Mick
Mulvaney is catching flak for aiding and abetting
a criminal who hates democracy, but it’s fine
for him to wear a flag shirt apparently
Abbie Hoffman would have been 83 years old today.He was only 52 when he decided he had had
enough in 1989.
Hoffman, whatever else he may have been, or been seen as,
was a patriotic American.And a trouble
maker.He had his faults.They were not few and were not small, but Hoffman
never left the land of his birth, and always tried to make it a better place.He joined the Civil Rights Movement in the
early ‘60s, threw money onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and threatened
to use psychic energy to levitate the Pentagon and cause it to “turn orange and
vibrate until all evil emissions had fled,” which would immediate end the war
in Vietnam.
Hoffman co-founded the Youth International Party – the Yippies,
who ran a pig – Pigasus, for president, and perhaps most famously was part of
the Chicago 7 (originally eight, until Bobby Seale demanded a separate trial).
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
Psychotic racist, anti-president Donald Chrump held another
of his signature Chrump Fux Klan rallies Tuesday in Sunrise, Florida.He began thusly, “As we gather together for
Thanksgiving, you know, some people want to change the name Thanksgiving. They don't want to use the term Thanksgiving.
And that was true also with Christmas. But now everybody's using Christmas
again. Remember this?” Chrump carried
on, “But now we're going to have to do a little work on Thanksgiving.People have different ideas. Why it shouldn't
be called Thanksgiving. But everybody in this room, I know, loves the name
Thanksgiving. And we're not changing.”
Unsurprisingly, Chrump’s idiocy was birthed in racism.This week’s target people of color are the Native
Americans who do not see Thanksgiving from the same perspective as their
lighter hued occupiers.It is possible
to imagine that someone as violently (not being judgmental, just accurate)
opposed to immigrants as Chrump might have at least a modicum of sympathy for
those whose lives were destroyed by illegal immigrants.Not to mention someone whose family (as well
as two thirds of his wives) immigrated to this country.You would be very, very uh-wrong. You are likewise
excused if you missed the war on Thanksgiving.Chrump just started it.And he
will win it.So much winning.I’m sick of it.
The orange-dipped, mentally defective and toxically
delusional meat bag in the red hat eventually veered even further off anything
even vaguely resembling rails.Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to be shocked at this point.Nonetheless, there might be some degree of
interest, if only for the tragicomic value, in his latest mouth fart.Chrump told his intellectually incapacitated
throng of adoring assholes, “…and then we beat Barack Hussein Obama and
whatever dynasty that is.”Not making
this up folks.
Chrump was not finished.In case his comment about beating the Obama dynasty was not proof enough
that Chrump was 51 cards short of a full deck, he wanted to assuage any vestige
of hope that there remained a shred of his very, very large (though never
overly functional) uh-brain as he bragged about one of the many Obama
accomplishments he regularly takes credit for, blurting, “You know we just set
another sock rocket… you saw that, right? The stock market!”Yes, like the schlock varmint said, the shock
rocket, I mean the sock puppet, I mean the stock market that Obama rebuilt
(without bothering to un-fuck the 99 percenters who elected him) after
Bush/Cheney crashed it, continues its upward trend despite Chrump’s best
efforts to fuck everything up.As usual,
his quivering hordes cheered wildly even though almost none of them own stocks
and the rising market only serves to widen the massive wealth gap in this
country.
“When someone shows
you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou
The only thing outstanding about Donald Chrump?Debt.Chrump
is a one-man shitstorm on so many levels.In this
case, he touches down like a spray-tan tornado wherever he pleases, causing great upheavaland expense.The disruption is generally temporary, while
the economic damage apparently lingers on indefinitely.This is nothing new for the life-long grifter.It seems the only way to get paid by Donald Chrump
is when he wants you to shut up about having sex with him. The picture below shows the amount of money Chrump
and his campaign currently owe to American cities for expenses related to his
rallies over the past few years.The money
owed to Washington, DC is from his American Carnage inauguration.We still do not know how the record amount of
money collected for the cheapest (and worst attended) ever inauguration was
spent; all we know is that it sure as hell was not spent on compensating the
District’s expenses.
