Well…with ambassador Gordon Sondland going back to congress to “clarify” last weeks testimony and confirming in no uncertain terms that yes, he did tell the Ukraine that they wouldn’t get any military aid unless they issued a statement saying Russia had nothing to do with helping trump in the 2016 election and that they were opening investigations into the Bidens. On top of that, trump and his minions dictated the statement that they wanted Ukraine to say….I think that Sondland saw the transcripts that were released this week of the other people testifying and saw that, crap, he was in big trouble and then used the typical liars dodge that the other testimony jogged his memory and NOW he really remembers…all the while hoping that this “clarification” will keep him out of jail. Now, with this testimony that, yes indeedy, trump and his cronies did try to extort Ukraine to lie and help trump in 2020, this should be enough to end trump but it won’t be with the repubs carrying around their own moveable goalposts…and now saying that a crime isn’t a crime. One thin is certain, that even if they do keep trump from being removed and he serves out his term, he will be prosecuted after he is out of office and, with the evidence that is now public against him, a first year law student could get a conviction and send him away for the rest of his life…can’t wait for that perp walk…and for everyone else from Barr on down who will go to jail too…
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Cracks in the wall of obstruction..
Well…with the testimony of Col. Alexander Vindman to the house impeachment inquiry yesterday, we now know that the “transcript” of trump’s extortion call to Ukraine’s president had been altered to make it look less incriminating to trump and his cronies….editing out trump’s constant pressure to get Ukraine to investigate the 2016 election interference and the many times he mentioned the Bidens by name. Hey, let’s add this crime to all of the other crimes trump has committed just this year…and add another article of impeachment of obstruction and cover up…hmmm…I wonder who else was guilty of a coverup? Could it be Nixon? Yep…but this coverup is so much worse since it involves our foreign policy being subverted to benefit trump and only trump…while Nixon’s crimes were within our borders…an order of magnitude less in damage to our country. There are still more witnesses testifying all this week to add to the already damning information that has already come out and the dam appears to be breaking on trump’s attempt to use mafia tactics to keep everyone quiet and himself out of jail….I think some of this is patriotism, especially in the case of Col. Vindman, but some of it is just CYA as the rats start to desert trump’s sinking ship…don’t care which as long as trump goes to jail….
More obstruction…
Well…with the stunt the repubs pulled today of storming into the secure briefing room where a witness was giving testimony on the Ukraine extortion, all of them should be censured to start with, but then they should all be charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation…and the kicker of the whole thing was that, again, trump was aware of and supporting this crap…and that makes for another article of impeachment and adds to his already ongoing daily obstruction. Now, the repubs are always going on and on that they are the party of national security but every damn one of these idiots that pushed their way into the secure room where they don’t belong since they are not on that committee who is taking the testimony, took his cell phone into the room which is a severe breach of security and IC rules…and now, because these assholes pulled this stunt, the facility has to be swept for bugs to ensure that it is still secure from spying. This is just another incidence where the repubs don’t think any rules or laws apply to them and I think Nancy Pelosi needs to bring the hammer down on all of them…how about taking away all of their committee assignments to start with…we need to stomp on this crap as hard as possible…and do it now…
I wonder…
Well…just sitting here taking the day off of everything, reading some news stories and one that jumped out at me was the release of a “fact sheet” by Nancy Pelosi this morning setting out the broad outlines of the impeachment inquiry that appears to center on the abuse of power relating to the Ukraine extortion…now, I believe this is too narrow…but I understand that with all of the crimes that the idiot trump has committed, Pelosi and Schiff don’t want to make it too complicated for the general public to understand and I defer to their experience. Especially since Schiff is a former prosecutor and Pelosi has shown over and over that she knows how to wield the levers of power in the House…there was one thing that was buried in the sheets was the fact that there is evidence that both Pence and Pompeo were involved in this scheme..and that makes me wonder if there are charges and impeachment in both of those idiot’s future? After all, if trump is being impeached for running this extortion, should Pence be rewarded if trump is removed? It should never happen that a VP is rewarded for doing the same crime as the president…and guess what Pencie? There are real laws you have broken that you can be prosecuted for after you’re out of office…just like idiot boy and I’m sure there are prosecutors out there who are already working on the case….don’t think praying is going to help here you hypocrite christian….I just found a popcorn pumper in the basement here and I think I’m going to wear it out watching the hearings…
It only took four…
Well…with all of the people that the house committees investigating trump’s Ukraine extortion want to talk to and who are going to talk over the next week or so, it only took the first four to prove that trump and his cronies committed multiple crimes in trying to get Ukraine officials to lie about Hunter and Joe Biden. Since the ex US ambassador testified last Friday, and with the three since then, all have told the same story…that Rudy, Mulvaney, Pompeo, Pence, and Barr all were involved in the scheme that was fought hard by career diplomats who all knew that what they were doing was not only illegal, but that would damage the US standing in the world by showing that trump and his cronies were just as corrupt as anyone in the Ukraine…or anywhere else in the world, and with them in charge the US could no longer be trusted. That is where the huge problem is…and with idiot boy’s unfathomable abandoning of our Kurdish allies in Syria, no one in their right mind can ever trust a thing that trump says or does…that right there is as impeachable an offense as you can possibly commit….and yet he just keeps on criming every day..and the repubs continue to support the flushing of our honor just to get a few more judges approved….every damn one of them needs to be held accountable…not just voting them out but holding them criminally responsible for being part of this conspiracy…one thing that I want to hear is a pledge from every one of our candidates that none of these criminals will be pardoned if they are elected….life in prison is too good for them….
