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Wed Jan 21, 2026, 06:44 PM 7 hrs ago

Trump's black hole of impunity is collapsing

...Jack Smith is due to publicly testify January 22, 2025, before the House Judiciary Committee.

I think this will be impactful on Americans for a number of reasons, but I've been listening to some skepticism and cynicism about whether Trump's degeneracy and corruption - all of which they assume must have been well-known to voters when they voted in the last presidential election - will be any more important to them now.

I think it will, and I'll illuminate why.

I was watching my favorite astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson answer a viewer question this week about whether someone sucked into a black hole would be affected or distorted by it (my own dumbed down take).

His answer was that a black hole would be so vast that, on the fantastical assumption that you could arrive there, you'd be largely unaffected by it UNTIL you approached the center of it all where everything was flattening out and condensing. At that point everything would be impactful on your state of existence by mere virtue of your proximity to everything.

It's that flattening of the black hole of Trump's latest ascension to the White House in which we find ourselves; many of us for the first time in our lives, directly impacted by the politics that has gravitated around us all; now closing in on so many lives in this country with little to no room left anymore to find their own freedom or liberty.

Trump is sucking all of the space out of our universe. and everything is becoming closer and more relevant to us as it all threatens to flatten out and, frankly, explode and scatter again.

Jack Smith's narrative concerning Donald Trump's attacks on our democracy will find more receptive ears among people who are now directly impacted by his thuggery and criminal autocracy, and his past actions will be testimony to the gangsterism and lawlessness that we're all witnessing from the Trump cabal today.

You have to wonder if the Supreme Court's maga majority who refused to even look at the evidence against the person they granted a conjured amulet of invented immunity, and enabled an already convicted felon's return to the presidency, will take notice of the depravity and contempt for the law, for their very Court, in what's going to be revealed to the public tomorrow by his prosecutor?

How, btw, will they hide their own complicity?


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Trump's black hole of impunity is collapsing (Original Post) bigtree 7 hrs ago OP
Ussc UpInArms 7 hrs ago #1
"refused to even look at the evidence". Yeah, GOP Impeachment Senators too. /nt bucolic_frolic 7 hrs ago #2
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