It seems the indictment was written with surgical precision. Designed for speed. It’s an easy read, though I doubt most will read it. Also, the symmetry is amusing... 45 pages, for the 45th President...
This excellent post is a beautiful example of how to take a really sharp Bowie knife and slash the GOP "hot air balloon of bullshit" and make an airtight case against the Orange Dickhead. It's a shame the clarion call of truth contained in your extensive, information-packed post falls on so many deaf ears out there in TV Land. Oh well, doesn't matter. The truth is what matters and if you were a prosecutor and presented this piece as your argument in court, Trump would be convicted, sans doubt.
On target and correct--as usual. Clickbait -- you nailed it. Anything to bring in the readers. MSM = discouraging. Jack Smith has constructed a masterpiece of an indictment.
It'll be a beautiful day in Hell when Trump finally gets there, and encounters Ashli Babbitt, who is holding a Bowie knife, and transforms herself into Lorena Bobbitt, and proceeds to do to Trump what she did to her husband...and repeats this, every morning, for eternity.
...which makes a really neat transition into the new Rudy tapes. twice today ALREADY I've had people suggest to me that Ms. Dunphy should have used the Lorena Strategy the first time that literal Walking Hardon forced her to fellate him. the problem with that is...where do you go in the immediate aftermath?
and yeah, there is a definite scent of whorishness in that whole relationship, but what of it? people tend to forget that, in many respects, the relationship between sex worker and client is remarkably honest.
and lordy, those TAPES!!!! admittedly less than "remarkably honest" but so titillatingly disgusting. and it seems to me that a practicing Catholic needs to keep his fucking vile mouth shut about Pesach...wasn't the Last Supper a fucking Seder, for chrissake? and what does the Red Sea have to do with any of this? didn't he see the fucking MOVIE?? the Red Sea was about forty-five minutes LATER.
actually, I once knew a guy who was the Assistant Director on "The Ten Commandments," a Greek Jew named Henry Yatrou who took tremendous delight in telling about how he once decked Henry Wilcoxon, who was, he said, a scumbag in every respect. but obviously, this is all my verbal ADD kicking in and Jubal is punching me to take him out....
Wow TC u made my day— I was happy enough thinking Chump might die in prison but now that u mentioned an execution— hey it couldn’t happen to a more deserving poor excuse for a human being. Happy days are here again🎼🎹alls well that ends well.
While I agree with you and start every morning with the prayer "Let TODAY be Fatal Hamberder Day" execution won't be happening. I'll also be disappointed when he isn't hanged, drawn and quartered, or even stuffed in a windowless 8X10 cell on the third sub-basement level of the Florence SuperMax. :-)
Thanks for this, Tom. I rarely bother with TV coverage of politics because of the networks' lust for sensationalism and hewing to their corporations' dogma. You have both forewarned and prepared me for the next chapters in this shameful period in the American experiment. I'm confident we will see Trump hurl his co-conspirators under the bus. Because I don't think Trump will see a day in jail I will content myself in seeing tire marks on Guiliani, Powell, Eastman, Clark, et. al.
TC, your essays, and those of other well-informed writers, shine much needed light on the truth, as we move through the sewage of what has become the GOP political strategy. What we're experiencing is gaslighting, at its most desperate and strident, and despite how much we all know the truth, the constant stream of lies and misdirection from MAGA is incredibly hard to endure. I'm finding it increasingly necessary to mute and tune out the looneytunes diatribes by everyone defending TFG. I want to hear what they say so I can fight against it, but it's simply exhausting. I'm always relieved and refreshed when I hear anyone stating the truth about how the law works, and the likelihood of justice prevailing in these cases.
But I know it's going to get far worse before it gets better. Self-care is going to be vital for all of us. Thank you for filtering the bullshit for us and breaking it down to fertilizer we can use to nurture our own souls.
yes! I forgot to mention how totally great that Capone quote was. it was almost TOO on the money. if I was editing a manuscript and found it, I'd tell the author to change it because it's just TOO improbable.
Another fantastic explanatory essay, TC. Keep it coming. There's so much garbage and outright bullshit being spewed, I'm amazed you keep up with as much as you do. You debunk some of the righties arguments before I can get around to reading them. Thank You!
MSM did indeed say that chump was good for business. And they still believe that and do business accordingly. Do they believe that he is good for the country. Not on any F***ing day. I can’t read their minds and I don’t have to. All I have to do is watch five minutes of their blather. Business’ bottom line is more important than the survival of our democratic government.
