Strategery 101

Smith Got Game

July 31, 2023

Someone who displays significant strategic advantage over a hapless adversary is often described as playing three-dimensional chess, while their foe is playing checkers.

Special Counsel Jack Smith seems to have added a few new dimensions to his game. It is looking like Trump’s Florida indictments are a smokescreen. He knew he was likely to get Trump’s unqualified, unserious pet judge to hear the case, so he tossed these indictments as a diversion while he put together the Washington, DC indictments for Trump’s January 6 kerfuffle – as his enablers like to call it.

The DC charges are possibly more serious, and more likely to be tried much sooner than Florida. And there will almost certainly be a real judge in DC. The extra bonus is that when Trump is found guilty in DC – perhaps of sedition or insurrection – his bid to re-steal the White House will be over, either electorally or legally. Then after the election that Trump will either lose or be watching from the sidelines or a cell, the Florida case can proceed and no pardon will be forthcoming. Double fucking whammy.

If you’re considering inviting Donald over for dinner, you’d better

get on his schedule soon; his calendar is filling up pretty fast.

And two more indictments are looming bigly.

For his part, disgraced, twice-impeached, twice-indicted (so far), failed insurrection leader and Fifth-Amendment-dependent ex-one-term-president Trump insists that neither arrest, indictment or imprisonment will interfere with his campaigning. Trump is desperately seeking a second term (third if you ask him) for the sole purpose of pardoning himself after he is found guilty of any or all of the crimes against the United States that he knows full well he committed during and after his time in office.

Someone else knows what Trump did last summer. Newly indicted co-conspirator Carlos De Oliveira told a Mor-on-Lago IT guy that “the boss” wanted the server containing the security video records deleted. When the IT guy pushed back, saying he would need approval from his security supervisor, De Oliveira again stated that “the boss” wanted the server deleted. Guess who was the boss of him.

“I never liked the White House anyway,
I’ll be president from right here.”

Despite the fact that Trump is playing checkers, there is no way he is going to get kinged.

Funny Thing

Shortly after completing this post, I found that someone else was playing with the same chess/checkers analogy. However, this does not put me in good company. Ultra-psychotic loser Karen Kari Lake, who is vying to outdo Trump when it comes to election denial, still claims she is the newly elected governor of Arizona. She is not. Lake, despite her delusions of being governor of Arizona, is desperately trying to get on the Trump 2024 ticket. She came up with the following regarding Jack Smith v. Don Trump…

“They're playing checkers and President Trump is playing, you know, chess at the highest level, so I don't think they want to pick a fight with him.”

That’s right folks. Donald Trump is running rings around poor Jack Smith. If memory serves, Smith is not the one rage posting every day in all caps. Nor is Smith the one who stole classified documents and then lied to authorities about returning everything. Smith is not the one who has been caught directing underlings to destroy evidence, or the one who incited an insurrection designed to overturn the free and fair election he lost. Only one of the players in this game of chesskers is facing 74 federal counts. And it is not Jack Smith.

I may need to alter my analogy: Jack Smith is playing multi-dimensional chess, while Trump is playing solitaire...you know, playing with himself.

He doesn’t look at Kari the way he looks at Ivanka, but she’ll do
(whatever Donny wants)

I. Mangrey, reevaluating.