Day 1003 The Danger of Alternate Facts

Day 1003 The Danger of Alternate Facts

Saturday October 5, 2019

396 Days until the 2020 election and 478 days until the Inauguration

We now have an administration that is sending out envoys to talk to our allies about nonsense. The things that Trump and that crew believe are easily found to be false. However, what do you do if you are a foreign official and a high level person, or person you believe to be high level, comes to you and spouts some nonsense and wants your help in the nonsense?

We have now seen the president ask for China’s help to investigate the Biden’s and now he has tweeted that we are pulling out of Syria.

What’s been the reaction? Well, the people in reality are saying that the China thing is like the time he asked Russia to help, which they did. The defense? Best summed up by Jim Jordan, “You don’t honestly think he meant it do you?” Which is to say, “Ha, ha, big joke, you got played. Ha ha.” To which I say, “Bull Shit.” He meant it.

As to pulling out of Syria? Well, now that every one of his defenders is screaming he says, “Oh I didn’t mean it. I meant we were going to move 50 of our troops.”  To which I say, “Bull Shit.” He meant it, but because he got such blowback he ducked and ran.

But that’s not what I want to dwell on. Let’s talk about Rudy. I thought it was treasonous to conduct foreign policy if you were a private citizen, or at least unlawful? Rudy has been going to various countries, meeting with high level people and saying stupid stuff. Apparently, he dumped a bunch of files packed with conspiracy theories onto a desk at the State Department, which ignored them until the Ukrainian phone call. Then they realized how bat shit crazy Rudy was and turned the files over to Congress. 

Here’s the essence of what Rudy has been doing. A right wing talking point has been that the Russian did not interfere in the 2016 election, it was the Ukrainians. Where this all started I’m not sure. Russia? Trump? Glen Beck or Fox News? The most likely candidate is Trump and the Russians. Why? Trump wants the Russians off the hook for meddling in the 2016 election. This will vindicate suggestions that he didn’t really win, and more importantly it can lead to him getting sanctions lifted on Russia.

So now the idea is to cook up something in the Ukraine. The company the Dems hired to figure out who hacked them, named Crowd Strike, is now designated to have a “secret server” in Ukraine… If they can only get to that server, then all the malfeasance will be discovered. Only problem is there is no server in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians have no idea what Giuliani is talking about. But Rudy goes and tries to get this puppy up and running. Who would you go see to do this?

In the Ukraine there are two types of prosecutors: those that actually do the job, and those that cook up charges on someone, throw them in jail and tell the poor sap that they can make it all go away for a fee.

If you are a journalist in the Ukraine it takes, literally, thirty minutes to learn this little tidbit.

Guess which side of the prosecutorial ledger Rudy went to for help with this Biden scheme? Ding Ding Ding! You are so right! The slime-ball side. Who else did he contact? two characters with a history of minor convictions. One owns a nightclub in Odessa. It has the word Mafia in the name of the club. What else do you need to know?

In order to shift all this onto Ukraine from Russia with a side benefit of freeing up Paul Manafort potentially, you need to discredit “the black book(s).”

You remember the black books? They were the ones found in the estate of the Prime Minister of Ukraine who was a Putin surrogate. They were found in a safe, near the gold plated toilet and close to the pirate ship restaurant. In it were entries showing Paul Manafort got $12.7 Million in secret payments. Rudy’s answer? The books are fake. Any evidence? No, not to them being fake. To them being genuine? There’s plenty. You know like signatures of people that can be verified. But if Rudy can sell the black books are fake then he can get Paulie off the hook on that part of his prison sentence. And he’s closer to getting Russia forgiven and back in the G7.

There’s more. So much more. But enough for now.

The most heart breaking thing I’ve seen recently was former ambassador James Melville, visibly physically upset at how the institution he served for decades and finally left, The State Department and its people, being so abused.

He mentioned how he had seen in other countries the people being inundated with lies. Lies that emanated from the top. He had never thought he’d see that in this country, but here we are.

396 Days until the 2020 election and 478 days until the Inauguration

PS A bumper sticker cry – Vote Any Functioning Adult!