There is a chance — slight, but delicious to consider — that at this point, one can err too far in caution. Resignation even. The belief that nothing can touch Donald Trump, while valid, based on hard experience, might be old hat.
Yes, the default has to be: his cult doesn't care, hasn't cared for years, that he's a liar, bully, fraud and traitor. Nothing, most likely, can change that. A century after death, they'll be worshipping him like Christ, sitting cross-legged on the ground outside their temples, chanting, scanning the skies for his return.
Nothing upends that. What are the Epstein revelations compared to, oh, sending a mob to trash the Capitol? Or unleashing masked federal thugs on innocent immigrants? Or failing to do what he can to stop Putin from crushing Ukraine?
Not much. Certainly not much new.
So yes, social media blows up for a few days with the latest accounts of Epstein's emails. The juicy tidbits. Do they tell us something new about the man who bragged about groping women against their will? Who ogled teen pageant contestants undressed and speculated on the sexual appeal of his own young daughter? Who slept with a porn star, cheated repeated on each of three wives?
Not really.
But there is the straw that broke the camel's back. The possibility, anyway. Is this it? I doubt it, mainly because history commands otherwise, and hope is a luxury we can't afford. Or as a wit —okay, me —put it years ago: once you get in the habit of ignoring reality, the exact nature of the reality being ignored hardly matters.
Until it does.
Nothing upends that. What are the Epstein revelations compared to, oh, sending a mob to trash the Capitol? Or unleashing masked federal thugs on innocent immigrants? Or failing to do what he can to stop Putin from crushing Ukraine?
Not much. Certainly not much new.
So yes, social media blows up for a few days with the latest accounts of Epstein's emails. The juicy tidbits. Do they tell us something new about the man who bragged about groping women against their will? Who ogled teen pageant contestants undressed and speculated on the sexual appeal of his own young daughter? Who slept with a porn star, cheated repeated on each of three wives?
Not really.
But there is the straw that broke the camel's back. The possibility, anyway. Is this it? I doubt it, mainly because history commands otherwise, and hope is a luxury we can't afford. Or as a wit —okay, me —put it years ago: once you get in the habit of ignoring reality, the exact nature of the reality being ignored hardly matters.
Until it does.
I think that the straw that breaks backs will be coming soon.
ReplyDeleteI really hate to look at that building! That demented, deranged, moronic, fat, fascist traitor & disgusting pile of shit actually ruined the look of his building by plastering his name on it & doesn't understand he did that. That's what makes him so appallingly stupid!
ReplyDeleteOf course you hate it. I hate it. Everybody without mush for brains hates it. Do what I do. I picture what was...the words "Chicago Sun-Times/ Chicago Daily News" on the edifice that once stood there. Yes, Daily News. Even though it died in 1978. Because I'm that old. And so are you. Eventually, those letters will come down. But neither of us may be around to see it.
DeleteAnd the foreground...the corner of Lake and Wabash...will always be the place where the "L" cars tumbled into the street on a frigid Friday evening in 1977, because a train operator (FKA a motorman) was high and distracted. Knew a guy who was coming out of a Chinese restaurant and saw it happen before his eyes. That vista will always be a disaster site to me, Trump or no Trump.
Those of us on the overnight shift in the Sun-Times newsroom could see the carnage firsthand, from the fourth-floor windows across the river. By the dawn's early light, I watched as the "L" cars were trucked away on huge flatbed trailers. A supervisor told me they weighed 21 tons apiece.
The awfulness will end .. it must. But as Steve Schmidt writes in The Warning, it will get worse before it gets better. Then, some few Neo-Confederates will find their morality and their spines. Democrats will realize their leadership is old and ineffective. People will rise up and say "Enough!" The rotting head will die.
ReplyDeleteThank you as always
ReplyDeleteAs many have written, and you suggest here, it won't be one thing that brings down Trump, it will be the accretion of things. Things are shifting. MTG is a self-serving opportunist (and still vile on many fronts), but to see *her begin to break away, and to see folks like Boebert refuse to cave on signing the discharge petition, says the GOP is looking to a future beyond Trump and starting to loosen the volunteer lashing.
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