For crying out loud, Donald Trump is the man who bilked college students out of their hard-earned financial savings together with his faux namesake “college.” He’s the identical man who bankrupted his casinos like clockwork and stiffed contractors and people he employed as some extent of satisfaction, who grossly inflated his actual property holdings, and refused to show over his taxes. He routinely sexually assaulted and harassed girls—and that was all earlier than Republicans thought it was an awesome concept to make him president, whereupon he proceeded to show the Emoluments Clause right into a sick joke.
Everyone knows what Trump did afterwards. He, his cronies, and his repulsive household bent over backwards to have interaction the help of the bloodthirsty dictator now waging an unprovoked warfare towards Ukraine. Then Trump tried to extort Ukraine itself, by making an attempt to carry up weapons shipments except and till Ukraine’s president unfold a phony story smearing Joe Biden’s son. When Biden then crushed him within the normal election, Trump summoned America’s very worst to start out a riot in an effort to overturn that election’s consequence. His excuse (for all of the others in his balloon) was a phony assertion of “fraud”—a neat trick because the so-called “fraud” utilized solely to him, however not each victorious Republican who shared an area on the identical optically-scanned ballots.
Briefly, this man is a seasoned legal with a mindset to match, via and thru. His relations realize it, his former flunkies and button males realize it. And the reality is, Republicans realize it too. They knew it from the very second they inflicted him on the remainder of us.
I don’t know what’s in Legal professional Basic Merrick Garland’s information concerning the former man’s dealings, however I’ve a robust hunch Garland wouldn’t take the unprecedented step of raiding the Florida home of a former president except one thing significantly extra severe than a breach in archival practices was occurring. Primarily based on Trump’s monitor document of fomenting sedition and fellating international dictators, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t outright treachery. I suppose we’ll discover out quickly sufficient.
However within the meantime, might Republicans spare us the phony outrage and the “authorities overreach” bullshit? Sufficient with the “third-world nation” rubbish. Is that this how they elevate their youngsters, to show a blind eye to the authorized course of? To rip-off others for pleasure, to lie, cheat, and steal? To promote out their nation? Is that what Republicans are actually all about? In the end, I suppose we will verify they by no means actually had any sense of decency.
Republicans have had it actually good in that balloon. They may preserve getting themselves elected by simply by pretending this orange-painted man wasn’t a strolling nightmare of racism, cruelty, immorality, and greed. Actually, they acquired so used to respiration his air in that balloon, nearly all of them turned similar to him. Parroting the Huge Lie, all whereas nuzzling as much as the trough. Winking at apparent treachery. Think about—even for a second—what the best’s response would have been had Barack Obama demonstrated even the tiniest fraction of Donald Trump’s venality. They might have been calling for his head on a platter, and doubtless making an attempt to plate up each different Democrat’s cranium as nicely.
No, the explanation Republicans can’t think about that’s as a result of it might by no means occur. As a result of whereas they’ve been in that balloon, inhaling every others’ air, day after day, 12 months after 12 months, the remainder of us have been outdoors, simply shaking our heads in disbelief at the truth that this nation’s conservative social gathering handled a completely rotten human being like some kind of deity, simply because he hated on the identical individuals they hate.
That’s actually form of sick, however, hey, it’s their balloon.
Please, although, Republicans: Don’t give us the theatrical “shocked” or “shocked” routine. You’re not shocked or shocked. You knew what this man was about while you signed on. Spare us the haughty, holier-than-thou crap about the way it’s a “darkish day for the rule of regulation.” You’ve proven us all, via your habits and slavish sycophancy, that you simply actually don’t give a rattling about “regulation.” That ship sailed an extended, very long time in the past.
Sure, Republicans are making an terrible noise proper now. However while you get proper all the way down to it, it’s all simply the identical scorching air they’ve been respiration for the final seven years.
