Danger, Will Robinson, Danger

Lost In Disgrace

January 31, 2020

Danger! Warning! Republican’ts!

This is all just incredible.  A witness-free and witless-heavy trial.  My stomach is aching, my head is in knots.  Chrump’s ex-National Security Advisor John Bolton claims he saw the quid, the pro and the quo.  Lev Parnas has coughed up another video of another meeting with Chrump.  Chrump insists he does not know Giuliani’s indicted buddy Parnas, but it seems Chrump spends more time with Parnas than he does with his own children, well, at least more than Eric. 

Bolton has offered to testify if subpoenaed, which he knows full well will never happen in Moscow Mitch’s kangaroo court.  Another fake patriot like Jim Mattis, John Kelly, H.R. McMaster, Don McGahn – who left the House of Chrump because they could no longer work for a man who had no respect for his office, for them, or for this nation.  None of them has the guts, or apparently cares enough for this country to step forward and expose this disaster-in-chief, to tell the American people what they have seen and protect us from further abuse.  So many patriots, so little patriotism. 

The headlines declare that Mitch McConnell seems to have enough votes to block witnesses in the impeachment “trial.”  To block witnesses from appearing in a trial.  We have all by now heard it a thousand times: How can you have a trial without witnesses and evidence?  How indeed.  No one has ever heard of such a thing because such a thing does not exist.  Except in our current McConnell/Chrump-altered reality.  Apparently, I was under the mistaken impression that I was in the United States of America, not the Duchy of Grand Chrump, land of the Louse That Roared.

Mitch McConnell, kangaroo judge, jury and executioner of democracy

I saw a former chief-of-staff for retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander, one of the Republican’ts who had been listed as witness-curious, but unsurprisingly came down on the side of no witnesses.  The gentleman was asked about Alexander’s thought process, which he described as “deliberate and close to the vest.”  He said above all else, his old boss “would never vote to impeach or convict a president, he has too much respect for the office of president.”  Are you fucking kidding me?  If he does in fact have even a little respect for the office, he would surely want a man who has absolutely no respect for the office – or anything else for that matter, including himself – removed for the sake of the office. 

These people are such irredeemable hypocrites it defies both logic and imagination.  We are truly, and perhaps irrevocably fucked beyond repair.  I know people say we have survived all manner of seemingly irreparable assaults on our society, our Constitution and the very soul of the nation.  Slavery, Civil War, World War, assassinations, Vietnam, Richard Nixon.  But come on, this is the 21^st fucking century and we are, with unerring consistency, and irrefutable acceleration, getting worse and worse.

It is interesting to hear Republican’ts yammer on about how the Democratic House of Representatives rushed through their impeachment process.  Forget that their supposed haste was due to not wanting to wait for however many years it would take to get through the courts to have their Constitutionally mandated subpoenas obeyed by the renegade executive branch that seems oblivious and impervious to any and all attempts at oversight.  Now the Republican’ts are trying desperately to rush through the trial phase, crying that witnesses will serve to drag the process out.  And Chrump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow, vengeance at the ready, threatened that if the Senate votes for witnesses he will call a long chain of witnesses that will greatly lengthen the trial.  So there.  What exactly is their hurry anyway?  It seems their boss, Mr. Chrump wants this wrapped up before the Super Bowl and definitely before the State of Disunion speech.  Because that, my friends, is how Republican’t justice works.

Someone recently said, the Democrats want witnesses because they know they will further implicate Chrump, and the Republican’ts do not want witnesses because they know they will further implicate Chrump.  If Chrump had one single witness who could make him look less guilty, everyone would know about it.  No one who has first-hand knowledge about Chrump’s perfect phone call, or anything else Chrump has done before or during his time in office can say anything in Chrump’s defense under oath.  All of this impeachment trial nonsense is bad enough, but the thought of allowing this psychotic usurper another minute, let alone another four-year term.

Another good point was made by ex-Republican’t Rep. David Jolly of Florida; if you are angry at Republican’ts for what they are perpetrating, save some of your wrath for John Bolton because Bolton can go on any show he chooses, any time he chooses and tell his story.  He also could have voluntarily testified before the House. 

Come on Mr. fake ambassador, be a patriot,
tell your truth, and make me eat my thumbs

With any luck, the voters will spank these cowardly, self-serving Republican’t brats right out of office in November. 
I. Mangrey reporting.  Cautious and nauseous.