At least he is consistent
In other
news of Chrump’s unwavering penchant for financial misdeeds, a New York judge
ordered him to pay $2 million as restitution for using his phony Chrump
Foundation “charity” as a slush fund for his political
interests. That is, when he was not using it to buy giant portraits
of himself. This comes well after another judge ordered the
foundation be dissolved.
Given all of this perfect behavior, when do we get to see
his perfect taxes?It looks like we will
have to wait for the Supreme Court, now with more fascists, to decide if the
American public has a right to see our anti-president’s tax returns as we have
been able to do with every president since Richard “Yeah, he was a fucking
crook” Nixon.As if Clarence Thomas,
Samuel Alito and John Roberts were not enough to make you violently ill, Chrump
and Moscow Mitch have pummeled our democracy with the likes of Neal Gorsuch and
credibly accused sexual assaulter Brett “I LIKE BEER, DO YOU LIKE BEER? I LIKE
BEER” Kavanaugh.These five (in)justices
are apparently what stands between democracy and yet another step down the road
to fascism in America.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
The U.S. Senate: Brought to You By Russia, “Bought” From You By Russia
November 25, 2019
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky did not want to do
it.At the moment Zelensky had finally resigned
himself to lying to the world in order to stay in the good graces of psychotic
conman Donald Chrump, Chrump Cheneyed himself
– once again, shooting himself in the face.As Zelensky prepared to sit down with Fareed Zakaria on CNN, or perhaps
Fucker Carlson on Fux News, Chrumpy the Clown released call notes (not anything
like a transcript) of his perfect, beautiful, totally innocent, completely hidden
July 25 phone call with Zelensky. The call notes clearly showed Chrump asking Zelensky to
announce he was investigating Joe and Hunter Biden.This, even though Zelensky was not, and
likely would not, since the Bidens’ alleged wrongdoing, along with the absurd
notion that Ukraine was setting up Russia to take the fall for election
interference, both hadbeen debunked as conspiracy theories. Chrump’s attempted extortion, bribery and/or quid
pro quo with Zelensky also happened after a Republican’t investigation found
and reported that Russia had in fact interfered with the 2016 election, to
Chrump’s advantage. “C’mon Zelensky
buddy, daddy needs a new pair of swing states.Naturally, the other reason Chrump wanted this to happen, besides his
need to cheat at another election, was to abet his benefactor, Vladimir Putin's take over of Ukraine.
Zelensky did not want to lie to the world for
Chrump despite his county's desperate situation.But, Chrump had another ass up
his sleeve – today’s Benedickless Arnold, Lindsey Graham.After being repeatedly humiliated by Chrump,
and repeatedly displaying his righteous indignation toward, and unparalleled
disdain for his one-time rival, Graham now has his head so far up Chrump’s ass
that he can often see who Chrump is shouting at by looking out of Chrump’s
gaping maw.
“I thought we weren’t
doing that until we got back to the White House.”
Chrump demanded…I mean suggested that Zelensky publicly
announce he was investigating Biden and the Democrats as precondition for an
invite to the White House.There were no
preconditions, other than assurance that there would be no American witnesses
present, for meeting with, telephoning, and one assumes late-night spooning
with Putin.Nothing was requested before
Chrump went crawling to Kim Jong Un, though to be fair, there were some beautiful
letters from Kim.Nevertheless, Lindsey “I’m
not going to read the transcripts” Graham is going to give Chrump the gift
Zelensky would not.Is Graham hoping
Chrump will make him King of Ukraine?Or
maybe buy him Greenland?Or let Lindsey
lick grits off his ass, or his whatever?Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Graham is being joined in his fool’s errand by Chuck “Oh shit,
he’s still alive?” Grassley (R-IA), and Ron “Ain’t no one dumber than me”
Johnson (R-WI).A larger group of
criminals…I mean Republican’t senators – all of whom will be acting as jurors
in the upcoming impeachment trial of Donald Chrump have already met with Chrump
(the defendant in the upcoming impeachment trial of Donald Chrump) and his
attorney to “map out a strategy.”For his
part, Chrump has, for some time now, been busy bribing, extorting and/or quid
pro quo-ing these potential jurors with campaign cash and as-yet-unknown other
strong-arm tactics.There is no
confirmation of the story that Mitt Romney recently woke up to find a dog strapped to
the roof of his car.
