Ninety-one indictments means you have a date with karma
Not that it will stop stupid people from supporting you because they are, after all, too stupid to see the truth that you're a liar and a criminal
In Madeleine's face was a stupidity Mitchell had never seen before. It was the stupidity of all normal people. It was the stupidity of the fortunate and the beautiful, of everybody who got what they wanted in life and so remained unremarkable.
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
When I lived in Kosovo, I became so used to being followed by the Serbian (not-so) secret police that I no longer noticed the creeps after a while. I knew where they were and what they were doing, but it no longer mattered to me. I was only concerned about them when I was with my Albanian colleagues. The (not-so) secret police wouldn’t touch me. Of that, I was reasonably confident. But I was the only one carrying an American passport. My Albanian colleagues had no such protection, so I had to be cautious when we were out and about.
Still, I paid my minders no heed most of the time. I figured the worst they could do was arrest and deport me; none had the balls to do it. And so they left me alone and instead tried to look menacing. Sometimes, they flashed their holstered weapons at me. Sometimes, they carried Uzis. I didn’t give a f**k because I knew what they wouldn’t do, which was to waste their time and mine harassing me.
When I returned to the U.S., though, I realized what the stress of living with constant police surveillance had done to me. Sure, I tried to play it off in Kosovo as if I was rather cavalier, but upon my return, it took me the better part of three weeks to stop looking over my shoulder. I was used to being watched and monitored, and I thought I’d grown accustomed to it, but it turns out one never really adapts to it. Not completely. There’s always a price to be paid.
For the past eight years, America has lived with a collective cloud over its head. It was different than the problem I faced in Kosovo, but once The Former Guy (TFG) left the White House, many of us on the left felt a sense of relief combined with a sense of “Wait, it can’t really be over…can it?”
And then we began finding out just how awful and corrupt things had been for the four years TFG and his corrupt cronies had spent soiling the White House and turning every good thing about government to shit.
Now, after 91 indictments (and counting) later, we face the genuine possibility that, for the first time in this country’s history, a former President may be going to prison. Sadly, that’s a very good thing; hopefully, the human shit stain will die there.
And TFG is not dealing with the possibility well. He’s beginning to understand (at least at some level in his fever brain) that his prospects aren’t good. He won’t be able to run out the clock; he’ll end up in an orange prison jumpsuit, probably in a federal lockup.
That seems a virtual (and, for most of us, a blessed) certainty.
it seems that Trump has been pestering his lawyers about a topic that’s broken his brain:
Would he be sent to a “club fed” style prison — a place that’s relatively comfortable, as far as these things go — or a “bad” prison? Would he serve out a sentence in a plush home confinement? Would government officials try to strip him of his lifetime Secret Service protections? What would they make him wear, if his enemies actually did ever get him in a cell — an unprecedented set of consequences for a former leader of the free world.
ha ha. good. this soft, pampered slug — this privileged overgrown baby whose greatest worry up to now has been “am I getting the most ice cream?” — let this keep him up at night. let it rot what’s left of his brain.
just deserts, bro. just deserts.
If you believe in karma as I do, TFG should’ve been in prison 40 years ago. Somehow, though, he’s always been able to skate, whether through money, influence, or combinations of the above. Now, though, it seems he’s running out of rope. State and federal legal systems are finally catching up with him, and he can feel the walls closing in.
Lock him up….
Ah…don’tcha love the sound of desperation? TFG’s growing realization that he won’t be able to buy, bitch, or wheedle his way out of this dilemma? Yes, karma may finally have caught up- and is about to have its way- with him.
And, though TFG won’t be going to prison for this, I’d be willing to forego prison and see him go straight to Hell for his lack of compassion and kindness. Jesus, what a f*****g asshole.
imagine you’re a serverly wounded soldier. after five combat tours, sacrificing yourself for your country — you find yourself in a military hospital, minus one leg, your life permanently altered. you live though months of hell — bedridden, undergoing multiple operations and grueling physical therapy — and when finally you’re discharged, you’re confined to a wheelchair for the rest of your life.
and what does the President of the United States — your Commander in Chief — say about you?
“no one wants to see that, the wounded.”
fuck you, Donald Trump. you piece of shit.
of course, when this story surfaced, Little Donny Fuckface reacted in the most Little Donny Fuckface way possible: he logged onto his failing app and called for General Milley to be executed.
Yeah, a real class act….
Some have opined that Joe Biden shouldn’t run for re-election because they feel he’s too old. They don’t recognize how refreshing it is to have an adult in the White House again. Sure, Biden stutters (he was born with a stutter and has worked to overcome it); big deal. Yes, he can be a walking gaffe factory. Look at his opponent.
Covfefe, anyone? Cream or sugar??
By comparison, Joe Biden is the embodiment of sanity, sobriety, and maturity. I don’t care if he’ll be 82 on 1.20.25 or 206. The man’s smart enough to surround himself with good people, and he listens to their advice. He’s not arrogant enough to believe he knows more than everybody about everything.
If you look at what Joe Biden has accomplished thus far, it’s a pretty impressive laundry list. He has, as the kids say, gotten shit done. And isn’t that what matters?
The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical left, and devised an economic model to inspire social democratic parties the world over, including here in Britain.
