Do Those Trump Trials Make Sense Yet?

There was a piece of advice I got once, early in life, that was a bit vulgar but also very true. "Don't ever fuck yourself trying to fuck someone else."

It makes me think about where we are right now with this Joe Biden vs. Donald J. Trump thing. And while the head of this very long snake is before us now, ready to chomp down on some flesh, it's been working its way to us for quite a long time.

Ever slowly. Inch by inch.

Think back to all of these indictments against Donald Trump, and the trials and even the conviction. It did sometimes amaze me, the fervor and tenacity that they went after him with. They were out for blood. They wanted this man out of the picture permanently.

Granted, this started long before Joe Biden was the president. But it became clearer once Joe Biden was the president.

For a long time, I kept wondering, what's the real threat here? What does Trump know?

There were the many questions about 2020, of course. Not only were people silenced for even suggesting the election may have been stolen, but many are also still being drug through the courts, or like Steve Bannon, going to jail.

Was this to bar Trump from running and keeping him out of the White House where he may be able to potentially open this question up for some real answers?

I am still not sure. This entire operation against Trump may go way deeper than any of us might ever believe. There may be even darker secrets in the Democrat's closets than what we think the big one now might be.

But that's for another day.

The thing is, the Democrats are in a real pickle, and it's something they won't be able to get out of easily. If at all. They got caught in one the biggest lies of the century and they're now working very hard to pretend to be shocked after what will go down in the history books as probably the wort presidential debate performance in American history.

Set that aside, though. We want to focus on those trials. If it were nothing else, what they were more than anything, were a big part of the huge cover up regarding Biden's health.

It was all about look over there. If they could keep the 24-hour news cycle focused on Trump, perhaps you'd miss the gaffes or the trips and falls. Perhaps you'd not see Biden getting lost on stages or pay too much attention to handlers dressed in bunny costumes leading him around.

The fact is that they knew. The Democrats. The White House. They knew all along something was not right with Joe Biden, but they kept it under wraps. For a long time, they mostly got away with it. Granted, Fox News talked about it non-stop. So did overseas news agencies like Sky News in Australia.

But all the other networks? It was wall to wall coverage of Trump's criminal this and Trump's indictment that and Trump's conviction.

Folks, step right up. We have the most amazing attraction you simply can't miss. Introducing the J6 committee to feast your eyes on. Come one, come all and see the amazing wonders of the evilest man in America. 

In other words, it was all about don't look over here. Perhaps if you could give the media and the people something else to keep their attention on, you'd miss the classified documents in the garage story, or the gaffes, or you'd ignore the fact that Biden wasn't doing press conferences or holding cabinet meetings on a regular basis.

You'd forget about Hunter Biden's laptop and all the juicy details it might contain because something juicier was happening with Trump.

It dawned on me. That's what this may have been all about. The truth. The truth they wanted us badly to be hidden from. That something wasn't right with Biden. If they could just hold out to the end, though, maybe they could fix it. 

I mean, worst case scenario they make it through the election and Biden wins. They could just pull the 25th Amendment, seat Harris as president, and the next four years and possibly eight were set. They just had to keep eyes off the White House and Joe Biden to whatever extent they could.

Trump was their way to do that. Get all eyes and attention on him. Make it juicy. Make it look good. Make it seem devilish in any way you can. But for Heaven's sake, keep the focus on him. Whatever you do, and we mean, whatever you do, don't dare look at us.

Not only could you have wall to wall coverage on the indictments and trials, but you could also have wall to wall coverage from pundits talking about it all. All the while, what would be left in the news cycles to address Biden and all the questions that might loom about him?

"Biden accidentally called the president of Eqypt the president of Mexico...ha, ha, ha, silly Joe...now getting back to this Stormy Daniels thing."

The problem is, they got caught in the lie. They got caught in the deception, and let's face it, it was all already backfiring on them and badly. All the polls seemed to show that. The more and the harder they went after Trump, the more popular he'd become.

Now they're caught in it. They fucked themselves trying to fuck somebody else. For going on 7 years, it's been the same thing. They wanted to go after Trump. Because the debate happened, and when it did, there was no other way to spin that.

No amount of Trump coverage would be enough to distract attention away from Biden. But seeing how bad Biden really is at this stage, it makes the whole pursuit of Trump clearer as to the why of it all.

It sounds crazy. I know it does. But when you think about it, how crazy is it, really? 

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It Happens to the Best of Us, It Happened to the Media

There is a saying some people like to use all the time that says, "It happens to the best of us." While the saying applies mostly to otherwise good, honest people caught in a simple mistake, I will allow the news media to have the saying at least for now.

I am fully admitting it's hard to call the media "good people."

For one thing, and this is no secret mind you, they lie. The media. And if they're not lying, they're shaping narratives that are caught somewhere between a lie and a half-truth.

It's been a long 8 or so years, folks. From the moment Donald J. Trump came down that escalator at Trump Tower to announce he was running for president to now, with Joe Biden as the sitting president. It's been one thing after the other, and constant.

If they weren't bashing Trump, or aren't bashing Trump now, they were giving praise after praise for Joe Biden—and outright lying to us about his health and fitness to be president. The untold lies about his record of successes notwithstanding.

Reality often hits the fan, so to speak. It happens to the best of us. And the media has finally come to terms with the idea that they simply cannot continue the lie about Joe Biden's health or fitness to be president anymore. The gig is up. It's simply undeniable after what can only be labeled as a complete disaster of a performance by Joe Biden on the debate stage.