Quick one on politics…
Well…wasn’t going to do one on politics today but a couple of things popped up about the idiot trump that I wanted to comment a little about them…the first thing was that it was revealed yesterday that the 8 page long screed about not cooperating with congress on impeachment, that was supposedly written by one of trump’s lawyers was actually dictated by idiot boy himself…and now we know why it wasn’t up to the very basic standards of a first year law school student…but I can’t understand why that lawyer who was the stenographer would put his name to anything like that…opening himself up to disbarment by the lies that were included in it…are everyone around trump just that damn stupid? Oh, hell…we all know the answer to that…yes, yes they are. Another little tidbit that came up is that it appears that the cone of silence (I know the experienced people that read here know what that refers to) is starting to crack with the former Ukraine ambassador testifying to the house Friday even though she was ordered not to by trump…and next week, the American ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, is going to tell the House that it was trump that ordered him to put “no quid pro quo” in the text to the present Ukraine abassador, Taylor….another incidence of trump trying to CYA after everyone around him told him he broke the law with trying to extort Ukraine into smearing Biden. Okay, so that one wasn’t that quick…it was going to be about the house but my memory just kicked in and I remembered this stuff…whatever, trump is in even more trouble now since that text message can be construed as part of the coverup of the extortion of Ukraine…man, is trump stupid…
So much winning…
Well…as every day goes by, the village idiot squatting in the WH gets more and more deranged as he hears that the walls are closing in…just today there is a hearing in the house where the previous abassador to the Ukraine is going to tell Schiff exactly what happened in her firing to clear the way so trump and his cronies could pressure Ukraine to lie about Biden…and that is going to be good…and Gordon Sondland, who is another diplomat enmeshed in the scandal (okay a fake diplomat who paid a million bucks to get appointed) has agreed to testify, defying the state department’s order to not cooperate with the investigation. And it appears that Bill Taylor, who was serving in the ambassadors post after Marie Yovanovitch was fired, is negotiating to testify what he knows…so, much, winning for idiot boy…and let’s top that off with the dc appeals court that ruled 2-1 that Mazars has to produce trump’s tax returns and give them to congress…of course trump is going to try to appeal this case to the supreme court but it is unusual for them to take the case if both the district and appeals court agree…but, with the hacks that McConnell has infested the court with, who knows? It is only a matter of time until trump goes down and take all of the damn repubs with him…hope I have enough popcorn to watch this show…
Bye, bye Rudy…
Well…gee…never saw this coming…it seems that a couple of the criminals who were helping Rudy Giuliani pressure the Ukraine into manufacturing “dirt” on Joe Biden were up to other crimes, too…and they were just arrested for campaign finance violations for funneling Russian money into the campaigns of many repubs using shell corporations…including trump and Kevin McCarthy, who has been one of trump’s biggest supporters since his impeachment has been announced. These two guys were nabbed making a run for it at the Washington airport just after having lunch with Rudy…and I wonder if Rudy gave them a heads up that they were going to be charged with multiple crimes and that is why they had purchased one way tickets back to Russia? Oh, and these two guys were instrumental in getting Pete Sessions (another repub rep) to pressure the state department to remove the ambassador to the Ukraine who was standing in the way of Giuliani’s conspiracy that now looks like will be the downfall of not only the idiot trump but of damn near everyone around him once the truth comes out. I’m pretty sure there will be a perp walk in Rudy’s future since the prosecutors have said today that the investigation is still ongoing and there are other indictments to come…so, bye,bye Rudy…we won’t miss you at all….
Back to politics…
Well…what did I miss while I was gone? Anything interesting happen? Yeah…just a little joke to get started…of course the further unraveling of the idiot trump is everywhere today when the transcript of the incriminating call to the president of Ukraine was backed up by the whistleblower report that was released by the DNI…and while he is testifying in front of congress, he let go with another bombshell…that the transcript was classified for political reasons, not the normal national security issues that is usually the reason for making anything classified…but the even bigger bombshell is that this political protection and cover up has been going on since Putin installed trump and many other transcripts exist that show that trump is an even bigger criminal than the Ukraine affair shows and that all of them were classified for his political protection…and that everyone from Pence on down have been involved in these coverups…and trump even admitted the other day that Pence was in on the extortion scheme against the Ukraine….hmmmm…can you say President Pelosi? As I’ve told you before, though…the repubs are going to go down with this garbage scow…and they showed that they are just a criminal organization by not upholding the constitution and by protecting trump…I wonder how many more of the WH staff and cabinet were involved? I hope this leads to Barr being impeached as well…if just to wipe that smug look from his face….geez….
Remember the other Ukraine scandal?
Well…with the new Ukraine scandal swirling around the idiot trump…you know where he tried to extort fake “dirt” on Joe Biden by withholding 250 million in military aid…we need to remember this is not the first scandal that involves trump and the Ukraine…while Mueller was investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election that installed trump, the Ukraine government was cooperating with Mueller since he was investigating Paul Manafort as part of the conspiracy…and, if you remember, Ukraine abruptly stopped their investigation after trump gave them 400 million dollars in military equipment…do you think there just maybe might have been a little extortion going on there, too? Yeah, you’re right, there was…I wrote about that back when it happened in 2018 but no one seemed to give a damn then…but, maybe now that there is a pattern, the media will go back and actually report on this one…look, the presidency is not supposed to be run like a mob boss…”hey, nice Ukraine you got there…would be a shame if something happened to it” is how trump has operated his entire life as he has shown admiration for how they run their businesses….again, if Obama had done any of what trump does daily the repubs would be howling for his resignation but now they seem to revel in their hypocrisy as they let the country go down the drain…geez…