Current events this week.

The interest of candidates for the Presidency drags on, not accumulating much momentum yet but it will.

Various State and Federal Attorneys General continue to gear up for a criminal inditement of Trump for everything but stepping on cracks in the sidewalk.  The closer we get to nominations the less exigent these processes will be. No one cares what Trump or anyone else does with “confidential” documents. That will get him a slap on the wrist. The big guns are him trying to usurp a democratic process in Georgia and fomenting a naked coup attempt on January 6. If that were you or me, we’d be in a maximum security prison a long time ago.  At the Federal level, the judge is a Trump Cult member who has already demonstrated she’ll do whatever it takes to give Trump an advantage. So I don’t think any of this is going anywhere.

None of these charges will matter for several reasons. Members of the Trump Cult will never believe anything remotely deleterious  about Trump no matter how convincing the evidence, and the evidence stands out like a three-dollar bill. No one is going to throw a nominee for the Presidency in jail for anything, so he’ll get a slap on the wrist for all of it. Once the nominees are selected, the silly season begins full throated. Most of the laws of God and man are suspended like the political version of Carnival in Rio.

It must also be remembered that we are a country where voters still rule, for the time being at least. So, if a fair election shows that a majority of voters choose Trump, they they’ll definitely get what they ask for and we’ll all have to live with it. Let me give you some hints of what an election of Trump will yield. You can be sure I’ll be reminding you again in time.

1.  The first thing Trump will do is formalize an enemy list of anyone, anywhere who has ever offended him and use executive power to make those persons as miserable as possible, negating any career they ever had.  Any previous legal actions against him will vanish. He’ll spend a LOT of time in this endeavor, then he’ll pardon all those convicted of any legitimate crimes. 

2.  Trump has already begun to plant Cult of Trump members into strategic State governmental positions. Positions such as Attorneys General and positions where they may hold the authority to “approve” the results of elections. Positions like rabid “electoral steal” believers like Keri Lake in Arizona and Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania. There’s lots of others out there that would be a big enough critical mass to ensure Trump never loses another election. 

3.  Not only will you be electing a sociopathic narcissist as President but be sure there will be a lot of other Republicans stirring the pot as well. Seriously deranged nut cases like Marjorie Taylor Greene who recently gave a guffaw-inducing speech comparing Biden to Lyndon B. Johnson. Yes, LBJ, who BTW this incredibly complex man cannot be fully understood without reading all five volumes of “The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson, by Robert Caro (1982- 2011). 

Yes, there are similarities. Like him or not, despite some missteps, Biden has worked hard to find ways to benefit the middle class. LBJ personally bulldozed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into existence, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, Federal funding for education, healthcare reform, Head-Start, yes food-stamps and work-study, the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965. All acts supporting real people who needed help, not already moneyed special interests.  Yes, a good comparison.

4.  BTW, in case you haven’t noticed (yet) your Republicans at work.  Republican Attorneys General from 19 Republican States send a letter to Biden announcing their intent to chase down any female residents of their State that may have travelled to another State for a purpose of getting an Abortion. To obtain would-be medical records for the purpose of convicting any such female, presumably for murder of a fetus. Yes, medical records are no longer secure. It’s already happened in Tennessee where the State AG demanded unredacted medical records from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and got them in hand. 

5.  Like the new abortion rules or not, none of these rules will stop even one abortion. Well-heeled women will go out of the country. Middle class women will drive to a State where abortion is legal, hoping not to accumulate any medical record in the process.  Poor women will find out the true meaning of supply and demand, accessing illegal suppliers of back-alley abortions, many landing in an emergency department or a cemetery. What these laws will do is spend untold amounts of taxpayers’ money chasing down the will-o-the-wisps of abortion demanders and suppliers, just like the Department of Human Resources does chasing down welfare cheaters. 

If you’re a member of the Cult of Trump, you should be thinking about this stuff.