In the Manhattan trial of defendant Donald Trump, the prosecution rested yesterday. The defense rested today. Judge Juan Merchan has given the 12 jurors and four alternates the rest of the week off, until the day after Memorial Day next week, when closing arguments will begin.
How did we get so far off the rails? Criminals, thieves, attempted murderers. rapists, fraudsters, liars - these are the people our elected representatives favor. The likes of Steve Bannon are past presidential advisors - and may well be again after he is released from incarceration. Over 147 House members voted to overturn a free and fair election. The Big Lie lives on and our Nov. election will be contested when tRump loses. Hitler, Nazis, fascism are openly applauded and tRump vows to be a dictator and muses about a third term. Most of his lawyers need lawyers, indictments are still coming and remaining trials won't be held before the election. tRump always manages to skate - I hope at least this NY trial produces a conviction. While that won't dissuade MAGAts, hopefully saner voters will recognize the danger our democracy faces from the right wing extremists. If any doubt remains, read Project 2025.
A: The short answer is found in the term "my fellow Americans".
Since the end of WW2 the primary (by a lot) focus of US intelligence agencies was on non-Americans, at home and abroad, including allies, friends, partners, and adversaries. The LE community's focus was solving crimes, not preventing them. None of the aforementioned escaped notice by mofos at home. Mofos is far broader than the word criminals. And in my experience a greater threat and danger because they pretty much operate in plain sight. Doing so allows the behavior and bad acts to grow, be tolerated, and worse accepted as no big deal aka the new normal. In some instances celebrated. That isn't new. America has a long history of flirting with antiheroes (sadly it's another word whose meaning keeps shifting the primary reason I use mofos). Trump is the latest and is surrounded by sycophants, wannabes as well as >74M of my fellow Americans.
Closing with wisdom is ignored far more than it is embraced. Excerpted from the late Sen Margaret Chase Smith DoC 1950b floor speech " But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear."
#Nevertrumpers could all live 1000 lifetimes and nevah evah come close to her wisdom. This equally applies to today's generation of journalists and pundits.
One person—Mitch McConnell who wouldn’t allow senators to convict and who rammed through ideological political puppet judges like the useful idiot in Florida. He’s the biggest enabler. And he could have rescued the GOP from extremism
Agree with every word of your call out of the snake belly, Sen McConnell. History will eventually catch up to his record as Leader (minority and majority) as a hyper-partisan who over his career was responsible for blocking the will of the majority of Americans on solutions to lingering problems to deny so-called wins for D Presidents and/or D Senators/Representatives. He is emblematic of the decline of the GOP which views every issue through a political lens rather than what is in the national interest.
The GOP peaked as an authentic legacy party w/Ike. Ever since the GOP has acted and behaved closer to Confederate era pols. Not by accident, rather than by design w/Sen McConnell as the quintessential exemplar.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And we have been putting one foot in front the other on the wrong road for many decades. There have been some detours in attempts to rectify the misdirection, but money, power and greed are strong motivators. I no longer believe we have the collective will or the agency to effect the change needed. We are too polarized and susceptible to 'alternative facts'. Normal discourse has given way to disdain, ridicule, threats, doxing, violence...'for the common good' is a bygone concept. I agree, bad behavior is now the norm.
Agree, they are drawing ever nigh. Am grateful my kind prefers the word pony because we would nevah evah associate a great animal to permit such horsemen on its back. Much like ~wolf~ is unfairly demonized so too are "horses" in literature especially black ones snorting steam biting the bit to enter battle with its dark hooman.
we honor our ponies including painting them with their story and that of its rider. The thought that a so-called holy book would demonize (literally and figuratively) one of its creation leaves me baffled.
I weep for this nation and for all her good people. Have no tears for those who would do harm whether in words or deeds.
You have summed up the situation perfectly. So we are left with defending the country against a takeover by those lowlifes so they can do as they wish. I sincerely hope we're ready for it, and that President Biden can, would, declare martial law if need be.
What rails were we on exactly? People of color were disenfranchised in the South until the mid-1960s -- and the backlash against their enfranchisement continues to this day. Furious at the Democrats who had caused this enfranchisement, and courted by Nixon's "southern strategy," white Southern Democrats flooded into the Republican Party. A few years later, the Republicans started courting the white evangelicals and others infuriated by Roe v. Wade. All of these courting resulted in the election of Ronald Reagan. The country is still struggling to recover from the resulting economic, environmental, and political devastation.
