The obligatory indictment post

 Actually, that title up there may not be truly indicative of how I'm approaching this. I actually have a lot to say and feel that some of it ought to be expressed colorfully. 

Bullet points may be and effective way of systematizing my thoughts. Let's start in.

• Jack Smith has a reputation as a top-notch prosecutor. The seven charges can't be argued as being flimsy, like those brought by Alvin Bragg in New York. Smith's team interviewed everybody who was conceivably in the employ of Mar-a-Lago, and he has alternative jurors lined up for the trial in case any of the first picks starts showing signs of partisanship.
• The audiotape of the Very Stable Genius bragging to dinner guests - a writer and the writer's publisher - about a document he was showing them being classified would need a hell of a lot of context not to be incriminating. Ditto the photos of boxes in out-in-the-open places around the Mar-a-Lago house. 
• The deadly-serious nature of some documents' content - US nuclear capabilities, other countries' nuclear capabilities, a scenario for attacking Iran that Trump had Mark Milley draw up - becoming public knowledge worldwide increases US vulnerability considerably. 
• The Republican Party has confirmed its status as a pathetic and ineffective parody of a major political party, just when we sorely need a viable center-right countervailing force to the Democrats' agenda of identity politics militancy, climate alarmism and wealth redistribution. More than ever, the Pubs are the party of cowards, nuts, and sycophants. Mike Pence, Josh Hawley, Nikki Haley, Kevin McCarthy and Marco Rubio are already on record as having said some variation of "the American people want to move on" or "these politically motivated long knives are the actual threat to our Republic." 
• Mainstream media focus regarding MAGA reaction seems to be focused on the really-out-there nutcase sites and commenters, but more "acceptable" Trumpist sites such as Townhall ("Here's How We Rally Around Donald Trump") and The Federalist ("Latest Trump Indictment Proves Deep State Is Trying To Rig Yet Another Election", "DOJ Declares War on 2024 With Trump Indictment Hours After Biden Bribery News") have already staked out their position. 
• We may well see a situation in which Squirrel-Hair is appearing in a courtroom and then dashing off to rallies of his drool-besotted leg-humpers. 
• His having to deal with this particular legal trouble will surely hurt him in the general election in November 2024. There will not be enough of the drool-besotted leg-humpers, even combined with Republican voters solely motivated by wanting to defeat Democrats, to drag him over the finish line, given what the public will know and have seen by then.

One more thing: Our ability to see two things as true at once (Trump is corrupt; Biden is also corrupt) is badly eroded by oh-look-a-squirrel-ism ("We should solely focus on Biden corruption!"). Those pulling that crap may be able to give themselves talks in the mirror that nearly convince them that they really believe it, but in their unguarded moments when they know their Lord is looking with laser focus at their hearts of hearts, they know they're driven by cynicism. Knowing that, don't fall for what they're peddling.