Rude Pundit: What About Those of Us Who Want Donald Trump Prosecuted? Talk to Us, Media

[Nevilledog]

https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2022/08/what-about-those-of-use-who-want-donald.html

If there's one thing that runs through most political coverage of just about anything, it's that something is only good if Republicans believe it's good. Whenever some dullard pundit smirks pure bullshit about "bipartisanship," it inevitably means, "Here's a Democratic idea that is worthless unless Republicans buy into it." But a Republican idea never needs the approval of Democrats. I'm not talking votes alone. I'm talking how issues are covered.

During Trump's presidency, we got a nonstop stream of yokel safaris, where some reporter from, generally, the New York Times, although they were certainly not alone here, goes to a stronghold of Trump support like Sisterfuck, Ohio, and interview the Sisterfuckians about how much they love Trump and what he was doing, which was always "a lot." You had to struggle to find articles on what Democratic voters thought. And then, with the election of Joe Biden, the media still ventured out to Sisterfuck, Cousinream, and Blowagoat to get their oh-so-American opinions on how much they hate Biden and what he's doing, which is always "a lot," with an added "and the election was stolen."

This is reaching its peak with the people decrying the FBI's search of Donald Trump's garish nightmare country club and home, Mar-a-Lago. As Michelle Goldberg points out (yes, in the New York Times), there is a strain of "centrist" thought that the search was out of bounds because it will divide the nation further, that it will "deepen" the country's "civic wounds," as Damon Linker wrote. Linker goes on to say that the high probability of violence in response to a Trump prosecution means that prosecution should be avoided: "I simply don’t agree with those who insist that not going after Trump will be even more dangerous than pursuing his prosecution."

Certainly, voices on the right are screaming this, with politicians coming just up to the line of threats of violence (although certainly Republicans in Congress are threatening the FBI and the Justice Department, not to mention Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray personally, with investigation and defunding). And, yeah, the fucknut squad is doing what it's been jonesing to do, which means some of them are starting to die for the lies that Donald Trump keeps telling. But those dumb shitheads were just itching to try out their ARs and their YouTube military training on a government building. Most of them will just rant into the TikTok void for likes and subscribes, the currency of our moronic present. Of course, it takes only one getting a bomb next to or in a building or a few guns into an office to fuck things up for a whole lot of people. So I'll keep the mocking of these ignorant, delusional prickmites to a simmering minimum.

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[dalton99a]

1. Kick

The point here is not just that, obviously, prosecution shouldn't be based on how much upheaval it will cause to numbskulls who have smeared a viscous coating of lies on their naked flesh and are pretending it's armor. But media coverage is focusing only on the violent fucknuts. It ignores the much, much larger portion of the population who want to see that orange motherfucker behind bars for crimes he flaunted in our flustered faces.

Yeah, what about those of us who want Donald Trump indicted and prosecuted? We deserve to be heard, too. Prosecuting Trump is not merely for some abstract concept like adherence to "the rule of law." That has meaning. We have seen powerful people get away with crimes time and again. We needed George W. Bush and his crew of war criminals prosecuted. We needed the motherfuckers who almost blew up the economy of the world in 2008 to face justice. And we got nothing. We got the false promise that forgiveness would temper their behavior, only to see that forgiveness shit on and tossed back at those who did the forgiving, using it as a ticket to go further and act with impunity to wreck shit even more.

We have to know that there is a limit. We have to know that in a nation that incarcerates more (mostly poor) people than any other, in a nation that tolerates mass murder on a daily basis, in a nation that does nothing to stop the unending harassment and threats that stream through our social media, in a nation that allows for lies to become policy, whether with climate change (until last week) or the election or abortion rights or education, in a nation as fucked as this nation is, something fucking matters, and that something has to be the very foundational idea that a president isn't above the law. The Obama administration, including Joe Biden, dropped the ball big-time with the Bush criminal enterprise. It can't happen again, so soon, because all faith in this delicate web we call "democracy" will fucking collapse. That's way more dangerous than Skeeter pretending he's Rambo and trying to take out an FBI office. We can stop the Skeeters, even if they do cause harm. We can't stop a web from collapsing once the threads are plucked free.

