“They are pictures of a sad, depressed man.” I want to see the sad, depressed man photographed behind bars. That will be a day of celebration for the intelligent, and a wake-up to reality for the stupid and power-hungry.
One Senator who has escaped, IMHO, scrutiny is one Charles Grassley. One timeline is that he made a statement while the riot was going on that should Pence not be able to conduct the vote he , himself , would step in and as President Pro Tem preside over the Senate vote counting. Where did he get the idea Pence might not be present and able to do his duty. Why did he make this statement while the riot was going on?
We hear a lot about those seven GOP Reps in the House who were in on the scam. Might a few Senators also he culpable. Here is looking at you Ron Johnson, Tommy Tubberville and Chuck Grassley. Might some of the calls not on the President's log for that day be to one or more of these Senators?
I agree. Maybe this will be the series opener for Season Two in September?
I've been trying to figure out a possible timeline for the continuation of this series. The longer it continues, the more panicked those complicit Congresspersons might be feeling. The longer it continues, the more outraged the general public (those who are SANE) may become. The longer it continues without action from DOJ, the more voters might decide to take matters into their own hands. The longer it continues, fueled by additional attacks on freedom by the Stench Bench, the more likely angry citizens might be motivated to actually show up and VOTE in November. So, timing is everything. Focus on the Secret Service. Focus on the low hanging fruit. Focus on the mob boss and his enablers. But wait until November NINTH or thereafter to close with the finale - the big reveal - of those in Congress engaged in seditious criminal conspiracy. Take no action that would arouse that mob any further (than it stays aroused) to vote. But heap on the facts, the disgusting sewage that abounds on video and in testimony of Republicans. Then, after the midterms, start going after Congress by NAME. This is only my opinion, but I would prefer to keep those drunken sleeping dogs at bay until the election is over. Then kick them awake and take them out.
Stench Bench :) Nice. What a bizarre daze this all is. Who knew.
I miss Nixon, but then DeSantis is lurking in the Florida sunshine which is why a big part of me hopes Trump skates and gets to run in 2024 at the helm of his clown car of sycophantic costume party nutcases. He'd be a hard pill to swallow for most.
DeSantis is too seemingly palatable a poison, but certainly a vile and perhaps far more dangerous poison none the less.
DEFLATED and ENRAGED are the correct terminology for what Trump was experiencing after his plan didn’t work. A sociopath doesn’t have the same emotional range that normal people do. Usually a sociopath toggles between grandiose inflation and deflated inferiority, but when he is a loser he becomes deflated and enraged. That is how he has remained.
Those oligarch loans come due in early 2024. You bet he was sad and depressed that the coup didn't work. He's on the clock now, without the protection of the US Government or the ability to peddle influence as a vig-reduction methodology. Uh-oh.
Arguably all photos of Trumpsky, excuse me, Vladonald Trumpsky, are photos of a "sad and depressed" individual, only the acting and posing by this dystopian cartoon character changes, transmogrifies before our eyes.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump --- edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div., features in its second edition thirty-seven psychiatrists and mental health experts "assessing a president," note the explicit discussion of the psychological professional's "duty to warn" overriding the concerns summarized in the so-called "Goldwater Rule."
No, they didn't have Trump as a patient, but on the other hand, they had available a veritable cornucopia of evidence from Trump himself, memoralized on video and in speeches and rallies, a feast of useful verbal behavior and some of the paralingustics, the message sent by "body language," vocal tones and dynamics , and available to an incomparable extent, because we are in the 21st century.
Dr. Justin Frank, a psychiatrist with over forty years in practice, mostly in NYC and D.C., stated that Trump exhibited some behaviors Dr. Frank had only previously seen inside secure facilities. I would append an exclamation point, but I think the readers on a blog like this can supply that emphasis immediately without it: that I as a longtime student of human psychology as a layperson, and not a professional psychologist, find this statement remarkable, without any further emphasis.
We are still not out of the woods with Trump and his cult, either, c'est incroyable!
Not even Dylan "was Dylan" without some access to altered states of consciousness, but without a core of ethos, it won't work.
