My bet is on him testing this Judge. This judge won’t take any crap and I bet he will throw Donald behind bars. He could by all rights if he feels Donnie is too much of a threat keep him locked up until the trial ends. Good thing I love popcorn 🍿
::By taking away Donald’s ability to go on the attack against court staff and witnesses, Merchan is inadvertently stripping Donald of one of his go-to tools to keep his base angry and try to make inroads with disillusioned independents.::
I don't think it's at ALL "inadvertent"—I think Judge Merchan knows just what he's doing, and is letting your narcissistic sociopath uncle (there's one in every family—but most get stopped! hard long before they get to the point yours did) know that he won't be able to rile up his base without serious consequences like jail time. Not that it will make any difference to HIM—until he's behind bars without any access to social media!
Of course, he'll probably get his lawyers or other mouthpieces to whine FOR him, but I doubt it will have the same effect.
::Imagines Donald Trump writing his own version of *Mein Kampf*...on grade school lined paper...in crayon....::
::Starts laughing uncontrollably as my cat backs away from me, arching his back and hissing::
EDIT: Look! I got OpenAI to make me a picture of Trump writing his book in crayon!
There's something I don't understand. If Donald were truly the strongman he claims to be, why is he always whining about being a victim? You can't have it both ways. Either he's terribly strong and impervious to attacks or he's a victim of people stronger than he is. I guess his supporters are as irrational as he is or they'd see the contradiction.
The only gag that would work with Donald is of the ball gag variety. He will never shut his trap, no matter what. I want to see if the justice system will indeed hold him to account for his actions. Here's hoping he will enjoy rikers island, it should be nice this time of year, LOL!
I'd like to share your enthusiasm for tRump to settle down and mind his manners. However, we all know he does not have the capacity to do that. His unhinged mental health and severe narcissism do not allow him to operate in this world. He lives in another orbit far, far from humans. He's created his own mental universe and lives there (maybe the third ring of Saturn). He cannot live and interact with other human beings. I had high hopes that Judge Engoron would put him in jail after threatening him several times. But alas, nothing. Fines and more fines, but no incarceration, which would shut him up. I don't think Judge Merchan will jail him, either. For some reason, all men are deathly afraid of him. A wimpy man like tRump does not deserve that kind of deference.
I loved this so much I read it like, three times. “True to form, Donald responded with the restraint of a toddler by attacking not only Judge Merchan (declaring “he hates me!” and suggesting he suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome) but also the judge’s daughter.” Popcorn’s almost ready.
My suggestion is to put another "babysitter" on him, not to monitor his finances, but to slap his baby hands when he grabs his mobile phone to poink out dangerous and slanderous nonsense, and slap him across the face whenever he attempts to discredit and sic his orcs on people publicly.
Thank you Mary your writings are always worthwhile. He, the former guy, is using the radical playbook, that is to deliberately provoke the officials to over react. Then he gets to play the victim again but so far officials have been under reacting, this must both frustrate him and simultaneously encourage him to run his motor mouth all the more. There is going to be a collision before long.
I hope the unhinged Donald gets fined and jailed for violating the gag order!
Thank you, Mary, for keeping us informed. 💙
My bet is on him testing this Judge. This judge won’t take any crap and I bet he will throw Donald behind bars. He could by all rights if he feels Donnie is too much of a threat keep him locked up until the trial ends. Good thing I love popcorn 🍿
Thank you Mary for keeping track of all this for us!
This was good news today!!
::By taking away Donald’s ability to go on the attack against court staff and witnesses, Merchan is inadvertently stripping Donald of one of his go-to tools to keep his base angry and try to make inroads with disillusioned independents.::
I don't think it's at ALL "inadvertent"—I think Judge Merchan knows just what he's doing, and is letting your narcissistic sociopath uncle (there's one in every family—but most get stopped! hard long before they get to the point yours did) know that he won't be able to rile up his base without serious consequences like jail time. Not that it will make any difference to HIM—until he's behind bars without any access to social media!
Of course, he'll probably get his lawyers or other mouthpieces to whine FOR him, but I doubt it will have the same effect.
::Imagines Donald Trump writing his own version of *Mein Kampf*...on grade school lined paper...in crayon....::
::Starts laughing uncontrollably as my cat backs away from me, arching his back and hissing::
EDIT: Look! I got OpenAI to make me a picture of Trump writing his book in crayon!
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1000,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddad3411-ec64-4262-82a8-e1364fccdab1_1024x1650.jpeg
…trump had all that time to come up with the 464……..if it was reduced to 175, shouldn’t he already have had at LEAST that much already????
This is bullshit!
Lock him up, and sell the properties!
There's something I don't understand. If Donald were truly the strongman he claims to be, why is he always whining about being a victim? You can't have it both ways. Either he's terribly strong and impervious to attacks or he's a victim of people stronger than he is. I guess his supporters are as irrational as he is or they'd see the contradiction.
and Trump has the audacity to raise money by selling Bibles when he should burn in hell. Makes me want to puke...
The only gag that would work with Donald is of the ball gag variety. He will never shut his trap, no matter what. I want to see if the justice system will indeed hold him to account for his actions. Here's hoping he will enjoy rikers island, it should be nice this time of year, LOL!
We keep hope alive in the face of unprecedented bad behaviors. “Maybe next time” and who knows? This could be the one.
I'd like to share your enthusiasm for tRump to settle down and mind his manners. However, we all know he does not have the capacity to do that. His unhinged mental health and severe narcissism do not allow him to operate in this world. He lives in another orbit far, far from humans. He's created his own mental universe and lives there (maybe the third ring of Saturn). He cannot live and interact with other human beings. I had high hopes that Judge Engoron would put him in jail after threatening him several times. But alas, nothing. Fines and more fines, but no incarceration, which would shut him up. I don't think Judge Merchan will jail him, either. For some reason, all men are deathly afraid of him. A wimpy man like tRump does not deserve that kind of deference.
I loved this so much I read it like, three times. “True to form, Donald responded with the restraint of a toddler by attacking not only Judge Merchan (declaring “he hates me!” and suggesting he suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome) but also the judge’s daughter.” Popcorn’s almost ready.
My suggestion is to put another "babysitter" on him, not to monitor his finances, but to slap his baby hands when he grabs his mobile phone to poink out dangerous and slanderous nonsense, and slap him across the face whenever he attempts to discredit and sic his orcs on people publicly.
Thank you Mary. Only time will tell. We know that no one can protect him from himself...he does not listen to anyone.
Thank you Mary your writings are always worthwhile. He, the former guy, is using the radical playbook, that is to deliberately provoke the officials to over react. Then he gets to play the victim again but so far officials have been under reacting, this must both frustrate him and simultaneously encourage him to run his motor mouth all the more. There is going to be a collision before long.
Can Donald duck this new gag order? Stay tuned!
Thanks for your efforts to keep us informed.