“But I don’t WANT to write about him again! He’s already everywhere.”
“He does seem to suck the oxygen out of the room.”
“He keeps taking all the ink at every press. I write about him all the time.”
“Well, he DID try to overthrow our country. It’s kind of a big deal.”
“Yeah, I know. I don’t mean ignore it. I’m just saying, there are other things going on.”
“Okay, so, if you could, what would you write about?”
Well, I’d mention that asshole Republican governor in Texas, Greg Abbott. Do you know he agreed to eliminate water breaks for people who work outdoors? Apparently, employees stopping to get water interferes with profits. Republicans are now out, officially, as preferring profits to human life. It gets pretty hot in Texas. Right now, the state is in the grips of Republican-sponsored, corporate-induced climate change so it’s even worse than normal. Abbott and his ilk spend their days in air-conditioned offices. Of course it was easy for them to decide it ain’t that hot outside. (Dear Texas maintenance workers, Abbott might change his mind if his A/C mysteriously stopped working for awhile. Ahem…)

Here’s a fact Floriduh students will never be told. On the sugar plantations, slaves were brought in to work the fields. It was common practice to simply work a man to death and then? Simply replace him. It’s hard to get one’s arms around that. Work a man to death and then…buy another slave – and work him to death. When I hear about a plan like Abbotts, I’m certain there are STILL men on this planet who don’t see the problem with the “sugar plantation strategy” and would readily repeat it if they could…

Or maybe I could mention how the Republicans constant and ill-advised posturing and bloviating about the debt ceiling has now brought about a downgrade in the credit rating of the United States of America. They’ll say it’s because the debt is so high but that’s not what did it. EVERY time Republicans decide to hold the debt ceiling hostage to their ideology (that is, when Democrats are in charge but never Republicans) they’re threatening the entire world with simply not paying our bills. These are the SAME guys who insist that student loan debt must be repaid in full because the borrowers knew what they were doing when they took the loan. (That didn’t stop them from accepting forgiveness for the PPP loans they took for themselves, of course…)

How about this? I should really highlight how the Republicans have taken to trying to eliminate child labor laws. That’s not hyperbole. They’re working on it in red states across the land. Put the kids back to work. They’ve had it too easy for far too long, I guess. Oh, and in Wisconsin, there are Republicans there who want to allow children as young as 14 years old to be able to serve alcohol. These guys are TERRIFIED some guy in a dress is going to read to a 5 year old about a hungry caterpillar but they’re okay with 14 year olds serving in bars? Why, because that’s a much more pure environment?

But, okay, I get it. He is the news these days. Hell, he tried to destroy the nation. That IS a big deal. We should have known, the moment – the very instant – cons started screaming about Dems stealing the election, Republicans were out to steal the election. Every accusation is a confession. It was mind boggling when it started. I had gotten quite comfortable with the peaceful transition of power. Then? One big, fat man-baby decided to throw a tantrum. “Mine! Mine! Mine! I can’t lose! I never lose! Even when I lose, I win. That’s the rule! They cheated! They rigged it. Waaaah! It wasn’t FAIR! Oh, poor, persecuted, picked-on me!”

People fought. People died. People went to jail and they’re still going. Our Constitutional Republic lies in the balance but the only thing important to him is him. How could anyone get away with that? Turns out? They can’t. It just takes awhile for the wheels of justice to roll around. I guess it even makes sense that it took so long considering he was once the President of the United States (sic). One had BETTER have one’s ducks lined up neatly if they’re going to charge an ex-President with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Fortunately, Jack Smith is an excellent duck-herd and his line is perfect.

Currently the greatest national embarrassment in the history of our once-great nation is facing, all in, something like 74 different charges – in 3 indictments, Floriduh, New York state, and Washington DC. Georgia has yet to drop but I think that’s coming this week.

It’s like watching a really good, engaging television show. You just want to binge watch straight through but we’ve got to wait for the next episode. I hope George R.R. Martin didn’t write it, or the target of the indictments will suddenly, magically become king. Short of that, though, I think his only hope is a pardon. Jack Smith has built a masterful case and it seems Fani Willis is doing the same.

Always-wrong cons are still in tantrum mode, of course. I get it. From everything I’ve seen and heard, they don’t seem to know what evidence is or how it works. (It’s much easier to get the answer one prefers if one simply makes up the process as they go along.) But he’s in trouble. He knows it. That’s why he has taken to issuing threats about all the violence and damage that he’ll call out if he’s brought to justice. (“If I can’t have it, nobody can!”) Sounds like a ‘Law and Order President’ to me.

I find myself wondering how many of his acolytes will actually fall out for violence for him after everything that has come before. It’s one thing to admit publicly, that maybe one put their faith into a false idol, it’s another to come out fighting because the idol has been shown to be false. Most of the worst of the crazies are still sitting in jail from January 6th so we don’t have to worry too much about them, but what about the rest? Truth be told, I’ve had trouble gauging the depth of stupidity that can be displayed so I can’t really say how bad it might get. I don’t care, though. We can’t apply laws according to who might throw how much of a tantrum.

I’ll tell you this: I’ll pay a slight increase in my taxes to help pay for a new prison to house them all if that’s where they want to take this but I hope they don’t. We KNOW that nearly everyone in trump’s world is going to jail and he’s happy to let them. I think the MAGA cons should repay the consideration and just…let him to go jail, too.

At least he’d be with them…