Par For The Course

Marge: “This is a communist country. We’ve been taken over. We’re not a free country anymore.” pic.twitter.com/8Cmi86ySsW

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 13, 2023

I guess this means I have to go to Target and buy some Bud Light.

There are dumb tweets.
There are moronic tweets.
There are foolish tweets.
There are deranged tweets.

Then there is whatever this is, which deserves it’s own category. pic.twitter.com/Zbnhw9sfEL

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 13, 2023

(Newt is SO thirsty!)

They’re practicing for if a SCOTUS seat opens up. https://t.co/l3KyXJ2Yty

— Schooley (@Rschooley) June 13, 2023

ELECTION INTERFERENCE! (Because there’s always another election coming.)

There is not an Attorney General of either party who would not have brought today’s charges against the former president.

— @judgeluttig (@judgeluttig) June 13, 2023

On any given day for the past 18 months — doubtless up to and including the day before the indictment was returned — the former president could have avoided and prevented this prosecution. He would never have been indicted for taking these documents.

— @judgeluttig (@judgeluttig) June 13, 2023

After a year and a half, he finally succeeded in forcing Jack Smith’s appropriately reluctant hand, having left the Department no choice but to bring these charges lest the former president make a mockery of the Constitution and the Rule of Law.

— @judgeluttig (@judgeluttig) June 13, 2023

Gotta stand in solidarity with my old choir mate from, what, 60 years ago? 🙀

Not complicated. https://t.co/cjdGVEODKB

— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) June 13, 2023

Why we are treating Trump like a criminal.

Hey, I must have missed it. Did the 2nd civil war start in Miami today?

— Andrew C Laufer, Esq (@lauferlaw) June 13, 2023

They gave a riot, and nobody came:

a huge crowd, the likes of which nobody has ever seen! pic.twitter.com/3DnTaAY8AX

— Ghost of GC 🌻 (@gtconway3dg) June 13, 2023

Maybe they were all at Bedminster?

Trump lies that the images in the indictment are "staged photos." He claims the boxes had "shirts and shoes" in them (they also had highly classified documents, which is the problem!) pic.twitter.com/opIc7UkDdX

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2023

Unless he can prove that in court, it doesn’t matter.

AOC: During Trump’s remarks he was trying to somehow pin this as some great marxist conspiracy. But the fact of the matter remains that this is an individual who retained national security secrets, nuclear site locations, sensitive materials, and put our nation at risk. pic.twitter.com/g65NOwK4t6

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 14, 2023

Trump, now whining about the Post and Times, has apparently put his audience to sleep pic.twitter.com/aePJRblkCZ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 14, 2023

Trying to get your lawyer to do the crime for you not working out, huh?

Beyond the shameless lying, you have to marvel at the weird "I'm a bad widdle boy!" voice he's using here. https://t.co/Q6KggHmchz

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 14, 2023

Huh.

Trump trashes ‘deranged' Jack Smith in off-the-rails post-arraignment speech at Bedminster https://t.co/qtAyM4TIOP

— Raw Story (@RawStory) June 14, 2023

“Don't forget this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country.”

Projection is a harsh mistress.

Tuberville missing Senate votes to be at Bedminster for Trump. https://t.co/s12pUtHaYR

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 14, 2023

Par for the course.

The scene at Bedminster was somewhere between a summer garden wedding and a political victory party — until Trump spoke.

On the numbness of an extraordinary day w/ @maggieNYT https://t.co/r5lf1RukC0

— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) June 14, 2023

But that take is interesting.

Trump: “I'm not the one who thinks I'm above the law, I’m the one that follows the law.”

— Meridith McGraw (@meridithmcgraw) June 14, 2023

“And I alone can do it!”

Trump is promising to personally order investigations into Biden and his family, because he loves humiliating the Republicans trying to make a high-minded defense about how they're just against the appearance of partisan prosecutions

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 14, 2023

How many different ways can we say it?

Greene: We are doing everything we can to defund the DOJ and the FBI pic.twitter.com/8gztBj8OYY

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 13, 2023

That doesn’t mean you can actually do anything. Futile gestures is doing something; but it’s not doing something effective. Sorta like this:

House Republicans plan to pull out all the stops in an effort to discredit Jack Smith with a multi-pronged, scorched-earth attack on the special counsel that figures to include issuing subpoenas and cutting funding to his office in an effort to thwart his prosecution of Donald Trump, CNN reports

Except nothing they can pass will get through the Senate (did they not notice the vote today because Tuberville had to stand at the barricades in Bedminster?); and if it did, Biden wouldn’t sign it even if it funded the government. Honestly, these people are idiots.

Two Americas https://t.co/5xoC5KIzar pic.twitter.com/Jc4cmHbf7Y

— Ashton Pittman 🏳️‍🌈 (@ashtonpittman) June 14, 2023

'Round and ‘round she goes, where she stops, nobody knows. (At least we have something new to worry about: revisionist artists.)