The Self-obsessed Self

 In this life, it does not pay to to be too obsessed with one’s own self. 

Oh, such vanity and self-confidence may win you a few battles; but the long game of Life will, in the long run, put a bull’s-eye on that vanity and you’ll get shot down, your throne toppled.

This proverbial truth is illustrated in real events that are happening as we speak.

Just yesterday, August 3, 2023, We the People of the United States summoned donald trump to a Court of Law to be tried for his crimes against US. 

The indictment clearly lays out the string of events that led donald trump and his band of treasonists to a privileged oval office place where he was ultimately found unworthy to be the occupant of that esteemed Office. 

Point 92, on page 34 of yesterday's indictment, recalls a meeting between Vice President and donald trump in the presence of their lawyers and a few staffers, along with co-conspirator #2, which took place two days before our Vice President was scheduled to convene Congress to perform the Constitutional task of counting, officially, the Electoral College votes that would determine the legitimate result of the 2020 election.

In the meeting, trump was trying to convince VP Mike Pence to break the law so that they could win a second term. Our former Vice President Pence is a man of conscience, unlike his boss who was trying to persuade him to do the wrong thing instead of the right thing. 

I recommend to any citizen that you read the indictment, which lays out clearly, everything that happened before, and leading up to, the terrible events of Jan6.

But hey, long story short, Vice President Pence told donald trump:

“Did you hear that? Even your own counsel is not saying I have the authority”

. . . (to count fake electoral votes instead of the Electoral votes that had been sent to Congress, for counting, by the 50 state Legislatures).

But donald trump would not allow legality and common sense to dissuade him from forcing his own self-destructive plan through the Congress. He said, “That’s okay; I prefer the other suggestion.” (the illegally concocted one that his co-conspirators had dreamed up).

Consequently, all hell broke loose on Jan6 and we had (still have) a clusterfud of trouble in this nation today.

Fortunately however, since the long of arm of the law is, at last, grabbing hold of donald and his band of insurrectionists, the truth is being told. 

donald trump’s maga-ego ultimately became his downfall. 

Truth be told, we caught a glimpse of that fatal ego during the early hours of Jan6. On that morning, Trump was preparing to give a speech to his supporters as they were (peacefully, at that moment) gathering at the Ellipse.

The Secret Service guys informed trump that some of his devotees could not get into that gathering event, because they were armed with lethal weapons. and the metal detectors wouldn’t let them. 

But trump, clueless, said he wanted them in anyway (He knew why they were carrying lethal weapons) He assured his protectors that those thugs were not here to harm him.

Right, donald, they’re not here to hurt YOU. 

It did not even occur to donald that those thugs—the proudbuoys, the oathpeepers, the threeperplexers or whoever they were—might use their weapons to hurt members of Congress?

Or maybe it did occur to him?   

Glass half-Full