Bummer Reruns

Blather, Retch, Repeat

January 20, 2020

While on the surface this looks like pure, unadulterated bullchrump, the insistence of Chrump and other assorted mental midgets like Rand Paul that Hunter Biden, Joe Biden and the Constitutionally-protected whistleblower be called to testify at Chrump’s imminent (in the actual sense of the word, not the new Orwellian anti-definition foisted on us in recent times by Chrump’s hench-mutants) is as stale as Moscow Mitch McConnell’s daily breath.

Chrump greets press corps for rare press event sans choppers



This whole scenario hearkens back to the time period after September 11, 2001.  Everyone in the entire world knew that 16 out of 19 suicide terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attacks were Saudi nationals.  This was inconvenient for two main reasons. 1) The Bush family and the House of Saud as well as a wealthy family by the name of bin Laden, by that time, had a decades-long bond that was thicker than blood – it smelled like crude oil and was the pigment of money, and 2) the Bush family has just whisked every Saudi they could rustle up out of the country when no one else in the nation was even permitted to fly.  Needless to say, a better scapegoat was needed to deflect America’s attention away from the real perpetrators.  Et voilà, in a neocon/greed-fueled drunken stupor, a new baby war was conceived in a faraway land called Iraq.  That little war eventually grew to be a man and is now so disenchanted it wants to kill those who brought it into the world.

One of America’s very special presidents

Now we have the amoral, cornered rat known as Donald Chrump, desperate to avoid the proverbial hangman’s noose for crimes against the Constitution and the nation.  Crimes he himself admitted to repeatedly.  On television.  On Twitter.  As always with this ne’er-do-well, he has one play in his 280-character playbook.  Blame. Someone. Else.  Chrump wants the focus to be on the subject of his crime, not the actual criminal.  I suppose the “thinking” is, “If Hunter Biden hadn’t done something that countless sons-of-power before and after him have done (Ivanka and Don, Jr. leap to mind) that I could use to tar his father who is likely to kick my fat ass in November, then I could not have used that alleged information to bribe, extort and blackmail the president of Ukraine for my own personal benefit.  So obviously, Hunter Biden is the cause of all this illegal business I clearly perpetrated.  And that radical leftist whistleblower who I personally appointed to my administration without ever meeting or knowing in any way, is clearly guilty of not just following orders.  And Joe Biden should have known better than to challenge my supreme authority by running against me in a Constitutionally mandated election.”  SSDD.

Is Zelensky thinking what we’re thinking?

Similarly, as we were led down the garden path of reasons for illegally invading Iraq from Iraqi liberation to Iraqi women’s liberation to Saddam was working with al Queda to weapons of mass destruction all the way to “weapons of mass destruction program related activities,” which of course, never materialized, and then Bush tried to frighten us with the threat of the “smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.  Ultimately, we got:

And then Dick Cheney shot a man in the face in to dispel any lingering doubts

In today’s version we have Chrump’s excuses for assassinating an Iranian official (albeit one who no one outside of Iran would rather see alive than dead) go from intelligence on an imminent threat to blow up an embassy, to Chrump saying, “I think it would have been four embassies, could have been military bases, could have been a lot of other things too, but it was imminent”, maybe it was a Burger King, or Wendy’s or a Cheesecake Factory, maybe a stray cat – who knows?  Then, according to Mike Pompeo, “There is no doubt that there were [sic] a series of imminent attacks being plotted by Qasem Soleimani.  We don’t know precisely when, we don’t know precisely where, but it was real.” Then they moved on to he was a bad guy we wanted to kill because he had done bad things that had been imminent prior to the time he did them.  SSDD.
 
When it comes to providing the American public with a satisfactory explanation as to why, at that particular point in time it suddenly became critical to take out Soleimani, Chrump has been cagey-A, and Pompeo has been cagey-B.

Oh, and then we learned that the Chrumpies had been looking for the right excuse to kill Soleimani for seven months.  If that’s not imminent, then nothing (or everything) is (or isn't).

I. Mangrey rereporting.