Well, the courts are starting to get the cases again. Tanya Chutkan got her case back on Friday and on Saturday denied one of Trump’s frivolous requests to simply toss the case. He pretended he was being prosecuted for vindictive and political purposes. He knows the truth. He just doesn’t work well with the truth.

Trump’s team lied that Trump was being prosecuted for “challenging an election” and others have challenged elections without prosecution making HIS prosecution just so unfair. Chutkan rejected the argument saying Trump wasn’t charged for simply challenging the election. She pointed out that he’s charged with “knowingly making false statements in furtherance of criminal conspiracies and for obstruction of election certification proceedings.”

Of course, this goes nowhere to go anywhere in our corrupt country. He has the Supremely Kangaroo Court in his pocket and most of them don’t give two figs about the law. They want to help rich people, in general, and Trump in particular. It’s the conservative way. It’s just inspiring, seeing people out there still trying to do the right thing, even as conservatives work so hard to make sure there IS no “right thing.”

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I wonder if there’s a connection between the market sell-off that’s happening right now and the fact that seven days ago, Rolling Stone Magazine printed an article detailing Republican plans to simply steal the election outright with as many as 70 Trump-loving, election deniers sitting on certification boards.

Despite MAGA rhetoric, I know quite well that if (when) Trump takes office again, the economy tanks. That’s what happened last time. He flat-lined the economy.
“That was Covid!”
“That was Trump’s miserable mismanagement of Covid.”

They simply don’t mention that the trends had turned the wrong direction before Covid hit. Trump’s policies hurt the economy before and they’ll hurt the economy again. People running corporations know this, even if the rank and file cons don’t. Successful investors know it, even if rank and file cons don’t.

Do you know what corporations and rich people hate even more than paying their fair share? Unstable markets. Unstable markets are very difficult to plan for. People close their wallets. Revenues plunge. Corporate stocks lose value, the greatest single sin in a brutally Capitalist society like ours. Tax cuts on profits aren’t very helpful to a company with no profits.

It’s hard to say, of course. The whole point of keeping interest rates high was to slow the economy. Now the economy is slowing. Now people are worried it might slow too much. People are fickle. It creates the possibility of a recession.

Do you believe Donald Trump is the guy to lead the US out of a recession, despite his near-perfect record of financial failure? You must be MAGA…

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Well, the ‘make the homeless disappear’ campaign is moving along pretty much as expected. The cops come in and clear a homeless encampment only to see the tents come back in a day or two. It’s perfectly predictable. It’s easy to write a “solution” on paper that bears no resemblance to real life. It’s stupid, but it’s easy. So, writing down “sweep them and they disappear” might be fun but it turns out? They don’t disappear at all. It turns out, these are living, breathing people and they lack the ability to simply “disappear.” They’re going nowhere. That, of course, is because they have nowhere to go. Not to put too fine a point on it, that’s the whole reason they’re out there in the first place.

As we all know by now, homelessness is essentially two problems. There are people who have been priced out of the market and there are people too damaged to make decisions for themselves. Maybe it was drugs. Maybe it was congenital. Either way, it always strikes me as a little cruel that in this, the so-called ‘Greatest Country On Earth’™ we have people incapable of caring for themselves left to care for themselves anyway.

It also strikes me as wrong that so many Americans can be left out in the cold just so a small handful of Americans can be a little richer. It remains true, if they don’t stop Wall Street from buying single family homes (and force them to divest) the problem will only get worse. I’ve heard several useless, ineffective, and/or cruel “solutions.” I don’t hear much about the one that would work, though. Too bad…