I Don't Know WHO to Believe In This Impeachment Hearing

[babylonsister]

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-dont-know-who-to-believe-in-this-impeachment-hearing?fbclid=IwAR3bCaRYrlYDHZx8wMqeu3lZVqETluEf4E7pkUr1Pjw8awsj78bVnLM-xGI


November 13, 2019
I Don’t Know WHO to Believe In This Impeachment Hearing
by Devorah Blachor

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At the hearing, I saw two serious, professional men who both served under Republican and Democrat administrations. Yet just last week, President Trump was ordered to pay two million dollars for using charity funds to pay off his business debts and promote himself. How can a voter like me be expected to know who is more credible?

These men testified under oath that the president tried to withhold military aid to a crucial ally unless the Ukranian president made a phony and defamatory speech about Joe Biden, and I admit that does sound slightly damning. At the same time, there’s a white supremacist working closely with Donald Trump who orchestrated the immigration policy which separated thousands of children, including babies, from their parents. Politics are so complicated!

What sounds more believable? That career diplomats with everything to lose would make up a story implicating the most powerful man in America? Or that the president’s butt-dialling, criminal-loving lawyer was involved in something nefarious? I wish this would be easier!

I’m no political scientist, but it seems to me that a man who has told 13,435 lies and has equated Nazis with people protesting Nazis, and who publicly stated he’d date his own daughter, and who tried and failed to buy Greenland is at least as honest as the many people, both Republican and Democrat, who have testified against him in this impeachment hearing.

You know, everyone keeps repeating this story about Ben Franklin over and over again  —  you know the one  —  about how in 1787, as the Constitution was adopted, Americans gathered on the steps of Independence Hall. When they saw Franklin, they asked, ‘What do we have, a republic or a monarchy?’ and Franklin replied, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’

But what did Ben Franklin even mean by that? Was he trying to say that a Democracy is only as strong as its institutions and that if the people in power become nakedly corrupt and are not checked, that Democracy becomes a hollow pretense that’s no better than a despotic monarchy? Or did he mean that the newly founded nation was a banana republic?

Someone help me! I’m utterly baffled! How will we ever get to the bottom of these impeachment hearings? I fear that America will be lost amidst the fog of uncertainty, destined to wander in the wilderness of chaos for a very long time indeed. A very, very long time.

[Pantagruel]

1. Yeah!

It's a head scratcher.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. That is an easy question to answer when your world includes...

a world-wide, all powerful socialist/commie/liberal conspiracy to take down the greatest man to ever live...better than Jesus even!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. This is hilarious! Thank you for posting it, my dear babylonsister.

Nice to see a literate person with a sense of humor.

[Karadeniz]

4. My deepest sympathies!

[warmfeet]

5. Yeah,

it's a tough call for sure.

Who to believe? Hmm?

The liars, or the truth tellers.

One may never know.

[bitterross]

6. There is a tell in her story. She uses "Democrat" administration.

Like all the Republicans and Trump supporters, she uses "Democrat" rather than Democratic. It's a tell that lets us know exactly where her sympathies lie.

[maxsolomon]

7. LOL. I caught that too.

But that's the precisely the term that I would expect from a flibberdigibbet low-to-no-information voter. She nailed that part.

[babylonsister]

8. FFS, it's an article from a humor magazine.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/

[bitterross]

9. Oh, I didn't have time to go to the link.

It's so difficult to detect satire these days. Given that reality is so close to that all the time now.

[babylonsister]

10. That's true enough, but no evil intent meant, I don't think. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. thanks for posting this!

[Judi Lynn]

13. It's just wonderful. Unbelievably enjoyable, it's comfort food for DU'ers. Thank you! n/t