Notice that Dylan can establish his own tonality/tone center, a real gift which "better singers" struggle to attain, also the morality of unstated back-stories and unreliable narrators interacting is powerful in many of his songs.
The first "English paper" I ever handed in and explained as best I could in middle school was about Dylan as a serious poet, so sue me!
Treason: punishable by death. That is the only true justice for t-Rump, but we all know that he will never be put to death as a traitor. Execution is for little people like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who did infinitely less damage to this country than t-Rump has done and continues to do with every passing day he remains alive.
That clip was one of the most powerful of the entire series of hearings. Nearly all of what we've seen of Trump over the years has been performance. This wasn't. This was unvarnished, unscripted *him*.
"Treason" is appropriate, but the law narrows treasonous acts down to those also that include coordination with "foreign" actors. Trump likely did this too, but I doubt his buddy Putin would testify against him.
I spent the three and a quarter hours following the January 6 committee presentation watching MSNBC with their take on the overall presentation. Truly formidable analysis, and with former Republicans Nicole Wallace and Stephanie Ruhle doing the commentary, their analysis was well worth watching.
The case against Trump isn't quite indictment-ready, but it's apparent that it's on the doorstep. Pat Cipollone all but admitted that Trump was the only one in the White House who resisted calling in the National Guard to clear the Capitol. Sitting Cipollone down in front of a federal grand jury and telling him that his privilege claims were bogus is most certainly now on Merrick Garland's To Do list. It's taken long enough, and going after the low hanging fruit is no longer an option. The clock is running down, and with it our collective patience. It's time that Due Process becomes 'do process', meaning that this isn't DOJ's first rodeo, and it's time to saddle up and move 'em out. Pat Cipollone had three hours of conversation with Trump and White House staff, and he can testify to what went on before, during, and after the riot at the Capitol. So now do it!
Sadly Garland is not going to do anything. He could’ve prosecuted Trump ten times over by now without any of the J6 stuff. He’s a Federalist Society MAGAT. Remember Orin Hatch recommended him.
I don't know enough about Merrick Garland to form a definite opinion about what he will, or will not do. It is obvious that he was a careful lawyer, and he was known to be an excellent judge. This past week Garland gave a press conference in which he was emphatic that the Justice Department is moving forward. It is obvious that Garland has been spurred on by the highly effective performance of the House's January 6 committee's investigation. Each week's televised disclosures seem to bring on a barrage of new evidence from people who know the facts and who, only now, are willing to step up and tell what they know. Well, better late than never. It is also obvious that DOJ has been somewhat embarrassed to have been caught 'behind the curve' in getting the January 6 insurrection narrative out to the public. That may change very quickly and out of the House committee has done the necessary spade work to identify specific individuals having critical knowledge of how President Trump's scheme to stay in office developed over time, who was involved, and what they actually did to advance the president's plan. What has been left to the Justice Department is to solidify the knowledge we gained over the past several weeks, specifically White House Legal Counsel Pat Pallone's testimony broadcast yesterday evening in which he indicated, without saying so directly, that President Trump was the only person in the White House who oppose taking action to quell the insurgency then ongoing at the Capitol. It was acknowledged that he, and only he, had the power to call off the mob attacking and ransacking the building. It was also disclosed that Trump spent those three hours telephoning Republican senators to get them to oppose the counting of the state-certified Electoral College ballots. As Rick Wilson pointed out in yesterday evening's Lincoln Project broadcast, the House committee has already vetted and recorded dozens of witnesses to the events that occurred at the White House throughout the day on January 6, and in doing a follow-up, what amounts to a military mopping-up operation, the Justice Department is in the position of compelling those who have so far refrained from coming forward to testify to now disclose under oath information that will fill in the gaps in the timeline and narrative. Those individuals will be faced not only with the prospect of incarceration if they refuse to testify, but also their stories will be checked against the previous testimonies of those who have come forward to testify voluntarily. Faced with an array of previously sworn statements, the opportunity to lie convincingly is greatly diminished. As the saying goes, this is not the hill that those individuals would willingly die on to protect Donald Trump. The information is already out there, and everybody knows it. I expect to see all of the remaining Trump stooges ratting out everyone they know.
