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A new month is before us. We present a special edition on Our World on the Trump Indicement and a window into our World with thoughts courtesy of The Rest is Politics along with the Coop Scoop:

Coop Scoop: Nine Takeaways on Trump Jan 6 Indictment Tump today. Trumpism tomorrow. AUG 3   August 1, 2023 By Marc Cooper It’s taken a while but the orange chickies have come home to roost. Thanks to the weak-spined Merrick Garland this should have happened a year ago and not have to be shoe horned in before the coming primaries and election. But we’ll take it. Here are my takeaways: Kudos to the January 6 Select Committee who made this possible. A tip of the hat to Ms. Liz Cheney who pushed this forward while Merrick Garland sat at his desk and played pick up sticks for months at a time. The indictment of Trump gives permission structure for even more indictments across the country of other seditionists and we are seing this now in Michigan and Georgia and maybe Arizona. Brilliant move by Jack Smith to not indict (yet) the six co-conspirators because he does not want to bog down any trial of Trump who will now stand alone as a defendant. And Smith is pushing hard for this trial to take place before the election and he wants it televised….something that Chief Justice Roberts can approve. And something we deserve to see before voting. Lots of talk this week about Biden and Trump being tied at 43%, Sorry, this means very little. I prefer Occam’s Razor interpretation. Any candidate facing four indictments and a possible conviction or two is NOT going to win the presidency. Period. Yes, with every indictment, Trumps’ dumbest, most desperate mouth-breathing fans escalate their support for them and get media attention. But for everyone of those morons, there are two other Republicans and Independents who are not going to be fooled a third time. Donald Trump 2016 was mostly a clown. Hilary Clinton was a perfect punching bag. Many voted for Trump as a lark, as a fuck u to the system, or on a whim to see what he would do. Trump 2024 is no clown. He’s a threat. And a lot of people know it. I don’t see a serial liar, a sexual abuser, a world class grifter, a visible psychopath, a wannabe dictator, an anti-democratic zealot, a probably convicted criminal and a raging asshole getting elected. If u were naive enough to read JD Vance’s celebration of his hillbilly roots maybe you had some sympathy for the poor bastards who went with Trump. But eight years later, after all we have seen, after it is clear that Trump runs his own crime family of grifters, takers and thugs, those who now support him deserve only scorn and denunciation. They are but a neo-fascist political base. Period. No quarter. No sympathy. Democrats seem to have landed on the slogan of Bidenomics! as their campaign slogan. Stupid jackasses. Presidents have but a marginal at best effect on the economy. Trump did not crash the economy. That was covid. Biden has performed no economic miracles. He is merely benefitting from the very natural recovery from the same pandemic. Presidential policy can affect the economy on the margins but cannot reach into the fundamentals. Who knows what the economy will look like come November 2024. Biden might deeply regret claiming authorship. This election is not between Biden and Trump. But rather a continuation of democratic rule of law against the anti-chamber of dictatorship. Trump may come to a nefarious end, though appeals will keep him free and around at least another 3-5 years, elected or not., But even if he were to disappear or die, we now have one of our political parties and tens of millions of Americans wholly committed to undermining democratic rule. We will be contending with these fascists for years or decades to come. They are fighting hard at the local and state level, overturning abortion laws, threatening gay rights, pandering to racists, taking over shcools boards, banning books and running aound on the weekends with their Go-bag, AR’s and militia uniforms. They ain’t going away anytime soon. In the titanic struggle before us to retain democratic rule, we need to be much better prepared and organized. While the extreme right is a minority they are much better at mobilization and organization than liberals and the left. And there are now scattered and rather alarming reports of extremists filling the ranks of Border Patol, DHS and other federal and local law enforcement. Somebody better take that a lot more seriously. We cannot depend on the Democrats to defend us. They are weak and feckless if not feeble. OTOH it is pure idiocy to write off all liberals and even moderate Dems as the enemy. The outrage of of the Twitter Left over Democrats not being socialists is ludicrous. We do not need left wing loons any more than right wing ones. We need to build a unified social political movement that unites liberals, radicals, progressives and democratic socialists in a fight to defend our democratic institutions and it must be based on class and socio economic position and not genitalia, race baiting and political correctness. And its dedication to democracy and free speech must be unimpeachable. All this said, with all these caveats, today must be celebrated as a great day for Rule of Law —the most single most important ingredient in the recipe for democracy. ++