Sadly for Biden, politics and government are different things: it takes more than a record of good governance to get reelected. For one thing, voters cast their ballots less as a verdict on the past than as an instruction (or hope) for the future. And the fear, shared by 76% of Americans, according to a poll this week, is that Biden, who would be 86 at the end of a second term, is simply too old to lead them there. Put aside the fact that his near certain opponent in November 2024, Donald Trump, is only three years younger. Trump has a presence and vigour, an ability to project himself, that Biden does not. And that simple fact affects – distorts – the entire way the Biden administration is seen. As one observer puts it, “the vibes are off”.
Let me address this question in another way, one that I think should put it all in a much more stark perspective:
Come 1.20.25, there’s a better than 50/50 chance that one of the two major-party candidates will be in prison.
It won’t be Joe Biden, so if you plan to vote for the guy who WILL be in prison, what does that say about your values?
I’ll answer that question for you: NOTHING GOOD.
Wearing a shirt festooned with countless images of Donald Trump, Leverne Martin was looking cheerful for a man who had set off from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, at 9pm and driven through the night, arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, at 5.30am. When did he intend to sleep?
“As soon as President Trump is back in the White House,” the 55-year-old handyman replied without missing a beat. “If we don’t get him back in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, where he belongs, we’re in a mess, man. That’s why I’m voting for President Trump. That’s why I drove nine hours.”
Talking about someone whose values are utterly beyond salvation, poor Mr. Martin appears to have the critical thinking skills of the Jesus statue cemented to his dashboard.
Sadly, there’s no minimum IQ or morality requirement to vote in this country. If there were, fully 90% of Trump supporters would have their voter registrations pulled for being clueless, amoral tools.
On a grey, rainy day, Martin was near the head of a long and winding queue outside a cavernous conference centre overlooking the Mississippi River. Like so many fans in so many towns and cities over nearly a decade, an overwhelmingly white crowd had come to cheer on Trump, elected US president in 2016, beaten by Joe Biden in 2020 and clear frontrunner for the Republican nomination in 2024.
What is striking about the traveling circus is not what has changed over that time but what has stayed the same. Hawkers still move up and down the line selling Trump calendars, keychains and other regalia with captions such as “Gun rights matter”, “Fight for Trump”, “Jesus is my savior, Trump is my president”, “No more bullshit”, “Trumpinator: I’ll be back” and “Fuck Biden and fuck you for voting for him”.
What? No “Fuck Your Feelings” T-shirts? No White folks wearing “Blacks for Trump” T-shirts? Weren’t those things once staples at virtually any Trump rally?
[W]hereas for millions of Democratic and independent voters Trump’s first term and its fiery denouement are his biggest liability, an essay in American carnage, for the true believers of the Maga movement they are his biggest asset.
Dawn Ruff, 55, who went to a Trump rally in Dubuque when he first ran for president, said: “I want the economy back to the way it was. I thought he did a good job when he was in there.”
The White House quotes figures showing that inflation is in decline and unemployment at a 50-year low. But Ruff responded: “Yeah, that’s their opinion. They’re not the ones that have to worry about going to the gas pump and pumping gas that’s almost five bucks a gallon. When Trump was in there it was a dollar something.”
Laci Doyle, 19, a student nurse who will vote for the first time next year, agreed that things were better under Trump. “Our country was at its highest point when he was president. We need to get back to what it used to be, because I think our country was a lot happier and less divided when he was president.”
Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his four-year presidency, according to a Washington Post count. But Doyle added: “Yeah, he says some stupid stuff – the tweets and everything – but that doesn’t bother me because ultimately he’s an honest, truthful person. I like his personality. I like that he’s a businessman.”
“So, yeah…I like that he lied to us for four years and is still lying to us. I like that he’s planning to take our freedoms away but isn’t telling us that. I like that he feeds our fantasies and faulty memories of his time in office.”
“‘Merica!! F**k, yeah!!”
These people are the worst…and I should know; I grew up around them. They know what they know, and no amount of facts, truth, reality, and/or logic will shift their cobwebbed, dysfunctional brains out of reverse.
I respect many things about the people I grew up around- but their aggressive, prideful, willful ignorance and refusal to face reality aren’t on that list. Sadly, they’re the reason this country is f****d. They can’t be bothered to see the truth because their televisions are turned to Fox News 24/7, and they swallow the propaganda they’re served without question or protest. They have the critical thinking skills of a ‘67 Chevy.
And, yes, in that respect, they’re the absolute worst America has to offer- ignorant, bigoted, closed-minded…and built to stay that way.
Wir sind SEHR gefickt.
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"a dollar something" ... fuckme, it was over $3.50, and has been since before Obama was in office. Obviously it is, still I ask HOW is it possible for living, breathing human beings to be this m0ther f#cking st00pid?
Barring a candidate from the that "moderate" party that's considering a campaign, if Trump is indeed the choice for the Republicans, Joe Biden will kick his sorry orange hued ass again, just like he did in 2020. Trump is a loser, full stop. His only faint hope is for that 3rd party candidate to run. Even if that happened, it still wouldn't guarantee a win for him, but it would increase his odds. But if that doesn't happen? Trump loses again, because he has reached his ceiling of those who would vote for him, and it's going come well short of the EC threshold.