Oh he is guilty alright. If you had watched any of the hearings you would know that. It was all laid out with fine grained evidence. If you are just reading a short synopsis in the paper or watching a few minutes of it on tv, you are not going to get the details. If you don't get the details it is like watching two guys arguing from a distance, hard to tell who, if either, of them is telling the truth. One guy could be telling it straight and the other guy could be lying through his teeth. but you can't tell without the details.
How long did it take to put Al Capone in Alcatraz? And he didn't have most all of the republican party on his side.
Of course I would love to see him in an orange jumpsuit, but with him getting so much closer to it, I realized something, he would have to have a trial, he would have to have a jury of twelve people.
One of the jewels of American democracy is the free elections. Look how Trump has trashed that. Another jewel is the fair trial, just think of what he would do to that. Twelve people, and with about a third of the country Trumpers who have no belief in our institutions. What if one of those twelve jurors is a Trumper? No amount of evidence would make any difference. Hell, it wouldn't matter if he was guilty or not. If he shot that guy on fifth avenue the guy must've had it coming. What if there is a Trumper on the jury and he gets off?
Grade school was really boring, the smell of the chalk dust, the droning teachers, the clock slowly, slowly, counting down the minutes to 3:15. And then sometime around fourth grade this new kid took a seat, and he was a troublemaker. Suddenly school was interesting. The kid vs the teach was a great show, way more interesting than the multiplication tables. And aside from his antics, which were really not that clever, he was kind of a liberator, defying the autocratic establishment.
And then he was gone, and school was boring again. I looked around and none of my fellow classmates was willing to don the jester's hat so I took it up. Outside of notes from the teacher going to my house and writing pages and pages of "I will be courteous," on lined paper, I had a ball.
It never occurred to me that someday I was going to be on the other side of the desk one day, but sometimes we get our just desserts. The kids may not have even liked the kid, but they loved the disruption of the grinding of the daily routine.
You know I kind of wondered why Beagles was bringing up the subject of school hijinks after originally writing about Trump, but it hit my quite clearly on reading the last line.
Either he was really good at not getting caught, or he just exuded some kind of malevolent aura that made other people go nuts.
Does that sound like anybody we know?
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