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The Only Issue [1]

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Date: 2023-08-19

By David Glenn Cox

So our Proud Boy Chris Worrell does the old disappearing act one day before sentencing. That made me laugh, because I’ve been telling these guys to run for it for more than a year now. But Chris sat right through that expensive trial and paid his attorney and was going to end up at the same place in life, facing sentencing anyway. Now, after he’s spent all that money he runs away. He could have run away a year ago and saved all that money.

But it is symbolic to say the least, that the first conspirator would break and run for it. We’ve reached a new echelon of conspirators. From the just plain Joes slightly off their rockers to attorneys and politicians looking for a quick advantage. And now the blow back. As Republicans find themselves caught in the blowback. Many of the phony electors were also state Republican Party functionaries, who now find themselves in the Federal crosshairs.

Nothing dampens the spirit of hobby quite like a Federal Indictment. It’s doubtful, if any of the party functionaries will continue working for the Party after this. If they are lucky enough to escape this latest adventure. Now when it’s too late to run, with no time left to hide and fade away into the woodwork and take the air. Living under an assumed name maybe in Thailand or Guatemala.

Unfortunately, for this new professional echelon, ignorance of the law is no excuse. Telling the court, they didn’t know it was illegal or were misled about the intentions is no defense at all. No different than saying you didn’t know the car was stolen or you didn’t know they were going to hold up the liquor store. Lots of people in prison were misled or badly used by someone else. But when you wear a suit and tie and belong to a Country Club there is a shock and horror connected with the reality of really going to jail.

Our boy Chris was looking at fourteen years. Exit 2038, when Chris would have had a good head start on his golden years. How much extra time will they give Chris for running away, I wonder? The cops aren’t always good at quick, but they got long, down cold. They’re still looking for D.B. Cooper, aren’t they? That’s what slovenly lazy criminals deserve and get. If you’re too dumb to run, I have little sympathy for them.

Other Proud Boys associated with Chris are looking at 33- and 30-years hard time respectively. What must they think of Chris about now? They’re going to steel bar jail. And Chris is still free and on the run and only looking at half the jail time. Could they be thinking, “I should have done that first. But it’s too late …now.”

One of the problems with our justice system’s slowness is some think, they aren’t coming at all. But by the time you get the target letter…it’s too late. Too late to sell their assets and take a powder and just not show up for work one Monday.

First, they rounded up the Proud Boys and street thugs, Gomer’s, and the wannabes. Now, the attorneys, Party chairman and fake electors face indictment, trial and potentially prison. At the very least professionally ruined and most likely, financially ruined as well. Too arrogant to believe the law would ever come after them. “ You can’t arrest me. Don’t you know who I am?”

But, like the TV commercial says but wait! There’s more! The flood waters are rising and after they finish with the attorneys and party functionaries. Then come the politicians. Mark Meadows is going to have to tap dance his ass off like Fred Astaire in high heels to keep from breaking rocks in the hot sun. “I was only the Chief of Staff, simply following orders.” Who thinks that approach is going to work?

Meanwhile, Bill Barr goes on TV to bury Trump and his conspirators. Barr actually looks happy,like he’s enjoying himself firing broadsides at Trump. Barr was always so dower and somber and now he’s smiling and cracking jokes. “You know what else he did one time? You won’t believe this!” Something tells me old scores are being settled in the soap opera. “Why, if I ever get the chance to burn that guy!”

Chris Christie has been a Trump Co-conspirator since they fleeced Atlantic City and New Jersey together. Building doomed to fail casinos in a “Revitalization program” largely financed with state bond money. Christie burns Trump calling him a liar. Saying it in front of folks and everything. Is Christie, a lost angel who suddenly found Jesus? And the power Jesus compels him to tell the truth to the wicked about Donald Trump. Or is it simply a case of stick him before he sticks me? He’s got his back turned; Now jump him!

Somebody has got to be the first to say it. Chris Christie has known Donald Trump longer than any of them. And Christie says, “Trump is a liar!” That’s throwing down a gauntlet commanding the defense of the true gospel of Trump. And the unspoken issue threatening to liquify under their feet. The issue and millstone of Donald Trump. As the verdicts come, guilty, guilty, Federal fugitive. Butcher, Baker & Candlestick maker

Mark Meadows wants his case moved to Federal court. Because his crimes involved his Federal duties of employment. But nowhere in his job description does it say. “The employee may be asked to participate in a Coup d’état or violent insurrection periodically.” Meadows knows he is so guilty and so caught. He wants his case moved to Federal court and maybe the next Republican President would pardon him maybe. The prosecutors have the emails and the tweets. These guys wrote stuff down thinking no one else will ever read them.

Rising even to Include the wife of a Conservative Justice of the extreme court. The former President and his chief of staff. The inner circle of the organization, attorneys and the state and local party officials all caught in the same web. Each conviction will fall like rain upon Trump and the Republican Party.

The only issue now is what to do about Trump? When to pull the plug. When to turn off the open sign and lock the office door and cut the old boy loose. Only doom lives here now.

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible) but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli

When running away is a possible solution to the question at hand. It’s always best applied sooner rather than later. Better a fleeing Federal fugitive than a convicted felon on the run.

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