Yesterday, I started looking at a book I never thought I would ever even think of reading. It’s Alan Dershowitz’s The Case Against Impeaching Trump. Why, you ask, would I read a book about impeaching Trump who, at least for now, is not someone in public office? And, besides that, Trump has already been impeached twice and it hasn’t seemed to make a difference. And even beside that, Alan Dershowitz has sure said some weird things over the past few years, hasn’t he?

But I picked it up not so much to read about Trump, but rather to think about the recent impeachments of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and the possible impeachment of Joe Biden. I thought I should know what Dershowitz thought about those (I haven’t heard him speak to the matters), and to figure out what I think about them. (Well, I guess I already know that.)

But, even though it’s a very short book, and I wasn’t going to read it word for word (at least I didn’t think I would), I didn’t finish it yesterday. Yes, where has the time gone? I feel like I lost…….at least an hour or so.

So…..tomorrow (I hope) the subject will be impeachment. Today, the subject will be…….the Donald Trump rally in Rome Georgia. We actually watched it on Newsmax.

The rally was packed, he said, overfilling the biggest room available in Rome, and there are thousands, yes thousands, of people waiting outside. And the fifteen minute ride from the airport? More people than I have ever seen en route to anywhere before. (But the fake media won’t print that.)

I looked up Rome, a city of about 38,000 and the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, just about an hour or so northwest of Atlanta. Floyd County voted 70% for Trump in the 2020 election, so it is surely friendly country. It is also Marjorie Taylor Greene country – the heart of Georgia’s 14th Congressional District. So, it’s a good place to start your “official” as they call it presidential campaign.

There didn’t seem to be a lot of hoopla. Trump was, as usual, quite late in taking the stage, but once he took it, he surely was not going to give it up prematurely – he spoke for about two hours, maybe a little less, maybe a little more and, no surprise, he really didn’t say anything new. Part of his speech was scripted (he had two teleprompters), and part was ad lib. You can guess what parts.

The main points of the speech were clear. Joe Biden (he used his full name “Crooked Joe Biden”) is incompetent, cognitively impaired, dumb, a criminal, and by far the worst president the United States has ever had. The crowd seemed to agree.

And to prove it, just look at all the troubles we have in this world – and there are many. Each and every one of them turns out to be Crooked Joe’s fault. I hadn’t quite understood that, but now that it has been explained (well, not really explained), it is clear to me. Had Donald J. been reelected three years ago, the world would be in a different position. Putin would not have attacked Ukraine (he wouldn’t have dared), and Hamas would not have even thought about attacking Israel (who put that thought into their heads? obviously Crooked Joe). And clearly no one would mess with us…..because they know what Trump would do to them. They know it so well that they couldn’t even imagine it, in fact.

And what about these criminal and civil cases he is involved with? They are, each and everyone of them not only criminal in and of themselves, but they are each directed by and coordinated by the White House. Did you know that? And the judges and the opposing lawyers – corrupt is too mild a word for reach and every one of them. And you know how you can prove this? It’s easy. Just remember that “I have not done one thing wrong. Everything I have done is perfect”. See? Easy. And, by the way, he still has no idea who E. Jean Carroll even is.

And the border? Well, we have gone from the absolutely safest more secure border in world history to the most open and dangerous border that humanity has ever seen. Trump, if elected, is going to shut down the border and to go after everyone illegal in the United States and send them on their way. And, yes, they are “illegal” – just because they have been allowed to stay in the country pending proceedings doesn’t make them just “undocumented”; they are and always will be illegal.

And why did Crooked Joe let in that guy who killed that Georgia student whose name Biden cannot even pronounce? Yes, that too, seems to have been a personal decision of our terribly bad (worst in the world) so-called president.

A digression: This guy and his two brothers really are bad news, and were allowed to stay only because, it seems, the border officials are so overworked, or because mistakes were made. Can’t deny that. They should not be here.

But you see where I am going with this. It was an awful speech and the crowd seemed to eat it up. Yes, we have trouble. Right here in River City.

Another digression: Rome GA is in fact on three rivers – the Coosa, the Etowah and the Oostanaula. How would you do if that were the Final Jeopardy question?

Last thing: at the end of the speech, Trump, who had been in deep ad-lib mode, went back to the teleprompter and rapidly read off everything wrong with Biden. It was a very impressive and long list. I would like to have a transcript, because – if you are directing the Biden campaign – in fact you need an answer for each and everything on the list.

OK, and remember: Tomorrow impeachment.