My thoughts, Stream of consciousness, rough and ready, while walking off long Covid and listening to podcasts…6/11/23 Sunday
Weather for the day… 65 and haze and very light clouds lots of blue sky
Podcast for the day podcast “The Mary Trump Show“ June 9, 2023 episode, “Donald Trump Indicted - EMERGENCY EPISODE"
The True Crime/Biopic screenplay, "The Teenage Bodyguard", has been misrepresented by those covering the topic and misperceived by a few directors looking to shoot the film. The true life protagonist who this film is about refuses to have it done in what has been so far, a sensationalist orientation. This film was first proposed, and pitched to a London producer who said not to change the title, and asked if I write it, please send it to me first. That was his selection among my finished screenplays and several pitches I had sent to him to review.
Nineteen days later, I submitted my first draft to him. Sadly, he had simply disappeared I never heard from him again. In searching for him online I couldn’t find him. I don’t know what happened there. The screenplay has since been rewritten multiple times. Including once with input from known producer, Robert Mitas, who has also produced films with Michael Douglas. Several directors he got interested had showed interest and took phone calls. But their vision didn’t match with the person who lived through this story. Or that of the original London producer's comments who had said it reminded him of the film, "The Place Beyond the Pines". A 2012 film with actors Ryan Gosling and Bradly Cooper, produced for $15 million and directed by Derek Cianfrance.
That concept stuck and was in my mind when I wrote the screenplay. While others saw it merely as a typical teenage boy who was merely caught up in an usual situation. But this was a singular teenage boy, a young man really, who is not a typical teenager. For a variety of reasons. From a stressful, broken home, a family that moved every year from Tacoma to Spain, to Philadelphia, then back to Tacoma and around that city through multiple homes, and his living his life skirting around a dismissive and at times abusive stepfather. This was a kid with ADHD, who had a doting older sister, and a loving mother who herself had her own personality issues. A woman who had recognized quickly that this was a kid who had far too much energy and trouble getting to sleep at night as a young child. She had quickly learned that he always needed to be involved in some kind of after-school activities.
He bounced through various
social programs through elementary school until getting into martial
arts in fifth grade and fighting tournaments around the Pacific Northwest in Washington state in the 1960s. He joined the USAF auxiliary search and rescue organization, Civil Air Patrol, in junior high where he learned search and rescue, and taught drill
and discipline to cadets under his command as a flight commander. From his first after school job in ninth grade, until graduating high school when he moved
out at 17 into his own apartment. Then through a drug culture
connection he was pushed into meeting a murder witness and waitress at Tacoma’s first
topless venue, "The Tiki", run by the local mafia crime family. Pleading with him to stay with
her for a week, armed, to keep her safe until she could leave town, he agreed.
He agreed for variety of reasons. Boredom among them. He gave it careful thought, considered that he was
capable of protecting her and in the end he did successfully accomplish that. "The Teenage Bodyguard", is that story.
Changing topics into the silly Trump world of his seditionist wizards and fools...tweets such as this one in
this limply disguised, Mil-speak (military lingo/lexicon) in speaking to
unconstitutional private militias, who in their small minds, have abridged themselves through social media to fantasize and fetishize that Civil War is afoot, or that they should invoke it, or that it's already been invoked
against them in disallowing Donald Trump, their “r“ POTUS, as in “real“ POTUS, as if
he'd been kicked out of office, bizarrely in an undemocratic fashion (thought he lost the 2020 election), all while they’re against democracy, for their autocratic or theocratic desires (only because they lose democratically). These
are not stupid people, but are forcing themselves into the "idiotic "
column of the great spreadsheet of humanity. Something weaponized by Donald
Trump (their, shall we just call it, "foolishness"?), and by large by that kind of talk to the conservative movement, enhanced whenever possible by Russian
active measures or anyone who wishes to for the Donald Trump they bizarrely love so
much, fetishizing his sedition and insurrection, in order to bring chaos to
America and western democracies.
Donald Trump is going down. While his Trumpism, as with any kind of populist mental illness such as this, will continue for
sometime, until finally humanity has had enough of it, and through
education and awareness, compassion, democracy, and perhaps the time may come when even
religions will actually stand up for what they believe in, rather than gluing
themselves to this vile populist bullshit. Many will be shown to be the
cause of our pain, just plain old assholes who want to play the "tough guy", merely being the war performers they are.
