All this stuff with Trump never reaches resolution. Judges make rulings, "lawyers" posture in all sorts of ways, top media names continue riding this gravy train and it's like Groundhog Day.
I see in the Morris MN newspaper where this changeover from police to sheriff's dept. dudes is continuing apace. They're all set to make their rounds and nail people for various infractions. And I bring this up in the context of Trump to note that when local law enforcement notices impropriety, they take action. It's swift, it can even be rude, and then essentially it's over. Good luck trying to question any of it. I had a difficult time paying a fine once and I eventually learned from the court administrator's office that a clerical error was made at the police department.
There is no longer a Morris Police Department. I am contrasting their system with the byzantine maneuvers of those people in the white collar world. Money does talk. We read of outrageous things done by Trump and his acolytes/minions, ad nauseam. (And no, "nauseam" is not spelled like "museum.")
There's an appeal and then the next action on the matter could be months away. Lawyers appeal through the layers of legal minutiae to delay, appeal and delay again. It is clearly Trump's system and it is being laid bare before us. So, maybe the shifty operators of Trump's ilk are getting nervous over how this whole "racket" operates. Maybe the public will slowly demand some remedial action. Maybe some whistling past the graveyard now.
Actually all of this should have happened in the wake of the 2008 "financial crisis." I put this in quotes. The crisis was not an act of God. I remember Harold Ford Jr. saying on "Morning Joe" one morning: "It's hard to believe no laws were broken." Well, that's understatement.
People in the Wall Street orbit can massage the law so that any bad consequences just wilt away in a fog of confusion. I have read that Bill Clinton got away with the whole Whitewater thing because he deliberately made it too confusing for the press and thus the public to follow. These people are intelligent and they know how to maneuver, to obfuscate.
The poor dude in our little town of Morris who gets caught with a minor traffic violation? It's a whole different world, designed to keep the masses humbled, and for fine money to keep pouring into state coffers. Laws ought to have some of the same sort of stringency in the white collar world of high rollers. But it doesn't.
How long do we have to wait for Merrick Garland to start making decisions? The Jan. 6 committee is nearly done with its work. We the public will end up being able to read about all the totally horrific stuff that went on in connection to Jan. 6. However, wasn't all of this pretty evident to us at the start? I mean, in the immediate aftermath? That whole debacle would never have happened without one deranged individual. This individual would to this day be nothing more than an amusing entertainment industry curiosity, had he not assumed the most powerful position in the land.
The enablers
We the public allowed Trump to climb to that level. Oh, he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Somehow I guess we weren't supposed to be too concerned about that. So, we needed the media to lead us with a great degree of wisdom? Well, it should have. But the media, so much of which is a commercial enterprise, found that it made hay with Trump to talk about every day. So much of the talk was from people who were outwardly aghast with the man. The media got its desired "eyeballs" in a way it could never have dreamt of otherwise.
And if "amusement" had been the only outcome, like a carnival sideshow, fine. But look what happened on January 6. I wrote at the time that my old high school civics teacher would have been flummoxed, would have suggested right in class that it was an abomination. Wouldn't this be prima facie? I then speculated that this poor man, perhaps not "hip" to the times, would get in some trouble, that "conservative" school parents - again I use quotes - would suggest the teacher was being "divisive."
These parents such as the Apostolic Christians, who I specified with good reason, would argue that the rioters (insurrectionists) were "just trying to keep America great."
My old civics teacher might have required some counseling - maybe it would be mandated for him.
So today Trump's picture appears in two places at the top of the popular "Mediaite" website. One of the stories is about the boxes of documents at Mar-a-Lago. That matter appears to be cut-and-dried with illegality. But nothing can ever be judged as such in the white collar world of heavy-hitters. Oh my, how the little secret is being laid bare now.
Trump got away with "judge shopping." I couldn't do that with my seat belt ticket.
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And so we read today about Trump's "misogynistic" rant about his rape accuser, E. Jean Carroll. Trump is arguing that E. Jean Carroll is "not my type." Can you imagine if a common employee of a public school talked as such in a formal action? But Trump can never cross a line where the broad swath of the public finally decides "this is ridiculous, we need to move beyond this horrible person."
It just never happens. Wish I was not having to write about this spectacle again this morning. And I feel like the character in the "Twilight Zone" episode who discovers he is the only normal person left in a community of zombie-like folks. Is that who I am? And the local Apostolics and other "zealous" Christians would vote for Trump again. The majority of Stevens County churches are like this. And at the same time we read that young people are steadily leaving the organized Christian church. And the old folks don't care?
Elect Republicans and all they will care about, in terms of their actions, is helping the richest one percent or maybe just a fraction of the one percent amass incredibly more wealth. Ignore all the talk about social issues, the drive toward abortion bans etc. That's all just cover to try to get a certain substantial segment of the public to keep voting for them. Fear of the Democrats, fear of "liberal policies."
This can change. Maybe it really will change but we'll have to wait a lot longer. In the meantime, heaven help us all. What hath God wrought?
Vote for Edie Barrett. Vote for Kari Dorry.
Addendum: If the Christian faith dies because of all that is going on, I am going to miss it. The fact that so many people can drink the Trump Kool-Aid, just makes me wonder if the original Christians were the same way, having bought into a prevarication, a lie. Maybe Christ was not the Savior, maybe he was just someone like Trump, only with a real conscience. You all will call me a "Trump hater."
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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