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For once Trump and his asshole fans can’t pretend to be above it all

Roy Edroso
Mar 31, 2023
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The funniest thing about the Trump indictment is the three-ring circus of Cope and Seethe in which the dumbest people in the universe are currently engaged.

Normally, expressions of thuggishness from the big names of the conservative internet are at least slightly disturbing, because they remind us that a large minority of our fellow Americans have lost their reason and dignity. But under the circumstances they’re just a laugh:

One by one they troop to the podium to embarrass themselves further:

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Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
Democrats just turned Donald Trump into Tupac.
10:30 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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nikki mccann ramírez @NikkiMcR
Jason Whitlock accuses Democrats of "agitating for unrest" with Trump's indictment. "I hope every other man out there watching this show, I hope you're ready for whatever's next. If that's what they want let's get to it."
12:26 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski
Junior’s live reaction: “This is, like, communist-level shit!”
10:08 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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Even the allegedly sober Just-the-Tip Trumpers like Baseball Crank are just baldly stating that it’s a bad rap, notwithstanding the evidence that convinced a grand jury has yet to be revealed:

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Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank
While Trump tried to help Biden by attacking DeSantis from the left, Bragg tries to help Trump by bringing a preposterously political & legally flimsy criminal charge against him. I miss the 2-party system.
9:43 PM ∙ Mar 30, 2023
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And of course there’s plenty of racist-anti-Semitic Bragg-and-Soros twofer shit (not least from Tubby himself!).

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Soros family helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into power
fxn.wsSoros family helped push Manhattan DA Bragg into powerGeorge Soros’ donation to a group that backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is back in the spotlight, but he’s not the only Soros family member to support him.
12:40 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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This statement is from TruthSocial and Donald J Trump.
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12:31 AM ∙ Mar 31, 2023
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It’s all funny now because, while the rest of the country has known for years Trump is a crook and has been wondering whether he’d get pinched or get away with it, MAGA people have just assumed that nothing bad ever possibly could happen to their anointed hero. Even his loss in 2020 isn’t a bad thing to them because, number one, it never happened, and number two, it simply allows them to worship him as President without him having to pretend to give a shit about governing the country that he and they hate. More than his policies, and maybe even more than his loudmouth-bigot routine, they love his untouchability.  

Well, he ain’t so untouchable now. Oh, he may well get off; he’s rich and connected and you never know what a jury will do. But he’ll have to suffer a trial, and the justice system is not indulgent of defendants who think they can ignore its requirements — unlike the media and Congress. So he’ll have to show up and behave himself just like anyone else.

And this indictment renders all his goon squad ridiculous as well. Ron DeSantis is braying that, in defiance of the law and the Constitution, he will refuse to extradite Trump. To which the obvious answer is: Who asked you? Skeeter State Mussolini doesn’t have the stones and everyone knows it.

It’s a nice reminder not only that Trump is not beyond the reach of the law, but that his followers who borrow much of their insufferable hubris from him aren’t, either. They’re not a mass movement with any future in the United States. They’re just little fascist buffoons who’ve convinced some more powerful buffoons — like the Republican establishment and the editors of the New York Times — to kiss their asses. And, for the moment, everyone can see it.

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Bern
Mar 31Liked by Roy Edroso

Trump keeps trying his legacy to varnish

Yet these niggling details all tarnish

A coupla bad deals

With bimbos in heels

And Boom! An orange jumpsuit for garnish!

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Manqueman
Mar 31Liked by Roy Edroso

Junior’s statement was just wow. I’m gonna go onto a limb here and opine that maybe he isn’t some sort of substance abuser but just some sort of imbecile sucking up to his rich daddy.

Meanwhile, some credit to FPOTUS for showing that an exception to the rule that our betters are above the law is possible.

And as ever, great to see more and more pressure on Donnie. Got the antisemitic dog whistle, waiting for the racist one. Or, you know, maybe I missed it.

Full disclosure: schadenfreude is one of my jams so no matter how this plays out, I’m enjoying it.

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