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The felon-in-chief has asked the DOJ to investigate Democrats mentioned in the Epstein scandal files. Surely, most of the DU community recalls the DOJ's FBI memo from July 7, 20025:
We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1407001/dl?inline
It is unlikely that corporate journalists will as anyone in the administration more probing questions than, What changed? yet we all know that the scaredycat-in-chief is desperate. Notice his attempted attack on Marjorie Taylor Greene in the wake of this week's Epstein scandal saga. This behavior is, in my opinion, interesting to consider in the context of human evolution.
A grasp of human evolution requires that we recognize that modern human beings are animals. As a group, we are as savage as our primitive ancestors. Our species, like every other one, was brought forth by the sun and earth. We share a vast number of similarities with numerous other life forms, past and present. There are examples found in our language that recognize this. The felon wants to be the top dog. He wants maga politicians to respect his version of the pecking order. In my day, teenage males sometimes provided solid evidence of their stupidity by playing chicken.
Rather than my going into an annoying detail, let's just recognize that many animals engage in ritual behaviors involving potential sex and potential violence. Though it is something I never would have thought or said in my own life, let's skip sex for this discussion. On to violence, and for sake of discussion, focus briefly upon violence within members of a species. I advocate same-species sex for humans, too, an opinion that accelerates when viewing the maga population.
Humans are social creatures, and thus, like with many other animals, tend to live in groups. Everyone who watched Chimp Empire knows that this tends to include two forms of violence. The first is in the context of a territorial dispute with another group, in which actual violence often takes place. The alpha male leads the group into a battle with the opposition.
This is distinct from the violence within the group to establish who is the alpha male. In many species, including human beings, this connects with what we are witnessing today with our beast fiend, the felon. It involves a display of size, strength, and intensity that intends to intimidate any potential challenger. We have likely all seen films of an alpha chimp or gorilla pounding its chest, smashing things around it, and issuing a challenge that translates to come experience the fangs of a more powerful foe. These behaviors tend to maintain the alpha's status within the group, as democracy is an option limited to only the most civilized of human beings.
While we have witnessed the felon bluffing strength by attacking vulnerable targets in the past, I can say with 100% confidence that this is different. I base my opinion on over sixty years in the great sport of boxing. There are two instances where the two fighters will meet before fighting: at the weigh-in, and during the referee's instructions before the first bell.
These days, weigh-ins are the day before the fight. Both fighters attempt to gain a psychological advantage, which can include stare-downs or pushing and shoving, or even throwing a punch. Back in the day, Sonny Liston won fights before the first bell rang, with an intensely hostile stare. He did not need words or gimmicks. Years later, a prime George Foreman or Mike Tyson did the same.
Now, I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with these great champions. But I have been a participant in numerous weigh-ins and referees' instructions. Out of 329 fights, I could list on one hand the number of opponents who did not show some type of fear or doubt before the first round. It's like a dog smelling fear on an opponent who will submit when they can not maintain your stare, or change their behaviors in that brief moment as the referee speaks.
The felon's stance on the Epstein scandal might be compared to a pin ball bouncing about. It has included lies of course and bluffs of being the roughest, toughest alpha ever. At the weigh-in on newly released Epstein documents, we see threats to investigate Democrats and an empty threat aimed at Marginally Taylor Greene. Add this to his having his corner men's pressuring something known as Lauren Boebert to create an avenue for him to avoid this fight. He is afraid.
It is not that the Epstein scandal alone will knock his ass out. It is the synergy of several issues, such as the economy, and his status as a lame fuck.
Easterncedar
(5,279 posts)Kicking, reccing and bookmarking for later!
H2O Man
(78,289 posts)Despite being a foul in the ring, I think we should all be kicking the downed felon today.
malaise
(291,195 posts)On point!
Rec
H2O Man
(78,289 posts)It is good to know that my years of participating in boxing was good for something, despite the arthritis in my hands.
malaise
(291,195 posts)Boxing and its life lessons 😀
H2O Man
(78,289 posts)by philosophers and theologians for centuries that all of life imitates the sport of boxing. I am, of course, the only one that has said that.
I remember during the felon's first term, saying "the courts will hold." Let's revisit that now. I'll add in, at this time, my noting that Rep. Jamie Raskin has asked the attorney general to release Mr. Smith's second report, along with the Epstein files. For there is reason to believe that some of the confidential documents the felon stole involve his relationship with the Epstein scandal.
Regardless of if the Senate votes for the release, the House committee has already subpoenaed them. We know the felon will refuse, no matter if one or both of the houses of Congress demands them. As always, he will stall, and it will go into the federal courts. His goal is to stretch it out until he leaves office.
Thus, at this point, I would prefer if it is sent to the courts as soon as possible. Even then, it will be a ball & chain on republicans in the mid-terms. This is a good thing. It will cause more republicans to break with the felon. As soon as the new Congress is sworn in, they need to urge the Supreme Court to rule on the case.
The court will hold, though by a 7 to 2 decision, rather than the 8 to 0 when Nixon was refusing to hand over the tapes. It will be interesting then to see if the felon attempts to block the documents release. However, those under him, including in the DOJ/FBI, will go along with his stubborn, depererate behavior.
malaise
(291,195 posts)Easterncedar
(5,279 posts)Perfect
H2O Man
(78,289 posts)a giggle that she refused to cave. It is, obviously, a clear indicator of how desperate the administration is, that they would pull this.
There is reportedly great confusion within the administration. Relatively few of them know why the felon is so intent on not releasing the documents. They are witnessing his out of control behaviors, and are now suspicious. After all, they had believed the campaign promises to release the files. Many are unhappy that they were lied to.
This is, by definition, a good thing.
Jersey Devil
(10,667 posts)He even fought in the Golden Gloves at Madison Square Garden. He told me he was extremely lucky to lose his last fight because if he had won his next opponent would have been Sugar Ray Robinson, who made the guy who beat my Dad look like his face had been run through a meat grinder. It takes a hell of a lot of guts to stand in a ring and trade punches with another person and I don't think Trump has it in him. I think in the next few days and weeks we'll see MTG kick the shit out of him.
H2O Man
(78,289 posts)are always the best in the country. And, of course, Sugar Ray was in a class of his own. He could knock an opponent out cold while moving backward. Also, punch hard while on his toes. (Just before he turned pro, Ray was going to fight a really good amateur from Endicott. His name escapes me for the moment. But after Ray turned pro, the guy was a local legend, with guys insisting decades later that Ray was afraid of him. However, as Ray went on to elite, all-time great status, while the Endicott fellow went nowhere in the pro ranks, the guy was lucky!)
There is only one experience more lonely than walking from the dressing room towards the ring. That's being in the ring before the fight! In the decades since Rubin told me to quit boxing and go to college, I trained amateur and pro fighters. I was successful, and offered a spot training the national team. But by then, I had come to see the sport as brutal, doing long-term damage to the fighters. Plus, when Rubin learned my younger son was fighting, he was not happy. And it is no fun having the Hurricane tensley insist I "make him stop" fighting.
The felon hooked up with a parasite known as Don King to promote fights in Atlantic City. When Iron Mike Tyson was doing world's record amounts of cocaine, and realized that King had been stealing from him, he slapped King. Hard. The felon then considered buying Tyson's contract. I find myself wishing he had, because a lot of future problems could have been avoided when he tried stiffing Tyson.
While I have very mixed feelings about the sport, I find overall that boxers are the most interesting people. I tend to get along best with them.
Wild blueberry
(8,009 posts)Always appreciate your posts.