This is all really nothing but broken and bruised ego's, givien venue
to self-actualize and inflame one another in an ever spiraling loop into
insanity, the destruction of governments and the detriment of the human
race.
Many of us prefer to call Donald
Trump a traitor and in many ways he fits that description. However, that’s
setting him up on a pedestal he doesn’t belong on. He’s just a
criminal. A mob boss running street thugs. We allowed him to advance
into the presidency, where he upgraded his street thugs, beyond
lawyers and accountants, to US Representatives and Senators and Governors
and subsuming the GOP charter, which he shat all over onto their political platform, which he
ended, tossed completely out, during their already spiraling downward ethics and morals, all of which he
reconfigured into his criminal behaviors
America was fostered and
grown on a healthy mix of fertilizer. Donald Trump however has spawned his MAGA and criminals in his typical, unhealthy, toxic MAGA mix of feces, blood,
sputum, and human bodies.
Trump's valet, or body man, who attended
him and who left the White House to stay with him, allegedly, drained
the Mar-a-Lago pool, which flooded the server room, which contained
security camera footage, which that body man had questioned IT about, for how long it’s
retained, because of evidence they didn’t want the FBI to see, regarding
their moving boxes of classified docs and anything Trump may have been involved in doing. There’s really
only one question. Why would Trump's body man be draining any pool, even
if it was Trump's actual home residence, even if it was not a public/private facility
that he was living at? More on the body man below... Maintenance does all that. So? It’s
interesting how Trump supporters claim actual legal issues are political
when this much crap is going on, obviously needing to be investigated
and charges brought.
We hear the right trying to scare the left and all
of America with a question: can America handle Trump being indicted?
Yeah, pretty much. They can. Tuesday 6/13/23, he will actually be fully indicted in court.
The question is, can America, can American democracy, can western
democracy stand Trump's NOT being indicted, tried and appropriately charged.?
What's interesting in this scenario is how the right is using tools they use
to frighten... the right... against the left. Who obviously aren’t frightened
by such things or they would BE... on the right. The biggest element of
conservatism today is as it always has been, only ever more so, in being based in
fear, based in trying to prove negatives, based in excepting false
positives, and overly utilizing selective ignorance...generally considered to be, stupidity.
It’s not gonna work on the left. What’s even more confounding is that
this fear evoking is not working on the left and that confounds the hell out of the right because hey, it
works just fine on them and they ARE after all...everyone else, in their minds. That IS after all what
narcissism does and does as a toxic culture.
People ask, how could someone
like Trump have taken over the Republican Party? A Party based on fear
and narcissism? How can you ask how a man whose life is steeped in fear
and narcissism, could take over a Party dedicated to those primary
characteristics, which are some of the worst humanity has to offer? Which
religion has weaponized for millennia. Which has worked hand-in-hand
with political endeavors by monarchies the world over through all time. Which are
still in play today by autocracies, kleptocracies, theocracies and oligarchies,
all of which are being attempted to be incorporated right here, right now, in America,
today. Let's just not let that happen and hang on for a bit long to the US Constitution and our separation of church and state. The GOP seems to think getting rid of religion eliminates the GOP. OK, I could be good with that. They've demanded being put into that category that begs the question, do they have a place today in America? Oddly yes, but more oddly, they are indicating themselves a big fat, NO. They are if nothing else, a massive collection of contradictions because confusion and chaos have been working quite well for them for some time now.
Consider this. All this obfuscation and distraction that Trump
supporters are throwing out about his being indicted for crimes that he even
admits to committing, that is all how actual functional democracy works, and
our three branches of government, works. So essentially, these people are
arguing against actual democracy and how the US Constitution has set up our
government. All because of a populist idol they have. How does that make
non-Trump supporters the enemy? Because it doesn’t. It makes these
people in very least, our domestic stochastic terrorists, and violent insurrectionists, as we’ve already seen them do.
I stated
repeatedly in 2020, begging for somebody to get an international election commission involved to monitor our election. The comeback to that was? No. What
would that say about America? Well, we’ve already seen what it said about
America in 2016. Had we done that, we would be further down the road back
to democracy today. And maybe Trump would’ve been charged a lot sooner.
