If trial, conviction, and a long-overdue fatal stroke proceed apace we have a fine disposal site in the back yard for Cheeto Benito.
He would spend eternity in crucifixion pose, too, which should suit his persecution complex. Some might call it Death Yoga for Traitors.
I know, I know — it looks awfully narrow for his bulk. But it may actually be a size or three too large once Jack Smith is finished with him.
The biggest downside I can see, other than the strong likelihood that none of this will ever come to pass, is that all the poison he sucked through his pursed little piehole during a lifetime of culinary sins would probably kill all our new plants, shrubs, and trees.
Good reads
• Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. You have to love a guy who writes so clearly and forcefully, while throwing in a bonus reference to “The Verdict,” one of my favorite Paul Newman flicks.
• Michael Tomasky at The New Republic. Don’t mourn, party, sez he.
• Charles P. Pierce at Esquire. My man Chazbo, never at a loss for words, writes thusly:
In fact, it is in its precision where lies this indictment’s real power. In no place, does Smith get out over his skis. It is monumental as a historical document, but, as a legal document, it is carefully crafted, almost delicately etched. For example, there is no talk of citing the former president* for treason or for insurrection. Smith clearly has crafted an indictment precisely drawn to conform to the whopping silo of evidence he has compiled and nothing else. And it is precisely drawn to sit the former president* down under a swinging lightbulb in a dark interrogation room.
• Peter Baker at The New York Times. He’s covered five presidents, so you know he’d have some thoughts on this guy. Here’s one.
George Washington established the precedent of voluntarily stepping down after two of those terms, a restraint later incorporated into the Constitution through the 22nd Amendment. John Adams established the precedent of peacefully surrendering power after losing an election. Ever since, every defeated president accepted the verdict of the voters and stepped down. As Ronald Reagan once put it, what “we accept as normal is nothing less than a miracle.”
Until Mr. Trump came along.
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I happened to be in the car listening to NPR when the news broke. I want Trump convicted. I don’t want him to be pardoned. And you really wouldn’t want •that• pendejo in the backyard.
Nothing would grow and you would have pilgrims paying homage to him. No birds would sing; no deer would play and food trucks and portapotties would populate the neighborhood and that is a best case scenario.
Oof. Good points all. We’ll use the trench for proper landscaping then. Fill it with dirt instead of filth. We’ve had a porta-loo in the cul-de-sac for a couple weeks now and I’d hate to see it become a permanent fixture.
Right you are Libby. Patrick’s yard would become dead just like the soul of darth traitor. I hope he ends up in pre-trial detention along with some of his Arizona co-conspirators. I know, they haven’t been named yet, but Ward and Gosar need to go wherever their leader goes. I hear the FCI in Phoenix is nice this time of year.
Must be some interesting conversations going on in the nation’s jails and prisons.
“I tried to steal a car and got five to 10. This dude tries to steal the whole country and he’s zooming around on a private plane spending other people’s money and talking shit? I want a new lawyer, is what.”
Ain’t it the way of things. “Empty pockets don’t make the grade.” Justice, right?
Ronald Drump is diggin’ his own grave and Mehico ain’t gonna pay for it. Excuse me now while my profuse Crocodile tears flow.
Read Tom Nichols last night. Couple of good legal pieces here, too.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/08/02/retribution-deterrence-and-the-case-for-prosecuting-trump-for-conspiring-to-overturn-the-2020-election/
Retribution, Deterrence, and the Case for Prosecuting Trump for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
His attempt to stay in power despite losing an election is well worthy of prosecution and punishment, on grounds of retribution and deterrence.
By Ilya Somin
Ilya Somin is Professor of Law at George Mason University, and author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom and Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter.
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/08/01/what-the-trump-indictment-left-out/
What The Trump Indictment Left Out
Special Counsel Smith avoided charges of insurrection, seditious conspiracy, and incitement.
By Josh Blackman
Josh Blackman is a constitutional law professor at the South Texas College of Law Houston, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and the President of the Harlan Institute. Follow him @JoshMBlackman.
And Ken White, aka Popehat.
https://popehat.substack.com/p/people-are-lying-to-you-about-the
I read the entire indictment that was approved by a grand jury. I paid particular attention to the portion about Arizona starting on page 10. I watched this conspiracy filter down to my county. A jury will decide this case, and if the government has the same quality of evidence they have on the classified documents case, then the defendant will be found guilty. I hope the judge assigned the case slaps the ankle bracelet on him and pulls his passport. And, I hope other indictments, especially for john, rudy, and sydney, rain down this week.