True as far as the flipping of Dem to Repub. Politicians, while polarized, at least attempted to look honest to the public; outrageous, outright lies, proudly and boldly told, that we hear every day now were not the norm. The parties, and hence, the public were not so divided. Congressmen were friends across the aisle; Repubs forced Nixon to resign. Lobbyists were influential but did not own their own representatives. Our fundamental rights, Medicare, SS were not a target constantly. The wealthy paid their share of taxes; as did corporations which were not such a drain due to subsidies. Gingrich ushered in the era of hate politics and lowered the bar. And social media has provided the megaphone. We have been in a spiral of corporate greed, MICC capture, endless, pointless, losing 'wars', ballooning debt, financialization, income inequality, increasing racism and right wing authoritarian extremism, correctly as you point out, since Reagan. The perfect past that the MAGAts tout never existed, but our problems are exponentially more severe and solutions fading.
But Republicans forced Nixon to resign 50 years ago. In the decades since, the GOP has transformed itself into an overtly anti-democratic party. That transformation was underway before Trump was elected -- in fact, it played a major role in getting Trump elected, and it played a crucial role in packing the Supreme Court with far-right Catholic conservatives.
And I think you've got it backwards with "the parties, and hence, the public were not so divided." The fissures in "the public" have been screamingly obvious since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s. Major contributors were opposition to the Vietnam War and the rise of the women's movement and the movement for gay and lesbian rights (both of which were influenced by the civil rights movement).
From the "southern strategy" onward, the GOP has done a masterful job of exploiting those fissures -- while most of the congressional Democrats were playing the collegiality game and not paying half enough attention to economics. "We the people" haven't paid enough attention to economics either, in large part because for almost two centuries any mention of economic inequality or support for working people was branded socialist, communist, anarchist, un-American, etc. JEdgar Hoover's FBI was big on rounding up commies and Black activists, but it paid very little attention to the white right. This contributed greatly to the economic cowardice of the Democratic Party after they managed to institute Medicare in the 1960s: decades later, when Obamacare was first proposed, the cries of "socialist! communist! the nanny state!" were deafening.
I don't disagree with your points - I lived through all of those events. But the disunity was not as blatant, as in your face and as exquisitely planned to the n-th degree as it is now. There has been an entire industry built up around framing r/w extremist talking points to be palatable to those most susceptible - think Frank Luntz... Dems, while not as guilty, are not innocent, either. The old guard still believes that 'going along to get along' is a winning strategy. The newer, more outspoken, and mostly female reps take the fight to the perpetrators. We the people since the eighties have been too busy working multiple, low-paying, menial jobs without benefits since good paying manufacturing jobs our fathers had were outsourced to the Far East and Mexico. Unions are making a comeback, though, surprisingly - or maybe not so - here in the south. The hallowing out of public education and the endemic presence of r/w corporate media has not helped either. The problems of Obamacare were also r/w promulgated. It was the conservative Heritage Foundation idea implemented by Mitt Romney as (R)Governor of MA and as such did not face the r/w corporate and political ire that Dems implementing it nationally did. Consequently, Dems caved to the cacophony and the power of the insurance industry in not crafting a public option. Not the first time or the first issue. And, I'm sure, not the last. Legislating is not the function of Congress anymore - power, influence, authoritarianism, revolving door wallet fattening job hopping - personal success over public service is the order of the day. And the lies, the spin, the fealty to tRump are the pathways chosen. The outrageous part is the parroting of Russian talking points, the normalization and idolatry of dictators, murderers and thugs - those were not part of earlier century politics. Those seditious acts would have been condemned by both parties, not embraced by one.
If he were less of a coward, he’d have taken the stand to defend himself…well what do you expect from a coward who has shot himself in the tuches so often that he had liars and syncopates do his dirty work. What a maroon.
And the lawyers would simply be following the boilerplate professional code of ethics, the same code too many of the ones hanging with Trump (but not only them) have been ignoring whenever it was inconvenient.
When I zoom out and survey this assortment of liars crooks, and hangers-on, I have to remind myself that these people represent a cross section of our ruling class. Corruption at the top is always a chronic problem for us, "Rot at the Top", the Economist Magazine called it., But I cannot recall a more corrupt era than this one in my lifetime. It is possible though that the first half of twentieth century was as bad or worse, with its gangsters and corrupt politicians, but I was not around then.
