Total Authority
Well, our Attorney General, William Barr, is making headlines.
Seriously. I took a scene shot of that because otherwise you would not have believed it.
In a new interview with right-wing talk-show host Hugh Hewitt, Barr threatens to throw the DOJ’s weight behind businesses to sue states and cities that fail to open up quickly enough. Barr’s premise is that Trump, as always, has taken a wise and measured course: “I think the president’s plan for getting the country back to work is really a very commonsensical approach that is based on really assessing the status of the virus in each state and each locality, and then gradually pulling back on restrictions.”
Yeah, yeah, posting LIBERATE! in all-caps is a helluva wise and measured course.
Okay first, when did all the state-rights Republicans flip the hell over to “we’re coming to make you work or die”?
And secondly, if they do sue the states that feel it’s not safe to re-open, what the hell do they have? A piece of paper signed by a third-rate judge who Trump appointed? Whoa, that scares me worse than dying a horrible death gasping for air as I watch the disease spread to my family over a $10 an hour job?
Is Barr gonna send one of his chubby buddies in funny glasses to make me go to work? Are little lawyer Barr-clones gonna come to my house, make me get dressed at subpoena point, and drive me to work at my receptionist desk?
Barr knows damn well he does not have that power but saying he does on talk radio makes his winkie two inches longer and 5 inches is a whole damn lot, I’ll have you know.
Aaarrrgh! They make me crazy with their starving little egos. Barr, listen up cowboy, you are short, you dress funny, and you walk like a penguin. I refuse to take you seriously to start with, and then this crap comes prancing out of your mouth on My Little Pony wings and you want me to react favorably? Nope.