Sunday, July 29, 2018

Enough?




Isn't it enough that Trump is in open violation of the Emoluments Clause?
Isn't it enough that Trump has done nothing to defend against on-going Russian election interference?
Isn't it enough that Trump met secretly for two hours with the Russian despot, Putin?
Isn't it enough that Trump has ordered the abduction and imprisonment of thousands of children?
Isn't it enough that Trump has insulted and alienated our traditional allies?
Isn't it enough that Trump has threatened to refuse to defend NATO allies from attack?
Isn't it enough that Trump has threatened to pull the USA out of NATO?

Isn't it enough that Trump has proclaimed that the European Union is a foe of the USA? Isn't it enough that Trump has pulled out of the Paris Accords without consulting Congress?
Isn't it enough that Trump started a trade war with senseless sanctions against reliable trading partners?
Isn't it enough that Trump has sided with fascists, neo-nazis, the alt/right and white supremacists?
Isn't it enough that Trump has defended, supported and even hired sex offenders?
Isn't it enough that Trump has ignored the plight of the citizens of Flint and Puerto Rico?
Isn't it enough that Trump has lied publicly more than 3,000 times since taking office?
Isn't it enough that Trump hired his daughter and son-in-law as elite White House staff?
Isn't it enough that Trump has attacked the Fourth Estate over and over again?
Isn't it enough that Trump has continued to refuse to release his tax returns?
Isn't it enough that Trump hired Mike Flynn after being warned by the DOJ that Flynn was compromised?
Isn't it enough that Trump has hired the worst of the worst to pillage and undermine their departments (e.g. Education, EPA, Interior, HHS, etc)?
Isn't it enough that Trump has brought disgrace and dishonor upon the USA because of his words and actions?
Isn't it enough knowing that this list - as long as it is - isn't a fully comprehensive one?
Isn't it enough?
Protect the Mueller investigation.
Move to impeach Trump.

Saturday, July 28, 2018

Which Hunt?




"He is not a fake president. He was elected. I wish people would stop that nonsense."
(an actual post on FB...)

Nonsense? It has been proven that Russia swayed the election.. Fewer than 80,000 votes made all the difference in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. (Moreover, Drumpf won 18 states by fewer than 250,000 votes in total. Hardly what anyone could consider a mandate.) 


The GOP strategy changed abruptly from their focus on the 'Red States' to the three already mentioned which were thought to have been a lock for HRC. That abrupt change in strategy and the concomitant increase in TV ad buys followed the hacking if the DNC and Drumpf's oft-repeated public plea for help from the Russians on HRC's fricking emails.

The GOP knew the Dems game plan and did an end-around with the help of Guccifer.2, Roger Stone and the Russian hackers. Russian 'bots' also undermined support for the Dem nominee by spreading disinformation - an old Russian propaganda ploy. 


Three of Drumpf's campaign insiders have pleaded guilty; Flynn, Gates and Papadopoulos. 

Manafort, Drumpf's campaign chair, is in jail awaiting two trials; trials which will further reveal his corruption and its influence on drawing the Kremlin into the 2016 campaign. 


Moreover, the Russian spy in the NRA, Maria Butina's role in corrupting the US electoral process is just being revealed. We'll learn more at her trial. It appears that she is ready to flip already. 


Nonsense? 

Hardly. Drumpf - who did not win the popular vote -was elected by a technicality which was exploited by the criminal interference of the Kremlin with the assistance of the Drumpf campaign and the GOP leadership. (That will also come to light as Manafort, Gates, Page etc start to throw folks under the bus to save their own sorry arses.)


Nonsense? No... 


Calamity? Yes, but not nonsense.

Thursday, July 26, 2018

Musings on Mueller and a Certain Maniac






A friend provided yours truly, dear reader, with wonderfully insightful synopsis of the current shit-storm that is the Drumpf regime.
Muito obrigado.  
I offered this response:
It's like a watching Robert Ludlum and Orwell write a dystopian novel together for a Netflix project.
Agonizing and riveting.

Our only hope is Mueller. The one trace of influence that contains Drumpf is someone telling him that firing Mueller and/or Rosenstein is a death knell for his presidency. 

Or perhaps it's some shred of ethics which he still hold on to?
NAW!
He just thinks he can't get away with it! 
That's all that constrains the Drumpfen-fuhrer; his own illusory, febrile, ego-maniacal and ultimately distorted perception of what is transpiring in the world.
 
The truth we should all understand and establish as a benchmark, a foundation stone, is that Donald J. Trump is self-serving, self-dealing troglodyte; a evolutionary dead-end of selfishness, brutishness, greed, ignorance and egocentric behavioral tendencies.

That at least that's what we can pin hopes on.

One wonders if Drumpf is ever self-reflective enough to consider his 'legacy'. Does he expect that being in the Oval Office will validate the profligate life he's lead?

Banging porn-star and Playboy models (for large cash, of course), but that rash of more mature profligacy followed years of sex-parties hosted by convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein.
(Google 'Epstein pedophile' for grins...)

The photos of himself with his adolescent daughter are always accompanied by a chill up the spine and gorge rising.

The Golem-in-chief probably doesn't consider a legacy as more than a final net-worth. He'd fall far down the list of  wealthy men that was his sole benchmark.
(An aside: Putin is reputed to the richest man on earth. That explains his deference and servility to the 'former' KGB colonel. )

Not that Drumpfen-stuff will not have a legacy if Mueller succeeds.
It'll be more like a rueful aftermath, instead; a drug-addled nightmare of our collective soul.

Not even the text-books in Texas could spin the shit Drumpfel-stiltskin is doing into gold. 
One must wonder if the institutions of the Republic will survive this.
 

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The 'Helsinki Moment'






Well, there it is; the 'Helsinki Moment' - the turning point from which there is no turning back. Donald J. Trump has chosen to side with a foreign adversary over the government he swore a solemn oath to protect and defend.

If anyone still needs convincing that Trump is putting 'America First', that person has drunk deeply of the poisoned Kool-aid  and beyond hope of hearing the truth. Any palaver about forging a better relationship with Russia is a feckless fiction, an irresponsible prevarication. It's tantamount to suggesting that the rape-victim should just lie back and enjoy the experience. There were also elements of Chamberlain's woe-be-gone pronouncement of 'Peace in Our Times'.  

One does not 'make nice' with dictators and despots, no matter the 'optics'.
One does not suggest that Jack the Ripper should assist in exploratory surgery.  
Trump has suggested as much publicly; Putin should help with the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the American electoral process. (!)

WTF!?

We can only imagine with horror what transpired between the two inveterate liars in the private two-hour meeting. As bits and pieces of that prolonged exchange comes to light, we will no doubt be shocked and appalled.

It is long past time to end the travesty of the Trump presidency.
Protect the Mueller investigation.
Move to impeach the president.