Jesus fuck, at least Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld and the rest had the good sense to realize they had gotten away with it and went the fuck away. I sincerely believe that if Trump had accepted the results of the election and let everything go ahead peacefully, he would have gotten away with it, too. Instead, he's fucking daring anyone to stop his criminality. Trump is fostering this violence now. He could stop it, like he could have stopped the January 6 insurrection. But he won't. So he must be stopped by legal action.

[gratuitous]

4. A tangent to that point about incarceration rates

It's when those low-lifes who killed Ahmad Arbery got big fat sentences for the murder, we immediately got the "Oh, we're locking up people for too long" story I knew was coming. A thin patina of "Look what the system does to poor and minority defendants" spread over sympathy for Arbery's killers and the long sentences they got.

[Hekate]

31. I was flabbergasted to see that opinion posted here: that their sentences were too long & too harsh

… and that it just goes to show how bad our incarceration system is.

[dchill]

9. "We deserve to be heard, too."

For how long now have the media made sure we always get less than we deserve because it's unfair that we're always the majority? BALANCE MUST BE ENFORCED! "And we'll decide what 'balance' is."

[Jarqui]

10. "he would have gotten away with it, too"

I'm not so sure about that.

The GA and Jan 6th thing go away because under the above scenario he didn't do them.

Some of the documents he's keeping are probably trying to protect himself.
Everything he does is about himself.

But the stuff in NY is pretty serious (fraud, tax evasion) and clear of pardons.
He had no guarantee of beating that but if in the Oval Office, he'd have another layer of protection.

[EYESORE 9001]

2. It's like the Sunday morning 'news' shows (all of them)

When Democrats are in power, the shows have predominantly repuQs on because ‘all sides must be heard from.’ When repuQs are in power, their side is over represented because they’ve ‘got a mandate.’

[Mr. Ected]

3. So, what's it going to be, America? Go down fighting righteously, or give in to the bullies?

Because those bullies will accept your meek indifference and, in turn, will shackle you, blindfold you, gag you and destroy you.

I think we all know that. This isn't just hyperbole. And it most certainly isn't political. The other side isn't the GOP.

It's fascism, ready to devour democracy whole.

[Evolve Dammit]

12. well said.

[jaxexpat]

20. If fascism is the end of truth, we're already living in a nascent....

totalitarian utopia. You got to know when to hold em, know when to fold em. You can't walk away and there's no where to run.

[Joinfortmill]

25. 👍

[dchill]

32. Nobody is giving in to bullies.

As soon as they break the law, they're being dealt with. Pretty sure we have to wait for that.

[Farmer-Rick]

36. That's because most of the filthy rich

Are GOPers and psychopaths. They are crazy. If you met them on the street you would recognize in less than a minute that they are crazy. They are crazy because of the wealth they control.....it makes you crazy.

They don't know what normal Americans think or want or feel and they don't care. They have these bubbles around themselves filled with slave like people who will do whatever they want for money. It gives them a sense that they are gods.

The filthy rich rule America and until you take their power away from them, take away the wealth you let them control, they will always be pushing the horribly incompetent and stupid as political leaders. They need someone like themselves to run America, to give them more of our national wealth.

Notice how quickly they have gone from giving us an Alzheimer patient, to an alcoholic, to a complete idiot psychopath. Every time these crazies were handed the presidency, there was a rational capable Dem running against their crazy. And the crazy won. Because money and the Supremes.

Anyway look around the world, this is the world the filthy rich created and control. It's what they want and what they got for themselves. And oh, you too get to live in their world, with all the horrors they have created.

[orthoclad]

5. Just ask yourself:

Who owns the US media? What could their interest be?

