A thought that came to me on the day of Trump's inauguration in 2017 has proven true!

[Proud to be Woke]

And it makes me glad and it makes me wonder!

Once in a while I receive some insight... usually it is in the form of a little thought that comes into my mind. Sometimes these thoughts seem contrary to my usual way of thinking. I am sure you get these odd thoughts too. Such a thought came to me on Inauguration Day 2017. Yes, that was a very bleak day. But as I watched the inauguration on CNN or wherever I watched it, a thought came to my mind and I have never forgotten it...

"Today is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump."

I have preserved this thought and I also told all of my friends and relatives who were appalled by Trump winning that election, to help them hang on to hope and sanity. I kept reminding them that this odd sentence entered my mind as I watched him and his wife and all the officials as he took the oath, etc.

It was an odd thought because I had really paid little attention to Trump ever since the 1990s when he was grabbing media attention. He did not impress me as anything but an arrogant business owner (I knew the type) and when he ran for President I could hardly believe the horrible things that he was saying. So when Trump actually was inaugurated in 2017 I braced myself for what I knew would be a disastrous administration. I kept telling myself and others during that miserable 4 years, "this is the beginning of the end for Donald Trump".

Now I see that this is coming to pass!

He could have stayed in business where a great many evils are hidden from public view. But no, he had to enter politics.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. Karma, baby!

I believe in Karma.

[Tommy Carcetti]

2. Reminds me of the 2016 OpEd...

...from Garrison Keillor:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-donald-trump-losing-garrison-keillor-20160831-story.html

When this is over, you will have nothing that you want
By Garrison Keillor
Washington Post
•
Aug 31, 2016 at 3:00 pm

The cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister look, as if you'd come to town to announce the closing of the pulp factory. Your eyes look dead and your scowl does not suggest American greatness so much as American indigestion. Your hair is the wrong color: People don't want a president to be that shade of blond. You know that now.

Why doesn't someone in your entourage dare to say these things? So sad. The fans in the arenas are wild about you, and Sean Hannity is as loyal as they come, but Rudy and Christie and Newt are reassuring in that stilted way of hospital visitors. And The New York Times treats you like the village idiot. This is painful for a Queens boy trying to win respect in Manhattan where the Times is the Supreme Liberal Jewish Anglican Arbiter of Who Has The Smarts and What Goes Where. When you came to Manhattan 40 years ago, you discovered that in entertainment, the press, politics, finance, everywhere you went, you ran into Jews, and they are not like you: Jews didn't go in for big yachts and a fleet of aircraft — they showed off by way of philanthropy or by raising brilliant offspring. They sympathized with the civil rights movement. In Queens, blacks were a threat to property values — they belonged in the Bronx, not down the street. To the Times, Queens is Cleveland. Bush league. You are Queens. The casinos were totally Queens, the gold faucets in your triplex, the bragging, the insults, but you wanted to be liked by Those People. You wanted Mike Bloomberg to invite you to dinner at his townhouse. You wanted the Times to run a three-part story about you, that you meditate and are a passionate kayaker and collect 14th-century Islamic mosaics. You wish you were that person but you didn't have the time.

Running for president is your last bid for the respect of Manhattan. If you were to win election, they couldn't ridicule you anymore. They could be horrified, but there is nothing ridiculous about being Leader of the Free World. You have B-52 bombers at your command. When you go places, a battalion of security guys comb the environs. You attract really really good speechwriters who give you Churchillian cadences and toss in quotes from Emerson and Aeschylus and Ecclesiastes.

Labor Day and it is not going well. You had a very bad month. You tossed out those wisecracks on Twitter and the Earth shook and your ratings among white suburban women with French cookware declined. The teleprompter is not your friend. You are in the old tradition of locker room ranting and big honkers in the steam room, sitting naked, talking man talk, griping about the goons and ginks and lousy workmanship and the uppity broads and the great lays and how you vanquished your enemies at the bank. Profanity is your natural language and vulgar words so as not to offend the Christers but the fans can still hear it and that's something they love about you. You are their guy. You are losing and so are they but they love you for it.

[Joinfortmill]

4. This is spectacular.

[Joinfortmill]

3. Yup, it was the worst decision of his life. I wonder how much Putin influenced it.

[inthewind21]

5. My thoughts

Were similar. I thought he and his grifting kids would come to deeply regret going to DC and showing the world what not ready for prime time dipshit grifters they really were because now, they can never go home (back to NYC) to their fake lives. They don't have 2 brain cells between them all and they showcased that to the world.

[Pluvious]

6. I had (mistakenly) expected way too much from my country...

I gave The Groper no more than a year and a half before he’d step down

I am much more cynical now, aka a realist 😐

[Boomerproud]

8. Yes. As painful as Hotel Reality is there really isn't any alternative.

My belief system has been so tattered that I don't know if it can recover.

[Grammy23]

10. I wanted him to step aside or be removed.

I finally realized that he would never step down on his own because he discovered it was his Get Out of Jail Free card. That is why he so desperately wants it back. It is not to do the people’s business or to represent the USA around the world or enjoy all the myriad of perks that come with the office. Save one. That Get Out of Jail free card is solid gold for him. And he will do anything it takes — anything — to get it back.

Put nothing past tRump. There is no low that is too low for him. As long as he gets what he wants, he is willing to debase himself and anyone else foolish enough to team up for him. Ask the Jan. 6th fools what they got for their loyalty to him.

[Pluvious]

11. Well said (nt)

[Ms. Toad]

9. Not yet.

An indictment is no more the end of Trump than any of the other bombshells related to his presidency. It may be one more step along the way to the end, but is certainly not the end yet.