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the traitor and his supporters
2018-Jul-16, Monday 06:31 pmIt's been about 9 months since I last posted about this Republican administration, but today's absurdity deserves a new mention. The conservative spokespeople are already out in force, getting their condemnations of Trump's speech into the historical record, before they go back to supporting the egregious policies of this U.S. President and protecting him from impeachment proceedings.
Even after the indictments that came out a few days ago, people are still saying this Russia investigation is pointless. I occasionally join a group that meets at local breweries, and recently someone there said people he knew in the intelligence community were all saying that Trump would spend his life in jail. What Mueller knows hasn't been made public yet. It will become known, eventually. Some members of Congress probably know some of the details, yet they're all still rooting for their team instead of for the law. They are responsible for presidential oversight, and they have willingly shirked their duty. I hold them accountable too.
As Ron Perlman said in his usual blunt and partisan way:
I'll keep saying it with the usual lack of effect:
And it's not just Trump. I also blame all Republicans for this point in our history. They spent an estimated $100 million investigating Hillary Clinton across many years, and some of that time they had full control of the national government. And they came up with nothing. Zilch. Nada. They are incompetent at governing.
Republicans resort to high school pep rally histrionics, because they've got no actual facts to support their agenda. Remember when that previous man-baby interrupted the U.S. State Of The Union address to shout, "You lie!" at Obama? Yet Trump tells multiple lies daily, and Republicans make no effort whatsoever to rein him in. They're incompetent, and they run government like a high school popularity contest.
Trump is a terrible president who has corroded standards of decency in government. We still haven't seen his tax returns. I'm sure that he has interests in so many global corporations and foreign nations that few would ever believe he was serving the USA and its constitution. They've believed Trump up to now, but maybe those tax returns would just be "too much".
They should've known better. I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton (see: "Plutocrats" above; stop voting for them already!), but she really forecast the future well in regards to Trump. NATO, European Union, immigration, etc.
As one of the "rogue" U.S. Government twitter accounts puts it:
When Mueller is done, I'm sure it'll cost more than just Trump's presidency. From his nominees to Congressional intentional unwillingness to see the truth, I'm sure much of the Republican establishment will lose its shine. Even the NRA is now being traced back to Russian money and influence, and it has resulted in one arrest already.
Everyone appointed by this sham of a president should be removed from office. Every policy he’s enacted should be repealed. And everyone complicit in his collusion with Russia to rig the election should be prosecuted - from Mitch McConnell to the NRA.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1018993453148131328
In the Republican party's appeal to old white people, they've lost the next generation. This recent quote is from David Hogg, one of the high school students who survived a mass shooting event. (Does it really matter which one, when there are so many?)
More and more people are reaching the conclusion that plutocracy must go. I'm with them. I have been since the Occupy movement and probably before.
2018 July 17 update: I see today that I was long on opinion and short on evidence. A few hours later, Rachel Maddow did an excellent journalism show that pieced together many of the data points in this recent burst of outrage. The first 5 minutes are mostly about Trump himself, but the next 20 minutes cover the Russia probe results, the NRA-associated Russian now in jail, and why it's obvious that many American citizens cooperated/colluded in this process.
https://youtu.be/ySZvUCFR4tk
Even after the indictments that came out a few days ago, people are still saying this Russia investigation is pointless. I occasionally join a group that meets at local breweries, and recently someone there said people he knew in the intelligence community were all saying that Trump would spend his life in jail. What Mueller knows hasn't been made public yet. It will become known, eventually. Some members of Congress probably know some of the details, yet they're all still rooting for their team instead of for the law. They are responsible for presidential oversight, and they have willingly shirked their duty. I hold them accountable too.
As Ron Perlman said in his usual blunt and partisan way:
Let us never forget the entire GOP, who is conspiring to impeach Rod Rosenstein for the crime of protecting our country from those who are conspiring to destroy us. Let us never forget the blatant treason of one of our 2 parties.
https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1018518799136448512
https://twitter.com/perlmutations/status/1018518799136448512
Dan Rather puts it more diplomatically:
Trump, of course, keeps calling the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt" in spite of its high rate of deliverables so far. Trump keeps finding himself unable to denounce Putin in any substantive way. I don't know if it's purely economic interests that drive Trump, or if there really is a "pee pee tape", as people try so delicately to mention the Russian hooker golden shower escapades.
The New York Times is generally regarded as the most prestigious U.S. newspaper. Yesterday (so even before today's fiasco), they printed an opinion piece that reviewed the investigation, its results, the president's response... then accused the sitting president of treason and declared him a traitor. When... when has that ever happened previously?
If you didn't know anything about the people in these photos, who would you say is dominating each encounter?
And the man on the left just had a private chat with his handler. Republicans continue defending him, his policies, his nominees. It may be years before we discover the full details of this network of impropriety.