I’ve recently come to believe that those businesses who so diligently support Trump may also slip a few benjamins to Magats to ensure their loyalty and votes. Nothing talks like money and they could easily rationalize the exchange... so maybe I’ve let my
Imagination run wild... it still doesn’t feel far fetched.
when the Georgia indictment finally arrives, I assume that the asshole lawyers will double down on the "free speech" excuse. and by their non-logic, it will seem even more true, since the whole conversation was, after all, "just two guys talking." I'm even willing to take small bets on it (by nature, I'm not a gambler, but this one is hard to resist).
as I keep saying, it's sort of interesting that all the "commentators" from the Right keep repeating that they "haven't read the indictment," since Smith obviously anticipated this so-called "legal strategy" and disposed of it on page two.
it seems like even TFF's lawyers realized what a bullshit argument it was, siknce now they're doing the "blame the lawyers" thing despite the fact that the indictment cites any number of TFF's lawyers telling him that it was bullshit. and that included pretty much the entire group of official White House lawyers. even that prick Eastman is quoted as saying that his "theory" wouldn't stand any kind of real legal test, although I might take exception to his claim that if the case came before SCOTUS, every member would declare it bullshit. there's ALWAYS Mr. Thomas, who never talks to his wife about anything but, one imagines, the weather.
Thanks for all the clarity about the indictments and what they mean, Tom. It's hard to cut through the BS sometimes. Really appreciate you taking the time to parse this all out. Lookin ahead, I'm concerned about violence erupting around this country toward non-Trump supporters. It's not beyond imagination that his followers will go after those who are not behind him.
Which is why AG's method of starting with the little oath keepers and proud boys, disarming over 1,000 of them, then working up to the leaders, imprisoning over 300 of them, was so important. Now if we could disarm and imprison (and silence) Faux news and Breitbart and...
If there’s a hero in this story it’s Jack Smith. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-full-the-indictment-against-trump-for-his-efforts-to-overturn-the-2020-election
It seems the indictment was written with surgical precision. Designed for speed. It’s an easy read, though I doubt most will read it. Also, the symmetry is amusing... 45 pages, for the 45th President...
Great catch on the symmetry!
I am in awe of Jack Smith! He should be gracing the cover of Time magazine as person-of-the-year!
Oh! Yes!! Will have to renew my TIME magazine Subscription for the paper copies, too, so I can add that cover to my collection!
This excellent post is a beautiful example of how to take a really sharp Bowie knife and slash the GOP "hot air balloon of bullshit" and make an airtight case against the Orange Dickhead. It's a shame the clarion call of truth contained in your extensive, information-packed post falls on so many deaf ears out there in TV Land. Oh well, doesn't matter. The truth is what matters and if you were a prosecutor and presented this piece as your argument in court, Trump would be convicted, sans doubt.
Agree, Tom should team up with Jack Smith!
On target and correct--as usual. Clickbait -- you nailed it. Anything to bring in the readers. MSM = discouraging. Jack Smith has constructed a masterpiece of an indictment.
It'll be a beautiful day in Hell when Trump finally gets there, and encounters Ashli Babbitt, who is holding a Bowie knife, and transforms herself into Lorena Bobbitt, and proceeds to do to Trump what she did to her husband...and repeats this, every morning, for eternity.
I like that image!
it IS excellent, although Occam's razor would be a lot neater and, therefore, considerably more elegant.
Glory, I remember Lorena’s surgical effort
...which makes a really neat transition into the new Rudy tapes. twice today ALREADY I've had people suggest to me that Ms. Dunphy should have used the Lorena Strategy the first time that literal Walking Hardon forced her to fellate him. the problem with that is...where do you go in the immediate aftermath?
and yeah, there is a definite scent of whorishness in that whole relationship, but what of it? people tend to forget that, in many respects, the relationship between sex worker and client is remarkably honest.
and lordy, those TAPES!!!! admittedly less than "remarkably honest" but so titillatingly disgusting. and it seems to me that a practicing Catholic needs to keep his fucking vile mouth shut about Pesach...wasn't the Last Supper a fucking Seder, for chrissake? and what does the Red Sea have to do with any of this? didn't he see the fucking MOVIE?? the Red Sea was about forty-five minutes LATER.
actually, I once knew a guy who was the Assistant Director on "The Ten Commandments," a Greek Jew named Henry Yatrou who took tremendous delight in telling about how he once decked Henry Wilcoxon, who was, he said, a scumbag in every respect. but obviously, this is all my verbal ADD kicking in and Jubal is punching me to take him out....
Al Capone - perfect!
Love that quote, damn, fits chump to a tee
Wow TC u made my day— I was happy enough thinking Chump might die in prison but now that u mentioned an execution— hey it couldn’t happen to a more deserving poor excuse for a human being. Happy days are here again🎼🎹alls well that ends well.
