Seriously, what does one even wear to a banana republic? Asking for a friend, of course! She's too afraid of being thrown in the gulag to ask herself. I'm not sure what the etiquette here is? I've never lived in a banana republic before! Do they assign everyone grass huts? Do you need a ticket for the breadline or is it just first come, first serve?
I speak of course of the vast travesty that occurred during President Trump's trial in NY. If you actually believe this sham of a dictator's show trial somehow resembled justice, I don't want to talk to you. Do your own research, read the transcripts, study the US Constitution. Flat out, this was an abomination and doesn't resemble the US justice system at all. To prosecute a former US president is unheard of. It's never been done before! To attempt to put your political opponent in jail during an election, is totally unprecedented, except of course in 3rd world countries with authoritarian dictators.
For anyone still stupid enough to be celebrating this travesty, I just want to remind you that what was once unprecedented, Constitutionally protected, now has a precedent. I hope you are wearing a catcher's mitt when that pendulum swings back in your direction, because the pendulum always swings. If the US government can do this to someone rich and famous they can certainly do it to anyone living on a small pension or paycheck.
If all of us are not safe from malicious prosecution, than none of us are safe from malicious prosecution.
In some ways I think what has occurred is a good thing. Maybe it will help people wake up and smell the tyranny, especially those of a more conservative bent? One can only hope. Some of us have spent decades lamenting about the need for "social justice," a notion defined in different ways, but still a concept that has to do with justice or a lack there of. Rather than equal justice under the law, we live in a country of huge double standards. There are two Americas. I have spent years rifting and joking about the tiny "9th circuit of hell" I happen to live in. It's not about what you did at all, it's all about who you are. Those who are politically connected and socially favored, can do no wrong. The rest of us can do no right.
The US has always had political prisoners, but we used to have the decency to be uncomfortable and concerned about it. The most recent examples would be the Jan 6 prisoners, but there have been many others over the years. I don't know how anyone can look at the legal system today and not realize that we desperately need justice reform, like yesterday.
The sheer hypocrisy of this travesty just galls me. I mean, just recently Democrats gave a golden funeral to a convicted felon who they have practically martyred, completely disregarding the fact that he was not only an active drug addict at the time of his death, his criminal record included holding a pregnant woman at gunpoint and robbing her! Please for the love of all decency, stop trying to virtue signal about "convicted felons," as if those words actually carry any meaning anymore.
"Show me the man and I'll show you the crime," is a statement often credited to Lavrentiy Beria from Stalin's secret police. We should probably start printing it on our money, it would more accurately reflect the motto we now seem to embrace in America.
Whew, rant over. I feel much better now. I still have no idea what one is supposed to wear in a banana republic, but I have just freshened up my Trump flag and Lord willing we actually even have an election in which to steal, I will be voting for him even harder.
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