Stage IV Ahab ideation.

Contemptable.

“Did nothing illegal” and “indictment thrown out” are not the same thing, and you know it.

So, kindly answer the question I asked. For Cook you have

“Cook says that the mortgage application for her second house had a paperwork error”

so the answer is “yes Cook did something illegal”. I give you credit for that one.

So for everyone listed other than Cook, is it your position that they did nothing illegal?

But man, what goes around comes around. I guarantee that Democrats are going to be much, much better at that game.

What is this “going to be”? You are pretending that the last 20 years didn’t happen?

It is well past time we tried to get as good at as they are AND HAVE BEEN FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS.

How about Comey? Most of his indictments were thrown out too. And is there any chance on God’s green earth that a jury is going to convict him of intending to threaten to kill the president by arranging sea shells in the sand? (In a word, no.)

How about Lisa Cook? The facts on that one are murky at best. Cook says that the mortgage application for her second house had a paperwork error and that she correctly listed the second residence as a vacation home at other places in the application. The state is going to prove intentional fraud on that record? Ah, no.

And even if there were crimes (which I doubt), if you’re A-OK with having a political hack like Bill Pulte comb through government records to play “show me the political enemy and I’ll show you the crime,” that’s fine. But man, what goes around comes around. I guarantee that Democrats are going to be much, much better at that game. Unlike most of Trump’s staff, Democrats actually know how the government works. They’ll find things. And, like I said, you’ll have no grounds to complain.

I don’t want to misunderstand you. Are you saying that these people you have named, and the “others” you didn’t name, did nothing illegal?

Advocates of Trump’s retaliatory lawfare argue that it is necessary to deter Dems.

This is not actually what we argue. What we actually argue is that for one side to not do it when the other does it is suicide, and that if both sides do it, they may later decide to both stop doing it, or they both might continue doing it forever, but there is no chance of it ever stopping if only side keeps doing it and never suffers any retaliation.

It went on for YEARS before Trump was on the scene.

If it stops, great, but if it never stops, well, those are the new rules and we all have to play by them, and at least it’s a fair fight.

There are of course, those who always want us to roll over; all honorable men of course, and lifelong Republicans to a man, of course, the best way to conserve conservatism is to never fight as hard the Left does for it, everyone knows that.

Advocates of Trump’s retaliatory lawfare argue that it is necessary to deter Dems. Well, your test will come in 2029. If Dems refrain from further lawfare or scale back relative to what they did from 2020-2024, I will admit that you were right. Good luck.

I don’t think that’s why, I think it’s because he threatens them. He threatens them while and because he does the things most of us here approve of. They have good reason by their lights. It’s not just his style.

Gravitas and dignity didn’t stop Reagan from being portrayed as an amiable dunce whose finger should be nowhere near the Button, or George W. Bush from being portrayed as a village idiot and another Hitler. But they weren’t impeached because whatever the virtues of those gentlemen they did not threaten the Swamp.

Now in Reagan’s day the Swamp was still loyal and competent, if not exactly efficient. By W’s time the Swamp was considerably less competent and starting to think it really should be in charge of things, and Obama and Biden let it do that. And here we are.

-Gold … toilets???
-So vulgar, so disgusting — but is that a good reason to impeach Trump?

Them: It’s not the gold toilets …
– You think the gold toilets are fine???
T: No, they’re terrible.
– And that’s why you want to impeach him, right. Because of his terrible taste.
T: No, he’s bad blah blah blah
– Sounds like you hate his taste, not his policies.

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I’ve not quite had such a conversation with my Dem friends, but such is in my mind.

Remember tho, it’s Dem Derangement Syndrome.
Dems who are Deranged.
(Because of the Demonization against Republicans, who are eeeeevil).

In 2028 there will be more Vance/Rubio/DeSantis DS talked about, but it will be the latest Dem Derangement Syndrome.

Fani Willis went after Trump in Georgia on specious charges. Yes.

Elected Democrats, and some running to be elected plan to impeach Trump if they win back control of the House. Yes.

A group of federal judges make up the go-to cadre who can be counted on to stifle Executive Orders when Trump puts them out. Yes.

A few Democrat politicians (inter alia Pritzker and Newsom) who have little to run on in the upcoming elections have settled on anti-Trump platforms in the hope they can energize their base. Yes.

And finally, a recurring talking point Democrats are using to whip up fervor in their base is a promise to pack the Supreme Court and do away with the Electoral College.

It’s all true. And in the 70 or so years I have been politically aware, I don’t recall a similar foaming-at-the-mouth effort. I remember some anti-Kennedy rumblings, initially aimed at his nomination of his brother as AG. And people certainly went after W, claiming he was a mental lightweight and dodged the draft. And I guess Ford was also attacked as being intellectually underwhelming and Nixon was hated, but even with all the hatred of Nixon, which was very personal and not fact-based, I don’t remember even him being as personally attacked as Trump. I might not be remembering all the previous vitriol, but I am not forgetting previous constant lawfare against a sitting president. It feels to me as if we’re reaching peak crazy. It is very unsettling.

Aw, c’mon!!!
Tell us something we don’t already know!!
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Meanwhile President Fentanyl-Tranq rides again…

‘Oversight Committee Launches Probe Into Biden DEA’s ‘Walking Fentanyl’ Operation;
‘“As a result, New Mexico was heavily affected by fentanyl with a nearly 21 percent increase in fentanyl poisoning deaths compared to a 14 percent decrease in the United States overall.”’—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/08/oversight-committee-launches-probe-into-biden-deas-walking-fentanyl-operation/