It's not exactly correct to say that the United States has become a banana republic.

More accurately, it's become a federal democratic banana republic

where the politically powerful treat the country as their personal fruit orchards.

Take Rudy Giuliani, the former mob buster, now charged in Georgia,

like a mobster under the state's Racketeer, influenced, and corrupt organization act.

His honor's life has come full circle. Rudy, who used Rico to break the rackets,

is now accused of racketeering in his role as a MAGA flunky.

Giuliani was once known as the pugnacious, incorruptible United States attorney in New York

during the 1980s. His investigation into public corruption there drove the Queensborough president

to suicide by plunging a steak knife into his own heart. Giuliani famously took down the

Gambino and Banana Crime families. He perp walked the failings of Wall Street grifters for insider

trading. As the mayor of New York City, you may recall, America's mayor reminding the country

in the aftermath of 9-11, not to hate, not to go to the Muslim quarters of America and commit

violence. All this, as George Bush coward somewhere, in a bunker. But that was another life, another

role, another time in America. Giuliani now is known as the guy whose hair dye runs like melting

candle wax. The creepo caught with his hands in his pants in the Borat movie. Rudy is now charged

as the besotted consigliary of the Trump family, the frothing meathead who called for a trial by

combat on January 6th. Trump has big problems to be sure. He got booked this afternoon in Bolton

County. But Rudy's troubles look worse. The Don has millions of supporters who send him tens of

millions of crumpled hard earned dollar bills to help fight with his 91 felony charges in four

different jurisdictions. Rudy, not so much. Reports have that Giuliani went hat in hand to Mar-a-Lago

begging the boss for a handout to help defray his mounting legal bills, only to be sent home by the

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