One of the most disturbing things about Donald Trump is the company he keeps.

Laura Loomer comes to mind and is only one of many lying scumbags who revel in juvenile insults of their opponents.

But Roger Stone has proven to be in a class of his own. He is a disgusting pig of a power-hungry lickspittle. He marinates in sewage and revels in being reviled.

Unlike Loomer, who is crazed and stupid and hence deserves the bit of grace we all should show to the mentally challenged, Stone is a smart operator who has the capacity to understand the evil he commits. He simply loves doing it.

Stone popped up in the news over the weekend for his using the “C” word to describe Casey DeSantis. More precisely, Stone used internet slang that meant the “C” word in the same way that FAFO and WTF are acronyms for…well, you know.

See you next Tuesday is derived from a combination of the letters c and u, which when pronounced aloud sound like “see you,” and the first letters of the words next and Tuesday. This forms an acronym rebus that, when taken together, stands for cunt. The phrase is sometimes typed out as c u next Tuesday.

The euphemism appears on the internet at least as far back as 1999, defined in slang dictionaries by the mid-2000s, and first appears on Twitter in 2006. In January 2017, Irish professional wrestler Becky Lynch caught heat—and subsequently reprimanded—for trash-talking an opponent ahead of an upcoming match with “See you next Tuesday.”

I’m never surprised at the people in Trump’s orbit, but calling Casey DeSantis a cunt for (checks notes) mentioning her children in her post on X…

Just trash. https://t.co/6M2RcKy5kr

— Josh Power 🇺🇸 (@JoshPower80) November 24, 2023

Trump influencers have an abiding hatred for Ron DeSantis and by extension Casey. They spew bile at the pace that a firehose spits out water because they see DeSantis as a smoldering fire that could consume their campaign. At this point, their polling or focus groups must be showing something that the public polls don’t because it sure seems that Trump has the inside track to win the nomination.

Perhaps it is just pure hatred in their heart, utterly beyond rationality.

At first Trump supporters tried to wink and nod that Stone didn’t mean what he clearly did, but they appear to have given up and just doubled down on insulting Casey and have started calling everybody this offensive term, in the way that bullies spew homophobic insults as if they are being big and brave rather than small and revolting.

I will, too.

Casey DeSantis is a cunt. https://t.co/gb7QO2dAzl

— Joe Bidens Last Brain Cell (@BidensBrainCelI) November 27, 2023

It is enough to make you ill just seeing the depths to which these people are willing to go. There must be some psychological theory to explain their behavior–a kind of mass psychosis, or perhaps this is a strategy to draw people into a shared sinning that locks them into supporting more and more deranged behavior.

There has been a lot of hoopla about people calling Casey DeSantis a cunt and I understand, it's an offensive statement.

But, it's important to remember that Team DeSantis is full of cunts! Whether, you're talking fat cunt, Jebba Ellis, plastic faced cunt, Christina Pushaw, or…

— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) November 27, 2023

Perhaps they think that if they can convince you to excuse this inexcusable thing you will be more likely to excuse even more vile behavior in the future.

I don’t know. But it makes me ill. It should make everybody ill.

I predicted the all-out assault on @CaseyDeSantis months ago that would come from Trump World.

These folks have no low they will not stoop to in their hissy fit over @RonDeSantis running in an open primary that Trump happened to be running in too. pic.twitter.com/EOWHhEq9UL

— Cryptid Politics 🇺🇸🐊 (@CryptidPolitics) November 25, 2023

There is no doubt in my mind that a vast number of people hate Trump more for the people he associates with than for anything he has done himself. He is attracted to sycophants whose sole desire is to lick the toe jam of a powerful and wealthy man, and for some reason, Trump seems to relish seeing people debase themselves in service to him.

Trump is like a dominatrix and the Laura Loomers and Roger Stones thrill to humiliate themselves for him. Because, make no mistake, it is humiliating to spew schoolyard taunts at mothers who are proud of their children.

No doubt Trump will toss these hangers-on into the trash at some point because that is what he does to his sycophants.

I keep coming back to the fact that for 3 years, despite his personal flaws and the rage directed at him, Trump was a good president. That counts for a lot.

But I also keep coming back to the fact that Trump will return to office, should he win, even more hated by his enemies and having accumulated a vast number of new enemies–people who could and should have been his allies if Trump had behaved as a more decent human being. It’s as if Trump wants to stand alone, the sole hero of his personal play surrounded by an audience that claps every time he passes gas.

Trump could be so much more. He has a spark that inspires many people, and his policies were for the most part great. He was a vastly better foreign policy president than any in recent memory, by a long shot. And the country was humming along before COVID.

Now? His greatest allies are the prosecutors who are hounding him, and his greatest enemies are the people he hangs out with.