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Drunks and Idiots [1]
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Date: 2023-08-15
By David Glenn Cox
Boom! All over the road…in technicolor! This is the big one we’ve all been waiting for Oppenheimer. Boom! The Monday night massacre 19 suspects and the least important of those suspects is Donald John Trump. Racketeering, conspiracy and making false statements and forgery too! Can’t forget the forgery, can we?
This expands the battlefield making it harder for Trump to follow the bouncing ball. Who is talking to whom and who is being good, and who should really be watched carefully. I’ve always thought personally, that if I were ever to be charged with racketeering. That the name Rudolph Giuliani would not be associated with my charge.
Oh Rudy, he could convict you while trying to help you out. Who thinks Rudy won’t talk to save his own skin? Now Rudy is a professional full-timey criminal, so it sets him in a unique category. Rudy will RAT! I’d bet money on it. He’s Fredo; so, he’s in the family and must be tolerated. Just don’t ever give him anything important.
John Eastman was a top-drawer big-money attorney and Dean of a Law School. He’s a man used to being respected for his knowledge and position. This is a corporate big shot in Washington D.C. no less, attorney to the President. Now under indictment for racketeering! {This to inform you; your career is OFFICIALLY OVER!} From law school dean to under indictment for racketeering with a former President! How do you suppose that vision sits upon him?
He always wanted to be remembered in the law books and now he will be remembered. How will the big shot react? The bigger they are, the harder they fall, you know. He may be a cracker jack attorney, but how is he as a defendant facing hard time? “Will Grandpa be gone long?” A legal case like this could reduce a rich man to beggary or buggery. Spill your guts and hope for the best? Make a deal? I bet before he met Donald Trump the thought of going to prison never even crossed his mind. Never in his wildest dreams did he ever contemplate going to Federal prison himself?
Maybe that realization dawns on him slowly. “Say, wait a minute! I never had these problems in my life until I started working for Donald Trump! I’m probably going to prison!” That could be a motivator of speech possibly changing the discussion from years to months. Either he will talk or will do the whole defiant Nuremberg war criminal thing.
Mark Meadows too, it’s like Christmas. You wait all year for it and when it finally comes, you get what you really, really wanted. The question was already out there, Is Mark Meadows co-operating? All signs point to “No” or “Not enough” or “Too soon to tell.” But this one is gutless, because he knew in advance that if the plot failed, it would come down to this. And he knew his goose would be cooked as a central player. Meadows has every motivation to sing like a canary or drink drain cleaner.
Sidney Catherine Powell, starstruck in tinsel town. Going to be a big shot through her bluster and bullshit. Sidney Powell started running away from this many months ago. Refusing interviews and not wanting to talk about it anymore. She knows she gambled big time and bet the farm and lost. She got the ear of a frenzied maniac for a few days and sang him a sweet siren song he oh so wanted to hear. Few would ever have believed it, but for about a month or so, she was someone important.
When they publish a new dictionary under “Rogue’s Gallery” there will be a picture of this lot. The money-grubbing drunk by seven o’clock ex-mayor and con man. The uber smart big shot attorney suckered into a really a dumb plot by his own hubris. The nobody reaching for the stars who got the king’s ear. And Mark Meadows the original prototype used to construct Kevin McCarthy.
With a cast of thousands of extras named and unnamed all living in fear of being called next. Somebody or multiple somebodies will crack. That’s the point; it’s too big for Donald Trump to manipulate.
Facing 79 charges against him, the mob boss makes his last stand. “If you’re coming after me, I’m coming after you!” Telling witnesses not to testify on social media. Doing exactly what the judges told him not to do. Daring them and challenging them to do something about it. “Knock this chip off my shoulder; I double dog dare you!”
Step right up! Who wants to be the first Judge in US history to jail an ex-president? It’s fun! Tell your friends! Death threats! So, you can understand their hesitation to act. Nobody has ever done that before. Like a Chinese surveillance balloon, they don’t want to shoot him down over a populated area. They don’t want to start trouble with the orange rabble if they can help it. But when they got there the cupboard was bare, and so the poor Trump dog had none.
Trump is beginning to fail under the weight of his legal woes, and his supporters are wondering about Trump’s availability in the coming years. It’s all a big mess for them, and they begin to see Trump can’t or won’t win and they wonder. Maybe we don’t need all this grief and headaches? Maybe he is guilty? They won’t eat dirt in supplication; they will simply begin to fade away. They love Trump in public, but not enough to go downtown to the courthouse and get their name on a “No Fly” list.
I cannot help but to ponder the verdict of Donald Trump’s harshest judge and critic, his wife. What must those conversations be like? “I told you so, you idiot! Not to do it, but do you ever listen to me? No! How are you going to get us out of this one smart guy? I’m not leaving the country for you! Big smart man going to overthrow election!”
But Sugar lips, the election was stolen! “Shut up, I don’t want to hear any of your stolen election stories. Save them for the court, huh? What about me? Where will I get money while you’re in prison? I tried to tell you, but would you listen to your wife? No! You’d rather listen to drunks and idiots!”
“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.” ― Mark Twain
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