TWGB: Kraken Up

 

President Trump is said to have floated appointing a special counsel to investigate voter fraud: A lawyer who spread election conspiracy theories. https://t.co/QYv642y5qw

— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 19, 2020

It doesn't even seem that long ago that Sidney Powell was deemed even a little bit too out there for Rudy Giuliani (just short of one whole month, in fact). And now Donald Trump is entertaining the idea of unloosing the Kraken as a special counsel to investigate voter fraud. It's kind of funny because it wasn't even that long ago that Trump had a voting integrity commission that was disbanded because it never found any voting fraud. But on they go, into the (alleged) breach.... 

It should probably be bigger news, however, that Trump also entertained Ms. Powell's client, the recently-pardoned Michael Flynn, who, like Lin Wood or the My Pillow guy, has been arguing in favor of martial law so that Trump can get a do-over in the swing states that he lost. I don't believe there is an armed do-over clause in the Constitution, and Flynn has been singing in the key of batshit for so long it's hard to believe anyone does listen to him--but there are people who do! And Trump is apparently being one of them! 

This almost makes Rudy Giuliani's request for DHS to commandeer the voting machines look sane. I mean, it's not. But it almost does. It's almost as if there are constant and visible reminders of where Trump's priorities lie. 

Has Trump ever shown all that much interest in protecting us from COVID-19--not really, and now that there are vaccines he's just about checked out, except to make sure he gets some kind of credit (as if the existence of the disease itself wasn't a perfectly reasonable motivating factor for vaccine development). He stays in complete and vociferous denial that his good buddy Putin is any threat to the US even after news of an invasive cyberattack. (And who the hell knows what Trump's moves re: the Pentagon have to do with it, or will impact the incoming Biden Administration's ability to respond?) 

Trump may be the last person who will admit that the exact feckless and reckless disregard he is showing right now towards towards the country he was supposed to serve is the exact reason for his loss in the this election. It won't necessarily be because he's the last person to realize it--even now he's considering the possibility of returning to a post-presidency not unlike the life he had before. He'll be the last to admit it because he's still milking the marks. (It's what they've always been there for. Always.) 

Is it madness if it's profitable? If it's profitable, is it still sedition? I think--both. He's not a stable genius, but he knows whose priorities to put first. And if you still think that's America, I don't know how to help you at this point.