I really had hoped to live my whole life without hearing a single word about toilets clogged by something Donald Trump put in them; there goes another dream. If we start reading articles about Trump that include liberal references to "indictment", "perp-walk", "shackles", "failed escape to Azerbaijan" and "court-appointed lawyer" I think I'll start to feel better.
You know, if this dirtbag was a woman, sexists in the Republican party would be going to great lengths to evaluate and criticize his appearance. Let’s proceed along those lines, shall we?
Now how well will that toupee match his orange jumpsuit? Do you think he will pick the jumpsuit over stripes? We know stripes would clash most likely, but at this point it remains to be seen if the hair and orange jumpsuit combination would make a pleasing match, or would be a disaster.
If t-Rump were a woman, she wouldn't exist, because no woman could get away with one-one-thousandth of what he's gotten away with and continues to get away with. Once again, I invoke the Perfect Seven, who get away with everything: T-rump is powerful, old, rich, white, gentile, heterosexual and MALE. Hillary was/is white, gentile and heterosexual. That poor schlub Michael Cohen is white, heterosexual and male. A "three" just doesn't cut it.
Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Many people are already invoking Nixon as the past reference for TFG, and many have noted that he resigned in disgrace rather than brazen out the investigation and eventual impeachment he was guaranteed to face.
But Trump blew past that a long time ago-and even before he became POTUS. Yet, people voted him into office and the GOP has fallen in behind him like ducks in a row.
Yet, nothing has ever stuck to him. Like he's the Teflon Don like Don Gotti, (god not rest his soul), and of course we won't forget his beloved mentor, Roy Cohn, who wasn't above getting down and dirty in his line of work.
Because TFG was impeached twice, and never convicted. You can't make up this stuff!
He learned his lessons very well, but this latest foray of stealing stuff from the WH and taking it to Mar-a-Lago, (and we won't even mention the amount of classified material in the boxes..) is really not going to go down too well with even his own party..it's called national security and even these guys can't go there, I should hope.
Mitch McConnell has formally turned on the GOP and I think the party's just starting. I hope I have enough popcorn..and I hope Merrick Garland finally stands up and says Trump is now facing federal charges.
Always loved Molly Ivins. I do miss her. Her naming Dubya “Shrub” was truly inspired. I wonder what Former could be in Ivins-speak? Something about use of a golden toilet and what he did to our democracy…a 14 karat shit maybe? I know he’s never had hemorrhoids because he IS the perfect arsehole!
Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Nixon Schmixon. Nixon was in kindergarten compared to this guy. The only comparisons that make sense are Putin, Hitler, Mussolini, et al. I have it on good authority, Greg Olear, that the closest match is Mussolini. Not being a historian, I defer to him and to other historians.
As Randy Rainbow sings in his U-Tube video "A Very Stable Genius": "He is the very model of a very stable gen-i-us, of all the US Presidents he is the Mussolini-ist..."
Wow! Molly Ivins AND Randy Rainbow: references generated by this brilliant newsletter. Thank you LKT IV. You helped give a collective smile to those of us even more horrified by former and his thugs.
I've often thought the comparison to Mussolini is much more accurate than a comparison to Hitler. The blow-hard posturing, the bullying, the sexual predation. On the other hand, Mussolini was fairly intelligent-- a former journalist who could actually write and speak in coherent sentences. I DO hope t-Rump meets the same end as Mussolini-- shot to death and his body mutilated and desecrated by his former worshipers!
Judith....I'm willing to bet that a lot of us (certainly a lot of us HERE) would love to see the same thing, but only if it was the ONLY thing that occurred. but it wouldn't be. it would undoubtedly be the culmination of an insane amount of uncontrolled violence with a lot of killing. nobody wants this to happen on THIS end. on the other side, it seems like a lot of people are making noises as if they do, in fact, want it to happen, but (as Lucian keeps pointing out), they wouldn't do very well in any sort of actual armed conflict. still in all, it'd be a disaster from which it's unlikely the country would be able to return.
Yes, David, of course you're correct. It's more a fantasy than an actual wish. Plus: we have to recall that Mussolini dragged Italy into World War II on the German side, and Italians finally turned on Il Duce only AFTER the country had already endured suffering on a scale unimaginable to most Americans. (I do, however, believe it would take that much, and more, to turn t-Rump's worshipers against him.)
so now we seem to be about a hundred percent in agreement. I don't think I know anyone who still harbors some sort of belief that they can be swayed by things as trivial as, say, facts and evidence.