'Indictment ready' is not proof beyond reasonable doubt. For that we already have circumstantial evidence that would support an adverse inference of guilt that is permissive by the trier of fact to make.Not the same as direct, irrefutable evidence. That's what the House committee is looking for. Pat Cipollone can testify to Trump's state of mind. Stay tuned.
I watched the whole thing on CNN. The committee have done a great job of putting all this together. If all this evidence and personal testimony had been available at the time of the second impeachment you wonder how any Republicans could have defended him. Yet, like any hypnotised followers of cult leaders many will defend him no matter what. It is those people we have to fear in the future.
He was planning on more than scaring Pence. The actual plan was to have the SS whack him. I don’t understand why everyone refuses to even broach the subject.
Trump’s aside that “Mike Pence let me down” is the tell that Trump really thought the insurrection would result in overturning the election results. Until now I viewed the entire episode as a political show of force, a maneuver to prove a point. Now it’s clear that the man is more than a dangerous bully. We’re talking out of touch with reality.
A portrait of a sadly depressed narcissistic career criminal. His own children have testified against him. His “confidants” are breaking away from his wind and releasing the behaviors of their once king of the universe. All a lie. A BIG FAT LIE! May he and ilk never rest in peace.
“They are pictures of a sad, depressed man.” I want to see the sad, depressed man photographed behind bars. That will be a day of celebration for the intelligent, and a wake-up to reality for the stupid and power-hungry.
Don’t forget a sickening white face from a lack of orange makeup.
My fantasy, too. But sadly, it’s only a fantasy.
One Senator who has escaped, IMHO, scrutiny is one Charles Grassley. One timeline is that he made a statement while the riot was going on that should Pence not be able to conduct the vote he , himself , would step in and as President Pro Tem preside over the Senate vote counting. Where did he get the idea Pence might not be present and able to do his duty. Why did he make this statement while the riot was going on?
We hear a lot about those seven GOP Reps in the House who were in on the scam. Might a few Senators also he culpable. Here is looking at you Ron Johnson, Tommy Tubberville and Chuck Grassley. Might some of the calls not on the President's log for that day be to one or more of these Senators?
The plot thickens?
What about the Senators who did not convict him in the Impeachment hearings that followed this?
They should be held accountable as well.
They should be removed from office.
I agree. Maybe this will be the series opener for Season Two in September?
I've been trying to figure out a possible timeline for the continuation of this series. The longer it continues, the more panicked those complicit Congresspersons might be feeling. The longer it continues, the more outraged the general public (those who are SANE) may become. The longer it continues without action from DOJ, the more voters might decide to take matters into their own hands. The longer it continues, fueled by additional attacks on freedom by the Stench Bench, the more likely angry citizens might be motivated to actually show up and VOTE in November. So, timing is everything. Focus on the Secret Service. Focus on the low hanging fruit. Focus on the mob boss and his enablers. But wait until November NINTH or thereafter to close with the finale - the big reveal - of those in Congress engaged in seditious criminal conspiracy. Take no action that would arouse that mob any further (than it stays aroused) to vote. But heap on the facts, the disgusting sewage that abounds on video and in testimony of Republicans. Then, after the midterms, start going after Congress by NAME. This is only my opinion, but I would prefer to keep those drunken sleeping dogs at bay until the election is over. Then kick them awake and take them out.
Stench Bench :) Nice. What a bizarre daze this all is. Who knew.
I miss Nixon, but then DeSantis is lurking in the Florida sunshine which is why a big part of me hopes Trump skates and gets to run in 2024 at the helm of his clown car of sycophantic costume party nutcases. He'd be a hard pill to swallow for most.
DeSantis is too seemingly palatable a poison, but certainly a vile and perhaps far more dangerous poison none the less.
DEFLATED and ENRAGED are the correct terminology for what Trump was experiencing after his plan didn’t work. A sociopath doesn’t have the same emotional range that normal people do. Usually a sociopath toggles between grandiose inflation and deflated inferiority, but when he is a loser he becomes deflated and enraged. That is how he has remained.
Yes. He was no doubt sucking his thumb while at the same time plotting revenge.
Those oligarch loans come due in early 2024. You bet he was sad and depressed that the coup didn't work. He's on the clock now, without the protection of the US Government or the ability to peddle influence as a vig-reduction methodology. Uh-oh.
