I wholeheartedly agree. But I don't know if I can ascribe enough strategic depth to the dem machinery to believe them thinking four moves ahead of the game. Maybe that's naïve. But so, so much of what come out of the current administration seems to be committee-driven (e.g., inconsistent and slow to materialize) and almost purely reactionary. For just about every major factor I think of since January 2021, nothing has really been proactive and when lip-service was given to decisions as if they were proactive, they've always proven to be wrong, from Afghanistan to energy to inflation.srothstein wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 1:51 pm This means there was no real legal justification for the search warrant. So, I think it was done more for political reasons and I doubt those reasons had to do with January 6th. Both this whole warrant show and the on-going January 6th circus are more, IMO, to do with discrediting Trump in case he runs again. They are deathly afraid of him getting in office again and wanted to scare him off and convince voters he is a criminal to stop them for voting for him. Ironically, I think their ploy backfired on them and convinced him to run again when he was going to not run and instead play kingmaker and support Desantis.
As I type that, a Machiavellian thought came to mind. Maybe that is what they wanted after all. They know they could not beat Desantis but they think they can beat him by convincing independents he is crooked. That is a weird thought, but possible. Either way, I believe it had more to do with the next presidential election (with a little benefit to the mid-terms thrown in) than any real crime.
Occam's razor, the simplest explanation I can think of is deflection. I fully believe history will eventually judge 2021 and 2022 to be the worst first years' performance of any presidential administration since Warren G. Harding, maybe since Andrew Johnson. And right now, it's all about the midterms. I think the dem strategists are grasping at anything and everything they can use to deflect news cycles away from Biden and the dem Congress and onto Republicans. We had the short-lived but passionately orated "Ultra-MAGA" spiel; the blame for America's inflation and lack of energy planning set squarely on Vladimir Putin; the failed attempt to make the Jan 6 showboat hearings into a prime-time network TV event (and that failure is likely to get RINO Liz Cheney out of office: independent, in-state Wyoming polls show the Republican challenger leading Cheney by a whopping 52% to 30%); the dem rallying cry for pro-life demonstrations and the stalking of justices after the SCOTUS ruling on Roe v. Wade; the immediate capitalization of the Uvalde tragedy by ramping anti-gun rhetoric and a rushing a ridiculous, unconstitutional bill through the House; and on and on. The Biden administration has not one single time stepped up and admitted a mistake, much less done anything credible and proactive to help the American people...help them right now. Sorry, Mr. President, even your own economists say that the continued overspending in the "Inflation Reduction Act" (aka "Build Back Better v2.0") is likely to reduce inflation by only 0.3% and that only starting in 2024.
We're only 85 days to the midterm elections. Twelve short weeks. The dem strategic machine milked the Jan 6 hearings, but those have gone stale, big time. They're seeing atrocious poll numbers for Biden. Most of their reliable core are already saying they definitely don't want Biden to run again. Candidates in the midterms are mostly avoiding his endorsement and are going out of their way not to appear with him. The administration is letting as many undocumented aliens through the southern border as they can get away with, but that won't help in the immediate midterms. In fact, gasp!, polling of Hispanic voters is showing many are as critical as Republicans of how the dems are handling things.
What to do? Whatever to do? Well, there's always their favorite punching bag. "Let's do something radical to get Trump back in the spotlight, stir-up and foment that hate that helped us put the WD-40 on the 2020 election. I know! Let's raid Mar-a-Lago! That'll capture the news bigtime! And maybe Trump will get noisy again and make more woke enemies!"
I may be wrong, but other than political blowback on the DOJ if the dems get shellacked in the midterms (and the White House can still protect them to a degree there) I don't think there is any legal liability on Garland or the DOJ for getting and prosecuting the warrant. So long as the affidavit provided something that looked like reasonable cause to the very biased judge who signed it, it's all on the up and up...even if it's the first time in history that it's ever been done against a FPOTUS. Big-time news splash that will stay in the news for weeks--and only 12 weeks until the midterms--to shift focus onto Donald "Democrat Punching Bag" Trump and away from the incompetent, incapable, ineffectual, and inept democrat leadership of the last 19 months.
