by NoahWednesday's appearance in the $enate by Trump's personal attorney, William H. Barr, euphemistically known as the Attorney General, was nothing less than Barr making it obvious that he is running for Vice President with Trump on the 2020 ticket. Make that Vice Dictator, since that's what Trump sent him to the $enate to be when Barr went on national television and used his installment oath to defend the Constitution as his personal toilet paper. He lied. He stonewalled. He smirked. The whole scene was made even more farcical by the deliberately over-sized name placard that the hearing's ringmaster, Lindsey Graham, had placed in front of Barr. The placard read "Hon. William P. Barr." There it was: "Honorable." Absurdity in black and white, with letters that dwarfed the size of the letters of all of the other participant's names by about six times. The black and white contrast made it really pop as well. Great marketing ploy, Lindsey.Trump's dictatorial intentions for this country have been clear to anyone who makes the choice not to live in a state of denial for three years now, but those who have chosen the cold comfort of wakefulness are few in number. The whole Graham and Barr performance was an exercise in "We don't need your stinking Constitution." They have taken Washington's contempt for America down to the lowest pit yet. And what does America do? It sleeps.It was Ben Franklin who when asked at the end of the Constitutional Convention if we had a monarchy or a republic, said, "A republic, if you can keep it."
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