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And for many reasons, President Trump is a deeply flawed candidate; and DeSantis has none of Trump’s baggage.

But — thanks to democrats and feckless Republican officials should be shutting all this down hard but aren’t — I now predict the upcoming presidential election won’t be about policy, inflation, recession, jabs, Russia, China, Taiwan, Disney, drag queens, the deep state, January 6th, or Proxy Wars. Instead, it will be about a singular, existential crisis in our rule of law, a crisis affecting every single American whether they admit it or not.

In other words, if they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to anybody.

If we aren’t there already — and if we’re not, we will be soon — it’s not going to matter whether Governor DeSantis (or anybody else) is better able than Trump to brake this runaway political prosecution train. Trump’s absolutely compelling campaign message will be: you can’t let them get away with this. Because if they get away with it, there won’t be any stopping it, not ever. ...

And for many reasons, President Trump is a deeply flawed candidate; and DeSantis has none of Trump’s baggage.

But — thanks to democrats and feckless Republican officials should be shutting all this down hard but aren’t — I now predict the upcoming presidential election won’t be about policy, inflation, recession, jabs, Russia, China, Taiwan, Disney, drag queens, the deep state, January 6th, or Proxy Wars. Instead, it will be about a singular, existential crisis in our rule of law, a crisis affecting every single American whether they admit it or not.

In other words, if they can do this to President Trump, they can do it to anybody.

If we aren’t there already — and if we’re not, we will be soon — it’s not going to matter whether Governor DeSantis (or anybody else) is better able than Trump to brake this runaway political prosecution train. Trump’s absolutely compelling campaign message will be: you can’t let them get away with this. Because if they get away with it, there won’t be any stopping it, not ever. ...

The truth of it is painfully and inescapably obvious. And it is already starting. Here’s just one example from an AOC parody account, but it’s not at all funny:



... It’s not just Trump. The January 6th prosecutions of grandmothers and firefighters, the FBI raids on soccer moms complaining at school board meetings, the Gretchen Whitmer Fed-napping plot, and the Biden Administration’s vast social media censorship bureaucracy will coalesce around the Trump prosecutions to make the inarguable case that it is now or never.

Will the defendants be allowed to present evidence of serious irregularities in the 2020 Georgia election results? If not, would that not be grounds for dismissal. So far, Democrats in charge of the machinery of law all over the country have skated on mere assertions that the 2020 election was fair. In Georgia, none of the principals involved in the dispute have been subject to cross-examination, the best instrument for truth-finding in the American legal system. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp and Sec’y of State Brad Raffensperger may not be so hot for an airing of what actually went on Nov 3, 2020 and the days after, especially the validity of over 100,000 mail-in ballots in a state where “Joe Biden’s” margin of victory was a mere 11,799 votes.

Mr. Trump seems to be thriving under the tribulation of four court cases brought against him as he runs for election in 2024. Each new set of charges boosts his poll numbers. It helps him hugely that the cases are transparently idiotic and mendacious. If he is initially convicted in any of them, he can still run for president and be elected, even if he’s jailed — as Eugene Debs did in 1920 getting 913,693 votes running on the Socialist Party from the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary, where he was jailed under the 1917 Espionage Act for speaking out against America’s entry into the First World War.

The Party of Chaos is running scared. Everybody knows that “Joe Biden” can’t possibly run for another term and yet the public debate is so grotesquely disabled that nobody will talk about it. Most particularly, they will not talk about who might take his place. All they are really demonstrating with this barrage of prosecutions against their chief adversary is how broken, craven, and degenerate the party is, and what a menace it is, as they like to say,

You may have seen, in passing headlines, reports of a bizarre police raid on an elderly newspaper owner's home in a small Kansas city.

But that barely sums up the insanity of it all.

Police in Marion County originally launched the raid at the beginning of this month, hitting the offices of the Marion County Record and seizing, reportedly, "everything" on-site...

