FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: KICKING THE PRICK EDITION.

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It’s not like I’m gonna get very optimistic about the State of the Nation but there have been some good tidings lately. For instances, the long, vicious persecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia by the Trump goons in ICE, the Border Patrol, and DOJ seems to have reached a temporary lull at least as, after months of judicial findings adverse to his detention and extraction, Judge Xinis ruled he must go free pending further hearings. The assholes are still snarling and slashing at him, hoping to cheat justice for their mob boss, but for the moment they are thwarted.

They’re thwarted in Indiana, too, where the Republican legislature Trump attempted to threaten into passing a new gerrymander said, you know what, fuck you, Tubby.

This is good for a few reasons, not the least of which is that it punctures the puffed-up image people have of Tubby as an unstoppable force.  I remember when the Prestige Press used to call him the “Teflon Don,” a homage to John Gotti and that other piece of shit Ronald Reagan, as if their ability to escape the consequences of their actions were a gift from God rather than the result of cold political calculations by cowards too scared to stand up to them (aided, of course, by the greasy obsequity of the press itself).

This has put those of us who opposed the fucker from jump in a bind: We have to make clear how massive a threat to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Trump is -- but being clear about it also helps make him look unstoppable, because he keeps performing outrages and, thanks to the cowards (and to the weaknesses of a system not designed to withstand the consequences of rule by mobsters), getting away with them.

Well, now he’s not getting away with them as much, and that’s something that needs to get around: Despite having control of all three branches of government, this bum can be beaten. That’s the theme of the first of this week’s ROY EDROSO BREAKS IT DOWN freebies for non-subscribers, “The End of Invincible Trump.”

And for our second freebie, I’m gonna change it up a little and let you in on the latest Fun Friday -- our weekly invitation for readers (who always make good use of the comments feature) to respond to prompts like “what’s a book that lit you up as a kid,” “what’s a piece of furniture you loved,” and, in this case, what’s the first movie you remember seeing.  

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