Looking
A Grift Horse in the Mouth.
"If
we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed... and we
will deserve it."
- Republican Senator Lindsay Graham, May 2016.
"
Well, Lindsay, you can't say you didn't warn you."
- John Zal, today.
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The Great Orange Glob's first phone call to Ukraine's
President Zelensky came exactly one day after Robert
Mueller
testified
before Congress.
Yes, he actually believed the Fox News bubble-babble
that Mueller's testimony exonerated him, so he felt
he was free to solicit interference again in 2020.
But her emails.
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Who said the GOP can't get things done?
It only took them 2-1/2 years to replace the heads
of the U.S. government with an "organized" crime family.
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t-Rump intimated today, in so many words, that whomsoever
finked on him about the Ukraine phone call should be
executed as a spy.
This is a crime called "witness intimidation".
In response to this I Tweeted to the effect that [expletive
deleted] t-Rump should be careful what he wishes for
as legal eyes are no doubt narrowing in his direction
regarding his interaction with Russia. My actual Tweet
was much less elegant but no direct threat.
As a result, and probably to no one's surprise, I earned
myself a 12-hour cooling-off period on Twitter as the
post was considered a threat to the existence of [censored]
[censored] Mr. Unindicted [censored] Co-conspirator.
I guess if he actually begins [censored]-ing people
on Main Street I'll be forced to post sharp, satiric
commentary in the form of Sudoku puzzles or Czechoslovakian
haiku.
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This situation we find ourselves in with a quisling
con artist as president? It could have been worse.
Hillary could have been elected.
Allow me to explain.
If Hillary had emerged triumphant, and it would have
only required about 80,000 more strategically-placed
votes, the House and Senate, both run by Republicans,
would continue to do nothing for another four years
and proceed to blame Ms. Clinton for her "inability
to lead".
The would be no Russia investigation, Trump would have
walked free to start his new Anti-Hillary News Network,
and Fox News would be reporting as truth every nut-bag,
tinfoil-hat theory about Clinton that appeared on 4-Chan.
As a result, a malaise would have settled over the
voters and they would feel no urgency to rectify matters
in the mid-terms. Likely as not, Clinton would be replaced
after four years by a Republican president by voters
who just wanted to "get something, anything done" in
Washington.
Which is exactly where we are now, except we wouldn't
have Trump but a Republican president who is probably
not a moron yet
every bit
as despotic as Trump.
Let that sink in.
Now, thanks to Trump and his Russian pals, the full
venal, treacherous nature of the Republican Party is
on full display. As a result, the Progressives of this
country are fully energized and ready to whup some
Conservative ass 13 months from now. And there are
a lot of Independents and ex-Republicans ready to join
them in 2020. The GOP is the best advertisement for
the Democratic Party.
One of the first things I hope the Democrats will do,
if they get the Senate in 2020, is fix the rules so
that a President can never again claim he or she is
above the law. It could happen.
Yes, we could actually be on the verge of a new American
Renaissance... just as long as we vote Blue, no matter
who.
(Much of the above is pretty obvious conjecture and
has been pondered by cranks better able to string words
together than me, but it's late at night and I felt
the need to bitch and moan and, eventually, convince
myself that, yes, it does get better.)
=Lefty=
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