To GOP officials who are speaking out about today's "Farce in Finland" - unless you start putting your votes and subpoena power behind your Twitter fingers, I suspect you will be viewed as complicit in the judgment of history (and maybe by the voters much sooner).
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1018939989088858112?s=19
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1018939989088858112?s=19
Trump, of course, keeps calling the Mueller investigation a "witch hunt" in spite of its high rate of deliverables so far. Trump keeps finding himself unable to denounce Putin in any substantive way. I don't know if it's purely economic interests that drive Trump, or if there really is a "pee pee tape", as people try so delicately to mention the Russian hooker golden shower escapades.
The New York Times is generally regarded as the most prestigious U.S. newspaper. Yesterday (so even before today's fiasco), they printed an opinion piece that reviewed the investigation, its results, the president's response... then accused the sitting president of treason and declared him a traitor. When... when has that ever happened previously?
This is an incredible, unprecedented moment. America is being betrayed by its own president. America is under attack and its president absolutely refuses to defend it. Simply put, Trump is a traitor and may well be treasonous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/opinion/trump-russia-investigation-putin.html
After face-to-face talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Trump contradicted US intelligence agencies and said there had been no reason for Russia to meddle in the vote. Mr Putin reiterated that Russia had never interfered in US affairs. The two men held nearly two hours of closed-door talks in the Finnish capital Helsinki on Monday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44852812
If you didn't know anything about the people in these photos, who would you say is dominating each encounter?
And the man on the left just had a private chat with his handler. Republicans continue defending him, his policies, his nominees. It may be years before we discover the full details of this network of impropriety.
I'll keep saying it with the usual lack of effect:
Plutocrats have no national loyalties. They serve themselves. Stop voting for plutocrats.
And it's not just Trump. I also blame all Republicans for this point in our history. They spent an estimated $100 million investigating Hillary Clinton across many years, and some of that time they had full control of the national government. And they came up with nothing. Zilch. Nada. They are incompetent at governing.
Republicans resort to high school pep rally histrionics, because they've got no actual facts to support their agenda. Remember when that previous man-baby interrupted the U.S. State Of The Union address to shout, "You lie!" at Obama? Yet Trump tells multiple lies daily, and Republicans make no effort whatsoever to rein him in. They're incompetent, and they run government like a high school popularity contest.
When we first started this project for the president’s first 100 days, he averaged 4.9 claims a day. Slowly, the average number of claims has been creeping up. Indeed, since we last updated this tally two months ago, the president has averaged about 9 claims a day.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2018/05/01/president-trump-has-made-3001-false-or-misleading-claims-so-far/
Trump is a terrible president who has corroded standards of decency in government. We still haven't seen his tax returns. I'm sure that he has interests in so many global corporations and foreign nations that few would ever believe he was serving the USA and its constitution. They've believed Trump up to now, but maybe those tax returns would just be "too much".
They should've known better. I didn't vote for Hillary Clinton (see: "Plutocrats" above; stop voting for them already!), but she really forecast the future well in regards to Trump. NATO, European Union, immigration, etc.
As one of the "rogue" U.S. Government twitter accounts puts it:
What's most harrowing to me is the depth of the treason. We're past just Trump & his campaign. We're talking about most of the GOP. PAC's. Billionaires. Private citizens. That is what is most alarming - how deep this goes, and how willing so many people were to conspire.
https://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/1017816183653818368
https://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/1017816183653818368
When Mueller is done, I'm sure it'll cost more than just Trump's presidency. From his nominees to Congressional intentional unwillingness to see the truth, I'm sure much of the Republican establishment will lose its shine. Even the NRA is now being traced back to Russian money and influence, and it has resulted in one arrest already.
Everyone appointed by this sham of a president should be removed from office. Every policy he’s enacted should be repealed. And everyone complicit in his collusion with Russia to rig the election should be prosecuted - from Mitch McConnell to the NRA.
https://twitter.com/samswey/status/1018993453148131328
In the Republican party's appeal to old white people, they've lost the next generation. This recent quote is from David Hogg, one of the high school students who survived a mass shooting event. (Does it really matter which one, when there are so many?)
We don’t need Democrats or Republicans to be elected we need fucking human beings that actually give a shit about kids dying. Elect human beings NOT career politicians.
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1017467580884312065
https://twitter.com/davidhogg111/status/1017467580884312065
More and more people are reaching the conclusion that plutocracy must go. I'm with them. I have been since the Occupy movement and probably before.
2018 July 17 update: I see today that I was long on opinion and short on evidence. A few hours later, Rachel Maddow did an excellent journalism show that pieced together many of the data points in this recent burst of outrage. The first 5 minutes are mostly about Trump himself, but the next 20 minutes cover the Russia probe results, the NRA-associated Russian now in jail, and why it's obvious that many American citizens cooperated/colluded in this process.
https://youtu.be/ySZvUCFR4tk