BREAKING NEWS…President Donald Trump gunned down former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a potential opponent in the 2020 presidential election in full view of hundreds of people today on Fifth Avenue. Early reports indicate he shot Bloomberg multiple times at short range with an AR-15 he had recently legally purchased from a private citizen at a gun show in Newark. Early reactions to the brazen murder of a political opponent ranged from complete support for his actions from 35% of those who witnessed cold blooded murder to calls for his impeachment and removal from office from more than half of those who saw what unfolded. Here is the complete rundown of reactions from around D.C. and around the world.
While this is obviously written in a satirical manner, the fact of the matter is we are just about to this point. In all likelihood the REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate under MOSCOW Mitch will deny the Democrats request to have John Bolton or other witnesses testify and will vote to acquit Donald J. Trump as early as tomorrow. Since he took office just over three years ago, Donald Trump has committed the following acts: collusion with Russia to influence the 2016 election; obstruction of justice in the Mueller investigation, including perjury in his written responses to him; numerous Emoluments clause violations; campaign finance violations with hush money payments to porn stars and Playmates; income tax evasion; financial fraud; extortion in the attempted effort to get Ukraine to launch an investigation into Joe Biden by withholding desperately needed military aid to ward of an invasion by Russian militias; obstruction of Congress by refusing to cooperate on ANY level with numerous ongoing investigations into wrongdoing and corruption by him and his henchmen like Giuliani and Barr. And the REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate under MOSCOW Mitch acquits him following an absolute sham of a trial where the jury had already decided the case before it even started. And we see Trump gleefully calling out each of these gutless sycophants yesterday in the Rose Garden to congratulate them on their cowardice. This is the state of America circa 2020. Where the President of the United States of America in lock step with a Senate he controls can figuratively get away with murder and then brag about it. I just hope Americans remember all of this in November if they are even paying attention. These REPUBLIKANS will be held accountable when history is recorded and it’s time that we the people started holding them accountable at the ballot box. Watching these REPUBLIKAN lackeys stand to be recognized like heroes by the most corrupt and incompetent buffoon to EVER hold the office of POTUS this morning was enough to turn my stomach.
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January 2020. The impeachment trial, such as it is, of Donald J. Trump is apparently about to be concluded in the Senate with his acquittal by the REPUBLIKAN majority under the leadership of MOSCOW Mitch McConnell despite the overwhelming evidence that he extorted Ukraine over investigating Joe Biden. These cowardly politicians have decided that there own self interests and political self perpetuation are more important than upholding our Constitution. This means that we will have to suffer through at least another year or so of the disastrous policies of Donald J. Trump and all of his stooges. Let’s just take a look at where things stand today under his administration in our country and around the world. This morning, we see another all white rally where Trump is supporting a turncoat Democrat who had trashed him mercilessly in the past and spewing forth the same tired rhetoric about his political rivals and the media. The required attire for these rallies should be either brown shirt or white robe. We see him praising POMPOUS Mike Pompeo for cursing and berating an NPR reporter who dared to question him about Ukraine and his leadership of the State Department, threatening to cut off their funding and then Pompeo booting NPR off his plane in an apparent act of retaliation. We see a country that overwhelmingly supports a fair trial in the Senate, including the calling of witnesses and presentation of documentation pertinent to the case, like John Bolton and a President and Senate Majority Leader and his caucus who could care less. We see Trump’s absurd Middle East peace plan which amounts to nothing more than handing over the entire region to Israel and his BFF Netanyahu, himself an indicted and corrupt leader. We see former Chief of Staff John Kelly calling Trump a liar with regard to John Bolton’s revelations regarding the Ukraine scandal. We see the religious right sacrificing all of their principles and righteousness to support a man who breaks six of the Ten Commandments before breakfast every day for the sake of denying the right of a woman to choose that has been guaranteed by the Supreme Court ruling of Roe v Wade. We have seen a rise in racism and attacks on religious groups as well as minorities escalate rapidly. We have a society that is so enamored with firearms that we won’t even discuss legislation to ban weapons that were intended to kill as many enemies as possible on the battlefield being carried proudly by gun fanatics through the streets of Richmond, VA