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55. Not unless he's so into this "I can do whatever I want" stuff

that he thinks he can get away with it.

That’s been his whole pattern of behavior, over his entire life. Whatever he can get away with.

And so far has a behavior has never been checked. He’s never had to pay for anything. By “pay” I mean - face real consequences.

He probably never got a spanking when he was a kid.

He probably never flunked out and had to repeat a grade in school because of lousy grades.

He’s never been held accountable for literally mishandling women.

Yeah he’s been sued. So he has it dragged out 50 different ways from Sunday to where his opponent runs out of money and gives up. Or he countersues and otherwise peppers his opponent with nuisance legal maneuvering so the opponent gives up (knowing they don’t have the deep pockets to fight down 100 different and random rabbit holes.

He learned - maybe from Roy Cohn, or somebody else like that - how to be so slippery that nobody can lay a hand on him, and keep it on him.

And we’re all witnessing the results of that sneaky, duplicitous behavior track - of gaming the system AND GETTING AWAY WITH IT - over a lifetime that’s 70-some-odd years. There never have been consequences that REALLY hurt, OR held, in this individual.

I’m frankly amazed the impeachment held.

And just watch: when (I assume) the Senate fails to convict, watch how he spins it. Suddenly, doubt will be cast on whether he EVER ACTUALLY WAS impeached. Just watch. This guy’s pattern throughout his long life has been to gum up the works, lie, distort, cheat, obfuscate, confuse, bob ‘n’ weave, and muddy the waters. So why would he let this one stand?

And now he’s got himself one hell of an “amen chorus” from the wall-to-wall sycophants in the Senate and House and at the state level, the evangelical contingent, and fake media like Pox Noise and Breitbart and hate radio to carry the bull for him and repeat the memes and frames and talking points and lies to help with the whitewash and the snow job. Watch the new language, the antics with semantics, to try to make you think it really didn’t happen. That impeachment didn’t really happen.

Watch not just WHAT they say but HOW they say it. “The attempted (aborted/unsuccessful/failed/unreasonable/mean-spirited/illogical/purported/fake/unreasonable/conspiracy-driven/wrong-headed/so-called/alleged/irrational/liberal-led/unconscionable/made-up/phony/unfounded/illegal/unconstitutional/irrational/outrageous/illegitimate - and his own personal favorite - UNFAIR!!!) impeachment.

Just watch the Language Games to come. They’ll be “going for the gold”. (In more ways than one.)