Believe me, Roland (CA), I shock myself. I have never in my life felt such absolute, murderous hatred for anyone as I do for t-Rump. The more gory and gruesome his end, the better, although I very much doubt that fantasy will come true.
Why would TFG's theft of classified material from the WH not "go down too well" with the GOP? They've opened wide and swallowed every other pile of shit t-Rump has produced. This will be no different. Another case of: Fine. No problem. Nothing to see here.
yeah, but it seems to me that they STILL (for the sake of appearances or whatever) like to make noises about "national security" and the whole post WWII preoccupation with appearing to flex those military muscles. consequently, the smarter ones are gonna have to think a little harder than they're accustomed to before they figure out a way to make the whole thing seem like nothing. I have every confidence they will. and the Hilary parallels don't seem to work at all. it's very, very crazy.
Mitch would turn on a lazy Susan, on a dime, on his mother if the price was right and it got him closer to POWER. Nothing that comes out of that man’s mouth can be trusted.
In a word NEVER. Do you see the police here in Canada applying the law to the trucker convoys? No but they sure knew how to drag our First Nations people and the environmentalists away for protesting.
Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Tow trucks with vaccinated drivers who can't work due to the snowflake ranting of the 10% of truck drivers that are selfishly and ignorantly un-vaccinated. That's how.
Ahem... don't you mean "selfishly and ignorantly UN-vaccinated?" Trudeau should mobilize every damn tow-truck in Canada, and send in whatever the Canadian equivalent of the National Guard is to haul those bastards out of their truck cabs and throw them all in jail.
Remember that meeting with Putin in Helsinki? Trump took the notes the interpreter had made -- and no one ever found out what went on in that meeting. The only thing we know is that Putin came out looking like the Cheshire Cat. So why are we surprised that Trump used classified documents as toilet paper?
Yes, yes, and yes again. It’s not a double standard, it’s a „factor of 100 to the power of a 100“ standard of unequal treatment. And thank you for your righteous indignation, it burns bright and helps assuage my great frustration. From day one no, actually from the campaign trail onward, it was apparent that Trump would gladly break every rule and, aided and abetted by McConnell and the GOP, get away with unthinkable crime after unthinkable crime. Remember back at the start of his term, when he showed classified information on his cell phone during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago? It would be career-ending for a Democrat. The New York Times — pace Maggie Hagerman — ought to pay head.
've always thought the man would end up behind bars someday, but most people think that with because of his his unlimited legal resources he wouldn't, but daily now new revelations as mentioned in above article by Lucian is essentially an obstruction of justice if any destroyed documents would have incriminated him in some way. As Mueller pointed out after his investigation, when he said the president is not exonerated from obstruction of Justice. This proves Mueller was right.
Then there is the criminal act of of interfering in an election. I'm just waiting for the DOJ to move. Everyone is wondering what is taking so long but I'm guessing they are waiting for the House investigation to finish their work since they already have a ton of evidence. I bet Mueller would have liked to have seen some of those destroyed documents . Anyway the latest comments by McConnell and Pence say a lot about Trump's failing image as the saviour of the Republican party. Cracks are appearing in his armour as more join the chorus. The man is down but not out -- yet. Hopefully, just a matter of time. either way I can't see him becoming president again.
I sure as hell don't WANT to see TFG president again, but if the election were held now, he would defeat Biden. And I've read that a newsworthy number of minority voters are also turning to t-Rump. Why, I can't even imagine. Jews for Hitler, anyone?
Feb 10, 2022·edited Feb 10, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Recently, I was rewatching the Netflix series "The Crown." I just finished the episode about the exposure of the Duke of Windsor as an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler throughout WWII. When the vile duke's fellow countrymen were being bombed to smithereens, he and his snake of a wife were kowtowing to Hitler and hoping he'd win the war. (They were both, BTW, virulent anti-Semites.) Their support of Hitler was proven beyond any doubt by documents brought to light in the 1950s.
Did anything at all happen to the Duke of Windsor? Did the royal family, or anyone in the British government, attempt to have him arrested, tried, imprisoned and eventually hanged for treason? NO!!!! They did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! They allowed him and his wife to live out their lives in obscenely luxurious, gilded idleness without a whisper of protest.
I see a definite parallel here to the future fate of t-Rump and Melanoma.
