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I Don't Wanna Talk About Trump No More [1]

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Date: 2023-08-04

By David Glenn Cox

Free speech everybody! Free Speech! I can say whatever I want! You’re not the boss of me. I have free speech! “Gimme all your money or I’ll gut you like a fish.” Free Speech! “Go get me $2,000 from the bank, or you’ll never see your kids again, free speech.” Well, sure Mr. Trump has lots of advisers and if he chooses to listen to the crazier ones, that’s no crime. Fire everyone! The building is on fire! Ha, ha, free speech! Got you again! “Hey, hey, someone’s trying to steal your car,” Free speech.

Inside the Trump asylum, that strategy makes perfect sense. It’s a loser in court, but Trump already knows he will lose in court. He’s guilty, and that often makes for a difficult defense. I know it and you know it too, so he’s angling for preemptive victimhood. Tom Robinson never did stand no chance; the machine was never going to let him win no how. So, Trump doubles down on the bad people are out to get me because I’m so good routine. The court won’t buy it and you and I won’t buy it. But to the cultist, who write those checks and type those credit card numbers in, it makes perfect sense.

This world is full of crooks and thieves, and only Donald Trump is honest. That’s why they’re out to get him. I mean because he’s so honest. That’s why they say all those mean things about him all the time. He’s shaking up those bureaucrats in Washington down at the deep state. The government’s crooked, that’s why!

We’re going full Peter Pan and the lost boys on this one. Fantasy! Fun! Fundraising! It’s a partisan thing, who are you going to believe, Herod the great or orange Jesus? Why do you think they call it a cult? And what does a cult do when threatened? The leader always makes an impassioned little speech, “They’re coming for us children! The demons are loosed among us! Don’t let the temple fall children! Don’t let the Devil win. Go get into your jumpsuit and Adidas and meet me in the bedroom! The comet’s a coming!

Trump is going to play this pity party thing down to his last move. He’s building his own private Alamo and stands on the ramparts spitting in Santa Ana’s direction. It’s a suspension of reality as Trump called those people to Washington. He planned for their arrival and entertainment with a full agenda of incendiary speeches.

Trump told those people to march down to the Capitol and fight like hell. Of course, that doesn’t mean that Donald Trump is any way responsible. That’s just a random coincidence. Trump just happened to say it, right before they all did it.

Donald Trump is throwing his January 6th supporters under the bus. Those guys! What a bunch of schmucks those guys are. I might have hinted and or implied they ought to do something like that, but what a bunch of maroons those guys are! I can’t help it if stupid people don’t know what I’m talking about most of the time. You can’t blame me; I have free speech.

This is all a plot by Joe Biden and the Democrats trying to steal the 2024 election. Give the devil his due, that’s a clever and imaginative narrative. They put down a coup in 2020 which Trump fomented in order to steal the 2024 election. Not even a hint of contrition or remorse for the people who died. In other countries, in other times, coup plotters have ended up hanging from a lamppost in front of the Gulf station or worse. Instead, Trump rides the curl of the wave surfing our legal system.

At this point the hook is set, and Trump doesn’t need to say anything more. The media crush will do his work for him. Every time the media mentions Trump or the indictment, alarm bells go off inside the untended gardens of their minds like a joy buzzer.

A Fox News host asked with that famous confused Tucker Carlson constipated squint. “How does Jack Smith know Trump didn’t know the election wasn’t stolen? He can’t know what Trump was thinking? Um, because a number of witnesses have already testified that they told Trump he lost. They showed him the paperwork and the charts and graphs and explained there were no signs of election fraud anywhere at all. He just lost period, and he knew it. And so, Trump fomented a plot to try to stay in office. Even Trump’s alibi points to his guilt.

Trump will play nice and do the rope a dope dance, waiting for the day he can appeal to the Subprime court. (The last refuge of a scoundrel) He will want his lackeys on the Subprime Court to vacate his convictions and make Trump a martyr, edging towards sainthood.

Then on a wave of public indignation, Trump will be swept back into the White House. I told you, a suspension of reality. The trump circle is already shrinking.

As emotional fatigue is bound to set in. The Trump crowds were smaller this time and will be smaller still next time. As Trump shuttles between court dates, who could keep it up? This is the Wrastling and hard liquor crowd. No, no three on a toothbrush is bad luck. They’ve watched others go to prison and don’t quite feel that same patriotic zeal so much anymore. Don’t put a bunch of curves in there or you’re gonna lose em. (Think round track) This is all a bunch of that bookie stuff with em law guys a jawing back en forth, till my ears hurt. Bud Light? Hell no!

They won’t wake with a jarring alarm clock sound. Some won’t ever awake at all. Most will wake slowly and wearily, one by one, as they grow tired of hearing Donald Trump was in court again today. They won’t announce their discovery. “Good god almighty, We’ve all been fooled!” They will quietly sneak away from the sacred circle, and one by one and pretend not to care. “I don’t want to talk about Trump no more!”

This is short attention span theater and Trump is the dream weaver. Already, the rumor is circulating among the illiterate circles that prosecutors are going to seek the death penalty in Trump’s case. (Aw, you’re just trying to cheer me up.) Fantasy! Fun! Fundraising! High theater and low drama. The ride of the Valkyries and Chuck Conners starring in “Branded.” That one brave man scorned and persecuted by the world for crimes he didn’t ever commit.

“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.” ― Günter Grass

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