Events of Tuesday, the first of August 2023, typify the pathetic, dysfunctional state of our nation.
It was a day that saw former president Donald Trump indicted on what seem to be, by comparison to the legal treatment of others, trumped up charges.
It was a day that saw yet another person – this a former Hunter Biden business partner, Devon Archer – testify before Congress that Clueless Joe, often referred to by Hunter in these business things as “The Big Guy,” reportedly has been less than truthful through the years maintaining he never discussed business with Hunter. Or, presumably, the two also never chatted about illegal drugs and guns, unpaid taxes, strippers, or bastard children/grandchildren.
It was a day that saw the credit rating of the United States reduced by the Fitch agency in advance of needing to borrow another trillion dollars or so over the next three months. Can’t pay your bills, just borrow more! Or send Treasury Secretary Janet “Mother” Hubbard to that empty cupboard to rummage around for a bone, or a trillion bucks.
It was a day we read of the first husband of DOCTOR JILL BIDEN !!!!!!!!, a guy named Bill Stevenson, going public with claims the Big Guy’s family threatened and persecuted him to get DOCTOR JILL !!!!!!!! a better divorce settlement, including saddling this ex-husband with a tax beef when he didn’t comply.
According to that report regarding Stevenson, while Hunter recently got two misdemeanor charges for $2.2 million in unpaid taxes, Stevenson and his brother were hit with felony charges due to $8,000 in unpaid taxes.
The Stevenson story sounds particularly familiar as far as the uneven workings of our justice system.
The FBI fabricated evidence to get warrants to spy on Trump, yet no one’s doing hard time. Meanwhile, Trump and several members of his political inner circle have been and are being, hounded with threatened punishment including jail time.
Trump had classified documents and there are attempts to draw and quarter him over that. Clueless Joe had classified materials at numerous locations. No big deal.
Hillary Clinton, during her cameo as Secretary of State, despite specific warnings not to do so, had classified material on an unsecured private email computer server. Again, no big deal. Stuff happens. Move on. Look, a squirrel!
Trump is alleged to have spread false election information regarding the 2020 charade and must be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Yet, Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign is alleged to have drummed up and distributed the false Russian dossier regarding Trump to media and justice/intelligence circles, a production which was doubtful in the extreme even at the time. There was a report of a $113,000 amount paid by Hillary and the Democrats to settle violations of campaign finance law. Money paid to accumulate the Russian hoax had been mis-stated on campaign records as legal services fees.
Hillary skated away from this mess unscathed, as free as Nancy Kerrigan — before the kneecapping incident. Holy Shane Stant.
The fake media and people in the FBI, supposedly unbiased sources, ignored the stench of the Russian dossier and eagerly ran with it because it fit their agenda.
Are they facing consequences? Why no, they are not.
It’s the sort of stuff that shouldn’t happen, like maybe a couple of extra-marital FBI lovers shouldn’t be texting about how they would do whatever to save the world from a Trump presidency, in the unlikely event he actually got elected.
Is Trump totally pure? No way.
Is Biden, or his clan? Really?
Hillary or Bill? LOL.
But if we’re going to clean house, let’s use the same broom on everyone. Don’t hold your breath waiting for that.
It has been suggested that the credit downgrade for the United States stems as much from the political circus unfolding in Washington, D.C., as any hard-and-fast financial assessment.
But, make no mistake, beyond all this political, legal hypocrisy, the U.S. is in a deep fiscal mess, the sort of monetary blackhole from which there, inevitably, is no escape.
For reference, recall the 2009-14 Euro crisis. The worst offenders then were derisively labeled the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain).
All still are stumbling and bumbling fiscally. Yet, the United States, with a governmental debt that is 121.3 percent of annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP is the value put on goods and services produced by an entire country over a given period, in this case one year) could fit right in with the PIGS.
The latest debt-to-GDP figures of the PIGS are: Greece, 175.7 percent; Italy, 143.5: Portugal, 113.8: and Spain, 113.
The United States is a fiscal house of cards, and the political weaponization of the justice system is undermining the foundation of this supposed rule-of-law nation and adding to the fragility of the whole system.
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