To the knuckleheads who mock Greta Thunberg: If you're not a bilingual 16-year-old, speaking before the UN General Assembly in your second language, having been named "one of the most influential people of 2019", and if you're not doing everything in your power to make the world a place where all our kids and grandkids get a chance just to survive -
The Trump Administration might be a full-blown criminal enterprise at this point.
Daddy State Awareness - rule 6: Total Criminalization. If everyone is guilty, then no one can hold anyone to account without exposing his own culpability.
And now it's on to the public parts of the IC whistleblower hearings.
So far, we've got Devin Nunes bitching about how the Dems just can't get over the 2016 election, while he bitches about Hillary! and emails!! and Benghazi!!!
Plus, Joe Maguire is bailing on his own self-congratulating spiel about his high-blown life of service by hiding behind Bill Barr's skirts and desperately clinging to "I'm only following orders".
We have to have one or two of these guys stand up and speak the truth.
We have to find somebody somewhere who has real courage - who doesn't just pay lip service to the oath they all swear, but takes it to heart and acts on it.
It's no secret that we're more than likely heading into some pretty bad times. Here's a look at a moment from 80 years ago - from what we were taught was among the worst times ever - with a slightly corrected perspective.
It does not mean things weren't as bad as they seemed. Look at it for fuck's sake - those folks are not having a party. They're barely scraping by. The point is that they did scrape by. They made it. They hung together, they worked their asses off, and they helped make it better.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi went all badass yesterday.
She seemed a bit nervous, and on the whole, I take that as a good sign. I think it shows how serious this is, and how well she understands how serious this is.
Some will say "Well it's about fuckin' time". I've been kinda on the fence - wondering, along with most everyone else, what was holding her back, trying to keep in mind that we're never allowed to know everything these people get to know. So there's always that kernel of doubt. Sometimes, that's what politicians count on to do what's right, in the right way - this joint is planted thick with process intended to help us do it right - but at the same time all that process, and the necessary element of doubt, is what makes a man like 45* so fucking dangerous.
"Can we work something out?"
That's Donald Trump living in Smarmspace. He's not going to ask straight out. He's not going to make it plain that he's offering some quid pro quo. He's not going to give orders in specific terms for people to do illegal things. He always couches his shit in soft passive unassertive language. Just like Michael Cohen explained when he testified in committee.
"Yes, Mr President - you can tell your people to obey the law."
That's Nancy Pelosi speaking softly but carrying a big stick.
I'll say it again: These women will help us save ourselves, if we can figure out how to keep our mouths shut and stay the fuck outa their way.
Rudy is way far up somebody's ass - maybe his own too, but definitely a few others' as well. I'm hoping to live thru this massive nation-wide GOP fuck up just so I can read a few good histories of it. Cuz this shit is gonna keep an awful lot of academics very busy for a very long time.
