A word of caution to both Trumpists and members of the Wet Blanket Brigade...

[Tommy Carcetti]

...if there is in fact no indictment announced of Donald Trump today--March 21, 2023--as Trump himself claimed there would be.

Trumpists might somehow take the opportunity to rub it in our faces, claiming--without evidence--that the expected indictments never panned out, and that their hero has once again emerged victorious over his persecutors.

Meanwhile, the contingent of ever-pessimistic people on the left (i.e. the Wet Blanket Brigade) might take the lack of indictment news today as just one more kick to the groin, one more Lucy-pulls-the-football-away moment, and rue in an Eeyore voice, "Looks like it's Fitzmas all over again."

Let's not forget just a little over a year ago in Winter 2022, when US and NATO intelligence saw evidence of a massive buildup of Russian troops along the Ukrainian border, and believed there was substantial evidence of an imminent full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia (beyond the ongoing proxy conflict it had been waging in Eastern Ukraine since 2014). It was believed that the invasion would most likely take place after the close of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

The Olympics ended on February 20, 2022; there was no full-scale invasion by Russia on that day.

Nor was there any full scale invasion by Russia on February 21, 2022.

By that point, certain pseudo-leftists on Twitter (e.g., Michael Tracey, Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, etc.) began to laugh and crow, claiming there was never going to be any invasion of Ukraine by Russia and it was all just fear-mongering on the part of the US and the West, who just wanted nothing more than to impose their will and influence in that part of the world to the detriment of poor Russia.

And they continued to laugh and crow, for three more days...until February 24, 2022, when Russia began a massive, full-frontal invasion of Ukraine.

Bottom line is that it's foolish to get hung up on any one tree when you fail to realize you're in the middle of the forest.

[Ocelot II]

1. The reason that there's no indictment today is that the grand jury isn't meeting today.

They are reconvening tomorrow. TFG pulled the Tuesday date out of his ass for no reason other than to stir up the cult.

[onecaliberal]

5. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Captain Stern]

2. When trump said he was going to be arrested on Tuesday.....

......I pretty much took that as a guarantee that he wouldn't be arrested on Tuesday.

Maybe he'd be arrested Monday, or Wednesday. Heck..maybe he'd be arrested 364 times in the next year, but I knew it wouldn't be on Tuesday.

[emulatorloo]

3. Yeah he was the only source. And we know he's a liar.

[Chakaconcarne]

4. Measure progress in weeks/months...

Not hours/days....

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. Unless you're Kirk and Spock in Star Trek II, that is.

[Miguelito Loveless]

7. I still remember Fitzmas...

and all that it promised.

[Tommy Carcetti]

10. The thing about Fitzmas was that--in retrospect--it was all very small potatoes.

We all thought Karl Rove would be the big fish to be indicted, and maybe, somehow, some way, he'd implicate Dick Cheney along the way. Most people didn't even reasonably think it would actually bring down Dubya himself.

The level of what we thought Fitzmas would be for the Bush administration has already long been eclipsed by the actual amount of people around Donald Trump who have been brought down, indicted, implicated, pled out, etc. We had two impeachments, and even though they didn't result in Senate convictions, they were still a permanent stain to Trump's reputation (including the fact that he was the first President to have members of his own party vote for his conviction in the Senate trial.)


Yes, the actual Fitzmas was a dud, but we've had multiple Fitzmas-like events over and over again when it comes to Trump and his cronies.

The only thing left is Trump himself. And that's coming.

[Miguelito Loveless]

11. I really hope you are right

I have just about given up.

[brooklynite]

8. Nobody cares...

...What Trump said about being arrested will have no impact here or in his fanbase.

[MLAA]

9. Well said, Tommy.

[lame54]

12. It was an obvious lie from the beginning