And yes, tragically, Mrs. Meyer died a day after this bizarre and frightening spectacle.

This kind of police action is nuts. You don't expect to see this sort of activity unless some grave, serious crime has been perpetrated — something violent, something to do with state or national security, something big.

So what, exactly, was the reason for the extreme raid? Well:

The police chief who led the raid of a Kansas newspaper alleged in previously unreleased court documents a reporter either impersonated someone else or lied about her intentions when she obtained the driving records of a local business owner.

Um, what?

So, there are a few major things wrong with this:

First of all, in the U.S., police officers are generally forbidden to conduct raids on news establishments; they are instead required by law to issue subpoenas of journalistic materials so as to protect the integrity of news organizations and the First Amendment rights of the people who run them.
Second of all, how on earth could a raid like this be justified, even absent those protections? Because a reporter "impersonated someone else?" That's a case of fraud, not espionage. It requires an arrest warrant, not a knock-em-and-sock-em clean out of a newspaper's offices.
Third, it appears that the original motivation for the warrant was, well, you know, completely incorrect:
[R]eporter Phyllis Zorn, Marion County Record Editor and Publisher Eric Meyer and the newspaper's attorney said Sunday that no laws were broken when Zorn accessed a public state website for information on restaurant operator Kari Newell. ...

Apart from exciting the democrat base, it’s hard to see what advantage they’ve gained. And they may not be able to ultimately afford the cost. Four indictments and four arrests create four precedents for arresting and charging other officials. And there are a bunch of officials who are sitting squarely in those crosshairs.

I’m looking at you, Bob Peters.

“DOJ files lawsuit accusing SpaceX of hiring discrimination against refugees, asylum seekers.”

I am not making this up. The DOJ’s lawsuit accused SpaceX of hiring American citizens and not hiring “refugees” and “asylum seekers.” In other words, they’re getting sued for not hiring illegal aliens.

It’s not hard to imagine why SpaceX — a military contractor — restricted its employment to legal citizens and those with green-cards. The rocket maker works with advanced technology subject to thousands of federal regulations, export controls, and security requirements. But Merrick Garland’s atrocious DOJ said that those laws and regulations "do not require SpaceX to treat asylees and refugees differently than U.S. citizens or green card holders."

We have long passed parody stage and are now entering a brave new unexplored world of government incompetence that makes the movie Idiocracy look like a best-case scenario. I shall call this new, lower level of official incompetence: wokecompetence.

Too late, public faith in the justice system is gone.

The only thing that could fix it is hangings of those traitors who corrupted it, people like grandma Garland.

What is going on and is this something new with the FBI

They are a criminal syndicate. This has been known for 50 years.

Does not help mainstream media does not act as a watchdog, and the federal courts do nothing at best.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice has sentenced several key leaders of the Proud Boys to prison time after convicting them of inciting deadly riots for the wrong side.

"Let me be perfectly clear. We love rioting and lawlessness, but rioting that doesn't involve BLM, Antifa, or radical Communist pedophiles throwing Molotov cocktails at small businesses will not be tolerated," said Attorney General Merrick Garland in his charmingly raspy little voice. "These sick criminals dared to riot on behalf of political causes we don't like, and for that, they must face severe justice."

Prosecutors presented overwhelming evidence that the Proud Boys did not carry a single BLM flag on January sixth, nor did they chant approved slogans like "No justice, no peace." Sadly, the group was also found to have neglected to burn down a single black-owned business. "If they could have exchanged their American flags for BLM flags, we could have let this whole thing slide," explained Judge Jeanine Pierro. "We could have done probation if they had torched just one black neighborhood! They brought this on themselves."

"This violent, extremist, far-ultra-right Nazi fascist violent far-right group is extremely dangerous," said Garland in his statement. "Maybe now people will think twice before they stand in the way of our glorious red revolutionary army — um, I mean before they engage in political violence."

At publishing time, the DOJ had announced they would be indicting Trump again for calling the DOJ "corrupt" on Truth Social.