Every time he does something new, my reaction is that he has to be taken off the streets. He is a criminal, and he continues to do things that are dangerously illegal. Someone (i.e., Merrick Garland) needs to grow a set. As long as he's allowed to continue and continue and continue to rouse and incite his supporters to "protest" a la January 6, and threaten prosecutors, and threaten to abuse the pardon power once again so as to entice people not to cooperate with criminal investigations, etc., we continue to lose and democracy becomes further and further imperiled.
We are able to get people who are alleged to have committed violent crimes off the streets immediately. Why can't we get the most dangerous man in the country, who brazenly commits his crimes out in the open, off the streets?
When Jerry Seinfeld hosted SNL years ago, he had a bit about riding in NYC cabs. He said it was like watching it on a movie screen. He'd be like, "That looks dangerous! I wouldn't do THAT." That's how the country is with Trump. It's like there is a disconnect. I don't understand it at all.
Greg, this is an incredible synopsis of an excuse for a human being, his destructiveness and his evil brilliance. I have not given up on the work of those who are assembling, comma by period, dotted i by crossed t, the case to confront him. The big fear is that those of us who want to eradicate him and his cronies [at the ballot box, in front of judicial entities, through whatever media is not a tool] - that we will flag and give up. That has to be the rallying cry. So keep up your great work, and keep reminding all of us to stay the course. We must, to keep our country and our planet a place our grandchildren can inhabit.
Stupidity, absolutely, but emphasis on BIGOTRY. It is the opposition to non-whites, women and non-straights that is the engine of the MAGA + Trump + Republican segment of our country. Elsewhere I posted, “Beware of white men draped in US flags, if you look on the back of those flags you will see a swastika.“
Greg, you have captured him, in a nutshell ! It'll be a crime of lasting consequence, if the DoJ doesn't go after him, especially after provoking such violence at his latest rally
With all due respect to the DoJ, if they don’t finish this job in time, I will be the first person to stand on the rooftops shouting that they are incompetent. This task is not just about getting it right. It is just as imperative that it be started and completed on time. They will be judged forever based on how they handle this job.
Prosecute with extreme prejudice, Resident Donald Chernobyl “D-“ Trump. Please DOJ, surprise us with an indictment of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
Stick the 1st then superseding indictments (page two) until the cows return or chickens roost. Different jurisdictions will take numbers for availability
From Hitler, Trump learned the art of the big lie:
1) Blame all problems on minorities and your opposition. 2) Present easy and enticing solutions as a zero-sum game, so their losses would be a gain for everyone else. 3) Cultivate and reward your henchmen & financial sponsors with power and wealth. 4) Claim your short-term results & failures as fantastical successes, while repeating them over and over, and over again. 5) Once you obtain power do whatever it takes to never give it up.
And there you have it…all in a nutshell!! I was practically barfing through this but decided anger was more befitting. You know, prayers don’t seem to work much so I gotta hang onto hope because pretty soon, that rope might get entangled around my neck. Just kidding…maybe…
There was a SCRIPT at that Conroe hate rally - it was written on a teleprompter. It is written evidence that accompanies video evidence and media coverage of yet another out-in-plain-sight organization of yet another insurrection. The boundaries of "free speech" have been crossed when a person incites a mob to violence. He did it before. He's doing it again. What more does DOJ need? More deaths? More fat white guys in camo shirts and red caps waving Nazi flags and Confederate flags? More threats and intimidation of more public officials?
Who wrote the latest script for the monster? Who operated that teleprompter? Who planned this latest mob "rally"? Who paid for it? Who attended it? (I hope the FBI is infiltrating these campaign events and making note of who attends them.)
It never fails to astound me that even though we've all lived through this, a succinct retelling is always a surprise. We forget too much and remember too little. This miserable excuse for a human needs not only to be taken off the streets, but he also needs to be sent to a prison where he can't harm people again. Yes, yes, indictment, trial, and conviction first, of course, but then off to prison, where even a ten-year sentence would likely be enough.
I have a home theater on a big, giant set of hard drives, and I'm especially drawn to documentaries. I started a TV show collection a few years ago which I called, "The Rise and Fall of Donald J Trump," because it seemed very likely that with his history there would be a great fall. So far, I'm still waiting. There are currently 229 episodes: everything from some 2010 documentary called, "Donald Trump: All American Billionaire" (as if) to his debates with Hillary to his impeachments to "The Four Seasons Total Documentary." I have some catching up to do, like getting this past weekend's Nazi Rally, but STILL waiting for that fall. I can only hope that Obi Wan Garland knows that we're all counting on him WAY more than we did Mueller!
