It is Tuesday morning, 9 August 2022. I am happy, healthy, awake, and looking forward to my first cup of coffee just as soon as the coffee maker completes the cycle. Some people pour their first cup of coffee as soon as there is enough coffee in the pot to fill a cup …. sociopaths!
I can now hear the last sound of water coursing through the pot. The time is upon us…
… but it can wait until I crank out this post.
The news today is focused on the raid at Trump’s private residence at Mar-a-Lago. Keep in mind that last February there was a story about multiple boxes of government documents being found at Trump’s residence – that story can be found here. Yesterday, the FBI came a-calling again, this time with search warrants.
Today, of course, there is such righteous indignation coming out of both Trump’s camp and the GOP leadership.
Tough.
Back in the 70’s, there was a character played by former Little Rascal Mickey Gubitosi called “Baretta” – ok, he adopted the stage name “Robert Blake” – and that character had a catch phrase, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”.
The former president is learning another lesson. If you are going to attempt to overturn an election and prevent the peaceful change of administrations following a lawful election, you better pull it off. There are consequences for epic screw ups, and this is the biggest screw up in US history by a sitting president. He was impeached twice for a reason.
I look forward to the day when Trump is in everybody’s rear view mirror, and no one pays attention to him anymore.
If America. we love a couple of tropes – we love the underdog that overcomes tremendous odds to succeed. Always a winning story. The other trope we can’t take our eyes off – when the mighty fall.
This isn’t just a fall. This is a slow-motion train wreck.
Every American with even the most basic situational awareness saw this coming. Trump is too damned stupid to follow the most basic tenets of CYA… cover your ass. His inner circle is likely moving money around and taking a look at real estate in countries that don’t have extradition treaties with the US.
I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Peace y’all.
