Yeah, I Bet It Is “Perfect”
Okay, so here’s the deal. Trump is saying that he will “consider” releasing a transcript of the conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Yeah, just like he’s considering releasing his tax returns.
And I know you’re gonna think I’m just being mean about this but, I dunno, I just just don’t trust Trump to release an accurate transcript. Especially since he describes the conversation as “perfect.” I have never in my entire life had a perfect telephone conversation except for that one time I told County Commissioner Johnny Putska to blow it out his ear and he thought I said, “Blow away a deer,” and that confused the hell outta him since it wasn’t even deer season. He went around telling people that a proper Texas woman should know things like the dates of deer season so, obviously, I wasn’t a proper woman, which gave me the excuse to write about it in the damn newspaper to clear up the record of my properness. Johnnie was mad about that for about 15 years because his Momma read the newspaper. He said I made him look foolish in front of his mother. I assured him that his mother already knew he was foolish and had told me as much.
Wait, wait, one more perfect conversation, I called Johnnie about six months later to ask him about pay raises Commissioners gave themselves. He said, “I am not talking to you unless there’s witnesses so from now on “all our talking will be in writing.” I replied, “Johnnie, what the hell good would that do? I know you can’t hear but you can’t read either, so can I send smoke signals?” He got madder than a wet hen.
So, anyway – I seriously doubt that Trump can be trusted.
I’m operating under the theory that he’s admitted that he is in cahoots with a foreign government to hurt a political opponent and he shot a guy on Main Street and his supporters think all that is fine and dandy.
Screw phone transcripts.
Edit:
America has a grand tradition of the brazenly dumb criminal: the kind who is so desperately needy that he brags about his guilt.
Back in the earliest days of the new media known as newspapers, a certain Chicago mob boss rose to fame by calling a press conference to proclaim everyone else’s guilt, if not exactly his innocence.
Al Capone claimed he played no role in the gunning down of a young state’s attorney called Bill McSwiggin. In fact he said he could have killed him any time but preferred to keep him alive. “I paid McSwiggin,” Capone said. “I paid him plenty and I got what I was paying for.”
Sure enough, Capone was cleared of the murder and became the darling of an insatiable press pack. If you don’t act guilty, will anyone really think you’re guilty? Especially if everyone else is guilty too.
Is there anyone left with any self-respect in the Republican party? Step forward Mitt Romney, the former Republican nominee and now Utah senator. No really, step forward.
“If the President asked or pressured Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rival, either directly or through his personal attorney, it would be troubling in the extreme. Critical for the facts to come out,” Romney tweeted.
Damn the torpedoes. The senator is extremely troubled, if not rather exercised, by the possibility of something that Trump and Giuliani have already admitted on camera.
If you’re wondering what the next 14 months of the presidential election looks like, you are already looking at it. The poor citizens of Ukraine have been looking at it for the last five years, ever since Russian troops marched in and unleashed their disinformation on an unsuspecting world.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/23/the-trump-ukraine-scandal-is-a-taste-of-how-dirty-will-the-us-elections-get
1Honestly JJ, you are the best! I’m gonna take a cue from you when I have to “talk” to any of our county poobahs!
2One of the best days in my whole life was when I addressed Commissioners Court about a problem with my County Commissioner.
When I finished, Bob Eckols said, Mrs. Crone, “that just proves you are no lady”.
AFA politicians go, we just need to totally give up on finding a Republican with any integrity. Like JR Ewing taught us, once you give up your integrity, everything else is a piece of cake.
3I’d bet cash money that Trump’s telephone transcript sounds a lot more like his TelePrompTer speeches, and a lot less like his impromptu comments with reporters when they catch him on the fly. Which is generally incoherent gibberish.
4Sincerity is the most important thing. Once you can fake that the rest of it comes easy.
5Do you really think there is a transcript or is it a script they are working on to show the public?
6You should check out Karen Pense’s new twitter feed. The twitter people are not being too kind. You will have fun reading some of the replies.
7I was fixing to say the same thing, Karen. You saved me a trip to the posting area. Thank you.
8I think the nature of the “transcript” may be important. It has been occasionally described as an “intercept.” Anyone who’s been paying intention couldn’t possibly believe that drumpf would knowingly allow itself to be recorded while doing Putin’s biz or it’s own for that matter. If it’s an intercepted communication there should be a lot more not necessarily in drumpf’s possession.
9And while he is ‘considering’ the release, his serfs are busy redacting that transcript. When he is ‘clean’ he will release it and it will consist of three words.
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