After Donald Trump lashed out at Fox News for consistently broadcasting what the former president perceived as unflattering images of him,Trump Not Happy with the Orange Label he has insisted the only picture of him he will allow the channel to use  will be the one of him as “the boxer.”

Mr. Trump’s communications assistant, Mort McCurrly, said the boxer is the former president’s favorite Trump Trading Card and he  knows his admirers hold him in high regard as a fighter.  He also felt since it worked so well for his friend President Putin, more nipple exposer would boost contributions to his various  PAC’s and internet cash contrivances.

“Such all promises/All lies and jest/Still a man hears what he wants to hear/And disregards the rest”    Simon and Garfunkel  THE BOXER

Sarcasm aside, projecting a  tough guy image has always been integral to Trump’s identity, and maybe his central characterstic that attracts supporters.  There is a logical rationale to that.  Decisiveness and fortitude are normally incorporated into it, positive attributes of leadership.  But Trump’s kind of tough guy has an edge to it that is insidiously vindictive and cunningly dangerous.  His form becomes a civil failing, and he compulsively interjects it into comments and conversation whenever he feels threatened or slighted.  And of all his many faults, this uncontrollable urge to denigrate and intimidate distinctivley  looms over all others as the reason he can not enlarge his base of supporters and the reason for the chaos he has caused, and frankly, encourages.

The RICO charges in Georgia are aptly fitting- ironic justice, in many ways, for someone who conducts himself and controls subordinates like a mob boss.  It is refreshing to finally see Ruby Freeman and Wandea Moss incorporated into the cause of justice.  Unfortunately  there are so many others, and so many reprecusions from Trump’s incendiary ranting.  So many innocent, honorable lives upended and even destroyed by a careless, detached narcicist.

Poll workers, election officials, jury members, prosecuting attorneys, witnesses, all just doing their jobs, are constant targets of Trump’s vitriol.  Trump gets upset, the word is passed to supporters via conservative media, and people are doxed, threatened, and even killed. There is a phalanx of Trump terroristic lunatics ready to swarm at his beck and call.  And doing so can of course backfire and get you arrested or killed, as it did January 6th, and recently in Utah Everything Trump Touches Dies  and Texas Arrested Development.

We have had presidents who were aloof, incompetent, even crooks.  But never was there one who attacked his own citizens.  Trump is simply incapable of anger restraint.  It is not leadership  in any fashion, unless you consider provoking people into criminal action is leadership somehow.  He is constantly attacking people who are performing the duties inherent in a democracy that any normal president, current or past, is obliged to defend. The  Republican hierarchy that continues to carry the weight of Trump’s lies is complicit in his undermining of our democracy.

So Trump is in deep shit financially because of all the legal fees he has to fork over to defend himself and his cronies against three criminal indictments.  But with each indictment he introduces a new e-mail scam so he can collect more money from his entrenched supporters.  So, he doesn’t want any indictments because that will increase his risk for going to jail, but he wants more indictments so he can scam more money to pay for various legal counsel to keep him out of jail. Only in America.

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Brace yourself!  The MAGA crowd is absolutley loosing its shit over Trump’s indictment.  Republican Crack-Up  Fox News is panic stricken.  Tucker Carlson suggested this might be the time for his viewers  to oil up their AR-15’s.  Jesse Waters insists the country won’t stand for it and people better be careful.  Governor DeSantis says the rule of law has been turned on its head. Kevin McCarthy insists the indicment is an intolerable injustice. To Vice Presient Pence, it’s and outrage. Marjorie Taylor Green will hit the NY streets on indictment day.

For his part, Lindsey Graham has not given such an emotionally charged speech Vale of Tears since he stood on the Senate floor right after January 6th and publicly announced his official separation from anything Trump.   Rather than a defense of Trump, Graham seems so hysterical here you have to wonder if his melt down isn’t more about his fear of  being sucked  into another of Trump’s future indictments, specifically his involvement in Georgia election interference.  And believe me Trump’s cash coffers are doing just fine Lindsey.  Not only is he skimming money out of party political PACs, but he has elevated the art of grifting to stratospheric heights. It is uncanny how he can turn adverse, even borderline criminal situations, into a donation site.

