(El Capitan reflection at Yosemite National Park in California)
It’s disgusting, really, all this talk of the strange ex-president and what will happen when and who’ll respond how.
The GOP thinks we’re dumb. Many in the mainstream media get a ratings rush from controversy and conflict, so for them, highlighting the conflict and making guesses takes precedence over investigative reporting.
Some days it just seems like everyone is trying to fool us with video clickbait. Most days.
But we notice. A lot more than they think.
This is performance art. At least 80% of the country knows this and 100% have seen this play before.
Act 1: “They’re hurting me! Save me!” (The more he makes himself the martyr, the more donations he’ll gain to pay his crooked lawyers with.)
Act 2: “Act supportive, GOP guys. Gotta help his fundraising effort!” (McCarthy, Jordan, Gaetz, Biggs, Hawley, Boebert, Greene, et al)
Act 3: “George Soros is picking on me using his politically motivated Black organization who picked his Black friend who caused NYC crime to spiral to all time record highs and everyone there is gonna die, so why’s he picking on little old innocent me? Send money!” (Worst loop feed ever).
[ The reality? The top 15 ultra wealthy donors in the 2022 midterms did include Soros and 3 other major Democratic donors…. and 11 major GOP donors. The GOP Eleven raised $418.5M for their candidates and the Dem Four raised $239.2M for their candidates. But bringing up Soros is shorthand for ‘Rich Jew’ plus the N word. Especially since the NYC DA is Black. Trump’s saying that Black DA has made NYC extremely dangerous in the less than 15 months he’s been in charge. Uh huh. St. Louis, Spokane WA, Detroit and dozens of other US cities have worse crime rates and worse violence rates than NYC and NYC is nowhere near any record crime high. How do I know this? I did the research using verifiable sources. If someone has a different source that counters this research, send me the link(s). Also you’re wrong. ]
Notably though, this donor collection (via Open Secrets) doesn’t include Dark Money donors who can conceal the hundreds of millions they use to buy their Congressional pudfluffers. The Citizens United ruling made that secrecy possible after the Dark Money billionaires bought 5 members of the Supreme Court.
But do facts matter to the strange ex-president? Nah. Hate & fundraising matters.
Act 4: Does it matter if, when and where the strange guy gets arrested? Not really. If he’s indicted, the court trial is months away yet. Breathless news anchors will remind us that no president has ever been arrested before! (Clearly an oversight as several deserved it).
His GOP Mook Brigade will remind us that Socialist Commie Liberal Mexican Muslim Radical Liberals have politicized the process! Not the guy who began his political career yelling ‘Lock Her Up’ at a woman who’s never been proven to have committed any crime. The guy who wanted the Central Park Five executed for a crime they never committed. EXECUTED.
I don’t care. I don’t care if NYC Prosecutor Bragg decides not to indict at all. On April 17, the strange rapist ex-president’s defamation trial begins. He’ll face a big criminal trial in Georgia after that, which might include a conviction under the RICO Act since he heads a criminal gang.
He’ll face another from the SEC for his Truth Social stock merger manipulation.
That’ll be followed by the biggest one, the DOJ one. He just took a critical hit that’s sinking him faster on that one. All of those cases are more than 80% likely to occur because I just pulled that number out of my ass. Okay, best guess: ALL the signs indicate that he’s going to be indicted in Georgia and later, by the DOJ. The SEC, I dunno, though it currently doesn’t look so good for him.
The point is, the Stormy Daniels hush money trial isn’t necessary against the very strange, vicious, misogynist and incompetent mobster.
I just don’t care about the ‘when’. I don’t care that he wants to void the US Constitution. I’m not worried about him trying to raise another group of protesters to try to intimidate NYPD cops or Florida cops or US Capitol cops. None of those law enforcement officers are confused about what to expect any more. And many of his violent supporters aren’t going to show up because hundreds are in jail and thousands no longer trust him. His protesters attacked numerous cops and some died. Even the cops who’d vote for Trump again understand that his violent supporters wouldn’t hesitate to kill them.
I don’t fear the Loud Noys, Three Pretenders, Bloat Kreepers, Barbelly Bundy Squatters, the Orlon Blubberhood in Idaho, or the old Coup Crock Clam in their pointy robes wielding burny crosses, nor even the deadlier Waffengoosers, Braun Skirts & Brown Shirts. Because I’m old & supposedly wise.
All the Pink Supremacist hate group members are disgusting LittleDEnergy punks. Always have been and always will be. As for me, if they come for me, I can only be killed once and that’ll spare me from all this boring middle school performance art bullshit. (yawn)
(Oh and btw, the third batch of Bloat Kreepers was convicted yesterday for their January 6 crimes)
I also don’t care that a few thousand Oregonians want to change the border so they can be close to their brethren in the Orlon Blubberhood. They don’t even realize that the Orlon groups got sued out of Idaho and have shifted their ops to several other states. They won’t win the new borders they want but I guess having make-a-wish meetings beats the boredom of living in vast rural areas where drinking beer and church bingo are the only other major forms of entertainment.
