We could open with the impeachment, of course, but just to be different. Let’s check out the environment.
Donald AntiChrist Trump, as part of his ongoing war on Mother Nature, undid yet another environmental law, bringing it to nearly one hundred instances of doing so. This time he disposed of Obama’s Waters of the United States rule, removing protection for an assortment of streams and wetlands. “This was a rule that basically took your property away from you,” said the same president who is embroiled in a series of court cases raised by people whose land he is endeavoring to take away so he can build an unnecessary wall along the US/Mexico border.
According to the New York Times, “The new water rule for the first time in decades allow landowners and property developers to dump pollutants such as pesticides and fertilizers directly into hundreds of thousands of waterways, and to destroy or fill in wetlands for construction projects.”
His claim is that the abatement of the rule will help farmers, and yet his various trade policies have driven many farmers into bankruptcy, so he obviously doesn’t give the slightest of dámņš about them. Instead the ones who benefit most from it are real estate developers.
Basically his elimination of the law will put bodies of water at risk that have been protected since the 1970s and 1980s. It’s insane. But then again, so is he.
This is how insane he is: At the same time that he is being impeached for obstructing justice, he boasted in a press conference a couple of days ago that “But honestly, we have all the material. They don’t have the material.” He flat out stated as a fact exactly what he is being impeached over. That is how confident he is that he will be cleared. He knows that he can say anything, do anything, and never be held accountable for it. Why shouldn’t he feel that way? He’s lived his entire life that way. Whenever he’s gotten into trouble, he either bought his way out of it or bullied his way out of it.
Which is exactly what he’s doing this time as well. He’s donated money to various senators, and he has used Twitter to relentlessly attack anyone who even thinks of standing up to him.
In the face of that, the Democrats’ presentation of their case has been masterful. Adam Schiff and his people have been meticulous, detailed, and unrelenting as, aided by TV screens on which they are able to run videos of testimony from the House investigations, they have laid a thorough groundwork that would prove their case to anyone with a clear, rational mind.
Which of course doesn’t include the Republicans who have remained in lockstep to their opposition. They have had the unmitigated nerve to dismiss the Democrats as presenting “nothing new” after having spent the first few days of the impeachment blocking the Democrats, again and again, from bringing in new testimony. Meanwhile Trump’s lawyers have relentlessly lied. They asserted that the GOP was precluded from being involved in closed-door investigation even though there were, in fact, Republicans present and asking questions. They claimed that Trump and his lawyers were forbidden from getting involved, when the President and his lawyers were actually invited to do exactly that and refused.
The indisputable truth is that the GOP is terrified of witnesses. They know that people like John Bolton would present truth, and the GOP is firmly in opposition to truth. They want to keep the country in its bubble of conservativism, and so they walk out of the Senate chamber in violation of rules, or read books, or do crossword puzzles, or fall asleep. I want you to imagine a juror in any actual trial sitting there nodding off or reading a book during testimony. Imagine what the judge would do to them. Imagine a juror trying to just leave the courtroom because he was bored. I wonder how bored he would be when he was thrown in jail.
The only way it seems that they will allow witnesses is if they managed to get something in return: Hunter Biden. This would be a massive mistake. Forcing Biden to testify would give Trump everything he wants, because no one will remember anything he says, any more than anyone can quote anything Hillary said when testifying about Benghazi. All they will remember is that he was grilled by the Senate, who will say the words “Corruption” and “your father” as many times as possible to make those stick in the American consciousness. And when the Senate clears Trump, he will then be able to go out and boast about how Hunter and Joe Biden are being investigated for corruption while he, Trump, is vindicated and clean as a whistle. So no, Hunter Biden—who has zero personal knowledge of anything Trump did and is therefore irrelevant to the proceedings, should not testify under any circumstance.
I hope to God that the Senate’s actions, their indifference, their flat out refusal to do their job, manages to penetrate the conservative bubbles of the idiot voters who put them in place and make them realize they must, must, MUST be voted out of office. This November may well be our last chance to save the Republic and if we fail, I truly dread the future of this country.
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