A little bit of ranting for a Friday morning. [View all]

[lees1975]

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We've just experienced marathon news cycle coverage of the indictment of a former President. The guy is a criminal, was one before he ever ran and people knew it, was one during the whole corrupt four years he spend in office, and people knew it, and still is one and people know it. If America were a nation of laws, and if there were justice, the man would have been sent to prison decades ago, the first time he cheated consumers out of their money on one of his fraud schemes, or failed to pay sub-contractors for the work they did on behalf of his company, or the first time he cheated on his taxes.

But that is not the America in which he lives. We seem to have an outsized fascination for characters like our former failed President, those kinds of people who are rich, and who have become such worldly and corrupt figures that they are almost like creatures in a fairy tale. We are fascinated by the fact that people like him actually do exist, and they actually do get away with crimes and corruption that none of the rest of us would ever get away with.

Add to this madness the news that one of our Supreme Court justices has been treated to vacations worth ten times what he has ever earned as a Supreme Court justice by a billionaire political contributor and oh, by the way, he has gone to great lengths not only to hide this fact, but to absolutely lie about it. Clarence Thomas has never camped out in a Wal Mart parking lot and if you believe that, go back to my statement about my Arizona beachfront sale. This is a complete corruption of our justice system, a revelation which undermines every single Supreme Court case on which this justice has ever issued a ruling. It makes me wonder if he has ever issued a ruling that someone didn't pay for.

828 Days since January 6, 2021.