What Goes On In Your Mind

 All this anxiety over the election and the attendant avalanche of email that greets me each morning does have me wondering: Has anyone else been reading the news or watching the video of the Orange Blob of protoplasm? It's easy enough to paint the happy midwestern face presented by the Vice Presidential debate on this past month and pretend that what is going on is normal. 

I can assure you, it is not. It took Richard Nixon years to dive down as deep as he did into his all-consuming paranoia. The convicted felon who has never won the popular vote in an election in which he was running seems to be on the edge of some sort of nervous breakdown. 

To be fair, if I were facing multiple indictments and half the country thought that I belonged in jail rather than within twenty miles of the White House, I might be more than just a little nervous myself. 

The latest filing from special prosecutor Jack Smith has been described as "bombshell after bombshell." Again, it should be noted that the space around the GOP candidate for "president" looks like an artillery range, what with all those previous bombshells surrounding him. This one seems to be taking more direct aim. This one seems to be pointed directly at the man who sells one hundred thousand dollar watches to help pay his legal fees. The freshly unsealed report includes new details of Trump’s disintegrating relationship with former Vice President Mike Pence. Then there is FBI evidence of Trump’s phone usage on January 6, 2021 as when overtook the US Capitol; and conversations with family members and others where the then-president was fighting his loss to Joe Biden.

Let's pause for a moment and enjoy the phrase: "Then President." 

As opposed to "Now President." 

That squealing sound you hear is that of the "Then President" insisting he has immunity because the Supreme Sycophants he appointed said so. To which the special prosecutor notes: “When the defendant lost the 2020 presidential election, he resorted to crimes to try to stay in office. At its core, the defendant’s scheme was a private one,. He extensively used private actors and his campaign infrastructure to attempt to overturn the election results and operated in a private capacity as a candidate for office.” All of this leading to the conclusion that the man who is guilty of so many things should stand trial for his attempts to disrupt the peaceful exchange of power, guaranteed in out Constitution. 

Will this be game over for the seller of watches not nearly worth one hundred thousand dollars? It is frightening to think that any major political party would continue to support someone who obviously has lost not just his grip on reality, but is attempting to foist it on those too "busy" to read. If there is anyone left in this great land of ours who claims to be undecided about this coming election, I encourage you to take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with this document. Or just watch the convicted felon babble for a few minutes about "the late great Hannibal Lecter."

Psst: I'll give you a hint. He's a fictional character.