It is certainly elucidative of how low the bar can go, that the argument over whether or not Trump actually subborned the perjury of Michael Cohen before Congress is the field on which this particular battle is being fought.
Might we not, without exposing ourselves to the charge of excessively high expectations, reference the complaisant silence with which the false testimony was greeted by the person who took an oath to see that the laws of the United States were faithfully executed?
Among the most infuriating frameworks enunciated by the wise and profound who claim time on TV is the trope that by refusing to give in to utter blackmail, Pelosi and the Dems are part of the problem.
Why not just split the difference at 2,500,000, opine such termpernent.ally diverse pundits as David Brooks and Chris Wallace.
The manifest stupidity and racist motivation of the demanded WALL!!! is besides the point, I guess.
Cast your mind back to the furor that surrounded the aborted promotion of Doctor Ronny to VA administrator, a brouhaha which echoed recently as Jon Tester felt the (impotent) sting of Trump's continuing sulk.
We have leaned in recent months that the proposed solution to the flood of refugees seeking adjudication of their asylum claims will not be to increase the number of tribunals, but to prepare to house for years on miitary bases the resulting multitudes frozen "in transit" (usage taken advisedly)
Hard upon adoption of that policy, the visible tide feeding this population is routinely forced by similar (and explicitly intentional) under resourced processing personnel at "ports of entry" to congregate on the Mexican side of thee border for indeterminate (and increasingly interminable) periods of time.
Walk me through this, ye apostles of law and order.
Assuming, arguendo, that Clyburn's paperwork sits, and sits, and sits some more, how is the oversight that we all anticipate with hopeful longing vindicated again?
It seems that notwithstanding a pathological level of data ingestion, I overlooked (maybe you did too....) the significance of the award to Colin Kaepernick by Amnesty International (whose doings normally register on me, i swear it...).
So, it seems, Amnesty gave him this year's "Ambassador of Conscience award.
"Get tht sonofabitch off the field and up here to get his statuette!"
The fat fuck in the White House has usefully informed us this week that the protests sparked by Kaepernick address issues not germane to their proponents.
Fortune having delivered us into the maw of Trump The Destroyer, she has also delivered the invalided John McCain, who may well be absent from the Senate for the duration.
Pence can break a tie, but he does not count towards the 51 Senators required to do business.
They may have to kidnap Manchin, McCaskill and Heitcamp,but it's a plan.
Among the several crimes against intelligence that adorn the record of the post invasion imperium in Iraq, the attempt to prosecute frame the son of an Ayatollah (himself martyred by Saddam) for the murder of a collaborating Mullah stands out...
Moqtada al-Sadr was not only an aspiring Ayatollah in his own right, he was also commander of one of the two or three most powerful militias in Baghdad--they call part of Baghdad Sadr City.
The esteemed author of the diplomatic hand grenade otherwise known as "The Libya Model" is turning his national security chops to the southern border contretemps.
He will shortly announce the inevitable product of his careful reasoning, consistent with the need to enforce zero tolerance tempered by the prohibition on locally.concentrated internment (see what I did there?) mandated by PR prudence.
As Trump in Singapore bids fair to fulfill the mandate to provide his reality show with an audience pleasing finale, may we friends of humanity argue that no downside lurks in the prospect of a supine Trump, albeit producing a Potemkin peace?
What I mean is this: Granting that Trump, by definition, understands nothing, what's the worst that could happen?
The fear seems to be that Trump will "give away" too much in his zeal for a chance to sample the golden shower culture of Oslo. That is obviously bullshit.
Trump is like the Bernoulli effect at the bottom of a toilet--a whirlpool that sucks in all who venture close.
Poor Ronny Jackson! Served multiple presidents with no exposure of his flaws, widely respected and liked.
Obama liked him.
All he had to do was slight science for sycophancy in his White House Physician's report on Trump's health, and next thing you know, he's under the predictable nominee scrutiny lens.
Cynthia Nixon will be on the ballot for New York Governor in November. Probably not on the Democratic Party Line, but the fight to put her there is gonna make the Working Families Party explode nationwide.
Can cognition produce greater dissonance than this? Could this be his "rainman" talent, to find the most vicious (albeit, in this case, funny as fuck...) frame for visual idiosyncrasy? (Ed not: The Keebler Elf is not too shabby, either...)
The miseries of Mitch McConnell (may they increase beyond measure...) just grew exponentially by virtue of the Alabamapocalypse. Now, each Republican Senator (Susie, I'm talkin' to you...) is the crucial last senator.
Where before, it was thought that having one vote to spare, McConnell might at need stiff Collins while fronting off Ryan's declared recalcitrance to cloak his own bad faith.
Now, he's another 25 billion in the hole towards his do or die number of 1.5 Trillion, which will give him problems on his right flank.
Buckwheat called the meeting of the Woman Haters Club to order, and entertained the motion by Brothers Thrush, Rose and Halperin that Brother Trump be reprimanded for giving away the great secret and leaving all his brother celebrity pussy grabbers holding the bag (so to speak...).
Charlie Rose spoke first in favor of the motion to censure.
In case you missed it, the world almost ended that day, because Soviet satellites misreading sunlight reflected from clouds for missile afterglow triggered a system call for a retaliatory launch.
Without peradventure, we all owe to the (truly lamented) S. Petrov, our good times from the cited date on..
Some outlets are clutching their pearls at the purported over the topism in demanding polygraphs as part of a leak investigation. WTF?? Malcolm Nance pointed out a while ago that the leaks were more likely to come from White House personnel than intelligence people because the latter are routinely polygraphed.
So, if anything we should be shocked that Sessions doesn't know this already, not that he wants to put people "on the box"