But Lindsey is not weeping alone. Sorrowful Support    Jesus people, get a grip!

Just what is the complaint here?  There is no crime?  That can’t be.  We dont know yet what the official charges are, but Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen was convicted of two felonies- tax evasion and election tampering that, try as he might to deny, Trump is surely complicit in.

This is election interference?  Well, if a politician is involved, yes there is a political element.  But a state prosecutor believes a crime has been committed.  Politicians, like the rest of us, get prosecuted if there is evidence of a crime.  Trump is a criminal defendant, just like you and I would be in similar circumstance.   Timing judicial work-arounds for anything political when a politician is involved is almost impossible.  “While adherence to the rule of law requires that prosecutors pursue criminal indictments only where the facts, law, and principles of prosecution support such action, it is also critical that no individual be insulated from accountability simply because they are a national political figure, a former president, or a candidate for public office. Choosing not to pursue accountability for fear of political criticism or consequences is itself a deeply political act.” (quote from Connor Shaw- Citizens for Responsibility and  Ethics in Washington CREW)

A logical worry is the Stormy Daniels affair is the weakest of the four grand jury investigations of the former president.  That I am even writing that sentence will eventually be historicaly noted as one of this country’s most embarrassing and traumatic periods.  To that concern about this case I say so what?  Multiple crimes have more than likely been commited. Someone had to go first.  There has to be a lot of pressure to move forward with charges against a former president, whoever is pursuing them.  Trump might very well be proven innocent.  Defense attorneys only have to convince  one juror out of twelve. That’s one safeguad built into our criminal trial jury system Trump eventually could be thankful for. If Trump wins, bring on the next indictment.  Let’s clear things up once and for all. Or die trying.

Unfortunately we are also about to endure one of the shittiest constructs of our judicial system.  Due process has become so entangled, innumerable delays are a given with someone like Trump who has a lifetime history of delaying legal outcomes.  That is part of the process we  have to live with.  But the important thing is this indictment stregthens  the rule of law in our nation.  When someone says this procedure is an outrage, they are really saying this is outrageous because Trump is being treated like everyone else.

A man has been expelled from a Minnesota fishing lodge for exagerating the size of the fish he supposedly caught.  In speaking for the members of the lodge, Lars Oleson said the man texted a picture of himself holding a 28 inch walleye pike when in fact the fish was actually caught by another member of the lodge.  Mr. Oleson stated that last summer when three of his group were headed out to fish on Winnifishkabob Lake, the man asked if he could come along.  “He seemed like a nice enough fella,” Oleson said, “but he did have trouble keeping his name straight.  First it was George something or ruther,  then another time he said it was Anthony.  I guess you could say that should have been a tip this guy wasn’t on the up and up.  But in the past the lodge only had one rule- hot fishing holes are to be revealed to lodge members only.  The rest doesn’t matter.”  After agreeing to abide by this sacred rule, Oleson said Mr. George/Anthony was granted lodge membership.

Mr. Oleson said the only fish the new member caught that day was a walleye that wasn’t even 10 inches. “That he thought that fish was a keeper was a kind of mystery to the rest of us,” Oleson said.   Then early this year the man in question appeared on social media holding a trophy walleye.  “Anders let him hold the fish for a picture that day, but that was it. That was my friend Anders fish.  I recognized the fish, and Anders for sure did.  And then this guy shows up all over the place saying he caught the fish. So that’s the end of it.  We kicked the guy out.”

In a related matter, the same man has been seen on vaious social media sites embellishing the size of his genitals.  As a publc service warning, various photographs of the size-obsessed man in question are attatched.  To confirm identification of the man, carefully examine the photo and look for residual markings of a sanded-off Louiseville Slugger trademark or telltail signs of tree bark removal.

Various disguises of sized-obsessed man                  Possible dic-pic props used by sized-obsessed man