Moscow On The Potomac

Make America Russia Already

January 22, 2020  
Dosvedonald Chrump and Moscow Mitch McConnell continue their relentless Russiafication of the United States.

Pre-coital bonding

Ukraine’s Orange Revolution was a push away from Russian corruption and toward democracy.  It was ultimately unable to extricate Ukraine from its history of corruption, but ultimately Ukraine elected a comedian, who by all appearances finally meant to leave behind all the corruption and make a serious attempt at real democracy.  So what happens?  The world’s self-proclaimed greatest force for democracy leans on him as hard as Russia ever could.  The American president immediately steps in and demands Ukraine pretend to investigate a political rival in order to receive military assistance that had already been promised by the U.S.

America’s Orange Revolution was the exact opposite.  The 2016 revolution that put an Orange Gas Cloud in the White House looks to make America Russia.  Not to “make America great again” (a plagiarized slogan to begin with), not to make America anything again (with the possible exception of a bastion of racism and hatred not seen since the Civil Rights Movement, if not the Civil War Era).  Instead it wants to make America something new and even more grotesque.  America is now under the tiny thumb of a Revolting Orange Gas Cloud that cares for nothing other than its own aggrandizement, power and greed.

Before Dosvedonald came along, Moscow Mitch was already hard at work Russiafying America.  The most obvious move that put Mitch on the anti-democracy map was proudly stating, “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”  Honor his oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States?  Pshaw.  Do everything in his power to achieve results for the betterment of the people of the United States?  Yeah, right. 

The one, the only – Moscow Mitch McConnell

When McConnell’s mission to deny Obama a second term did not pan out, McConnell continued stonewalling everything Obama tried to do.  Perhaps most important was McConnell’s blocking of judicial appointments all across the country.  Then he hijacked Merrick Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court after the long-hoped-for demise of the delusional Antonin Scalia, who claimed to be channeling the Founding Fathers.  Scalia claimed to be an “originalist” who knew exactly what the drafters of the Constitution meant by every word and phrase, something even they would not have claimed.  Garland was a highly qualified nominee, greatly respected on both sides of the aisle, who Moscow Mitch refused even a hearing – because he knew Garland would fly through the process and attain the seat on the highest court that was Obama’s to give. 
Since then, McConnell has packed the federal courts with young, unqualified ideologues who will change the face of this country for the rest of our lifetimes. 

While over at the Supreme Court, McConnell has handed Chrump and America the lightweight Neil Gorsuch and the credibly-accused sexual assaulter and unabashed beer lover Brett Kavanaugh.  

Now Moscow Mitch is trying to hide the impeachment trial from the American people by holding the hearings under cover of night and by keeping the press at bay.  He did not attempt to hide his intention to make a mockery of this impeachment trial, or his utter contempt for his special oath to be an impartial arbiter of this serious trial.  Not to mention his absolute disdain for the American people – will they ever notice?

 

For his part, Orange Don invited top level Russians – our perennial adversaries, to say the least – into the Oval Office just a few months into his anti-presidency, and shared sensitive national security secrets.  Two years later, while Russia continued their years-long invasion of and war on Ukraine – our ally – Chrump illegally withheld military funds (approved by Congress and signed by him) in return for demanding corrupt action by Ukraine to the benefit of Chrump himself.  This scared the crap out of the newly elected Ukrainian president, while pleasing Chrump’s benefactor Vladimir Putin no end.

Where will McConnell’s and Chrump’s Moscow on the Potomac take us next?  Cancel the upcoming presidential election?  Allow the election to proceed, hoping that all the voter suppression and Russian meddling will do the trick and then deny any result that goes against Chrump, McConnell and Russia?  Stay tuned. 

If ever a president needed to be limited to one term, #45 is the one.  Despite having the best words, though he has clearly kept them all to himself, despite knowing more than everyone about everything, this president has made George W. Bush look like George Washington.  Chrump doesn’t know where China is.  He said that Seoul, South Korea was too close to North Korea and needed to move.  He only recently learned what Pearl Harbor had to do with anything. 

America needs another Orange Revolution

Medical experts talk about things like smoking, excessive drinking, drug abuse, poor eating and sleeping habits taking so many years off a person’s lifespan.  Every day Dosvedonald Chrump remains in office shortens the lifespan of the United States of America.  He is the human equivalent of wanton opioid abuse and he will kill us if we do not get the help we need.  Immediately.

I. Mangrey reporting.  Turn on, tune in take no shit.