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Or Lose Our Ventures [1]

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Date: 2025-02-18

By David Glenn Cox

Can you believe it? It is astounding even for this King. If you proposed a wager down in old Vegas Town. They would not take your money. I have one silver dollar here which says, the King will screw the pooch and sow the seeds of his own destruction within the first thirty days of his Administration.

A man with two impeachments under his belt really should have known better. Famous New York criminal and city mayor Eric Adams will hobble and haunt the King like indigestion or athlete’s foot. Like Marley’s ghost the King drags the chains of his own sins and imperfections behind him. The King assumes with the Justice Department in his back pocket no harm can reach him. But Adams has to go back down town and smile like nothings going on when everyone is well aware of what is going on.

“What’s everybody looking at me for? I didn’t just sell my soul to the devil. Wanna hear me play the guitar?” But like a dog skunked there is just no living with him. Half of the city’s Deputy Mayors have already resigned in protest. Calls are pouring into the Governor to remove Adams from office. Oooh, but like the lady said, not so fast! As long as Adams remains in office the more the sore will fester and soon become infected and possibly turn gangrene.

An honest to God genuine existential political crisis. Courtesy of the one man in Washington who should have at this point have known better. Adams is a study in modern American political scandal. Smiling and declaring his innocence with a hundred microphones stuck in his face ignoring their questions only to declare his innocence again.

This is a two fer. Adams surrounds himself with clergy. Who pray for Adams and lay hands upon him and anoint him. Praying for and anointing Judas Iscariot who just sold them all down the river to save his own backside. Religion is the last refuge of a scoundrel, and the clergy is the main reason the churches are largely vacant. The churches aren’t for sale, but they are available to rent. So, the King finds a fire flaring up in his back forty with little ammunition available to stop it.

Can America’s first city have a flaming and raging corruption scandal involving the President of the United States and the King stay above the fray? It won’t go away unless Adams goes away. But Adams knows his best (only) chance at survival is to stay hunkered down inside the fortress of office. They can’t hardly touch him there but give up that protection and he’s a dead duck.

We have a quandary and a riddle. The King can’t get rid of Adams and the Adams scandal could eventually easily lead to yet a third impeachment. Adam’s can’t go away without abandoning all hope and running naked for obscurity. Adam’s case will be fought out in state court where the King’s powers are thinnest. It could have been a matter for the Federal court to take up. But oh, the irony, someone told the Justice Department to drop the Federal case.

Fifty states and hundreds of cities and the King had to pick New York City where the King has a long history. Where the national news media lives. Where Wall Street lives. The King has now pissed in the pool. If any city or state official had any thoughts of softening their stance or compromise on anything regarding the King. What will the voting public immediately think now?

But the King has an even larger problem of Shakespearean origin. And if the King doesn’t want to end up as a ghost working the midnight shift talking to Junior out on the battlement. The King had better pay close attention. For the King has no support system to protect him. Remember this is a Mafia King! A snake pit of jackals, buzzards and peoples of restless and relentless dark ambitions.

How long then looking at the calendar will it take for the powers behind the throne to realize this King is a lame duck. And the future is calling! If something isn’t done. They could face an election cycle without a viable replacement. With no one to replace this old duffer in the voter’s minds except for ole Shady Vance. And Vice President’s traditionally do poorly immediately following their term. Unless, sadly, they follow a suddenly departed King. Then, it becomes much easier.

The orange King is all alone and vulnerable. If the King had a hangnail and was put on life support, who among that nest of vipers would vote to keep the machines plugged in? His wife Malaria? Do you really think so? His adorable and loving children? The Cabinet or JD Vance? They’d all be out in the hall gambling for his clothes or going through his personal possessions. Selling his bed linens to a fence.

Let me put the hay down where the goats can get it and put the shoe on the other foot. Think like this is a mystery or a spy novel here, and tell me what they need the King for…now? They have the control they desired and now, what do you need with this old duck for? Maybe he’s chokes on a pretzel or falls off his ten speed. How can we silence the Eric Adams story. How can we bury it or him and still come out smelling like a rose?

The King said he was feeling poorly, and the White House physician was called who prescribed bed rest and a strong (extra strong) sedative for the 78 year old President. “The President is resting comfortably at Walter Reed Army Hospital and is expected to wake up sometime before Christmas.” Stop thinking like this is the good ole days! This is Mafia government. Where you are either a vehicle or an obstacle. Vehicles are ridden and obstacles are removed.

But oh gee, oh garsh, if something terrible were to happen to the King. The three toed Simians would vote in Boy Blunder in a sympathetic second. And the billionaire class would have their reset. Four more years with an option for four more after that. “What sir? You say your hamburger tastes funny. I’m sure it will be fine sir. Bon apatite, wash it down with this, sir!”

“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 , Julius Caesar

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