Tuesday afternoon
Lying, criminal, sexual predator Donald Trump is a little upset. He saw a judge on Tuesday and the judge set his trial date for March 25, 2024. That, of course, is right in the middle of primary season. The judge told him to clear his schedule for the duration of the trial, which might last several weeks. Every step of the way, Former Guy has done everything he can to forestall these trials.

The general consensus is that he’s hoping to put the trials off long enough to be able to use his political campaign as an excuse. If he can get himself elected again, THEN people will leave him alone until he’s out of office. Since he never plans to leave office if the country is stupid enough to put him back there, he’d be free and clear. He sure is quite the schemer…

But the judge is getting a bit tired of the antics. For example, setting the trial date was only a part of the reason the judge ordered Trump’s presence, if only on a video screen. The judge felt a need to tell the sexual predator Trump he’s not allowed to use discovery information to attack or embarrass or identify any of the witnesses. They had to TELL him – and I’d bet it won’t be long until he does it anyway. I expect the judge has already considered his response when (not “if”) Trump does exactly what the judge told him not to do.

Former tried to pretend he was hearing about the March 25 trial date for the first time but his lawyer confirmed he already knew. Hell, his team worked with the judge to set the date in the first place. But the ever-deceived won’t know any of that. Trump will grunt, “Bad!” and they’ll grunt right along with him. So OF COURSE trump will use the campaign as an excuse to try to avoid responsibility. OF COURSE he will. But that’s not what I sat down to write about.

Sexual predator Donald Trump didn’t have anything to say to the judge but he DID get right to work on social media. The very moment he was no longer under the judges eyes, Trump said the judge had violated his First Amendment rights, claiming his freedom of speech had been violated. He didn’t say how. I’d guess EVERY defendant really HATES getting a trial date. I’m not sure one could make a case that getting a trial date to stand trial for the wrongs you’ve done qualifies as violating one’s First Amendment rights – but you can bet the dumbass “Team Trumpery” will try.

The predator ALSO called it “election interference” and said that nothing like this has ever happened in this country before. THAT part is likely true. We’ve never been faced with a lying, criminal, sexual predator ex-president trying to weasel out of crimes he’s committed before. I guess the Republicans have standards they’ve got to lower and standards absolutely DO NOT get any lower than Donald J. Trump…

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Tuesday Morning:
That particular bit of crazy from the crazy-meister came during his hearing with the Judge but before any of that happened, Former Guy got another little surprise. The day after he was found responsible for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, Captain Crazy went out and immediately started defaming her again. So, she filed another defamation suit, this one in the amount of $10 million dollars.

Now, to be clear, when the “punishments” are only financial, Former doesn’t care. It doesn’t affect him. His obsequious acolytes will pay ANY amount, at any time. They’ll happily eat cat food for the rest of the month so they can send the stable(ish), genius (not), millionaire (maybe) as much of their Social Security check as they can. 45 never pays these fines. So tell me again, why might he care about fines?

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Wednesday Evening:
Ron DuhSantis FINALLY, officially threw his hat into the ring for the race for the White House. He decided he wanted to do it with technology and thought announcing on Twitter would be a clever idea after watching Elon Musk’s masterful handling (so far) of Twitter. It might have been a clever idea but, hey, it’s Elon Musk using Twitter. The thing kept crashing. Do you believe in omens?

DuhSantis has been working feverishly to prove to the world he hates women, he hates freedom of thought and he effing HATES Mickey Mouse – so of COURSE you should vote for him for President. Listen, he DID manage to run off a $1 BILLION dollar business development in Florida and dispense with the possibility of up to 2,000 jobs for Floridians, too, so we all have a great idea regarding his business acumen.

DuhSantis is NOT the Trump-killer. I didn’t think it was possible to be dumber than a trump but DuhSantis seems to be making his case. The cons don’t care about stupid, though. Hell, they admire it. The reason DuhSantis isn’t going to win is FAR more superficial: he’s short. I know, that sounds unkind but it’s a weird fact of America that Americans tend to vote for the taller person. It’s not an axiom, just a tendency. But it’s a dependable tendency and 45 is taller than DuhSantis by several inches…

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Thursday Morning:
The founder of the traitorous, radical hate group ‘Oath Keepers,’ a real piece of…um…work named Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy regarding his part in lying, criminal, sexual predator Donald Trump’s attempted coup. It seems like it took forever to get to the meat and potatoes of this whole thing but officials are finally getting to the ringleaders.

It was a bit frustrating watching as one attacker after another got, like, 18 months with lower charges than many people hoped for. (Trespassing?!?) Hell, the so called “Q-anonsense Shaman”, the guy with the buffalo hat and the spear? He’s already out! He got some considerations for good behavior. Stewart Rhodes will get the same considerations but with a starting sentence of 18 years, he’s likely gone for a long time to come.

The courts have started issuing harsher sentences as the trials have focused on the “masterminds” behind the assault. That feels more like justice. It’s my understanding ‘seditious conspiracy’ doesn’t come up very often in courts but with Rhodes going down for it, the portent for the Former Guy is looking worse and worse. If Rhodes got 18 years for his leadership role in the Trump insurrection, how much time do they give the insurrection’s namesake?

Actually, it won’t be that long. 45 has a few years under his belt (he’s old) and the prison system isn’t really equipped for geriatric care so they tend to release older inmates. But it DOES make prison for Donald Trump look a little more like a possibility…

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Friday evening:
Jessica Watkins was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for her role in the insurrection with the Oath Keepers, as well. She was not convicted of seditious conspiracy but she’s going away for awhile. She’s transgender. She tried using her identity confusion as an excuse. The judge sympathized, then issued the sentence. Buh-bye. Don’t let the door hit you…

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I’ll tell you this: It’s been a rough week for the cons. It turns out, one can only out-run truth, facts, and reality for so long – then they catch up and BOY do they bite you in the ass. A bad week for conservatives, though, is a good week for America so…fingers crossed…