James Kunstler on President Trump's [garbage] indictment [brief]

By An Old Friend

fri, mar 31, 2023 8:37 p.m.

James Kunstler on Trump's [garbage] indictment [brief]

Just another day in what's become the largest-ever banana republic ...

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/did-they-light-up-a-cigarette-afterward/

CLUSTERF--K NATION – BLOGMarch 31, 2023

Did They Light Up a Cigarette Afterward?

"Reading all the 2016 warnings from the Normalcy Guardians and self-professed Democracy Protectors about how there's literally nothing more corrupt or dangerous than craving the prosecution of your political opponent — especially for trivial crimes — is really quite something." — Glenn Greenwald

                            

   the new york times enjoyed its long-delayed tantric Trumpgasm so much today that it rolled out the full-page banner headline format usually reserved for the commencement of world wars. (They took the banner down before seven o'clock this morning.) For many of the cat-ladies employed as "reporters" at the once-august paper, it was the first Trumpgasm they've ever experienced in a lifetime of emotional displacement, over-eating, and furious knitting of pink polyester hats for the crusade to root out patriarchal wickedness.

     This fulfillment of a years-long psychodrama, starring the feared and loathed occult persona of a gold-coiffed "Daddy" figure who once presided in the political household, came at the hands of dragon-slayer manhattan da Alvin Bragg, archetype of the many long-oppressed victims worked to death in the bilges of our slave ship of state — now turned righteous woke deliverer of cosmic vengeance!

      This oh-so-satisfying climax, of course, is brought to you by the party of hoaxes, flimflams, and mandated death shots, so it's amusing here on the sidelines to see the times's op-ed writers squirm with post-coital pleasure underneath the full-page Trumpgasmic headline. The lead editorial declares: "even Donald Trump should be held accountable"— overlooking the utter absence of accountability that has been the norm in every recent insult to the nation's dignity from wholesale and repeat election fraud, to six years of lawless depravity in the fbi, to overt support of antifa and blm street havoc, to the forced, deceitful administration of deadly "vaccines."

      "how a President's arrest can strengthen a democracy," honorary cat-lady Nicholas Kristof opined, repeating the bad-faith trope that his legions of wokery have an interest in political rectitude — when, in fact, they are solely preoccupied with coercing, censoring, cancelling, persecuting, punishing, and defenestrating anyone who objects to their grifts and hustles. "only love and a leap of faith can break through distrust. that is why a credible form of patriotism is so important right now," explained the times's official superintendent of platitudes, David Brooks, to soothe consciences grated by this loutish gambit to shove a political adversary off the game board in advance of an election. "Joe Biden may not be your cup of tea," Mr. Brooks summed up his civics lesson, "but he's restored sanity, effectiveness and decency to the white house."

     Oh, really? That will surely come as news to casual observers who are watching the "Joe Biden" wrecking crew in wonder and nausea as they dismantle every institution and undermine every norm in American life. A more credible form of patriotism would be, say, a general strike against this cabal of degenerates, serving to remind the cabalists that at least half of the public still cares about the Constitution, the rule of law, and actual decency (not a depraved simulacrum of it). Otherwise, why would "Joe Biden's" doj lock-up scores of Jan 6 protesters in the DC jail for years on misdemeanor charges without taking them to law? Why does the "Joe Biden" state department persist in destroying [the] Ukraine and pounding billions in taxpayer money into the place to accomplish it? Why has the "Joe Biden" regime adopted the drag queen as its mascot? What part of all that evinces "sanity, effectiveness and decency"?

    It's a little early to assess the knock-on effects of the left's ecstatic Trumpgasm. A common theme flying across the Web is that Alvin Bragg's jerry-rigged case will only make a martyr of Mr. Trump, neatly illustrating and personifying the government's apparent war against its own citizens — making it clear that these wokester-jacobins will stop at nothing and no one to enforce the corrupt bureaucracy's will against the public — and that the net result will be to ensure Mr. Trump's reelection in 2024, if such a thing as a fair election is still conceivable after the skeezy lawfare work-over the rules suffered back in covid-time.

      This comes at a time when that government — the "Joe Biden" regime — presides over the collapse of what's left of America's economy, the crack-up of the banking system, and the shocking loss of our country's influence in the geo-political arena. All of that is manifesting as increased general hardship across the u.s. population: a whole lot of citizens going broke, going hungry, losing their property and chattels to bankruptcy, losing their children to woke-induced psychopathology, and — the final insult — being subjected to a medical racketeering operation that ruins and murders them when they get sick.

     The party of chaos looks pretty smugly secure for the moment. If Alvin Bragg's flimsy case in new york falls apart, as many expect, fellow partisans have grand juries lined up against Mr. Trump in other jurisdictions, waiting patiently to take their turns at the political assassination of this supposed "threat to our democracy." Former house speaker Nancy Pelosi declared yesterday that Mr. Trump "has the right to prove his innocence." She apparently forgot how our legal system is supposed to work, which is that defendants are presumed innocent and it's the government's burden to prove someone guilty.

     As to qualifications to be president, the Constitution simply states: a presidential candidate must be a natural born citizen of the United States, a resident for 14 years, and 35 years of age or older. There is no language in Article II that might legally prevent someone convicted of a petty crime, fairly or otherwise, from running for the job. Which means that the golden golem of greatness could be back … cue the cat-ladies' righteous, wrathful meows.