Not going away

 

This is the kind of thing you re-tweet when you are enjoying the most successful first six months of any administration in history:

Orange and rested after five days of ignoring questions about his fellow pedophile, Trump is ready to arrest everyone who ever opposed him -- including all of us who have never held office.  That's what martial law means.  Even white citizens whose ancestors came here before the Revolution will be vulnerable to being disappeared off the streets and out of their homes like some cashier with a green card and a twenty-year-old arrest for weed.  The money Congress voted for other things has been repurposed for concentration camps and another risible stretch of border wall.  (You thought he forgot about WALL?  Or how Mexico will pay for it?  He's like your great-uncle who wakes up and starts telling the story again about how he almost landed at Anzio.)

Not capable of running a casino much less a branch of government, Trump and his gunsels tell other countries what to do.  Pequeno Marco is using the Magnitsky Act to sanction Justice Alexandre deMoraes for carrying out his job and being UNFAIR! to Jair Bolsonaro.  Trump is so obsessed with this crook that they must have met on Epstein Island.  "Let this be a warning to those who would trample on the fundamental rights of their countrymen -- judicial robes cannot protect you," Marquito threatens grandiloquently and on social media, knowing that Netanyahu's judges will read it, too.  

Justice deMoraes must be aware of similar but less empty threats to his American counterparts, most recently DC District Court Chief Judge Jeb Boasberg.  The Bondi Department has charged him with "misconduct" for making "improper public comments" about The Leader.  (They weren't public, but for Pammy that's barely a fib.)  As the ladies on The View can tell you and people at CBS "News" will soon learn, differing with the party line has consequences "like never seen before."  You think it's just bluster?  When does Judge Hannah Dugan go on trial?

Fortunately the Epstein case continues to follow Trump like the Furies in pursuit of Orestes.  Because he is very stupid and has never know how or when to shut up, he keeps producing one self-incriminating story after another.  It's all fake, he barely knew the guy, all the Democrats made it up -- are you ready for today's installment?  Jeffrey Epstein, pedophile, money launderer, blackmailer, pimp, rapist -- poacher.  That's right, the unforgivable crime.  "He took people that worked for me.  And I told him, 'Don't do it anymore.'  And he did it.  I said, 'Stay the hell out of here.'"  Who did Epstein "take"?  Virginia Giuffre, the best known of all the exploited girls, the one Epstein assigned to Prince Andrew (who also says it's all a hoax).

Giuffre worked in the Mar a Lago spa doing god knows what, and Epstein "took" her.  He stole Trump's property, the property he used (or hoped to use) to lure royalty to his tacky palace.  Since Andrew says he hasn't sweated since the Falklands War, what was he doing in the spa?  Never mind, the point is that Trump seems to think this new version exonerates him.  Listen carefully, stupid:  You have the right to remain silent.  Now please tell us about other people taken by Epstein.  Did he ask Allen Weisselberg to do his books?  Did Walt Nauta wax his car?  Did he just introduce you to Melania von Shtupp or was there some sort of trade with an escort to be named later?

Fortunately Trump's defenders are just as smooth-brained.  Flailing about in Canton on Monday J.D. Vance introduced a new name into the chat:  George W. Bush, who evidently ordered his Justice Department to "go easy" on Epstein.  Somewhere in Texas Bush dropped his paintbrush and exclaimed, "Son of a bitch, what did I do?"  (Why does Captain Guyliner always call him "Donald J. Trump"?  Is there a Donald G. Trump in SAG-AFTRA?)

"I never had the privilege of going to his island."  Makes a fine gold-lettered epitaph.