Day 991 Rubicon? Ruby Slippers.
Monday September 23, 2019
408 Days until the 2020 election and 490 days until the Inauguration
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Day 993
Wednesday September 25, 2019
406 Days until the 2020 election and 488 days until the Inauguration
It is coming so fast and furious I don’t have time to get one screed out before other facts get in the way.
I liken it to ice piling up on the shore of a lake. Pushed by wind, these massive sheets and blocks stack up one against one another, inexorably leaning in one direction.
For some reason people are calling for Trump’s impeachment. Why? Well, he, Trump, lied. (Wow, who knew?) He threatened extortion on a foreign leader. He sent Rudy, and Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence to Ukraine all to ask the new leader to look into Joe Biden. and his son Hunter. He held up money going to Ukraine the day after Mueller testified. He figured he was in the clear.
Now we’ve got a whistle blower who is reputed to be John Bolton.
Oh boy, can you imagine if it is John?
I don’t subscribe to anything Bolton thinks is a good idea, but people who know him (like Howard Dean) say Bolton is smart.
What match is Trump against Bolton?
The White House has released notes on the call with the Ukrainian leader. It’s called a transcript, but it’s not a transcript in the usual sense of the word. It’s not a word for word transcription of what was said. It is notes of the key points of the conversation – supposedly. This is, however, what the government typically does on these calls, so if what Trump releases is the notes, we’ll know in general what was said, but that is it.
And the White House released what it calls the transcript. Some were suspecting that the White House was going to “clean it up.” I, for one, am sure they did. If this is the cleaned up version – boy oh boy – are they in trouble.
Okay, the transcript implicates the president, the Vice President, the Attorney General, and Rudy.
I still think the quote of the week, maybe the month, is Elise Jordan. When asked about Giuliani she said, “It’s time to put drunk grandpa back in hospice.” (might not be exactly right, but that’s the substance.)
Trump says he did nothing wrong. That he asked the newly elected head of Ukraine to look into Joe Biden and his son Hunter – that’s all. He offered to send Barr and Giuliani and Pompeo over to help out. That’s all. No big deal. He wants to make sure Ukraine looks into corruption, that’s all.
I don’t know about you, but I’m for it. I stand behind the president. Yes sir.
Because I think what the Ukrainian leader will find is that Paul Manafort, Mike Flynn, Rick Gates, and a host of lesser lights are up to their necks in murky corruption. So bring it on!
406 Days until the 2020 election and 488 days until the Inauguration
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