Here’s the plan: Trump gets better, Trump gets defeated in the most humiliating fashion possible, and Biden brings us back to normal.
from Gail Collins in the NYTimes
and I say it is to our political advantage if Trump gets better and goes back to the White House, which he will occupy until January 20, 2021. Then he leaves.
The unspoken agreement for Trump should be if you leave quietly you will not be prosecuted. Some people say Trump deserves prison time. Why punish him? Why not punish the millions of Americans who voted for him? I say, just get him out of the White House and move on.
- Trump normalizes cruelty, vengeance, falsehood and malice aforethought.He also normalizes fascist and theocratic impulses that are incompatible with - and antithetical to - meaningful democratic process.Bringing Shitstorm to trial will make clear that Americans consider these behaviors (and a litany of others) completely unacceptable, and not only as offenses to our Yankee values, but to civilization itself.I am not a punitive fellow.I have always agreed with my father's teaching that if we are to have an "open society," our jurisprudence must be so structured as to insure that "a great many guilty people "walk."Correspondingly, a strong case can be made that fascism is a system of governance that wants to make absolutely certain that everyone is punished.In the toss-up between run-of-the-mill fascists and Johann Tetzel selling indulgences, give me Tetzel ANY DAY.Punishment is the sine qua non of right-wing thinking.And so, if Trump receives no punishment, the very people who most need to learn that "The Rule of Law RULES" -- the Bannons, the Barrs, the Roger Stones and the McConnells -- will, as they say, be emboldened to attempt another neo-Nazi coup at their earliest opportunity... aided and abetted by the only "lesson" they will learn from our failure to punish SOBMF: “What do we have to lose?”On the other hand, by bringing Un-Potty-Trained-74-Year-Old to trial, he will (I believe) self-exile to a country having no extradition treaty with the United States.On January 20th, when the presidential helicopter whisks Trump away, I can see His Putrescence commanding that chopper to head for Havana to prevent the feds from arresting him in whatever U.S. city he might land.Bringing such ignominy upon himself - particularly if he takes up residence in Russia (which I consider his most likely destination) - would be the best kind of punishment -- as well as a clarion warning to others -- because Sludge-Suck would, in effect, convict himself, taking refuge with his own kind: the kleptocratic thug-bully populist-dictator, Vladimir Putin.However, if Trump does not flee, but goes to trial, the legal process of a courtroom setting (complete with handcuffs and an orange jump suit) would demonstrate - as NOTHING else could - that "No One Is Above The Law."We keep saying "no one is above the law" but we also keep turning these mofos loose.It's like we've created a Sacrosanct Club comprised of Wall Street bankers, traders and sundry Oligarchic Assholes, and just by virtue of being "in the club," they are untouchable.Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"Pardon my French but "Fuck that!"I would far rather that all the following people be admitted to The Untouchable Club, and that all the the current "untouchables" have their necks knelt on for 18 minutes by rogue cops."Know Their Names: Black People Killed By Cops In The United States"Al JazeeraIf enough legal proceedings are brought against Lord Of The Lizard People -- including all rape and sexual assault cases against Predator -- enough evidence and testimony will come to light that those revelations alone will serve as everlasting rebuke to the all-encompassing Nondisclosure Agreement by which Trump has lived his life in shithole darkness, tampering with witnesses, laughing at The Law.Concerning punishment…If Michael Cohen can be sent to prison for three years as punishment for a crime that Trump ordered his Fixer to commit, then Trump himself can spend at least three years behind bars - more than "token punishment," and less than "what he has coming" - not only for the specific crimes he has committed, but for the 330 million victims whom he has force-fed a diet of excrement for four years.Trump's diminishment of Americans' quality of life, not to mention the psychological stress, duress and damage he has caused, is a real crime - a massive, incalculable crime."Pain and suffering" is its legal name.And we are all Bonespur's victims.The discrepancy I describe between "some significant measure of real punishment" and "not enough punishment to compensate his crimes," is golden opportunity for imposing creative compensation and punishment suited to the crime.Let us at least have a discussion about imposing such a fine upon Psychopath that ALL his wealth be used to benefit The General Welfare and The Common Good.Let Trump live the rest of his life with nothing more than his presidential pension and a gold-plated health care plan for himself and his family.All else will be confiscated as a token gesture in the direction of making amends for his inhuman abuse of the American people.Alternatively, “we the people” might undertake a prisoner exchange.Trump would be set free in exchange for tens of thousands of prisoners - disproportionately people of color; innocent, mentally-diseased and reformed or inoffensive people -- whom a National Reconciliation Council, comprised of church groups and long-standing civic organizations, would recommend for clemency.Remember: The United States has a greater percentage of its citizenry behind bars than any society in the history of the world , including the Soviet Union at the height of the gulag.Billionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"NEWSFROMBARBARIA.BLOGSPOT.COMBillionaire Nick Hanauer's TED Talk: "Capitalism's Dirty Little Secret"
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