Why Have Laws At All If Trump Can Break Them All?
A brief look at the absurdity of Donald Trump’s legal claims.
If the Department Of Justice doesn’t arrest Trump, it’s a damning indictment of our justice system’s gift of immunity to those rich enough to live lives of perpetual litigation.
From Trump’s just nonstop abuse of power for personal gain, and breaking of every moral rule and ethic he has ever felt financially or electorally constrained by, to the Mueller report being obstructed, and then misrepresented, and then still published in an opaque manner. From both impeachment trials fizzling out politically because of Republican bad-faith refusals to even publicly consider the evidence against him, to all these post-presidency investigations approaching two full years of inconclusive efforts while Trump is still free to continue obstructing justice and committing crimes of all kinds without any interference. He’s literally on tape threatening Georgia’s Secretary of State if he can’t “find” 11,780 votes.
It begs the question of why we have any laws at all if there’s literally no consequences to breaking most of them to use America’s entire national bureaucracy to abuse, profit from personally, and self-aggrandize with.
We put homeless people in prison for years for stealing food…. but, apparently, instead of stealing an apple, homeless people should just lie to a bunch of banks, blackmail them with their massive debts, lie to investors to buy dozens of buildings and casinos they can’t afford and overpay for them so they go deep in the red, and then sell their personal debts to a company they then let go bankrupt screwing over everyone who funded the projects, built them, and worked in them.
Then the homeless people should start a scripted television show pretending to be billionaires when they’re actually broke and living off of allowance money from banks who need them to not be beggars on the street to make back any of the money they lost on the properties the homeless people literally put their names all over real big. On the side, the homeless people should pursue a long line of sociopathic scams and cheap shit products they sell, again, with their name spelled gaudily over all of them.
Then the homeless people should run for president and go wild committing any crimes they want, literally a four-year spree of them, and just bullshit their way into claiming they’re above the law and can’t be indicted because they’re a sitting president, and they can’t be investigated because they have executive privilege, and their fellow co-conspirators can’t be investigated because of attorney-client privilege, and they’re not beholden to any subpoenas because all their documents are missing or flushed down the White House toilets.
And when the homeless people lose reelection and finally might lose all their presidential get-out-of-jail-free cards, they should just try to organize a little coup and a literal armed insurrection like a fascist mob via national tours of grievance pep rallies designed to instigate bloody revolutions starting with the public hanging executions of their own vice presidents whose submissive fealty all along until the democracy’s existential rubicon is not enough to earn a modicum of personal loyalty back.
As I have illustrated, Donald Trump is a derangedly narcissistic pauper who became president to avoid consequences for being the most morally vacuous person in our entire culture. What a model for lawbreakers throughout America. America’s psychological id is essentially a broke con man wannabe emperor who got ostracized from New York for screwing over quite literally everyone there, and had to take his billionaire vaudeville show on the road to dupe antagonistically ignorant citizens elsewhere into believing ethno-nationalism and ceaselessly pyrrhic culture war battles will turn the tide of their ongoing societal defeats, personal shortcomings, and unnecessary subliminal sense of xenophobic paranoia.
Donald Trump is the philosophical and constitutional demagogue our Founding Fathers feared, and he has co-opted Evangelical theocracy convincing Christian dupes to waste their money buying political indulgences from him when he emails out his apocalyptic fear mongering fundraising warnings several times a day. And they give and give no matter how much of it he spends frivolously on himself and on obstructing his omnipresent criminal investigations.
Donald Trump proves that small-time misdemeanor offenders should just think bigger on every crime. The way to get away with crimes is to just keep always committing newer and bigger crimes.
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