Fuggedaboutit

If anyone reading this thinks Donald Trump will not occupy the oval office on January 21, 2021, they just haven’t been paying attention.  One way or another. Watch.

There’s a scene in ‘Goodfellas’ where the young Henry Hill tells his mob bosses that he can’t work for them any more. His parents got his school report card in the mail, and they want him to concentrate on schoolwork.

If the U.S. Postal Service delivers something the bosses don’t like, solving the problem mob-style is simple: make sure the post office doesn’t deliver any more bad news.  Sound familiar?

We’re now living in a country where everything you do is a referendum on Trump. There is no more objective medical advice or science or even “facts”.  Only what Trump says counts.  If you want to wear a face-mask during the pandemic in the hopes of dodging a bullet, you are signaling disapproval of Trump.  God help you over the next four years (and very likely beyond that) after you’ve taken this “stand”.

Remember those chants of “lock her up”, during the 2016 campaign? You thought that was all theater of the absurd, right? Just a wink-wink clown-show for the rubes, right? Nuh-uh.  Locking up his “enemies” is what Trump surely wants to do for real, and he will shortly be free to start in on the project.  Virtually everyone who doesn’t publicly and loudly worship him is fair game.  Maybe you should have thought more about it before putting on that damned mask?!

The Justice Department is now completely under Trump’s thumb, eager to do his bidding. Is that thumb going to point up or down for you?  Depends.  If you’re “loyal”, you can confess to seven felonies, including threatening the lives of a witness and his dog, and still skate. Step one is to have your already absurdly-light sentence reduced, and step two is a presidential commutation of the sentence before you spend a minute in jail.

On the other hand, if you have an attack of scruples and decide to say something that is actually true about Herr Drumpf, you’re going to prison.  Even if you’ve been his closest confidant and conspirator for decades.  And if someone lets you out early for good behavior or because you’re a high risk for Covid-19 while incarcerated, or for whatever reason, well, that doesn’t matter.  Back you go.  Lock him up.

And the poor fool in the penal system who thought he was acting on his own authority and just doing his job when he let you out?  Well, he’ll find out soon enough what that kind of “deep state” disloyalty can do to a career.

It should be obvious to everyone at this point that we’ve elected a straight-up mob boss as leader of the free world, and there is absolutely nothing he won’t do to hold on to this position.

Sowing seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of mail-in votes is just Standard Operating Procedure here.  And if mail-in voting has to be stopped because of all the “fraud”, doesn’t in-person voting also have to be stopped?  You haven’t forgotten those millions of illegal votes that were cast for Hillary in 2016 already, have you?

Shhh! Let’s not give anyone any ideas here.

What exactly do you imagine this guy wouldn’t try?  Declaring martial law?  Starting a war?  Assassination?  And, as we’ve said here before, the truly shocking thing is 60 million Americans think it’s all just great.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. If you think life will return to “normal” any time soon, here’s my advice: fuggedaboutit!