A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023

THE NATIONAL CURRENT

Well, the White Christian President got hit with 37 counts of federal crime this week, which, as counts of federal crime go, seems to me like a lot of federal crimes—for a presidential candidate, anyway.

What did he do? Oh boy!

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-national-current

The National Current

The benefit of the doubt, the doubt of the benefit, and presidential precedent in a country allergic to truth and consequences.

The Reframe
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
He took nuclear and other secrets acquired from his old job, and he shoved them into banker’s boxes that he stored in his somehow-simultaneously-gaudy-yet-squalid-bathroom and other places, and he travelled around with them, and he showed them around to various people to impress them with what a big shot he was, and he obstructed all attempts by federal agencies to retrieve them, and there is damning evidence that he did all this in full knowledge that he was breaking some rather serious laws.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
And there are many other crimes he committed as well, some of which I believe he’s under investigation for and others of which—like using the office of the presidency to enrich his private business—he was simply allowed to do without consequence, making that previously unprecedented act something very precedented indeed.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
Anyway, the White Christian President is observably an abusive and corrupt criminal, yet all of this just seems to make him more and more popular with Republican voters and Republican politicians, even the ones who are running against him for president, all of whom came to the defense of the boss whose job they hope to gain without actually ever fighting him for it.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
So we’ve been treated to the nauseating spectacle of Kevin McCarthy and Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy and even Mike “Mommy” Pence (who Trump tried to assassinate via mob a couple years back), all lining up to decry the Justice Department, an agency that is tasked with investigating and prosecuting federal crimes, for …. investigating and prosecuting federal crimes, an apparently unprecedented thing for it to have done.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
And many of these denouncements of the Justice Department’s pursuit of justice have been accompanied by veiled or not-so-veiled threats of retaliation and retribution, some of them political, and some of them violent, but none of them distinguishing the Republican Party’s elected officials from, for example, the version of the New Jersey mob that we all enjoyed watching on HBO’s "The Sopranos."
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
All this pretty clearly (and yet again) exposes the Republican Party as a criminal organization, supported by a supremacist movement that’s perfectly comfortable with corruption and crime and abuse and political retribution and incitement to violence, provided all the crime and abuse benefits the right people, or at least hurts the people who they believe ought to be hurt.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023
You’d think the Republican Party being exposed as an open criminal organization with supremacist leanings would be viewed as a problem for Donald Trump and Republicans, and to a degree, I suppose it is—after all, Trump will have to plead guilty or face trial, and the Republican Party will have to explain again and again why the man who will almost certainly be their candidate may very likely be heading to white-collar-tennis-court prison.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023

So yes, practically speaking, these crimes are a problem for the perpetrators.

But I know I’m not the only person who has noticed that the national current runs the opposite direction.

Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023

Apparently prosecuting a flagrantly criminal ex-president and current presidential candidate is dangerous, and inherently political, and unprecedented, in ways that running a criminal as a candidate for president isn’t.

Apparently talking about the Republican Party accurately as an anti-democracy fascist criminal organization would be far more biased than pretending the lie that they are still a viable political party interested in participating in the governance of the country.

Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆Jun 11, 2023

Apparently, a White Christian President’s crimes do not corrode the rule of law, but using due process to charge him with crimes and giving him his day in court will demolish it entirely.

Apparently, giving a White Christian President his day in court represents destabilizing political retaliation, while threatening political retaliation in response to due process is a normal and expected reaction for members of the White Christian Party to have.

Show threadEl Jefe "" Jun 11, 2023
@JuliusGoat you keep referring to these Heretics as Christians and, well, maybe there's the problem.
Show threadA.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆
@eljefedsecurit That's not the problem.
Jun 11, 2023 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadEl Jefe "" Jun 11, 2023
@JuliusGoat uh huh.