The Idiot Light is Warning
Your Engine is About to Die
This is Dr. Phil reminding you to get that colonoscopy before it’s too late and this is your friendly mechanic warning you that the check engine idiot light in your car is not just a pretty decoration.
I am sorry but you probably won’t get the colonoscopy until, well, it’s too late, and as far as the idiot light, you’ll likely ignore that too until your car stalls and dies in the middle of nowhere in the midst of a blizzard. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
That is the state of our nation, we just stop seeing that doctor who warns about the colonoscopies and we ignore the idiot light until it just looks like it’s a benign part of the dash. There is a good reason it’s called an idiot light in a country were millions refuse to get vaccinated, believe in crazy conspiracy theories and are ready to man the barricades to topple the nation and put a certain clown back in charge. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
The warning signs of sickness and malfunction have continued unabated and the patient is the whole country and the vehicle that is going off the rails is democracy.
The latest sign of metastasis comes as the Republican National Committee has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million for Gen. Bone Spurs’ legal bills and please note that regardless of the hallucinations of some, Bone Spurs is no longer president and it is unheard of for a political organization to pay legal bills for a president who is no longer in office. But that means nothing to the many bootlicking current and wannabe politicians who know that if they don’t agree to foot the bills, they will suffer the wrath of il duce and that has proven in the past to be a surefire way to lose a primary election.
The payments are meant to help trump defend himself against two parallel investigations of his business: A civil probe by New York Attorney General Letitia James and a criminal investigation by James and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. Both are Democrats and that is why the weasel GOP is claiming the prosecutions are political and therefore could damage the Grand Old Party, yechhh.
The GOP might be on somewhat firm footing, ethically, if the spending was to promote the GOP policies or political priorities. But it ain’t that way Jose and the move is as slimy as it gets, or at least as slimy until the next great slimy GOP act.
There is nothing political about the allegations against trump and his smelly company, allegations which include possibly inflating the values of his properties in order to get approval for millions of dollars in loans, which in my book is called FRAUD. As part of its apolitical probe, prosecutors have interviewed Trump’s longtime banker and accountant, and James has demanded a deposition from trump in a separate civil case. If it matters, another indicator of the character of trump and all that he touches, came when his longtime chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg and two trump corporate entities were indicted by Vance on tax fraud charges this summer.
Paying trump’s legal bills is part of a long tradition of padding the faux dictator’s coffers. The Washington Post reported that since the 2016 presidential election, the Republican National Committee (RNC) has spent more than $2.6 million at trump’s hotels and clubs, beginning with the party’s 2016 holiday party at Trump’s Washington hotel. The RNC paid $117,000 for the get together, about four times what it had spent on the party in past years, held at a bar near the Capitol. The RNC also paid for a series of lavish dinners and retreats at trump’s properties that continued after he lost the election. For instance, this spring, the party moved a donor dinner from a non-trumpian venue in Palm Beach, Fla., to the president’s Mar-a-Lago Club, and paid $175,000 for the room and the food.
Moving right along as the idiot light shines, the Fox circus has juiced up its campaign to show that its stars did nothing wrong when they texted bone spurs on Jan. 6, pleading with him to use his position to stop the insurrection. Trump’s son sent a similar text to his daddy but apparently the great oracle was unconcerned because the insurrection was just what the doctor ordered. The grand journalistic tradition calls on news gatherers to keep a strong and decisive distance from those that they cover. Apparently Fox hasn’t kept up on journalistic ethics because Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham sent text messages on Jan. 6 that urged Mark Meadows, the last White House chief of staff under trump, to persuade the then-president to take action to stop the Capitol attack.
These were the texts, verbatim and painfully clear. Ingraham wrote to Meadows that “the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. This is hurting all of us. He is destroying his legacy.”
Brian Kilmeade, a host of “Fox & Friends,” texted similarly, “Please, get him on TV. (This is) Destroying everything you have accomplished.” And from Hannity, “Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol.”
Donald Jr. was so scared and worried about his financial and political future, that he texted Meadows that his father “‘has got to condemn this sh*t ASAP. We need an Oval office address. He has to lead now. It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.” I don’t know for sure but I would take a really wild guess that little donald will claim that the texts were taken totally out of context and that he was really writing about a game of “chicken” that he was playing with daddie.
Just more fake news, or so Fox claims. Fox claims that on the day of the attacks the network had called for calm, possibly in a very low voice because I didn’t hear it. Fox, the propaganda wing of the trump camp, actually later claimed that the assault was no big deal, that it was more like a student class trip visiting the foundation of democracy and that the violence was obviously staged and publicized by the commie left to further smear the good and great trump. As the Fox reality goes, the critics of the assault were disingenuous because they didn’t similar come down on the protesters who took to the streets around the nation last year to protest police attacks against unarmed Blacks. Sorry, it’s a false parallel that sinks to the bottom of the slime pit.
That check engine light is shining brighter and brighter and that colonoscopy warning is getting more and more dire. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.