Well, he continues to surprise. His desperation is becoming palpable. I just wrote – yesterday! – about how he looked rather…subdued after Indictment #3. But he’s like a wounded animal. His natural instinct is to lash out at anyone, everyone who won’t let him do whatever he wants. I suspect he’s beginning to feel the heat of the investigations, indictments, upcoming trials, pending convictions, and jail time. None of his time-tested tricks seem to be working, this time. So? Threats.

Wait, threats against a Federal Prosecutor? I thought he was supposed to be smart; the guy playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. This doesn’t seem to be that. He wrote on his stupid, failing social media site, “IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!” Oh, clever boy.

I won’t be surprised when MAGA world tries to pretend he meant that if you go after him, he’ll bring you lemonade. (These are not deep thinkers.) But any rational person, I think, would see the threat he intends. He doesn’t even try to hide it during his rallies, either. He’s pretty openly saying he’ll use the DOJ in exactly the way he accuses the DOJ of acting today. It will, in his hands, become a weapon of Presidential resentment…

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I don’t know how stupid a person has to be to think 45 is simply facing down a “free speech” issue but I think we’re all about to find out. That seems to be the defense he’s going after, “free speech.” It’s a weird defense, considering nobody is prosecuting him over speech. He’s being prosecuted for his actions. That’s different…

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Apparently, 45 was introduced to the judge, Tanya Chutkan, as “President Trump.” She then referred to him, correctly, only as “Mr. Trump.” Apparently, that irked him. He’s probably not going to like his reception in prison, either…

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The other day, I was challenged in social media about why Nancy Pelosi didn’t accept the National Guard support Trump had authorized. The question is fair enough. Kind of. There were something like 360 National Guard troops deployed in DC that day but they were unarmed, certainly NOT issued riot gear, and told not to interact with rioters except to defend themselves. Their role was to free up Metro police elsewhere so the Metro police could go to the Capitol.

When people in the Capitol DID start requesting National Guard help because the situation clearly overwhelmed the local cops, the requests went unanswered. Trump never did call out the Guard that day. In the end, the request to deploy to the Capitol came from Mike Pence. So why wasn’t there more security at the Capitol at the beginning of the day? It DOES seem a legitimate question. But it’s not. It’s a side-step. I can explain.

Apparently, there WAS some discussion about the need for greater security at the Capitol that day. The idea was shelved by Congressional leadership (yes, that would include Pelosi.) There was apparently a concern about “optics.” But as I looked into this, I was struck by a second, and I think a better, question: why did there NEED to be better protection at the Capitol that day in the first place? That is, why would the Americans inside the Capitol have any reason to fear the Americans outside the Capitol?

Maybe Pelosi made the mistake of thinking American citizens wouldn’t attack the US Capitol over a routine, likely mundane procedural event. Even after the attack started and the Congress critters had been shuffled off to their secure hidey-hole, Pelosi can be seen on video asking “Can you believe this?” I know I couldn’t.

The peaceful transfer of power in this once-great nation has been happening since 1797 when Washington peacefully handed the keys to John Adams. A perfect, uninterrupted string has followed – until Trump. The peaceful transfer of power had become so routine, I’m afraid we became complacent. Screaming, crying, rending of clothes, whining, sobbing, insisting it was stolen? All of that is perfectly acceptable. Obnoxious, but acceptable. Lawsuits and legal challenges? Absolutely. After EVERY election, there are some people left unhappy. But in America, we don’t use violence when we don’t get our way in an election. Was it really so foolish to actually believe that Americans would NEVER attack America?

But these aren’t Americans any more. They’re MAGAs.

MAGAs are radicalized and irrational. MAGAs are loyal to Trump, the Second Amendment, and the Republican Party, in that order, end of list. Do you see ‘America’ or ‘The US Constitution’ anywhere? No, me neither. And, truthfully, they’re only so-so on the Republican Party. After one strips away all of the distractions and issue-mongering, MAGAs want to destroy the American government. That’s not hyperbole. They prefer a different model, a confederacy, which, as a consequence of it’s structure, MUST dissolve into individual little countries before long. (Fun fact: America was originally founded as a confederacy! It lasted ten years. The Constitutional Republic Americans know and love today (and the one the MAGAs now want to destroy) was the solution that rescued the country when the confederacy began to fail. Had the MAGAs paid attention in school, they would know this…)

At this point, I can see them feigning shocked outrage. “How DARE you say I’M not an American!” Yeah. I’m neither impressed nor convinced. January 6th was just one day, one attack. But you guys attack this nation at every turn – every chance you get. If there’s nothing real to attack, you make crap up, call it the country, and attack away. When something real DOES threaten America? You rush to defend…the threat. Putin. The gun bloodbath. Kim Jung Un. Trump and January 6th. Whatever it is, if it’s harmful to America, you’ll find a MAGA out there defending it.

Humping the flag doesn’t prove you’re more American. You should know that the flag is nothing but a symbol – and you should know what it symbolizes. And you’all hate all of it. Go ahead, name one thing MAGAs love about the structure of America that isn’t window dressing.

I’ll tell you this: When you think it through, I suspect the answer to the question the MAGAs ask is as I suggested. Nancy Pelosi didn’t beef up security outside the Capitol on January 6th, 2021 because she could not believe she might actually be attacked by Americans at the United States Capitol. And now we all know. She wasn’t attacked by Americans. She was attacked by MAGAs…