Radical Agenda S06E030 – Smug Shot

I have tried to make a point not to dwell on the Trump indictments because I don’t think there’s really a whole lot for me to say on it that you won’t hear elsewhere. I haven’t read the indictments, and I’m not going to. I know enough about our legal system to understand that whether or not Donald Trump broke the law has absolutely nothing to do with the process playing out on our televisions and newspapers. Drag a man into a courtroom often enough, he eventually ends up bankrupted and imprisoned, it’s really that simple. In this environment, legal analysis from qualified experts is of very limited utility, and I am but a famous pro se Defendant. I do like to think of myself as one with a knack for reading people, however. I am occasionally proven wrong about this, but that is the nature of the art. I see much in Trump’s recently released mugshot, and it confirms some prior conceptions. Whether you like Trump or not, whether you think he did a good job or whether you think he was a failure, whether you think he meant well, or whether you think he was just telling us what we wanted to hear because, contrary to all evidence, he thought that was a good way to win an election – the multi-jurisdictional shit storm which has befallen him ought to tell you that he is not in league with the people we hold in enmity. Whoever it is you think is responsible for our political problems, be though there may, plenty of disagreement on this subject, one thing we all know for certain is, they have the power to abuse the legal system. They are doing that right now, and Trump is public enemy number one. Does that tell you anything about our politics? I’d say it does. If Trump were working against you, would he be in all this trouble? Of this, I have my doubts. Is he on your side? I don’t think he’s particularly interested in what you think, actually. Chances are, you’re not somebody who has the capacity to be of much help to him. So, I don’t imagine your opinion is what keeps him up at night one way or the other. Donald Trump, like a lot of people in this country, at some point, realized that there were really bad people wrecking our Nation. He saw himself as having some power to do something about it, and he tried to do just that. Against all odds, he became President of the United States, and found himself in Washington DC without the vaguest idea of how to go about enacting his plans. As any savvy observer of our politics might have predicted, he was thwarted and manipulated. Cunning strategists played on his character flaws, negotiated in bad faith, and collaborated with the opposition Party and Media. They wasted time, and ran out the clock to the 2018 midterms, handed the House of Representatives over to the Democrat Party, and then tried to wait out the remainder of his presidency. They leaked to the press, lied, flattered him to his face, and conspired behind his back. They let criminals run amok while good men were sent to prison. And in the end, they robbed him of his 2020 victory. I don’t think what happened on January 6th was something that could accurately be described as an “insurrection”, but I am amused at the delay between the outbreak of the chaos and the moment Donald Trump told those people to go home in peace. I think his statement that “you are very special” and his instructions to “remember this day” were the words of a man who had come to accept that he had no peaceful options lef