What happens when everyone in
the line-up did the crime?
Realizing that they have no defense because their feckless
leader is guilty as hell and will simply not stop implicating himself in the
crimes he has confessed to more times than he has publicly stated that if
Ivanka was not his daughter he would be dating her. Woe is we.
Chump, who insisted he was
not watching his impeachment proceedings, somehow knows exactly what is
happening, as it happens.Maybe he is
psych(ot)ic.Maybe he is lying, it has happened
a time or 13,000 since he has been in office.
Chrump is fortunate to have
the recently housebroken Devin Nunes and his pack of feral boors on the
committee.To avoid allowing the
impeachment hearings to become inundated with facts and reason, they used most
of their time to fling insane, repeatedly debunked by all quarters, conspiracy
theories that they hope will, a) keep the mentally deficient (and I do not say
this to be mean, only to be accurate) wing of the Republican’t base stupid and
hoodwinked and, b) attempt to obscure any meaningful, damning testimony showing
that Donald Chrump was bribing Ukrainian president Zelensky for dirt on Joe
Biden, or at least to pretend he was investigating same.
Hot on the heels of Gordon
Soldland’s John Dean-like appearance before the House Intelligence Committee,
Der Furor got into a shouting match with himself (some are saying they could
hear him in Ukraine) on the White House lawn.Chrump bellowed over and over, at unnecessary volume, reading from a wad
of unnecessary paper with a giant Sharpie for the hard of reading, “I WANT
NOTHING.I WANT NOTHING.I WANT NO QUID PRO QUO.”, etc.
Apparently, Chrump is having trouble lying without
notes, really big notes
This is what we have with Congress investigating just one
single, solitary violation of Chrump’s oath of office and the law of the
land.Can you imagine what it would take
to investigate all of Chrump’s transgressions?It would take the better part of a day just to list and explain them
all.We would still be investigating him
during Ivanka’s second term.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
The wicket is getting stickier by the minute.We are now in week two of Donald Chrump’s
Super Slob-Stopping Impeachment Extravaganza.Things do not appear to be getting better for the Orange Gas Cloud we
are forced to call “president.”Witness after
witness has laid out clear, first-hand evidence of bribery and malfeasance – some
would say high crimes and misdemeanors – by their boss.Even the witnesses called by Chrump’s
water-carriers could not avoid implicating their dear leader. Of course, as we have come to know, the loudest and most
damning witness continues to be Donald Chrump himself.
Unsurprisingly, the best defense Republican’ts have is to
attack the character of career non-partisan patriots in favor of the most disgracefully
anti-American, pro-Russian, lying racist currently leading their party. That, and the hypocritical attacks on the
process their party devised, which is now being used against them by Democrats.And, an almost fanatical devotion to their
semi-duly-elected Tweeter-in-chief.
Today’s Republican’ts are the exception to the adage that
the fish rots from the head down. The Republican’t
party has been rotting from the bottom up for decades.How many Democrats are members of the
KKK?How many Democrats have sold their
souls to Russian interests like Moscow Mitch McConnell, Rudy Giuliani, Mike
Flynn, Paul Manafort, Dana Rohrabacher, Pete Sessions, Devin Nunes and Donald
Chrump?
Devin Nunes you say?But
he seems like such a wonderful man.Turns
out the mentally and ethically challenged Mr. Nunes was working with Giuliani’s
now-indicted-and-in-jail buddy Lev Parnas.Parnas reportedly helped arrange meetings for Nunes while Nunes was investigating
the oranges origins of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into
Russian election meddling.
