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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, September 22, 2023

Buh Bye

 So, Bob Menendez - who has always been a corrupt fucker - has finally been indicted for being a corrupt fucker.

Just to keep track, Biden's "politicized" Justice Department had indicted a Democratic Senator and his own son. Explain how the hell people who think that the DOJ has been turned into Biden's version of what Trump actually wanted to do with it can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Jon Chait put it well:

The reality staring Republicans in the face is that Biden is at least making a good-faith effort to respect the Justice Department’s independence. And he is doing it in just about the most painful possible circumstance — at the expense of a son whose drug addiction led him into a series of incidental criminal offenses. Their party’s leader makes no pretense of respecting judicial independence and is instead promising to reduce the Department of Justice into a Putin-esque tool of nakedly biased partisanship.

The only possible way Republicans can justify such a grave step is to tell themselves the other side is just as bad. The belief is simply too necessary to be abandoned in the face of evidence.

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