[sop]

41. Exactly. Corporate media isn't afraid for the country's safety, they're only concerned potential

civil disturbances may prevent consumers from spending their money on the crap their advertisers sell.

[orthoclad]

42. There are only a few

very rich people/corporations who own the vast majority of media outlets in the US, whether broadcast or print.
Along with the sequestering of wealth by the 1%, we have the sequestration of "news".

[orthoclad]

44. I'd love to see how many media corps

Own an interest in gun manufacturers.
Don't hedge funds own many outlets? They strip them of assets, leave a skeleton crew to operate the company, take the money and run. If these funds own stock in gun makers, they have a vested interest in raising the rage level.

[bullwinkle428]

6. A brilliant fucking point that not nearly enough people are making.

[Faux pas]

7. Kickety Kickin'

[malaise]

8. Precisely

I’ve been asking about this from day one

[Paper Roses]

11. Well said, the original post and the replies. n/t

[Evolve Dammit]

13. Mr. Linker would prefer we just accept corruption, a coup, espionage and a cover-up. F that. n/t

[DeeDeeNY]

14. Completely spot-on observations

[onecaliberal]

15. K&R We must fight and beat the traitor party into the dust.

[littlemissmartypants]

16. Kick. ❤

[mopinko]

17. ya know, i dont think garland or wray is stupid enough to have not thought about this.

i've got a feeling that part of the prep here is being ready to swoop down on these assholes.

[orangecrush]

28. I think

You're right.

[Hassler]

18. Yokel Safaris. Brilliant.

[niyad]

19. Spot on, RP.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. I mean, fuck yes!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. The billionaire owners don't care what you think; they want your money and servitude.

[MagickMuffin]

23. Here's an idea, hang outside these media offices and protest loudly

I remember this being a tactic around the time of 2000 election. There were scores of protesters outside of CNN chanting Communist News Network. They changed this over and over again and suddenly CNN moved further right.

Perhaps our chant should be Conservative News Network, over and over again. Bullhorns would be a nice addition.

[Joinfortmill]

24. I love this dude. He's so rude!

[live love laugh]

26. YEA ‼️ We're not hard to find.

[orangecrush]

27. Thanks RP

For putting it into words.

[Tommymac]

29. K&R for F***ing Truth nt

[Hekate]

30. KnR

[calimary]

33. I SO love the Rude Pundit.

Sayin’ what we’re thinkin’ with every essay.

[Takket]

34. Democratic voters just don't exist to the media. we jsut aren't crazy enough lol

[Aussie105]

35. Get things in balance!

The media aren't dumb, they have observed and seen what TFG and his followers have done, and are trying to do, to the country.

They know full well the laws he has broken, the lies he has pushed, the nodding heads that agreed with him, those who saw his delusions as a possible alternate reality.

Normality is the status quo.

And that is what the TrumpHeads are complaining about, normality threatening their delusions, and the media, being the media, just report on that complaining.

But in the background, is the status quo, the majority of Americans, who know what is right, who know TFG and his followers aren't quite right in the head. Know that Biden is quietly steering the ship in the right direction.

But there is no mileage in that for the media.
Ask on camera 10 people in the street what they think of the current situation.
Intelligent and rational answers won't make it on the evening news. A MAGA frothing at the mouth at the unfairness of it all, will get airplay.

If you feel your normal doesn't get fair air play, get used to it - the media isn't interested.

Normality is the status quo.
Never forget, never waver.

[ecstatic]

37. This is how I feel, 100%. It's frustrating and feeds into

the "othering" of the majority of Americans. We are Americans too, dammit. Our opinions and feelings should matter.

[Wounded Bear]

38. K & R...nt

[llashram]

39. +++

[berniesandersmittens]

40. Absolutely KNR

[mnhtnbb]

43. Sisterfuck, Cousinream, and Blowagoat: OMG, I love me some Rude!