https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/p ... al-master/Sports reference coming up, prepare to Google as needed. It is Happy Hour in the Gehenna Bar and Grille. Eddie Cicotte and Chick Gandil watch the news on the TV above the bar, nod knowingly, and they buy Jack Molinas another drink. From the Washington Post:
[In other words, "the fix was in]".
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And there we have it. Judge Cannon has divined the identity of…The Real Victim. He’s down there in Florida, deeply a’skeered that his alleged crimes are coming to light and deeply worried about the effect this will have in the future on his various bunco schem—er…enterprises.
And to hell with you, National Archives, you bunch of reckless barbarians.
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I would like to ban the use of the word “unprecedented” from further discussion. It is a preposterous word in this context and is becoming more so almost by the hour. Saying anything that has occurred in national politics since the fall of 2015 is “unprecedented” is like standing in the foothills of the Himalayas and talking about the “unprecedented” size of Mt. Everest. While admittedly the inevitable product of 40 years of increasingly virulent Republican vandalism, El Caudillo del Mar-A-Lago nonetheless was a creature of the unprecedented, at least among presidents of the United States: A bigger liar than Nixon. More inept than Harding. More devious than LBJ. And, oh, that he were as forgettable as Buchanan or Pierce. But we can’t have everything, now, can we?
I hope Jared can clear his calendar for the next few months because being special master is going to be a full-time gig.
The highest level of our government has been rendered an unconvincing puppet show with no mystery left in it at all.
When you have the courts, you have everything. It's like tactically, occupying the highest ground in a military conflict. And every judge counts. Even a lower court District Court judge confirmed during Trump's lame duck session.
Also, that Jared line is killer. Pierce doesn't live in fairy tale land, like Amy Klobuchar, for example. He tells it like it is. Pierce is the only member of the media that I'm aware of who recognizes the near certainty that now, through the special master to be appointed, Trump is gonna get all of the intelligence delivered to him on a silver platter. He's gonna know exactly what the DOJ's investigation is about, what their investigative methods are and most critically, who snitched him out to enable the Mar-a-Lago search warrant in the first place.
This was about as absurd a legal decision as there could possibly be.
