I started to call this “Fascist Weasels on Parade”, then decided it was an insult to actual weasels. Changed it to worms, invertebrates, true, but also heroes in their own right. Without worms, no food supply for life on the planet. My humble apologies to worms for the constant, necessary, life-sustaining work that you do. There really isn’t a proper pejorative to describe these fascist ass-lickers who cringingly cleave to the unwashed butt crack of their Leader. There is no depth they won’t stoop to in service to their violently insane, supremely vindictive master.
Shamefully, and predictably, enough, Trump’s spineless lickspittles in the Senate, at 4:00 a.m., right before they left for a well-earned five week vacation, voted to narrowly confirm Trump’s criminal lawyer, and dead-eyed criminal in his own right, Todd Blanche, as the Attorney General of the United States. Heather Cox Richardson lays it out beautifully.
She contrasts this cringefest to how principled Republican senators reacted in 1974 when Nixon (a paranoid, bold-faced, lawyerly liar who insisted he never did anything wrong — see below [1]) faced impeachment for abusing his power and obstructing justice by covering up crimes far less serious than countless crimes Trump has committed in his second term, and being in contempt of Congress (the government branch Trump has contemptuously neutered).
American fascists (Roger Stone, Manafort and associates among them) have put the lessons learned from Nixon’s downfall to good use — making charges against Republicans for abuse of power and contempt of Congress, neither crime nor misdemeanor and the same with obstruction of whatever you want to call it. As for any non-MAGA official doing anything that can be cast as similar — call out the DOJ, National Guard, ICE, CBP, Proud Boys, Klan, the National Park Service, FEMA and the Department of Prisons!!
Blanche wrote fraudulent “settlement” “agreements” in the days after “dismissing” a fake lawsuit that was basically Trump v. Trump’s Lackeys, (Trump’s lackeys never even submitted a “defense”), in a case the judge called out as a fraud on the court. The judicial investigation into that fraud is ongoing. Blanche, in the fake settlement contracts (signed only by him, talk about invalid contracts — no meeting of the mind between two parties, no exchange of consideration) preemptively covered up a host of likely, almost certain, Trump tax crimes, for Donald J. and Uday and Kusay Trump and their heirs. Blanche was the author of Trump’s self-pardon (though he tap danced for the Senate Judiciary Committee about who actually typed it up for him).
Blanche has so far successfully, and brazenly, covered up Trump’s long involvement with suicided sex criminal and blackmailer Jeffery Epstein, withholding over 3,000,000 documents, heavily redacting all others (except for nude photos and names of teenaged victims of Epstein) and declaring there is nothing further to investigate.
Emmet Sullivan, the federal judge in the case Katie “Though she be but little, she is fierce” Phang brought against Blanche for his multiple, ongoing violations of the Epstein Files Transparency Act has ordered Blanche to testify in open court next week, August 13th, about his evidence, not his bullshit rationales for why he lied over and over about his redactions, wrote insulting dismissals of Phang’s motives rather than legal answers to her motions and ignored direct court orders from Judge Sullivan.
This is the fully weaponized Trump DOJ under a criminal maniac who hires his criminally-inclined criminal lawyer as Attorney General to get perpetual, no cost, unlimited prosecutorial revenge on enemies real and imagined and blanket legal protections for himself and his fabulously corrupt offspring as well as loyal billionaire ass-lickers like Howard Lutnick, Scott Bessent and Doug Burgham.
Unless the fascist brains behind Trump stage a massive terrorist attack right before the upcoming midterms (and why wouldn’t they?) and station heavily armed masked ICE/CBP militias, and paid freelancers in full KKK regalia, including pointy white hoods, in front of every minority voting district polling place (Trump would love to) and starts having his gestapo openly assassinate election officials, judges, non-corporate journalists, snide citizens and anyone else who doesn’t stay silent or parrot his incoherent lies (the only “rigged election” he lost was the one when he was president and the federal officials who declared the election valid worked for him) there will likely be a “blue wave” that will turn Congress Democratic. When that happens, all of these nefarious characters will be investigated. Blanche will be impeached on multiple counts, along with Hegseth, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, Robert F. “Dr. Brainworm” Kennedy Jr. and the rest of them.
All the more reason for Trump to make a secret deal to have “Iran,” “antifa,” humanists, hamas, tren de aragua, commies, Jews, Puerto Ricans, etc. — in other words TERRORISTS — nuke an anarchist jurisdiction two days before Election Day, possibly with one of their many Patriot missiles, since even adorable MAGA Mike Johnson’s declaration that he runs the protection racket for corrupt MAGA Congressmen who committed crimes for the Boss won’t be of much use when they are once again in their blessed minority.
The Republican party now openly represent the 1%. Why not have Congressional representation reflect that, as Trump’s billionaire donors build obedient, undefeatable, merciless AI robot armies and fill cyber-brothels with irresistible, endlessly compliant sex slave robots, while raping and pillaging what’s left of the biosphere?
USA! USA!!!!
[1] In his resignation speech, Nixon refused to acknowledge that he had done anything wrong. Instead, he told the American people he had to step down because he no longer had the support he needed in Congress to advance the national interest. He blamed the press, whose “leaks and accusations and innuendo” had been designed to destroy him. His disappointed supporters embraced the idea that there was a “liberal” conspiracy, spearheaded by the press, to bring down any Republican president. source
Sound familiar?
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