Warren Harding's Teapot Dome was the low point of the first half of the century, but radio was just getting started and tv and the internet weren't around to spread lesser bad news. Newsmen like Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson brought muckraking legacy to the corruption of the second half of the 20th century, which Eisenhower's powerful chief of staff Sherman Adams launched. I suspect that the big difference between U.S. political corruption past and present is the speed and scope on news distribution.
Very true. Teapot Dome was supposed to be the scandal of the century - that and his affair. But I have to believe that from the vantage point of Bush,Jr.’s and Cheney’s hiring of ‘contractors’ (mercenaries) for the war in Iraq , even with adjustments for inflation, dwarfed that. From a distance you have to see Harding’s awarding a no-bid contract to some lucrative project as relatively tame.
I know this may come across as naive but it seems to me that in the 1990s a lot of people liked Gordon Geckos mantra: “Greed is Good”. It gave me the chills.
Andrea! Your parents, like mine, cudda/shudda recited the entire quote: "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the motion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary, but everything hath affinities infinite." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything Trumpian hath infinite idiocy, ignobility, immaturity, insufferability, immodesty, and incoherence, to start the alliterative pejoratives with Trump's single favorite letter of the alphabet, always capitalized in his mind so can see himself standing atop it: I.
Lucien - was it ever this bad that you can recall? There was a poster during watergate that one of the profs had up in his office - of Nixon’s crew ugly crew.
Nothing as satisfying as the marker crossing out their faces as the trials continued.
The title of your post today, “7 Days in May,” has a much darker meaning, and perhaps you did that purposely. It was the title of the novel, and later movie, about a plot between right wing politicians and right wing military officers to overthrow the liberal President of the United States via a military coup. Sound familiar? Some of the parallels to Jan. 6 are uncanny, but the general underlying principles are the same: those unhappy with the ruling political officeholders seeking to overthrow them rather than outvote them. That is exactly what the GQP and MAGA cult are trying to do in 2024 - use the vehicle of the national election to deny its likely and expected outcome and seize power from those who were in fact duly elected. WE WON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!
My brother in law, who quit high school at sixteen and lied about his age to join the Marines, served in Vietnam, and afterward rode with the Hell's Angels while he learned construction trades (he bought a Harvard sweatshirt so he could wear it while doing welding in a boatyard), detests Trump, seeing him as the phony he is.
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What a bunch of motley bunch of lying louche liars these people are!
The only person who had any class was the judge and that's because he's smarter than almost anyone who was in that court room.
As for the hangers on, I do wonder what they'll do if Trump is convicted? Nothing says class like hanging out with a convicted felon who's also been impeached twice and lost the election at least once..and one more coming up.
Bunch of low lifes! And people think Trump has class? Even the alley cats were laughing at him.
Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that Trump's starting to look like he's aging fast over these past few weeks? He doesn't seem quite as healthy as he used to.
"He doesn't seem quite as healthy as he used to". That's a low bar to slither under, but hope springs eternal. I dream of the debate as he bursts into an incoherent rage and then short circuits and starts drooling uncontrollably as he melts from the podium into a putrid orange puddle like the vile wicked witch he is. It's my evening prayer and has become a recurring dream that has me waking every morning with a smile.
How many of our parents told us "you are judged by the company you keep".
How did we get so far off the rails? Criminals, thieves, attempted murderers. rapists, fraudsters, liars - these are the people our elected representatives favor. The likes of Steve Bannon are past presidential advisors - and may well be again after he is released from incarceration. Over 147 House members voted to overturn a free and fair election. The Big Lie lives on and our Nov. election will be contested when tRump loses. Hitler, Nazis, fascism are openly applauded and tRump vows to be a dictator and muses about a third term. Most of his lawyers need lawyers, indictments are still coming and remaining trials won't be held before the election. tRump always manages to skate - I hope at least this NY trial produces a conviction. While that won't dissuade MAGAts, hopefully saner voters will recognize the danger our democracy faces from the right wing extremists. If any doubt remains, read Project 2025.
Q: How did we get so far off the rails?
A: The short answer is found in the term "my fellow Americans".
