Running The Clocks

Lo and behold, surprise surprise, pick your jaw up off the floor... Attorney General Merrick Garland has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate Hunter Biden's bevy of shenanigans.

A starry-eyed naif might take this move as a signal that the AG has finally awoken to his duty as an office holder, but those stars would have to be blinding and the naïveté of truly newborn-lamb levels.

The rest of us should have no trouble figuring out that this is just another move on the political chessboard, where the only goal is securing a Democratic presidential victory on November 5th, 2024. Especially given who was picked to be Special Prosecutor. Per James Bovard, ‘Former White House correspondent Emerald Robinson quipped:’

Appointing David Weiss is like appointing a crack pipe to ‘investigate’ Hunter Biden.

The appointment starts a brand new clock, one that will keep on ticking past election day, with any damaging reports, conclusions, or indictments near-certain to be revealed after the next election has been decided.

Contrast that with the Trump prosecutions, whose trial dates are being pressed by the prosecutors to take place before the election.

Both sets of allegations (Hunter and Donald) certainly have enough meat on their bones to warrant investigation, but the naked partisanship on display ensures that millions of Americans will be wholly unconvinced that justice has been meted fairly at the end of it all.

Running the clock out is a sports aphorism, of course, but given both statutes of limitations and critical events such as elections, it is as literally applicable to politics as to football or basketball games. It also applies to the policy side of politics, in that our dear leaders recognize full well that an outrageous rights violation plus time equals "the new normal." The boiled frog metaphor is more often used, but since I'm flogging the clock phrase today, I might as well flog it a bit more.

The Biden administration, clearly "Stockholm Syndromed" to the progressive wing of the Left in matters both cultural and policy, has been working relentlessly to get us used to a lousy "new normal" in terms of energy, personal liberty, privacy, and autonomy. It keeps tacking on restrictions, nibbling at our liberties, and cattle-chuting us forward to a tightly confined pen where we pay more for less and shut our mouths about more and more things, lest we be taken note of by those with the power to hurt us. We liberty-minded folks catch breaks every so often, but even those must forever stand against that relentlessness.

Consider the various pro-liberty and limited-government rulings coming out of the Supreme Court since Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett were seated. The noise from the Left is not merely plaints about those rulings, but a relentless (again) effort to delegitimize the Court in the public's eye. With a special emphasis on Clarence Thomas, whose great sin in life is refusing to stay on the Left's plantation despite being black. The level of outrage voiced seems to be in sync with the ebb and flow of the Biden scandals, as if one is intended to distract from the other. Even thoughtful people can be beaten into conceding ground and allowing for the validity of something after being hit enough times with it. That's the nature of the slow-boiled frog and the clock-running, and political machinators know it well.