Where are the White House Plumbers when you need them; Nixon's "fixers": Liddy, Hunt, Baker, Gonzalez, Martinex, McCord, Sturgis; and of course their advisers: Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Strachan, Mardian, Parkinson.
A few years ago, in Wisconsin, Mary Burke was running for Governor. I hosted a meeting for business owners that supported her. During the meeting I indicated that someone needed to be the "a**hole". The people wondered what that meant. I said, Republicans always have someone who gets in front of the camera and just says enough to keep the media interested. Small sound bites. Keep picking at that scab.
"That won't work. We don't want to do what they do."
Hello, I am a new subscriber and am enjoying the newsletter immensely! Is it ok to ask a quick question unrelated to your postings? I was telling a friend about the newsletter and wasn't certain how to pronounce your last name. Is your last name pronounced Truss-scott, Truss-cut or True-scott? Even though I'm a retired educator, I've long since discovered a name or word which might not be pronounced as one would expect it to be.
For instance, the late husband of a friend paid money to have his name legally changed from Rick to Ric. She did the same, changing hers from Nancy to Nanci. From a grammatical standpoint, what they did breaks the rules of basic phonetic pronunciation. Folks are constantly assuming their names are spelled like one would think it would be. I simply want to be correct when I quote Mr. Truscott.
Also, occasionally I will hear or read a news item and would like to ask someone else about it. Being widowed, and retired, living in the small town of Hahira, GA, I do not have a large circle of friends, except a bunch old folks like myself. Hahira is ground zero for Trump supporters. I'm a voice crying in the wilderness! Yes, I'll admit it; the photo of me is 35 years old. I'm a little vain. After all, I'm a southern lady, thank you.
Maybe already mentioned, but I now understand why he took on water saving toilets as a Big Political Concern a few years ago (not my light bulb moment, read in another article).
Wasn't he also complaining on and on about shower heads? At the time I thought, "Doesn't he have more pressing problems as President than shower heads?" Or is that all his tiny pea brain can manage?
"When is one of these Republican criminals going to be held accountable? When are we going to see one Republican criminal answering questions under oath? When are we going to see one Republican criminal in handcuffs? When are we going to see one of these arrogant lawbreakers face a jury for his crimes?"
There is a simple, one-word answer to all of those questions: NEVER.
Feb 11, 2022·edited Feb 11, 2022Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
Trump's already wiped his ass with the Constitution, and everything we've learned about him is consistent with his utter disdain for law, ethics, propriety... everything that defines a society and a civilization. Arrest him, and everyone associated with helping Trump or covering for him. My reservoir of outrage is empty. Charge them with being accessories before and after the fact. Stick with the big picture except where the Government needs to negate claims that these people were unaware of what was going on. These cowards are raising the Nuremberg Defense to war crimes that could not be denied. Their respective Oaths of Office require them to at least raise an effective protest against Trump's crimes against the Constitution. Taking that oath with no intention to restrain Trump is by definition, a false statement. The affiant also swears that he takes that oath freely and voluntarily, and here's where their deceit is exposed, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. All we've seen have been the products of mental reservation and purposeful evasion of their sworn official duties. Chickenshit defenses are still chickenshit. What's their legal defense? Saying that this is all 'political' is not a justification. These people have a duty that they've agreed amongst themselves they would consciously ignore. Committing that crime in public doesn't exonerate them.
And after he wiped his ass with the constitution (yes, I will have to apply bleach to my mind’s eye to banish that picture) he ripped it up and flushed it down his toilet….
I really had hoped to live my whole life without hearing a single word about toilets clogged by something Donald Trump put in them; there goes another dream. If we start reading articles about Trump that include liberal references to "indictment", "perp-walk", "shackles", "failed escape to Azerbaijan" and "court-appointed lawyer" I think I'll start to feel better.
Favorite comment so far. Thanks Bill!
You know, if this dirtbag was a woman, sexists in the Republican party would be going to great lengths to evaluate and criticize his appearance. Let’s proceed along those lines, shall we?
Now how well will that toupee match his orange jumpsuit? Do you think he will pick the jumpsuit over stripes? We know stripes would clash most likely, but at this point it remains to be seen if the hair and orange jumpsuit combination would make a pleasing match, or would be a disaster.
But would the orange jumpsuit match his complexion, or would they be clashing shades of orange?
If t-Rump were a woman, she wouldn't exist, because no woman could get away with one-one-thousandth of what he's gotten away with and continues to get away with. Once again, I invoke the Perfect Seven, who get away with everything: T-rump is powerful, old, rich, white, gentile, heterosexual and MALE. Hillary was/is white, gentile and heterosexual. That poor schlub Michael Cohen is white, heterosexual and male. A "three" just doesn't cut it.
