You know, for a fledgling dictator with an iron grip on his party, Traitor Tot looks pretty fucking weak. He got his fat orange ass handed to him in the 2022 midterms, especially in the US Senate, where he invested his time and persona so heavily. But Let the good times roll.
Howdy Doody Speaker Kevin McCarthy was/is supposed to be His Lownesses tame lap poodle, a shoe in for the Speakership. For a man with an iron grip on his caucus, this should have been a walkover. So why did it take 15 ballots over four long, tortuous days? It reached the point where The Trumpster Fire had to take to the phones to whip votes for McCarthy himself.
Which led to the humiliating scene caught by CSPAN of Laborious MTG, desperate to retain her power base, running all over the House foor, from recalcitrant GOP voter to recalcitrant voter, waving her hand with her cell phone in the air, with The Orange Shitgibbon on the line. And everybody she ran up to turned their backs on her and walked away, saying Don’t even put me in that awkward situation Marjorie when she pleaded that she had Mr Trump on the phone. News Flash for Hair Twitler. Hollywood agents, actors, writers, and producers know they’re screwed when nobody will take their calls!
Now let’s add in the fact that absolutely no notable GOP members, especially in the Senate have come out to endorse Trump in 2024. Where is Josh Hawley? Where is Leningrad Lindsey Graham? In the House, where are Matt Gaetz, Gym Bag Jordan, Paul Gosar and the rest of the MAGA morons? They may be there later, but for right now, they want to keep their powder dry, especially with FrankenTrump trailing DeSantis in national GOP polls.
Which begs the simple question, Where the hell is Trump? As I wrote earlier, The Cheeto Prophet has deep pockets, and Pissantis hasn’t even announced yet, and has a day job. So why isn’t El Pendejo Presidente hitting the road every week, hammering everybody he can think of in mass rallies? (except he’s not going anywhere)
I think I may know. It’s no secret that right now there are not just one, but two active federal grand juries hearing evidence against Trump. The DC US Attorney has one, and main DOJ has nether one, proceeding on separate track. And therein lies Trump’s problem, and the fodder for his massive paranoia.
The Department of Justice has two standing rules. The first one is that they do not comment publicly about current cases. Which dials Trump’s paranoias to the max, since he knows that there are two separate federal grand juries going on, and he has no idea of what they’re saying and not saying.
But it’s the 2nd rule that will have Trump’s paranoia sailing along up there in space that that stupid Tesla car. DOJ regulations rule that if a true bill of indictment is returned by a federal grand jury, that indictment, or indictments are kept sealed intel such time as the defendant has either been contacted and agreed to turn themselves in, or have been taken into custody. And since Trump is the ultimate paranoid, he is sure in his mind that the DOJ is trying to lure him out in public, so they can make a spectacle of cuffing and perp walking him to a federal vehicle, and into federal court.
This is the only reason I can think of for Trump suddenly going to the mattresses. After all, Trump is running for freakin’ President! He needs to be out there, making speeches, holding rallies, attending fundraisers, doing all the things that an already declared candidate does. And instead, Traitor Tot is cowering behind the curtains at Mar-A-Lago, making everybody else come to him.
Which makes my heart want to sing, except I couldn’t hold a tune in a wheelbarrow. Mu ex wife was a diagnosed paranoid sociopath, so I know the symptoms. And this tells me that Traitor Tot finally feels the walls of justice closing in around him. And he doesn’t feel safe anywhere except within the cloistered walls of Mar-A-Lago, with his Secret Service detail safely barricaded around him. Good news. This is no way to run a presidential campaign.
I don’t even think he would run again , he’s old news that nobody cares about .
Indeed, Rita, which puts the lie and makes a mockery out of the PTSD-spawned notion that he was ever a true threat after January 20, 2021. He learned nothing and screwed up everything.
There is your school of thought Murf that believes all of this legal action will doom his 2024 campaign. Here’s another: all of this shit piling up will make the magats more likely to support him. Should he be carted off, and you’re right he will not go of his own accord, he will go to a courtroom and/or a jail cell beating his chest and screaming the whole time how he has been wronged–the magats will eat that shit up and probably start shooting FBI agents and such. His base is still out there and they still back him for the most part. The q kooks are also still out there waiting for his return to office (and Kennedy’s (morons)). Played correctly, this could work for him. Of course, he had better not be staging it as he is as incompetent as they come.
Which will get them a grand total of what, Spike? That was the sort of BS that helped doom liberals from your generation from ever being taken seriously again. Scare the hell out of enough of regular Americans and they’ll turn to the first credible bunch of people who will protect them. Besides, most of the MAGA maggots are effing cowards. Stick them on the wrong end of a gun or inside of a prison, they tend to collapse like cardboard. Finally, how many of the delusional survived COVID or haven’t parted ways with Mango Mussolini over his trading card stunt? I’d wager not many.
Depends on whether DeathSantis runs. I don’t think it will be that easy for him to beat Donnie Donuts.
And Brian Kemp was,easily reelected, and Herschel Walker came close to.overturning Warnock, despite being the poster boy for CTE, domestic violence, and lying.
And that was GA, a purple state.
Never underestimate the stupidity and bigotry and fear of the Other of Trump’s base of white evangelical men andtheir brainwirishashed, submissive wives.