Rotten to the Core
Democrats are cheering partisan Jack "The Hack" Smith's J6 indictment of Trump, but is pulling this thread going to unravel everything?
It is interesting to compare Jack Smith's J6 indictment of Trump and see how the charges compare with what Al Gore did in 2000 and what Hillary did in 2016.
If this is the standard, the Al and Hill would be cellies - and they would have plenty of company.
You know the names - Clapper, Comey, Strzok, Page, Brennan, the 50 intel officials - Hillary asserting fraud in 2016, the infamous January 5th meeting in 2017 between Peter Strzok, Susan Rice, Obama, Biden and Susan Yates that detailed the surveillance and leak operation against Michael Flynn.
Based on what Smith has alleged are crimes, every presidential spokesperson since 2000 should be jailed.
Not directly related to 2016, but emblematic of the problem, toss the names of Lois Lerner, Loretta Lynch (she of the Billy Jeff tarmac conversation about golf and grandkids and totally not about the investigation of Hillary) and Obama's "wing man", Eric "Screw your congressional subpoena" Holder in there as well.
There is no rational, clear thinking person who believes Trump (or any Republican) can get a fair trial in a DC court under a DC judge and as much as we would like to think this is just about Trump, it is about setting a precedent to go after anyone at any level, from presidential candidates all the way down to the grandparents who have the temerity to exercise their rights to protest actions of the government. This is not speculation, just make a real time comparison of the sentences handed out to J6 people by the hanging judge "randomly assigned" to Trump's case - Obama appointee Tanya Chutkan (who, by the way has several connections to the Bidens, Hunter in specific). Chutkan has routinely displayed open contempt for the defendants, handing out sentences far in excess of what prosecutors have recommended.
If the people let this stand, there will be more. This DOJ is rotten to the core and nearly five years after the Russia collusion hoax fizzled there have been no mass resignations from the DOJ, FBI or any other Deep State recess that had touched that travesty, leaving me to assume that the remaining people are just as corrupt as those with names we know.
I don't care if there is a righteous agent in the FBI's Topeka field office, if you are still taking a FBI paycheck, you are still part of the issue. To kneecap a corrupt organization, Inspector Generals and a few whistleblowers won't work. How many of those have we seen over the years that yielded exactly nothing?
I had been in the process of laying out a piece about how it is good to be a Democrat because there is literally nothing you can do before, during or after an election that will get you prosecuted while if you are a Dem apostate (like Alan Dershowitz) or a Republican, you will be dragged behind a horse then drawn and quartered for even expressing doubt that the last election wasn't the "most secure ever" or wondering out loud where these 81 million people are who allegedly voted for Biden.
I stopped because I ran across this tweet thread by John Hayward because his series of tweets captures it all, with the bonus of suggesting, as I was about to, that the continuation of this hyper partisan circus could be the thing that finally splits the nation apart.
For ease of reading, I have clipped and copied Hayward’s tweet thread below:
It is very dangerous to teach a large number of people that elections are a joke and the political system is permanently rigged against them. The double standard on "election denial" is broadcasting that message with painful intensity. It's almost gleeful mockery of democracy.
There's basically nothing the Left can't do to question, challenge, and undermine elections. Much of what Trump just got indicted for was a matter of widespread and open discussion on the Left after 2016. No threat of criminalizing such talk was made.
And of course whatever criticism you might make of Trump's conduct after the 2020 election, he did nothing remotely comparable to the Russia Collusion Hoax, a stunning example of pure disinformation delivered by corrupt government officials in collusion with much of the media.
As if anyone really needed it, we're getting a nice sneak peek at what hyper-politicized government crusades against "disinformation" will look like. Trump gets indicted, but dozens of "national security experts" who spread disinfo about Hunter's laptop suffer no consequences.
Nothing Democrats could possibly do to undermine a GOP election win will be considered actionable "disinformation" or an indictable offense. They can leak confidential or classified information all day, endanger national security if they please, and then vanish into the mist.
Democrats can do anything to win, by hook or by crook, and when they manage to lose even with ballot harvesting and "fortified" elections, they can undermine the election or actively sabotage the incoming administration. None of it will ever be treated as a crime.
Dems are even branching out from denying and undermining elections to go after other branches of government, as in their recent breathless campaign to undermine the Supreme Court, and even physically endanger justices they don't like.
Our Republic has pulled itself off the mat after quite a few beatings, but this is the double standard we may not survive - turning elections into a "heads we win, tails you lose" joke. It fits neatly into the crisis of politicized and weaponized government agencies.
It's an existential crisis when the permanent State uses its vast power and money to thwart elections that might threaten its interests - or to silence people who complain about its incompetence and malfeasance, very much including our Third World election process.
Democrat denial of GOP election wins might be hysterical and insincere, but they have a free-speech right to level those accusations, and so does everyone else. The solution is to hold tight elections of unimpeachable honesty, not silence the critics from one party only.
Election integrity is incredibly important, especially as the power of the central government increases, raising the stakes for every congressional and White House race. Our elections have degenerated into an insane farce even as the power of the State increases.
Which is no coincidence, since the political elite of a growing State with a vast permanent bureaucracy will naturally grow less willing to allow its idiot hick citizens to threaten its interests by voting the wrong way.
Especially after the pandemic, we've been saddled with a delirious mishmash of loose election procedures - some of them known for years to be open doors for fraud, and denounced as such by every political party. It's almost designed to make every outcome look dubious at best.
Combine that with rules that say only one Party is ALLOWED to challenge election results, or sabotage the administration when they lose, and what do you have? A withered husk of "democracy" dying of terminal cancer. Single-party tyranny that barely pretends to tolerate voting.
We've been told the only real freedom we have left is voting for our rulers - a notion we should have fiercely rejected long ago, but now even THAT tiny scrap of freedom is worn and chewed.
Every major institution in America is suffering from a crisis of public confidence - and they EARNED that widespread skepticism. The loss of confidence in elections might be the wound that finally brings the American republic down - and that skepticism was also earned. /end
Well written article. Jack Smith has a reputation for spurious suits and pursuing them using dubious obscure laws (feel free to correct me if I’m wrong) However that aside, Trust has been lost. Any conservative or moderate (in fact any one not a democratic candidate) will under go the modern version of the Inquisition. The most disturbing aspect of this whole thing is that any semblance of justice is gone. The judicial system, from the Supreme Court down to traffic court, is now poisoned.
Our country is truly in a sorry state of affairs, and it starts/started at the top!