(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . An Innocent Man [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-08-27 By David Glenn Cox It’s the photo that just keeps on giving. “I WANT YOU! To send me more money.” Diarrhea? Tums? Are your piles acting up? Athlete’s foot? Jock itch? I think Donnie has screwed himself with that photo. Its intent is to send a message of outrage to his cultists. Donnie takes the image to a tee shirt with the tag line “Never Surrender” as he surrenders. Donnie’s antics are designed to set the fire to boil under the cultists. “Now, look what they’re doing to our Jesus! It ain’t fair! He ain’t guilty of nothing! It’s the weaponization of the government! And besides, even if he is guilty, so what? We support him anyway!” Short term it works for him, and through its comic value it works for me too. But this photograph is going to be around for a very long, long time. Long after you and I are dust in the wind this photo will still remain. Future generations will see this photo and think, WTF? What’s this guy’s trip? It’s that picture in grade school small children show each other trying to make each other giggle. George Washington hated the picture that eventually became the dollar bill. George had no idea it would eventually be one the most reproduced images on earth. And if he did know…he would be pissed about it. Imagine that picture you hated of yourself from the high school yearbook. In a sick twisted dystopian future, some future hundred years or so, that Trump photo could be the face on the New dollar bill. We are well on the way to dystopia, the surrender photo is titled, “Never Surrender!” Seig Hiel! Like a picture of the World Trade Center titled. “Victory!” 21st Century projection. Surender is victory! Victory is anger and anger is victory. As Donnie is moving towards the final climax. He’s trying to motivate the multitudes in a silent act of intimidation. It’s all fun and games until the court date. Driving the cultist’s attention to the bad old mean court and not on their Jesus who couldn’t ever do anything wrong. And even if he did, so what? It’s only law and order and civil process. A Fund-raising vehicle for a billionaire with cash flow problems to suck the public tit dry one more time. Never Surrender! Send me money or all is lost! But never surrender! Weakness is strength! The Congressional Trump cultists seek to join in on the defense. Stumbling in where angels fear to tread. Literally betting the house that by attempting to assassinate the current investigations will somehow translate into good things come November. It would stink to high heaven and eliminate forever the question of guilt or innocence. Why so anxious to kill an investigation if you are so certain of your innocence? But it has the smell of desperation and dead fish . The last line defending the last trench. Killing investigations while proclaiming innocence. Never surrender! Nixon answers, “I’m not a crook!” Trump’s absentia from the recent debate was obvious. Why would a candidate up by thirty of forty points, lower him or herself down into a pit of attack dogs? Nothing to gain and red meat for the opponents. Let them have their little debate and you’ll stay above it. Donnie orders Tucker Carlson at gunpoint to do an interview. “And I just said you weren’t busy. You ain’t working right now, so don’t give me that busy crap. Get over here before I start to get angry!” By Trump’s counter programming he’s injecting himself into the debate. Trump can hit them with “Oh my God almighty, look at these amazing X ratings. Yeah that’s right, X ratings, formally known as Twitter. But the Fox News ratings for the debate were good. The bully was trying to show how strong he is but proving the opposite. The debate went off without a hitch except for any real debate. A debate sponsored by the World Wrestling Federation and the NRA. A mere foretaste of Idiocrasy. As the crowd goes wild cheering and booing, hooting like morons on “Let’s Make a Deal” while the candidates hold their championship belts over their heads beneath the oscillating-colored spotlights. Achilles had his heel and Trumpers a pronounced weakness for paranoia and conspiracy. They will believe just about anything, except that Trump is guilty. Everyone lies, everyone everywhere in the whole world is corrupt and out to cheat Trump. But orange Jesus is true and of pure heart, and beyond worldly corruption. But they planned a rally at the Fulton County courthouse but stumbled over a rumor that the rally was an FBI set up job. Probably more of an unconscious observation than a rumor really, which allows cowardice to compete and be supplanted by an alleged sudden prudence. “Oh, I would go, but I don’t want to get on any deep state watch list. And it’s true, you probably would end up getting yourself on a watch list. After January 6th it’s the kind of group that needs to be watched! The cult watches the headlines about the poor, poor mistreated Jan 6th political prisoners. And the water slowly seeps in. Three years, seven years, thirty years in prison! Losing everything they’ve worked for, for years, gone. The end of their lives, their marriages, and their families. “Oh, I would go but you know, the wife wants me to do some stuff around the house.” They still love the old bastard, but they fear another January 6th as much or more than the cops, as the fear poisons both sides. The cultists aren’t as naive as they once were. The cops fear another riot but the cultist fear being sucked into another riot and subsequently having their lives ruined. But there is a subliminal message at work here as the cultists watch along. Admitting the truth while still denying the truth. Trump is innocent, but if he’s not, so what? The January 6th defendants are all found guilty and sentenced to years in federal prison. Maybe, just maybe, they were guilty. The façade is pierced, maybe Trump’s guilty and maybe not, but I’m not going to prison over it! The Trump photograph is a milestone and a millstone. This is how Trump will be remembered by posterity. The road only leads downhill from here. Trump has now been booked and it was demonstrated to him that he is not above the law. (See: Photo) Republicans attempt to defend Trump’s innocence against a shifting sands of whataboutism. The Congressional Republicans attempting nearly the same crime as Trump is accused of attempting. Attempting to overthrow the government by overthrowing the courts. Short circuiting the law and justice by throwing a wrench into the gears, all to defend an innocent man. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/8/27/2189926/-An-Innocent-Man Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/