Donald
Trump has written his own eulogy, politically and criminally. All
America has to do now is trust that. Believe him. Accept the obvious
evidence and let the trial go forward, the judgment to be adjudicated.
It’s curious how Trump supporter support so many of his lies, but very
few of the very few times he’s actually open and honest about things.
Evidence proves his lies are lies. Evidence proves his very few truths
are true. His admissions in public of crimes is, "Yes I did this, so what?" Once to the shock of Sean Hannity on camera. So what?! Indictments. That’s so what.
If Hillary were criminal
or guilty, she’d have been indicted by the Trump administration, by the
Bill Barr DOJ. She wasn’t because they could find no evidence. Trump has
been indicted. Not by the Biden admin. Whereas Hillary would
have been indicted by the Trump administration... if they could have. Trump is indicted not
by the Biden DOJ. Or by the Attorney General Merrick Garland DOJ. And if
you know anything about him, he’s not a Bill Barr who would "kow" to
presidential pressure. I do believe Garland would quit first. Barr bent to Trump's will. His spoiled little shitheel will. AG Garland can only let Jack Smith continue, as legally he can only tell him to stop and only if he’s doing something wrong. There’s
so many firewalls involved here, whereas under Trump he dismantled
firewall after firewall. Which Joe Biden put back in place since beginning he re-entering the White House as POTUS46. Definitely points to one thing about
Trump supporters. Selective ignorance is indeed stupidity. Supporting a
criminal in legal parlance makes you a co-conspirator. If you and three
people commit a crime and somebody’s murdered, you’re charged with
murder, too. Right?
OK so apparently Trump's body man, who’s been indicted
along with Trump, did not drain the swimming pool. He “drained the
swimming pool“ by telling the maintenance guy to drain the swimming
pool. One would suspect though that he would know how to do it correctly, so as not to flood
the building proper. Also, I bet every person who is a minimum wage
earner, or has worked at Mar-a-Lago for more than a couple days, quickly notice d
what a lowlife Trump is, and how distrustful he is. So if you want to
avoid prison time, you might go up to the Secret Service and ask them a
few questions before draining that pool when he doesn’t need it. Or having drained the pool, you
might now happily turn states evidence against Donald Trump, our first
criminal.
One of the things that's so curious about Trump supporters
is that everything he’s been claimed to have done, is so very within his
wheelhouse. It’s all within his character. Many other things, are things
he has done before. He’s the Roy Cohen self proclaimed king
of the debt and has for decades. He's bullied contractors, taken people to court when he was 100% wrong. But because of his having way more money and
so many attorneys and time, these are things always weighing against the small
contractors especially, People would have to give up in court, or go
bankrupt, even when they are in the right. And then sometimes they may have to go back into business again with
Trump, because that’s how bullies are. And that’s a reoccurring situation he worked
people into. Which he has done with personnel around him on his side, all
his life. Work people into situations where they have to support
you, so that when you fail, you forever will fail upward, leaving new others, who don’t
yet know how you think, to believe you succeed on merit. Which regarding Trump, is
laughable.
Remember always, Donald, Trump and his, are not
saying he did not do these crimes he’s claimed to have done, but that
he’s allowed to do those crimes which for any other person in America is indeed
a crime. The presidency protects a POTUS from things when you do them in the national interest.
None of the things Trump's done like this, had anything to do with anything
other than Donald Trump’s personal self aggrandizement and wealth building. Which he will continue doing in
anyway possible until someone stops him..
In the beginning of
the Trump administration, people rationalized that it was OK, since there was
nothing they could do about it, and besides, everyone was shocked that it
happened. “But there’s adults in the room with him,” they'd say. Well, he got rid of
all those. Now there’s just grifters in the room with him. And now the
grifters are fleeing. Which needs to tell you everything. Pay attention
to the digression of the Trump administration in The Donald Trump Criminal Endeavors and the violent seditionists and insurrectionists in
that room now with him. And those out around in America, "hiding under rocks", waiting to stick their necks out for Trump's call to arms. We better be prepared to cut those necks
when they shoot out from under those rocks, reading and willing to support a domestic
terrorist, who at one point we had foolishly made POTUS and our first criminal though hopefully, our only "first criminal" ever again.
