Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
Yesterday a group of GOP congressmen stormed an impeachment inquiry that was being held by the House intelligence committee. And I mean stormed. And I mean they stormed a SCIF, which is supposed to be a secure room free of electronics where witnesses can be called in to testify in private with members of the committee (members of BOTH parties).
But these asshats, led by chief asshat Matt Gaetz of Florida, stomped and yelled their way into that room to try and stop the deposition of Laura Cooper from the Department of Defense regarding the Ukraine scandal that brought us--finally--some impeachment inquiries. But not only that, they brought their cell phones in to take video of the proceedings, which is, you know, really fucking illegal. This had the blessing of both House majority leader Kevin McCarthy and the dickhead in the White House--and probably Bill Barr and Mike Pompeo as well.
To show how much we've fallen into an alternate reality, yesterday one of Trump's attorneys argued to a federal appeals court that while in office, Trump could literally kill someone and not be arrested, charged, indicted, incarcerated, whatever. No, seriously--check this out.
Trump, Barr, McConnell and all of the members of yesterday's asshat brigade think they are above the law. To think they have whined for years about Hillary's e-mails, and yet here Trump is withholding military aid to Ukraine in exchange for them to investigate his mot likely opponent in 2020, Joe Biden and Biden's son Hunter. And here are the asshats bringing their phones into a SCIF. Here are subpoenas being ignored and defied, with key witnesses being told not to testify by the Trump administration.
There is so much corruption, lawlessness, and grift happening in real time, and it's impossible to keep up with it all. That is by design. It's the Putin playbook, and if you really wanna see this laid out perfectly, try not to read this tweet thread from attorney Uncle Blazer without having your eyes and mouth wide open.
This shit cannot and will not stand. We need to tighten the grip we have on democracy more than ever, and to keep it away from Trump's BFF (and handler) Vlad.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Our president is not Trump
On paper, this guy is our president: 
But in reality, this guy is:
There are many things that should alarm us about the fact that Donald Trump has been taking a sledgehammer to our political infrastructure and rendering much of it moot due to a non-stop spigot of lying, cheating, disgusting policies, unparalleled corruption; and just being an all around fucking asshole. But it's the way he talks about Russia and the way in which he covers things up related to Vladimir Putin's hold on him that should be the most unsettling and, frankly, terrifying part.
Despite over two years of yammering "no collusion, no obstruction," and using every lever of power and trickery and manipulation available despite the fact that there was indeed collusion and indeed obstruction and that those things are continuing right now for the 2020 election, Trump still fears Vlad more than anything. Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani, his family/cabinet and a slew of GOP congress minions are still trying to exonerate their hero who is a loose cannon that also happens to deliver tax cuts and judges to them. But now that Trump and Giuliani finally said the quiet parts out loud (Ukraine), impeachment is a foregone conclusion.
But still, Trump is ignoring advisers and continues to make rogue foreign policy decisions that would only make sense if he were trying to please his puppet master (yes Hillary, you were right about that). Giving Turkey a green light to brutally attack and murder the Kurds in Syria and allow ISIS to regenerate and Putin to suddenly control the levers of power in the Middle East has made us look ridiculous to the rest of the world. His own party is now turning against him.
And if you look back, you will be able to connect the dots. Every time Trump and Putin meet, it's privately with NO Americans. For a while there was one American, a translator, but Trump had to destroy her notes to hide what was discussed, and now he just doesn't bother to have any other Americans in the room. He took Putin's side about election interference instead of his own FBI's intelligence. He had two of Russia's top diplomats in the Oval Office the day after he fired James Comey, and in that meeting gave Russia classified intelligence regarding Israel.
It's at the point where this is not funny, and it's beyond dangerous. We are losing allies unless you think Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Turkey are good allies. Putin has played the long game of attacking our country's online infrastructure, using propaganda and playing his puppet like a fiddle who will make decisions based on Putin and Russia's best interests, rather than the best interests of all Americans.
It's sure gonna take a while for us to recover, if we ever do at all.
But in reality, this guy is:
There are many things that should alarm us about the fact that Donald Trump has been taking a sledgehammer to our political infrastructure and rendering much of it moot due to a non-stop spigot of lying, cheating, disgusting policies, unparalleled corruption; and just being an all around fucking asshole. But it's the way he talks about Russia and the way in which he covers things up related to Vladimir Putin's hold on him that should be the most unsettling and, frankly, terrifying part.
Despite over two years of yammering "no collusion, no obstruction," and using every lever of power and trickery and manipulation available despite the fact that there was indeed collusion and indeed obstruction and that those things are continuing right now for the 2020 election, Trump still fears Vlad more than anything. Bill Barr, Rudy Giuliani, his family/cabinet and a slew of GOP congress minions are still trying to exonerate their hero who is a loose cannon that also happens to deliver tax cuts and judges to them. But now that Trump and Giuliani finally said the quiet parts out loud (Ukraine), impeachment is a foregone conclusion.
But still, Trump is ignoring advisers and continues to make rogue foreign policy decisions that would only make sense if he were trying to please his puppet master (yes Hillary, you were right about that). Giving Turkey a green light to brutally attack and murder the Kurds in Syria and allow ISIS to regenerate and Putin to suddenly control the levers of power in the Middle East has made us look ridiculous to the rest of the world. His own party is now turning against him.
And if you look back, you will be able to connect the dots. Every time Trump and Putin meet, it's privately with NO Americans. For a while there was one American, a translator, but Trump had to destroy her notes to hide what was discussed, and now he just doesn't bother to have any other Americans in the room. He took Putin's side about election interference instead of his own FBI's intelligence. He had two of Russia's top diplomats in the Oval Office the day after he fired James Comey, and in that meeting gave Russia classified intelligence regarding Israel.
It's at the point where this is not funny, and it's beyond dangerous. We are losing allies unless you think Russia, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and Turkey are good allies. Putin has played the long game of attacking our country's online infrastructure, using propaganda and playing his puppet like a fiddle who will make decisions based on Putin and Russia's best interests, rather than the best interests of all Americans.
It's sure gonna take a while for us to recover, if we ever do at all.
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