with complete impunity and a Senate that stands by while innocent men, women and children are gunned down in the streets, in their places of worship, at school, a festival or in a nightclub and does NOTHING!!! We have a President who has so corrupted the government from within that our own military now lies about casualties for political purposes. We had over FIFTY service members who suffered traumatic head injuries as a result of the Iranian missile attack in Iraq which followed Trump’s bilateral decision to assassinate an Iranian general. Trump said they were “just headaches”. We recently lost more soldiers in Afghanistan as well as in Syria despite Trump’s promise to stop these so called endless wars. We have a lunatic in N Korea who Trump calls his BFF who as we speak is building up his nuclear arsenal and the means to deliver it while we do nothing to stop him. Iran has continued to pursue their own nuclear program now that the nuclear deal fell apart as a result of Trump unilaterally deciding to withdraw from it. There are reports now that he has granted special treatment to two other despots in Ping of China and Ertowan of Turkey in exchange for personal business compensation. We have imprisoned thousands of innocent men, women and children at our border in inhumane conditions under the guise of immigration reform. Trump is spending BILLIONS of $’s allocated for military spending on schools, hospitals and other vital infrastructure projects to build his absurd border wall to keep the hordes of MS 13 gang members, rapists and terrorists out. His primary advisor in these policies, Stephen “The KILLER” Miller is an avowed white nationalist. Trump and his cronies have all but declared war on the First Amendment and the free press. The NPR incident with Pompeo is just the tip of the iceberg. There isn’t a single day that goes by where Trump or some high ranking official in his administration doesn’t condemn the media as “fake news” or ‘the enemy of the people”. He has all but taken over FAUX NEWS as his personal propaganda voice as they spread his lies and misinformation to their gullible and uninformed viewers, who in turn take it all as gospel, literally and figuratively. The environment is being trashed and the science of climate change disregarded in favor of political contributions from special interest groups like the utility companies, big coal, oil & gas, big pharma and chemical manufacturers. We have an administration that actually believes coal is the energy source of the future, despite the evidence that fossil fuels have greatly increased CO2 emissions and contributed to global warming and the catastrophic weather events occurring around the globe on a regular basis. We have a President and a Treasury Secretary in Steve “The MUNCHKIN” Mnuchen who ridicule a sixteen year old girl because she is vocal about reversing these disastrous policies. The trade war with China has cost taxpayers in this country BILLIONS in bail outs to farmers, increased cost to manufacturers for raw materials and increased prices to consumers.. We keep hearing about this great deal we have negotiated…where is it??? We now have the largest budget deficit in history, and our spending is out of control, especially military spending (SPACE FORCE?!?) It’s also true that the economy, in particular the stock market is doing well, but anybody who believes that this ride can go on forever is not a student of history. What goes up must inevitably come down. And Trump should NOT be allowed to take all of the credit for it like he has. And the tax cut??? We all know how that turned out for the rest of us!!! The MILLION DOLLAR question we must all ask ourselves over the next nine months heading into the most important election in our nation’s history is simple-is this the kind of country we want to live in for the next four years? Are these the type of leaders that we want guiding our country forward? We have both a President and a REPUBLIKAN controlled Senate who believe they have been given a license to do whatever they want to and walk away unscathed, just like with the Mueller investigation with Barr’s whitewash and now the acquittal of Trump, unquestionably the most corrupt and incompetent buffoon to EVER hold the highest office in the land. The only way that they can be stopped is at the ballot box. My focus and that of every other Democrat between now and the November election will be to oust MOSCOW Mitch and other REPUBLIKAN sycophants from the Senate and flip it. That way, even if Trump manages to steal another election, there will actually be REAL checks and balances against his abuses of power and corruption. It’s all we have standing between us and The United States of Trump!!! Iowa population 3.15 million; percentage of minorities < 10%, African Americans < 4%. New Hampshire population 1.34 million; percentage of minorities <7%, African Americans <1%. Population of both states totals less than 1% of all Americans. Now I ask the million $ question…..how in the world are these electoral contests relevant to ANYTHING?!? Why have we attached such great import to the results of these contests??? Is it because they are up first in the electoral cycle? Is it because we believe that states that are comprised of 90% or more Caucasian voters and primarily rural are somehow relevant to the big picture? Gimme a break!!!
