Ordinarily, I wouldn't speculate like this, but Trumpworld went there first. Anyway, the question is why the FBI would plan to arrive at Mar-a-Lago when Trump wasn't there if they were planning to assassinate him. The reason is crystal clear if you give it a second's thought. They were planning to hit Melania. See, without Melania - "lig…
Ordinarily, I wouldn't speculate like this, but Trumpworld went there first. Anyway, the question is why the FBI would plan to arrive at Mar-a-Lago when Trump wasn't there if they were planning to assassinate him. The reason is crystal clear if you give it a second's thought. They were planning to hit Melania. See, without Melania - "light of Trump's life and fire of his loins" - Trump would be too devastated to continue running for president. A shattered man, happy to retire to his "princedom by the sea" to mourn.
You might ask, if they're going to kill someone, why not Trump himself? Biden would have immunity, wouldn't he? He wouldn't. It's okay for a president to kill a rival, but former presidents have reverse immunity. They can't be killed for any reason. Plus, the Supreme court hasn't ruled on immunity yet. It's possible that they'll rule that Republican presidents, if they're treated worse than any president in history - including Lincoln - can kill anyone they want. Because the issue of a Democratic president who's been treated better than anyone in history - including Lincoln - was not before the court, they declined to address the question.
It occurred to me that perhaps the FBI intended to kill assassinate Trump by putting poison (like the kinds the Russians are so fond of) on his toothbrush. But then I remembered Trump holds his teeth in his hands when he brushes them and then rinses them off before returning them to his mouth. So that might not work.
It made me a little nauseated too. I put it in quotation marks because it's from the first chapter of Lolita (Nabokov) and I wanted to leave an Easter egg for my Nabokov stans.
Quick question for you on Nabokov: I took a class by his biographer in college. He pronounced the name nah-BAH-kof. Years later, a librarian corrected me. She said it was NAH-bah-kof. Is she right?
Very rational analysis. However we have to learn the world and language of Roy Cohn and Roger Stone. Winning. At all costs or methods. Winning is all that matters. Deception is just a tool. Mix the lies (Bad Faith) with the facts (Good Faith) in the propaganda to give the lies a tiny bit of credibility. That the friendly/gullible Press can amplify. Tricks of all kinds, on friends and foes, are in play, every day. Stone and Bannon and the core of Trump World are plotting cons and tricks on MAGAs and the Press and the Dems. The FLOOD of deception is just beginning.
You can't fight Bad Faith with reason. But you can expose it for what it is. This takes skepticism. Assume that every word from Trump World is carefully designed to DECEIVE. And then shine a bright light on the con.
Ordinarily, I wouldn't speculate like this, but Trumpworld went there first. Anyway, the question is why the FBI would plan to arrive at Mar-a-Lago when Trump wasn't there if they were planning to assassinate him. The reason is crystal clear if you give it a second's thought. They were planning to hit Melania. See, without Melania - "light of Trump's life and fire of his loins" - Trump would be too devastated to continue running for president. A shattered man, happy to retire to his "princedom by the sea" to mourn.
You might ask, if they're going to kill someone, why not Trump himself? Biden would have immunity, wouldn't he? He wouldn't. It's okay for a president to kill a rival, but former presidents have reverse immunity. They can't be killed for any reason. Plus, the Supreme court hasn't ruled on immunity yet. It's possible that they'll rule that Republican presidents, if they're treated worse than any president in history - including Lincoln - can kill anyone they want. Because the issue of a Democratic president who's been treated better than anyone in history - including Lincoln - was not before the court, they declined to address the question.
I love your comments Geoff!
Thanks!
It occurred to me that perhaps the FBI intended to kill assassinate Trump by putting poison (like the kinds the Russians are so fond of) on his toothbrush. But then I remembered Trump holds his teeth in his hands when he brushes them and then rinses them off before returning them to his mouth. So that might not work.
Wasn't "fire of one's loins" a euphemism for Gonorrhea?
Not for redheads.
If only Osama bin Laden had thought to get elected POTUS first, *then* attack the World Trade Center.
Did you have to say “fire of his loins?” Ick.
It made me a little nauseated too. I put it in quotation marks because it's from the first chapter of Lolita (Nabokov) and I wanted to leave an Easter egg for my Nabokov stans.
Quick question for you on Nabokov: I took a class by his biographer in college. He pronounced the name nah-BAH-kof. Years later, a librarian corrected me. She said it was NAH-bah-kof. Is she right?
Thx.
I don't know, I've heard it both ways too.
Fie on her! (I never liked her.)
Thx.
Now all I can think about is, "Ready, fire, aim!"
Which may describe Trump's infidelity pretty well.
There's really no point in anyone else commenting. The Platonic Ideal of a comment was just posted.
Very rational analysis. However we have to learn the world and language of Roy Cohn and Roger Stone. Winning. At all costs or methods. Winning is all that matters. Deception is just a tool. Mix the lies (Bad Faith) with the facts (Good Faith) in the propaganda to give the lies a tiny bit of credibility. That the friendly/gullible Press can amplify. Tricks of all kinds, on friends and foes, are in play, every day. Stone and Bannon and the core of Trump World are plotting cons and tricks on MAGAs and the Press and the Dems. The FLOOD of deception is just beginning.
You can't fight Bad Faith with reason. But you can expose it for what it is. This takes skepticism. Assume that every word from Trump World is carefully designed to DECEIVE. And then shine a bright light on the con.