Category: Bill Barr
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One Last Possible Sign Merrick Garland Isn’t Failing Us As AG
Having Team Biden’s competent hands at the helm makes it even more amazing that we survived four years of Donald Trump. Never mind the bottomless incompetence, if the only scandal that came out of the Trump years was Ginni Thomas’s insurrectionist behavior and her husband’s not-exactly-subtle attempt to use the SCOTUS to protect her, that…
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The Picture Definition Of “Treason”
“Treason” is a loaded word. At least it used to be. Like “Nazi” or “fascist” or “authoritarian”, “treason” was a word that, if you were the first to spew it, it meant you weren’t serious, that you were all feelings over facts. Ironically, in America, it’s still one hundred percent kosher to call anyone left…
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What Would Happen If Donald Trump Were To Suddenly Vanish?
My original headline for this post was “What would happen to the world were Donald Trump to suddenly die?” I wanted to (and will) explore the “What if…?” possibilities of Trump – a famously unhealthy person with a famously unhealthy diet suddenly succumbing to a lifetime of bad habits and croaking unexpectedly due to natural…
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Mitch McConnell Now WANTS The Democrats To Take Out The Republican Party’s Insurrectionist Wing But Only If They Stop There
Mitch McConnell may be a profound failure as a human being, but when it comes to politics? He knows how to play. He knows how to use the levers of power available to him to maximum personal advantage. He knows how to kowtow to the money behind him. He knows when to stop serving one…
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Is Waiting For Merrick Garland To Act Going To Be Like “Waiting For Godot”?
We seem to be experiencing what Yogi Berra called “deja vu all over again”. For five years now, Donald Trump has committed crimes out in the open. He’s been as overt a traitor as a traitor could be. What else would one call Trump’s relationship with Putin except treasonous? How much more obvious does it…
A L Katz
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Put Up V Shut Up
Finally – the Department of Justice has INDICTED STEVE BANNON! Come Monday morning, it would have been two weeks since Steve Bannon thumbed his gin blossomed nose at the January 6 Committee and refused to honor their subpoena. The Committee referred the case to Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice — a luxury the Democrats didn’t…
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But, At The Very, VERY End Of The Day? This Is STILL A Story About TREASON
We are living in the nightmare version of “the cover up being worse than the crime”. In fact, we’re so deep into the cover up that most Americans have probably forgotten that there even is an “original crime” — the thing that actually motivated every other crime Donald Trump and his Republican collaborators perpetrated. “The…
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Basic Math: Republicans + Power = Corruption
Fascism succeeds, in part, by obfuscation. They deliberately undermine our collective faith in “the truth”, our sense of security and our future then insist they’re the only ones who can fix the mess (they made). But, as chaotic and complicated as this faux-world seems, it isn’t. Republicans are simple creatures motivated by simple things: greed…
A L Katz
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Our News Media Doesn’t Understand What “Integrity” Is (Or Why It Matters)
Everyone is born with the same amount of integrity: one hundred percent. As we drop from the womb, we haven’t betrayed any principles yet, haven’t gotten lazy when intellectually challenged, haven’t let anyone down. If we “say” we’re hungry that’s what we mean. If we say we’ve pooped or peed ourselves, we have! If we’re…
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The Solution To Our Constitutional Crisis Isn’t Political — That’s Why The Department Of Justice Matters So Much Right Now
The rule of law, unfortunately, cannot enforce itself. Granted, the rule of law itself is a human creation and so, flawed, but, for some reason, our inability to enforce the rule of law reveals far deeper flaws in our nature. Or in how we frame the rule of law. Racism remains built into our architecture.…