Boy, being in a cult really rots your brain.

Watching the Right assembling online with virtual torches and pitchforks, engaging in wild histrionics and performative pearl-clutching, while calling for the head of television host Jimmy Kimmel, one has to marvel at his rank-and-file’s steadfast ability to defy reality.

It’s staggering when you compare the man they’re crusading against and the one they’re emotionally tethered to…

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t responsible for the deaths of countless people.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t a court-adjudicated rapist.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t a 34-count felon.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t incite a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol in an effort to overturn a free and fair election, harm members of Congress, and prevent a peaceful transfer of power.

Donald Trump did.

Jimmy Kimmel’s name isn’t listed tens of thousands of times in the Epstein Files.

Donald Trump’s is.

Jimmy Kimmel doesn’t have dozens of credible sexual assault accusations.

Donald Trump does.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t threaten an entire civilization with destruction.

Donald Trump did.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t bomb a girl’s school in Iran.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t partnered in multiple genocides.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t fighting to deport the children of migrants.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t trying to legislate Draconian Evangelical religion.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t caused pregnant women to die in emergency rooms because their doctors could not save their lives.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t partnering with the NRA and gunmakers while doing nothing to protect high school kids from getting butchered in their hallways.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t causing Transgender people to move out of the country for their safety.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel never stood before the nation and said that immigrants were eating people’s pets.

Donald Trump did.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t called for the executions of U.S. Presidents and opposing politicians.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t put 500 million dollars from stolen oil reserves into an offshore bank account.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t compared himself to Jesus.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel isn’t dismantling our Department of Education.

Donald Trump is.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t alienated our nation’s greatest allies.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t gone to war against the Free Press.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t sent an army of masked thugs to terrorize people of color in their churches, businesses, streets, and homes.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t cancel USAID, already killing thousands of the most vulnerable on the planet.

Donald Trump did.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t emboldened racists to verbally and physically assault people of color on trains, in coffee shops, and in their own yards.Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t partnered with techbros and oligarchs to curate the media and gain access to Americans’ personal data.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t consolidated our nation’s wealth into the hands of the wealthiest among us.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t spent the last decade tearing apart every principle, system, and institution designed to make this nation safer, to care for our most vulnerable, and to protect every human being’s inalienable rights.

Donald Trump has.

Jimmy Kimmel will not be remembered among the most violent and destructive human beings in our planet’s history.

Donald Trump will.

So yeah, the mindless MAGA zombie horde can engage in feigned outrage and call for the head of Jimmy Kimmel as if he were some terrible scourge upon this nation, while carrying water for a vile, traitorous career criminal and serial predator who has complete contempt for them, the United States, and, honestly, everyone but himself.

The rest of us, the people with a capacity for critical thinking and working empathy, the Christians who care about the teachings of Jesus, and those who truly love this land and its disparate people, know exactly who the true danger here is.

And we stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

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