I can easily understand now the decision Mike Bloomberg has made to skip these contests and focus on Super Tuesday, where a huge percentage of delegate votes will be at stake. They say that a candidate gains serious momentum by capturing one or both of these races. The media attention and time these candidates spend in these states is completely disproportionate to their actual significance in the overall scheme of things. Many people say our political process is broken, and I agree. These primaries are a part of that problem. We attach huge significance to them, and yet they don’t amount to a hill of Iowa soybeans or a chunk of granite from New Hampshire in reality. The fact is our entire electoral process has become nothing more than an extended reality TV series. The political pundits started talking about it over a year ago, and we still have NINE more months to go before the November elections. It’s waaaaaaay too long. People are already bored with it. There are far too many so called candidates, most of whom have zero chance of becoming their party’s nominee but relish the spotlight they are afforded by the never ending news cycle. There are too many debates involving these fringe players. The electoral college has become a vehicle by which a candidate like Donald Trump can lose the popular vote by over three million and still win the election. Corporate America and the Super PACs, as well as special interest groups, are able to buy elections for their select candidates merely by buying and selling them with limitless campaign contributions, thanks to MOSCOW Mitch and Citizens United. We also now see the advent of foreign interference in our electoral process, from Russia in 2016 to their attempted hacking of Burisma a couple of weeks ago to gain access to information that could be harmful to Joe Biden, Trump’s likely opponent in the November election. We see our own government directed by the President and executed by such shady operatives as RUNAWAY Rudy attempting to extort an ally in Ukraine into providing political dirt on him as well. Trump invited the Chinese to interfere openly, and told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News he would WELCOME information provided by a foreign government if it helped his election efforts. It’s no wonder our entire democratic process is under fire. We have a group of politicians in Washington, especially in the Senate, who are bought and paid for by special interests groups like the NRA and vote not their conscience or the mandate of their constituency but rather to garner political campaign contributions to add to their war chest in their own self perpetuation. How many members of this body politic have been there for DECADES?!? We see evidence of their loyalties everyday, and they are NOT to the voters. Many legislative districts around the country have been gerrymandered by REPUBLIKANS to insure their self perpetuation. Voter registration in a number of southern states has been denied by laws passed by REPUBLIKAN dominated legislatures. It’s time we took a serious look at our entire electoral process and make some significant changes to insure our democracy is perpetuated. As evidenced by what we see in D.C. these days, it’s time. And a good place to start would be to move Super Tuesday to the FRONT of the cycle and Iowa and New Hampshire to the back of the line where they should be. States that are comprised of 90% or more white folks are NOT indicative of the true political climate in our country and should NOT influence who gets their party’s nomination. States like CA and TX are far more representative of the actual make up of our nation, plain and simple. The Impeachment Trial
A day away from the historic impeachment trial of Donald J Trump-a day for Democratic Senators to rush to Iowa to cater to the voters in a state that shouldn’t amount to a hill of their own soybeans, while REPUBLIKAN Senators trip all over themselves in their non defense of the President. Their best claim is that Democrats have had it out for Trump since the day he took office and that they are attempting to reverse the results of the 2016 election, an election rigged in their favor by Russian meddling and one which, BTW, he lost by over THREE MILLION popular votes to Hillary Clinton. No wonder he hates her. She couldn’t have run a worse campaign and yet she still kicked his ass in the popular vote. At any rate, it’s becoming very apparent the preordained outcome of these proceedings will come to fruition; that much has been guaranteed by MOSCOW Mitch and his caucus. The remaining drama will center on whether or not he will allow witnesses to testify, which nearly seven in ten Americans favor. There was word that the White House circulated that any REPUBLIKAN Senator who voted against the President will “have his head on a pike!” My guess is, as I have stated before, there aren’t ANY of them with the guts to honor the oath they took over political opportunism. It’s a real shame what this once proud party has become. “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo and NPR I have written a recent post entitled “TIME FOR POMPEO TO GO!!!” his apparent actions and words during and following an interview with NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly on Friday. During an interview with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly that aired Friday, Pompeo refused to say whether he owed an apology to Marie Yovanovitch, whose firing as the ambassador to Ukraine has featured prominently in President Donald Trump's impeachment case. An aide ended the interview after Kelly pressed Pompeo for a response. Kelly recounted what happened next in a report that accompanied her interview. She said an aide escorted her to Pompeo's private sitting room, where he was waiting. Although she was not allowed to take her