While I agree with you and start every morning with the prayer "Let TODAY be Fatal Hamberder Day" execution won't be happening. I'll also be disappointed when he isn't hanged, drawn and quartered, or even stuffed in a windowless 8X10 cell on the third sub-basement level of the Florence SuperMax. :-)
Thanks for this, Tom. I rarely bother with TV coverage of politics because of the networks' lust for sensationalism and hewing to their corporations' dogma. You have both forewarned and prepared me for the next chapters in this shameful period in the American experiment. I'm confident we will see Trump hurl his co-conspirators under the bus. Because I don't think Trump will see a day in jail I will content myself in seeing tire marks on Guiliani, Powell, Eastman, Clark, et. al.
TC, your essays, and those of other well-informed writers, shine much needed light on the truth, as we move through the sewage of what has become the GOP political strategy. What we're experiencing is gaslighting, at its most desperate and strident, and despite how much we all know the truth, the constant stream of lies and misdirection from MAGA is incredibly hard to endure. I'm finding it increasingly necessary to mute and tune out the looneytunes diatribes by everyone defending TFG. I want to hear what they say so I can fight against it, but it's simply exhausting. I'm always relieved and refreshed when I hear anyone stating the truth about how the law works, and the likelihood of justice prevailing in these cases.
But I know it's going to get far worse before it gets better. Self-care is going to be vital for all of us. Thank you for filtering the bullshit for us and breaking it down to fertilizer we can use to nurture our own souls.
You speak for me
I really like the quote from Capone and the one from Grant in yesterday’s post. Very poignant!
yes! I forgot to mention how totally great that Capone quote was. it was almost TOO on the money. if I was editing a manuscript and found it, I'd tell the author to change it because it's just TOO improbable.
But it is real.
shit is DEFINITELY sometimes like that.
Another fantastic explanatory essay, TC. Keep it coming. There's so much garbage and outright bullshit being spewed, I'm amazed you keep up with as much as you do. You debunk some of the righties arguments before I can get around to reading them. Thank You!
Thanks so much TC.❤ I'm a
faithful follower of Marc Elias on Democracy Docket and was glad to see you reference his remarks on the
$5000 bank "withdrawal" and
all these literally stupid 1st
Amendment defenses for TFG.
And no, "you can't get inside"
Trump's head, 'cause there's
nothing of revelance in there
to explore.
MSM did indeed say that chump was good for business. And they still believe that and do business accordingly. Do they believe that he is good for the country. Not on any F***ing day. I can’t read their minds and I don’t have to. All I have to do is watch five minutes of their blather. Business’ bottom line is more important than the survival of our democratic government.
I’ve recently come to believe that those businesses who so diligently support Trump may also slip a few benjamins to Magats to ensure their loyalty and votes. Nothing talks like money and they could easily rationalize the exchange... so maybe I’ve let my
Imagination run wild... it still doesn’t feel far fetched.
Hate of the common enemy can usually accomplish devotion, but greasy money never hurts
when the Georgia indictment finally arrives, I assume that the asshole lawyers will double down on the "free speech" excuse. and by their non-logic, it will seem even more true, since the whole conversation was, after all, "just two guys talking." I'm even willing to take small bets on it (by nature, I'm not a gambler, but this one is hard to resist).
as I keep saying, it's sort of interesting that all the "commentators" from the Right keep repeating that they "haven't read the indictment," since Smith obviously anticipated this so-called "legal strategy" and disposed of it on page two.
it seems like even TFF's lawyers realized what a bullshit argument it was, siknce now they're doing the "blame the lawyers" thing despite the fact that the indictment cites any number of TFF's lawyers telling him that it was bullshit. and that included pretty much the entire group of official White House lawyers. even that prick Eastman is quoted as saying that his "theory" wouldn't stand any kind of real legal test, although I might take exception to his claim that if the case came before SCOTUS, every member would declare it bullshit. there's ALWAYS Mr. Thomas, who never talks to his wife about anything but, one imagines, the weather.
Thanks for all the clarity about the indictments and what they mean, Tom. It's hard to cut through the BS sometimes. Really appreciate you taking the time to parse this all out. Lookin ahead, I'm concerned about violence erupting around this country toward non-Trump supporters. It's not beyond imagination that his followers will go after those who are not behind him.
Which is why AG's method of starting with the little oath keepers and proud boys, disarming over 1,000 of them, then working up to the leaders, imprisoning over 300 of them, was so important. Now if we could disarm and imprison (and silence) Faux news and Breitbart and...
The long and short of it
Wonderful Post, TC. That first paragraph is perfect!