Saturday's Stupendous Absurdities: FBI Mounts a Coverup as Jay Powell Crashes the Stock Market

Here’s basically all you really need to know what happened on Friday.

First, the jack-botted thugs at the FBI released their redacted affidavit related to their storming (the media says we can’t call it a “raid”) of Mar-a-Lago:

Shortly thereafter, President Donald Trump responded:

Sadly for our country, both illustrations are fair depictions of the atrocity that was released by the FBI and its DOJ masters. Basically, their response amounts to “screw you and your right to know, American people, you’ll just have to trust us to do the right thing.”

And their lapdogs, plants and stenographers in the corporate news media all nod their heads, pant a little bit hoping for a scratch behind the ears and move on to write another cover story for Old Joe Biden.

Here’s a great illustration of that truth by the Democrat operatives at Axios:

Axios @axios

Trump and close allies have argued that the multiple investigations he's facing, and in particular the search of his Mar-a-Lago property, are something out of a "banana republic."​ But former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world​.​

axios.comFormer leaders have been jailed or charged all over the worldIt’s not just “banana republics.”

That’s right: The propagandists at Axios resorted to literally defending Banana Republics in their latest effort to ‘get Trump.’

You just could never make this stuff up in a million billion years.

Anyone who believes our country can continue to exist indefinitely with this kind of corruption rot in DC lives in an alternative universe. They’re so emboldened now that they don’t even make the slightest effort to mask what they’re really doing. Comey and Mueller at least tried to mount an appearance of legitimacy - Wray just barrels ahead.

But enough about that; let’s go to other, real news…

I’ve always believed Mitch McConnell prefers operating as Senate Minority Leader. Here’s proof:

Burgess Everett @burgessev

News: GOP super PAC SLF canceling $8m in ad buys in Arizona Senate race, about half its reservations. Will raise questions about GOP view of Blake Masters. Group also cutting two weeks of ads for Murkowski; they think she’s in good shape.

politico.comSenate GOP super PAC cancels ad buys in Arizona, AlaskaThe shift comes as Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) leads in nearly every public poll, but serves as a vote of confidence in Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

So, he’s abandoning a close senate race in an evenly-divided state, mainly because the GOP candidate has the endorsement of Donald Trump. But also because he and Mark Kelly are two peas in the DC Swamp pod. Mitch likes Mark Kelly and doesn’t want to lose him.

Being Senate Majority Leader is a tough, demanding job. It is akin to an upper management job in a major corporation in which your portfolio includes thousands of employees in half a dozen departments. It’s a job that also comes with inconvenient expectations of success and, dare I say it, even winning?

But being Senate Minority Leader is far easier; it cuts way down on your management responsibilities and allows you mainly to scheme and take potshots at the majority without the inconvenient expectations that come with actually prevailing on a vote now and then.

Mitch has been very public about warning us that his party might not gain a senate majority this year, and here he is, working hard to ensure that ends up being the case.

Do not doubt me on this.

Speaking of hilariously biased news media, here is the latest intrepid investigative “report” on Stacey Abrams by Bloomberg:

“Successful businesswoman,” “rising financial fortunes,” “drawing fire from the Right.” So many code words in a simple tweet.

First, Abrams has zero history whatsoever as a “successful businesswoman” in any sane definition of that term. Second, her “rising financial fortunes” consist of somehow becoming mysteriously and fabulously wealthy while holding down political jobs that don’t pay much more than $100k per year.

So, yeah, that’s “drawing fire” from Republicans, but not from the Democrat mouthpieces at Bloomberg. I suppose we should just be grateful that Bloomberg didn’t tell us that “Conservatives pounce” on Abrams in that tweet.

Holy crap.

While all that was going on, Jay Powell was working hard to crash the stock market out in Jackson Hole:

CNBC @CNBC

“Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-trend growth,” says Fed Chair Jay Powell on the Fed’s policies to combat inflation. “Moreover, there will very likely be some softening of labor market conditions.” cnb.cx/3RhGBc5

Hey, look at that:

It worked!

God help us.

That is all.