What a day!

Tough to decide what the highlight was.

There was, of course, the world premiere of my new one-act play, performed in front of the very appreciative audience for the first of four sold out shows.

These three actors have done an amazing job of fully inhabiting my figments of imagination and it was certainly a thrill to hear them receive the applause they so richly deserved.

BUT…

Yesterday was also the day when twelve New Yorkers came back with a sooner-than-expected verdict: the Tangerine Wankmaggot was found guilty as hell on all 34 charges.

As soon as I heard I stopped what I was doing and turned the television on to MSNBC. Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes and all the other hosts assembled trying their best and generally succeeding in not looking like they were peeing their pants with excitement.

Before I left home for opening night, there was Michael Cohen looking pleased as punch, which he was entitled to be. He’d taken his lawyer’s stern advice not to dissemble or quibble in the witness box, to openly acknowledge and own up to every sleazy thing he’d done for the Wankmaggot and it worked, because the prosecution had laid out all the separate, corroborating evidence before he took the stand.

Back home after the show and back on to MSNBC, where Mary Trump turned up with an unmistakable twinkle in her eye to proclaim that the verdict would be killing her uncle, making him the worst thing he could be in that family: a loser.

It’s not, of course, the end. The Wankmaggot is not going straight to fucking jail, which he should. He will appeal and that will drag on and on until after the election. The badly tarnished, so-called Supreme Court may very well rule that a president is immune from prosecution. Potentially very dark days ahead for the United States. But today the Wankmaggot is a convicted felon.

If the Republican party had half a brain, they would ditch him at the convention and anoint Nicki Haley in his place as their candidate. Fortunately for the Democrats, as Haley probably could beat Biden, they do not seem to have any brains at all in the absence of Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger et al.

Who the hell knows what is going to happen in that increasingly batshit crazy country? For now, let us enjoy.