Jimmy Kimmel’s Lie Witness News
Where’s Gordo?
Yesterday’s testimony from Gordon “I better find a way to
save my lying ass after perjuring myself” Sondland has the nation all
atwitter.Oddly, Donald Twitterhands did
not rage tweet at Sondland during his incredibly damaging testimony.Sondland threw just about everyone whose name
he could recall under the bus.The millionaire
real estate mogul bought one of the most important ambassadorships in the world
by giving $1M to Chrump’s inauguration and then just followed orders that he now
admits were improper.Now that Sondland
has had some time to mull over a prison sentence, and has seen no small number
of his fellow Chrumpers already behind bars, his memory has greatly improved. And he has some wonderous tales to tell.
I. Mangrey’s Madlife
Crisis
I only
regret that I have but one life with which to both live a theoretically normal
life while also trying to keep up with the shit-circus that is the Chrump
anti-presidency.Keeping my middle
finger on the pulse of our current impeachment holiday season alone, requires a
minimum of 48 hours a day to watch, process and recover from. I, we will likely
(not definitely) recover.Hopefully, the
object of all the mishegas – Donald Chrump – will not.Hopefully, the preponderance of witnesses and
evidence of his horrifying wrongdoings will bring him to a fitting end – a
figurative Bonnie and Clyde last stand, where he goes down in a hail of
justice, or if need be a hail of ballots, instead of him bringing all of us
down in a hail of bullshit.
Damaged Don and Ridiculous Rudy have known and loved each
other for many years, several decades in fact.Now, for the moment at least, they are thick as thieves…literally, though Rudy might soon find himself looking up at the bus under which Donny is poised to throw him.Rudy married his own cousin, while Don has merely
fantasized on television and radio, repeatedly, about “dating” his daughter – though
he has not declared this in public lately. Chrump never said he would grab his fantasy
date by the pussy (that we know of), but he never said he would not.
Both of these self-lovers have a habit of letting loose with
words of anything-but-wisdom on a regular basis.Today we feature big bad Don and his mouth of
carnage:
“We are the ones that
got ISIS.We are the ones that took care
of it, specifically me.”Donald
J. Trump, October 16, 2019
“I’m the one that
knows more about it than you people… As you know, most of the ISIS fighters
that we captured – we, we not Obama.I’m
the one that did the capturing.”
Donald J. Trump, October 21, 2019
When your balls are bigger than your brain, especially when
your balls are the size of BBs – specifically when you are Donald Chrump – it
becomes exceedingly difficult to take you seriously.Not that most people ever did.And when you pal around with the likes of
Rudy G and others of similar caliber (again, think BBs) too numerous to
mention, and too painful to remember, and often impossible to imagine – like
the recently-arrested-while-attempting-to-flee-the-country Lev and Igor, you
continually scare the shit out of everyone wise enough to have not drunk your noxious,
brain-wasting Kool-aid.We need to
squeeze this purulent puss wart out of the White House as one would a
ballooning blackhead, before we all are infected beyond the point where any treatment could be effective.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
Many descriptors have been applied to the current occupant
of the White House in an effort to do justice to the unfathomable injustice that is the 45th
presidency of the United States.These
include: “Pseudo-president,” “So-called president,” “*president*,” “Most corrupt, self-serving, incompetent,
psychologically indisposed, worst fucking president hopefully ever” (I’m pretty sure
I heard this one somewhere).Things like
that.
The Paying Attention team alone, other than refusing to spell his name the way he does, has been unable to settle on
any one of some dozen commonly used prefixes, suffixes and generally insulting
epithets.Der Furor, Orange Gas Cloud,
qresident, etc. Mostly we have chose to avoid placing Chrump's name and the title president next to each other.
