Thanks. Posting whining from Daily Kos Kidz made my day.Balloons are different than bubbles. You can live in a bubble and not really know you’re in it. When you’re in a balloon, though, you know damn well where you are. You just get used to breathing the same air over and over again until it seems normal.
So here’s a little wake-up call for those former balloon dwellers. Donald Trump is, was, and for the better part of his life always has been, a criminal. The fact that Republicans willingly put him into high office doesn’t make him any less of a criminal. The funny thing is — they knew he was a criminal from the start. They just didn’t care.
For Christ’s sake, this is the guy who bilked young people out of their hard-earned savings with his fake “university.” The same guy who bankrupted his casinos like clockwork and stiffed contractors and other folks he hired as a point of pride. Who grossly inflated his real estate holdings and refused to turn over his taxes. Who routinely sexually assaulted and harassed women. And that was all before Republicans thought it was a great idea to make him president, whereupon he proceeded to turn the Emoluments Clause into a sick joke.
We all know what he did afterwards. He, his cronies and his repulsive family bent over backwards to engage the assistance of the bloodthirsty dictator now waging an unprovoked war against Ukraine. Then he tried to extort Ukraine itself by trying to hold up weapons shipments until Ukraine’s president concocted a phony story smearing Joe Biden’s son. When Joe Biden then crushed him in the general election he summoned America’s very worst specimens to start a riot in an effort to overturn that election’s result. His excuse (for all the others in his balloon) was a phony assertion of “fraud,” which must have been a neat trick since the so-called “fraud” applied only to him, and not to everyone else who shared a space on the same optically-scanned ballot.
In short, this guy is a seasoned criminal, with a mindset to match, through and through. His relatives know it, his former flunkies and button men know it. And the truth is, Republicans know it too. They knew it from the very moment they inflicted him on the rest of us.
I don’t know what’s in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s files about this guy’s dealings, but I have a strong hunch Garland wouldn’t take the unprecedented step of raiding the Florida house of a former president unless something considerably more serious than a breach in archival practices was going on. Based on Trump’s track record with fomenting sedition and fellating foreign dictators I’d be surprised if it wasn’t outright treachery. I guess we’ll find that out soon enough.
But in the meantime, spare us the phony outrage and the “government overreach” bullshit. Spare us the “third-world country” garbage. Is this really how you raise your children, to turn a blind eye to the legal process? To scam others for pleasure, to lie, cheat and steal? To sell out their country? Is that what you’re really all about? Guess so.
Republicans, please spare us your squealing
If that whiny sound emanating from so many elected Republican officials sounds familiar, it should. It’s the same high-pitched squeal a balloon emits when you carefully let its air out between compressed fingers. Republicans have been living in that...www.dailykos.com