Many people are already invoking Nixon as the past reference for TFG, and many have noted that he resigned in disgrace rather than brazen out the investigation and eventual impeachment he was guaranteed to face.
But Trump blew past that a long time ago-and even before he became POTUS. Yet, people voted him into office and the GOP has fallen in behind him like ducks in a row.
Yet, nothing has ever stuck to him. Like he's the Teflon Don like Don Gotti, (god not rest his soul), and of course we won't forget his beloved mentor, Roy Cohn, who wasn't above getting down and dirty in his line of work.
Because TFG was impeached twice, and never convicted. You can't make up this stuff!
He learned his lessons very well, but this latest foray of stealing stuff from the WH and taking it to Mar-a-Lago, (and we won't even mention the amount of classified material in the boxes..) is really not going to go down too well with even his own party..it's called national security and even these guys can't go there, I should hope.
Mitch McConnell has formally turned on the GOP and I think the party's just starting. I hope I have enough popcorn..and I hope Merrick Garland finally stands up and says Trump is now facing federal charges.
A girl can hope, can't she?
Go get 'em Lucian! Molly Ivins and Jimmy Breslin would love to have Former to feast on!
Always loved Molly Ivins. I do miss her. Her naming Dubya “Shrub” was truly inspired. I wonder what Former could be in Ivins-speak? Something about use of a golden toilet and what he did to our democracy…a 14 karat shit maybe? I know he’s never had hemorrhoids because he IS the perfect arsehole!
Great last line!
God ruined a perfect asshole when he put teeth in his mouth.
Spot on!
Don't forget Orange Foolius.
Yes indeed…that would work!
I miss Molly Ivins terribly. Such a loss. 😢
Another hopeful girl here too. Although it is, again, waning. Save some popcorn for me please!
Nixon Schmixon. Nixon was in kindergarten compared to this guy. The only comparisons that make sense are Putin, Hitler, Mussolini, et al. I have it on good authority, Greg Olear, that the closest match is Mussolini. Not being a historian, I defer to him and to other historians.
As Randy Rainbow sings in his U-Tube video "A Very Stable Genius": "He is the very model of a very stable gen-i-us, of all the US Presidents he is the Mussolini-ist..."
Wow! Molly Ivins AND Randy Rainbow: references generated by this brilliant newsletter. Thank you LKT IV. You helped give a collective smile to those of us even more horrified by former and his thugs.
Exactly…Molly Ivins, Randy Rainbow AND Gilbert & Sullivan.
I've often thought the comparison to Mussolini is much more accurate than a comparison to Hitler. The blow-hard posturing, the bullying, the sexual predation. On the other hand, Mussolini was fairly intelligent-- a former journalist who could actually write and speak in coherent sentences. I DO hope t-Rump meets the same end as Mussolini-- shot to death and his body mutilated and desecrated by his former worshipers!
Judith....I'm willing to bet that a lot of us (certainly a lot of us HERE) would love to see the same thing, but only if it was the ONLY thing that occurred. but it wouldn't be. it would undoubtedly be the culmination of an insane amount of uncontrolled violence with a lot of killing. nobody wants this to happen on THIS end. on the other side, it seems like a lot of people are making noises as if they do, in fact, want it to happen, but (as Lucian keeps pointing out), they wouldn't do very well in any sort of actual armed conflict. still in all, it'd be a disaster from which it's unlikely the country would be able to return.
Yes, David, of course you're correct. It's more a fantasy than an actual wish. Plus: we have to recall that Mussolini dragged Italy into World War II on the German side, and Italians finally turned on Il Duce only AFTER the country had already endured suffering on a scale unimaginable to most Americans. (I do, however, believe it would take that much, and more, to turn t-Rump's worshipers against him.)
so now we seem to be about a hundred percent in agreement. I don't think I know anyone who still harbors some sort of belief that they can be swayed by things as trivial as, say, facts and evidence.
Judith! I’m shocked!
[😉]
Believe me, Roland (CA), I shock myself. I have never in my life felt such absolute, murderous hatred for anyone as I do for t-Rump. The more gory and gruesome his end, the better, although I very much doubt that fantasy will come true.