I also don’t care about Hunter Biden’s laptop. If he broke any laws beyond illegal drug use, I hope he’s prosecuted too. Since we’ve been hearing about it for more than 3 years and nothing has been done by the FBI - even Trump’s FBI - it’s awfully suspect as a potential nothingburger. The GOP and GOPmedia keeps claiming coverup, but nobody yet has provided a scintilla of evidence about what it contains beyond private sex videos.
Maybe Lev Parnas has some evidence to back up his latest claims because wouldn’t that be fun? I’m up for some fresh material, aren’t you? Maybe we can get a two-fer with Donnie & Rudy sharing a bunk.
I don’t care because there’s really not much more that can happen to surprise me. Trump’s current attorneys will delay everything and anything they can, utilizing any legal maneuver they know of plus some nobody’s tried before. But they know - like everyone knows - the crook that hired them is guilty AF. The only chance they have for a successful defense is if a prosecutor forgets to dot an ‘i’ or cross a ‘t’ in their legal doings.
So it’s perfectly understandable that prosecutors are taking their time to build their cases with all the ducks in US history in a synchronized swimming row. I don’t care how long it takes or how many names Tucker Carlson calls yo mama. Circus clowns are gonna clown car because that’s how they keep their elephants sedated and their bearded wives shackled.
Are politics involved? Duh.
Were laws actually broken? Well, duh.
I’m wise enough to believe every grown up in the US knows both of those things. If they don’t, I don’t give a shit that they’re stupid or uninformed.
But the very strange ex-president won’t be convicted of crimes because of political opponents. He’s not being investigated repeatedly because of political opponents. He’s being investigated repeatedly because he breaks laws repeatedly. He breaks all the norms of elected leaders, all the standards of diplomacy and tact and courtesy, but he’ll be convicted because of the crimes he chose to break over and over again.
There’s no mysteries; it’s super simple stuff to grasp.
So spare me all the suspense and drama and what-ifs. He’s a danger to society and has been for years. The evangelical Christians sold out any claims to morality they ever had to get him elected. The blood of cops and Ashli Babbitt and hundreds of thousands of covid sufferers is on their heads, too. As if they care with their faked piety.
Most Republicans and many independents are responsible for all the blood and bullshit, too, so spare me all their fakery, too.
I. Don’t. Care.
I do care, however, about all the obvious misogyny going on. And all the racism. And homophobia. All the hate endangering so many, and yeah, middle class and poor white men are dealing with some of that hate, too.
But it’s not coming from the women, the Latinos, the Blacks, the LGBTQ folks, the drag queens, the socialists, etc. Well, okay, sure, a tiny bit is. But most of the hate, the deadly kind of hate, is coming from Trump and his supporters, including Vladimir Putin, Tucker Carlson and more billionaires than you can name without googling.
Like old Andy Jackson and Andy Johnson and Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney, hateful deadly people with thousands of corpses to their credit for terrible reasons, Trump should be consigned to a place out of every society on planet earth.
Our fucking planet is dying because of massive hate and obsessive greed and the complete dismissal of any consideration for life at all.
Some of us are trying to save it and save us all. I care about them and care about that.
And I still believe that’s what the majority is up to and aiming for and able to do. I don’t need perfect politicians, perfect neighbors, perfect friends, perfect family members or a perfect me. For perfection, we have babies. That’s enough.
I’m fine with people doing their best most of the time.
If that makes me ‘political’ or ‘woke’ or whatever someone wants to throw at me, I’m perfectly fine with that. But that ‘someone’ is a nobody of any importance at all to me.
Life is too short, and they’re all gonna die like all of us will. I think people investing their short time on the earth helping out the caring and kind and polite and giving people, the folks who really do care about their kids and grandkids is where more of our care should be directed. Nurture people offering beauty and creativity and fun to this world. Support them, elect them and express your gratitude to them.
Sure, there are times we have to stand up and fight against dangerous and deadly assholes. But there’s also times that we can count on the good guys and gals and gender fluids to carry the fight for us. That takes love. That takes trust. Some think me naive for all that but they’re wrong.
I’m gonna write a letter to several prosecutors, DAs and AGs this week. I think it’s easily worth a couple of hours to tell them I have faith in their expertise, that I appreciate their hard work and their talents and that I hope life offers them lots of beauty in return.
I suspect they don’t hear that enough. And I assure you, it’s more useful than wondering when justice will happen or resigning to cynicism.
Every generation after us needs US to get this right.
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Bravo.
Most excellent combination of words, sir.
I actually hope that the NY AG indictment comes down this week, because I believe that it will break open the logjam and indictments will come flooding down the spillway with great rapidity. It's almost as though no one wants to be the first one to go.
"You first, Alvin."
"No that's OK, Fani. Ladies first."
"I don't see what the holdup is, you two. I've got my lawsuit filed already."
"Come on, Letitia. Civil cases are easy to file. And where the hell's Jack?"
(cut to a bearded man working an an upside-down bicycle, applying lubrication while turning the pedals) "I think this wheel needs a little more grease..."