Friday, January 30, 2026

Doing The Time Warp

For you young whippersnappers, “silent majority” was Nixon’s phrase in his first term, to convince himself the people were with him. Despite his record landslide victory in ‘72, he still resigned in disgrace in ‘74.

The war was still wildly unpopular, and Nixon still had to bring it to an end to get re-elected; though he dragged it out until the second term just to guarantee re-election.

Trump’s frame of reference is still frozen at some point in the early’70’s. Everything after that is a blank, to him. It’s a frozen point in his mind. Time has not passed since then.
Does Trump know? Signs point to “No.”
Trump on Minneapolis: "Do these people really want to have rapists and drug dealers and people from prisons and murderers, do they really want to have them in the community? It's really insurrectionists and agitators and they're paid ... everybody has a beautiful sign with brand new wood. Leather panels."
"Leather panels”? Does he think no one noticed? I haven’t seen the charging instrument but, given this DOJ, I assume the prosecutors are correct until proven otherwise.
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  1. ntodd2:18 PM

    Jake "Biden is Old" Tapper has a copy of the indictment now:

    https://x.com/jaketapper/status/2017325705499988217

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    1. Rmj5:37 PM

      The tl:dr is that they are alleging a conspiracy among 8 people to violate the FACE act by force, threat of force, or intimidation (elements of the act). I don’t think they can prove that; and I don’t think they want to. Reports are the protesters were rude; but “rude” doesn’t necessarily entail force or threat of force. And, AFAIK, never arises to the level of a crime.

      There’s a reason the magistrate and the court of appeals wouldn’t support this charge. The people liable should be the people bringing this case.

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