Day 935 – The Day After

Friday, August 11, 2023

Yes, yesterday was my birthday, and I don’t have to tell you how successful it was. We hung out at home and had family and our next door neighbor over for dinner. Perfect.

Earlier in the day I saw a segment with a Republican Congressman who is heading up a committee to investigate what he calls “The Biden Crime Family.” This week for I believe the third time he has issued a report which was going to reveal the truth. Like the previous two reports he hasn’t quite gotten there. He apparently found out someone named Biden got money from I think Gasprom, the Ukrainian Gas company that, before the Putin installed dictator had been overthrown by the people of Ukraine, had been using as a huge profit skimming operation. To say skimming would be an understatement. Putin had installed a guy there whose job was to receive money, a lot of money, like 25% of everything Gasprom did. 

There is a connection to Joe Biden. He was aware of this back when he was VP under Obama, maybe even before that. He worked with various entities to stop this grift. Gasprom when exposed did what so many of these corrupt companies do – they hired someone close to Biden to clean up their image. Yeah, they hired Hunter. Whether Hunter did anything is not clear, but he did lead them on in terms of telling them that Joe was his dad. There is nothing suggesting that Joe and Hunter ever discussed any of this. But this hasn’t stopped this congressman and the right wing Republicans from pursuing this line of questioning endlessly.

So this week the congressman released his 45 page report, which basically says, “We got nothing,” and suggests that the next report will have something (like evidence). Just like his last two reports insinuated.

Okay, so this got me to thinking, if the house turns over and the Democrats are in charge then they’ll be able to pick up where these clowns left off? Let’s say a Democrat is in charge of Jim Jordan’s weaponization committee and a Dem is in charge of the family crime committee. Imagine what they might find?

See, here’s the problem with doing this sort of stuff. Remember when the Republicans were screaming over stolen elections and rigged ballot machines? They created an agency to investigate and monitor such stuff. When the 2020 election happened and they started their tirades about missing ballots, rigged machines, and all that – their own committee man pushed back and said, “No, this was the fairest election ever.” So, they fired him. Not the answer they were looking for.

I do want to know about the weaponization of elections. I think investigating what Trump did, and what various Republican state legislatures have done with voter suppression and Gerrymandering would be enlightening. Then there’s the family crime investigation. You won’t have to dig deep to find that on the Republican side. Trump commits his crimes in public. His son-in-law is just as sneaky (NOT). To see the bribery of Supreme Court officials will take a bit more digging. But not much.

The problem that we have as a republic is that the assumption was made by our founding fathers that people elected to the Senate and the Supreme Court would be people of high moral and ethical character. Not a good assumption.