In the past few days, on differing cases — but both involving Tangerine 2.0’s granting hall passes to what very likely are particularly abusive felonious public corruption indictees, and in one case, a felon… we finally see the boys say “enough is enough“. Though only half-heartedly.

Here is Bill Otis’s installment; here is Paul Mirengoff’s. [And I note each, in part, to point out that the Powerline boys cannot bring themselves to say… any of this. They are each in full on “boot-licker” mode.]

As a former prosecutor, I find it… surprising though, that Mr. Otis chose only to compare Tangerine here to Mr. Biden — and not Kamala Harris, also a former prosecutor (when rethinking the vote he cast in November 2024). [And by “surprising“… I mean to say… racist, sexist and dismissive. She was the candidate in opposition, you dolt.]

He failed to do so, largely because he’s afraid to admit that on this, and many other dimensions, he now realizes he cast his vote in a… mistaken fog of “hopeium“. Hopeium — that Trump would not be the person he’s been uniformly, for six long decades (minimum), in his second tour of 1600 Penn. [How stupid was that?!?]

There is zero chance that Kamala would have Pardoned the J6 felons ever, and certainly not without looking at each case — as Trump plainly admits. She was threatened that day, as well.

She’d never push her thumb down on the scale in the Eric Adams/NYC public corruption prosecution at Main Justice. She’s never ever going to give Blado a pardon. Ever.

And all this leaves us with the thought that the Ringsiders are getting exactly the chaos that they well-knew to expect — if they’d been honest with themselves.

Saying only now “What’s wrong with Trump?” is thus wildly duplicitous. This is exactly what was wrong with the 1.0 version — only distilled to its tarry, sticky essence — by the crucible of his own plainly just public corruption felony convictions.

To a person, Trump voters owe us all an apology. But I guess Musk is in fact Preznut now.

So it will only get… zanier.

I weep for Ukraine. Out.