Of course, I’m not amazed that Donald Trump is thoroughly corrupt (from the split ends of that plasticine confection he considers hair, to the soulless soles of his feet), nor am I amazed that millions of lost souls worship him as a Jim-Jones-like demigod, consumed as they are with envy and anger, the two least enjoyable of the deadly sins. What does amaze me is how the leaders of the Republican party, people who should know better – like Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, for example – kill off their better angels to keep in the not-so-good graces of this totally despicable Mammon-worshiping, porn-star bonking, delusional, self-pitying piece of shit.
Yesterday, seemingly seconds after Trump’s conviction, Speaker Johnson was assailing the verdict, Mitch McConnell claiming that the charges should never have been brought against him, and Elise Stefanik prevaricating that Biden’s corrupt Justice Department (who, by the way, is prosecuting Biden’s son) is to blame for the unjust prosecution of a presidential candidate for falsifying business records to conceal a payoff to a porn star he had sex with during the first month of his third son’s life.
I’ll concede that the so-called hush money trial is the least nefarious of Trump’s several indictments, not nearly as bad as illegally hoarding nuclear secrets in his bathroom, nor as bad as attempting to cajole Georgia’s secretary of state into stealing enough votes to overturn a legal election, and certainly not as bad as encouraging an insurrection in an attempt to disrupt the transition of power.
However, a jury of Trump’s peers, fellow New Yorkers – one of whom gets her news from Fox – convicted him after carefully weighing the evidence.
Yet, there’s no guarantee, given the inequities of the Electoral College, that Trump won’t be reelected, that he will once again raise his right hand and swear to uphold the Constitution so he can begin organizing his mass deportations, constructing detention camps, and putting into action his campaign of Putin-like retribution.
After all, Nikki Haley is voting for him.
You Do Hoodoo 
Thank you Wesley for your important contribution to what’s happening in our world now. Just finished great book, “Eve” by Cat Bohannon….How the female body drove 200 million years of Evolution. She ends with the problem of asteroids and assholes:
” There’s the consistent problem of everyday assholes. Enough of them at the right time, under the right conditions, can have extraordinary influence over a civilization’s progress.” She goes on to mention the Hitlers, or Pol Pots, or Assads and even the Trumps. These assholes set us back by bringing out the worst in people and it’s hard to recover. She goes on to say unless we work together to reinforce our fragile institutions, we’ll lose them.
This is a fragile time and we need to be aware and vote, primaries too!
Dana Bennett
Thank for reading and commenting, Dana. “Eve” sounds fascinating. I’ll have to check it out. Best to Bill. Cheers!
The Trump Twilight Zone where illusion quickly becomes delusion for the most gullible. He’s the zombie maker. The king of fools, many of whom will gladly die the death of religious martyrs for him and many others will murder like programmed robots for him. That’s where the danger lies. Without the cult he’s just a six year old brat having another temper tantrum.
Well said.
Thanks, I really enjoy your writing. Dana and Bill recommended you.
Thanks! Love Bill and Dana!