Since the end of WW2 the primary (by a lot) focus of US intelligence agencies was on non-Americans, at home and abroad, including allies, friends, partners, and adversaries. The LE community's focus was solving crimes, not preventing them. None of the aforementioned escaped notice by mofos at home. Mofos is far broader than the word criminals. And in my experience a greater threat and danger because they pretty much operate in plain sight. Doing so allows the behavior and bad acts to grow, be tolerated, and worse accepted as no big deal aka the new normal. In some instances celebrated. That isn't new. America has a long history of flirting with antiheroes (sadly it's another word whose meaning keeps shifting the primary reason I use mofos). Trump is the latest and is surrounded by sycophants, wannabes as well as >74M of my fellow Americans.
Closing with wisdom is ignored far more than it is embraced. Excerpted from the late Sen Margaret Chase Smith DoC 1950b floor speech " But I don't want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear."
#Nevertrumpers could all live 1000 lifetimes and nevah evah come close to her wisdom. This equally applies to today's generation of journalists and pundits.
One person—Mitch McConnell who wouldn’t allow senators to convict and who rammed through ideological political puppet judges like the useful idiot in Florida. He’s the biggest enabler. And he could have rescued the GOP from extremism
Agree with every word of your call out of the snake belly, Sen McConnell. History will eventually catch up to his record as Leader (minority and majority) as a hyper-partisan who over his career was responsible for blocking the will of the majority of Americans on solutions to lingering problems to deny so-called wins for D Presidents and/or D Senators/Representatives. He is emblematic of the decline of the GOP which views every issue through a political lens rather than what is in the national interest.
The GOP peaked as an authentic legacy party w/Ike. Ever since the GOP has acted and behaved closer to Confederate era pols. Not by accident, rather than by design w/Sen McConnell as the quintessential exemplar.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. And we have been putting one foot in front the other on the wrong road for many decades. There have been some detours in attempts to rectify the misdirection, but money, power and greed are strong motivators. I no longer believe we have the collective will or the agency to effect the change needed. We are too polarized and susceptible to 'alternative facts'. Normal discourse has given way to disdain, ridicule, threats, doxing, violence...'for the common good' is a bygone concept. I agree, bad behavior is now the norm.
Well-said. Well-said, indeed.
And today, the Four Horsemen of Calumny – Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear, are riding hard and fast toward November 5, 2024.
Agree, they are drawing ever nigh. Am grateful my kind prefers the word pony because we would nevah evah associate a great animal to permit such horsemen on its back. Much like ~wolf~ is unfairly demonized so too are "horses" in literature especially black ones snorting steam biting the bit to enter battle with its dark hooman.
we honor our ponies including painting them with their story and that of its rider. The thought that a so-called holy book would demonize (literally and figuratively) one of its creation leaves me baffled.
I weep for this nation and for all her good people. Have no tears for those who would do harm whether in words or deeds.
The 147 and more are ready again and the spewker ofthe House is a Jan 6 planner.
Are we ready?
spewker!!!
That was Jeff Tiedrich. Credit where credit is due.
You have summed up the situation perfectly. So we are left with defending the country against a takeover by those lowlifes so they can do as they wish. I sincerely hope we're ready for it, and that President Biden can, would, declare martial law if need be.
May it never come to that.
It's what happens when the scum of the earth decides he needs to "Drain the Swamp".
What rails were we on exactly? People of color were disenfranchised in the South until the mid-1960s -- and the backlash against their enfranchisement continues to this day. Furious at the Democrats who had caused this enfranchisement, and courted by Nixon's "southern strategy," white Southern Democrats flooded into the Republican Party. A few years later, the Republicans started courting the white evangelicals and others infuriated by Roe v. Wade. All of these courting resulted in the election of Ronald Reagan. The country is still struggling to recover from the resulting economic, environmental, and political devastation.
True as far as the flipping of Dem to Repub. Politicians, while polarized, at least attempted to look honest to the public; outrageous, outright lies, proudly and boldly told, that we hear every day now were not the norm. The parties, and hence, the public were not so divided. Congressmen were friends across the aisle; Repubs forced Nixon to resign. Lobbyists were influential but did not own their own representatives. Our fundamental rights, Medicare, SS were not a target constantly. The wealthy paid their share of taxes; as did corporations which were not such a drain due to subsidies. Gingrich ushered in the era of hate politics and lowered the bar. And social media has provided the megaphone. We have been in a spiral of corporate greed, MICC capture, endless, pointless, losing 'wars', ballooning debt, financialization, income inequality, increasing racism and right wing authoritarian extremism, correctly as you point out, since Reagan. The perfect past that the MAGAts tout never existed, but our problems are exponentially more severe and solutions fading.
