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Rude One
1. At some point in the future, barring democracy's end, a Democrat will
be president. Let's say for shits and giggles that it's, oh, hell, how
about Alyssa Milano? Sure. Why not. Let's say that it's election time
and Donald Trump, Jr. decides it's time to throw his dumpy ass into the
mix. And let's say, and, why not, Junior's the frontrunner because,
hell, Republicans have got no one else. Maybe Junior will have opened a
Trump Tower in Jerusalem in the last few years, and that meant doing a
lot of business with wealthy people in Israel. Now, as we know, there
are politicians (Netanyahu) in Israel who are tits-deep in
corruption. We also know that the United States gives a fuck-ton of
money in aid to Israel, along with military equipment.
The Republicans' own characterization of what Donald Trump (Senior -
that asshole we have now) did with asking for Ukraine to investigate
Hunter Biden under the banner of "corruption" is that it was perfectly
okay to make U.S. aid to Ukraine contingent on the investigation.
So in the future, if President Milano says that aid to Israel won't be
released unless and until that country investigates Donald Trump,
Junior, under the banner of "corruption," it's all good, right?
Because, see, that's what the fuck you're saying, Republicans. Now, we
know that because you're Republicans, you eat and shit hypocrisy, which
means that you'll act outraged and pretend that no one has ever done
anything so outrageous in the history of ever. But, right now, you're
saying that any president can do this to another country and to a
political opponent. You want that, fuckers?
2. The best moments in today's impeachment hearings were ones that took
Republicans, pulled down their pants, and smacked their asses red. It
was pathetically
hilarious
to see Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan, that Ratshit guy, and the rest attempt
to fuck the roadkill of the conspiracy theories that were run over time
and again by officials who were not just Trump administration hires, but
lifelong Republicans, like Kurt
Volker
and Jennifer Williams. Things got so bad, with GOP members of Congress
stepping on their own dicks, stepping on each other's dicks, stepping on
dicks that showed up just to be stepped on, that they were forced to
try any attack, like on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's choice to wear his
uniform to the hearing or the TV ratings, fer fuck's sake, or that no
one used the word "bribery" in any of their testimony, which is the
weirdest fucking thing since witnesses don't get to decide what crimes
people will be charged with. Jesus, even Volker, who was pretty much
caught lying and had to revise his testimony, couldn't really offer any
help. It was utterly useless, but they're gonna pretend like they won a
great victory because that's what skeevy hucksters like Donald Trump do.
3. My personal favorite moment came towards the end of the first part of
the day. It was when Democratic (notice the adjective form of the word,
the one that Republicans refuse to use because they're twat mites) Rep.
Sean Patrick Maloney from New York had his five
minutes to
question Vindman and Williams. Maloney tore up the "hearsay" allegation
that Republicans had kept tossing around on the first day by asking
both witnesses about the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian
President Zelensky: "You heard the call with your own ears, right?...Not
second hand, not hearsay, you heard the
resident speak. You heard his
voice on the call?"
Then, with Vindman, Maloney fucked shit up for the GOP. He asked Vindman
why he reported the call to the National Security Council's lead
counsel. "Because that was my duty," Vindman said. Maloney asked Vindman
to read again one of the final paragraphs of his opening statement,
where Vindman was speaking to his father, who had brought his family to
the United States, escaping the Soviet Union to do so. Lemme quote this
in full:
VINDMAN: Dad, my sitting here today in the U.S. Capitol, talking to our
elected officials, is proof that you made the right decision 40 years
ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to the United States America
in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry, I will be fine
for telling the truth.
MALONEY: You realize when you came forward out of sense of duty that you
are putting yourself in direct opposition to the most powerful person
in the world. Do you realize that, sir?
VINDMAN: I knew I was assuming a lot of risk.
MALONEY: And I'm struck by that word don't -- that phrase "do not worry," you addressed your dad. Was your dad a warrior?
VINDMAN: He did serve. It was a different military though.
MALONEY: And he would have worried if you were putting yourself up against the president of the United States, is that right?
VINDMAN: He deeply worried about it because in his context there was -- it was the ultimate risk.
MALONEY: And why you have confidence that you can do that and tell your dad not to worry?
VINDMAN: Congressman, because this is America. This is the country I
have served and defended, that all of my brothers have served. And here,
right matters.
A good number of the audience in the hearing room burst into applause.
Whether or not Vindman is correct about America, we shall see.
4. The picture of
resident Trump that came through today is of an
out-of-touch idiot who has listened to Rudy Giuliani, another
out-of-touch idiot, both of them sharing delusions of conspiracy
theories. And when people in the intelligence, national security, and
foreign policy communities tried to tell Trump that the batshit
allegations about Ukraine and the DNC server or the Bidens are batshit,
Trump told them to fuck off and put Giuliani in charge, sending him on a
mission to confirm the batshit allegations, eventually bribing Ukraine
to almost join him in the delusion pool before all this shit was
revealed by the whistleblower and confirmed by the multiple officials
who have testified.
Seriously, this is like Trump sending people to search for Barack
Obama's birth certificate, except now he gets to do it with the power of
the Oval Office and the purse of the United States behind him.
5. Let's give the final word to Democratic Committee Chair Adam Schiff,
who finally came about as close to losing his shit at Republicans as he
has so far. In his closing remarks today, he pointed out that
Republicans don't give a shit what Trump did. "Their objection is that
he got caught," Schiff said. Then, getting more intense, he continued,
"Their objection is that someone blew the whistle...their defense is
that, well, he ended up releasing the aid. Yes! After he got caught.
That doesn't make this any less odious."
I think things are going to get even more odious as Republicans start
throwing everything at the hearings to see if something will derail the
train that Schiff is driving straight at Trump.
(Note: You might think Trump's not really insane and is using the
conspiracy theories as a cover for malevolence. I'd say that if he were
truly that smart, he'd know to keep this shit quieter. )
