Posted on 05/27/2024 5:50:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber
As Trump wows the public at rallies, Biden seethes behind the castle walls, demanding that his nemesis be convicted and jailed.
The next big news day for the regime will be Verdict Day! Oh, how they will celebrate.
And lest you get carried away with the fantasy that maybe they’ll acquit Trump in the city that made him, think again. There is little chance that the jury will go home to their friends and family and confess they passed on the chance to save Democracy because they had a sudden case of reasonable doubt.
Corrupt president, corrupt prosecutor, corrupt judge, corrupt jury. And Rachel Maddow will declare justice was served and Joe Biden will pretend that a bookeeping error was a big enough crime to warrant indicting a former president.
Reasonable Doubt? It’s been eliminated, along with due process and the presumption of innocence. The only thing that matters is whether or not Bette Midler and Stephen King can sleep at night and that Joe Biden gets to sit in the Big Boy chair at the White House and stare back at us with his tiny, angry, squinty eyes and bark about bloodbaths, dictators and “good people on both sides.”
But nothing Biden has done to Trump has helped move the needle in the polls.
The Democrats and Never Trumpers probably wonder how it is that Donald Trump can still be this popular after everything they’ve thrown at him. They keep doubling down on the hyperbole and overblown attacks against him, resorting to lying outright to win over a handful of low-information voters.
They probably haven’t figured out yet that what they’ve put in motion is a tale as old as time, one that resonates in each of us down to our bones, passed on through the generations, told by campfire light in the worst of times. It’s a story we need to hear again and again because it helps us keep hope alive.
The Hero’s Journey is a trope, to be sure, but it’s also the basis for some of the best movies ever made. We respond to characters put through their paces who come out the other side transformed. We need these stories because without them, what else is there but hopelessness.
The Democrats and Never Trumpers might have been able to convince the American people that Trump is the greatest threat they face. But after four years of Joe Biden, who has used most of his time in office demonizing Trump and his supporters, more Americans are waking up to the real threat to Democracy.
Only one side has jailed political protesters and treated them like terrorists, enlisted the help of the FBI to meddle in our elections to remove an unwanted president from power and install an establishment stooge. Only one side has weaponized the Justice System and the criminal courts to persecute and prosecute their political rivals. Only one side has attempted to take control of social media and police it for “disinformation.”
Without even realizing it, the Democrats have cast Trump as the hero in the Hero’s Journey and themselves as the villains. They’re Voldemort in Harry Potter, Darth Vader, and Governor Tarkin in Star Wars. It won’t matter what else they do to Trump; this story will end the same way.
The only reason Democrats have gotten away with their sudden lurch to authoritarian madness is because of the fast-changing media narrative that turns the page almost daily.
None of this should be even remotely acceptable to any American, and yet, since so many go along with it, including the legacy press, there are no checks on their power. How our information is meted out is whatever it takes to get what they want.
As Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi discuss on America this Week: [link at site]
What will really condemn them when students of history look back is the unanswerable question of what Trump did to deserve upending the entire country to stop him from winning an election.
They can’t point to mass graves, or lynchings, or genocide. There are no crimes big enough to justify raiding a former president’s home, with authorization to use lethal force, then turning around and gaslighting us with “official protocol” as if any of this is standard procedure.
The truth is that half of what they do is based on their ongoing hysteria and paranoia of who Trump is. They probably imagined he would be like Al Pacino in Scarface when the FBI showed up, say hello to my little friend......
I just hope Trump has a good security detail.
Why is the poll Trump vs Harris?
The article does not give any reason why as far as I can tell.
I don't know. Maybe she pulled the wrong poll from the Political Poll site. I didn't notice that until you mentioned it.
I wondered the same thing.
“I just hope Trump has a good security detail”
It doesn’t get better than state dept level operators. 😏
In answer to the headline, here’s my guess: “Because they’re insufferable vicious rabid a-holes?” How did I do?
There will be no acquittal, the best that could be hoped for is a hung jury, even if it is by only one juror. Should conviction be the verdict, there are still pauses in the judicial calendar allowing delays in the execution of the sentence. And though it may come well after the election, the verdict is certain to be reversed at some level, if only because of the clumsy misapplication of law that is not even relevant.
Meanwhile, Trump is very much at risk of assassination at the hands of some of the more radical Deep State operatives. The “good security detail” is an imperative at this point.
I think the judge and his instructions to the jury has set the stage to nullify the potential of a hold-out juror. IIRC, he has also instructed the jury that they don’t necessarily have to believe that what Trump is accused of is really a crime or not - just that he ‘paid somebody something’ (or some such horseshit like that).
It’s not going to surprise me if he’s convicted; it wouldn’t matter re: my vote if it does happen won’t change, and I think for the vast majority of his voters, too. His conviction would be overturned anyway on appeal. Democrats just want that ‘convicted of’ moniker to use in the campaign.
What I want to see out of all this is to see that judge get his just rewards. His display and actions of bias are the most egregious I’ve ever seen or heard of, frankly
Nothing mysterious.
People identify with a fellow victim of The Man.
Even if the victim is seen as otherwise undesirable.
Trump is George Floyd. Biden is the knee on his neck.
That was worth reading.
Thanks!
Keep in mind, they’ve also set precedent by going after the leading political opponent.
When the shoe is on the other foot, there’ll be no reason to stop prosecuting democrats for the merest of infractions.
Things they received a pass on before will be filed, charged, and brought to court in red states with red juries.
Things like rape. Child rape. Selling govt property. Selling fissionable materials to foreign agents. Compromising intelligence that led to the death of agents. Espionage. Election tampering. Etc etc etc
Their time to fry is coming
Good analogy to a bad situation.
Yes its all going to go away. Trump is the face of an ongoing operation to dismantle the deep state cabal. All of these trials are engineered in order to unmask the players and wake the public up. Trump fully expects to be convicted. That’s the plan. Its all going to go away on appeal and via a soon to come SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity.
Trump is being protected by the military. If he wasn’t he would already be dead. Depending on where he is he has a different security team.
At the border recently with Governor Abbott and the Adjutant General of the Texas National Guard he was with a team of big scary SF operators. Totally military. And by the way why was the “former” president right on the Rio Grande with the governor of Texas and the Adjutant General the Texas National Guard while the “real” president Biden was in Texas on the same day and nowhere near Eagle Pass and being escorted around by some border patrol guys? Whats wrong with that picture?
When Trump was in Georgia about 6 mos ago he had marines with him along with SS. He has military escort a lot of the time you just don’t catch it very often on the videos. I watch them relentlessly.
Definitely at #8 at this point.
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