There are days that I want to give up. Just turn off TV news, and stop reading The Washington Post, and be one of those people that doesn't pay any attention to politics, but I find that I can't. Trump is too dangerous and stupid, a rare and deadly combination -- well, maybe not so rare, but in his hands VERY dangerous. It's the people in the shadows we don't hear much about that worry me more than Trump. If he was on his own, he could probably be safely ignored, but as usual in his life, he ALLOWS things to happen in his name that other people thought of, and don't mind him taking all the credit. His pardoned cronies are prime examples, but there are others, like Stephen Fucking Miller (I have it on good authority that is his actual middle name). Trump himself has never had an original thought in his life, of that, I am sure. It's the shadow people that worry me the most. THEY must be stopped too.
Gods! Is this what Germany was like in the 1930s? I know one thing: Trump killed hyperbole!
We all want to turn away, believe me. This is exhausting, and time-consuming, and joy-deflating. But it is our civic responsibility. Our moral responsibility.
Obi Wan took up arms against Lord Vader. I call him AG Hogwarts.
Excellent as usual Greg! As one of your readers pointed out, we know all the crappie things dfg has done. But to have our memories refreshed it’s just infuriating! As much as his base hates immigrants have they never questioned him marrying 2 eastern bloc women? Melonia got a gd Einstein visa! JC could come down off the cross and tell his sheeple that dfg is a bad bad man and I swear they’d put Jesus back on the cross! Anyway I keep my fingers crossed that his time in the barrel is soon. You doing the aftershow with Zev this week?
Give Trump some credit. He waited until his parents died before he diminished their role in his success story, with his fantastical tale about how he became a self-made billionaire, after starting out with only a million-dollar loan from dad, which he paid back with interest:
Actually, Trump Tower was finished in 1979 and it's financing and required political connections were the result of his parents vast wealth, and friends in high places. His parents started gifting him money from an early age. In 1985, he purchased Mar-a-Lago for under 10 million, while they were both alive. Of course his parents would have agreed to help their heir apparent live in a castle. Inflation, other peoples ideas, and then the Fed Government increased its value over time. In this sense, the NYT undervalued the amount of wealth bestowed upon Trump. He was actually accruing his parent's wealth, and investing it in runaway real estate inflation. They didn't wait until they passed, as they were life-long tax cheats and tax avoiders too.
The "astute" real estate magnate didn't even know that Mer-a-Lago was under a flight path. I guess that mistake was better than threatening North Korea with nuclear war without taking into account that N. Koreas has nuclear weapons, shares a border with South Korea, China, Russia, and is only a missile lob from Japan. Even though everyone around him tried to explain these facts to him, he still ordered warships that might have caused an accidental nuclear war until someone else provided overriding clarifications.
The idiot made the same mistake with Iran. Again, knowning nothing about the the geography of the country, including the Straight of Hormuz and its proximity to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the Gulf States. Sr. claimed Jr. was not the sharpest knife in the drawer? 111+ American troops who were evacuated as a result of Iran's grace would beg to differ. This event occured after Iran had already demonstrated their ability to pinpoint their missile capability in their attack against Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. Yet, Trump assassinated Iran's #2, while leaving them unprotected in Iraq from Iranian retaliation. My guess is Putin helped resolve the larger castastrophe. However, Trump managed to cover up his pathological deed, by claiming the injured American troops only suffered a few headaches, and then to further silence his gross miscalculation, Trump deprived them of the medals they deserved as their Commander-in-Chief. God forbid anyone accuse Trump of recklessly endangering the American troops he loves so dearly!
Every time he does something new, my reaction is that he has to be taken off the streets. He is a criminal, and he continues to do things that are dangerously illegal. Someone (i.e., Merrick Garland) needs to grow a set. As long as he's allowed to continue and continue and continue to rouse and incite his supporters to "protest" a la January 6, and threaten prosecutors, and threaten to abuse the pardon power once again so as to entice people not to cooperate with criminal investigations, etc., we continue to lose and democracy becomes further and further imperiled.
We are able to get people who are alleged to have committed violent crimes off the streets immediately. Why can't we get the most dangerous man in the country, who brazenly commits his crimes out in the open, off the streets?
When Jerry Seinfeld hosted SNL years ago, he had a bit about riding in NYC cabs. He said it was like watching it on a movie screen. He'd be like, "That looks dangerous! I wouldn't do THAT." That's how the country is with Trump. It's like there is a disconnect. I don't understand it at all.
