Let's analyze whether there really are demons only a Trump or DeSantis can save you from

 By Hal Brown

Let's analyze whether there really are demons only a Trump or DeSantis can save you from....

This is a photo I took in a village we walked to on Sunday.

Click above to enlarge.

While it can't be proved to with absolute 100% certainty we can be 99999999.9% sure that at some time shoes were sold in a store in this location in the unincorporated village of Oak Grove, Oregon. It is open to interpretation as to whether this shoe store should be called an emporium since it depends on how big an establishment has to be for it to accurately call itself this. 

We can also be sure with 100% certainty that the mural was painted on the side of the building:

It would take some research to find whether the shoe store was operating when the mural was painted or whether it was painted after the store closed. 

Tomorrow is Tuesday. The only way it won't be Tuesday is if the planet ceases to exist, is literally vaporized because even in the event of a nuclear holocaust and no human woke up to check their calendar it would still be Tuesday.. maybe. In a version of the philosophical question about the tree falling in the forest making a sound if no-one was there we could say that absent humans it wouldn't be Tuesday it would just be another rotation of the earth. It wouldn't even be July 4th with humans around and nobody would care that this was once a national holiday in the United States.

I share this only because facts have become irrelevant in American politics to the extent unprecedented in our history. The twisting of facts to promote a political agenda reminds me when as a child I learned about how the leaders of the Soviet Union claimed that Russians invented just about everything from the bicycle (really invented by a Frenchman) to baseball (a claim they gave up in 1988 when Valentin V. Lozinskiy, the Soviet ambassador, formally relinquished Moscow's claim to have invented the game

Not content to brag about their own made-up accomplishments the champion shameless purveyors of lies (who stand a chance of becoming president, a proviso I add because of George Santos) Trump and DeSantis aren't constrained merely by lying to pump up their wonderfulness. Not only do they want to portray themselves as hyper-masculine warriors (case in point Trump's electronic trading cards) but they want to concoct terrifying demons best left to horror movies and nightmares. 

There's a war going on, don't 'ya know? We're being invaded.   

Don't just be uneasy, be terrified! I suppose by now all I have to say is that it is everything - bless his contribution to today's dictionary - what Ron DeSantis defines as a new nasty meaning of woke.

Wokers (I had to look this up to see if this was a word being used, it is) are coming to get you.

What led me to writing this blog was the DeSantis video ad in the news today. 

Here's the ad on Twitter, if you can't see it there scroll down and you can view it on CNN:

You can watch the ad and a CNN discussion of it here.

The ad has been criticized by an LGBTQ conservative group and by Pete Buttigieg who says it is an attempt by DeSantis to prove his manhood.

There are death and destruction dealing demons determined to demolish your world and only I can save you with my superhuman powers. Trust me. I'd never lie to you...