Banana-Time!

Trump has weaponized the Justice Department.  He couldn’t have a more compliant and servile lackey than Bill Barr as Attorney General.  We have seen over recent days what it will mean to have Trump for another 4 years.  The Rule of Law, perhaps mortally wounded, will certainly be dead and buried by the end of another Trump term.  The pardons being wholesale issued are just a softening up process for the ones to come for Manafort, Stone and Flynn.  His transition from Rule of Law to Crime Boss Law is now complete.  Yesterday he declared himself the Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States.  Hmmm, with a lackey like AG Barr, he will now pursue political adversaries and perceived enemies relentlessly with investigations.  He has apparently successfully de-fanged the SDNY Justice department by appointing the EDNY as the SDNY’s new controlling entity with his own appointee and himself having to approve any judicial action initiated or currently under way by that agency.  The SDNY has always handled the most corrupt criminals because of its jurisdiction in Southern Manhattan.  What will that do to investigations of Guiliani, Trump’s tax cases, and other national scandals etc.?  Three guesses and the first two don’t count!

However, that is not the worst case scenario to consider.  What are the odds that the Trump

administration Justice Department will ‘discover’ sometime in October that there is a ‘foreign conspiracy”(certainly not Russia!) or a joint foreign/domestic(Democratic) conspiracy to rig the November elections.  Can’t you imagine Trump declaring a national emergency and postponing the election until the DOJ can ‘get to the bottom of the conspiracy’ after which Trump will allow the election to occur?  But in the meantime, of course, he will keep the markets running and of course keep on making America great!  One wonders if the DOJ will ever be able to get to the bottom of the ‘plot’, ergo we'll simply have Donald as our President until……..well, until he decides it is safe enough for him to have the election.  Get ready!

This is pure craziness.  You would think there would be some way for us to free ourselves and our republic from this inexorable slide to autocracy by this most corrupt man.  The tragedy of this is that there are probably 100 men and women in our Congress who could put a stop to this, but these Republicans are so frightened by this guy, as well as addicted to their own lust for power and money that they are supine before this King of the Corrupters.  I wonder if Susan Collins sleeps well at night knowing that Donald Trump has learned a lesson from his impeachment.  I hope our electorate is smart enough to get rid of all these people in time….I somehow doubt they are of course….  which brings me back to the solution to America’s existential threat. 

I just don’t know how we get rid of this cancerous Man if he continues to successfully use our Republic’s structure and ideals to corrupt a system that did not expect a leader like this.  If the Judiciary continues to be weakened by Republican appointees and actions by the Trump DOJ, then there will be no way to stop the slow spiraling death of our American Democracy.

I hope there is some secret Constitutional Patriot group hiding somewhere that is coming up with a plan to exterminate this gangrenous growth that is killing our America.  Otherwise we will all wake up on November 4^th with bananas for breakfast for the foreseeable future.