GREAT WORDS FROM Mark Leydorf: A Very Low Barr

If you see me, don’t ask, “How’s it going?” You all know how it’s going.

It’s bad enough to be told the conspiracy you watched unravel in front of your eyes never happened. Yes, No. 1 begged Putin to deliver the death blow to Hillary on national TV; and yes, vile slug Junior and Damien doppelgänger Jared orchestrated the finer points during meetings with assorted Russian agents in the asshole’s own gilded tower; yes, Flynn, Manafort, Gates, Stone, et alia were all indicted during their attempts to cover the tracks of these shenanigans; and yes, No. 1 blatantly, repeatedly lied when he claimed to have no business deals with the Russians at absolutely the same moment he was planting his hilariously insecure Sharpie signature on a contract to erect his most hideous tower yet (and that’s saying something) in Moscow.

Also, no, you weren’t imagining things when he gave secrets to the Russian ambassador in the Oval Office, or when he stood by Putin’s side to repudiate the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc., or when he drove the Secretary of Defense to resign over his naked furtherance of Russian policy in Syria.
It’s horrible, all of it. But who are you to say that the man isn’t simply dangerously inept, tragically gullible, and psychotically eager to please new playmates? Or maybe No. 1 really is a genius, and pulled off the crime of all time without leaving his actual fingerprints anywhere on the merchandise?
Who are you to second-guess such a mind?

Right?

That’s all bad enough. But how much worse to learn that Lady Justice is blind, in fact, but only where tax-cheating millionaire traitors are concerned. And that, in fact, No. 1 and his spawn ARE above the law, fancy fair-seeming Revolution-era documents aside. How much more awful to realize the daily servings of witness-tampering, pardon-dangling, FBI-director-firing, jury-poisoning, justice-obstructing shitcake—iced, one might add, by Giuliani regularly admitting No. 1’s guilt, saying “collusion isn’t a crime” and “there is no truth,” etc.—were apparently fictions of our own fever dreams.

Barr’s novel conclusion that the underlying crime only needs to be narrowly debunked—since, say, the actors in the obviously successful conspiracy to install the corrupt puppet weren’t known representatives of Putin’s government—means all that obstruction was irrelevant. No matter that No. 1 was daily attacking the inquiry that sought to prove said conspiracy.
OBSTRUCTING JUSTICE IS AN ESPECIALLY SERIOUS CRIME WHEN IT WORKS.

The very low Barr allows No. 1 to get away with the second crime since it succeeded in covering up the first. (Can we all do that now, too? Somehow I doubt it.)

It’s all just terrible; hard to believe the country can even continue without the rule of law—and what else can it mean?

But it gets even worse still. Consider that there are hundreds of Republicans who are witnessing this same shitstorm and gleefully grabbing handfuls of the excrement to fling in our faces.

Yesterday, the Huckabee, in an unparalleled fit of projection, is calling Democrats who believe the Mueller Report conceals other messages traitors. I mean, Barr came out of fucking retirement for this! I guess he looked in the history books at Roy Cohn and Gordon Liddy and Ollie North and thought, I can top that. And he’s only one of many craven opportunists—the A.G., Mitch, Lindsey, Devin—who are eager to play Cersei to our King Joffrey.

It’s soul sickening, all of it. And why? What sick fuck would want this to be happening? I guess it’s the same sort of psychopath who wants to promote a raving alcoholic rapist to the Supreme Court? To kidnap children and lock them in cages? To prop up the dying coal industry (etc.) despite the indisputably gathering apocalypse of climate change? To police people’s bedrooms, bodies, and bathroom stalls? To deny basic health care and a dignified retirement to millions? To get assault rifles into the hands of suicidal folks, maniacs, and white supremacists? The people who want all this immoral insanity want it all so badly they will put up with this abdication of ethics, integrity, and common sense to get it.

And who are the morons, gerrymandered far above their weight class, cheering on this cabal?

My dear Fox-watching shut-in Aunt, who hovers just below the poverty line yet cheers on tax cuts for millionaires; whose answer to Mueller’s investigation is simply “Please, Clinton made a speech to the Russians!”; who’s still enraged about the blow-job lie after 20 years but believes No. 1 is getting a raw deal—do you and I even inhabit the same goddamn universe?

Are we to be just another nuclear-armed kleptocracy?

Is the American experiment well and truly over? Is there any hope for planet earth?