Day 999 Are You Pissed Off Yet? Hang On, This Will Do It.

Day 999 Are You Pissed Off Yet? Hang On, This Will Do It.

Tuesday October 1, 2019

400 Days until the 2020 election and 482 days until the Inauguration

Yesterday Rachel began her show with a listing of dates, facts, and headlines related to the Ukraine situation. I don’t now what you think of Rachel Maddow, some people think she’s too cute in her analysis. Others don’t like her because they think she’s too liberal. But mostly the people who don’t like here seem to not like her because she reports things they don’t like or want to hear, and these things are based on facts. Last night’s opening block was a doozy. So if you don’t like facts and the truth, please stop right now and go to, I don’t know, Fox News? Prager U? Glnn Beck? Dick Morris? or any of the other conmen and lying sack of crap places for your dose of alternate facts. If however you want to understand what is going on, not only with the Ukraine, but with Donald Trump – read on. 

Russia invaded the Ukraine in 2014 after their Ukrainian puppet was thrown out of office. This is the man who Paul Mannafort worked for and got millions of dollars under the table. He didn’t pay taxes on that money and it is part of the reason he is in prison.

Russia also seized Crimea. 

These two actions led to Russia being kicked out of the G8 and sanctions being imposed on them.

Donald Trump has been very weak and inconsistent on many things, but when it comes to Russia he has done everything possible to help them and specifically Putin.

Ukraine is in a war with Russia, 13,000 of their people have been killed in it. They need our help. We have pledged, under Obama, to not only help them but all the countries surrounding Russia. There is a package of one billion dollars in aid for those countries. This does not include Ukraine which has a separate package. It includes a very effective anti-tank weapon known as the Dragon. 

The impeachment inquiry deals with Trump’s phone call with the now president of the Ukraine. This year, the day after Mueller testified to Congress, Trump told his Chief of Staff, Mic Mulvaney to hold up the funds to Ukraine – $341B in military aid, including Dragon missiles. On his phone call Trump asked the Ukrainian president for a favor – eight times! The favor? To dig up dirt on Joe Biden and his son Hunter and if he couldn’t find any, to make something up. That wasn’t all, he also wanted them to “work something out with Putin.”

It turns out that this isn’t the first time he’s done this sort of thing. The year before the Ukrainians were so worried about not getting these missiles that they stopped working with Mueller providing information on Mannafort in hopes of appeasing Trump so they’d get their weapons.

That’s not all. It turns out Trump wants to get other countries to say Russia didn’t mess in our 2016 election. Bill Barr has secretly been going to other countries to get them to agree. He was just in Italy for that purpose.

Why do this?

Well, if Trump can get other countries to agree it wasn’t Russia, then he can get the trade restricitons lifted on Russia, which is what Putin wants.

I have to ask, “Who is Trump working for?”

Not us, the American people.

Not our Nato allies.

Not the countries bordering Russia.

So who is he working for?

There seems to be only one person that I can think of.

Look at Rachel’s show from last night.

Go to:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

and look up 

Trump fixation on exonerating Russia

And oh yes, Mike Pompeo who has seemed to not know anything about what Trump was doing on the telephone with Ukraine? Yeah, Mike was listening in on the phone call.

When asked about it Mike said he hadn’t read the whistleblower complaint. He only glanced at the first few paragraphs.

That really didn’t answer the question. Mike knew all about what the president was doing and had said because he heard it first hand.

And that stuff about the intelligence folks changing the regs on whistleblowing last month, like the right wing media is reporting? Also, not true.

Surprise.

The only thing that Trump seems to be good at is doing Putin’s bidding.

400 Days until the 2020 election and 482 days until the Inauguration