We need journalists who will
interview Trump and his supporters, and when they are asked but avoid
answering questions, will simply say, "I’ll await your answer. I’m still awaiting
your answer to the question. Sir/ma’am/MAGA moron/stocastic
terrorist/insurrectionist/criminal follower of first criminal
Donald Trump, I'm still waiting for you to answer the question, which they won't. And every interview when they walk off we can hear that journalist say, "Thank you, we
now have to conclude you refused to answer the question because that answer... is
quite clear and obvious to all."
It is sad that it was the Lindbergh baby and could not have been the baby, Donald Trump, instead. America and so many would have had such better lives in his not being there. Much as with the Adolph Hitler baby. The difference therein lay only in a matter of degree.
According to Ari Melber, Donald Trump has been involved in over 4000 lawsuits. When you claim rich people go through that as businessman… Come up with another one like that. Then you can say that.
Speaking of Jeffrey Epstein… When you point to everyone who has a picture of them hanging out with him, you have to understand how many people hang out with wealthy people. But people who are accepted into his close association who are doing serious crimes are only a few who are allowed into an inner circle like that. That doesn't sound like a Bill Gates to me, or a Rob Reiner. But it sure as hell sounds like a Donald Trump.
When you’re a person of color, you see two rules of law in America. When you’re wealthy, especially a wealthy criminal, you see one and wonder why those who see two aren't judged more harshly. Something that leans more especially on wealthy criminal types such as Donald Trump, and oddly enough, those who support him, and at just about any economic level.
You have to ask yourself, if you’re a Donald Trump supporter… Why are you so titillated by cruelty? Because all the rest of us are asking that.
So for those who say Donald Trump won the 2020 election, how do you explain his losing the 2018 election? And the 2022 election? Everything he’s being indicted for follows his personality and his history. You can’t explain it all, rationalize it away, because it’s just who he is. A criminal and a loser. People become criminals because they are losers and want to be winners. And so they hate winners who get there honestly. How does that not clearly explain Donald Trump and what we’ve seen?
White Christian nationalist, white supremacists have chipped away at our democracy for decades we have to start chipping back. But we gotta start by knocking some big chips out first. And Donald Trump right now, is that biggest chip.
I read as many great books of wisdom as I could get my hands on decades ago. My older brother got me started on that in my late teens, to read books by great men, or compendiums of books about great men, or women. Though he said men. And there are indeed far more men in history than women, for obvious reasons. But then he is a chauvinist, too. Although I started doing that long before he told me that. When in fifth grade I started reading Aristotle, having found his book at the library and was fascinated by it. It altered my life. One of the books I read was, Machiavelli's, "The Prince" (instruction guide for new princes and royals). I have not heard that Trump read that book, but he seems to live his life by it. While I took it as a book full of wisdom to protect yourself around power, some take it as a how too guide for how to apply power in as illiberal and cruel a fashion as possible in order to become, power.
We have the numbers. In numbers of decent Americans. Voters and Republicans came together to denounce a school board in Florida about book bans. They succeeded. We have the numbers. We merely need to do what the vocal minority did for Trump. Come together, and then these illiberal and even criminal actions from our domestic enemies simply cannot succeed, if we just opened our eyes and act.
I’ve done this before, but to define that word “act“, to act as you can, and as often as you can, but as you can and are able to. Certain Christian groups did that as a fundamental. To go out and preach their beliefs. We don’t need to do that. We don’t need to preach or lecture. We don’t need to be aggressive. We need to live our lives in liberal democratic ways of decency and compassion, understanding, and wisdom. We need to go for quality over quantity. People like Trump are quantity over quality. He’s gauche. He’s gross. He’s a nouveau riche goofball. His homes are what a poor person thinks a wealthy person should live like. Where for many more educated and acculturated see less is more, those unlike that believe more is more, and evermore is better and they want ever more to allow their "id" to take over allowing their inner child to never mature into adulthood until one day they can become our first criminal president. Don't be that guy. Don't support that guy.
I wondered about this for many years. There is not a 50-50 split or Republicans and Democrats and yet how close are our elections anymore? They repeatedly come down to few votes either way. How? Voter suppression, gerrymandering, and a mostly fucked up electoral college.
How is anti-trans, anti-LGBQ+ not our latest form of eugenics while it’s not really any new form at all. Bigotry is bigotry.
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