You know the old 60s classic. Originally I credited the Beach Boys but my error was pointed out – it’s most known rendition by The Happenings was in 1966. Anyway, it was about “See you in September.” Come Monday we just might see an updated version with September being changed to December!
According to something from a Raw Story piece I read earlier this morning as so often happens Trump had yet another “midnight meltdown. His return to twitter, or X or whatever Musk wants to call it notwithstanding Trump put up last night’s rant on Truth Social. Maybe venting there hoping not many would see it and tell Judge Chutkan? Oh well, people do (and my thanks to those of you who do so I don’t have to) monitor Truth Social Trump went and did what he’s not been ordered to to.
DC apparently has pretty strict rules about what criminal defendants can and can’t do or say while awaiting trial. Sure, they and their lawyers still have first amendments rights but making statements that could be seen as threats, or attempts to intimidate witnesses, prosecutors, judges or influence the jury pool are no-no’s. In a nutshell someone (or their lawyer) can say stuff like the charges are baseless, they/their client are looking for the “truth” to come out at trial, looking forward to proving innocence and so on but don’t cross certain lines.
You don’t make personal attacks on your opponents or the court, or the process itself. Judges don’t like it when someone tries their case on the courthouse steps instead of in the courtroom. Still, they cut defendants and their lawyers some slack. How much depends on a given judge. Some will almost bend over backwards to avoid giving someone grounds for appeal if they’re convicted, and put up with too much nonsense. Others, and it appears DC federal judge Tanya Chutkan is among them run a tighter ship. They expect defendants, even rich and/or powerful ones to show some respect for the process, and especially the law. Remember that I mentioned in DC there’s law that speaks to regulating defendant’s pre-trial conduct?
Why this matters is that during the night Trump couldn’t contain himself and busted out a post on Truth Social. As the linked article puts it:
At approximately 2 a.m., the former president took to his social media account to rage about the indictment in a Florida federal court accusing him and several of his close aides of obstruction of justice related to stolen government documents.
It seems Trump is pretty pissed that security recordings from his FL home are going to be used against him in court, and he goes after Special Counsel Jack Smith personally calling him evil, sinister and “deranged.” Let’s take a peek inside what’s left of the mind of an angry and scared Donald Trump in the middle of the night:
The Security Tapes from Mar-a-Lago that evil and sinister prosecutor, Deranged Jack Smith, “leaked” or otherwise stated were deleted or altered were, in fact, NOT deleted or altered. It was a Fake Story put out by the government THUGS. Those tapes were openly handed over, without protest or litigation, and then the “Deranged One” makes me look as bad as possible. The whole case is FAKE because I come under the Presidential Records Act. Biden or Pence did not!
Come Monday everyone, including if I’m not mistaken Trump too is going to be meeting in court with Judge Chutkan presiding. I’m pretty sure she’ll have a thing or two to say about this latest rant, as well as other things Trump has written and spoken recently that attack the justice system and those who work in it. Things Trump won’t like. However, being Trump and therefore used to getting away with all manner of shiite he figures (sadly, correctly) that he won’t get locked up until trial like most defendants would. Even if he wasn’t a former Prez and running for the office again, we all know rich and/or powerful folks get away with stuff most of us don’t get away with. Yes, judge Chutkan already had grounds to lock Trump up, at least for a while (to make a point to him) but we all know that’s not gonna happen.
What she CAN however do is something almost as bad from Trump’s point of view. Keep in mind that Monday’s court hearing business included setting a trial date. Prosecutors asked for jury selection to take place in December with the trial starting in the first week of the new year. Hell, they’d kept that window open for Trump’s FL trial but judge “Loose” Cannon set a date for May 24 so Smith said “Fine – lets use that time for Trump’s DC trial on Jan. 6 stuff since the judge has time on her docket. Trump’s lawyers went for a moon shot, asking for a trial date in late spring 2026! I kind of doubt they wanted to risk pissing off the judge that way but Trump probably demanded it, his way of telling judge Chutkan HE was calling the shots, the one in control and not her.
Bad move.
Judge Chutkan might well have been amendable to pushing the trial into say March of 2024 since Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg made it clear he’s ok with deferring his case to allow the feds to go first. That was actually for the FL trial but the same would be true for the DC one. In fact, there was a lot of legal pundit talk that that’s just what would happen, that while judge Chutkan wouldn’t put up with any typical Trumpian delaying crap she’d grant some extra time and start in March. BUT, while Smith’s team and Trump’s team were drafting their motions on when the trial should start judge Chutkan said something pretty important. That might turn out to be prophetic.