But Republicans forced Nixon to resign 50 years ago. In the decades since, the GOP has transformed itself into an overtly anti-democratic party. That transformation was underway before Trump was elected -- in fact, it played a major role in getting Trump elected, and it played a crucial role in packing the Supreme Court with far-right Catholic conservatives.
And I think you've got it backwards with "the parties, and hence, the public were not so divided." The fissures in "the public" have been screamingly obvious since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the mid-1960s. Major contributors were opposition to the Vietnam War and the rise of the women's movement and the movement for gay and lesbian rights (both of which were influenced by the civil rights movement).
From the "southern strategy" onward, the GOP has done a masterful job of exploiting those fissures -- while most of the congressional Democrats were playing the collegiality game and not paying half enough attention to economics. "We the people" haven't paid enough attention to economics either, in large part because for almost two centuries any mention of economic inequality or support for working people was branded socialist, communist, anarchist, un-American, etc. JEdgar Hoover's FBI was big on rounding up commies and Black activists, but it paid very little attention to the white right. This contributed greatly to the economic cowardice of the Democratic Party after they managed to institute Medicare in the 1960s: decades later, when Obamacare was first proposed, the cries of "socialist! communist! the nanny state!" were deafening.
I don't disagree with your points - I lived through all of those events. But the disunity was not as blatant, as in your face and as exquisitely planned to the n-th degree as it is now. There has been an entire industry built up around framing r/w extremist talking points to be palatable to those most susceptible - think Frank Luntz... Dems, while not as guilty, are not innocent, either. The old guard still believes that 'going along to get along' is a winning strategy. The newer, more outspoken, and mostly female reps take the fight to the perpetrators. We the people since the eighties have been too busy working multiple, low-paying, menial jobs without benefits since good paying manufacturing jobs our fathers had were outsourced to the Far East and Mexico. Unions are making a comeback, though, surprisingly - or maybe not so - here in the south. The hallowing out of public education and the endemic presence of r/w corporate media has not helped either. The problems of Obamacare were also r/w promulgated. It was the conservative Heritage Foundation idea implemented by Mitt Romney as (R)Governor of MA and as such did not face the r/w corporate and political ire that Dems implementing it nationally did. Consequently, Dems caved to the cacophony and the power of the insurance industry in not crafting a public option. Not the first time or the first issue. And, I'm sure, not the last. Legislating is not the function of Congress anymore - power, influence, authoritarianism, revolving door wallet fattening job hopping - personal success over public service is the order of the day. And the lies, the spin, the fealty to tRump are the pathways chosen. The outrageous part is the parroting of Russian talking points, the normalization and idolatry of dictators, murderers and thugs - those were not part of earlier century politics. Those seditious acts would have been condemned by both parties, not embraced by one.
If he were less of a coward, he’d have taken the stand to defend himself…well what do you expect from a coward who has shot himself in the tuches so often that he had liars and syncopates do his dirty work. What a maroon.
His lawyers may have told him that, if he takes the stand, they will not defend him in his inevitable prosecution for perjury.
And the lawyers would simply be following the boilerplate professional code of ethics, the same code too many of the ones hanging with Trump (but not only them) have been ignoring whenever it was inconvenient.
“Deplorable's”?
Personally I think his not taking the stand shows uncharacteristic good sense!
When I zoom out and survey this assortment of liars crooks, and hangers-on, I have to remind myself that these people represent a cross section of our ruling class. Corruption at the top is always a chronic problem for us, "Rot at the Top", the Economist Magazine called it., But I cannot recall a more corrupt era than this one in my lifetime. It is possible though that the first half of twentieth century was as bad or worse, with its gangsters and corrupt politicians, but I was not around then.
Warren Harding's Teapot Dome was the low point of the first half of the century, but radio was just getting started and tv and the internet weren't around to spread lesser bad news. Newsmen like Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson brought muckraking legacy to the corruption of the second half of the 20th century, which Eisenhower's powerful chief of staff Sherman Adams launched. I suspect that the big difference between U.S. political corruption past and present is the speed and scope on news distribution.
