No Laughing Jesters in Biden’s Banana Republic
by John Kass |
If America were truly a mentally healthy nation, the popular culture would be bursting with Banana Boats and deviously sarcastic Calypso singers.
And they’d be mocking President Joe Biden for transforming America into his favorite ice cream flavor as he aims his (our?) government at his political rival.
The flavor?
Biden Banana Republic.
Later of course comes the other novelty, the inevitable Democrat Banana Split along race/gender lines with the country cleaving into jagged pieces, allowing China to send her navy to “protect” our shores from unspecified aggression. But not yet. Not yet.
First things first.
The Silence of the Jesters.
Some jesters, like the famous and heroic Stanczyk shown at the top of this column dressed in red, is rather silent and glum. He is depicted as the only person at a royal ball who is bothered by the news that the Muscovites captured the Polish city of Smolensk in 1514. The others danced and enjoyed themselves, but not our glum Stanczyk. He served three kings and was no fool chattering what his masters wanted to hear. So, he was no Chuck Todd.
But these days modern jesters prefer to caper about singing show-tunes at the Gridiron Dinner in Washington, where journalists greet men who wear sashes, and none of them take things seriously, except their own ambition. So why aren’t they singing “Banana Boat?”
Because they’re afraid. Oh they were excited and pleased that Democrat Biden, although doddering, and senile to the point of drooling in public, is still vicious enough to remake the United States as a Banana Republic.
Because it was Biden who ordered that his chief political rival–former Republican President Donald Trump–be criminally indicted in the hopes of removing him as a political candidate in the 2024 election. Isn’t that election interference? Isn’t that what third-world nations do to their politics?
And now that former President Donald Trump has been criminally indicted as Biden wanted, more news crashed against the calm demeanor of jesterdom: Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said that the FBI source who reported President Biden’s alleged role in a multi-million dollar bribery plot is claiming to have 17 audio recordings of Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
The source kept the recordings for “insurance.”
And the jesters, including Biden himself, have retreated into stunned silence.
I’d rather think of Biden in a colorful Trinidad print, sipping a tropical drink, with his aviator shades, as a chorus of Democrat Congressmen join Establishment Republican Senators Mitch McConnel and Mitt Romney to sing the Harry Belafonte classic, “Mama Look at Boo Boo” about rude children mocking their father.
My mom loved Belafonte, the late Civil Rights figure, and as children, we’d sing to his records. Louis Farrakhan was an equally talented Calypso star but Belafonte outdistanced Farrakhan’s “Calypso Gene, the Charmer.”
“Mama, look at boo boo, they shout
Their mother tell them shut up your mout’
That is your daddy, oh, no
My daddy can’t be ugly so
Shut your mout’, go away
Mama, look at Boo Boo dey”
Or maybe “Banana Boat,” another Belafonte classic about the toils along the banana docks in those Banana Republics, small countries of wealthy oligarchs beholden to Dole and Chiquita and the CIA’s favorite, the “United Fruit Company.”
Come Mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and we want go home)
Come Mister tally man, tally me banana
(Daylight come and we want go home)
Calypso isn’t scripted. It is an art form about people mocking those who were dangerously more powerful than they, people speaking their minds, with sarcasm and double entendre, speaking pointedly, something Americans once respected before the nation embraced the Great Silencing.
Oh Poor Boo Boo, yes he might be the “Big Guy” and “President 10 Percent,” with millions perhaps hidden in secret bank accounts from China, Ukraine and elsewhere– he might be sad, but he can still unleash the powerful American security forces (CIA, DOJ, FBI, the IRS etc.) on anyone, on a whim.
Including a president.
Including you.
Trump was indicted by Biden’s Department of Justice on the same day the country learned that Biden and his son Hunter Biden were under investigation for reportedly accepting $10 million in bribes to run interference for Ukrainian energy giant Burisma. Joe was Obama’s vice president who focused, as if by coincidence, on being the Obama’s “point man” on China, Ukraine and Russia.
According to that FBI informant from Burisma with the “insurance” recordings, Biden’s Ukrainian benefactors reportedly wanted the prosecutor, who had targeted Burisma, fired. And they paid for it.
Joe Biden took care of things as if he were some Chicago politician, adding pressure on Ukraine, saying $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees would disappear if the prosecutor was not fired. The Biden Way as the Chicago Way.
“You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours,” Biden bragged on record at a 2018 talk at the council on Foreign Relations. “I looked at them and said, “I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”
Add to that the official disinterest in the unequal application of the law from those 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails she caused to be destroyed when they were under Congressional subpoena, to the Russia Collusion hoax, to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story and the orchestrated lies by American Kemalist intelligence bosses that the laptop was Russian disinformation, to Joe Biden pilfering top secret documents AS A SENATOR and keeping them all in his garage with the green Corvette, and more. It would take volumes.
To top it all we’re being led deeper into a proxy war that could go nuclear. We’re led to it by the same decrepit administration that led us into that chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
And still Trump should have turned over the documents when he was asked to do so. It is a serious indictment. There is an audio tape on which Trump brags boastfully about secrets. How that will play at trial, I don’t know. I do know he should not have done it. It was reckless, thoughtless and boastful, the perfect illustration of his lack of temperament for the job.
But is it a crime?
Is it a crime with former FBI boss James Comey suffering from “memory loss” under oath while smirking at the American people? When Hillary smirks at us, when the entire Democratic Party smirks at decent taxpayers who are mocked and bullied by journalists, or concerned parents characterized by the FBI as possible “domestic terrorists?”
And now the jesters are silent, at least for a while.
We’ve lost the law. We’ve lost our most precious traditions, We are a Banana Republic. We use criminal indictments to get rid of people like any Banana Republic. We traded the American republic that kept us free for centuries because the bureaucrats of our unelected Kemalist administrative state didn’t like the immaturity of a boastful man who dared defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And now even the jesters are afraid.