Judge Chutkan, in her no-nonsense way noted for the record that the integrity of the process WOULD be respected, including and especially by one Donald J. Trump. AND that if he kept shooting off his mouth trying to exert pressure on prosecutors, witnesses the potential jury etc. then she’d move the trial date up! I’m sure that got the attention of Trump’s lawyers. Trump himself? I doubt there’s anyone out there who thought Trump would let some judge tell him what he could or couldn’t do. A WOMAN judge! A BLACK woman judge! So, despite the judge’s warning Trump’s continued to shoot off his “bigly” mouth. And just to make his point that HE was “in charge” he went an posted that middle of the night missive. Ah, but come Monday…
Judge Chutkan already had some decent grounds to do the last thing Trump wanted which is set a speedy trial date. Then Trump fires both barrels of an Elmer Fudd shotgun, the first being proving he’s not taking the DC case seriously by asking not just for a trial date after the election but all the way into 2026. And the second was last night’s rant. Call me crazy, say I’m engaging in wishful thinking but I’d imagine judge Chutkan’s weekend is being spent with preparations for both Smiths’ and Trump’s lawyers oral arguments for their prospective trial dates come Monday. AND that having read their respective motions already has an outline of what her decision will be. Assuming nothing she didn’t anticipate comes up Monday, she can quickly polish it into a final judicial order, one that will make Trump’s fat jaw drop to the floor. For all the fancy legal language, it will be:
See you… In DECEMBER!
Wouldn’t it be great if Randy Rainbow was on standby near the courthouse with a choir prepped (all dressed like they were headed to a beach in California, Beach Boys style) to serenade along with him a parody of that old Beach Boys classic?
Put his ignorant ass in jail. This has gone way beyond anything anyone in this country is allowed to do while awaiting trial and it needs to end now.
We had better get back to reality-the one where the law applies to everyone because I guarantee you one thing: if this ass-hole gets away with his criminal acts and walks free (or gets special treatment if convicted), then there is no reason for any citizen of the U.S. to follow any laws. Laws only work when applied to all the citizens. We can see what has been happening over the past few decades and now we have domestic terrorism blooming as if it were planted in a well-fertilized patch of dirt. There are different reasons for this increase in domestic terrorism but I am sure that this is one of them: white men can do whatever the f*ck they want with little or no repercussion. What was given in the way of punishment to the fools of the J6 crowd amounted to almost nothing. Insurrection, hell treason, occurred and instead of these idiots facing a firing squad or at least life in prison they get months. I call bull-shit.
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I hate to correct you spike about the white men comment…you left out the ‘rich, powerful, well connected’ white men. I’m a white man who was railroaded into prison first offense by a corrupt DA, public defender, and judge for something even the parole board admitted I shouldn’t have been arrested for. I still have the letter from them admitting such and supporting me for a pardon. That being said, I’ve been a felon for 45 years, and refused to take them up on their offer because, after fighting to stay alive for four months in the phucking penitentiary, and being a political prisoner, I’m not going to grovel and lie saying I’m sorry. I’m not. They should be. So to watch this child killer walk, and sh*t on these beauracrats is especially galling. In general you’re right. Check the arrest records of most cities and you’ll see black folks arrested at much higher rates than whites for the same offenses. They, like I was, are poor and have no advocates to enlighten them on how corrupt this rich man’s LAW truly is. This system is corrupt and trump has been a poster child to prove it ALL HIS ADULT LIFE. The evidence is more than clear. I rest my goddamn case.
“You know the old Beach Boys tune – the one about “See you in September.””
Um, denis. The Beach Boys may have recorded that song sometime in their lengthy career (though not listed on either Wikipedia page covering songs recorded by the group) but, if they did, they didn’t have a hit with it. The song hit #23 in 1959 for the Tempos (a vocal group from Pittsburgh) and a #3 hit in 1966 for the Happenings (a vocal group from Paterson, NJ). The Tempos’ version was included in George Lucas’s film “American Graffiti” and the Happenings’ version was produced by Bob Crewe (best known for his production work for Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons).
I still listen to Good Vibrations and God Only Knows to remind myself how great they were before Brian cracked up and they devolved into a bar band.
Whatever it is that brings these evil bastards like Hitler and Trump etc., into existence the/ir song remains the same; and the most cowardly thing their enablers and followers do is to shut their eyes to the facts.
” twitter, or X or whatever Musk wants to call it ”
Marty Wheeler amongst others has taken to calling it xitter, which I quite like. As for pronunciation, it could be ‘zitter’ or ‘zhitter’ or ‘zshitter’, the last of which seems quite suitable.