They say adversity builds character. If we know anything at all about our recently indicted ex-“President,” the criminal, likely traitor, and sexual predator Donald Trump, it is that he has never faced a day of adversity in his entire whiny, pampered little life. The end result is that the Trumpster has exactly two arrows in his quiver: whiny tantrums and bullying.

The bullying he does with lawyers. That guy, using money his grandpa amassed, reportedly running a brothel in the Klondike during that gold rush, can array an army of lawyers against any and all comers. (Okay, almost all.) 45’s main trick in court is to, well, never get to court. He stalls. He obfuscates. He has his team file motions that must be sorted out – and every one of them takes time. He can drag out a case as long as anyone on Earth and, over the course of his nearly 77 years, has become quite skilled at it. It doesn’t really matter if the case you have against him is valid or not, he’ll wait you out. He can field his legal army for months, years, even.

Mostly, though, he has likely managed to get through life with whining and tantrums. I had a cat, once, that liked to be stroked for a few minutes but then would reach the end of his tolerance and let out a kind of guttural growl. If you stopped petting, all would be well. If you didn’t? Well, he’d give you a little nip or a swipe of his paw, claws engaged. I think Former Guy does the same. He starts off in full-on whiny mode. If people back down and give him his way, he quiets down. If not, he gets louder…and louder…and louder. He’s learned over the course of his life that tantrums are successful if you just hold them long enough. Eventually, people will give in just to shut him up.

Until now.

It turns out, one can not “out-army” the Federal government. If you bring 12 lawyers, the government brings 12 as well. Throw on 12 more? Okay, the government has 12 more – and the government’s lawyers are FAR better than yours. Trump has every right to his judicial process and I wouldn’t change that for the world – but the government has the ability to move these cases along for various reasons. I know, it has felt like forever since this all started but Jack Smith was only appointed Special Prosecutor in November of 2022. The Trump indictment was handed down in June, 2023. That’s pretty quick for the prosecution of a former (terrible) President. Trump has done his delay/obfuscation dance, of course, but…have you seen those pictures of the boxes piled all over Mar-A-Loco? I’m not sure how he could have made the prosecutors job any easier – and that was AFTER he was trying to hide them!

I hate to digress (you know I don’t) but I realized yesterday, looking at those damning photos, that his obsequious zealots were seeing the same photos at the same time. The difference? The captions under the photos THEY were seeing said something like, “the boxes the FBI staged just to make our precious look bad because of…reasons…” Mark my words, by this morning, every MAGA con will KNOW they weren’t looking at “evidence of a crime,” they were looking at a frame job. Sure, it will take some amazing mental gymnastics and some quality misleading by their outrage media but the MAGA cons WANT to believe – so all one need do is give them something to cling to and, by the gods, they’ll cling.

Anyway, Trump has also trotted out arrow number one: the whiny tantrum. He started small, his little warning growl. Didn’t work. He got louder. Ho-hum. He got even louder. Still, they persisted. Now he has advanced to FULL-ON CAPS LOCK RANTS OF RAMBLING NONSENSE AND FAUX OUTRAGE WITH NO PUNCTUATION AND MISSSPELLINGS AND BLAMING AND WHINING AND WHATABOUTISMS AND FINGER POINTING WITH NO EVIDENCE AND WOE WOE WOE IS POOR PICKED ON ME THAT OFTEN MAKE NO SENSE WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!! Oh, yeah, and…WITCH HUNT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Frankly? He’s looking a bit unhinged, to me. He has tried every tool in his toolbox – crying, whining, shouting, and deploying his bully lawyers – and none of it has worked. He’s looking far less like the strong, resolute leader he’s never been and far more like a quivering mass of fury and fear. What passes for his “mind” simply cannot conceive that none of his previously successful strategies have worked to stop the prosecution.

Turns out? Trump isn’t the first whiny baby the government has ever dealt with. Turns out, the government doesn’t care how much you whine or how loud your tantrum gets. They don’t care how many lawyers you bring. They don’t care how long it takes. They care about evidence. They care about what they can and can not prove in court. They care about the process. So bring your lawyers and SCREAM YOUR SCREAMS but if you can’t make your case in a court of law, you’re going to face some consequences. And it’s about time!