Tuesday's Banana Republic Absurdities

“We live in an authoritarian, 3rd world state this morning, and you’re a damn fool if you believe otherwise.” - Dan Bongino

Obviously, the biggest news of the day is last night’s FBI raid on the Mar-a-Lago home of President Donald J. Trump.

These are indeed dark times for our nation. We are now officially living in a banana republic.

I write about that extensively in another piece this morning. It’s for subscribers only, but hey, you get what you pay for.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was the first GOP governor to respond to the raid, and her statement was perfect:

Here’s what Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had to say about it:

Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantisFL

The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.

Yep.

Meanwhile, here is what Texas Governor Greg Abbott managed to come up with:

Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX

This is next-level Nixonian. Never before has the country seen an Administration go to such extent to use the levers of government to target a former President and political rival. This weaponizes power to squelch dissent. Such abuses must have limits

nytimes.comF.B.I. Searches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Residence in FloridaThe former president called the search an “assault” and complained that the authorities had broken into a safe. The news appeared to come as a surprise to top aides at the White House.

“next-level Nixonian”??? Why not “next-level Clintonian” or “next-level Obama,” Governor? The stuff Nixon did was kindergarten playground time compared to where recent Democrat presidents have taken us.

Good lord.

Naturally, New York Times writer Maggie Haberman managed to find a way to blame the FBI raid on…wait for it…oh, you knew this was coming, didn’t you?…DONALD TRUMP:

Cliff Levy @cliffordlevy

.@maggieNYT: “The news that the FBI executed a search on Trump’s home was a remarkable escalation and a truly stunning turn of events, even by the standard of the Trump years, during which norms were repeatedly shattered.”

nytimes.comThe search appears to be focused on materials Trump took from the White House.The search appeared to be focused on material that the former president had brought to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House.

Because of course she did.

Let’s move on…

This cracked me up, mainly because it’s easy to imagine it being true:

U.S. Ministry of Truth @USMiniTru

UPDATE: Senator McConnell issues statement on FBI raid of former president Trump: "We must send another aid package to Ukraine at all costs."

For the record: America did indeed agree to send another aid package to Ukraine on Monday, to the tune of $4.5 billion.

Disclose.tv @disclosetv

JUST IN - U.S. to send $4.5 billion more to Ukraine for budget needs.

The Zelensky’s must need a new yacht.

Meanwhile, the nominal president was trying in vain to dress himself:

Daily Wire @realDailyWire

Biden can't get his jacket on. Can't keep his sunglasses on either.

My only question about that video is, why is the old weirdo wearing combat boots?

That happened after the Sock Puppet who had supposedly tested positive for COVID-19 for a week straight spent an hour hacking into his fist with no mask on during a public appearance:

Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon

A maskless Biden repeatedly coughs into his hand in Kentucky

A little bit later, the old reprobate redefined Sunday’s strictly partisan reconciliation vote on his Orwellian “Inflation Reduction Act” as “bipartisan”:

The Hill @thehill

President Biden: "Because of a number of things we got done on a bipartisan basis [...] it's going to be different. We're going to come back better than before, and I really mean it. That's the objective I have. Not come back to what we were before." trib.al/T57xYt9

Next, the White House will no doubt redefine last night’s FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago as just another Steely Dan concert.

Hey, if you’re wondering why the Deep State remains so frightened about the prospect of a potential Trump comeback, yet another pro-impeachment RINO went down in flames in Washington State on Monday:

Oh.

And if you think only Republicans are concerned about election integrity in our country, check out the results of the new Rasmussen survey of Democrats on the matter:

Rasmussen Reports @Rasmussen_Poll

DEMOCRATs on election fraud: 45% want ballot transparency. 75% say cheating will be an important issue in this fall's elections. 49% are concerned about cheating this fall. bit.ly/3A1iloB Sponsored by @RaheemKassam and The National Pulse - thenationalpulse.com

So, 49% of Democrats are concerned about cheating this Fall.

What Rasmussen doesn’t tell you is that the other 51% of Democrats will be ENGAGED in cheating this Fall.

[rimshot!]

That is all.