump enthused, “Peter Navarro releases a 36 page report alleging election fraud ‘more than sufficient to swing victory to Trump. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!”
Trump meant wild in a positive way, of course. He apparently believed that after Navarro presented all of his irrefutable evidence the Supreme Court would have no choice but to throw up their hands and say, “Fuck. Trump DID win. We’re sorry. He’s getting a second, and possibly third or fourth term and if anyone disagrees that’s technically treason and they will be shot on sight.”
He nursed a strong, deeply wrong conviction that the Senate would respond similarly. Navarro and the Pillow Guy just had to bring the receipts and Sleepy Joe “Let’s Go Brandon” Biden would sheepishly concede that he cheated egregiously and commit suicide in disgrace.
Also wild.
Of course January 6th was wild but not in the way Trump had hoped. Motherfuckers were attacking the Senate! It was some fucked up shit I never thought I would see in my lifetime.
Holy fucking shit, I said to myself. This shit is wild!
But the wildness began a good half decade earlier.
When Donald Trump, a sleazy con artist, reality show host and bit player in films such as Ghosts Can’t Do It, The Little Rascals andThe Associate won the Republican nomination for President in 2016 I thought that shit was wild.
Crazy!
Bonkers!
better believe this shit was also wild!
Seriously! I was all, “What the fuck?”
When Trump actually got elected president, that shit was even wilder.
The only thing wilder than Trump getting the nomination, and then getting elected president was his actual presidency. Do you remember that shit? It was wild! Motherfucker told American women of color to go back to the “hellholes” they ostensibly came from.
this was some crazy shit!
Hey, remember that Access Hollywood tape with Trump talking about grabbing women by their genitalia? That shit was wild! Even wilder: that somehow did not keep him from getting elected president.
But the wild shit doesn’t begin or end with Trump. Remember when Will Smith smacked the shit out of Chris Rock for making a bad joke about his wife at the Academy Awards? There’s only one word for that shit: wild.
That is some wild shit! And then some dude rushed Dave Chappelle onstage and got the crap beaten out of him as a result.
The word that I would use to describe that would be “wild.” That’s also how I could describe Elon Musk buying Twitter. The possible overturning of Roe Vs. Wade is similarly tragic but it’s also wild. Like so much else, it is some fucked up shit that makes you step back and think, “Holy fucking Christ. Shit is wild.”
In conclusion, shit out there is wild! It’s crazy. So y’all stay safe out there.
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