You know a pimp is hurtin’ when his whores start to turn. Anyone who reads this blog—all three of you—know that I’m, well, basically terrified of thinking that Uncle Joe Biden has it in the bag, despite what the polls say. But here’s a real sign that Donnie’s ship is sinking: Nebraska Sen. Ben “Sassy Boy” Sasse is pissing on him. According to this story from NBC news, when a constituent asked Sasse why he was criticizing the president so much, well, said constituent got an earful, according to the article. Here are a few cogent paragraphs:
“I’m not at all apologetic for having fought for my values against his in places where I think his are deficient, not just for a Republican but for an American,” said Sasse, who then began ticking off a number of things he dislikes about the president. “The way he kisses dictators’ butts. I mean, the way he ignores that the Uighurs are in literal concentration camps in Xinjiang right now. He hasn’t lifted a finger on behalf of the Hong Kongers.”
“The United States now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership, the way he treats women, spends like a drunken sailor,” Sasse continued, adding that Trump “mocks evangelicals behind closed doors...has treated the presidency like a business opportunity” and has “flirted with white supremacists.”
Sasse said that Trump is “driving the country further to the left” and he said it “looks likely that he’s going to take the Senate down with him” if he loses the White House in the upcoming election.
“I’m now looking at the possibility of a Republican bloodbath in the Senate, and that’s why I’ve never been on the Trump train,” he said.
Sasse warned that if Democrats take control over the Senate “there’s a very good chance” that within a decade, the U.S. will look like Venezuela with dozens of members on the Supreme Court.
“The debate is not going to be, ‘Ben Sasse, why were you so mean to Donald Trump?’“ Sasse said. “It’s going to be, ‘What the heck were any of us thinking, that selling a TV-obsessed, narcissistic individual to the American people was a good idea?’
That’s an awfully good question, Ben. I just kind of wonder why you never bothered to ask it, you know, four fucking years ago, when it might have meant something!
Afterwords
Back in 2016, I alternately sneered at and then praised Sasse’s commentary on the upcoming presidential election, but after Trump’s triumph Sasse folded like a cheap suit,1 voting the straight Trump line on every single issue, kissing Trump’s butt and spending money like a drunken sailor, one might say, though I guess he never grabbed a woman by the crotch. Unlike Mitt Romney, Sasse voted against hearing witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial and, of course, voted against the actual impeachment as well.
1. According to the Phrasefinder, “fold like a cheap suit” means “to fall apart under pressure”. The point is that cheap suits made of cheap and flimsy fabric that tears easily, not that it folds more easily than “broadcloth”.
