The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    His crimes cry out to Heaven...he is an abomination

    By jollyroger on Tue, 06/25/2019 - 11:02pm |

     

    What, after all, is the breaking point?

     

    In a week that produces a crescendo of evil, juxtaposing unspeakable cruelty to children with outright rape, how can the House not proceed with impeachment, regardless of the putative complaisance of the Repugnant  majority in the Senate..

     

    Failing to  impeach is  to turn a blind eye to the clear obligation that simple humanity imposes.

     

    He cannot be allowed to proceed in this fashion untrammeled, at least by the clear accusation of his serial crimes, made concrete.

     

    Much as Ben Wittes has done in this epic tweet thread, which has drawn wide approval...

     

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    I believe the president. I have always believed him.​

     

     

     

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        I believed him when he said he wanted to ban Muslims from entering the United States. And I believe him now when he says his travel ban has nothing to do with religious discrimination.

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        I believed him when he said Mexico is sending us its rapists and criminals, and I believed him when he said he loves Hispanics. I believe that Trump Tower makes the best taco bowls.

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        I believed him when he protested that he wasn’t trying to get a security clearance for his daughter and son-in-law. And I believe him now when says he needs his family installed by his side in the West Wing.

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        I believed the President when he said he was going to repeal and replace Obamacare and I believed him when he said it was the Democrats’ fault that he didn’t repeal or replace Obamacare.

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        I believe both that separating children from their parents is good policy that will deter desperate people from fleeing Central America and coming to the United States and that the policy of separating children from their parents is President Obama's fault.

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        I believe there is nothing unusual about Russia's setting up a secret line of communication to the Trump administration through Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater and brother of a cabinet secretary.

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        I believe there is nothing unusual about Jared Kushner’s meeting with a sanctioned Russian bank while working for his father-in-law’s transition. I believe that kind of thing happens all the time in all transitions.

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        I also believe there was nothing unusual about having a member of a Hungarian extremist party working in your White House while he was resolving a pending gun charge for trying to bring a handgun onto an airplane. I think his wife should be press secretary for a federal agency.

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        I believe Devin Nunes was merely conducting an impartial investigation when he came across information the President needed to know about and that he therefore raced over to the White House to inform him of his discovery. I believe any patriot would have done the same.

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        And I believe that stopping briefly before going in and before coming out of the White House to tell the press all about it is perfectly consistent with complaining about leaks.

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    Yes he's essence of flim-flam.

    The concept of there's a sucker born every minute is as American as apple pie. And I also think plenty of folks that voted for him or played with the idea of voting for him, might have sensed that he may be a top practitioner of this just from his life as a celebrity.

    Precisely because many people think that is in inherent in politicians to be flim flam men, make shit up and lie and cheat, that it is only a matter of degree of how much of this quality they have and what they are actually willing to do rather than just talk flim flam and not really do.

    So if you are asking "where's the outrage?", I think it is missing in a lot of folks because it is only a matter of degree and then: where do you draw the line on this shit?, and that starting to try to draw lines would take them to a place where they are eternally outraged about lots of them. So they are just willing to let it go....


    by artappraiser on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 8:55am

    One is brought ineluctably to the Ocasio Cortez position, recognizing that no form of guardrails will trammel his evil, and to fund anything related to the government is merely to establish the slush fund for him to "repurpose", a la his emergency declaration to move military base school rehab funds to wall construction.

     

    I'm really at the "burn it all down" point, and I cannot see how anything but full and complete "nuclear option" (ie, to start with, no debt ceiling deal, no House bill funding one paper clip for the White House, etc) can masquerade as good government.

     

    This, of course, is utterly mad.

     

    ETA, hence, my plea for immediate impeachment, if only to keep my head from exploding.

     

     

     

     


    by jollyroger on Wed, 06/26/2019 - 9:58am