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The Jig is Up! [1]
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Date: 2023-08-02
By David Glenn Cox
For all the world it reminds me of the film “12 Angry Men.” The original film with Henry Fonda and not the remake. Drip by drip, as the evidence begins to be examined. One by one, the jurors begin to change their minds and their votes. Would be stooge, Mike Pence responds to Donald Trump’s most recent indictment with “Our constitution is more important than any one man’s career,”
“Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” – Mike Pence
Et tu Mike? First, Chris Christie, then Will Hurd and now Mike Pence have come out of the Republican closet to condemn Donald Trump. Can the others be far behind? According to the indictment, Trump was trying to sway Pence to throw the election by cajoling and browbeating Pence saying, “You’re too honest!” Ouch! Yeah, they’ll throw you out of the Republican Party for that infraction in a heartbeat. Ask Liz Cheney or Adam Kinzinger about it.
But this indictment isn’t just a hamburger, this is a full Happy Meal. Thinly veiled co-conspirators Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, Jeffery Clark, and Wisconsin’s John Cheeseboro. And the whole gashouse gang! “Those were the days my friends. We thought they’d never end. We’d sing and dance forever and a day. We’d live the life we choose; we’d fight and never lose. For we were young and sure to have our way.”
Special guest appearance by Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson, reprising the John Banner role from Hogan’s Heroes. As the loveable Sargent Shultz, “I know nothing! I wasn’t involved! Phony electors, what’s that? Who is this Trump fellow you keep mentioning?”
I think my favorite part is when co-conspirator number one “America’s Criminal Mayor” and unofficial Jack Daniels spokesman. Tries to get Ted Cruz to go along by telling Cruz it’s only a minor Federal crime. Nothing too big or dangerous, just a small felony like sedition.
Trump squeaks back “witch hunt! “ I love the witty repartee, don’t you? For the Oppenheimer fans this is the part where they just dropped the bomb. See how the scales beginning to shift? For the Fox News Fans this important news update. Gilgo Beach murder suspect appears in court and Cardi B’s microphone to be auctioned off for charity. The biggest news story since the murder of JFK and Fox News says, “Who? Hmmm, what?”
This tears it; this takes the rag off the bush. Which side are you on son, which side are you on? Republicans find themselves in quite a pickle. Donald Trump and his cadre are in big, big trouble and the hour of decision has come. Stay with the confederates and take your chances or break with the angry mob and declare your full ignorance of the plot!
Like a deer in the headlights many Republican hopefuls are stunned into silence. Unsure of what to say as the mob still hosannas to their orange savior. But knowing the legal future is dark and murky. Careers will die here. They might want and are willing to plunge their knives into the corpse of the orange Caesar, but they’re not quite sure, if it’s time just yet.
The sound you may hear is the sound of the Republican Party being torn asunder. The legal news is bad and is looking worse. How do they get in front of the issue when both paths are fraught with danger? Stick with the orange apocalypse and hope the news gets no worse or break with Trump and face the angry unwashed mob?
If, Trump can beat the charges in the stolen documents case. And, if Trump can beat all the charges in the Georgia election case. And, if Trump can beat all the charges in the Jack Smith indictment? Fuck it, that ain’t going to happen. Like the sinking of the Bismarck, Trump is overwhelmed and in flames. Trump’s only chance in the most recent Jack Smith indictment is to take the stand and testify himself. A thought that keeps Trump’s legal team downing valiums like pez.
The indictment lays out a clear and compelling case and the worms are beginning to turn on Trump. You knew they would someday. “Thanks’ Mike!” Donald who? I was out of town; I never got that email. Plus, the co-conspirators are also looking at jail time as well, and the time to turn state’s evidence is right about now! “He made me do it! He told me it would work! He called me mean names!”
It leaves the Republican Party in the soup. The cult won’t break any differently than they did at Jonestown. Where do you keep the Kool aid? But the Party intelligencia and semi-literate know supporting Trump at this point is like sticking your head in the ceiling fan. See if you can get Vegas to give you odds on Trump walking? Forget about it!
Imagine working at Fox News and knowing, Pulitzers are going to be flying around like pigeons in the park. And real fine careers are going to be made over this issue. Complete with sailing boats and houses in the Hampton’s and you have to write about the Mets or Cardi B. Forced to practice your violin while the Woodward and Bernstein kids are out in the street playing football.
This is history, so write down your thoughts so you can tell your Grandkids. What you were thinking when they ask, “We have to do a report on Donald Trump, do you remember him?” And no one deserves to be kicked in the ass by history harder or more often than Donald J. Trump.
The only reprieve is Trump is out of office, but his accused crimes are so much darker. Richard Nixon smoked Marlboros and spit on the sidewalk. You couldn’t sell this story as fiction; they’d call it absurdist. Political thrillers are supposed to be clever, not ham handed.
Their plan was pretty obvious, a Bum’s Rush. Throw a monkey wrench into the gears, and try to pull a fast one before anyone suspected what was going on. But it was a Hail Mary pass and Mike Pence refused to be the receiver, which doomed the plotters.
It happens in all coup plots. The moment of truth, where the issue hangs undecided in the balance. If the plot succeeds you win, and all is well. But if the coup falls the other way, bad times are coming to breakfast. This is the moment and the official announcement. It’s official now, the jig is up!
“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” ― Mark Twain
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