“Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.”
On Thursday July 27, everyone in the mainstream media was waiting on the grand jury in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation of the January 6 insurrection to make formal indictments on Once and Future Viceroy for Russian North America Donald Trump. That didn’t happen. What did happen is that in the Mar-a-Lago case, Smith suddenly released a “superseding indictment” meaning that it overrides the indictment previously released in June as it contains new information. The indictment previously detailed 37 counts against Trump and his aide Walt Nauta for withholding documents and obstructing justice in the government’s attempts to regain those documents. How many new counts are added in this week’s presentation? Five. And how many does that make added to 37?
42! FORTY-TWO counts!
AH HA ha ha haha HA!!!
Specifically, the indictment now includes Mar-a-Lago employee Carlos de Olivera on charges including “Altering, Destroying, Mutilating or Concealing an Object”, by means including draining the pool in such a way that it just happened to flood the room that contained the servers holding the resort’s surveillance footage.
This is all just corroborating evidence on the point that the government’s case is intended to establish Trump’s ‘mens rea’ or consciousness of guilt. And kids, if you still think ‘white privilege’ is not a thing, consider that positions like “I had every right to take those documents”, “I didn’t do anything wrong” and “the election was rigged and stolen” are considered serious legal defenses that a prosecution must address before making a case. In this case, it’s more like ‘orange privilege’, because such defenses usually don’t get too far for people who aren’t Trump.
Hey Donnie… have you ever tried NOT doing crimes?
Guess not.
But again: Not like it matters. “A New York Times/Siena College poll released Monday sees Trump leading DeSantis by 37 points, 54% to 17%, among likely Republican primary voters. Those numbers come on the heels of a recent Fox News poll showing DeSantis trailing Trump by 40 points in the Iowa GOP presidential caucus.” No one besides Ron DeSantis even gets above 3 percent. Which raises the question of why these other people are even running. Especially why they’re even running when they don’t want to say anything bad about Trump. Not that it helps if you do. This weekend, Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Congressman Will Hurd (no, no one else has heard of him either) appeared at Iowa’s “Lincoln Day” dinner (where Trump was treated like the guest of honor) and was practically booed off the stage for saying what everybody knew: “Donald Trump is not running for president to represent people that voted for him in 2016 and 2020,” Hurd said. “Donald Trump is running to stay out of prison.”
(Seriously, that should be his campaign slogan: TRUMP 2024: P-P-P-PLEASE Re-Elect Me, I’m Too Pretty For Jail)
It’s been that way all year. At the Faith and Freedom conference on the weekend of June 24, Trump was the featured speaker on Sunday June 25, and the one presidential candidate who dared to criticize him, New Jersey’s Chris Christie, was openly booed and mocked.
During that event, there were conferences where Christians pointed out how Trump has delivered for them on social issues where other Republicans didn’t. “During one of the conference sessions, Republican communications consultant Alice Stewart drew loud applause when she said that “we may not like how he does things, but he has delivered on what we wanted.”
Stewart also said “I didn’t vote for him to be my pastor.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
Ahem.
So let’s review:
Fake hair, fake tan, fake suit – constantly surrounds himself with ostentatious displays of wealth – constantly brags about how much money he has but is constantly begging you for YOURS – always uses God as the ultimate appeal to authority – and when he gets caught doing crimes, you’re supposed to just forgive him, cause he’s against abortion? Or something?
Republicans… are you SURE you didn’t vote for a pastor?
Isn’t this exactly what we can expect when America’s designated not-liberal party is almost completely controlled by Evangelicals? Isn’t this the same celebrity televangelist worship that we’ve been seeing since at least Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart? The same dysfunctional, authoritarian leader who resembles Zeus more than Jesus? Isn’t this exactly the same kind of dysfunctional leadership culture that you think is proper for your spiritual communities?
You have the right to decide the organization of your own spiritual community, but you do NOT have the right to impose that model on the secular government when the rest of the country disagrees. That is the difference between faith and politics. Which you would know, if you KNEW the difference between faith and politics.
But then the whole point of “conservatism” these days is that nobody knows the difference between faith and politics and no one thinks there should be any.
If you want to know why the Founders made “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof” the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, maybe you should look at contemporary Irish history. Or French history. Or German history. There was this thing called The Thirty Years War, which is a great example of what happens when you have a large area composed of several states with different Christian denominations and you insist on imposing a central dogma on all of them.
But, if facts were good enough for you, you wouldn’t be voting Trump. Which is just another example of identity fusion, because Trump has the same attitude that you can just bull through inconvenient facts and if you do it for long enough it won’t matter. He, and you, assume this because it actually worked once, in a 2016 election that is looking like that much more like a fluke as time goes on. Because the establishment candidate was so unacceptable to so many of us, you thought you could excrete the most redolent bowel movement you could strain out and call that a President. And the fact that you continue to support him despite his mounting liabilities really says a lot more about you than about him.
Even if Democrats and their economy remain unpopular, the rest of the country is not so personalist as you are, they are not as obsessed with “reality” TV and “woke” and culture wars as you are, and they know that’s all you have to offer. You support Trump not despite his flaws but specifically BECAUSE OF THEM. You identify with Trump in the same way that you identify with other “strong” (read: unethical) leaders, and because YOU are the bigger problem, you and your laws, your “Moms Against Liberty” and your court cases to change the laws against both the majority will and common sense, the more you identify with Liddle Donnie Clown Boy, the more I am going to make fun of him, because I know that hurts you. And frankly, who ever heard of you?
So I know how scared to death you are of Trump getting indicted this week, cause we all know Trump is scared to death of it. Because even if the Mar-a-Lago case is under Judge Cannon, and the Florida jury pool is Trump country, we’re still waiting on that indictment in Washington DC, where the jury pool might include relatives of some of the people the Trump mob killed. And then of course there’s the Georgia case where a judge just tossed out a Trump “lawyer” attempt to disqualify District Attorney Fani Willis from making a case against Trump (for trying to extort the state government to ‘find’ enough votes to ‘swing’ the state election), because “while being the subject (or even target) of a highly publicized criminal investigation is likely an unwelcome and unpleasant experience, no court ever has held that that status alone provides a basis for the courts to interfere with or halt the investigation”. In other words, that’s not how the law works, Donnie.
Plus which, this is a state case and not a federal election, so should Trump win in 2024, or in the even less likely event that some other Republican gets nominated and still chooses to serve as Trump’s gimp, said Republican could not use the presidential pardon to wipe out a conviction in the Georgia case.
It would be one thing if there were just one case and you could roll the dice on the jury or evidence going your way, but when you can’t stop doing crimes, the more likely it is the dice will land Trump on:
GO TO JAIL.
Go To Jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect a presidential pension.
BUT THAT’S NOT ALL!
You have the knowledge that you’ve brought such shame and disgrace on your family name that Don Junior is thinking of changing HIS surname to Kushner! You don’t get a consolation prize! You don’t get a boxed supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat! (TM) You don’t even get a copy of our home game! You’re a COMPLETE LOSER!!!