I recently heard Constitutional/legal scholar Lawrence Tribe use “anti-president.”Anti-president seems to be about as good a way of referring to the
fraudulent Chrump, of allowing that name and that title to co-mingle, as there is.Simple.Elegant. Immensely appropriate.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
Last Wednesday, on Day One of Donald Chrump’s Super
Slob-Stopping Impeachment Extravaganza, Chrump told reporters who asked if he
was watching the hearings, “I'm too busy to watch it.It's a witch hunt, it's a hoax.I'm too busy to watch it.”
Two days later, on Day Two of the hearings, Twitterbell’s
itchy Twitter finger got the better of him.Not content with all the evidence against him, coming from every
direction, and from– if you will pardon the delicious irony and unavoidable
glee attached to the next word – unimpeachable sources, and the veritable
smorgasbord of possible articles of impeachment, Der Furor decided to make
available one more felonious act.Though
not the first time Chrump has publicly spouted criminal intent and committed
criminal action, this was one of his best so far.
During the nationally televised testimony of criminally-ousted
ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich, the testimony he was too busy to watch,
and was too busy to watch, because he is so very busy, Chrump attacked
Yovanovich on Twitter.This prompted
Chairman Adam Schiff to ask the witness if the president tweeting such comments
were intimidating in her mind.They
were.This witness felt
intimidated.Witness intimidation is a
federal offense.As is Donald Chrump.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
You gotta love that the person who opened the floodgates for
career diplomats to speak truth to abuse-of-power was Marie Yovanovitch – a
Russian born American citizen who loves America too much to put her own, by all
accounts stellar, career as a diplomat above her duty to uphold her oath to “support
and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign
and domestic.”
Marie Yovanovitch speaks the truth.Donald Chrump hates that.
Yovanovitch saw a flagrant foul and blew her whistle.In public.Without cover of anonymity.She
opened the door for others to come forward in defiance of the Department of Justice,
the State Department and the White House, and rescue the country she and they love.Unlike
Donald Chrump, the country Yovanovich loves is America, not Russia.She is an American hero.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
As reported yesterday, Donald Chrump may not be watching his
presidency, his reputation and hopefully his very future taken behind the
woodshed and beaten like a rug after a dust storm, but many Americans are
watching the current Greatest Show on Earth closely.Impeachment Season 2019 makes the staff at
Paying Attention nostalgic for impeachments past.Personally, I still remember coming home from
school every day and turning on the tiny black-and-white TV set in my kitchen
to watch the inimitable Sen. Sam Irvin lead the ultimately historic Watergate
Hearings.
Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, Senate Watergate
Committee
Regular visitors to this site are all too well aware of our unabashed
obsession with the Watergate Scandal and the subsequent impeachment and departure-in-disgrace
of its deranged perpetrator Richard Nixon.Nixon hired a group of ex-CIA and Cubans led by G. Gordon Liddy, dubbed “The
Plumbers” to break into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the
Watergate Hotel in an effort to sabotage the presidential campaign of Nixon’s opponent
– George McGovern.
That Was Then, This Is Wow
Intently angling for his own departure-in-disgrace, Donald
Chrump hired “The Dumbers” in a desperate and stupid attempt to sabotage Chrump’s
presumed opponent for the 2020 presidential race.The Dumbers are led, of course, by
dementia-adjacent Rudy Giuliani, whose idiot minions include Rick “Oops” Perry
and Gordon “I Paid $1M For Chrump’s Inauguation and All I Got Was This Lousy
Ambassadorship and A Possible Indictment For Perjury” Sondland.Giuliani is the genius who, above all else, should
always be remembered for insisting, against all good counsel, that the security
command center for the top leadership of the City of New York be located in Seven
World Trade Center – Ground Zero on 9/11. Rudy did not hire Cubans; he probably thought
they were in ISIS.Instead, America’s
mayor/moron went right to the Motherland, and brought in some top-notch Russian
operatives to help with his treasonesque mission.Two of them – Lev and Igor – are now in
prison, awaiting trial and/or turning state’s evidence.
