Rant #3,103: Winners and Losers

 

“The Yankees Win … The Yankees Win!”

So went opening day of the Major League Baseball season for the team in the Bronx, and I am happy about that.

And as I predicted, I watched scant little of the game, as I was busy as a bee yesterday with work and with family things.

I saw exactly one batter in the top of the eighth inning, the full bottom of the eighth, and the top of the ninth, and that was that.

Better seeing such a small sample size in a winning effort than watching that little amount in a losing effort … you better believe it!

And then later on in the day, I heard what everyone else heard, that former President Donald Trump was indicted on criminal charges in New York.

Honestly, I don’t really get this thing, and we don’t even yet know what the charges are, which made yesterday’s announcement even more bizarre.

But when the former president is arrested—whenever that will be—it will make an interesting case study into how such a high-profile potential felon is treated by the justice system which vows to treat everyone equally.

First of all, I simply do not understand how he can be charged with anything other than having committed adultery, which is bad enough but certainly not illegal in New York State.

And that it happened before he was President and happened upwards of seven years ago … shouldn’t the statute of limitations apply here … I mean, this is not a murder case, is it?

Once we hear the charges—and they must be just way beyond paying hush money to this woman to keep her mouth closed about whatever may have happened between the two—then we can make a better judgment and better understand why Trump has been indicted.

And it is not a crime to pay someone to shut up about things, by the way … Michael Jackson was one celebrity who clearly did this during that period where he supposedly bedded some children at his estate in California.

And these wealthy people don’t necessarily pay off someone to shut them up about something that did actually happen … sometimes it is simply better to pay someone off than to hear anything they have to say, whether true or false, in a court of law, because, as you know, “loose lips sink ships.”

That is why the charges must go way beyond just paying this woman money to shut her up about something that no one has ever proven actually happened.

To me, this is between Trump and his wife, but what do I know?

And once he is arrested, so many questions will need to be answered:

Will he be handcuffed?

How will he be led into the Manhattan court building?

Will he be jailed, or let out on his own recognizance?

To me at least, this is nothing but grandstanding by the New York District Attorney, because again to me, this case really isn’t that important in the grand scheme of things.

The other cases against the former President are so much more important—egging on the crowd of hooligans during the insurrection and the storing of off-limits, top-secret documents at his home—that it makes this one seem to be frivolous and a waste of taxpayer money.

But Trump is right about one thing: the more beleaguered he becomes through the court system, the more popular he becomes.

He is already running for President, and each one of these indictments—present and future—will push him up in the polls.

And that might just be scarier than seeing him in handcuffs, to be honest about it.

So I wouldn’t gets joyous about this latest indictment, because quite honestly, do you really think that Trump can get a fair trial anywhere in the United States, and in particular, in New York City?

Guaranteed his lawyers will ask that the trail, if there is one, be moved somewhere else, perhaps even in a part of the state that is pro-Trump.

But no jury pool is going to be completely brain-drained about Trump, as he is probably one of the most famous people in the world, for good and for bad.

And looking at it from a different perspective, the world is laughing at us now, as we are trying a former President for what appears to be adultery and hush payments, something that is such a normal part of the political process overseas that it has to have the people in other countries spinning their heads with laughter.

And in this country, are you going to tell me that Trump is the only President that ever slept around and paid people off to keep quiet?

Let’s say “John Fitzgerald Kennedy” and move on from that. FDR, Eisenhower, and probably several others had paramours on the side that we either didn’t know about or found out about much later on.

And personally, that is not to say that I condone these actions at all.

If in fact what they are saying actually happened, Trump needs to check his gut and question why he cheated on his wife.

And as far as his wife, well, a nice kick to a certain area of his anatomy would be warranted, don’t you think?

Have a good weekend, and I will speak to you again on Monday.