Sad. Depressed. And you left out. DEMENTED
Arguably all photos of Trumpsky, excuse me, Vladonald Trumpsky, are photos of a "sad and depressed" individual, only the acting and posing by this dystopian cartoon character changes, transmogrifies before our eyes.
The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump --- edited by Bandy X. Lee, M.D., M. Div., features in its second edition thirty-seven psychiatrists and mental health experts "assessing a president," note the explicit discussion of the psychological professional's "duty to warn" overriding the concerns summarized in the so-called "Goldwater Rule."
No, they didn't have Trump as a patient, but on the other hand, they had available a veritable cornucopia of evidence from Trump himself, memoralized on video and in speeches and rallies, a feast of useful verbal behavior and some of the paralingustics, the message sent by "body language," vocal tones and dynamics , and available to an incomparable extent, because we are in the 21st century.
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250212863/thedangerouscaseofdonaldtrump
Dr. Justin Frank, a psychiatrist with over forty years in practice, mostly in NYC and D.C., stated that Trump exhibited some behaviors Dr. Frank had only previously seen inside secure facilities. I would append an exclamation point, but I think the readers on a blog like this can supply that emphasis immediately without it: that I as a longtime student of human psychology as a layperson, and not a professional psychologist, find this statement remarkable, without any further emphasis.
We are still not out of the woods with Trump and his cult, either, c'est incroyable!
Not even Dylan "was Dylan" without some access to altered states of consciousness, but without a core of ethos, it won't work.
Notice that Dylan can establish his own tonality/tone center, a real gift which "better singers" struggle to attain, also the morality of unstated back-stories and unreliable narrators interacting is powerful in many of his songs.
The first "English paper" I ever handed in and explained as best I could in middle school was about Dylan as a serious poet, so sue me!
Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=agdoeRpTfHg
I saw that video that he made the day after, and was utterly disgusted and repulsed.
Trump couldn't even bring himself to say 'peaceful' as in transition.
Just revolting.
And people adore him.
I hope Merrick Garland is watching and taping these hearings.
The charges would be not only dereliction of duty, but also treason.
Because that's what covers Donald Trump's 'inaction'.
Treason. Attempting to overthrow the legal vote for the Presidency.
And he's guilty of it beyond the shadow of a doubt.
Treason: punishable by death. That is the only true justice for t-Rump, but we all know that he will never be put to death as a traitor. Execution is for little people like Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who did infinitely less damage to this country than t-Rump has done and continues to do with every passing day he remains alive.
I think being sentenced to life in prison and spending it in a cell with T-Rex would be even better. T-Rump + T-Rex = a match made in heaven.
That clip was one of the most powerful of the entire series of hearings. Nearly all of what we've seen of Trump over the years has been performance. This wasn't. This was unvarnished, unscripted *him*.
WTF IS MERRICK GARLAND?????????
Hear, hear!
"Treason" is appropriate, but the law narrows treasonous acts down to those also that include coordination with "foreign" actors. Trump likely did this too, but I doubt his buddy Putin would testify against him.
I spent the three and a quarter hours following the January 6 committee presentation watching MSNBC with their take on the overall presentation. Truly formidable analysis, and with former Republicans Nicole Wallace and Stephanie Ruhle doing the commentary, their analysis was well worth watching.
The case against Trump isn't quite indictment-ready, but it's apparent that it's on the doorstep. Pat Cipollone all but admitted that Trump was the only one in the White House who resisted calling in the National Guard to clear the Capitol. Sitting Cipollone down in front of a federal grand jury and telling him that his privilege claims were bogus is most certainly now on Merrick Garland's To Do list. It's taken long enough, and going after the low hanging fruit is no longer an option. The clock is running down, and with it our collective patience. It's time that Due Process becomes 'do process', meaning that this isn't DOJ's first rodeo, and it's time to saddle up and move 'em out. Pat Cipollone had three hours of conversation with Trump and White House staff, and he can testify to what went on before, during, and after the riot at the Capitol. So now do it!
Sadly Garland is not going to do anything. He could’ve prosecuted Trump ten times over by now without any of the J6 stuff. He’s a Federalist Society MAGAT. Remember Orin Hatch recommended him.
