The Final Insult?

 

                               The Final Insult?

“The devil called down to Georgia,

He was looking for some votes to steal.

He was in a bind ‘cause he was way behind.

and was lookin’ to make a deal!”

                   (With minimal apologies to Charlie Daniels, a great fiddle player but a Trump fanatic)

        I had planned to write only positive things for the rest of the Trump reign of stupidity, but sometimes an individual does something so incredibly venal, yet poorly though out, that one simply cannot help but react. I have analogized a great many of Trump’s attempted power grab/criminal activities as worthy of a mob boss, but I now realize than not even John Gotti, the “Teflon Don” would ever have been stupid or brazen enough to state the request for election fraud that Donald Trump made personally over an (apparently) unsecure and recordable communications connection.

        Extortion is unworthy of the office of POTUS, yet this marks a second attempt by Trump to solicit illegal actions by another and doing it himself! You’d think after the first time, (the Ukraine phone calls, followed by impeachment), he’d either have figured out the folly of his actions or had it explained to him.  No self-respecting (or at least marginally) bright underworld figure would be as blatantly stupid as to personally expose themselves in such a manner. That’s what a consigliere is for, and the fawning Rudy Giuliani has proven numerous times that no lie is too outrageous, no scam too risky, and no threat so empty that he won’t make it. I’ve likened Trump to a mob boss, as I stated up front. This, however, makes the Mafia look like Mensa by comparison!  

        I guess the one real difference is that even though an underworld Czar may have disdain for the law, they realize that they are still culpable if proven to have violated it. Donald Trump, however, seems to feel as if that simply doesn’t apply to him. The ego required to actually think and act like that is off whatever scale, if any, by which malignant Narcissism is gauged.

        On a parallel note, unless the several Senators who planned to disrupt the formal announcement of the Electoral College vote are as stupid (or ego/partisan driven) as their icon has shown himself to be, they might want, or ought, to rethink their plans for creating a scene, even if they think their constituents would like it. I can almost imagine some Texas Republican Good Ole Boy, a bit embarrassed by Raphael Cruz’s planned obstructionism, deciding, “That right there, that’s a bunch of shit; screw him.” Probably not, but hope springs eternal.

This story broke after I posted the above. being lazy I'm just appending it.

Let's get this straight. Sen Perdue (R Ga) calls the fact that the Georgia Secretary of State recorded the President attempting to get him to commit election fraud "disgusting?" Perdue, who was a guest on "The Next Revolution," said he was "shocked" that a member of the Republican Party would tape a sitting president and leak it to the media. "It’s disgusting in my view," he said.

How far up Trump's ass can his head reach? We're waaaay past "brown nose" here. First of all, Secretary Raffensberger had previously made it clear to those around him that he hesitated to take such a call, probably because of precisely what happened. Fearing the President might do exactly as he DID do, he recorded it.

This is simply following in the footsteps of every President since LBJ. Without this recording Trump would have been free to slander and debase Raffensberger in a "he said/ he said" arena. Raffensberger was protecting himself, which in a sane world he shouldn't have had to do, but Trump proved the wisdom of the decision to tape the call.

    

Mr. Raffensberger is a man of caution and of character. Sen. David Perdue is neither. He's fine with POTUS committing election fraud, just don't record it.