Very true. Teapot Dome was supposed to be the scandal of the century - that and his affair. But I have to believe that from the vantage point of Bush,Jr.’s and Cheney’s hiring of ‘contractors’ (mercenaries) for the war in Iraq , even with adjustments for inflation, dwarfed that. From a distance you have to see Harding’s awarding a no-bid contract to some lucrative project as relatively tame.
Wow I miss Jack Anderson, bless his memory.
I think tv and the internet and Wall Street have amplified everything—stakes rise higher and higher and ids skid lower and lower.
I know this may come across as naive but it seems to me that in the 1990s a lot of people liked Gordon Geckos mantra: “Greed is Good”. It gave me the chills.
Right! I think the slogan's popularity was an unintended consequence that may have dismayed the popularizers.
Chuck Zito surely rounds it out.
Andrea! Your parents, like mine, cudda/shudda recited the entire quote: "A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his tastes, by his distastes, by the stories he tells, by his gait, by the motion of his eye, by the look of his house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary, but everything hath affinities infinite." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything Trumpian hath infinite idiocy, ignobility, immaturity, insufferability, immodesty, and incoherence, to start the alliterative pejoratives with Trump's single favorite letter of the alphabet, always capitalized in his mind so can see himself standing atop it: I.
Ah … BOTH his drug dealers sitting with him….
Well, two of. The ones for NY and DC.
“I’ll make you two promises; a very good steak, medium rare and the truth, which is very rare” - Eleanor Holbrook, Seven Days In May(1964).
Excellent movie!!
What a crew! No one will believe the movie.
I was thinking that same thing....how could you even make a movie...it's been made in front of our eyes already!
Blazing Saddles
"Badges!! We don't need no stinking badges!!"
Lucien - was it ever this bad that you can recall? There was a poster during watergate that one of the profs had up in his office - of Nixon’s crew ugly crew.
Nothing as satisfying as the marker crossing out their faces as the trials continued.
No.
How can I “like” this answer when it confirms what I think - and horrifies me ?
Pls consider my reply to Bob Palmer's comment.
Always felt the Nixon situation would be worked out, now, not so sure.
There were republicans in Congress who were disgusted with Nixon, maybe that’s why
The Bootlicker Caucus certainly has many varied and odd tongues. 😜
Unfortunately, Dr. Ronnie "Feelgood" Jackson is now a member of the US House from Texassistan.
Texas omg
Witless intimidation The convicted sexual abuser should refer to his posse as -the diaper changers
That name, with appropriate art, would make a great patch. I'm sure the bikers would wear it proudly.
The title of your post today, “7 Days in May,” has a much darker meaning, and perhaps you did that purposely. It was the title of the novel, and later movie, about a plot between right wing politicians and right wing military officers to overthrow the liberal President of the United States via a military coup. Sound familiar? Some of the parallels to Jan. 6 are uncanny, but the general underlying principles are the same: those unhappy with the ruling political officeholders seeking to overthrow them rather than outvote them. That is exactly what the GQP and MAGA cult are trying to do in 2024 - use the vehicle of the national election to deny its likely and expected outcome and seize power from those who were in fact duly elected. WE WON’T LET THAT HAPPEN!
My Cousin Vinny II
Vinny was a saint compared to this roundup of rejects.
Cannot disagree!
My brother in law, who quit high school at sixteen and lied about his age to join the Marines, served in Vietnam, and afterward rode with the Hell's Angels while he learned construction trades (he bought a Harvard sweatshirt so he could wear it while doing welding in a boatyard), detests Trump, seeing him as the phony he is.
What a bunch of motley bunch of lying louche liars these people are!
The only person who had any class was the judge and that's because he's smarter than almost anyone who was in that court room.
As for the hangers on, I do wonder what they'll do if Trump is convicted? Nothing says class like hanging out with a convicted felon who's also been impeached twice and lost the election at least once..and one more coming up.
Bunch of low lifes! And people think Trump has class? Even the alley cats were laughing at him.
Speaking of which, has anyone noticed that Trump's starting to look like he's aging fast over these past few weeks? He doesn't seem quite as healthy as he used to.
"He doesn't seem quite as healthy as he used to". That's a low bar to slither under, but hope springs eternal. I dream of the debate as he bursts into an incoherent rage and then short circuits and starts drooling uncontrollably as he melts from the podium into a putrid orange puddle like the vile wicked witch he is. It's my evening prayer and has become a recurring dream that has me waking every morning with a smile.