Why would TFG's theft of classified material from the WH not "go down too well" with the GOP? They've opened wide and swallowed every other pile of shit t-Rump has produced. This will be no different. Another case of: Fine. No problem. Nothing to see here.
yeah, but it seems to me that they STILL (for the sake of appearances or whatever) like to make noises about "national security" and the whole post WWII preoccupation with appearing to flex those military muscles. consequently, the smarter ones are gonna have to think a little harder than they're accustomed to before they figure out a way to make the whole thing seem like nothing. I have every confidence they will. and the Hilary parallels don't seem to work at all. it's very, very crazy.
Remember, he does nothing without a motive.
Mitch would turn on a lazy Susan, on a dime, on his mother if the price was right and it got him closer to POWER. Nothing that comes out of that man’s mouth can be trusted.
In a word NEVER. Do you see the police here in Canada applying the law to the trucker convoys? No but they sure knew how to drag our First Nations people and the environmentalists away for protesting.
I'm thinking it IS harder to drag away a protestor-18-wheeler, than to drag away a protestor-person.
Tow trucks with vaccinated drivers who can't work due to the snowflake ranting of the 10% of truck drivers that are selfishly and ignorantly un-vaccinated. That's how.
Ahem... don't you mean "selfishly and ignorantly UN-vaccinated?" Trudeau should mobilize every damn tow-truck in Canada, and send in whatever the Canadian equivalent of the National Guard is to haul those bastards out of their truck cabs and throw them all in jail.
Where is SGT Preston of the Mounties???
I think off with his dog, Yukon King! They’re trying to find Peter Sellers for you in Fenwick.
Thanks Judith. Editted. :)
Well I do hope that this teaches all future protesters how to thwart law enforcement.
Misogyny and fear of strong women is alive and well, not only in the NYT pressrooms, but all across America.
Put Mom in charge...EVERYWHERE!
👍👍🎉
Thank you for reiterating the unfair media persecution of Secretary Clinton and all the reasons TFG belongs in jail.
Remember that meeting with Putin in Helsinki? Trump took the notes the interpreter had made -- and no one ever found out what went on in that meeting. The only thing we know is that Putin came out looking like the Cheshire Cat. So why are we surprised that Trump used classified documents as toilet paper?
That day he became the Traitor of Helsinki...BIGLY!
Do you think he used salt and pepper, or ketchup, before he ate those notes?
Yes, yes, and yes again. It’s not a double standard, it’s a „factor of 100 to the power of a 100“ standard of unequal treatment. And thank you for your righteous indignation, it burns bright and helps assuage my great frustration. From day one no, actually from the campaign trail onward, it was apparent that Trump would gladly break every rule and, aided and abetted by McConnell and the GOP, get away with unthinkable crime after unthinkable crime. Remember back at the start of his term, when he showed classified information on his cell phone during a dinner at Mar-a-Lago? It would be career-ending for a Democrat. The New York Times — pace Maggie Hagerman — ought to pay head.
've always thought the man would end up behind bars someday, but most people think that with because of his his unlimited legal resources he wouldn't, but daily now new revelations as mentioned in above article by Lucian is essentially an obstruction of justice if any destroyed documents would have incriminated him in some way. As Mueller pointed out after his investigation, when he said the president is not exonerated from obstruction of Justice. This proves Mueller was right.
Then there is the criminal act of of interfering in an election. I'm just waiting for the DOJ to move. Everyone is wondering what is taking so long but I'm guessing they are waiting for the House investigation to finish their work since they already have a ton of evidence. I bet Mueller would have liked to have seen some of those destroyed documents . Anyway the latest comments by McConnell and Pence say a lot about Trump's failing image as the saviour of the Republican party. Cracks are appearing in his armour as more join the chorus. The man is down but not out -- yet. Hopefully, just a matter of time. either way I can't see him becoming president again.
I sure as hell don't WANT to see TFG president again, but if the election were held now, he would defeat Biden. And I've read that a newsworthy number of minority voters are also turning to t-Rump. Why, I can't even imagine. Jews for Hitler, anyone?
Blacks for George Wallace?
And the biggest joke, Herschel Walker in Georgia!
Recently, I was rewatching the Netflix series "The Crown." I just finished the episode about the exposure of the Duke of Windsor as an enthusiastic supporter of Hitler throughout WWII. When the vile duke's fellow countrymen were being bombed to smithereens, he and his snake of a wife were kowtowing to Hitler and hoping he'd win the war. (They were both, BTW, virulent anti-Semites.) Their support of Hitler was proven beyond any doubt by documents brought to light in the 1950s.
