Well, here's to having the kind of week in the news where a journey into TrumpWorld actually feels like a bit of a vacation. And before I get things started, let's hear it for this week's TrumpWorld winner, though he doesn't even know it, Jim Jordan, for not becoming Speaker of the House. I used to joke about a tough job as "leading the clowns and following the elephants"--and that's what GOP Speaker would look like right now. Jimmy--enjoy doing less. I hope to enjoy you doing less and less in the future. It suits you.
Now on to TrumpWorld--obviously, the big story this week is out of Fulton County where Sidney Powell and now Kenneth Chesebro have entered plea agreements with cooperation. This does a handful of things--shocks TrumpWorld because some folks probably thought Powell was too batshit to get flipped: nah, she's a lawyer and figured out how screwed she was--and with the addition of Chesebro, um, probably Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani should be getting on the phone about getting correct, you think?
By admitting guilt, they are highlighting that the conspiracy was real and by agreeing to talk about it without Trump and the other co-conspirators getting the benefit of watching those speedy trials get played out for them, they are giving some folks specters of not a penny or a dime dropping, but a whole Coinstar machine falling out. Happy Halloween being haunted with the ghosts of felonies past and sentences future, you guys!
Now, who even knows what this looks like to the 2024 likely GOP presidential nominee? After all, he's ass-deep in legal alligators wondering what he ever meant by "draining the swamp". For one thing, his 2016 campaign staff got released from all their NDA's that he wanted FOR SOME REASON. Let the nattering begin! This week saw Trump leave one trial to give a deposition in another trial against him by Peter Strzok--and obviously, Trump's mouth is sometimes his greatest liability. He's suing Christopher Steele for like, telling on him? I guess. I think discovery will be funny as fuck in this case, so I'm strapped in. I feel like there's some real Streisand-effect vibes about to get set off with that one. And he's looking forward to being reunited (and it feels so...good?) with former lawyer Michael Cohen in the NY civil trial because karma, neh?
There's something I want to point out for all and sundry still holding out some idea that Trump gets vindicated by all his trials--does he act like a guy who ever wants a day in court or people talking about him? Because here's what I've noticed--he hates transparency. So, say he's mad about Forbes not having him on their lil' 400 list and now they are obviously communists. But what if they also performed an additional act of journalism and realized they had his ass and Weisselberg lying and it involved docs Trump never handed over to AG James that he absolutely should have?
That is some wild shit. Withholding docs, Trump? Who woulda thought?
But here's another funny thing from TrumpWorld--sometimes Trump doesn't give over information when he should, and sometimes he talks too much. He got hit with a nice $5K fine for running his mouth and while that sounds like couch cushion money for him, maybe it isn't and maybe next time, he's cooling his heels in cell.
Does that sound like a hell of a kibosh to put on a former president? Well, so be it. His fat mouth having had access to presidential access to information may have cost the US more than we know.
The man is a danger to himself and others, and always was. I can only hope some semblance of the extent of it reached the voting populace before they even think about giving this corrupt, arrogant idiot another try.
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Knocking on wood [my forehead] ... I don't see drumpf uck in it next year. Something, no speculation what, will keep him out of it and the rudderless repubs are so in disarray as to be incapable of mounting an effective campaign. In all the confusion maybe slip Willard in the side-door and mount a reasonable challenge but none of the primary bozos stand a chance against Biden/Harris, not even with a third party boost. Speakin' a'which
We may be beginning to see the beginning of the end of the two-party system, and good bad or indifferent are moving towards a more Yurpeon style of democracy
Which tend to be social democracies ...
I would love the idea of the Republican party being a spent force in American national politics. It's just that they seem to have a lot of regional capture in red states to the exclusion of a truly functional "left"--one reason I think that they have started to use "civil war" language: they know they are losing the popular vote nationally and are unlikely to recapture it, but they can own whole states like Florida and Texas (about which I WONDER!)
Which sometimes has me in my feelings about "OK if certain states think about seceding we airlift out the normal folks and let them go off. Then we can have grown people conversations about the environment, the economy, and health care we couldn't have with the knuckle-draggers." Which I guess is a little elitist of me, but I don't think by that much.
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