TWGB: Hot Accountability Summer?

 

I know, I know. At this point in my blogging about Trump, my expectations should stay low. Of course Trump has been impeached twice and is a one-term wonder, but he never was convicted by the Senate and his staunchest defenders insist his political story is not over. (Indeed, his most looney-tunes defenders maintain he never left office at all and that the Biden Administration itself is a kind of hoax, which, like the moon landing, a round planet, and the existence of birds*, seems pretty hard to pull off without an improbable amount of people in on the gag, but since when do facts persuade the self-deluded of anything?)

But news that indictments against the Trump Organization could happen as soon as next week have me like a child again, full of hope that maybe, the shambolic obscenity that disgraced the presidency for four years will get some measure of reckoning. Maybe an indictment means all his business loans, dubiously obtained at this point in the Trump credit history, are abruptly called to a disastrous effect. Maybe his resorts lose their liquor licenses (would you stay in a Trump property without booze?). Maybe someone with the Trump last name gets perp-walked. 

Sugar-plums dance in one's head and the heart fills with the honeyed yogurt* of schadenfreude. 

Maybe it helps that I subscribe to the rolling snowball theory of karma. A comeuppance starts with a small thing, but then small things lead to a lot. The Fates aren't merely weavers, but the authors of tragedies. They start small--and build. And Trump is a small thing, hoisted upon his own pedestal by so many--but when do they lose faith?

You could wonder about the 500 folks now arrested for the insurrection attempt at the Capitol, and how their hero has little to offer them, now. Or the "Trump train" members who are being sued under the Klan Act. Do they wonder what they were doing it for--how very little return they would get on their emotional investment in their idol? What does it say about the Republican party and its operatives that they engaged in spy shit against Democratic and liberal groups and so reminded us again that Republicans are mostly paranoid assholes representing Big Money when they aren't minging theocratic authoritarian busybodies or exhibitionistly and grandiosely prolix racists*? (I'll bet those emmerdeurs  are actually pretty satisfied with themselves, and of such is life.)

You definitely have to wonder who they did it for. The Big Lie is a Big Bust. The Republicans of Michigan are willing to admit it. The Cyber Ninjas have unmistakably tainted their efforts in Arizona (such as they were) by shipping data to a cabin in Montana to be tinkered with, which definitely does not sound kosher. (The threat from Q-ninnies and others who believe Flynn, Powell, and Lindell's reinstatement nonsense is still a concern to DHS. Powell should lose her law license along with Giuliani--Flynn should be court-martialed. And Lindell is probably soft-headed, but I see financially-draining lawsuits in his future. ) 

But do you expect Trump himself to show concern for the people around him--get real, he doesn't care about people at all in the strictest sense of things. He "played down" COVID-19 despite knowing it's seriousness, but didn't want it interfering with his good economy or electoral hopes which really feels darkly ironic over 600K deaths and a failed Trump economy and his electoral defeat later, right? And not even his own near-death experience taught him to respect the disease, and he's holding rallies amongst his unvaccinated crowds once more, so you know how much he cares even now. (It should go without saying, but I will say it anyway, that he was fine with people dying in "blue" states and I don't think it even now occurs to him that people even now are more likely to die in "red" states of this plague.) He didn't take it seriously--ever.

And as for the hope of Mike Flynn and the Oath Keepers and all that lot that Trump would invoke the Insurrection Act on January 6 under the pretense that the damage was being done by antifa (although it never came off that way as antifa never appeared and the open-air broad daylight Reichstag putsch I think some of them wanted never came about)--he really wanted to see BLM protesters shot by the military over the spring/summer of 2020. (I know RW militias do love to talk about posse commitatus, so how bout that shit my good bitches?)

He's kind of a baby-splitter, after the Bible story about King Solomon's judgment. He would rather see an America divided, than in anyone else's hands. If you ever wanted to know how real Trump is, or rather, how really not Abraham Lincoln* he is, there's your hook. Trump is, in the broadest sense--not shit. And is likely to be in somewhat deep shit if we get into money laundering, DeustcheBank, and how really not a hoax the Mueller report, the first impeachment and the second impeachment were.  

So anyway, what I'm saying is, it's about damn time for Trump to see some accountability, as well as his fellow travelers, because that's the only way for the healing from the last four years (plus, really) to begin. I'm vaxxed and ready for a hot accountability summer. I will get the wine and you get the popcorn. 

*Despite the skepticism of some people about birds, I like them and am a big fan of Bird Twitter. They are smol dinosaurs and a treasure, and one of the biggest reasons I hate climate change, because birds in the wild are everyone of them canaries in an exceptionally grisly hot coal mine. Think about days where you can cook an egg on the sidewalk. Think about creatures whose babies start as eggs. This idea makes me incredibly angry. And it should make other people angry, too.

*When the milk of human kindness goes off, it converts to yogurt, not, as some people might suppose, cheese. Actually it's sort of a kefir. It's not really important, but it explains my metaphor. The longer one has been extremely pissed, the more thick and genuinely creamy the yogurt becomes. It's actually very healthful and sustaining in it's own way, and full of protein. 

* "Grandiosely prolix racists" would be the best way I could explain Republicans as they explain their reasons for denying DC statehood, scuttling voting rights, and trying to turn CRT into "reverse racism".  They have just explicitly sounded like Goldwater cozying up to segregationists or whatever. It's been astonishingly clarifying and definitely explains how Trump got to be their Big Boss. 

* Why didn't more Republicans invoke Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation regarding Juneteenth and try to co-opt the holiday as maybe really being their thing to begin with instead of some of them claiming it was trying to replace July 4th as "Independence Day"? Shit. In my mind, the more days I have off to drink beer and eat grilled shit is more better America, I'll tell you what. Republicans hate holidays. Pass that on. They also hate progress and other stuff that doesn't suck.