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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It seems disappointedly clear that most of the current Senators are [b]less[/b] concerned about the rule of law and [b]more[/b] concerned with their own self-interest and preservation. Therefore, the House impeachment managers should emphasize another point:
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– The current chief executive of the U.S. government asked a member of a foreign government for a favor against a potential political rival.
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– If Senators vote not to convict the current chief executive for such action, then they will set a [b]dangerous precedent[/b] by saying they consider such behavior to be acceptable.
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– If it becomes acceptable for the chief executive of the U.S. government to ask a member of a foreign government for a favor against a potential political rival, then wouldn’t it also be acceptable for [b]other[/b] members of the U.S. government to ask a member of a foreign government for a favor against their potential political rivals. For example, House members? Or Senators? (Hello, Chancellor of Germany! I’m a U.S. senator! I’d like to ask you for a favor getting a certain set of tax returns possibly possessed by one of your banks…)
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– And if it becomes acceptable for [b]other[/b] members of the U.S. government to ask a member of a foreign government for a favor against their potential political rivals, then wouldn’t it also be acceptable for those [b]seeking to become[/b] members of the U.S. government to ask a member of a foreign government for a favor against their potential political rivals? For example, a wealthy businessman running against a sitting U.S. chief executive? Or sitting U.S. Senator? (Hello General Secretary of China! I’m running for senator of Kentucky! I’d like to ask you for a favor getting information about a certain business run by the sitting senator’s wife…)
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– And wouldn’t it also send a [b]dangerous[/b] message to allies and rivals alike that members of the U.S. government would accept favors against their potential political rivals? (Hello U.S. President! This is the leader of North Korea! I got some damaging info about a senator you’re always complaining about! I’ll give it to you if you’d just arrange for lifting all sanctions against me for a year or so…)
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Any such behavior would obviously be [b]unacceptable[/b] and [b]illegal[/b] for any member of the U.S. government or those seeking to become one. The current chief executive should not be an exception.
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On a more light-hearted note, have you seen the recently revealed seal for the U.S. Space Force? It looks kind of familiar…
Oh, sure. Any such behavior would be unacceptable. From any Democratic lawmaker.
But Republicans set a different standard for Republicans. When the person involved is a Republican, it’s not an illegal act. It’s a legitimate campaign strategy.
“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”
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I doubt it will. Nothing has so far despite all the overwhelming and blatant crimes and incompetence we’ve seen so far. Those bubbles are made of stupidity and resentment, which is infinitely harder than any vibranium-adamantium alloy.
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I just hope the reasonable people don’t get worn down with frustration and hopelessness and (wrongly) believe the situation is beyond salvaging. I hope they realize how crucial this is and come out in droves, a wave large enough to overcome the voter suppression that’s a main Republican strategy.
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I do think the bubbles around the purity airheads who voted for Stein or Sanders last time can get penetrated. Just maybe.
My predictions:
The republican defense will call no new witnesses, and the Senate will vote down all charges, with one or two Senators in tight races permitted by the leadership to vote for.
In the coming primaries, the democratic candidates will savage each other mercilessly, causing dissatisfaction in the party.
At the convention, Biden will pull a Hillary to keep other delegates from being seated, and will win the nomination.
Disenchanted Democrats will avoid the polls in record numbers, and Trump will have four more years of rule.
One other note on the whole mess:
Does anyone else get the impression that the Democrats are going “I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED that there is Foreign Involvement in our political process!”
I suspect that this sort of thing has been going on for decades, but they became so desperate to find SOMETHING that they brought this up. It will be unfortunate for them if they are successful, and then prosecuted next year for the same thing.
I must admit, I was surprised to see you refer to Donald Trump as “AntiChrist,” given your religion.
Maybe that’s more literally true than you and his supporters know, though. Look at the current official GOP logo as found on most any Press Release page of their official gop.com website, or on their official Twitter feed or Instagram page (the ones on their Facebook and YouTube are color-reversed “negative” treatments of the logo, not the actual official logo). Notice what it is. Notice what color it is. Notice those three things across the top of the beast, which way they’re pointing, what that makes them (especially now that they’re inside a circle [along with the rest of the logo, but that wasn’t the case with the classic flag-colored logo of previous decades], and where on the beast’s body the rightmost such symbol is.
Then read Revelation 17:3.
We all expected it, but the Trumpster has been acquitted by the U.S. Senate. So why does it feel less like vindication than like a cover up?