Spinning the Results, Like All Good Crime Bosses Should

PRESIDENT TRUMP and other republican shills are claiming a great victory in the election, by virtue of the enhancement of their Senate majority. Little or no mention is being made of the circumstances in the House of Reps, other than a few Republican analysts stating that the gains made by the Democrats, resulting in a Democratic majority, are actually far less impressive than one might expect, far less impressive than Republican gains under similar circumstances in past elections, and so on, so forth, blah blah. Blatant damage control. What else would one expect from sore losers, which, in all fairness, most of us are? And now, suddenly, with the House lost, Trump is advocating bi partisan, non confrontational politics, seeking common ground, the whole works. Never before in the history of Donald Trump has he waxed so conciliatory, other than the numerous times he dealt with federal prosecutors for committing crimes such as neglecting to pay low skill workers at his properties, hiding income, failing to report taxable income, and refusing to rent properties to people of color. Buy your way out, Donnie boy, but maybe, just maybe, not this time. The very moment trump gets in trouble, which is very momentous, numerically, he becomes tame as a teddy bear, and abandons his tough guy gangster act. Too funny. He knows he's in big trouble now, because he knows that the newly Democratic House majority is going to launch innumerable investigations concerning his many forms of corruption, personally, and administratively. Like Obama said, during the Trump administration, enough indictments have been handed down to his subordinates to field a pretty strong football team. Actually, the number of indictments against Trump administration personnel is greater than the number of elementary particles in the known universe, and that's goin' some. But the gangster in Trump cannot be entirely submerged. If the Dems launch all the promised investigations of him, well then, he'll simply be forced to launch an equal and opposite number of investigations against members of the House. Tit for tat, as it were...The only problem is that Trump's investigations, which will undoubtedly by sanctioned by his vengeful G.O.P. cronies, will yield nothing, while the House of Representative look see into Trump's misdeeds is quite likely to yield a veritable cornucopia bonanza of dirt. Trump, ever the tough gangster guy hitting back twice as hard, is offering the carrot and the stick. If you lay off me, I'll lay off you, just like Al Capone John Gotti. By firing Attorney General Sessions, the Don is sending out a warning; Sessions would not protect me (Trump) from Robert Mueller, so, well, he got the ax. Just think what I (Trump) can do to you (Democrats, et al)..and you..and you..; Trump is a man of the purest form of petty vindictiveness and unrelenting, vengeful anger and hatred, and, as Joseph P. Kennedy said of his little boy Bobby (RFK), when Donnie the Don Trump hates you, you stay hated. Trump assures us that in the event he gets into a game of "dueling investigations", he will emerge stronger, politically, and in terms of his popularity with the American people. That, of course, remains to be seen. Incredibly, delusionally, Trump the Don seems to believe that he is currently popular with the American people, rather then mired in a thirty nine percent approval rating. Senate majority leader McConnell reminds us that, twenty years ago, when the Republicans impeached Clinton, his popularity went up, and that of the G.O.P. plummeted, as if to warn off and ward off any impending impeachment proceeding by the newly empowered House Democrats. Too funny. Way too funny. Are these mobsters frightened, or what? As James Comey observed, Donnie the Don is very much remindful of a mafia don, presiding over a highly organized and massively corrupt criminal syndicate, which, by virtue of his being the putative head of the Republican party, he in actuality is.