i'm not sure Georgia will be able to now, since that fucking stupid ass bitch on the jury ran her mouth. She might have fucked up the deal....if she did, they should throw her ass under the jail for her own protection....if she lets him off the hook, there WILL be people looking to kill her.
Roger, I don’t think “that fucking stupid-ass bitch” deserves that unprovoked ‘caress’…and despite respected commentator clutching hands & wringing pearls, the Myth of Trump, the Eleventy-Dimension chess master, is burned to ash & the ashes flushed. He may be plotting, he may be raging, but he’s NOT THINKING.
He’s REACTING. And that’s pretty much the *worst* look he has.
He’ll keep on reacting - and screwing up massively in doing so, because he never developed any adult self-control. He’s still a child, a bully…and a vengeful little rage monster at heart, and he can’t help but show it with every word and act, with every shift of voice & change of expression. He can’t hide it at all anymore, probably has no idea how utterly transparent he’s become (kinda like the ruined rich guy
@The End of Trading Places).
I’ve been spending time with family lately, in a stage-4 white-flight burbclave…deep in super-MAGA territory (it’s all eagle this & patriot that & victory over here - and Jesus all over, of course!). There’s a…diffidence growing among the well-heeled & positioned. For these folks, this is indicative of a deep inner disturbance, like the ideology v reality heating up. I recognize it because I’ve been there, I’ve lived it myself - that sense that I had gone wrong on something fundamental, but couldn’t see what, or where, or why.
Eventually, it led to the willful abandonment of the Christianity I’d been raised with - and the conservative ways & views I’d taken for granted. It wasn’t quick, but it *IS* how I got here.
Kinda can’t believe I’m saying this (or saying it this way), but this is what waking up can look like…especially if we’re caught in a dream, and we’re struggling to make it resolve before we’re forced out…and have to see the world before us.
Back to the jury member over whose statements, hands have been wrung: she was courteous, made nothing but DUH! responses to the questions asked, and she mostly managed to stay away from snark in her replies. AG Willis’ office professes to have no problem with her remarks, and I see no problem in them either. The lunatic review will of course try to inflate them…but the schtick is OLD, desperately old, like a Moody Blues reunion tour: even the die-hardest fans are beginning to get the message that the show’s over. Time to sober up, go home, and see what you have left. Sheepishness, a tinge of regret, the realization of thing undone at home, the sense that thingS are somehow upside down but you can’t…quite….
I see it here, where school board members have been threatened in public, where the pandemic death rate is STILL UNKNOWN, where everyone was …so sure…just a couple of years ago.
They still have most of two years for the overthrow actors in congress to step right ON the center of that dis-ease, for the Caricature-in-Chief to come *all the way apart*, in public. On TV, even. Plenty of time for another 10-20% of their base to gag, puke, and walk out. Which would/will be the end of our peculiar institution of fake conservatism. Possibly for the rest of this century.
Don’t really believe in saving the world anymore, World needs to *want* saving; but I DO actually believe that what happens HERE - how WE resolve these crises & challenges and secure ourselves on a path to a future WE WANT - will echo around the world, and could help turn the tide of authoritarianism & fascism that’s been seeping back into world situations.
Which I guess means WE are leaders of the free world - and maybe it’s up to US to act like it, not just wave slogans, flags, a& eagles
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