Not Enough Winning
'AnthonyHatesMayo' is back from vacation, and he's got sumthin' to say about things.
I hear tell that the FBI and DOJ are looking into the endlessly corrupt shenanigans of Uriah Heep with a badge and masters in seashell cryptography, James Comey, and his comrade in end stage Trump derangement, John Brennan, the Gus Hall-voting former CIA director and chief implementer of the Russia Collusion Hoax. I suppose this news should encourage me, but let's just say that I've seen plural pronoun Lucy yank away that football one too many times -- just you wait 'til John "Pitbull" Durham gets done with all those malefactors, hoo boy! -- to get my hopes up. Wake me when there are indictments, disbarments, pension forfeitures, heck, immediate Netflix subscription cancellations as opposed to a Very Stern Letter of Furrowed Brow Censure in 14 point Angry Monkey font from the desk of Chuck Grassley.
Now don't get me wrong: just as I'm sure Doc Holiday would have, I am enjoying all the winning.
Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill (I remain stunned that the Republican Please, Kick Me caucus did not once again curl into the fetal position before crossing the finish line); the Supremes — over an infantile tantrum by Justice Ketanji Joy Reid — ending (would you accept "curtailing"?) Universal Injunctionpalooza; the Mullahs weeping tears of impotent rage into their austere Allman Brothers beards (while the Lightworker seethes by the reflecting pool and Jean Kerry, ze greatest deeplomat in all of Fronce and Cambodia, kicks his hairless cat Paterbald the Great) as their mostly peaceful nuclear enrichment sites took a half dozen 30,000 pounders down the ventilation shaft. All to be relished.
But.
I remain vexed. Or, as Teddy KGB might say: unsyetisfied. As all Americans should be, regardless of political allegiance, who care about the continued functioning of our democracy, not to be confused with "Our Democracy," which is perpetual rule by "any means necessary" leftist social engineers. Specifically, those who have corrupted and repurposed our criminal justice system as a means by which to target and punish political enemies, lied under oath, falsified FISA submissions, leaked and leaked and leaked some more classified information to their fellow traveling propagandists in the media, tried to muzzle, de-platform and professionally ruin those who challenged the Ministry of Truth's various narratives, tortured science in the service of ideology and did all of this with zealous and gleeful impunity -- must face consequences. Not for vengeance, not for peak schadenfreude -- although that is an ancillary benefit -- but because this country will never, dare I say, be made great again, trust in institutions will not be restored until the American people see that equality under the law is no longer a cruel and punitive fiction for those deemed deplorable.
The institutional corruption we have witnessed over the last decade (I understand it long predates that time frame) beggars belief. The Trump the Russian Spy fable. The Covid social control experiment and all the so-called "experts" who perverted science and medicine -- remember the official pandemic exemption for the throngs of George Floyd/BLM activists needing space to chant about systemic racism and destroy minority-owned property while Tim Walz's wife sniffed the intoxicating aroma of burning buildings from her four seasons room and clapped with delight? Remember how Fauci and Birx and Collins and their alarmist minions tried to immolate the reputations and careers of anyone who dared raise a skeptical eyebrow over the absurd "six feet safe" shibboleths and N95 masks while scuba-diving and mandatory vaccines which didn't prevent infection, or spread, or hospitalization, or death? We are now supposed to move on, nothing to see here, yes it does now appear that the virus might have come from that Wuhan lab doing gain of function research funded by the very people calling those telling the truth dangerous witches?
I'll take a hard pass at letting bygones be bygones.
What of the J6 "Insurrection" psy-op during which a wild-eyed Ted Cruz on Rumspringa almost broke into AOC's panic room, the Q-Shaman used Nancy Pelosi's monogrammed gavel to smash her Lladro porcelain Planned Parenthood doll while hundreds of people were wrongly prosecuted and imprisoned as felons for literally strolling, er, heinously parading, through the capitol while police stood by, watching. If you haven't seen any of those videos, it might be because Liz Cheney's scrupulously neutral, non-partisan inquisition buried thousands of hours of unhelpful surveillance footage. And if it need be said, anyone who actually rioted -- that is, attacked police, smashed through doors, vandalized property, basically behaved like your average Harvard undergrad and/or professor chanting "Death to Israel!" -- deserved what they had coming. I am firmly anti-rioting. Unlike the grand viziers of the Democratic party, who are objectively pro-rioting -- I'm sorry, avidly supportive of mostly peaceful arson-affirming care -- by anyone other than Trump voters. What of well-groomed Merrick Garland's mission to save the republic from those ululating domestic terror cells of Loudoun County School District parents wearing their camo MAGA rain ponchos? We haven't even mentioned the Biden family influence-peddling syndicate or Lavrentiy Bragg or the latest Biden/Obama three or four name jurist to invoke the Cuban Declaration of Human Dignity to strike down an executive order or even duly passed legislation because it made everyone at NPR rend their garments.
Let them wail and scream their mass projection about Trump the Tyrant Unbound going after his political enemies. Someone, somewhere once said that no one is above the law. Or maybe it was Joe Biden's more than competent teleprompter which said that "No law is above ... uh, listen folks, you know the thing. Repeat line."
In any event, it is long past time for many who believed themselves to be untouchable to learn otherwise. And Trump's their huckleberry.
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Anthony is always hilarious, but I love it when he is also scenery-chewing MAD! Well done, youngster. It almost makes me want to throw out all my mayo in your honor.
AHM, that was simply magnificent! I can't tell you how glad I am that you landed here on the Political Questions site, with Steve, and (lately) Max. There's an old saying about somethings being greater than the sum of their parts.
That "sum" would be quite impressive, but his place is shaping up to be the best site on the Internet. My only criticism of PQ is that I can't get an APP 'cause I use an Apple product. But, that's not much of a complaint in light of the incredible range of expertise and opinion that Steve has cobbled together.
As for the substance of your column, you are spot on. And, your unique and compelling style really makes the case. BTW, Andy McCarthy addresses the same subject on NRO this morning. He's made it into a three-part effort. Compared to your effort, ACM's falls flat as a pancake.
On May 9th I celebrated the 50th Anniversary of licensed practice. I was an actual trial attorney for 35 of those years. By actual, I mean I argued cases in a court room mostly, and did not do depositions and settle matters, like most of the folks here in Tampa, who claim to be trial attorneys, actually did.
I've expressly admitted on Powerline, so I'll do so here: I am very fortunate that in all my trials, where I had some incredibly good opponents, that I never had to try a case against someone like you. Tampa juries would love you AHM.