Can you imagine what individual 1 would be doing if “we the people” had not voted – in HUGE numbers – to turn the House of Representatives over to democratic control in 2018? The brazen arrogance coming from individual 1 and his sycophants is almost beyond description despite the FACT there’s one House of Congress willing to hold him accountable. Today is the day the House Judiciary Committee has voted Articles of IMPEACHMENT to be voted on in a few days by the entire House when individual 1 will be formally IMPEACHED and what is our so-called president doing? Well, if you said “kissing up to the Russians AGAIN!” You’d be correct. Just as he was the day after he fired James Comey – Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, is in the Oval Office. Yikes!!!
If you’ve read anything about how Vladimir Putin and the Russians (of today) operate you would see that much of what is coming from our so-called president shouldn’t be too surprising. As I’ve said before, it has looked to me like individual 1 has been attempting to “Make Russia Great Again” since the day his “oath” was just another LIE. What is so hard to understand is the amount of individual 1’s republican supporters who seem to be willing to regurgitate the Russian propaganda in regard to Ukraine in order to support him. It’s as if Vladimir Putin has put a spell on the “conservatives” in America. And, sadly, those conservatives don’t understand they are the butt of jokes in Russia – in Russia, it’s like “We can’t believe how easy it was to turn America into a surrogate of our president.”
I mean, while all this has been going on during the past couple of weeks where do you think Rudy Giuliani was? If you said right back in Ukraine attempting to FORCE the Ukrainians to say they’re investigating Joe Biden, well, you’d be right again! That is ARROGANCE in capital letters! It’s as if we’re dealing with an OPPOSITIONAL bully – with about a sixth grade mentality – in the “White House.” So, when democrats remind you that individual 1 is going to keep doing this ILLEGAL scheme to involve foreigners in our elections you need to believe it!
Now, today, I listened to interviews with people waiting in line to attend individual 1’s rally in Pennsylvania and, as usual, I felt as if I was listening to people who are incredibly ill informed. These people are the result of a well thought out propaganda scheme which has been going on since the days of Ronald Reagan – turning working class people against the very politicians who “have their backs.” Listening to the comments coming from the people in the line was like listening to Fox “news.” I’m always pointing out Fox’s role in this, but it also should be noted that Sinclair Broadcasting has a near monopoly of the “local news” stations around the country and they’re part of the “Big Lie” philosophy of the republican party along with the right wing “talkers” on the radio and right wing websites pushing “White Nationalism.”
Fortunately, the number of Americans who’ve succumbed to the propaganda coming from the “right” is a significant minority of Americans. Democrats have the numbers on their side, except for the fact the republicans, as I’ve repeatedly pointed out, will do “whatever it takes” to win an election – likely why individual 1 appeals to them. Yes, they believe in CHEATING if that’s what it takes – so this Ukraine stuff is just “nothing” to them. The challenge for democrats is to make sure their supporters “get” the gravity of the 2020 election and they make sure they show up and vote. And, in places where there have been voter suppression tactics these voters need to make sure their ballots represent how they voted – on a paper ballot!
Do you get the impression I don’t trust the republicans? You’d be correct! In the 2016 election I saw reports something on the line of 300,000 people were denied their right to vote in Wisconsin – a state in which individual 1 “won” by just over 22,000 votes. And, there were issues in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and North Carolina which I can remember off the top of my head with voter suppression schemes which were introduced within days of the Supreme Court Gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965. So, voter suppression is one way republicans CHEAT. But, of course, there’s more!
If you don’t think the Russians had an impact on the 2016 election you’ve had your head in the sand. Of course, no one can quantify the total impact of the Russian “meddling” but it obviously was significant. If you read the Mueller report (highly unlikely) you’d know that their misinformation reached the Facebook pages of over 129 MILLION American desktops! To suggest this had no impact would be absurd. How much, well, as I said, that can’t be calculated – we just know it MUST have had a significant impact and it’s likely been a lasting impact. And, of course, individual 1 encouraged the Russian interference along with the rest of his campaign. To suggest there was “no collusion” as individual 1’s attorney general suggested in his “summary” of Mueller’s report was “poppycock.” Clearly, there WAS “collusion.” The Russians are STILL here – as Mueller pointed out in his testimony.
Of course, individual 1 will now have TWO asterisks next to his name in the History books (right next to Benedict Arnold) as he’s likely to be IMPEACHED in the next week or so – officially. So, he’s got the “I got elected thanks to the Russians” and “I got impeached” asterisks next to his name for the rest of History. Yes, it’s true the republicans are about as likely to convict him in the Senate as the Seattle Mariners are to win next year’s World Series in baseball. However, if democrats are smart they will be able to use this process to put Moscow Mitch out to pasture along with enough other republican senators to give control of the Senate to the democrats.
I honestly feel as if our country DEPENDS on “we the people” voting individual 1 out of office so he can face ALL the charges he’s likely looking at once he’s no longer protected from indictment by the OLC memo. His re-election – with an approval rating which has hovered between 38 and 44 percent – is possible because of the power of the electoral college. And, of course – as I’ve said, because the republicans don’t think twice about CHEATING! Oh yes, as I’ve also said many times on this site they use the “Big Lie Theory” so routinely they actually appear to believe their LYING as the words exit their mouths. Of course, when it comes to LIARS you can see why republicans are so enamored with individual 1 – I’ve NEVER seen anyone so comfortable with LYING!