recording equipment into the room, she said there was no request that she keep the exchange off the record, and she would not have agreed to a conversation if it was off the record. "He shouted at me for about the same amount of time as the interview itself had lasted," Kelly reported. "He asked me, 'Do you think Americans care about Ukraine?'" she continued. "He used the 'F word' in that sentence and many others. He asked if I could find Ukraine on a map. I said yes; he called out for his aides to bring him a map of the world with no writing, no countries marked. I pointed to Ukraine; he put the map away. He said, 'People will hear about this.'" Kelly said Pompeo was not "not happy to have been questioned about Ukraine," though during the recorded interview, she told Pompeo that she cleared the topics of Ukraine and Iran with his aides beforehand. (Above from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette). Of course, “POMPOUS” Mike blasted the media and blamed the journalist for “lying to him” regarding the topics of discussion during the interview. It is in keeping with Pompeo’s history of lying to the American public and attempting to intimidate members of the media as well as his complete sell out of those who work for the Department of State, such as Maria Yovanovich. Mike Pompeo then went even further by suggesting the journalist in question couldn’t find Ukraine on a map but rather pointed to Bangladesh, an assertion that goes beyond absurd. But this is what you get with Donald Trump. A group of brown shirts in lock step with his every desire, including stepping all over the First Amendment. Finally, Mike, this one’s for you: FU*K YOU!!! ESPN I’m old enough to remember the flagship days of ESPN, when it involved honest to goodness sports reporting. It was like “Wide World of Sports” on ABC but 24/7, covering sporting events from around the world like cricket, curling and soccer, which were mostly unfamiliar to American viewers at that time. They had serious sports journalists like Bob Leigh who weren’t afraid to broach controversial subjects. Fast forward to today. Thanks to Disney, we now get 24/7 of the following: Zion, Tiger, LeBron, McGregor, BCS, Stephen A. and the made for TV spectacles such as SEC vs. BIG 12 showdown. Occasionally you might see a score you’re interested in, but mostly follow ons at the bottom of your screen will be self promotional. ESPN has become the most self aggrandizing network since FAUX NEWS!!! It’s getting old. The “DON” and his Lieutenants Phrases like “take her out!” referring to removing Ukrainian Ambassador Yovanovich when talking to his enforcer “RUNAWAY” Rudy; or “vote against the President on impeachment and he’ll have your head on a pike!” a team of defense attorneys OJ Simpson would be proud to call his own (he too was acquitted of a crime he admitted to committing!!!); another capo screaming obscenities at an NPR reporter who dared question his failure to protect one of his own and an Attorney General who is as corrupt as he himself. This is what our great nation has been reduced to in just over three years of Donald Trump and his henchmen. Intimidation of witnesses, lies, misinformation, attempts to bribe government officials, collusion with foreign governments to subvert our democratic process, income tax evasion, extortion and threats as well as attacks on our institutions such as the FBI, CIA or NSA have become the accepted norm. Sounds like the makings of an excellent Sopranos sequel, doesn’t it?!? “Cabinet of Clowns” Has there EVER been a bigger collection of jokers and clowns than the individuals that Donald Trump has had serve in his Cabinet, that is those who have both come AND gone?!? It’s hard to comprehend the absolute incompetence and corruption of people such as Wilbur “The BOSS” Ross, Betsy “CRUELLA” DeVos, “POMPOUS” Mike Pompeo, Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao (wife of MOSCOW MITCH), Treasury Secretary Steve “the MUNCHKIN” Mnuchin and William (DIS)Barr, the Attorney General of the United States. And who can forget the sorry group of buffoons who have come and gone, such ignominious idiots as Scott “I Didn’t DO IT” Pruitt or Ryan Zinke, who hired his next door neighbor in Montana to restore power to the entire island of Puerto Rico??? On a scale of one to ten, since his initial appointments were made, I would give his Cabinet an overall rating of MINUS THREE!!! The damage these incompetent morons have and are presently inflicting upon us is incalculable. Another reason Trump must be outed ASAP!!! Dollar Bill It’s waaaaay past time for Kansas to do the right thing and FIRE Bill Self following the ugly brawl with in state rival K State where his prize recruit, already banned once for NCAA violations, picked up a stool and was ready to brain somebody before he was restrained. It’s very obvious the program is completely out of control. But there he was yesterday, on the sidelines as usual. He even had the audacity to try to defend his behavior and that of his players. He’s a disgrace to the game, just like Bruce “BLACK” Pearl of Auburn and Sean Miller of Arizona, coaches also up to their asses in the ongoing FBI and NCAA pay for play scandal. Rick Pitino of Louisville got fired for his role in this alleged scheme; my question is why are these scum bags still shaping the lives of young athletes?!? I think we saw the results in the melee that ensued following a completely thuggish gesture displayed by a KU player, their star no less, when he stood over a fallen opponent like some conquering hero and glared at him. If that isn’t gang behavior, what is??? And where does that come from??? The top down. "Do you solemnly swear that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States, now pending, you will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws, so help you god?"
