If it’s Tuesday, it must be the nineteenth installment in the recurring series inspired by the 1991 Duke-Edwards Gret Stet governor’s race. It was the most intense electoral experience of my life; formative too, it gave me an intense dislike of all forms of extremism.
A reminder of the unofficial slogan of the race from hell:
In 2024, we’re flipping that on its head and voting AGAINST the crook. It’s even more important.
The latest reason to vote against the crook is his passion for retribution and revenge. Talking about who should be prosecuted for being mean to him is part of the Insult Comedian’s stump speech. The MAGA maggots roar with delight every time their dear leader talks about the retribution he’ll seek against his enemies. Nixon had an enemies list but once again Trump makes him look like a piker.
The featured image is of three of the most prominent Americans who Trump tried to prosecute during his first term. You know them all, but I’ll list them anyway: James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and John Kerry. I know what you’re thinking: We like Clinton and Kerry but not Comey. That doesn’t matter, unlike Trump none of them committed any crimes.
We’ve been hard on the NYT this year for good reason, but it has performed a public service with a series reminding us that the Kaiser of Chaos initiated baseless investigations into this trio and others during his first term. It’s near the top of a long list of reasons why Trump should never be allowed near the White House again.
Here are the links:
At the risk of using a word out of the dictionary of media cliches, there will be no guardrails in a second Trump term. There’s a certain irony to how White House counsel Don McGahn used delay tactics to slow Trump’s revenge roll. Delay has been the Insult Comedian’s friend in attacking the federal charges against him.
Even unsuccessful investigations can be devastating to the target. The best example is what happened to former Deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.
Prosecutors went to a grand jury to seek Mr. McCabe’s indictment, but in a highly unusual move, the grand jury declined to charge him. Amid public and private pressure from Mr. Trump, his beleaguered attorney general, Jeff Sessions, fired Mr. McCabe just days before his retirement, depriving him of his pension and benefits. The Biden Justice Department essentially rescinded the firing and restored his benefits. Mr. McCabe spent over a million dollars in legal fees defending himself in the criminal investigation and tens of thousands of dollars in accounting fees for the audit.”
That’s some serious shit. A second Trump administration would be staffed by sycophants who would applaud any effort to prosecute their perceived enemies. The voters should take this seriously and vote accordingly.
Repeat after me: Vote against the crook, it’s important.
The last word goes to The Nips with Shane MacGowan:
Sometimes, when my pals get together, we play the who-would-you-love -to-chat-with game. Of course, Kamala and Doug and Tim and Gwen and all their kids get mentioned, but soon after come Nicole Wallace and hubby Michael Schmidt. How great a power couple is that? She has such an easy laugh and he has such a focused look! And both are so intelligent and such great researchers! Any chat with them would be way too short no longer how long it lasted! 🤗