And This. This Elephant in the Room.
Okay, guys, it’s now 3:45 in the afternoon and Trump’s lawyers still have not mentioned John Bolton’s name so, the way I figure it, they are just waiting to see if more poop is forthcoming.
I’ve got a good feeling that time is on our side, not their’s.
Do they think that everybody will forget Bolton? In every physical, metaphorical, and spiritual way, he is the elephant in the room.
And Lev makes elephant #2.
1But which will it be doing the stampeding? Senate Republicons/clowns or the witnesses/elephants?
2With regard to Bolton they have no good options.
When the motion comes up to call Bolton they will try to invoke Executive Privilege after arguing that he is irrelevant. They will probably also argue that he has been working for Adam Schiff all along.
Hannity will dedicate his show to the REAL scandal: the identity of the leaker.
What I am hoping for is that if Bolton really does get on the stand and spill the beans, there will be a flood of OTHER witnesses that before had remained silent.
Trump seems to have rock-solid support among Republican Senators. However that dam can break and when it does it will break fast.
3Just did a little search.
4Bolton was fired or resigned on Sept 9th or 10th depending on whose story you believe.
Trump released Ukraine money on Sept.11.
So did Bolton say something on the way out the door that made Trump very nervous?
Or was it just a cosmic coincidence???
I tell ya, that Nancy Pelosi is looking smarter and smarter by the day. She really was playing 3-dimentional chess, while those fools in the WH were playing checkers.
5A lot of it depends on how many Senators finally realize Trump has taken them for a ride.
On the one hand, he has been their useful idiot for the last three years, providing them all the cover they needed for their transfer of wealth to the wealthiest. On the other, politics requires that he answer the eternal question, “What have you done for us lately?” Bolton’s admissions will make at least some of them wonder how they look now to the folks back home.
6And the elephant(s) will leave a bit steamy mess for the GOP.
7In tRumpworld, I doubt the trumpers even know about Bolton. They exclusively watch FOX, and there will be no mention of it. Remember Schiff’s eloquent closing? Fox carried only seconds of it. tRump’s base is as clueless as ever.
8It is really amazing that we are counting on Bolton (of all the disgusting creatures on God’s green earth) to save the Republic by testifying to what we all know is true.
Here’s my take on it: Bolton wants, more than sex or money, to have the U.S. have a war with Iran, one preferrably with nukes as the first weapon of choice. If that happens, he’ll suddenly claim the leaked previews of his book are all wrong, and Trump is the second coming of Jesus. He’ll also claim executive immunity from testimony, and the McConnell gang will happily shrug and say “Well, what can you do? It would violate the constitution to contest that!”
We’re seeing a stark quid pro quo, and does anyone think that Trump would balk at a war to prevent Bolton from singing in front of the Senate?
In any case, it’s really disgusting that we are having to hope that Yosemite Sam might actually have some stroke of honesty or patriotism. I gotta go take a shower.
9I still smell a rat…I mean, a John Bolton.
10There is no appropriate place to put this…and no inappropriate one either, I guess. A friend just sent me the link, a long read, but very enlightening.
https://medium.com/@jonnaivin/i-know-why-poor-whites-chant-trump-trump-trump-2ce38056cba4
11AK Lynne @11, Wow, that is a powerful, well written article [and I’m only a third though it].
Every one of y’all should read it, and disseminate it.
[that website apparently only gives you 1-2 page views without registering or paying, so be careful; I printed’ a pdf page copy, which my Opera browser makes a 2-click process…]
12I was able to read the entire article. Maybe because I posted the link here, it reverted to identifying the reader as me and counted it as a second article (or so) before the paywall went up. Try typing in the url rather than going to the link I put up here. It really is worth reading.
(What does “url” mean anyway? I am such a dinosaur.)
13AK @13, What does “url” mean anyway?
Uniform Resource Locator, a web address, iow.
If you don’t already, just use a ‘tabbed’ browser and leave the page tab up; it will stay there as long as you want [or the machine reboots or you close the browser, unless– see below].
I primarily use the Opera and Vivaldi browsers, for their top-of-class features and privacy [they don’t spy on you like Goog, MS, etc.].
With the right options set, you get no ads, spying, and after a reboot all your windows and tabs are restored as they were [even page histories, which is a valuable feature that most other browsers lose].
I hardly use bookmarks/favs anymore. I just use whole windows devoted to one topical area [some have 100-200 page tabs], save it as a ‘session’ backup just in case, and leave them all active all the time. Causes a little machine operating overhead [memory, cycles], but nothing much [now, after browser software improvements, they do get updated].
Reboot [on purpose or accident] your ‘puter, make a couple of clicks, and all your browsing is restored as it was; no need to pull up your favorite pages again [other than refreshing some].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivaldi_(web_browser)
Try ’em out.
14AK Lynne@11:
15Thanks for that. It applies to our predicament, no matter who we nominate.
Sandridge@14, now you’re just showing off.
P.P. @15, Just an incorrigible nerdist I guess..
16LOL, I just wanted to know what the initials stood for, but thanks, Sandridge.
17The only “lesson” the thugs learned from the impeachment of tricky dick was if they owned the media his crimes would not be reported (as did the Bishop Estate)and their would an endless rank of unprincipled minions who could be counted on to say, or do, anything to protect their paycheck ( like the military or police)
Now to echo Lincoln in bizarro world we will see if their “lessons” were accurate and that whether their efforts and money will guarantee that
18“that this nation, under greed, shall have a new birth of tyranny—and that government of the plutocrats, by the billionaires, for the powerful, shall not perish from the earth.”
Lots more elephants, lots more poop. Don’t forget the forthcoming Rick Perry document dumps.
19Folks, the tiding is rushing in. With no help at all, it could turn into a tsunami. And – if there really are any lifeboats – there is room in each for just so many.
20@Msb #18:
Ummmmm.
Does anybody want to have to read what Rick Perry writes? I mean, laundry/shopping lists might be more exciting…
21The digital toys are making this too easy. The campaign ads write themselves. Picture the IQ4.5 ‘Defense’ Team with this 11/20/19 quote from Ken Porn Starr: “There is now proof that the President (Trump) committed the crime of bribery…This has been one of those bombshell days.”
Hypocrisy and hubris aside, Starr will be as much fun as Rudy G as a trove of incriminating comments. Then there are the confession “tapes” courtesy of IQ4.5 on Twitter.
Congressman Schiff may or may not be able to guide this through 53 Republicon traitors in the Senate, but it’s both comedy gold and campaign fuel for 2020.
22@ Old Fart #21
23If it’s more proof that “everybody was in the loop”, I’ll put aside my usual objections.l
It doesn’t matter what Bolton says because he’s a Deep State liberal planted by the Obama Administration. It must be true, it was on Fox News!
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