As the dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration continues to burn away, fueled by new evidence that seemingly every senior member of the campaign and administration was having meetings, phone calls and sharing long intimate walks on the beach with the Russian Ambassador, the right wing press has a new target

….wait for it….

Barack Obama!

That’s right, the man who was the secret-Muslim focus of a thousand right-wing masterbatory fantasties about birth certificates and FEMA concentration camps and Operation Jade Helm and socialist-fascist-marxist-anti-colonialist gun grabbing is back from vacation.

Advertising managers at Breitbart, InfoWars, WorldNewsDaily and throughout the darkest corners of the white nationalist internet are thanking their lucky swastikas and breathing a collective sigh of relief.

At the head of the human centipede that is the right wing propaganda machine is of course Rush Limbaugh. A couple days ago Rushbo, while conducting his usual free-association talking-out-of-his ass that passes as talk-radio, claimed that opposition to Trump is a peaceful coup:

There is the execution of an attempt at a peaceful coup. A peaceful coup to oust Donald Trump is what we are witnessing. It’s been orchestrated by Obama and the Democrat Party. It’s that simple.

Yeah, and in other news the opposition party opposes the President’s agenda. Yawn.

The next step in the chain is for the World News Daily, that august tribune of serious conservative thought, to pick up the tread and publish this story, which claims that there are 64 ways Obama is sabotaging Trump. Apparently 32 of these ways are that he chooses to live in Washington – in what I assume is a Dr-Evil-style lair shaped like his head. The perfect place to launch his nefarious plan.

BWAHAHAHA!

And of course once Rush Limbaugh and WND have said something, well, that thing is exactly credible enough for Donald J. Trump, a thoughtful man of reflection, to tweet it out.

Yes, at the end of the human centipede of right-wing propaganda is the President of the United States who crapped out this:

This came after two days of attacking Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer for meeting with or attending meetings with Russians or people who may be Russian or maybe have Russian sounding surnames or have been known to drink vodka at some point in the past 10 years in a vain attempt to deflect from the very real and possibly criminal concern that his campaign and administration was working with the Russian government to illegally influence the election and then lying about it.

But this turn to Obama is vintage right-wing focus-on-the-black-guy racial animus conspiracy masquerading as public policy discourse. It’s just another in a long line of bullshit conspiracies built up around Obama. It’s the pablum fed to the angry racist segment of the electorate that softens them up so that the Republican party can implement their reduce taxes and enrich the wealthy program.

Its their last line of defense. It’s “Hey look over there! Black guy doing stuff!” While Trump steals our car.

Given that Trump kicked off his political ambitions with a sustained thinly veiled racist, tin-foil hat conspiracy campaign against the nation’s first African-American president, it will be fitting if Trump’s Presidential career comes to its end in a miasma of Obama conspiracy theories.

Lets hope this is the beginning of that end.

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