This is the oath that all Senators were required to take prior to the commencement of the ongoing impeachment trial of Donald J Trump last week. After viewing the actions and words of many Senate REPUBLIKANS this week as the House Democratic managers present their case, it would appear that they have very short memories indeed. The behavior being exhibited in these solemn proceedings by members of MOSCOW MITCH’S caucus is not only a violation of this sacred oath administered by Chief Justice Roberts but a clear indication of to what depths the once proud GOP has sunken under the dictatorial mandates of Trump and his henchmen. And to think that until George W. Bush came along I was a dyed in the wool card carrying member of this party. 9/11, WMD and the invasion of Iraq, the financial meltdown and George W. Bush changed all of that for me. Take for example the handwritten note that Senator Susan “C WORD” Collins of Maine sent to Roberts complaining about the language Representative Jerry Nadler used to describe Senate members who refused to consider additional witnesses or evidence in this matter (he said they were involved in a “cover up”, which is absolutely TRUE!). Trump disses his political opponents and others in far worse terms on a daily basis. Or reading a book??? Or whining to the press “nothing new here” while suppressing witnesses and documents that could shed new light on the investigation??? Or MOSCOW MITCH, the presiding Senator over these proceedings who hasn’t taken a single note since the trial began and who essentially told everybody in America the entire trial would be rigged from the beginning by himself and Trump, the man who is on trial. Or Marsha (HACK)burn of TN who said that Colonel Vindman, a decorated Iraq war veteran, was “unpatriotic”??? OMG!!! WTF is she is the better question!!! I’ve written posts the last few days about the aberrant behavior of REPUBLIKAN Representative Devin Nunes of CA and Lindsey Graham of SC, how they have completely disregarded their respective oaths of office as well as the majority of their constituents by lying and manipulating the truth or else disregarding it completely in both this investigation and the Mueller investigation. Yesterday Trump let slip during one of his pressers where he almost always shoots himself at least in the foot that he was in favor of cuts to the entitlement programs, i.e. Social Security and Medicare at some point. It’s no secret that this has been on the minds of MOSCOW Mitch and other REPUBLIKAN leaders who through their reckless passage of corporate tax cuts and out of control military spending have increased the budget deficit and national debt to record levels that they now want to address by taking more of our hard earned safety net programs and cutting them at our expense. Already he and others in his administration and REPUBLIKANS are trying to walk back his comment, understanding any such cuts to entitlement programs would be political suicide in this election year, just like the lie they are telling America regarding cutting Obamacare, include coverage of pre existing conditions. They will say literally ANYTHING to conceal the facts and promote themselves and their own agendas, which inevitably favor legislation favorable to their campaign donors like corporate Amerika and the one per centers. And right alongside these cowardly buffoons we have FAUX NEWS, spreading their lies and misinformation on an hourly basis, reaching out to that so called base of Tumpites who could care less what he does to break the law or trash the Constitution as long as they have their assault rifles, Bibles and “abortion kills” bumper stickers. This so called news network is as guilty as Donald Trump himself when it comes to the outright lies and misinformation they spew forth daily on his behalf. Scum The “Grand Old Party” isn’t anymore, ladies and gentlemen. It is now the party of the gentrified elitists and older white males who have a completely distorted view of America, what it stands for and our values. It is the party of runaway spending, healthcare and education cuts, tax cuts for corporate donors and the very wealthy contributors, racism and bigotry. It is the party that has all but ceded Congressional oversight powers to Trump time and time again, from his ridiculous executive order on funding the absurd border wall to obstructing ongoing investigations at every turn, denying requested documentation and forbidding witnesses from testifying. It is the party that will not even consider gun legislation already passed by the House because ninety per cent of REPUBLIKAN Senators are in the NRA’s pocket. It is the party that wants to roll back nearly every single environmental safeguard enacted over the last couple of decades, again to insure those big corporate campaign donations keep rolling in from special interest groups like oil & gas, utilities, pharmaceutical and chemical industries among others. It is the party that wants to trample the right of choice for women, despite the fact it is the law of the land as determined by the Supreme Court. It is the party that has essentially declared war on labor. The only common theme you can find today among REPUBLIKAN politicians is a yellow streak a mile wide. They live in abject fear of being attacked by Trump on Twitter or being called out by him at one of his so called “political rallies”; the thought of having a Trumpite challenge them in a primary election terrifies them. In short, they are collectively the most gutless group of politicians to EVER darken the Senate chambers with their presence, such as it is this week. What they have shown America is not upholding their Constitutional duties or voting their conscience or the will of their constituents but rather a complete disregard for getting the facts of the case or calling relevant witnesses. They read their books and act bored. They say nothing there. I say their day of reckoning and that of the so called “GOP” is at hand come November, and that each of these cowardly sycophants who fell blindly into lock step behind the most corrupt and incompetent President we have EVER suffered will pay the ultimate political price for their words and actions…..UNEMPLOYMENT!!! After the second day of the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump, there’s one REPUBLIKAN voice that has stood out above all of the others, that of Senator Lindsey Graham “CRACKER” of South Carolina. His diatribe in front of the cameras yesterday was nothing short of incredulous. Here are some excerpts from his tirade.