Did anything at all happen to the Duke of Windsor? Did the royal family, or anyone in the British government, attempt to have him arrested, tried, imprisoned and eventually hanged for treason? NO!!!! They did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! They allowed him and his wife to live out their lives in obscenely luxurious, gilded idleness without a whisper of protest.
I see a definite parallel here to the future fate of t-Rump and Melanoma.
Melanoma!
Let's install them in the Duchy of Grand Fenwick!
Melanoma‼️😆
Where are the White House Plumbers when you need them; Nixon's "fixers": Liddy, Hunt, Baker, Gonzalez, Martinex, McCord, Sturgis; and of course their advisers: Mitchell, Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Colson, Strachan, Mardian, Parkinson.
Who was it who called Haldeman and Ehrlichman "Hurdleman and Yurdleman?"
I would guess the WH plumbers were too busy fishing paper out of toilets.
A few years ago, in Wisconsin, Mary Burke was running for Governor. I hosted a meeting for business owners that supported her. During the meeting I indicated that someone needed to be the "a**hole". The people wondered what that meant. I said, Republicans always have someone who gets in front of the camera and just says enough to keep the media interested. Small sound bites. Keep picking at that scab.
"That won't work. We don't want to do what they do."
Who is going to be the a**hole?
Hello, I am a new subscriber and am enjoying the newsletter immensely! Is it ok to ask a quick question unrelated to your postings? I was telling a friend about the newsletter and wasn't certain how to pronounce your last name. Is your last name pronounced Truss-scott, Truss-cut or True-scott? Even though I'm a retired educator, I've long since discovered a name or word which might not be pronounced as one would expect it to be.
For instance, the late husband of a friend paid money to have his name legally changed from Rick to Ric. She did the same, changing hers from Nancy to Nanci. From a grammatical standpoint, what they did breaks the rules of basic phonetic pronunciation. Folks are constantly assuming their names are spelled like one would think it would be. I simply want to be correct when I quote Mr. Truscott.
Also, occasionally I will hear or read a news item and would like to ask someone else about it. Being widowed, and retired, living in the small town of Hahira, GA, I do not have a large circle of friends, except a bunch old folks like myself. Hahira is ground zero for Trump supporters. I'm a voice crying in the wilderness! Yes, I'll admit it; the photo of me is 35 years old. I'm a little vain. After all, I'm a southern lady, thank you.
Truss-cott is right.
You should feel right at home here. Welcome!
Maybe already mentioned, but I now understand why he took on water saving toilets as a Big Political Concern a few years ago (not my light bulb moment, read in another article).
Wasn't he also complaining on and on about shower heads? At the time I thought, "Doesn't he have more pressing problems as President than shower heads?" Or is that all his tiny pea brain can manage?
"When is one of these Republican criminals going to be held accountable? When are we going to see one Republican criminal answering questions under oath? When are we going to see one Republican criminal in handcuffs? When are we going to see one of these arrogant lawbreakers face a jury for his crimes?"
There is a simple, one-word answer to all of those questions: NEVER.
I haven’t even read it yet, but I had to instantly applaud the headline
I’ve done that here. I read the headline and maybe a few lines, and I have to post an enthusiastic reply. GO LUCIAN‼️
Trump's already wiped his ass with the Constitution, and everything we've learned about him is consistent with his utter disdain for law, ethics, propriety... everything that defines a society and a civilization. Arrest him, and everyone associated with helping Trump or covering for him. My reservoir of outrage is empty. Charge them with being accessories before and after the fact. Stick with the big picture except where the Government needs to negate claims that these people were unaware of what was going on. These cowards are raising the Nuremberg Defense to war crimes that could not be denied. Their respective Oaths of Office require them to at least raise an effective protest against Trump's crimes against the Constitution. Taking that oath with no intention to restrain Trump is by definition, a false statement. The affiant also swears that he takes that oath freely and voluntarily, and here's where their deceit is exposed, without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. All we've seen have been the products of mental reservation and purposeful evasion of their sworn official duties. Chickenshit defenses are still chickenshit. What's their legal defense? Saying that this is all 'political' is not a justification. These people have a duty that they've agreed amongst themselves they would consciously ignore. Committing that crime in public doesn't exonerate them.
And after he wiped his ass with the constitution (yes, I will have to apply bleach to my mind’s eye to banish that picture) he ripped it up and flushed it down his toilet….