It's hard to keep up. The madness overflows at a maddening rate, causing me to often comment on what entailed yesterday's madness instead of today's. Yet I'm not only resigned to this regimen, I've come to believe it's preferable.
Americans by and large were largely saner when national news networks had to wait a day or two for film to come in before they could fully report on a given event. Today's "instant analysis" of all goings on hasn't helped to inform โ just look around, for heaven's sake โ it merely agitates and antagonizes a bit sooner. G. Washington saw the Senate as hot tea's "cooling saucer," and though that's no longer true, perhaps a cool-down period on some topics would benefit us again.
Thus languorously moving along ... In the third week of Trump's NY trial โ what a rare occurrence, a criminal defendant with more lawyers than Belize has soldiers actually going to trial โ The Guardian referenced "the ex-presidentโs already tenuous relationship with reality."
Webster defines "tenuous" as weak, shaky, slender or rare. Hence writing that Trump has a "tenuous relationship with reality" is itself tenuous. Or so it seems to me, for I've never seen the fabulist possess anything but a wholesale denial of all that is real.
That aside, The Guardian's point was that Trump had told reporters, "Iโm not allowed to testify. Iโm under a gag order, I guess. I canโt testify. Iโm not allowed to talk." If you're not a connoisseur of far-right Twitter fanatics, you have no idea how rapidly such pigswill will scurry into thousands of enfeebled minds, who are then possessed by the urgent need to let other enfeebled minds know of the tortures Trump must endure.
Anyway, the presiding judge, Juan Merchan, hastened to enlighten the falsifier of business records, telling him, "I want to stress, Mr Trump, that you have an absolute right to testify at trial. The order prohibiting extra-judicial statements does not prevent you from testifying in any way." That was like telling a five-year-old that it's untrue that he "never gets his way." The indistinguishable toddler and Trump already know that.
In a wholly anticipated update, The Guardian now notes that "the defense rested in Donald Trumpโs criminal trial on Tuesday, without the former president himself testifying." The publication adds that his "decision came without fanfare." This surprised. He could have again informed the enfeebled that he's "not allowed to testify," and they would have bought it.
Still, "the move" to pass on dazzling the jurors with bullshit "was not surprising," continues The Guardian. And in a brilliant flash of first-rate understatement, the paper notes that Trump might have said "something that harms [his] defense." The something would include everything he uttered between "I do" and "You're excused."
How's that? Because the man has been detached from reality since he first claimed he was a major NYC developer.