"To my Democratic colleagues, you can say what you want about me, but I'm covering up nothing," said Graham. "I'm exposing your hatred of this president, to the point that you would destroy the institution. Nobody would be saying this about a Democratic president if a Republican house had done this." "If I were the president, I wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all," he added. "I wouldn't give them the time of day. They're on a crusade to destroy this man and they don't care what they destroy in the process of trying to destroy Donald Trump." Graham reacted angrily to Democratic Congressman Jerry Nadler's assertion, made during day 2 of the Senate impeachment trial, that "a lot of senators [are] voting for a cover-up, voting to deny witnesses." Graham insisted he was exposing Democratic "hatred" of Trump rather than engaging in a cover-up by refusing to allow witnesses in the trial. (NEWSWEEK). This from the same United States Senator who had a slightly different position when it came to impeaching Bill Clinton in 1996. This from the same individual who called Trump “unfit for office” during the 2016 primaries as well as a few other choice words about the then candidate. Fast forward to today. This same man now will apparently go to ANY lengths to defend Trump, including lying and spreading misinformation. To think he is the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee is almost as big a joke as Devin Nunes chairing the House Intelligence Committee during the Mueller investigation. Trump has stacked the deck completely in his own favor, from having a dishonest and criminal Attorney General to MOSCOW Mitch running his trial interference for him. And the rest of the REPUBLIKANS fall right into line, like lemmings marching to the sea. It’s enough to make you sick to your stomach. Those who know Lindsey Graham say that he changed for the worse when his close friend and mentor John McCain lost his battle with cancer. The man we listened to yesterday is but a shadow of his former self, now a cowardly politician who has chosen to ignore his oath of office and Constitutional duties in favor of political opportunism. He has, in essence, sold his soul to Donald Trump, like so many of his other gutless colleagues on the REPUBLIKAN side of the aisle. Why? The answer is the same in every single case-these spineless sycophants are terrified of the consequences of crossing Trump, from his vengeful Twitter tirades to having a Trumpite challenge them in their primary contests in their home districts. Each of them swore an oath in front of Chief Justice Roberts, and many of them, Like Graham, have already violated that oath. It’s obvious he never took it seriously in the first place. I think everybody understands where this all ends. There was NEVER any doubt that the REPUBLIKAN Senate leadership under MOSCOW Mitch was in lock step with the White House over these proceedings and that a fair trial was NEVER in the cards. Trump will be acquitted. I seriously doubt there will be a SINGLE REPUBLIKAN Senator with the courage to uphold their Constitutional duty instead of towing the partisan party line dictated by the most corrupt POTUS we have EVER had in the White House. Collectively, this group will go down on the wrong side of history. Many of them, including MOSCOW Mitch, will be fighting for their political lives come November, and their performance when the nation was counting on them will be remembered. How about another round of golf, Lindsey?!? One of the recent revelations that have come from the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump is the deep state involvement of Representative Devin Nunes of California and his staff with Lev Parnas, who is at the center of the Ukrainian extortion scandal. I have contended that Nunes is a loose cannon and complete lackey for Trump since his abjectly partisan adjudication of the Mueller investigation while serving as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he essentially acted as the President’s spy as well as spokesperson instead of the Constitutional duty he had to uphold the rule of law. Here is what his home state newspaper had to say about this scumbag.
California Representative Devin Nunes is facing criticism from a newspaper in his home state for dismissing the allegations against President Donald Trump that led to his impeachment although he "knew they were true." "Devin Nunes has betrayed the truth, betrayed the trust of voters and, quite possibly, betrayed our country," the Sacramento Bee editorial board wrote Monday. On Friday, the House Judiciary Committee released text messages between Derek Harvey, Nunes' aide, and Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas. The documents show the claim Parnas made earlier that Nunes was "involved" through Harvey in the plan to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden's dealings in Ukraine as it related to his son, Hunter Biden. Trump's pressuring of Ukraine to investigate Biden is at the center of the impeachment proceedings against him, a process Nunes labeled a "hoax" motivated by party politics. After staunchly dismissing the allegations against Trump, the release of the text messages showed he "lied" to the American people, the Sacramento Bee editorial board claimed. "Nunes knew the Ukraine allegations were true because his office was involved in the same plot. But he used his position in Congress as a platform to spread lies and mislead the public," the editorial board wrote. Nunes initially denied knowing Parnas, but phone logs released in December suggested the two spoke several times on the phone. On Wednesday, Nunes told Fox News' Martha MacCallum that after reviewing his own records, he remembered the call was "odd" and involved talking about "random things.” And what does this say about his involvement in the cover up of the obstruction charges against Trump while serving as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the Mueller investigation??? I remember him running back and forth to the White House like a lap dog to give Trump his daily BJ and then standing before the cameras in front of the cameras lying his ass off to America about his innocence while he was himself suppressing evidence and testimony that would have been damaging to the President. And now we find out that he is up to that very same ass in the Ukrainian scandal that has led to the impeachment of his golden idol. At the very minimum House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi should begin an investigation into Nunes activities and then call for a motion of censure at a minimum. I have suspected from the very beginning that this individual was a low life who would do ANYTHING to ingratiate