The casualty list is growing in the wake of Trumpty Dumpty’s pants on fire attempts to save himself. The latest is Freedom of Speech, so called, and enshrined in the First Amendment. Apparently that’s the current defense the billowing buffoon is going to wield. Most buffoons would know better.
Much of the American Catechism has already been rendered obsolete. Apparently Trump and his defenders think there’s no holy of holies too holy to not poke holes in. The gutter has never had so much flowing through it as they snipe and snip at whatever they can in desperation. Desperation has never worn well.
Sure, Jack Smith headed that off in the early parts of the latest indcitment. Sure, most thinking humans understand what’s going on. Though, there’s apparently not enough Immodium in the world to plug this free flowing Freedom of Speech diarrhea from spewing from what used to look like mouths.
These knuckleheds surely don’t seem to understand that they’re soiling themselves with humilating stains that aren’t going to come out in the wash. Their ignoble profession of politics is becoming more ignoble by the moment. By the time we’re done with this shitshow there’s not going to be enough mouths worth talking out of both sides with. Frankly it stinks.
It would be comical if the stakes weren’t so high. But they are.
And they’ve got company on the casualty list. The Gray Lady apparently thinks there’s a “both sides” argument that can be made between lies and free speech. Take this headline and article: Trump Election Charges Set Up Clash of Lies Versus Free Speech. Set aside the ridiculous headline. Set aside the both-siding. Focus instead on this:
Throughout his careers in business and politics, he has sought to bend reality to his own needs, with lies ranging from relatively small ones, like claiming he was of Swedish and not German descent when trying to rent to Jewish tenants in New York City, to proclaiming that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
If you repeat something enough, he has told confidants over time, people will believe it.
By and large, this trait has served him well, helping him bluster and bluff his way through bankruptcies and then to the White House and through crises once he was there: personal scandals, two impeachments and a special counsel’s investigation when he was in office.
For the few folks reading this who might claim to be in the uninitiated, think for a moment which newspaper of record in which big city that prints all the news that’s supposedly fit to print is now essentially admitting that they’ve been content and willing to print lies masquerading as news. That’s a lot of newsprint to hoist on any petard.
Remember this is a journalism outfit that argued over and over that they couldn’t use the word “lie” to describe the decaying orange turd’s behavior because they couldn’t be inside someone’s head. But, hey, Jack Smith has said it in an indictment. So we can too!
Look, when you’re in the middle of a car wreck, an avalanche, or running from a tsunami, it’s tough to understand what’s happening moment to moment. I get it. But folks, we’ve seen whatever you want to call this cataclysmic moment coming for quite some time. Knee-jerking cultists aside, the fact that you’d expect better reactions from elected officials and journalists defies that expectation.
Self-immolation has never burned so bright.
Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3 