Merrick Garland solemnly intoned that we have one rule of law here, the same laws for the wealthy and the poor, the powerful and the powerless and so on.  The last few years have shown that is clear bullshit. 

A young military guy showing off a secret document on-line to impress his buddies, well after the FBI searched Mar-a-Largo and seized evidence that Trump illegally held on to classified documents, has already been convicted and is serving a sixteen year Espionage Act sentence. 

The young man committed a crime that is a small fraction of what the Orange Polyp committed in taking a trove of top secret documents, lying to government agencies about having them, storing them in public places around his gaudy country club home, insisting he had every right to keep the documents he rightfully took, or that were planted by the FBI, obstructing an investigation into whether he had them, instructing lackeys to destroy surveillance video of moving the boxes of secret documents and all the rest.

One big difference in the two cases, the kid who put the classified document on line surely doesn’t have $230,000 a day to spend on lawyers like the Big Guy does. Another big difference, he didn’t get to choose a judge he’d appointed to lifetime office who’d already demonstrated her fawning loyalty to him.

A NY appeals court did the Orange Turd a big favor Monday by reducing the bond he has to post to appeal his fraud case from close to a half a billion to a more manageable $175,000,000.  On the same day he got the news that starting on April 15 he will be sitting at the defendant’s table in NY criminal court four days a week until a verdict is reached in that trial, a trial that also involves his fraudulent business practices as well as election interference.   The boy is not holding up well.  In a late night rant he wrote “CROOKED JOE BUDEN MISINFORMATES AND DISINFOMATES ALL THE TIME”.   Point taken, Honest Don.

He’s going down, whether you buy his gold-painted high tops or his special Make America Prey Again Bible or any of the other bullshit he’s peddling.  On Fox they’re screaming about NBC firing discarded former Trump lackey Ronna Romney McDaniel who will be paid $600,000 by NBC per her contract, even though she won’t be on the air after massive pressure to get rid of her.  Fox insists people have the right to hear all sides, someone still claiming that the election of 2020 was stolen, and that the fake electors were real, and that the Republican party must pay all of a certain criminal defendant’s legal bills is just as entitled to those credible views as anyone who honestly stormed the Capitol on January 6th, or sincerely believes that Jewish space lasers are regularly employed to control the world.

We are living in disorientingly crazy times, just ask any of the elusive Buden superfans the NY Times was hunting for recently…