This is probably going to be long so pour yourself a big one, sit back and relax.

The first thing I will say is that I didn’t read the redacted affidavit because I knew what it would be. ( And as an aside and I have thought about doing this for a while, do you know where the present day familiarity and obsession with redact, redacted, and redaction came from? It was virtually unknown to anyone until either the first or second major Supreme Court decision on the FOIA used it extensively and everyone, including me had to look it up and I was responsible for FOIA at the time, and basically it was a synonym for edit at the time. Btw I have no idea what it would be called now. Back in my day it was synonym and homonym and antonym but that’s no longer the case because I watch quiz shows and the terms have changed.)

Sorry for the digression. I agree with Dershowitz that any magistrate or judge would have issued the warrant because all the allegations were that Trump had the highest levels of classified information at his mansion and I knew that it would not contain any information that Trump said he declassified them, although I have to question putting in that according to I think CBS Miami they saw u-hauls at the mansion. ( I’m using mansion because the actual name is a pain in the ass to hunt and peck on my iPad.) And the Trump camp said the opposite.

And before I go further I want to point out that there has been more nonsense about Magoo being ignorant. Well that’s of course true, but about the raid. Listen, Magoo is a low IQ, thin skinned, narcissistic bully who has used his position against enemies in the past and it has been reported in the last couple of weeks Magoo asked Garland why he hasn’t arrested Trump. Dog faced pony soldier and fat come to mind and don’t forget calling Peter Doocy a stupid son of a bitch.

Now getting down to business, the reason or inspiration for this rant came from one of you who asked if I thought Trump was in trouble and I said no he said he declassified everything and that’s it. And he asked could he even do that with the top secret stuff and I said yes and thanked him because he gave me the idea for this rant.

Okay I have said this so many times in so many contexts that I would think you know it by now but apparently some haven’t comprehended it so I will do it again with reference to previous things. Under the constitution all executive branch power and authority is vested in the president period. The administrative/deep state doesn’t have any authority on its own. It’s all derived from the president. However the deep state thinks otherwise and that’s why they are so opposed to Trump. He was asserting his dominance and they didn’t like it. So let me review a couple things I have discussed before. The first impeachment was basically the weeble known as Vindman claiming that Trump was not following US foreign policy and as I and the constitution make clear, the president is the sole arbiter of what our foreign policy is. If you don’t like it get your dumb fat ignorant ass out. You don’t get to override the president you self important idiot.

Likewise with all the nonsense about DOJ and the FBI are independent is total and complete bs. They are in the executive branch and subordinate to the president and he can require them to do whatever he wants. Presidents have ordered them to arrest and prosecute opponents and I’m not going to go through it again, it’s in previous rants.

Which gets me back to today’s subject and it’s an exact parallel to Vindman. Some people think they can overrule their boss. Once the president says something is declassified it’s declassified. None of these deep state subordinates can change that or claim he didn’t follow some procedures they set up. They derive any power they have from him and he can just say kiss my ass serfs. I’m the king and you’re not.