lock him the fuck up already

no more free passes for Donald Trump

yesterday, in Judge Juan Merchan’s Manhattan courtroom, Donald Trump was found in contempt of court for the TENTH TIME.

let that sink in. ten gag order violations. ten very real threats against witnesses, jury members, and court workers.

Donny’s penalty for all this reckless fuckery? he got a stern talking-to from the judge.

can you think of any other criminal defendant who would be be shown this kind of deference, and given this many judicial mulligans?

and yes, I get that all ten incidents happened before Merchan’s threat of imprisonment — but come on already. it’s time to lock Donald Trump the fuck up.

here’s Judge Merchan’s warning to Trump:

“It appears that the $1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. Going forward, this court will have to consider a jail sanction,” Merchan said as he found Trump had violated the gag for a 10th time.

“consider” is doing a fuckload of heavy lifting in that statement. yeah, Merchan could consider jailing Trump. he could consider a lot of things.

fuck consider. it’s time for will.

“Your continued willful violations of this court’s orders threaten to interfere with the ... administration of justice and constitute a direct attack on the rule of law. I cannot allow that to continue,” the judge said.

“It’s important to understand that the last thing I want to do is to put you in jail. You are a former president of the United States and possibly a future president, as well. ... There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last step for me,” the judge said.

c’mon, man. stop calling jail the last step. it needs to be the next step.

and who gives one shit that Donny used to be president. why does that matter?

whatever happened to “no one is above the law”? we really need to erase this line from our national discourse, because it’s very obvious that one person has been able to spend his entire criminal life above the law.

and here Trump is once again — guilty, dead-to-rights in violation of a court order, already threatened once with jail — and the presiding judge just can’t bring himself to drop the hammer, because Donny used to be president. this is some bullshit.

there’s always some excuse why Donny should be treated with kid gloves.

remember impeachment? the chattering class tut-tutted about impeachment. don’t do it, they said. impeaching Trump would guarantee his reelection, we were told.

remind me how getting impeached worked our for Trump in the 2020 election.

remember all the warnings about indicting Trump? the Chicken Littles of the nation freaked the fuck out. you can’t indict Trump — the sky will fall. his worshipers will go ape-shit. there will be pandemonium.

and then Trump got indicted — four times — and after each instance, somehow the sun still managed to rise the next morning.

again, we were warned not to put Trump on trial. there will be riots in the streets! human sacrifice! dogs and cats living together! mass hysteria!

yet here were are, halfway though Donny Fuckface’s third trial and the pathetic old dipshit can’t get more then two cultists to show up to protest at the courthouse.

and now they’re doing it again. don’t throw Trump in prison. he’ll win sympathy votes.

oh please. this is never going to happen. there is no Biden-voting constituency who is going to look at Donny behind bars and go I feel so badly for him. he’s now got my vote.

the press has been shoving this bullshit into our faces since 2016, when they tried to convince us that a bunch of nazis were all set to vote for Hillary, but then she called them “deplorables” and they switched their votes to Trump.

don’t throw Trump in prison. he’ll fundraise off it.

who gives a shit? let him. the gullible rubes who worship him are already signing over their disability checks. they don’t need any additional reasons to open their wallets to this conman.

don’t throw Trump in prison. there will be riots in the streets.

here we go again with this load of crap. look — you can’t let one man be above the law because you’re afraid of the unhinged psychos who believe he’s the second coming.

letting one man bully his way to unaccountability through threats of violence is literally how fascism works. is that the country we want to live in?

then there are those who claim that Trump wants to be jailed, for any of the above reasons — and here Donny is yesterday, daring Merchan to imprison him.

“this judge has given me a gag order and said, you’ll go to jail if you violate it. and frankly, you know what? our Constitution is much more important than jail. it’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day. but what’s happening here is a disgrace and the appellate courts ought to get involved.”

baloney. it’s all bluster. let’s call this fucker’s bluff. let’s see how he likes being confined to a cell, without a phone, or hairspray, or makeup. let’s see how long it would take his fragile psyche to implode.

does Donny want to go to prison? of fucking course he doesn’t. last night on his crappy app, he was very careful not to cross the line into gag order territory.

but then, this morning, news broke that Stormy Daniels will be today’s witness for the prosecution — and Donny posted this.

this is very clearly gag order violation number eleven — and some lawyer must have read the riot act to Trump, because not fifteen minutes later the post was deleted.

Donald Trump is Donald Trump. he’s been reckless and out of control his entire life, and he’s not going to magically change overnight. it’s only a matter of time before he fucks up again.

when that happens, please — no more mulligans.

Donald Trump has been making a mockery of our system of justice and rubbing his lawlessness in our faces for years — and getting away with it. it’s time to teach this fucker a lesson he won’t soon forget.

lock him the fuck up.