Dementia '23

 What did you do over the weekend?  Maybe you drove to the store, cleaned out the junk drawer, got a haircut, played with the dog or just slept in and ordered pizza.  Slacker.  

Trump has been a human panjandrum.

Fans of World War II will know that the Panjandrum was a "rocket-propelled, explosive-laden cart" designed by the British Admiralty and intended to roll ashore on D-Day, demolishing mines and beach obstacles and pretty much anything in its path.  It was absurdly unworkable with the rocket technology available in 1944 and was never used, but the film of tests you can find on YouTube is hilarious.  It's what comes to mind when you or your neighborhood psychologist examines Trump's weekend social media ejaculations.  (I use that term in its 19th century sense:  "'Bless my soul, Holmes!' Lestrade ejaculated."  Your mileage may vary.)  No one was safe.  It's true:  They went after him and he's coming for us, one at a time.

In today's Independent Andrew Feinberg writes, "The real Donald Trump right now is the somber, whispering man who was so nervous at his arraignment on Thursday that he had to have two tries at saying his full name and age."  Too bad that wasn't televised for his followers, who are luxuriating in his aggressive posts.  I think I heard some of them barking.

Nancy Pelosi:  "I purposely didn't comment on Nancy Pelosi's very weird story concerning her husband, but now I can because she said something about me, with glee, that was really quite vicious.  'I saw a scared puppy,' she said, as she watched me on television, like millions of others that didn't see that...how mean a thing to say!  She is a Wicked Witch whose husbands journey from hell starts and finishes with her.  She is a sick & demented psycho who will someday live in HELL!"  Very little of this makes sense but apparently Pelosi saw what Feinberg saw, and he was in the courtroom.  The Congresswoman chose her words well.  He's afraid of dogs, and she moved on him like a bitch.  

Mike Pence:  "WOW, it's finally happened!  Liddle' Mike Pence, a man who was about to be ousted as Governor Indiana [sic] until I came along and made him V.P., has gone to the Dark Side...I once read a major magazine article on Mike.  It said he was not a very good person.  I was surprised, but the article was right.  Sad!"  All right, how many think Trump once read a magazine article?  Pence's crime was to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election.

The US Women's Soccer Team:  "The 'shocking and totally unexpected' loss by the U.S. Women's Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden.  Many of our players were openly hostile to America -- No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close.  WOKE EQUALS FAILURE.  Nice shot, Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!  MAGA"  Wait until next summer, when the US pole vaulters fail to medal in Paris.  Thanks, Biden.

Judge Tanya Chutkan:  "No, I shouldn't have a protective order placed on me because it would impinge upon my right to FREE SPEECH.  Deranged Jack Smith and the Department of Injustice should, however, because they are illegally 'leaking' all over the place!"  To date, the only thing Smith's investigation has leaked is that he likes sandwiches from Subway.  

Also Judge Chutkan:  "Deranged Jack Smith is going before his number one draft pick, the Judge of his 'dreams' (WHO MUST BE RECUSED!), in an attempt to take away my FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS - This, despite the fact that he, the DOJ, and his many Thug prosecutors, are illegally leaking, everything and anything, to the Fake News Media!!!"  Again, we don't even know which sandwich is his favorite.  But Subway once employed a spokesman named Jared Fogel who turned out to be a YUGE pedophile, so I think I can see where this is headed.

Number one draft pick?  WTF?

Everyone, basically:  "DERANGED JACK SMITH AND OUR HIGHLY PARTISAN, AND VERY CORRUPT, DEPARTMENT OF INJUSTICE, COULD HAVE BROUGHT THIS BIDIN [sic] 'OPPONENT' CASE YEARS AGO, BUT CHOSE TO WAIT AND BRING IT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ELECTION CAMPAIGN.  NO WAY!!!  I HOPE YOU ARE WATCHING AMERICA.  OUR COUNTRY IS BEING DESTROYED.  MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!"

Washington, DC:  "NO WAY I CAN GET A FAIR TRIAL...IN WASHINGTON, D.C.  THERE ARE MANY REASONS FOR THIS, BUT JUST ONE IS THAT I AM CALLING FOR A FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF THIS FILTHY AND CRIME RIDDEN EMBARRASSMENT TO OUR NATION, WHERE MURDERS HAVE JUST SHATTERED THE ALL TIME RECORD, OTHER VIOLENT CRIMES HAVE NEVER NEEN [sic] WORSE, AND TOURISTS HAVE FLED.  TAKEOVER IS VERY UNPOPULAR WITH POTENTIAL AREA JURORS, BUT NECESSARY FOR SAFETY, GREATNESS, & FOR ALL THE WORLD TO SEE."

Actually, murders are down.  Rape is way down since Trump left.  But the faux-populist Rightzis can never stop demonizing cities, where the scary people live.  For instance, Ron DeSantis only needed twenty minutes in San Francisco to diagnose its problems -- "leftist" government and people who do "number two" on the sidewalk.  I swear, he calls it "number two."  As for fleeing tourists, take a good look at the hospitality sector in Florida.

See what happens?  Now I'm trying to reason with sociopaths.

Brace for more of this Panjandrum.  Judge Kaplan just dismissed Trump's defamation suit against E. Jean Carroll.  He can't even get a fair trial in New York anymore, and after all the years he was the star of the bankruptcy court.  Sad!

All this, coupled with the weird complaint about the water pressure in his shower, leaves us with a picture of an increasingly isolated and demented old man sputtering in all directions and failing to dislodge a single obstacle, terrified of ending his days behind high walls.  It's entertaining and frightening at the same time.  Even without all the criminal indictments, should someone like this be running a candy store, much less a country?