Oh…and this was a pleasant story I heard today on my way into work about how Mulvaney is dropping a lawsuit against one of the worst actors in the payday lending business. The only silver lining was hearing one of the customers who got screwed talk about how she voted for Trump and now feels betrayed. (I guess she though he would only screw Muslims and brown people.)
Back then, a lot of positions, even Tax Collector, were sold to the highest bidder, who would logically be expected to make back their costs through corruption. As Richard and John were trying to raise funds for the crusades (and to keep the Pope off their backs), the Sheriff was a corrupt asshole who paid a lot of money for the rights to basically own that land and everyone in it.
That’s kind of how they got to the Magna Carta. The nobles were getting really tired of all the extortion and bullshit draining their own wallets.
On the one hand, I want to see him wiped out, crushed, ruined, and humiliated right now.
On the other hand I want the Fed and the states to take their time, use all due care, and make SURE he can’t weasel, squirm, or bribe his way out like he has consistently done in the past.
And yes, at the state level he has no pardon power.
Yup, had that conversation with my father yesterday and he felt the same way. No, I don’t want him to be assassinated, die of a stroke or anything like that. I don’t want him to be impeached over something stupid.
I want to see him utterly ruined, humiliated and abandoned by his so-called allies and sycophants.
Much as I’d love to see this, too, it simply will never happen. If he’s economically crushed and reduced to penury, he has enough connections with the rich that they’ll maintain the gilded lifestyle for his paunchy ass until he’s good and dead.
I hope they won’t keep supporting his horrible children, though. Eric needs to get a job shoveling up the elephants’ bowel movements at Ringling Brothers.
There was another Leader who pitted factions of his Party against each other, resulting in a cutthroat environment where people battled for the Leader’s favour. I heard Loser Donnie read his book. (OTOH, I’ve heard Loser Donnie can’t read.)
While I like that image a lot, Ringling Brothers no longer uses elephants in its show. He could shovel up the poop at the Ringling Brothers Elephant Retirement Reserve, though.
Actually, Ringling Brothers put on its last show on May 21, 2017. It’s passed on. It is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. It’s kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. THIS IS AN EX-CIRCUS!!
If we could only say the same for the current administration…
I assume Vega’s question was rhetorical, as the answer (Cadet Bone Spurs is not willing to offend his basket-of-deplorables base by directly denouncing wife-beating) is painfully obvious.
