It's as if the whole GQP hasn't been chanting "Lock her up!" for 7 years.

Exactly! :)

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp might be put in the position of being able to end any prosecution of Trump for election interference from Fulton County, by granting Trump a pardon.

If you'd read the comments section of your own blog, you'd already know that the Governor of Georgia cannot grant pardons.

http://www.chrisweigant.com/2022/08/12/friday-talking-points-lock-him-up/#comment-197579

I can 'splain it again:

The power to pardon and to remove disabilities is vested in the state Board of Pardons and Paroles. The governor is expressly precluded from exercising power over of granting of pardons or paroles. Ga. Code Ann. Section 42-9-56.

So there's still that. :)

Still... we may see Trump in a "perp walk" this week, and at this point, who doesn't want to see Trump in handcuffs... or at the very least, see his mug shot?

Trump and the totally hypocritical bleating sheeple Righty rubes who apparently have memory holed all their own chants of "lock her up" and Trump's repetitive promises to have his political opponents investigated.

Bit of advice for right-wingnut rubes:

* Be careful what you wish for.

* You reap what you sow.

Must you always be so damned cranky?

You know how Biden is always talking about the new world order? How's that working out for him?

The 2003 invasion of Iraq is near or at the top of the list. You know who won that war, right? Yes, Iran! Which, if the neo-cons had bothered to think it through, was a predictable result. Especially since Biden's plan Re. US Iraq policy (2005-07) was so completely sabotaged.

Another reason is how China and Asean countries along with the Global South are forming their own version of the new world order while America frets about Trump, Trumpism and related domestic impacts. Russia, too - see the days long visit of Xi to Moscow.

Speaking of China ... how about their new role as peacemaker in the Middle East. Hmmm ...

The apparently limitless push for expansion of NATO is also near the top of the list of reasons for ultimate decline ... or annihilation.

The reliance on the use of economic sanctions as the tool to solve all issues, regardless of the efficacy or, indeed, of the consequences.

Ignoring the concerns of the Global South and then expecting these countries to tow the line when the West needs something.

It has been a very long time since America has been able to claim global leadership status. It has a lot of ground work to do before it can again.

So why don’t you humor me with whatever reason(s) you think this?

If you’re not going to do ANY better than, for example, saying stupid shit which about Joe and Ukraine, don’t waste your time. You can be every bit as useless at defending your views as Don and Michale were. Or you can be serious.

On Your Way Down

'The West' ain't the world.

only if you choose not to look at what is happening beyond your national borders to America's place in the world.

I’m your huckleberry…and this huckleberry says that America’s place in the world is hunky dory — especially since the nightmare of Trump embarrassing us is now two years past. Our economy is growing jobs by the millions and we’re in the middle of the pack regarding inflation Joe couldn’t stop Rooskie irredentism (naked imperialism) but has done a magnificent job of uniting the West in support of Ukraine. We’re not in Afghanistan anymore because Joe had the courage to keep Trump’s agreement to leave. It wasn’t a fiasco — we evacuated 6,000 Americans and 124,000 Afghani allies. The 13 casualties sucked but who thinks that that wasn’t inevitable, that the Taliban wouldn’t take a parting shot ant us. And Biden’s America doesn’t kiss dictator’s asses like Trump.

By any measure America is baaack!

One wrote about a possible sea of MAGA hatted protesters outside the DA’s office in New York,

Gotta have the red hats.

You can't spell HATRED without RED HAT.

I see your point but “keeping their powder dry” and not “arguing against mere rumors of an indictment” is absolutely the tried-and-proven right approach. Sun Tzu wrote in The Art of War that when your opponent is destroying himself get out of his way.

You’ll recall that while Trump was botching Covid #BasementBiden simply let the man hang himself and motivated 81 million voters to vote for #JoeBleepingBiden.

lesson 1: however low we think we've fallen, there's always somewhere lower.

I guess I still believe in the promise of America. :)

if donald's ipact were restricted to our own country's borders, he wouldn't be so dangerous. the greatest danger isn't something he's distracting from, it's something he represents in plain sight.

I keep waiting for someone to point out, as you did, that a District Attorney does not indict rich and powerful men for cheating on their taxes or violating campaign reporting laws, unless they are certain they have the evidence to support the charge.

I also keep waiting for more Democratic pushback, such as you gave, to the Republicans' claims that a president simply cannot break a law - that any prosecution of a former president must be political because it is existentially impossible that the former president did anything illegal.

Now, I grant that the Democrats may think they are keeping their powder dry, as it were, rather than start to argue back based on mere rumors of an indictment. And one can argue as well that all the GOP nonsense you've reported in your column was aimed at, and consumed by, Trump's base which is never going to listen to what Democrats say in any case.

But the media goes to where there's someone saying something. If the side of reason and respect for law isn't saying anything, all the country will hear this week is that reason means nothing and the law is whatever I want it to be. Can't someone, anyone, argue on the national stage that a rumored indictment might actually be the rule of law coming into action - that the person accused might not only be *not guilty* by presumption of innocence, he might well actually be *guilty* by incontrovertible evidence possessed by the prosecution?