Fashion!

Give us this day, with our morning public radio and bowl of oatmeal, our...Daily Reason to Rant

Today's nugget which may or may not evoke pearls of wisdom: Mr. EX President should take fashion advice from RantWoman. Hang in with the reasoning!

There is a Rolling Stone article claiming that FORMER President Gropesaurus is starting to worry about being sent to prison, what clothing he might be forced to wear, and whether Congress might revoke his lifetime Secret Service protection.

RantWoman HOPES the questions are as vexatious to ardent prison abolitionists as they are to RantWoman.

RantWoman believes both that the former occupant of the White House deserves substantial punishment and that preserving her own sense of humanity requires note of MANY circumstances which have turned him into the horrible creepy disgusting man-child he is today: a whole river of factors from parental emotional and physical abuse and neglect to decades and scores of enablers. 

RantWoman believes there must be some path to spiritual transformation and freely admits she has no idea what that might look like. 

For now, the here and now.

A good percentage of the replies to questions arising from the Rolling Stone article in RantWoman's Twitter / X feed are ready to revoke Secret Service protection and fit The Former Guy for an orange jumpsuit, possibly at Gitmo. Never mind whether Georgia might be first in line for housing our national Presidential embarrassment and then perhaps have the option of allowing the defendant to serve his Georgia time in federal prison. 

At least Gitmo would be climatically similar to south FL, which is more than could be said for say the federal Supermax prison in CO, known lately for housing one of the most damaging spies for Russia in US history. Reference to spies is not accidental considering some details of the documents case at Mar a Lago, though the worst details of possible transactions may never make it to court.

But RantWoman is getting ahead of herself.

RantWoman is happy to admit, she finds all of Mr. EX President's legal travails fascinating, better than soap operas, sometimes more titillating than the National Enquirer, and of course HUGELY consequential for the US and for democracy. RantWoman also is a little afraid that somehow despite all of what appears to the commentators RantWoman watches to be ironclad blistering evidence of criminal culpability that all of the court cases might wind up with some kind of bizarre out of Q field result comparable to the acquittal of OJ Simpson.

Whatever happens to legal cases, RantWoman thinks it would be a bad idea to revoke Secret Service protection for Mr. Gropesaurus. Maintaining Secret Service protection is as much protecting the US as it is protecting the person of the former president. IF anything, Mr. Propesaurus should be expected to tighten up security wherever he winds up.

RantWoman also notes that Mr. EX President practically wipes his butt with the Constitution at least daily and some times several times an hour. He is as responsible for the single biggest one-day violent crime wave in the US since 9/11. He keeps confessing to malevolent narcissistic intent all over whatever media channel  puts microphones in front of his face. There is NO WAY anyone should expect that he will be able or willing to comply with his oath of office any better a second time around than the first time.

In fact, RantWoman keeps wondering why no one has ordered a mental health evaluation to determine his fitness to stand trial and hence his fitness to serve as President.

That said, RantWoman thinks it is fine, just FINE if the real possibility of going to prison MAY be starting to sink in for Mr. EX President. The country has real problems. Everyone needs a break from endless replays of mugshots. Mr. Gropesaurus needs a break. Whatever revolution QAnon or whoever wants to wrack is going to need more than one miserable narcissist to carry out.

So...time to seriously consider a plea deal.

RantWoman is a lot less interested in fitting Mr. Orange with clothing that matches his spray on skin tone than in ensuring that the guy never ever sets foot in the Oval Office again.

RantWoman would let lawyers work out details as long as any deal comes with all of the following:

--Lengthy and substantial limits on Mr. EX President's liberty, for instance home detention at one of his US properties, surrendering his passports

--Stipulation that he is never again eligible to become President.

--Internet and social media access ONLY for content cleared by a court-appointed representative which The Former Guy pays for

In return for sparing the country outrageous trial spectacle, Mr. Gropesaurus could be offered:

--Home confinement as long as he pays the costs of all security measures.

--The opportunity to maintain his preferred diet including level of ketchup consumption

--And the biggest thing: the opportunity to continue to make his own, sometimes regretable, fashion choices!

RantWoman HAS OPINIONS about things that might help pull the rest of the country back from the brink of a political abyss. These opinions get their own post.

PS. Hell YES, this IS election interference. It's also a call to both parties to do a MUCH better job of vetting candidates.

Oh, and RantWoman hopes states keeping working on ways to keep. Mr. EX President Gropesaurus off the ballot just in case.

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