This thing where he has to prove his innocence is what made me uneasy. I admire the sneakiness though of going after him cos that applies - and then, if it works, using his easily won case as an argument in the states where that rule does not apply.It apparently dates back to civil war times, when confederates tried to pull a proto-MAGA and run for election after the war. we've become anesthetized to the kind of things he's on the record as saying. who knows if it will stand up in court, but they certainly sound insurrectionist. and it's what he was aiming for when he said it, even if it was just rhetoric. apparently he is the one who now has to prove that he wasn't being an insurrectionist.
He might die soon... he does have a lot of, I dunno, vigour maybe, which seems to sort of animate his failing body and mind to keep standing up in front of crowds of people and spouting insane bollocks for way longer than ought to be possible for a man in his state of health... but surely that can only do so much. It's like in Scarface when the coke and anger keeps him upright in the hail of bullets for a few extra seconds but ultimately it succumbs to the inevitable. Trump's almost unsurpassed and bloody-minded drive to keep on being the world's biggest arsehole is so powerful it actually earns my grudging animation but surely it is finite?trump? he'll be back. and even if he doesn't run again, he'll still meddle in GOP politics. a 75-year old narcissist will never change.
Adrenochrome?He might die soon... he does have a lot of, I dunno, vigour maybe, which seems to sort of animate his failing body and mind to keep standing up in front of crowds of people and spouting insane bollocks for way longer than ought to be possible for a man in his state of health...
They'll spin it as an assassination by the Demonrats, I've no doubt about that.when the Donald dies, he'll become (even more of) a martyr to the MAGA massiv.
A resolution approved unanimously said Cheney and Kinzinger were engaged in the “persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”.
Newt Gingrich, a former House speaker and candidate for the presidential nomination now advising Republican leaders, has said the party could seek to jail members of the January 6 committee.
But this seems so clearly mad. To rewrite the law so that violence and so on is "legitimate" and then to threaten those who seek to investigate it. And this thing Gingrich said about trying to jail committee members... does that have any chance of happening? Either way, to make that kind of threat towards people for being part of an investigation you don't like is obviously morally terrible and quite frightening. From where we are sitting over here, it often feels that in America, for any given event there are two versions of events competing to become Reality and the one that wins is decided by who controls the relevant bodies or who wins a crucial court case relating to the situation - not the actual events that actually, you know, happened.
You would think that such a blatant attack on both reality and morality (not to mention The Constitution - anyone remember that old thing?) would be completely beyond the pale for anyone still on the ride who is truly a conservative. In fact anyone who is not totally fucking mental.