What a diverse political scene we live in. Jimmy Carter is in hospice care in Georgia, living out the remaining days of a life of service both to America and to mankind in general, through his work with Habitat For Humanity. Donald Trump, who is also one of four one-term presidents in the past 90 years, is planning to surrender to authorities in Manhattan as a result of a 34-count indictment (or more) brought by the District Attorney. The two men could not be more different. Other than the fact that they both put their pants on one leg at a time, the resemblance ends there.
I mention Carter because it’s only a matter of time before we go through the ritual of burying a former president and it’s fully anticipated that there will be the usual outpouring of bi-partisan support and honor at his passing, as was accorded to George H.W. Bush, the last former president to have passed.
Whatever our differences as a nation, we come together to honor our former leaders of either party, when they shuffle off this mortal coil. That will stop, I am sure, with Donald Trump.
Trump has done nothing but make a mockery of our institutions and our way of life with his unceasing chaos and cartoonish complaining. Tuesday in Manhattan will be yet another episode in the ongoing saga of Trump turning the American political narrative into an episode of his reality TV show.
It’s showdown time, we are told. Marge Greene, a purported candidate for Trump’s VP in 2024, is in town to lead the troops. And Trump is supposedly eager for the mugshot which is going to go straight into merchandising and fundraising, within hours of it being leaked or released. Once again it’s circus time. Steve Schmidt, The Warning:
The American media has reported the looming arrest of Trump as both a historic occasion and a coming confrontation. The newspapers are filled with ominous stories about New York City ordering every single police officer to report to work in uniform. The court house is being secured lest it be assaulted like the Capitol of the United States after words from Trump that are eerily similar. […]
The American media, which has long hyped every detail of disagreement on complex policies into MMA-style conflict, is beside itself with joy and glee at the impending events. Will Trump be handcuffed? What will the mugshot look like? Will he be angry? Will the Secret Service agents live in a cell with him? Will he wear an ankle bracelet? Gag order? Oh my.
What if though, there is something off about all of the prognostications predicting Trumpageddon? What if the prognosticators are wrong about the nature of the coming event? What if no one cares? Maybe the show we have all been watching is every bit as concocted as Trump’s election delusions and fantasies of winning. Maybe the performative outrage of talk radio, The Daily Wire and Charlie Kirk are more evidence of strange performance art and media corruption than anything else. Perhaps Trump is waterskiing Fonzie who jumped the shark years ago, but remains on air because he is the only show left in the inventory.
Maybe Trump is a great chimera that is about to disperse like a cloud on a sunny day in a clear blue sky. What if the protest crowds are small, passionless, contrived and indifferent? What if most of America doesn’t really care, and is ready to move on from the current sewer? Is it possible? It is.
No doubt Trump’s arrest will titillate the erogenous zones of the Trump Industrial Complex and surrounding media companies, but what if everyone else in America is too busy to care? What if the reaction to Trump’s mugshot is an unsurprised yawn. One thing is for sure: the first merchandise will start to appear moments after it is taken.
The American people will not tolerate Donald Trump’s return to power — ever. The Republican Party though remains in his grip. Its most appalling moments lie ahead, and that it is quite a thing to comprehend.
Whatever happens on Tuesday it will be tawdry and cheap. Donald Trump will never have a presidential library, and no president will ever hang his portrait in the White House. His arrest on Tuesday will have to suffice. He has achieved his ambition: everyone will be looking at Donald Trump, all at once. Then people will start looking away, one by one. His trials will become tedious and boring. By the time he is standing in a federal courtroom cold and lonely without the glow of a TV camera the show will be over. The suicide charge of a political party demanding Trump — or else — will be soon forgotten as Trump slides into a raging oblivion, where he is forgotten by the media who feasted on him until the end.
It will indeed be tawdry and cheap. And that is totally on brand. Cantaloupe Caligula is like his namesake, Caligula, who was born to great wealth and privilege and delighted in making a mockery of his world. He used to burn money and dissolve pearls and drink them, because the conspicuous consumption of wealth amused him. Caligula opined once that his horse should be a member of the Roman senate. It was all a laugh riot to the man, up until the day a member of his guard, turned rogue, put a dagger in him on the steps of the Coliseum.