I don't know enough about Merrick Garland to form a definite opinion about what he will, or will not do. It is obvious that he was a careful lawyer, and he was known to be an excellent judge. This past week Garland gave a press conference in which he was emphatic that the Justice Department is moving forward. It is obvious that Garland has been spurred on by the highly effective performance of the House's January 6 committee's investigation. Each week's televised disclosures seem to bring on a barrage of new evidence from people who know the facts and who, only now, are willing to step up and tell what they know. Well, better late than never. It is also obvious that DOJ has been somewhat embarrassed to have been caught 'behind the curve' in getting the January 6 insurrection narrative out to the public. That may change very quickly and out of the House committee has done the necessary spade work to identify specific individuals having critical knowledge of how President Trump's scheme to stay in office developed over time, who was involved, and what they actually did to advance the president's plan. What has been left to the Justice Department is to solidify the knowledge we gained over the past several weeks, specifically White House Legal Counsel Pat Pallone's testimony broadcast yesterday evening in which he indicated, without saying so directly, that President Trump was the only person in the White House who oppose taking action to quell the insurgency then ongoing at the Capitol. It was acknowledged that he, and only he, had the power to call off the mob attacking and ransacking the building. It was also disclosed that Trump spent those three hours telephoning Republican senators to get them to oppose the counting of the state-certified Electoral College ballots. As Rick Wilson pointed out in yesterday evening's Lincoln Project broadcast, the House committee has already vetted and recorded dozens of witnesses to the events that occurred at the White House throughout the day on January 6, and in doing a follow-up, what amounts to a military mopping-up operation, the Justice Department is in the position of compelling those who have so far refrained from coming forward to testify to now disclose under oath information that will fill in the gaps in the timeline and narrative. Those individuals will be faced not only with the prospect of incarceration if they refuse to testify, but also their stories will be checked against the previous testimonies of those who have come forward to testify voluntarily. Faced with an array of previously sworn statements, the opportunity to lie convincingly is greatly diminished. As the saying goes, this is not the hill that those individuals would willingly die on to protect Donald Trump. The information is already out there, and everybody knows it. I expect to see all of the remaining Trump stooges ratting out everyone they know.
The ten crimes in Mueller have been indictment ready for years, as well as the Daniels bribe. So I’m not buying that excuse.
'Indictment ready' is not proof beyond reasonable doubt. For that we already have circumstantial evidence that would support an adverse inference of guilt that is permissive by the trier of fact to make.Not the same as direct, irrefutable evidence. That's what the House committee is looking for. Pat Cipollone can testify to Trump's state of mind. Stay tuned.
I watched the whole thing on CNN. The committee have done a great job of putting all this together. If all this evidence and personal testimony had been available at the time of the second impeachment you wonder how any Republicans could have defended him. Yet, like any hypnotised followers of cult leaders many will defend him no matter what. It is those people we have to fear in the future.
They are pictures of a sadistic, depraved man.
He was planning on more than scaring Pence. The actual plan was to have the SS whack him. I don’t understand why everyone refuses to even broach the subject.
Ornato. Aha! Thanks for sharing that thought
After Pence refused to get in the car, picture the USSS quickly wrestling him in, whisking him off to … but. It. didn't. happen.
Good. There's no punishment that can rise to the level of violence he's done - and the shit he's taken - on America.
A sad, depressed and we hope indicted man….
Trump’s aside that “Mike Pence let me down” is the tell that Trump really thought the insurrection would result in overturning the election results. Until now I viewed the entire episode as a political show of force, a maneuver to prove a point. Now it’s clear that the man is more than a dangerous bully. We’re talking out of touch with reality.
That doesn’t matter. His actions do.
A portrait of a sadly depressed narcissistic career criminal. His own children have testified against him. His “confidants” are breaking away from his wind and releasing the behaviors of their once king of the universe. All a lie. A BIG FAT LIE! May he and ilk never rest in peace.
The President. A child. A sad, petulant child who can't/won't get his way. Sent upstairs to bed without his supper. How far we have fallen....
But an extremely dangerous child!
a hideous Sociopath