Cardhouse of the Awaited

Two simultaneous trials proceeded today regarding the twice-impeached, multiply indicted, former one-term "president," and cable news was besides itself in the coverage. Over in the Supreme Court, the justices heard arguments that a president is immune from criminal prosecution regardless of his (or her) actions and that federal charges accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election must be thrown out.

The partisan gang of bubblehead hacks who currently comprise the court appear to agree, at least in part, and are expected to rule that at least some of the charges against the defendant be dropped. Words can't express how strongly I disagree with this or the amount of anger I feel contemplating the forthcoming decision.

The other case is in Manhattan where the same defendant is on trial for separate charges of plotting to cover up a sexual encounter with a porn star on the eve of the 2016 election. Today, a grown man named Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer, testified he bought and buried stories that could have damaged the defendant’s 2016 campaign ("catch and kill").

In other news, Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned in another court. On college campuses across America, disruptive but peaceful demonstrations are occurring against the on-going genocide in Gaza, and some Republican senators and governors are contemplating using the National Guard against the students.  

On so many levels, I feel that this once great nation of ours is on the verge of collapse - either into autocracy or anarchy or both.  This makes me sad and fills me with anger, as I believe it does for millions of others. Sooner or later, the whole thing's going to explode, and this whole shithouse is going to burn to the ground.