TWGB: The Criminalization of Politics?

 

One of the themes of today's 1/6 Committee hearing was "Roasting your Insurrectionist Co-Workers" because they brought the receipts that when Trump intimated to Richard Donoghue that he just wanted the DOJ to declare that the 2020 election was corrupt and he and his Republican congress people would take it from there, they really committed to "taking it from there" whether there was any proof of voter fraud or not. Those same pontificating lying "just concerned about the accuracy of the vote" people turned around and asked for pardons. 

Rep. Kinzinger, bless his normal-person heart, thinks the only reason he can think of for requesting pardons is consciousness of guilt. But there are Republicans who exist in the world who will tell you that is not the only reason. No, you have to go deeper--they say: like Mo Brooks who wore armor to the 1/6 rally at which he spoke, who sent a letter requesting pardons because the socialist leftist Dems were surely going to be out to get them.  How dare they violate the ability of folks to just hang out, and talk about--

Trying to fucking Ocean's Eleven a whole ass fucking Presidential election! Because I'm sorry, but things like criminal conspiracy aren't just basic right to assemble once you are assembling to dissemble to tell people there was voter fraud when there wasn't, to reinstall a presidential candidate that didn't win! Your Constitutional rights are totally valid up and until reasonable cause exists to think you literally engaged in acts already determined to be illegal as fuck. After which you get due process--we can happily assume you are innocent and should have a vigorous defense, but sweetums, you better have a better defense than "No fair judging!" Because you will be subject also to a rigorous examination of the facts.

TrumpWorld is allergic to the concept of facts. The "alternate electors" of 2020 are a derivation of the "alternative facts" of 2017. TrumpWorld has long been about the imposition of a false reality--I take away your sense of what should be, and substitute it with Trump. 

(The meme above is available for pity parties, weddings that shouldn't be happening, and SCOTUS decisions happening like right this very minute. 18th Century guy: I reject your reality and substitute my own.meme.) 

So when, in response to the raiding of the home of Jeffrey Clark, oil spill lawyer, the would-be Acting Attorney General, who would therefore be serving in the same capacity as such legal lights as Acting AG Matthew Whitaker, forever to be known as the Big Dick Toilet Guy*, we have the commentary of former Trump OMB guy and current CNP (well, always) theocrat guy Russel Vought. Huh. Criminalization of politics, is it?

That's some fun coming from a guy who helped hold up Ukraine military funding in the first impeachment--well, once your politics are wholly corrupt because you can't accomplish anything without corrupt means because you consistently have corrupt ends, like abusing one's office for personal political gain outside of just doing a really good job, why yes, I guess to some extent, some of what you think politics are is criminalized--the crime parts. 

Try not to have criming be a big part of your politics, then. okay? Problem fucking solved. 

So when Jeffy Clark cries on Tucker Carlson's show about the unfairness of it all and how persecuted he is, I would like to direct you to the bits where he told Donald Trump exactly what he wanted to hear in order to be AG (get ahead in his profession in a manner otherwise unopen to him) because the things he said opened up a possibility to Trump of a second term in office otherwise unopen to him.  He doesn't recognize an America where Biden is president, because it is one where committing crimes for Trump will be prosecuted. The lack of corruption disturbs his soul. 

They aren't trying to warn you about the criminalization of politics. They are politicizing their crimes, and trying to get a mob behind the idea that their particular crimes weren't so bad because some people liked them. It's like "Pinochet did nothing wrong" swag.  Which evolved to Roger Stone did Nothing Wrong Swag. It's not that those political figures did nothing wrong of course--it's that their followers are beyond morality--they don't see evil means because of political ends. But their ends are also torture of enemies and rampant corruption, so yes, it is all wrong. 

I would sooner everyone who consents to bothsides this in the typical mainstream media fashion be dogged unto death with their moral failure to recognize the difference between politics and the actual legal and moral gulf we are looking at here than any other thing, because so much depends on our correct focus on this difference. The denizens of TrumpWorld have been caught out dead to rights. They did something wrong. It needs to be correctly explained and exposed. The 1/6 Committee is doing their part. 

This isn't about the criminalization of politics. it is about decriminalizing them. By routing out the actual bad guys. 

*Big Dick Toilet Guy replaced the first AG Jeff Sessions, who Trump hated because he famously had to recuse from matters involving the Russia investigation because he actually did have relations with that country whilst a part of the Trump campaign after multiple asseverations to the fact that there were no such relations. Sessions was trying to do Trump a solid with his recusal, but no good deed goes unpunished if it's basic reality interferes with Trump realities, like the Mueller report. I'm still mad that got handled how it did, and Matthew Whitaker didn't do anything to offend me, but in any rant about how the DOJ nearly became a joke under Trump, this interim place keeper is a part of the lore. And only troopers like the Republican dudes who held it down then and testified 6/23 show the kind of integrity that makes government agencies work.