himself to Trump, including lying and abetting obstruction of justice. It’s hard for me to imagine that the people of California from his district would continue to send him back to Washington, farmers or not, where he has languished in complete ambiguity until he decided to latch his political future to that of the most corrupt POTUS we have ever elected. Let’s hope for the good of California but more importantly the good of our country that they send this national security risk and total sycophant packing-twenty minutes of this buffoon are too much to say nothing of nearly twenty years. Congrats to the Sacramento Bee for calling his detestable behavior out. This is EXACTLY why a free and independent press is protected by the First Amendment, to shed light on the type of darkness we are seeing on a daily basis from Donald Trump and his henchmen like Nunes, and the reason why Trump himself so despises the media. Without this type of reporting, we might never understand the true depths to which the REPUBLIKAN party has sunk to protect him, and how everybody in his administration from Pence to Pompeo to Esper to Barr has been involved in the attempted cover up. The announcement that Alan Durchowitz (hereafter referred to as (DIPSHITOWITZ) has joined the Trump legal defense team along with Kenneth (DISBAR) Starr (Are you FUC*ING kidding me?!?) and two others as well as the abjectly woeful document that the White House legal counsel issued as a response to the House case for impeachment in the United States Senate trial scheduled to begin this week signal that there really IS NO legal defense against the offenses committed by Trump outlined in the Articles of Impeachment and that Trump intends to turn the proceedings into another reality show instead of the fair and impartial proceedings the Constitution intended. He has deliberately opted for high profile individuals who themselves have checkered pasts, having been involved with such absolute low lives as murderer O.J. Simpson and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein to plead his case in front of Congress. How fitting. I suppose it takes one to know one. And people wonder why lawyers have a bad reputation??? I offer these barristers as Exhibit A. Does anybody seriously believe that ANY of these legal minds gives one flying FU*K about the Constitution or the legal duty of the Senate??? Of course not-their ONLY interests lie in $1000.00/hr fees and the bright lights of television. Disgraceful to say the least.
The very fact that this President has burned through more lawyers than Perry Mason did during his tenure in office as a result of his illegal activities and violations of Constitutional norms should in itself be evidence of his malfeasance. The same held true during his failed career as a real estate developer-his tactics have always been to build and burn and then lawyer up, just like his presidency. His personal attorney for years, Michael Cohen, is currently serving a prison sentence for doing Trump’s bidding. Now his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is involved in the Ukrainian scandal and covert operation to dig up dirt on Joe Biden up to his blood shot bulging eyeballs!!! Let’s face it, Trump is your basic scum bag who uses and abuses attorneys in the same manner he treats everybody that works for him (unless you are family)-when their shelf life has expired he throws them into the dumpster. And now he has four more fresh faces to go forth and completely denigrate their respective legacies in order to save his sorry ass. A couple of them have been either directly or indirectly implicated in the Jeffrey Epstein scandals. And everybody knows how the REAL story of O.J. Simpson turned out. As we prepare to witness a spectacle of Trump’s making, it remains to be seen just how this courtroom drama will unfold. On one hand we will see the Democratic Managers detail the well documented case for the two Articles of Impeachment and the defense of our democratic process and the Constitution, on the other we will bear witness to one sycophant after another, be it DIPSHITOWITZ, DISBARR STARR, GRAHAM CRACKER or MOSCOW MITCH trample on all of the evidence in defense of the most corrupt individual to EVER occupy the White House. It will be REAL Reality TV!!! Stay tuned. I just celebrated my sixty ninth birthday. I am publishing a post I made a year ago, with a few updates. Sixty nine has always been a special number for me, aside from the childish sexual connotations sometimes associated with it (so Boomer!) that used to make snicker. I graduated from high school in 1969, was married, had a son and we landed a man on the moon! I believe it was also the same year that innocent college students were gunned down at Kent State, the Vietnam war was raging and Richard Nixon was president and trampling all over the Constitution in the name of "law and order". Quite the year.
Since I posted this last January, we have seen Donald Trump impeached, only the third president in our history to be so disgraced. We have witnessed the brink of war with Iran, the extortion of a NATO ally, Ukraine, so Trump could dig up fraudulent corruption charges against his likely political opponent Joe Biden and his son. We have seen our nations foreign policy in total disarray, with abject failure in negotiations with N Korea, unilateral withdrawal from Syria and the abandonment of our Kurdish allies which also ceded Middle East influence to Putin. The trade war with China cost our nation and taxpayers BILLIONS in bail outs and increased costs. The environment is being trashed by this administration every day through the rollback of regulations designed to protect our health and safety in return for campaign contributions, and the results of the climate change resulting from CO2 emissions has been evident around the globe, especially the wild fires in the Amazon, Australia and in California. And now we enter the fateful year of 2020, with the pending impeachment trial and the November elections looming. I'm hoping my sixty ninth year on this planet will be as good as the year 1969 was for me. If nothing else, it should be very interesting to say the least!!! Here's my post from last year. I’m thankful to be here, and for many other things as well, things such as family, home, food on the table and the country that has given me the opportunity to realize these things. I thought it would be an interesting exercise to just briefly describe a number of the major events that have shaped my life since I arrived to Bob and Nancy Cole in Hamilton, OH on January 16, 1951, the second son of what would be five children born to them. Here is just a snippet of events I have witnessed during my time on this earth.