Let’s lock these assholes up toot sweet and let them wait for trial.
Ground that private plane of his, too. Slap him with Writs of Fear, Vengeance, and Foreboding. And by all means, let’s see some of the mice in King Rat’s Dumpster get rounded up too. Mark Meadows is rumored to be singing like a canary boid, which means his political principles, however misguided, are a tad less dear to him than his hide.
My contempt for this lying sack of shit has not yet peaked. But, it is taking a toll on me that I can’t afford or want. The only thing standing between him and stealing my vote was Rusty Bowers. So, I will stay quiet about him from now on.
It’s ironic that although our country and the people within it believe and profess that all people are created equal, we have a tendency to still support the elevation of some individuals over all others. This is common with successfully business people, celebrities and politicians. We seem to think that if we find and prove fault in one of these people, that we are actually finding fault in our system. a trait that we do not like to discover or process. However, it is imperative that we hold all individuals accountable and prosecute them equally. This includes are Presidents, Hollywood celebrities, sports superstars and out-of-work hamburger flippers. We should be proud of following through with judgement against all those that violate the laws of our system. May our most recently non-majority voted in president face the consequences of his poor judgement. If Martha Stewart could face it, he will need to as well; somewhere in a Federal detention center, then in New York, then in Georgia, then in Arizona and then in Liz Cheney’s basement.
Dear Ed: I’m sorry about my literary errors and typos. I don’t get paid for the extra ed work.
There’s always some smooth talker with irons in various fires and fingers in multitudinous pies who will purr about the need for “healing” in cases such as this.
I’m all for healing. But first someone has to pull the knife from between the nation’s shoulder blades, clean, disinfect, and suture the wound, replace the lost plasma, and (not incidentally) find, arrest, confine without bail, charge, convict, and imprison the assailant.
I hear USB Florence ADMAX is lovely this time of year. Bicycled past it many a time I have.
I see that Florence ADMAX is looking for correctional officers. I wonder if they’ll get flooded with applications if trumpty dumpty is convicted and gets pushed off the wall.
Too bad for the secret service agents that get that duty.
It’s just too easy to focus one’s ire, hate, displeasure, disgust (pick one or all) at tRump. But he’s just the end product of 3 things that converged together over the past 20 years. Fox News/Limbaugh et. all. Unbridled social media. Weak minded Americans with enough time on their hands to soak up the first two like red-eye gravy on a biscuit.
As an old wanna-be hippie I never figured I’d be cheering like hell for the courts to go into hyperdrive and prosecute/incarcerate fellow Americans. But I revel in each and every hammering of MAGA criminals from podunk township to Washington DC. Will it be that oft despised lawyers/judges might save democracy? If so, I’ll have to eat some crow. And with no gravy either.
Right you are Herb ole buddy. Weak minded Americans that refuse to admit they’ve been conned are all around in Arizona. Meanwhile, our fiscal house is in danger of pancaking while congress wants to impeach somebody.
He’s an easy target, the great, fat, fuck. But we have to remember that a sizable portion of the population is so stick-ass dumb and junkyard-dog mean that they would eagerly cash out their 401(k)s and trade the dough for a rat’s asshole if this huckster told them it was a diamond ring with magic powers that disintegrated Mexicans, woke libtards, and Deep Staters.
And in point of fact, the guy himself is a rat’s asshole that got sold to them by the actual capitalists — the successful ones who don’t declare bankruptcy every other Tuesday — so that they would have a pliable meatsack with a functional writing hand to scrawl the presidential signature on items that they gots to have, like a Supreme Court whose clerks have to install kneepads under the judicial robes, after they finish screwing the pants onto the crooked bastards.
Remember when Ginger Hitler got into the cab of the 18-wheeler and turned the wheel back and forth like a sho’nuff trucker, making dieselish grunts and grinning like a jackass eating yellowjackets? Dude only thinks he’s driving this truck. Here’s hoping he finds himself under its wheels sooner rather than later.
Not much talked about yet, but critical in a “trial by one’s peers” is jury selection. Gonna be challenging to find individuals who can be truly objective and weigh the legal arguments/presentations that will ensue as each of these trials unfolds.
Yeah, Sir William Blackstone and the Framers of the Constitution lived in a time when the pool of potential jurors couldn’t learn anything about anyone, true or false, in a nanosecond just by staring into a smallish rectangle held in one hand. T’will be a challenge, and many lawyers will make bank. Many, many of them.
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