And It's One, Two, Three Strikes....

...and he's still not out. 

Third indictment and it won't make a bit of difference to his base.  

Listening to a story on NPR this morning and they were talking to people in upstate New York (really red area) about the latest indictment and what that meant to them and their support. And they said it made them support him even more because it just showed that he was right and they were out to get him. 

There was a smattering of it's not a big deal, it's been overblown by the media, he was right the election was rigged and the ever popular January 6th was a false flag operation from ANTIFA.

The election wasn't rigged and it wasn't ANTIFA.

It's not been overblown, it was an insurrection. They stormed the fucking Capitol. We watched it happening live. 

But it won't matter. 

None of it matters to them. 

And they still say things like how he was great for the country and he will fix things if he's elected again and how much better things were. His current lawyer said three years ago we had no inflation, we were energy independent and the border was secure. Well three years ago we had refrigerator trucks lined up outside of hospitals because the morgues were full. Oh right...full blown pandemic times and he was on TV fighting with his own Public Health officials. 

And even if he's convicted it won't change their minds. Or at least most of them.

They have too much of themselves wrapped up in him to move away from it now. It would be a really difficult thing to look at all of your MAGA merch and realize you had been duped. To look at how much you've donated, how much time you've spent defending him, how positive you were that you were right and your ignorant cousin Jill was wrong...there is no way that you can let that be true. So...

The active ignoring of facts will probably get harder to do, but there are people out there who swear Nixon was set up so it's not impossible. 

As for the man himself, he's said even if he's tried and convicted he would still run for office. And as we have no laws saying he can't, he will. AND PEOPLE WOULD VOTE FOR HIM.

I mean...

I'm still not holding my breath that he pays any sort of real price for everything he's done. And he's done so very much. I'm as bad as the other side in my belief that he will skate free. I just don't think it's because he's innocent. I think it's because I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe he won't get away with it. People seem to line up to take the fall for him. 

He's got people donating to pay his legal bills for fuck's sake. I mean, they're complaining about how expensive everything is and still paying for the "I'm rich, believe me." asshole's bills? What? And the Republicans running against him for the primary are all agreeing with him that the vote was rigged, the system is out to get him, he did nothing wrong, so they are just reinforcing that he should be the candidate instead of them all getting together and saying, he's crooked. He's so dishonest he doesn't even know what honest is. They are all just hoping something happens where he won't run and they can scoop up all the little MAGAts and be on their way to their own horrific race.

Idiots. 

Fools and idiots. 

Everyone in his wake gets destroyed. His allies who he uses until they aren't useful. His opponents who he bullies into being supporters. Our entire democracy...

One, Two, Three Strikes...

Third Time's the Charm...

hopefully it's not Death Comes in Threes because I think it would be us and not him.