The Rude Pundit:Impeachment Hearings: Random Observations on Republicans Getting Kicked in the Taint

[babylonsister]

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11/19/2019
Impeachment Hearings: Random Observations on Republicans Getting Kicked in the Taint

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4. The picture of President Trump that came through today is of an out-of-touch idiot who has listened to Rudy Giuliani, another out-of-touch idiot, both of them sharing delusions of conspiracy theories. And when people in the intelligence, national security, and foreign policy communities tried to tell Trump that the batshit allegations about Ukraine and the DNC server or the Bidens are batshit, Trump told them to fuck off and put Giuliani in charge, sending him on a mission to confirm the batshit allegations, eventually bribing Ukraine to almost join him in the delusion pool before all this shit was revealed by the whistleblower and confirmed by the multiple officials who have testified.

Seriously, this is like Trump sending people to search for Barack Obama's birth certificate, except now he gets to do it with the power of the Oval Office and the purse of the United States behind him.

5. Let's give the final word to Democratic Committee Chair Adam Schiff, who finally came about as close to losing his shit at Republicans as he has so far. In his closing remarks today, he pointed out that Republicans don't give a shit what Trump did. "Their objection is that he got caught," Schiff said. Then, getting more intense, he continued, "Their objection is that someone blew the whistle...their defense is that, well, he ended up releasing the aid. Yes! After he got caught. That doesn't make this any less odious."

I think things are going to get even more odious as Republicans start throwing everything at the hearings to see if something will derail the train that Schiff is driving straight at Trump.

(Note: You might think Trump's not really insane and is using the conspiracy theories as a cover for malevolence. I'd say that if he were truly that smart, he'd know to keep this shit quieter. )

[erronis]

1. "not really insane ... using the conspiracy theories as a cover for malevolence" - this is really

cover for others interfering with the country's governance. Someone "owns" the executive branch.

The peeResident may be insane but a useful idiot. And his spoutings are just a distraction and a target for the media. Meanwhile the federal bench (justice) is being hollowed out.

[babylonsister]

2. Meanwhile, the gop is aiding and abetting

his stupidity, insanity, and malevolence. I'm floored by that though I shouldn't be. I thought we as a country were better than this.

[erronis]

3. How would this have played out if we didn't have these payed-for media outlets?

Altho we've always had the pay-for-play model it has never been as immediate and as subject to nefarious control as we're seeing now.

Broadsides back in the early print days - they could be mass-produced and sent out in a day all around town.

All societies have had messengers that ran between villages with some special news and gossip. Perhaps a foreboding of fux-newz. The Greeks used scripts written on shards of pottery to deliver their mainly negative feelings.

But the capture of the human attention has never been so complete where we can expect whole swaths of a population to sit glued to a instrument-of-mass-persuasion while bimbos and bobbits propagandize the intellectually-challenged.

[babylonsister]

4. "...while bimbos and bobbits propagandize the intellectually-challenged."

What a great line! We're seeing what we're made of thanks to social media, 24/7 cable, etc., and it isn't pretty.

I am grateful but horrified to discover so many racists in our midst. I had no idea. They've been around a long time; it's handed down!