Greg, this is an incredible synopsis of an excuse for a human being, his destructiveness and his evil brilliance. I have not given up on the work of those who are assembling, comma by period, dotted i by crossed t, the case to confront him. The big fear is that those of us who want to eradicate him and his cronies [at the ballot box, in front of judicial entities, through whatever media is not a tool] - that we will flag and give up. That has to be the rallying cry. So keep up your great work, and keep reminding all of us to stay the course. We must, to keep our country and our planet a place our grandchildren can inhabit.
Thank you. We can't give up. He WILL topple our democracy unless he is stopped. And law enforcement MUST stop him. It's that simple.
He has finally found the family who loves and adores him and he will fight to keep it. He is a monster.
And the irony is, he wouldn't care if all of these people died.
Absolute true!
That former guy is no *strongman* -- he's a huge coward & a wimp
True, true.
Great piece, Greg. Your *voice* captured my feelings perfectly
Thank you!
Never ever underestimate the stupidity, greed, and bigotry of a very large portion of the American people.
It never fails to astonish me.
Stupidity, absolutely, but emphasis on BIGOTRY. It is the opposition to non-whites, women and non-straights that is the engine of the MAGA + Trump + Republican segment of our country. Elsewhere I posted, “Beware of white men draped in US flags, if you look on the back of those flags you will see a swastika.“
Greg, you have captured him, in a nutshell ! It'll be a crime of lasting consequence, if the DoJ doesn't go after him, especially after provoking such violence at his latest rally
Agreed. It's almost 13 months and all we have are shit-smearers and the Oath Keeper idiot.
With all due respect to the DoJ, if they don’t finish this job in time, I will be the first person to stand on the rooftops shouting that they are incompetent. This task is not just about getting it right. It is just as imperative that it be started and completed on time. They will be judged forever based on how they handle this job.
Ok I take it back. Sometimes I like your political columns more than the literary ones. This is a sample, a classic Philippic. Tell it, brother.
Thank you!
Nothing we didn’t already know, but presented in your inimitable style, it’s more horrifying than ever
That's the thing...there's this sense that we are all waiting for the NEXT time he does something wrong. But he's been criming for many decades now.
Yeah…there simply cannot, I repeat, CANNOT have another “next time”!
Prosecute with extreme prejudice, Resident Donald Chernobyl “D-“ Trump. Please DOJ, surprise us with an indictment of conspiracy to overthrow the government.
Amen.
A perfect summation. Time for a conviction. Tick-tock Donald.
An indictment or six would be nice.
Stick the 1st then superseding indictments (page two) until the cows return or chickens roost. Different jurisdictions will take numbers for availability
From Hitler, Trump learned the art of the big lie:
1) Blame all problems on minorities and your opposition. 2) Present easy and enticing solutions as a zero-sum game, so their losses would be a gain for everyone else. 3) Cultivate and reward your henchmen & financial sponsors with power and wealth. 4) Claim your short-term results & failures as fantastical successes, while repeating them over and over, and over again. 5) Once you obtain power do whatever it takes to never give it up.
It's almost like someone very familiar with KGB propaganda trained him.
Really? 🤔
And there you have it…all in a nutshell!! I was practically barfing through this but decided anger was more befitting. You know, prayers don’t seem to work much so I gotta hang onto hope because pretty soon, that rope might get entangled around my neck. Just kidding…maybe…
It is awful, awful, awful.
There was a SCRIPT at that Conroe hate rally - it was written on a teleprompter. It is written evidence that accompanies video evidence and media coverage of yet another out-in-plain-sight organization of yet another insurrection. The boundaries of "free speech" have been crossed when a person incites a mob to violence. He did it before. He's doing it again. What more does DOJ need? More deaths? More fat white guys in camo shirts and red caps waving Nazi flags and Confederate flags? More threats and intimidation of more public officials?
Who wrote the latest script for the monster? Who operated that teleprompter? Who planned this latest mob "rally"? Who paid for it? Who attended it? (I hope the FBI is infiltrating these campaign events and making note of who attends them.)
Good point. The whole thing is madness. No other society, ever, would allow this to continue.
It never fails to astound me that even though we've all lived through this, a succinct retelling is always a surprise. We forget too much and remember too little. This miserable excuse for a human needs not only to be taken off the streets, but he also needs to be sent to a prison where he can't harm people again. Yes, yes, indictment, trial, and conviction first, of course, but then off to prison, where even a ten-year sentence would likely be enough.
