Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to jail you go. Trump. What can I say that already hasn’t been said more eloquently by others, such as Robert De Niro, “(bleep) Trump,” or one of Donny Boy’s former Wharton professors who stated, “Donald Trump was the dumbest (bleep) student I ever had.” Ever notice how a lot of bleeps show up in discussions of No. 45? D. T. has warned “death and destruction” if he’s indicted for crimes he actually committed. He should consider himself lucky he wasn’t indicted for crimes he didn’t commit.
Because he’s already been indicted three times with number four waiting in the wings, it’s kind of late for us to heed his dire warning, so we’ll have to see if there’s a Sodom and Gomorrah rerun coming. He tells us that (Warning: Gaslight ahead.) “Everyone was happy” while he was in office. A very stable genius to be sure.
With that fourth indictment most likely on the way for threatening Georgia D.A. Fanni Willis who’s prosecuting him, he’s been put on notice that if he doesn’t stop his bad-mouthing and intimidation, he’ll be arrested, put in handcuffs and jailed. One can only hope. It puts me into a state of euphoria.
I happened to run into a casual acquaintance I’ve run into over the years (neither of us was injured). We were having a cordial conversation until he got on the subject of Trump and what a wonderful businessman he is, a generous charitable donor, etc. I almost spit out my false teeth (would have, anyway, if I had some). I know this acquaintance is intelligent, but he knew nothing about the Trump University debacle and the students who were defrauded. At least one is known to have spent $32,000 on tuition and received a book and some papers and nothing else before TU went belly up. He didn’t know about all of Trump’s failed businesses, including a casino that he couldn’t run successfully. A yak even could do it. All you have to do is open the doors and people rush in and dump handfuls of cash onto your gaming tables and into your slot machines. The contributions sent to Donny Dum-Dum’s “charitable” organization went to pay his legal expenses incurred from his failed business operations and other lawsuits.
This is how a mind functions (or doesn’t) when it’s in the brain of a human-type person who feeds it information from Trump-friendly news outlets.
I’m sure I didn’t change the mind of my acquaintance, but it did make me stop and think. For a long time I’ve been under the impression Donald “Jim Jones” Trump’s MAGA cool aid drinkers were just stupid, single-digit I.Q., slack-jawed mouth- breathers. From those I’ve seen interviewed, some of the very hardcore are. But I sense, after conversing with my casual friend, the majority are just regular folks operating in accordance with the bogus information they’ve been fed, which has led them to be continuously gaslighted by Trump and his cronies on FOX, Truth Social, Newsmax, and his minions in Congress. Very sad.
If you’ll allow me to get philosophical here (if not, I’m going to anyway), we as individuals or as a Nation, have to go through adversity to come out better and stronger on the other side. No matter which God you believe in, or universal intelligence or the Great Pumpkin, this is the case. Once this current adversity that is Trump and the garbage associated with his time in office has passed and the GOP weeds the nut jobs out of its ranks, America will emerge scarred, but in a better place. Just like me when I finish writing this piece, open a cold brew, plop in the La-Z-Boy, and watch Star Trek reruns. Beam me up, Scotty!