In the Watergate saga, Deep Throat divulged critical information
to Woodward and Bernstein in the shadows of a Washington, DC parking
garage.In Blabbergate, Dumb Throat,
Donald Chrump personally provided a doctored transcript of his “perfect phone
call” with Ukraine President Zelensky to the news media he so despises.Despite taking the time and effort to
manipulate the transcript before releasing it, the document clearly showed
Chrump committing bribery and/or extortion, or as it was called in Ancient Rome
‘quid pro quo.’Oh, and then his
chief-of-staff – Mick Mulvaney, who Chrump will soon deny he ever knew – admitted
it and told us all to “get over it” because “we do it all the time.”
This beautiful and very perfect impeachment figures to be an
interesting process, and it is always fun to watch Republican’ts punching
themselves in the face on every single network for hours on end. But I still have not figured out what type of
wine goes with impeach.Red for
Republican’t or white for the color of their nationalism?Or perhaps a nice Russian vodka.
Lindsey Graham says he will not watch the impeachment hearings,
presumably because there are no blow jobs involved.Donald Chrump spent Day One of his
impeachment hearings giving another figurative (we assume) blow job to Turkey’s
genocide-desiring dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Chrump claims (i.e., lies) that he too will be
ignoring the hearings – apparently, he will only be re-tweeting other people
who are watching the proceedings.Chrump lied to reporters, “I'm too busy to watch
it.It's a witch hunt, it's a hoax.I'm too busy to watch it.”Eric
Chrump said the hearings were “boring”, presumably because he does not
understand all the big words, having inherited his father’s IDD (Intelligence
Deficit Disorder) and attention span of a mayfly.And everything sounds
muffled with his head so far up his ass.
It also seems that most of the Republican’ts on the committee
are ignoring the hearings as well.They
are intent only on pushing their totally and repeatedly debunked conspiracy
theories and making their president proud of their distraction, lying and Chrump-worthy
idiocy.
One thing all of these treacherous cretins have in common is
their undying allegiance to Mother Russian, and utter contempt for America and
our democracy.
Third-Rate Burglary vs. First-Rate Bribery
Watergate had Deep Throat.Deep Throat was able to keep his identity secret until after his death,
40 years after the fact.Today we have
Dumb Throat; that would be none other than Donald Chrump himself.No one has done more to undermine this
president than Chrump.And no one has
been more up front about bragging about his crimes, practically standing in the
middle of Pennsylvania Avenue and shooting his mouth off.It would be wrong to suggest that Chrump
should literally shoot his mouth off (though many Republican’ts are wishing he
would), so maybe we should suggest that he just glue it shut.He could even remove his foot first.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat
it.Donald Chrump, as everyone knows,
does not learn from or about anything.Rather than engage in the Constitutionally mandated process of
impeachment, Richard M. Nixon opted to tuck his tail between his legs and run
away.As the disgraced criminal and
coward prepared to board Marine One away from the White House he dishonored and
into the shadows of history, he turned to those assembled and flashed a beaming
smile and the now-enshrined-in-American-photo-iconography double "V"
for victory.
He could not have been any
happier than those watching him finally leave
Will Donald J. Chrump follow in Nixon's soiled, clueless
footprints?Tune in over the next few
weeks as Chrump's own impeachment process unravels Chrump and exposes for all
to see – and however many to continue to deny – the
true depths of depravity, and even-worse-than-blowjob infractions perpetrated
upon the American public by Donald Chrump and his no-longer-merry band of
miscreants.
Andrew Johnson was a racist who opposed the Fourteenth
Amendment and ultimately abused his office.Nixon was mentally unstable and a malignant narcissist who in the end
was charged with obstruction of justice, abuse of power and contempt of
Congress.Donald Chrump has inarguably
outdone Tricky Dick on all fronts, and he is no slouch when it comes to racism.Oh, and Bill Clinton had an affair with an
intern.By all accounts Chrump stopped sexually
assaulting women before entering office.
