Nothing stops the grift...
At this point all you can do is strap yourself in and grab the popcorn.
Days after taking the 5th amendment nearly 450 times in a separate criminal investigation ("If you are innocent, why are you taking the 5th?" - Donald Trump), Donald Trump's Florida residence was raided by the FBI. Word soon leaked that the feds were looking for classified documents, which you might think would resonate with the "lock her up!" crowd, who even now respond to critical queries with "but her emails!"
You would of course be wrong. Instead of chanting "lock HIM up!" they started calling for the assassination of FBI agents, along with death threats against Attorney General Garland, and of course Joe Biden himself, who masterminded this entire thing from the basement of that DC pizza parlor in between sips of blood from pagan babies while at the same time creating a world-wide recession and higher gas prices.
Take a deep breath if you need to. There’s lots to unpack.
Trump responded to all this the same way he responded to the death of his ex-wife. By sending out an email soliciting donations. Nothing stops the grift.
Anyway, it would seem that the MAGA obsession with classified documents has waned considerably since their own Savior dragged boxes and boxes of them down to Florida with him. Whatever he did not want he apparently attempted (and failed) to flush down White House toilets. The fact that he did this while living in a house containing 28 fireplaces is curious. Or at least it would be if we weren't talking about Donald Trump, a guy who once looked dead straight into a solar eclipse.
Anyway, his proudest of proud boys twisted themselves into Auntie Anne's pretzels defending him, and, in their usual rational way, called for both the impeachment of the Attorney General and the "defunding" of the FBI, either of which might seem contrary to the "law and order" they would normally espouse.... when they aren't otherwise engaged in impaling cops with flag poles that is.
The federal government was now a "police state". The feds were the "Gestapo". Or "gazpacho", to use Marjorie Taylor Greene-speak. Fox News spent most of their time on the day the story broke reminding everybody about Hillary's emails and Hunter Biden's laptop.
The ones gloating over Brittney Griner ("she broke the law!) and black people shot by cops ("why didn't they just comply?") suddenly seem VERY selective about laws or compliance. It's the strangest thing.
All of this was before word dropped on the type of classified documents we're talking about here. No less than nuclear documents. In the hands of a guy who once re-drew the border of the state of Alabama with a sharpie.
Think about this for a second. Boxes of classified documents potentially detailing our nation's nuclear capabilities were wedged into ceiling tiles above the shower room at Mar-a-Lago.....in the same places Trump's teenage son might want to stash his weed. It's both horrifying and one of the funniest fucking things I've ever heard in my life.
And STILL, his supporters remain steadfast in their devotion. The most hard-core among them has called for......you guessed it.....CIVIL WAR (their upper-case, not mine).
They even gave dates for its kick-off. August 8th. Then pushed to the 9th. And so on, much like the Pillow guy who kept moving the goalpost on Trump's reinstatement as President. They seem short on the organizational details, other than suggesting that everybody stock up on guns and ammo, which is pretty much what they suggest every time somebody hurts their feelings.
Nothing like this has ever happened in the history of our nation before. This is the biggest political scandal....well....EVER. And still it doesn't feel that way because this is Donald Trump....a guy so crooked that to use Hunter Thompson's Nixonian phrase "he has to screw his pants on every morning". It just somehow feels normal for your jaw to be on the floor while you're shrugging your shoulders. He has no bottom. He carries his own back-hoe.
Let me go on record and say that I do not think that half of this nation is ready to take up arms against the other half in support of a man who once suggested that George Washington and the Continental Army defeated the British in large part because they "took over airports". There will be no 21st century Fort Sumter, no matter how many Truth Social bots clamor for one.
I’ve said this often. Just because you make the most noise doesn’t mean you have the most numbers. Even the most MAGA MAGAs I know are too cowardly to do anything more than hang a “Let’s Go Brandon” flag from their porch.
Make no mistake. Some of these people are legitimately dangerous. After the Mar-a-Lago raid, an armed man who was part of the January 6th insurrection tried to enter FBI offices in Ohio by shooting through the bullet proof door, after posting on Trump's own social media platform "If you don't hear from me, it is true I tried attacking the F.B.I., and it'll mean either I was taken off the internet, the F.B.I. got me, or they sent the regular cops....." The guy was shot dead....and immediately hailed as a MAGA martyr....just another "law and order" Republican trying to kill the law and order guys.
So yea, they are out there. Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of the Charlottesville Nazi march, for those of you who keep track of such things. "Very fine people" did manage to murder somebody that day. An innocent young woman.
But it would probably be wise, Civil War speaking, not to bring your guns to a drone fight. The Department of Justice seems to have finally had enough, and are finally going after the head of the snake. Once that's cut off, the cult will be like a tire with a slow leak. To hate this hard and long is exhausting. The rocks so many crawled out from under will welcome them back like conquering heroes.
While we await the next nutter who emboldens them.
But for now at least, enjoy the popcorn.
In a bit...
--tf