Wow!! That’s quite a list, and I’m pretty certain I left off a whole lot of items that should have been included. At any rate, as you can see, my lifetime as an official “Baby Boomer” has been witness to the most incredible changes in the history of mankind. I had a discussion with a friend regarding our status in the historical rankings, say for example vs. “The GREATEST GENERATION” and my position was that we have come up short. Now that I look at a list like this, I am beginning to believe that perhaps we stack up more favorably than I had believed. Happy Birthday to me!! "The waiting is over, no, don't you run; No way to hide; No time for wonderin' why; It's here, the moment is now, about to decide! For once in your life, Stand up and fight! Comes a day in every life. This is it."
Of course these are words from the great song “This Is It” by Kenny Loggins. I feel they are appropriate for the moment in time that has afforded Kentucky Senator and Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell to enhance the legacy he has so desperately tried to forge during his Senate career and term as Majority Leader. I will refrain from calling him “MOSCOW MITCH” to show him some respect as we move forward with the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. His actions from this moment in time forward through the end of these proceedings will be with him forever, for better or worse, just like the disgrace of impeachment will forever tarnish the legacy of Trump. It’s certainly no secret for anybody who has followed my posts in this blog and my previous one entitled “The War on COLE” that I despise most of the policies which Mitch McConnell has championed for over three decades in the Senate, policies like the passage of Citizens United opening the floodgates to corporate takeover of our democratic process. Or his hiding behind the Second Amendment on gun regulation legislation as innocent men, women and children continue to get mowed down in their places of worship, nightclubs, concerts and festivals by weapons of mass destruction, refusing to even bring legislation passed by the House to the floor for a vote; meanwhile he is cashing big checks from the NRA. I despise the fact that he has stacked the courts, from the SCOTUS to lower level federal judgeships appointing right wing conservatives who will be responsible for shaping our interpretation of the law for decades to come. I despise his position on women’s right to choose. I despise the fact that he takes great pride in subverting former President Obama’s agenda at every opportunity after promising he would NEVER win a second term on his watch. I don’t like his smug attitude and I don’t like his partisanship and the way he has allowed the most corrupt and incompetent buffoon to EVER occupy the Oval Office to run roughshod over our norms of governance and usurp power from Congress while essentially doing nothing about it. I will give McConnell credit where due. He has proven to be a master tactician in manipulating the rules of procedure in the Senate to his and the REPUBLIKANS advantage for years now. He has basically stayed above the political insanity that is Donald Trump for the most part. He has stayed true to his values. But now comes probably the most important moment of his entire political career, and his actions will be his legacy. He has an opportunity to show his constituency in Kentucky that he isn’t just another Trumpite but will actually take his oath to be an impartial juror in these proceedings as sworn before Chief Justice Roberts yesterday seriously and be guided accordingly. He needs to allow witnesses to testify and he needs to influence others like Linsey Graham and Clair Mccaskill to come in from off the reservation and perform their Constitutional duty instead of behaving like the vote seeking sycophants they have become who are more interested in saving their own asses than saving our republic!!! McConnell’s comments the other day raised a glimmer of hope for me, but I am very skeptical that McConnell will do what’s right. His overriding interest has always been political expediency and pandering to special interests groups like the NRA and big coal. His Senate seat is being challenged by a Democrat who also happens to be a female as well as a veteran Marine fighter pilot (the FIRST!). His approval ratings in the Commonwealth have tanked into the low thirties and his seat is in serious jeopardy for the first time in literally decades. How he conducts himself during the course of the upcoming impeachment trial will go a long way toward determining his electoral fate come November. I hold out ZERO hope that REPUBLIKANS like Graham, Mccaskill or other Trump sycophants will act as impartial jurors as they swore to do. They’ve already basically said as much. But there are others out there who may decide that voting their conscience and the will of their constituents outweigh ANY short term political benefits they may accrue by supporting a man who is so seriously corrupt. Maybe Mitch McConnell will be one of them. “THIS IS IT, MITCH!!!” “THE MOMENT IS NOW!!!” |
About Mike ColeBorn in Hamilton, OH but a proud Kentuckian since age two. One brother and three sisters. Suburban, Catholic middle-class upbringing. Attended Jefferson Community College and Pasadena Community College. Proud father of four and grandfather to seven, and most of all, a concerned American citizen! Are you??? Categories |