Donny gets to testify today! He must be so excited. He finally gets his chance to set the deep state, conspiratorial prosecutors straight. All he has to do is step onto that witness stand, swear to tell the truth, and then bring it – all the evidence and proof of innocence he’s been swearing he has. And he must. ALL of his supporters know he didn’t do anything wrong because he told them he didn’t. That’s all they need. The rest of us agree with the evidence that says otherwise so today is Donny’s opportunity to set us all straight.

I expect dissembling. (That means hiding one’s true self behind a false appearance.) That’s him all over. Putting Trump on a witness stand is one of the most dangerous things (for him) I’ve seen in a long time. I can’t remember having heard of Donald J. Trump speaking the truth even one time – ever. How the heck does he do so on the stand today? If he speaks to avoid perjury, his base might (probably won’t, but might) hear him confess truths they don’t like. If he speaks to support his whiny, poor-me campaign position (a more likely outcome), he’ll be facing new perjury charges.

If he IS the idiot the evidence suggests he is? He’ll do what he did in his deposition and explain how using his gut to value property is “just the way it’s done” and that he has “always done it that way.” Of course, valuing property with his gut feeling is exactly what the case is about so I think he’d better start moving his stuff out of Trumpless Tower right away…

MAGA won’t watch. They’ll stick their heads in the ground and pretend all is well and work to reaffirm their pretended belief that Donny is an innocent victim. They’ll be shouting about some new, imagined “outrage” committed by some Democrat someplace in an effort to distract but they won’t distract me. I’ve been waiting for this moment FAR too long to look away now. I’m looking forward to it as much as MAGA fears it.

If ever you want proof
MAGA doesn’t want truth,
just watch them avoid the good work of the sleuths…

Sorry. Sometimes, you just gotta rhyme…

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The Ohio election, tomorrow, is one I plan to keep an eye on. Ohioans are voting on reproductive control and who has it, the affected people or a bunch of old white men. They’re also voting on recreational use of cannabis. I’m expecting a large turnout. When the cons tried to slip a vote past the electorate in weirdly timed August special election, 39% of the registered voters turned out and slapped them down. That was AFTER the 2022 affirmation by the voters (by 51%) that they wanted to keep reproductive control in the hands of the people, not the legislature. Now they have to come out and do it one more time.

The anti crowd has used every single “fact(ish)” they could muster, manage, and make up to try to convince people that old white men know better than women. Nevertheless, women persist in their belief that THEY should decide their reproductive choices and whether or not to use birth control. Oh, and get this: some MEN believe it, too. (Whatever happened to the proper respect for the sacred male seed?)

The anti crowd tried to frame the whole question as a matter of parental rights, despite the fact that – FAR too commonly – it’s often a parent the young women in question needs protection from. There’s also that stupid, stupid story about how women, just in general, mind you, like to wait until the day before their due date – and run in for a late term abortion – just because it’s more fun that way, I guess. Antis love to pretend EVERY abortion is late-term but smart people know that 1) late term abortions are comparatively rare and 2) they almost always represent unthinkable pain and suffering for the parents because, generally, those parents wanted that child and something serious went wrong.

But it’s the conservative way: when the truth doesn’t support your position, lie! Why they prefer that to reconsidering their faulty position, I’ll never understand.

Just to make sure there’s a large turn-out for this ballot measure – like people might take a ho-hum attitude about their reproductive control – Ohio ALSO has legalized recreational cannabis on their ballot this election. I expect a high turnout, legalized recreational cannabis in Ohio, and enshrinement of the individual’s reproductive control into the Ohio state constitution…