I have a home theater on a big, giant set of hard drives, and I'm especially drawn to documentaries. I started a TV show collection a few years ago which I called, "The Rise and Fall of Donald J Trump," because it seemed very likely that with his history there would be a great fall. So far, I'm still waiting. There are currently 229 episodes: everything from some 2010 documentary called, "Donald Trump: All American Billionaire" (as if) to his debates with Hillary to his impeachments to "The Four Seasons Total Documentary." I have some catching up to do, like getting this past weekend's Nazi Rally, but STILL waiting for that fall. I can only hope that Obi Wan Garland knows that we're all counting on him WAY more than we did Mueller!
There are days that I want to give up. Just turn off TV news, and stop reading The Washington Post, and be one of those people that doesn't pay any attention to politics, but I find that I can't. Trump is too dangerous and stupid, a rare and deadly combination -- well, maybe not so rare, but in his hands VERY dangerous. It's the people in the shadows we don't hear much about that worry me more than Trump. If he was on his own, he could probably be safely ignored, but as usual in his life, he ALLOWS things to happen in his name that other people thought of, and don't mind him taking all the credit. His pardoned cronies are prime examples, but there are others, like Stephen Fucking Miller (I have it on good authority that is his actual middle name). Trump himself has never had an original thought in his life, of that, I am sure. It's the shadow people that worry me the most. THEY must be stopped too.
Gods! Is this what Germany was like in the 1930s? I know one thing: Trump killed hyperbole!
We all want to turn away, believe me. This is exhausting, and time-consuming, and joy-deflating. But it is our civic responsibility. Our moral responsibility.
Obi Wan took up arms against Lord Vader. I call him AG Hogwarts.
He has not earned the title Obi-Wan. Right now, until he proves otherwise, he is Merrick “Warren Commission” Garland. Vichy Garland.
Excellent as usual Greg! As one of your readers pointed out, we know all the crappie things dfg has done. But to have our memories refreshed it’s just infuriating! As much as his base hates immigrants have they never questioned him marrying 2 eastern bloc women? Melonia got a gd Einstein visa! JC could come down off the cross and tell his sheeple that dfg is a bad bad man and I swear they’d put Jesus back on the cross! Anyway I keep my fingers crossed that his time in the barrel is soon. You doing the aftershow with Zev this week?
Give Trump some credit. He waited until his parents died before he diminished their role in his success story, with his fantastical tale about how he became a self-made billionaire, after starting out with only a million-dollar loan from dad, which he paid back with interest:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/02/trumps-small-loan-from-his-father-was-more-like-60point7-million-nyt.html
Actually, Trump Tower was finished in 1979 and it's financing and required political connections were the result of his parents vast wealth, and friends in high places. His parents started gifting him money from an early age. In 1985, he purchased Mar-a-Lago for under 10 million, while they were both alive. Of course his parents would have agreed to help their heir apparent live in a castle. Inflation, other peoples ideas, and then the Fed Government increased its value over time. In this sense, the NYT undervalued the amount of wealth bestowed upon Trump. He was actually accruing his parent's wealth, and investing it in runaway real estate inflation. They didn't wait until they passed, as they were life-long tax cheats and tax avoiders too.
The "astute" real estate magnate didn't even know that Mer-a-Lago was under a flight path. I guess that mistake was better than threatening North Korea with nuclear war without taking into account that N. Koreas has nuclear weapons, shares a border with South Korea, China, Russia, and is only a missile lob from Japan. Even though everyone around him tried to explain these facts to him, he still ordered warships that might have caused an accidental nuclear war until someone else provided overriding clarifications.
The idiot made the same mistake with Iran. Again, knowning nothing about the the geography of the country, including the Straight of Hormuz and its proximity to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and the Gulf States. Sr. claimed Jr. was not the sharpest knife in the drawer? 111+ American troops who were evacuated as a result of Iran's grace would beg to differ. This event occured after Iran had already demonstrated their ability to pinpoint their missile capability in their attack against Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. Yet, Trump assassinated Iran's #2, while leaving them unprotected in Iraq from Iranian retaliation. My guess is Putin helped resolve the larger castastrophe. However, Trump managed to cover up his pathological deed, by claiming the injured American troops only suffered a few headaches, and then to further silence his gross miscalculation, Trump deprived them of the medals they deserved as their Commander-in-Chief. God forbid anyone accuse Trump of recklessly endangering the American troops he loves so dearly!
Further notes on Mar-a-Lago: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/inside-mar-a-lago-the-secret-history-of-trumps-florida-retreat/