8-17-2022
THE G-FILE
Yearning for a Banana Republic Emboldened__
By fever dreams of persecution, Republicans want nothing more than to anoint a strong man to punish their enemies.
The ousted ruler and his representatives claim that this affront to his dignity is really an insult to all of his supporters.
Like followers of Hugo Chavez or Daniel Ortega, they insist that only by returning their leader in internal exile to power can they avenge this travesty and purge the government of these enemies of the people.
Presidents are not redeemers, messiahs, incarnations of mystical aspirations, or righteous settlers of seething grievances.
They’re not god-kings or the fathers of our American family. They’re politicians elected to do some specific things as the head of one branch of one level of government.
They get that job for a limited and defined period of time, and afterward they’re simply citizens.
It’s a source of constant consternation and amazement for me that so many people either don’t understand this or simply pretend not to.
I don’t know for sure which politicians and pundits yammering about our “corrupt regime” are truly ignorant and which are merely duplicitous demagogues chumming the waters with bloody nonsense.
But I do know it’s dangerous because whether they believe it or not, they want millions of people to believe it.
By all means, vote Biden out of office. I don’t think he’s up to the job and I think most of his policies have been bad. Bring on the cleansing tide.
But what I can’t get my head around is the idea that the solution to our allegedly bananifying regime is__
to put that Trump browning, mealy, giant banana back into power.
What I left out is that__
The ousted ruler seeking to return to power
had tried to steal the last election by spreading lies about its legitimacy and treating the Constitution like a dead letter.
He declared victory despite being assured he lost by his own attorney general and campaign manager.
He wanted the DOJ to simply declare the election corrupt so he could do the rest.
He toyed with the idea of using the military to seize voting machines as some sort of pretextual theater.
He railed at his Supreme Court appointees for their lack of personal loyalty when they failed to go along with his scheme.
He wanted to appoint a deluded and pliable flunky as the head of the DOJ because he was willing to run wild with propaganda about the election being stolen.
He invited a mob to the capitol to scare Congress into helping him steal the election and did nothing for hours when the rabble turned violent and even erected a gallows to hang his own vice president.
He and his junta now talk about these criminals as if they are political prisoners unjustly persecuted by a corrupt regime.
If you’re worried about America looking like a banana republic,
please don’t tell me that the first president in American history to defecate on the peaceful transfer of power is the antidote to the rot of Third World corruption of our regime.
He is the rot.
What an amazingly stupid time this is.
Seriously, what the hell is wrong with you people?
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