It is finally the moment so manyAmericans – most in fact – have been waiting
for.More it seems, every day.Today is Donald Chrump’s very, very well-earned
Public Impeachment Hearings’ Eve.Stock up
on popcorn and tofu all you kale and quinoa loving human scum.Your democratically elected Democratic-led
House of Representatives will do their best to expose all the cheating, lying
and outright criminal intent, along with a healthy dose of evidence
thereof.Enjoy this historic moment for
weeks to come.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Eve.
I understand that nations need intelligence communities that
keep track of adversaries.The United
States has layer upon layer of intelligence agencies – some we know about and
some whose very existence is too sensitive for the hoi polloi to know about.Our CIA has perpetrated any number of
unsavory, illegal and downright horrifying acts over the years.That being said, on the assumption that they
do at times provide necessary services for our national security, I would much
rather have them working for our interests than for Russia’s, as Donald
Chrump and his vast network of Russian and Russia-adjacent agents seem to
prefer.
Chrump from day one has repeatedly denigrated our
intelligence community in favor of Vladimir Putin.To be fair, Chrump’s relationship with
anything that smacks of intelligence has all the solidity of a lace doily
engulfed in flames.
May Day Mayday
Last
week, Comrade Chrump told stunned reporters – when he wasn’t bellowing at them
to “be quiet” – that his idol and benefactor Vladimir Putin invited him to
attend next year’s May Day Parade in Moscow.Have no doubt that Chrump knows nothing of the history of May Day, or
Russia, or May Day in Russia.“President
Putin invited me to the – it’s a very big deal!” he said. “Celebrating the end
of the war, etc., etc. A very big deal. So I appreciate the invitation… I would love
to go if I could.”I would gladly buy
him a one-way ticket.
A
Drip Down Memory Lane
Chrump yukking it up with two
of his Russian benefactors right after he fired Comey
During a May 10, 2017 meeting in the Oval Office, the
president betrayed his intelligence community by leaking the content of a
classified, and highly sensitive, Israeli intelligence operation.The meeting, during which Chrump did not
allow American press, also featured Chrumpo the Clown telling the Russians that
he was not concerned about their meddling in the 2016 election.It is unclear if Chrump requested and/or paid
for more Russian help for his re-election bid in 2020.It would be wise to assume that he did.
She said.He
said.She said.He said.He said.Non-partisan, patriotic,
career foreign service officials said.Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman said.Many people are saying it.The
president’s chief-of-staff said it.Soon,
many of these people will be saying it out loud, in front of cameras for all to
see. Unfortunately, they are saying quid pro quo instead of words Americans can
understand, like bribery or extortion.Or perhaps more appropriate in the case of the alleged-rapist/self-professed-sexual-harasser-in-chief
– tit for tat.
Lindsey Graham, the Arnold Ziffel of the Senate, has come up
with more excuses for Chrump’s extortion scheme than Dick Cheney and his little
buddy George had excuses for illegally invading Iraq.Anyone remember how that turned
out?Graham’s latest doozy was mewling
that Chrump’s Ukraine policy was too incoherent, thus rendering Chrump
“incapable of forming a quid pro quo.” Although
he has been getting away with it for all of his adult life, the fact that
Chrump is lousy at committing crime does not absolve him of
accountability.Apparently however,
Lindsey Graham does. The only response
to that, is to hold them both accountable.
Groan Acres
‘Tis the Season For
Impeachment, Falalalala La La La La
So, the Republican'ts could not stop moaning that the
private hearings they loved for their never-ending Benghazi fetish (which
ultimately found nothing whatsoever) were simply beyond the pale for
investigating actual criminal activity that Donald Chrump committed in broad
daylight.Now, their brainless leader
Chrump is whining about having public hearings that will allow everyone to
learn all the gory details of his impeachment process.
The Deposition Will Be Televised
The bottom line is that next Wednesday brings Impeachment
Season to live TV.We are already decorating
our Impeachment tree.Despite having
slammed reality TV recently, we at Paying Attention will be glued to the
hearings.Hopefully, from time to time
one of us will be able to come up for air and bang a few choice words out for
your enjoyment and/or consternation.
This has been your Paying Attention Thought For The Day.
