Okay, it’s official: courtesy of whoever has their hand up Joe Biden’s butt making his mouth move, the United States has become a Banana Republic. And I don’t mean a store where chichi young people buy overpriced clothes.
When a sitting president marshals the country’s law enforcement agencies to neutralize his most prominent political rival, you’re in a Banana Republic. When he organizes intelligence agencies to interfere in a presidential election by pooh-poohing factual information about bribery, corruption, drug abuse, felonious use of a handgun and other naughtiness within his immediate family, that’s Banana City. And when all of above Federal organs slow-walk or disregard any apparent illegal activity by said President while ringing “Full Speed Ahead” on surveillance, harassment and even arrest of parents, ministers, actual journalists who don’t have the White House Steno Pool credential, and assorted others who aren’t down with the rush to embrace the Left’s communist vision, you’re living on Banana street.
When the President of El Salvador calls your country a Banana Republic because a local District Attorney indicts former president Trump over what amounts to a bookkeeping error after bootstrapping the charge from a civil case to a crime, it’s Bananarama. You’ve just won the Bananapolooza of prizes: residence in a formerly-great country that has just become smoking wreckage because normal citizens didn’t look up from their cellphones long enough to ask of the Biden administration and its shills in academia and the press “Just what the HELL do you think you’re doing, you mindless blob of shrieking, quasi-human protoplasm?”
But wait… There’s more. WAY more. The former president has also been charged with violations of the espionage act and more for having classified documents at Mar-a-Lago by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who quacks that “We have a single standard of justice here…,” a fib worthy of another “Bottomless Pinocchios” from whoever’s handing them out at the Washington Post these days.
“Single standard?” Really? So when can we expect an indictment of Hillary, who kept classified information on an open homebrew server and, when those documents were subpoenaed, erased them and then destroyed any drives and devices that may have contained any trace of them. To my knowledge, Donald Trump destroyed nothing. AND he was president at the time he allegedly took the documents – which she never was. That matters, as we shall see momentarily.
“Single standard?” Joe Biden purloined classified material throughout his career as Senator and Vice President, keeping documents in file cabinets in the “Biden Center” as well as in one of his homes’ garages, behind his Corvette. When’s he doing the perp walk, again?
“Single Standard,” my left buttock.
Smith’s indictment has another problem: the 2012 Judicial Watch v. National Archives and Records Administration – also known as the “Clinton sock drawer” case. Because, well, president Clinton used to keep classified material and stuff in his sock drawer. No, really.
In denying Judicial Watch’s demand that the NRAA – the folks who urged the Department of Justice to get involved in what was essentially a standard wrangle with every president before Trump over who gets which documents when they leave the oval office – turn over the contents of Mr. Clinton’s drawer the presiding judge, Amy Berman Jackson, uttered words fatal to Jack Smith’s case.
“The President,” Judge Jackson wrote, “enjoys unconstrained authority to make decisions regarding the disposal of documents: ‘[a]lthough the President must notify the Archivist before disposing of records . . . neither the Archivist nor Congress has the authority to veto the President’s disposal decision.’” This precedent has stood unchallenged for a decade, and is one of the very few cases on the particular question of presidential power regarding documents. Oooops.
There is much more wrong with the Mar-a-Lago documents case, but the die is now cast. From New York to Florida to Georgia and elsewhere “lawfare” is being waged by the Progressive authoritarian state against Joe Biden’s foremost opponent. It involves Federal bureaucrats, state officials, media lackeys of the Democrat party and other associated hangers-on and opportunists. It is fueled by rage against the man and is being undertaken by those hatred for Trump outweighs their love of this country. They would tear down every obstacle, corrupt every law, ignore every standard and trample every tradition in their mad rush to get at the man who successfully defied them in 2016.
When it’s all finished they will turn and look in wonder at the smoking wreckage of the country they have left in their deranged wake. Perhaps they will, as they are wont to do, blame “Extremist MAGA Republicans,” or some other such twaddle, for what they have wrought.
Here’s a worst-case scenario to contemplate: Trump’s case will not be over by election day. Even if he is convicted in Miami, appeals will continue. Meanwhile, due to a crowded field, he has a very real chance of winning the Republican nomination, in the process gathering a very large following of people with good reason to believe that the Federal administration does not have their interest in mind. So what will happen if Biden is re-elected in an irregularity – ridden process, only to have the Supreme Court throw out Trump’s conviction (or convictions) a few weeks later? Improper warrants, prosecutorial misconduct, improper jury instructions or just plain craziness – anything is possible, given the accused. But Biden is once again president, thanks to fraud and interference.
What will Trump voters do? Will they accept the Great Uniter and his regime? Or will they adopt the tactics of AFTIFA and others on the Left, howling to the moon that Biden is “Not our President” and turning to wreaking? Or will they simply ignore a government they decide is illegitimate? If strong action is deployed by the state in the latter cases the situation will only worsen and divisions among Americans will deepen. Our national endeavors will grind to a halt and our international enemies will prevail over us. And it will, all of it, be due to the power-mad people with their hand up Biden’s butt, making his mouth move. All of it. Remember that.
Bananas.
