Innocent After Proven Guilty
If you’re like me, and I bet you hope you’re not, you can scarcely keep up with the fast moving events in this witch hunt impeachment investigation. Seems like just yesterday we had that phone call with the Ukrainian president, Zorro or Zapruder or some Z, where Donald makes it clear there will be no military assistance to fight the Russians if he doesn’t get the goods on Biden and Biden’s kid. He figures, I guess, that the voters in 2020 will be so outraged over possible nepotism that they’ll re-elect him. Forget about the business dealings of Eric and Don Jr. all over the world. That’s totally different. They’re real biznessmen, that pair, bright as new pennies, no influence peddling on Daddy’s name, not with their brand of fiscal acumen.
And we won’t even mention emoluments or Jared and Ivanka. Good kids. Sharp, savvy, barely related to the President of the United States, surely not playing the Trump card for enterprises across the globe. But Biden, hoo boy, that Biden. What can you say? Benghazi maybe.
But no, there was no quid pro quo. No mention of that military assistance mandated by Congress. It was, if you recall, a perfect phone call. Perfect enough to sequester in a top secret data vault. But you can read the transcript, only slightly redacted, and imagine for yourself telephone perfection. Course, then came Rudy who admitted that yeah, they were asking for some help in our elections. Big deal, so what, it’s done all the time. Looking for corruption. Wanting a little help. You got a problem with that?
But of course Rudy turns out to be funneling money from foreign sources back into Trump’s election PACs, sort of illegal. A couple of his cronies were arrested fleeing the United States and now Rudy’s the target of the same investigation. Corruption, sometimes, is right up your nose. With a lawyer like Rudy, you don’t really need enemies. And now we have the spectacle of witnesses parading one after the other into the House Impeachment Investigation Hearings, pretty much incriminating the President for, yeah, quid pro quo. Not that you need it to prove a crime, asking for foreign assistance in the election should be enough.
Today Mulvaney said yeah, ok, there was a quid pro quo. Everybody does it, big deal, get over it. ‘Get over it’ was the part I liked best. Deny deny deny, attack attack attack attack, admit admit admit, then finally just turn the board over and say the game is over. What’re ya gonna do, impeach us? Sure, we’re crooks but everybody’s a crook. Everybody would do what we did. You’d be stupid not to.
Well, we wanted a so-called biznessman to run the country. What did you expect? Morality? Fair play? Adherence to some bullshit set of rules like the Constitution? C’mon, that’s an old playbook written by folks half of em you couldn’t name. You wanted change in the country. You wanted to tear down the government. You wanted to break some furniture. Okay, you got it. We can put the game board back on the table and play another round if you want. In a year we’ll get that chance. But the rules aren’t what you think and it’s definitely okay to cheat. Just not you.
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Tags: Mulvaney the Mouth, Quid Pro Quo
Do you remember the game of Telephone we played as children? A group would gather in a circle, one person would whisper a phrase into the ear of the person sitting next to them, they would repeat it to their neighbor, all around the group, until the first person and last person announced the words, out loud, generally to the amusement of everyone in the game. The first and last phrases were never the same, not even close.
Now. the genius of the Trump administration is again on display, demonstrating their ability to play Telephone with one person!
The example you pointed out Skeeter is perfect:
Mulvaney: no quid pro quo.
Mulvaney: ok, there was a quid pro quo.
Mulvaney: get over it.
Mulvaney (Oct 18th): “The president never told me to withhold any money until the Ukrainians did anything related to the [Democratic National Committee] server.” “The only reasons we were holding the money was because of concern about lack of support from other nations and concerns over corruption.”
Mulvaney doesn’t require no stinkin’ legislative branch, judicial branch, cabinet secretaries or the like when he plays the game. He can jumble words all within his own brain, and his own mouth, but using complete sentences with nouns and verbs unlike the version preferred by his boss. With such talent and genius within the Trump administration itself, do we need more proof that Congress is not really an equal partner in our American system of government?
I guess we would call that game TWEET now. Sad that even in writing, the end result would be something so alien by the 3rd iteration you might wonder if folks are on drugs or have advanced Alzheimers or … are just stupid as a box of rocks. The sad part is that with the new game folks can watch in real time and if they haven’t experienced mental whiplash, just keep believing what they hear even when it changes 180 every few minutes. This is what happens when you stop believing in science or history or truth, all you need is complete gullibility. Sure saves thinking too hard. Which, as we all know, is a total waste of time. Wait for the next tweet.