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Just in the Way Now [1]
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Date: 2023-08-08
By David Glenn Cox
Maybe we’ve been looking at this all wrong. At least, maybe I’ve been looking at this all wrong. Guess who is taking up all the oxygen in the room again? Guess who is the center of attention again? I’ve said it before, if I had just half of Donald Trump’s legal issues, I’d be a nervous wreck. I was divorced once and couldn’t go near a courthouse without breaking into a cold sweat for several years. “No, no! Fire bad!”
Trump is scheduled out on the court docket until the end of May…of next year. That’s not the end of it, though. That is only how far in advance they will schedule the hearings and trials. Like a Major League Baseball schedule, it just goes on and on forever. Playing road games in Atlanta or Washington, interspersed with masturbatertory rallies, fundraisers, interviews, and press conferences.
You’ve gotta admit it. The old boy stays pretty busy and gets around good for a 77-year-old fat man. Living on a bad diet of fast food and soft drinks.
I know that if I had Trump money at 77 years old, I’d be long gone. Those summers will never come again where the pretty girl smiles as your eyes meet along the boardwalk. The fall is here now and from there comes the cold, cold winter. His legal issues lift Trump up and keep him going. There’s no such thing for a narcissist as bad attention. Perhaps we have discovered the source of the monster’s strength. He feeds off it. “I’m ready for my close up now, Mr. Deville.”
Maybe if we’d pay him no attention. Like Puff the Magic Dragon, his scales would soon fall off and he’d die of loneliness in a cave someplace. Then the spell would be lifted from us, and we’d have few memories of what all the fuss was about. Like Kennedy and Khrushchev, ancient history that seemed important at the time. And we could move on into broad sunlit uplands and the light of the world could move forward.
He’s getting off on this! I bet he sits in his bathrobe after his shower and watches video highlights of himself like porn on the networks. “I’m still big! Look, how the camera still loves me! Look at all the fan mail I get. Look at the money totals! They’d sell their children and give me the shirt off their wretched little backs!”
Trump was said to be angry the other day, because the judge referred to him a Mr. Trump, instead of his preferred appellation of Mr. God President. How dare he not respect my royal title and the authority of my diadem. Our own little Nero on froggy bottom. A weird sick twisted cosmic tale of a weird sick twisted little man put in charge by fate of a large Real Estate fortune, and this is what it all comes down to in the end. Rosebud.
Living in a creepy old Xanadu mansion at the end of the road with an aging trophy wife and a Boo Radley reputation. Notorious and wounded, dragged down by the stone. Falling in a parabolic arc as time wounds all heels.
Reich’s Fuhrer Ronnie smells an opening and attacks. “Hell yeah, he lost the election! I mean yeah, damn straight he did. I knew it all along!” Maybe this will work for Ronnie as nothing else has. Forty percent of Republicans prefer Trump, which conversely means forty percent strongly dislike Ron DeSantis. That it seems makes for narrow election math.
But the Republicans smell blood in the water and are willing now to stand and call the emperor out on his wardrobe selections. I say, hate the sin, love the sinner. The chorus of squeaking mice now say Trump lost the election, but are unwilling to admit that Trump has done anything wrong.
Why Donald was just confused and perplexed, and genuinely believed he had won the election. Don’t unpack, as they won’t be staying long this only a temporary location.
You can’t be a little guilty or a little pregnant. This path leads to the eventual Golgotha destination and admission of guilt. Washing their own hands prior to the crucifixion as they gamble for the old man’s clothes. It is the first and most obvious sign the Republican Party is considering the big brush off.
The Republicans may or will be able to turn on Trump, as his legal woes become more determinable. After the trials come the endless appeals, and then even more and more appeals and motions.
See now who is then pushed from the public spotlight. See, the interminable headlines, “New Trump Charges” or “Trump in Court Today” in the headlines forever and ever and a day. Sucking up all the air in the room and leaving none for the others. Making it harder and harder for the others to breathe. “There ain’t enough room in this town for all of us, now you git!
Because with Trump there is no Republican Party. Without Trump there is only a slight chance for new growth. “The old ones die off and younger little fellers comes along and takes they places.” You have sat here too long for any good you might do. Depart I say, in the name of God, go!
Will Hurd says Trump’s running to stay out of prison. That’s true and correct, but barely scratches the surface of its true meaning. Trump is running because without his campaign, he’s a lonely old man isolated from the world living the private hell of his own Xanadu. Running on impulse and shooting angrily from the hip. Now his speeches are expletive filled. A further sign the walls are closing in. As the bully gets angrier and angrier, but still can’t do without his Hollywood heroin.
A Republican zombie narcissist pillaging the countryside poisoning the Republican wells of the future. The old guy can’t win an election and now is becoming unstable. He is becoming an impediment to our own future progress. You know what that means, don’t you?
He’s just in the way now and moving only for his own purposes. Leave the (metaphoric) gun and take the (metaphoric) cannoli’s . And when you have exhausted all your strength, new enemies will rise up to oppose you from the shadows.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.” ― William Shakespeare
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