The day is still young and we’re finding ourselves reading about two FAFO stories, that of America’s mayor, Rudy Giuliani, who is now disbarred in the State of New York and the ongoing story of Steve Bannon, who reported to prison yesterday and who is now…soto voce, shall we say? Soto voce is Latin for “in a quiet voice, so as to not be overheard.” And prison is that kind of an environment. Now what do these two stories, one yesterday’s blaring headline and one today’s, have in common? You guessed it, a certain obese 78-year-old man. That is the intersection where all tragedies meet. Both Rudy and Steve would be having very, very different days today but for the fact that they chose to board the Trump Train.
The cost of being Trump's bitch? Becoming a prisoner's bitch. pic.twitter.com/jM1LEun3N9
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 2, 2024
And of course Trump is in a mood of high sanctimony today, all unctuous and smug, after the SCOTUS ruling yesterday. He’s attempting to use it to do everything from overturning the hush money trial verdict (won’t happen, it’s a state court matter) to delay sentencing in that same trial, to get all of his other criminal trials erased off the board altogether.
— Rob Johnson (@llccar1) July 2, 2024
Two things going on here simultaneously:
1. We are seeing the wheels of justice grind. Yes, they are slow but at least we are seeing some progress. Steve Bannon is in jail, Rudy Giuliani is disbarred. These are not small things.
2. Trump is still a cornered rat and he’s at the head of many grandiose schemes to save his own skin, first and foremost, and then deconstruct our government with his Project 2025.
As always, the biggest thing that you can do is Get Out The Vote. MAGA is feeling uber empowered these days. And this is the newest symbol of that.
Good morning to all those suffering from TDS 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/ZaWwm38fpf
— Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) July 2, 2024
And Trump is flipping democracy off. That’s precisely what he is doing. This is not an election between two political parties, this is an election between the shards of what’s left of the GOP, united under the MAGA crazy umbrella and headed by the TV game show host. He’s got a myriad of legal reasons to deconstruct our government and our way of life.
Habba may be smug and she may believe that a majority of Americans actually want to burn it all down. I don’t think that’s the case. Nobody is buying Trump’s American carnage vision of our country. He doesn’t have the support that he so desperately wants us all to believe that he has. Trump has been exposed as the criminal that he is and his lying is non stop. That will only continue, because that’s his trademark.
Meanwhile, since you’re here already, I guess that this is Steve Bannon’s replacement?
The only evidence we have is a history of Trump and MAGA attempting to do that exact thing and a written plan to make it actionable.
— Brad Heitmann (@bradheitmann) July 2, 2024
Don’t expect things to get any less strange. The wheels are coming off the Trump wagon and that will continue to be the case. All that we have to do is stay the course and keep fundraising and getting out the vote. Joe Biden got a lot of money after last Thursday’s debate so Trump’s lie fest did not go unnoticed or unchallenged. Democracy is still in the game, bigly.
VOTE BLUE up and down the ballot!! 💙💙💙💙💙💙
And with bad weather coming early… time to contrast President Biden response vs 💩-45. Full might of good government emergency action or paper towels. A good leader or a traitorous dictator (with trading wheels off)….
Cell phone going to get the ETTD treatment one of these days … along with the internet service WiFi box🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Some the few the proud. The believers of democracy. Some sacrificed all. My relatives did.
There might might be a real time to talk sense into your neighbor or fight.
We must rid ourselves of the Orange pussy puller by any means possible.
You are helping.
Minor nitpick about “sotto voce” (not “soto voce”) but it’s Italian, not Latin (I believe the Latin would be “sub voce”). In this Bannon story, it would apply if he were being hauled out of court, muttering, “I’ll get you yet, judge–you and your little dog, Toto too,” but he didn’t want to risk any sort of additional legal problems. (It is used in legal circles, generally by court reporters, to indicate some sort of speech that wasn’t heard by the court reporter, typically something like when the judge calls the attorneys to the bench or something is said that’s supposed to be off-the-record.)
I really think the term you wanted was probably “incommunicado.”
“Sotto voce” is Italian, not Latin.