(David Burge
@iowahawkblog)
I guess it was time for the FBI to indict Bob Menendez again. So they raided his house and found bars of gold and probably myrrh and frankincense too. They’ll probably put him on trial too. And, as usual he’ll be released after a mistrial because New Jersey juries are almost as dishonest and DC juries.
You know compared to Merrick Garland or Joe Biden I can feel some sympathy for Menendez. He’s just a regular crook peddling his influence and voting according to what the bigger crooks tell him to do. He doesn’t jail Americans for protesting election fraud and he doesn’t start wars to help his cronies make billions. He’s just a simple ham and egger, stealing a gold bar here and a gold bar there. Where’s the harm?
I believe they also found in his Google search history “How to convert gold bars into cash found while gardening.” /s
Isn’t Google wonderful. Today I believe he searched under the term “how do you bribe an FBI agent?” Isn’t democracy inspiring. We live in an age of miracles and wonder.
I interpreted this as a message to Pino Joe: If we can indict his wife, we can indict your son and then you. Resign now.
I think the folks pulling Joe’s strings have realized the game is up.
You know I always thought that so much of history seemed so improbable because of how strangely some of the larger characters were portrayed. Nero and Caligula seem so improbable. But our last few presidents have made me believe that dysfunction in high places is more common than I thought. I won’t be surprised if Biden decides tomorrow not to run and I wouldn’t be surprised if something even more improbable happens if he doesn’t agree to leave voluntarily.
Our country is run by thugs and crooks masquerading as bureaucrats and politicians.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
–Lord Acton.
See this excellent piece by Jonathon Turley https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4218489-robert-menendez-broke-the-goldilocks-rule-of-corruption/
Essentially, they all do it, it’s just Menendez’s “extravagance” is giving the thieves a bad name.
When hearing the list of charges yesterday on the radio, for a moment I thought they were talking about Biden. The same pattern.
So these guys are the ones we have to convince to vote for term limits, huh? Right.
So the FBI manages the crimes of the Congress Critters and every once in a while they make an example of one of the animals depending on his politics or his personal hygiene. So we’re supposed to take sides between the FBI and characters like Menendez and Biden. You know I wouldn’t even care about their graft if they actually did some of the things they were supposed to do for our sake. But they don’t. They want to be banana republic made men.
And the FBI? They’re much worse. They want to be the KGB.