There's a point when one can at least "get away" with the lie. Not that it makes it okay to tell the lie, but there's no real consequence for telling it. People will still afford you some level of credibility, and when you're in the media credentials are everything, right?

Regardless of whether you are telling the truth or not, you still have to appear intelligent and informed to a degree. Sort of like a salesman when you think about it. He might be completely full of shit, but you still feel like he mostly knows what he's talking about. He needs that. He needs you to feel that.

In the case of Biden and his debate performance, what was widely suspected to be, and that he was long-time accused of became so glaringly obvious it was simply impossible to ignore it. If this would have been a spin-room in a sales office, that performance would have been a firm acknowledgement, "There's just no way we can sell this anymore other than for what it actually is."

The media now has no other option, in order to maintain any sense of credibility, but to be honest. Joe Biden is just not fit to be president.

You saw it first, immediately following the debate from the panel on CNN. And instead of their initial thoughts quieting down, they are doubling down on the idea that Joe Biden cannot win, and especially that he shouldn't even be running at all.

Take the George Stephanopoulos interview, which was a one-on-one with Joe Biden recently. It was hard knocks. These were very direct and tough questions. I'd say probably some of the toughest questions ever posed to a sitting president, let alone a Democrat one.

There was no room in this one to sit back in one's chair contemplatively and ask the president what his favorite flavor of ice cream happened to be.

This is about the future of America, and everyone gets that.

There's also no foreseeable turnaround that's going to happen here either. I am not sure Biden gets that, or his team for that matter. The news media is not going to suddenly change their mind. Even if Biden somehow manages to pull off a good debate performance in September, I think it will be too little too late.

Suddenly all eyes will turn back to the State of the Union address, and the media will have to wonder—like so many of us already wondered before they ever would—what was he on? What did they give him? It's a rouse!

No one is going to buy it that if the president was a rambling mess on Monday through Saturday, but all put together well on Sunday, that it wasn't because of some reason. The reality is that the reality simply can no longer be ignored or brushed aside.

Why would the media turn their backs on their guy and not defend him to the hilt no matter what? Again, it's because they need to be at least somewhat credible. America is watching, and they are watching very closely. They are seeing what they are seeing, and there's no way to sell the story any other way than what's right in front of their eyes.

Granted, it doesn't mean we will start getting the whole truth from them. Come on. Get real. Look at how they continue to report on Trump. When Trump wins in November, and I think that's easier to predict now that he actually will, they're not going to give up on bashing him and telling lie after lie about him.

But see, the difference is they can still get away with the Trump lies. They cannot get away with the Biden ones. In an ironic sense, it means that what the American people at least get in the meantime is the truth we need within the other lies they'll tell. 

The lies about Trump, in other words, don't matter as much as the truth about Biden does. 

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Press Conference After Debate Was an Expected Nothing

Listening to the White House press conference, which was broadcast from Air Force One in an audio only format was frustrating to say the least, but not unpredictable. I mean, of course White House officials are going to defend their guy. But at the same time, after the terrible debate performance last night and the scathing commentary from even CNN and so many other Democrats, many of whom all but said they were no longer supporting Joe Biden's candidacy, you would think they would be more inclined to do some hard knocks damage control and quell what has become a majority fear.

Instead, what they did was dismiss the night's performance and deflect. How can that be a working strategy? When the American people, especially members of the media who generally have your back, are now asking critical questions about the president, you answer them directly, openly, and honestly.

"What did the American people see last night at that debate?" one reporter asked. 

"We saw Donald Trump tell lie after lie to the American people and speak about his radical agenda for America."

That wasn't the question.

I will admit that they did at least acknowledge that even the president himself was aware it was not a good performance. "But you can't judge the president based on one performance," they said. Only the reality is that the debate was the performance that most voters, especially independents, would actually watch. For all intents and purposes, it needed to be the performance of his life, and to dismiss the performance as just an anomaly speaks volumes about the reality of Biden's ability to lead.

Not only was the debate the performance most voters would see, but many people also watched the media reactions as well. These visuals, more than anything, are going to be the things most permanently etched in their minds.

As the old saying goes, once you see certain things, you can't simply unsee them.

The entire press conference focused on Trump, which is not unusual, nor unexpected. But doesn't that also send a message? You just had an awful night on the debate stage that millions and millions of voters saw, and rather than focus on the performance and do your best to try and explain it, you simply point to the other guy?

But Trump. Did you see what Trump did? Did you hear what he said? Trump, Trump, Trump.

What it actually says to the American people is that you have no explanation, and so in its stead you simply point fingers away from the real question. Perhaps hoping that's enough for someone to give Biden a pass and think, "Yeah. You're right. Trump was really bad, wasn't he?"

To me it just does more to hurt Biden. First of all, in order to solve problems, you have to see them. You have to acknowledge they are there in order to be able to fix them. If the president's performance cannot even be accepted, what does that say about your ability to recognize other issues? 

Especially when the one you are being asked about was glaringly obvious.

I don't know why I was hoping for a better set of answers from the White House. I mean, when have we ever gotten anything straightforward from them? It's all pass the buck, deflect, point fingers, and look the other way.

I do think the American people get it, though. That's probably the silver lining. They don't need to answer the questions, actually. We already know what they are. We just wanted to know what you'd say. You said nothing, and that, above all else, provided the real answer.

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