Speaking of the LYING if you watched the recent House hearings (I did as much as I could stomach) there was one republican after another spewing the SAME LIES. If you wonder, as I heard a group on MSNBC pondering this phenomenon, why they continue doing this I’ve explained it over and over on this site – to the point it’s frustrating to me watching commentators on TV who either REFUSE to educate “we the people” or don’t, themselves, understand what we’re all watching/listening to. The republicans LONG ago adopted the “Big Lie Theory” of the chief Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.
You’re crazy, you might be thinking. Or, it’s “against the rules” to accuse anyone of aligning themselves with the Nazi’s but, as I’ve said, those who refuse to understand history are destined to repeat it. When I listen to people on MSNBC wondering why the republicans keep repeating the same LIES (they often can’t use that word and say, instead, “untruths” or some other euphemism) I start yelling at my TV or radio. Of course, republicans use the “Big Lie Theory” because it works. That’s why you hear individual 1 claiming things like “it’s a witch hunt,” it’s a hoax,” or “no collusion no obstruction” over and over again. Another reason they use it is because, for some strange reason, the democrats and the so-called “liberal media” refuse to point this out to “we the people.”
When, in public, a LIE is repeated over and over again the sad reality is that more and more people start believing it’s “true.” During the Judiciary hearings where they were voting on the Articles of Impeachment the republicans spent every moment I could stomach watching arguing about the same LIES we see coming from the “White House.” My favorite was Jim Jordan giving a litany of reasons to vote against the Articles which were ALL lies. For example, “the Ukrainians didn’t even know the aid was blocked at the time of the ‘phone call’.” Well, I’ve seen evidence that they were already asking “what is going on” at the time of the “phone call.” However, that doesn’t really matter. The aid had been blocked and our so-called president EXTORTED the president of Ukraine in his phone call supplementing the work of Rudy Giuliani and others. Clearly, the Ukrainians KNEW what was happening.
It’s encouraging to me, no matter how all this plays out, that Nancy Pelosi has FINALLY allowed the IMPEACHMENT process to play out and that the democrats are likely to vote yea on the two Articles which came out of the Judiciary Committee today. Jerry Nadler actually gave the republicans an obscene amount of time to bloviate during the hearing – something which NEVER would have happened had the “shoe been on the other foot.” I’m about to call my representative, who’s a republican, to remind her that when she votes against impeachment (which I’m certain she will do) she’s voting to say she approves of an American president, in the future, soliciting political favors from foreign governments. (Despite the FACT it’s ILLEGAL!)
I actually read the Mueller report (twice), so if you did so as well, nothing in all of this would be surprising. Individual 1 brazenly has been OBSTRUCTING Justice AND Congress since, almost, the day he took office. And, of course, he looks at the constitution as an annoyance and he seems to dream of being like Vladimir. In his report Robert Mueller took pains to explain the importance and the seriousness of the OBSTRUCTION laws as fundamental to our system of laws. Clearly, individual 1 routinely disregards these laws as he continues to OBSTRUCT as if there’s no way to stop him. And, of course, as long as Moscow Mitch is in charge of the Senate individual 1 is likely to continue getting away with it.
I’m thankful the American people voted to STOP this lawbreaking so-called president in the 2018 election and it appears as if we’ll need to show up in similar numbers in 2020 to end this nightmare. And, remember, the republican control of the Senate is a HUGE part of the nightmare. Moscow Mitch is “sitting” on close to 400 bills which have been passed by the House of Representatives – many of them which would lead to a start in the fight against CORRUPTION – not in Ukraine, but right here in the U.S.A. And, our so-called president is very possibly the most CORRUPT president in the history of this nation.
Final Thought: Democrats have the challenge of turning the Senate “blue” in 2020. It appears even Moscow Mitch is no “cinch” to get re-elected. Hopefully, the money he’s taken from the Russians will be part of the adds aimed against him during the election cycle. Susan Collins in Maine SHOULD be vulnerable, I believe Thom Tillis in North Carolina is vulnerable, Joni Ernst in Iowa, Cory Gardner of Colorado, and several other republicans are considered “vulnerable.”
Of course, Doug Jones in Alabama is extremely vulnerable as are a couple other democrats, but there’s over 20 republicans running for re-election and most of them are going to vote that they’re OK with their president committing CRIMES while in office. If democrats can’t cause a “change of scenery” in Washington under these circumstances this nation is headed for a terrible place. Traditionally, we’ve been welcoming immigrants and have cherished our history as the “melting pot” of the world. Clearly, individual 1 is the head of a group who are attempting to hold on to their “white privilege” as long as they can – despite the fact it’s tearing this nation apart.
The divisiveness in America has resulted from the “conservatives” pushing an agenda which is motivated by HATE. I’m hoping and praying they will get their just rewards in the 2020 election – but, the reality is they are sophisticated and they will do whatever it takes to win. It will take an enormous effort by “we the people” to stop them.
One last thing: Along the lines of republicans CHEATING – remember, they will have virtually NO primary elections – so I would expect republicans will be attempting to intercede in democratic primaries in order to help determine the democratic nominee. BEWARE!!!!