Fraught For The Day

Tilting At Windbags

January 6 December 22, 2021

“[e]ither we’ll have clean elections, or we won’t have elections.” 
Donald J. Turmp Jair Bolsonaro

Oops, wrong authoritarian shithead.

While Donald Turmp and his band of merry mutants continue to perpetrate his big lie, and pretend that he believes he is still president, or at least should be, he continues his windmill-tilting-esque attempt to hide the evidence of his long-running criminal enterprise, as opposed to his more recent treasonous enterprise. After a circuit court denied Turmp’s absurd claim of executive privilege, something only actual, current presidents can exercise, a federal appeals court has given The Orange Guy what most believe is a temporary reprieve. So instead of the National Archive releasing Turmp’s insurgency communique on November 12 as planned, we will have to wait until a little longer to have his perpetually-under-audit (not a thing) tax returns.

Don Revolty & Stencho Panza

Cloudy With A Chance Of Death Threats

Currently, Turmp’s malignant minions are threatening anyone who disagrees with Dear Ex-Leader. Members of Turmp’s terror squad are visiting death threats upon members of Congress, election officials, school board members (and like and competent terrorist, also threatening their families), and other public officials, like Katie Hobbs the Democratic attorney general in Arizona. Turmp’s very fine people have also threatened (and occasionally carried out) violence against government facilities, law enforcement, and religious communities (i.e., Jews).

Some MAGAts are demanding books they don’t like (which they have almost certainly never read) be not just banned, but burned. There is not yet confirmation that there have been calls to fashion crosses out of these books before setting them ablaze. Get ready for a round of witch trials in the near future.

Ratpublicans in Congress are frantically working to strip committee assignments from any in their caucus who committed the heinous sin of voting in favor of the Senate’s bipartisan, and critically important infrastructure bill, which will help every single American…even corporate Americans. As always, the raison d'être of the Ratpublican Party is to stop Democrats from succeeding at all costs, not least of which is the survival of America, our economy, our democracy and literally, any number of lives. They have no plans, no policies themselves anymore. They and their voters have no interest in policy, just hatred, division, racism and holding power permanently.

Despite all of this, and despite irrefutable evidence that he fully intended and unquestionably incited his cultists to carry out the overthrow of the government, Turmp is still permitted to lumber through our streets, constantly yelling FIRE! in the crowded theater of American society.

It Ain’t Over ‘Til The Fat Man Swings

As of now, New York State Attorney General Letitia James wants Turmp, who everyone knows is incapable of telling the truth about anything – at a molecular level, to testify under oath about his lifetime of at-best-shady business dealings on January 7, 2022.

On the same day James announced her intention to depose him, another federal appeals court threw out Turmp’s baseless attempt to shield the evidence of his complicity in the January 6, 2020 attempt to overturn the repeatedly scrutinized and verified presidential election. This court is the final stop before the Supreme Court, which most experts believe might refuse to hear the case. While there is much to loathe and fear about the six radical right-wing Justices, I believe that since Turmp is not a fetus, they will have little interest in helping him destroy the Constitution in this case.

Fun Fact: Disgraced, twice-impeached, murdering traitor Turmp has announced that he will holding another, very special “press conference” at Mor-on-Lago, on January 6, 2022 – the first anniversary of the attempted coup he led. Turmp intends to use his bullshit pulpit to re-up his Big Lie and attack those who have not supported his treasonous treachery. Should be fun.

I am choosing to remain nauseously optimistic as the walls appear to be closing in on the man who should be #1 on the FBI’s most wanted list. We should be seeing his picture in the Post Office…and not on a stamp. Unfortunately, thus far Turmp has seemed like Kreeptonite to the American system of justice. Hopefully, one of the current cases against him – from the state of New York, the Southern District of New York, the state of Georgia and/or the January 6 Select Committee’s investigation – will prove to be a lead shield.

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