Un-Parody-Able: Bruce Castor

[PGage]

I attach a serious Tweet from conservative Never-Trumper Bill Kristol (along with the link to a longer critique) but Twitter is full of hilarious takes on Trump’s lead advocate today at his second Impeachment trial. Even though Trump himself is said to have been livid with how inept it was, it functions as a perfect “Fu$k you” to the nation from Trump, illustrating that he does not even care enough about the seriousness of what he is accused of to put on a serious defense. He knows he can send any clown out there to pick his nose on the Senate floor and he will get more than enough Republican a senators to vote to acquit him.

There is no way to parody this, and TV comics should not even try. The joke is not in making fun of this guy, but in making fun of the Senators who have to pretend to take him seriously.

https://thebulwark.com/bruce-castor-the-disaster-artist/

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[Paul Murray]

Maybe if DJT wasn't such a notoriously awful client -- from unreasonable demands to not staying on message to not paying his bills -- he would be able to get better representation.

Speaking of which, I read somewhere (Politico, I think) an unnamed Trump associate saying that -- and this is a close paraphrase from memory -- if Trump gets criminally indicted anywhere, he's f$cked, because no one will represent him. (No one skilled, I assume, not literally no one. You can always find some idiot willing to do it for the publicity.)

Brining t back to TV ... yes, agreed that ridicule should be focused on the gutless wonders in the Republican Senate.

[Diner]

I lived in Montgomery County, PA when Castor was DA there. He was a big empty-headed grandstander, more concerned with making himself look good than anything else.

One time he was prosecuting a high-profile murder case and he prepared a huge presentation – video clips, posters printed and sitting on easels, the works – for his opening speech to the jury. Then on the first morning, as the trial was about to start, the defendant changed his plea to guilty, so there was no trial. So since Castor couldn’t give his big presentation to the jury, he went out on the courthouse steps and did it for the TV news cameras instead. Couldn't let all those videos and posters go to waste, I guess...