Rage, rage amid the lying of the right

 If you had been arraigned on multiple counts of the Espionage Act, would you go home, draw the blinds and have a think about what mistakes led you to this point?  Sure, because you are a normal human.

Trump threw himself a hate rally/birthday party.  At Bedminster, the New Jersey golf course where there are unquestionably bodies apart from Ivana Trump's, he summoned a rogues' gallery of the second-rate.  (The most recognizable name was Tommy Tuberville, so there must have been plenty of RSVP No thanks.)  He wished himself a happy birthday because no one else did (the former First Escort was shopping in New York, probably not for books).  

"It's part public relations and part babysitting," said Stephanie Grisham, the last of his press secretaries.  "The staff around him want to keep him busy and want to have people cheering for him and giving him the ego stroke that he'll need so they don't have to deal with him being completely pissed."  John Kelly, the second of his chiefs of staff, was more blunt:  "He's scared shitless.  This is the way he compensates for that...For the first time in his life it looks like he's being held accountable."

Trump has a new hate fetish in Jack Smith.  Last Friday he watched Smith's just-the-facts announcement of the Florida grand jury indictment and pronounced the special prosecutor "scared looking."  According to witnesses, Smith was laser-focused on the defendant in the courtroom, while Trump didn't once look at him.  He saved his abuse for Ministry of Truth Social, calling Smith a "lunatic" and a "thug" who was "shipped off to The Hague to prosecute war criminals using globalist tribunals."  I think he meant "persecute war criminals" like his beleaguered patron Vlad Putin.  We all know what "globalist" means.  Yesterday he went to a Cuban restaurant in Little Havana to rage about "communists," a sure-fire applause-getter with that crowd.  In so many ways that party never got over Joe McCarthy.  

When he returns in glory, Trump promises that his special prosecutor will "go after Biden" and "the entire Biden crime family."  Because he thinks this is a game with no connection to reality.  He's been trying to "go after Biden" at least since he told President Zelenskyy that his country's survival was contingent on digging up dirt about Biden.  Right now in the House James Comer is charged with pretending that the dirt actually exists only Chris Wray won't hand it over.  Trump sent Giuliani on at least one dirt-finding mission to Ukraine and he came back drunk and empty-handed.  What exactly will his special prosecutor (Lin Wood?  Alina Habba?) do differently? 

It's all one enormous inchoate enemy -- DEEP STATE CROOKED HILLARY HUNTER BIDEN MARXISTS WEAPONIZED JUSTICE DEPARTMENT RON DE SANCTIMONIOUS LYING MEDIA CRAZY NANCY LEFTIST LUNATICS MISS BERGDORF GOODMAN WITCH HUNT ending in a prolonged howl of rage and fear.

I haven't been able to confirm that Iron Man Trump needed a golf cart to get from the courthouse to his car, but Fox News has again questioned Joe Biden's prospects.  Biden had to miss College Athlete Day at the White House (Kamala Harris filled in) because of a root canal procedure, which was performed in the basement dental clinic.  (I thought Nixon put a pool down there.)  Some numpty on Fox asked if he has the "stamina" for another term.  His mistake was asking Rep. Katie Porter, who shot back, "Have you ever had a root canal?"  He had to take a half-day off.  I think it's impressive that a man of 80 still has his teeth.  Remember Trump's "God bless the United Shayshay"?  That was the day body-man/valet/co-conspirator Walt Nauta forgot to put the adhesive on the dentures.  

Postscript:  Of all the idiot excuses put forward by idiots for storing classified documents in a tacky bathroom, I think my idiotic favorite came from Florida man and surprise Speaker candidate Byron Donalds.  He triumphantly pointed out that there's really no place more secure than a Mar a Lago shitter because "There are 33 bathrooms at Mar a Lago!"  Any "guest" who wanted to get a look at, oh, I don't know, the US plans for attacking Iran would have to try all of them, or know exactly which one contained which war plans.  Impossible!  Witch hunt!  Case dismissed.  Besides, as the Squeaker pointed out, bathrooms lock.  If all Trump's defenders are this smart, Jack Smith may as well go back to his globalist friends in The Hague.