I don’t expect the end of Donald Trump to be so melodramatic, nor would I wish it to be. What I wish for him is that he be held accountable legally and end his life in disgrace and poverty. I think it’s too much to hope for that he will actually wind up serving prison time, but to have him in our rear view mirror, defenestrated and broke, shrieking impotently on Truth Social to his hardcore cultists, may be the best that we can wish.
I don’t expect a flamboyant end to Trump. He is like Jim Jones and David Koresh in many ways, but he doesn’t have their guts, probably because he doesn’t have their conviction. Ultimately, this is all a game to him. I don’t see him as being able to drink kool-aide laced with cyanide, and I certainly don’t see him as capable of blowing his brains out. Trump is a lily livered coward, first and foremost.
Trump will end up as an old man raging at clouds. Tuesday could be a real turning point in this process. Trump sees Tuesday as the day he takes back control. Reportedly he regards the indictment as “political gold in a primary” and “definitely political gold for fundraising.” Trump sees Tuesday as the day he solidifies his reign on the Republican party, yet again. What if he’s wrong? What if this is the bridge too far? To be followed up with other indictments and trials? What if the GOP decides it can’t sell the witch hunt narrative any longer and decides to go with another candidate?
We shall soon find out.
Here’s what would be a fitting end for Trump.
He heads to Iowa for some “regular guy” stuff to prove to the MAGA goobers and other regular folks he’s one of them. The stroll through the county fair thing, sampling various foodstuffs and so on. And he gets a case of the shits. Has to “go” and like NOW so his Secret Service detail hustles him off to the nearest set of Port-a-Jons and spreads out to create a perimeter; Meanwhile, this being Iowa and a gun nut state some good ole boys from rival towns not long out of high school and who’d battled each other in hard-fought sporting contests are liquored up. Their dads too. And the fight that breaks out grows & the guns come out. Shooting starts and wannabe heroes go looking for glory, and maybe others join in to support their side and shots keep ringing out. LE doesn’t know who the fuck is who and sure as hell not the who the “good guys with guns” and the ones who are the main players are. The Secret Service detail, all of them hearing panicked chatter in their ear mics ALL go running off to try and expand their perimiter and/or help local LE get control of things. And Trump is left unguarded. He peeks out and doesn’t see ANYONE around including those who are supposed to be guarding him. So he sneaks off to hide.
But now he has a problem. He doesn’t know where the fuck he is, and his detail doesn’t either. Being Trump and this being Iowa however he assumes every single person there just loves him! So he asks for help. From someone who considers him the true piece of shit he actually is. Maybe even an old-school Republican who hates what he’s done to the Party. And with no one else around he beats the living shit out of Trump. I mean like a real beatdown that will leave Trump with two black eyes, a busted nose, busted lip and teeth knocked out kind of beatdown. Some cracked ribs too so it will hurt every time he breathes and will cause him pain for weeks after he can breathe normally. The guy(s) who administer the beatdown are ok with going to prison for a couple of years, and with luck the whole thing including Trump crying and begging for mercy will be caught on camera. Preferable numerous people are close enough to hear the initial commotion and whip out their cell phones so there will be multiple versions going viral. And with a bit more luck there will be video from before when the first punch was thrown. Of Trump being threatened and afraid to fight. Maybe trying to run away. Taking that first punch, preferably to the gut so he’s doubled over in pain and holding up his hand in a Roberto Duran “No Mas” moment!
THAT would make for the end of the Trump myth. It’s way too much to hope for of course, But a guy can dream…
It would be funny if they hung his mug shot in place of a presidential portrait.
Isn’t it cruel to say “Donald Trump will never have a presidential library”?
It would only need one room, with two shelves, one for both books, and one for the crayons.
I’d contribute funds for that, so we could all remember Dimwit Donny as he really was.
Things are going to change this summer. It will be like when you put the clothes in the dryer in a certain order, but have no idea what order they will be in when done.
The MSM is jaded for what ever reason and will continue to only feature fascist scum that wear red, white and blue and ignore the non-brainwashed. Perhaps if every Democrat started calling the Republicans what they are, fascist traitors they would take away the camera from the filth. And don’t give me all the crap about treason is blah, blah, blah. Insurrection is just a fancy Latin word for treason.
Trump surrenders. He’s not just arrested, he surrenders himself.
What a lovely word ‘surrender’ is.
America needs to eliminate ALL entitlements for any politician convicted of ANY crimes.
Scum like paxton and those engaged in attempting to overthrow the government deserve no support from our tax dollars.