-by Patrick Toomey
On Tuesday night, Donald Trump will address a joint session of Congress. Presumably, it will be granted the usual pomp and circumstance given to such addresses. The networks and the legacy media will, presumably, treat it with the appropriate seriousness. Members from one party will give it rip-roaring approval, while members from another party will, presumably, treat it with grudging acceptance.
It has been 50 months since Trump, last directly interacted with Congress. That last encounter made his most recent encounter with Vladimir Zelensky look positively respectful, if not downright solicitous, by comparison:
A sizeable majority of the members who will be present on Tuesday night were also present on January 6, 2021. On that (literally) dark day, EVERY one of those members had his/her physical safety put at risk by a mob that was incited by Trump in an effort to forestall the certification of a presidential election that he lost by 7 million votes.
Trump is the only convicted felon ever to take the Oath of Office of the presidency. For reasons that still remain difficult to fathom, he was never prosecuted for his most serious crime of all. Now, he will be greeted with open arms by roughly half of the direct victims of that crime and with acceptance by roughly the other half.
Imagine, for a moment, a robber returning to a bank he robbed 50 months earlier and being openly applauded by roughly half of the bank employees whose safety he previously put at risk and by acceptance by roughly the other half. That’s what we are about to see on the national level.
It’s equally interesting to note that Trump now has (as he showed this past Friday), a lickspittle vice president. On January 6, Trump’s past vice president was rewarded for 4 years of abject loyalty by this sorry scene:
I lack a Yale law degree, but I’m smart enough to realize that a president who did nothing to stop a mob that threatened to hang his own first vice president might, if push came to shove, act similarly towards his second VP. Being one of Trump VP’s arguably can be analogized to being one of Henry VIII’s wives. I’m not sure that Amy Chua ever explained that possibility to J.D. Vance.
I’d like to think that the Dems might actually come up with an effective counter to this attempt to legitimize past criminality. Alas, Jeffries will, presumably, continue to wait for a good pitch to hit, and Carville tells us we should let Trump, Musk, and the GOP destroy what’s left of our republic and then pick up the remaining pieces in 2 years.
Perhaps an online search will disclose a good drinking game for Tuesday night’s speech.
Look out below! Another fine post from Patrick Toomey but there goes crapper again. He finds it so difficult to make a comment without being an asshole about it and then he wonders why he gets censored. That makes crapper more dumber than shit than all of us put together. He will never wake up about it because it would shatter him.
So... we're reduced to inventing drinking games? Well, never let it be said that lesser evil americans will act to solve problems or anything.
"For reasons that still remain difficult to fathom, he was never prosecuted for his most serious crime of all."
What's so difficult? either:
1) pussies that YOU ALL elect doing what pussies always do -- nuthin 'bout nuthin
or
2) consciously keeping trump upright so that your corrupt pussies would have the ultimate evil for their lesser evil to run against... again. forgetting that you already lost to that guy once.
could be a lot of both.
that's HARD for you to figure? AHHH I think we've gotten to the crux of the problem.