IT IS SATISFYING to at least imagine that Trump feels something like we imagined Jonny Rocco as played in Key Largo by Edward G. Robinson trapped below deck by Frank McCloud (Bogart) only Trump wouldn't be as skilled at saving his own ass with a gun as Rocco was. I hope Trump's dementia hasn't gotten so far that he doesn't appreciate how close he is to total exposure and ruin but I think even the demented Trump must realize one thing, he very likely made a mistake in putting his needed pardon in the hands of J. D. Vance.
Vance, on his part, is probably at least a good enough student of history to realize that the pardon that Gerald Ford certainly promised Nixon was what led to his inability to ride the absurdly favorable press he got to electoral victory in 1976. If Vance isn't that smart, the man whose bitch he is, Peter Thiel is certainly smart enough to realize his chief asset in government would diminish his value to him enormously by giving Trump the pardon he needs. The story that Donny jr. was the one who sold his idiot father on choosing Vance might figure into this, and it makes the folly of it more satisfying. Anyone who was in any doubt that Vance would fail to fulfill a promised pardon should recall how he sold out those he claimed as "his people" the white working class of Appalachia. And if they forget that as an example of how he would sell out anyone is certainly watching him throw his own wife under the bus as he publicly kissed and handled the widder' Kirk, who he certainly must have expected would be considered a goddess by the white supremacists he threw his wife and, certainly by implication, his own children under the bus of his ambition. Little did he know that she would have undercut her own status so fast by her own behavior.
I think if Trump is driven from office the matter of Vance pardoning him or any of those who Trump has not pardoned, whether it be Bondi and Blanche or Patel or any of a list of obvious criminals in his regime is certainly something none of them would bet their lives on if they thought that far ahead. Any pardons Vance considers would be granted only if his and Thiel's calculations were that the cost of those outweighed the benefits to them, or rather
TO THEM
made that worth the cost. Frankly, I wouldn't bet on them even noticing those who it wouldn't cost them a thing to pardon getting one unless there was a benefit to Thiel and his bitch. Which is how a "President Vance" should be thought of as Trump should certainly be thought of as Putin's bitch
Trump must certainly have a vestigial sense that that's exactly how he'd deal with it. I mean, they say that dementia only exposes the person who was there all along.
If Elon Musk and his incel-boy army don't have pardons, already, I can imagine Vance ordering the AG he appoints to go after them so that Thiel and his cronies can pick through the pieces of Elon's empire as he goes to prison or worse.
These are just the ruminations of someone who isn't entirely sold on a lot more of the Epstein files getting made public as a given. Though I will say that the Democrats who have the stuff that they subpoenaed from the Epstein estate have been playing a remarkably cool hand in judicious releases of what they have. I think it's certain that if there is to be a next shoe to drop, it's going to be even more damning than what got released the other day. I think Thiel must be confident of one thing, there is nothing that ties him to the rape of young girls. I wouldn't bet on any of the other billionaires in and around the Trump orbit other than Bessent knowing that their names don't appear in the files and that's only because, like Thiel, he's not interested in raping young girls. While it would be hard for any gay Republican asshole to replace Lindsay Graham and a sitting member of the Republican faction of the Supreme Court as most loathsome living gay man, Bessent is close to being a contender of that if the other two die before he does.
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