Day 551 Tuesday July 24, 2018 1,027 Days to Go
Well, okay. Did anything happen recently?
Hum, let’s see:
The president revoked, or said he was going to revoke, the security clearances on six people who have left government service. Two of them don’t have security clearance, so good luck with that.
He also threatened Iran with nuclear war.
His trade war is heating up, hurting more U.S. companies and individuals.
There’s continuing blowback from his Appeasement Summit in Helsinki,
His former campaign manager has his trial delayed a week.
His former personal lawyer and best bootlicker has 10? 11? 12? audio tapes that are being allowed as evidence and at least one has Trump talking about paying off a Playboy bunny he had an affair with.
Five witnesses have been identified as being given immunity in the Manafort trial: four were involved in his financial dealings. I forget what the fifth one was doing with Paulie.
35 people have now been indicted under the Mueller probe.
A separate proceeding is going on over an alleged unregistered foreign agent.
Mueller is now closing in on U.S. citizens involved in the Russia scandal and many think that may include the president, and they further speculate that this is what drove his many erratic tweets this weekend, including the one threatening Iran with total destruction (or whatever.)
Sarah Yuckabee Sanders said the president was revoking those security clearances because he doesn’t think these people should be profiting by giving their opinions based on years of service to the country.
Oh yeah, then there’s the FISA application on Carter Page. Republicans and Trump were jumping up and down saying if only we could see the application we would see it was all a witch hunt. That Page was not under suspicion of being an agent for the Russians and that the charges or suspicions were spurious. The application was released. It’s redacted. and the Republicans and Trump are jumping up and down saying, “See, this proves everything we’ve been saying!”
There’s only one problem with the claims they make about the FISA application. IF YOU READ the application you discover that THEY ARE LYING. Not a little bit, a lot, out and out lying. There is no other way to put it. The big deal memo that Devin Nunes wrote that kicked this all off is an OUT and OUT LIE.
The means THE pRESIDENT IS LYING. Shocking.
Okay, let’s look at the effect of some of these things:
The people who are being threatened with loss of security clearances retain them to be able to talk to their counterparts who are still active. By removing their clearances the president is WEAKENING our intelligence community and our National Security. This will play well with Vladimir Putin. These are people who either were investigating the president or have spoken up as private citizens in contradiction and or opposition to many of the president’s actions. This is purely politically based. This is dangerous. It is not in the interest of our country. And Andrew McCabe? Wasn’t it enough to fire him days before getting his pension? I mean – How much of a dick do you need to be?
Also, Trump’s family and friends are not waiting to take advantage of their positions in government; they and the president are cashing in right now. The cabinet is full of unsavory grifters. And Trump wants to calim he’s revoking clearances to people who have given their lives to protecting this country?
The Mueller probe is closing in, and it seems the president is feeling the heat. But what does he have to worry about? He says there’s no collusion, although all the evidence says otherwise.
There is a moment just before an animal is killed, by say a car running them over, where the animal realizes “Oh” and then it’s all over.
Are we seeing the steamroller heading for the president?
I’m thinking so.
Then we’ll have to deal with the next idiot.
1,027 Days to Go
PS Skull!
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