Joe Arpaio Still Hasn't Made Peace With His Own Demise

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Joe Arpaio Still Hasn’t Made Peace With His Own Demise
Why is the 92-year-old former Maricopa County sheriff running for mayor of his hometown? Maybe because he can’t stop.

Tim Murphy
National Correspondent


(Mother Jones) When former president Donald Trump appeared at Dream City church in Phoenix in early June, he was visited on stage by a ghost from his past.

“Do you remember you had your sheriff, Sheriff Joe?” Trump said, looking off toward the crowd. “Is he here? I used to love that guy. Where is Sheriff Joe?”

From somewhere in the auditorium’s lower level, 92-year-old Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, shuffled his way slowly up toward the podium. “I didn’t know he was here—come here, Joe,” Trump said. He extended his arms dramatically as Arpaio approached, hugged him tightly, and kissed him on the cheek. Arpaio said a few words, wished Trump a happy birthday, and walked gingerly back toward his seat.

“Grab that railing, Joe!” Trump said. “Because you don’t want to pull a Biden.”

Arpaio made it down the stairs safely. But he has not exited the stage. Although neither he nor the ex-president mentioned it, Arpaio is running for office this year, after a tumultuous fall from grace and a criminal trial of his own. In 2022, after losing two straight campaigns for sheriff; getting convicted of contempt; receiving a pardon from Trump; losing another campaign for Senate; and burying his wife of 63 years; Arpaio ran for mayor of his hometown of Fountain Hills, a master-planned city of 25,000, nestled in the foothills of the McDowell Mountains about 45 minutes northeast of downtown Phoenix. He lost by 200 votes, claimed fraud, produced no evidence, never conceded, and just kept on running. ...............(more)

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/joe-arpaio-still-hasnt-made-peace-with-his-own-demise/

[Attilatheblond]

1. Takes courage, grace, and sanity to face the truths of one's life and serve others.

Joe Arpaio has none of those qualities. He is just a flesh bag of primitive reflexes and sees having power over others as the only safety.

A truly small, tiny man. More amoeba than human.

[Dave Bowman]

2. He's a nasty sadistic POS. The world will be a better place without him.

[Hugin]

3. More projection...

“Grab that railing, Joe!” Trump said. “Because you don’t want to pull a Biden.”

He really should have said not to pull a Tuberville. His buttride down the stairs was far more undignified than anything President Biden has done.

Very telling. Has anyone else noticed that Trump has spent a whole lot of the RNC’s money to make photographs of him boarding Albatross One very difficult? The entire staircase has had a canopy put over it and there are large panels at the top to obscure seeing him enter and exit the aircraft.

Trump is a churning morass of weird psychological weirdness.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Says the guy who can't walk down a ramp without help

[Aristus]

5. I can't imagine being so attention-starved that I would want to spend my sunset years lurching after the spotlight.

When I'm 92, I want to either be taking a leisurely cruise somewhere, reading a good book and watching the ocean go by, or staying snug at home in my pajamas, reading a good book, and watching the world go by outside my window. I want to go for invigorating walks around the neighborhood, then stop by the local bar and grill for a beer and a sandwich. I want to never be out of sight of my beloved Mrs. Aristus. I don't need anyone's attention or approbation but hers.