Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
You have to wonder how many Democratic senators spend the long hours of impeachment fantasizing how to end the misery of listening to Rep. Adam Schiff deliver the party’s funeral oration. Please God, hurl a lightning bolt at the podium… bring down a chunk of the fine old coffered ceiling where he stands and prates about a Russian invasion of Malibu… send a coral snake up the leg of his trousers…!
It was so bad that his California counterpart, Senator Dianne Feinstein, just up-and-split late Wednesday. Elizabeth Warren has been seen furiously doodling maps of all the primary precincts she is failing to visit in her confinement. Bernie Sanders imagines himself wielding thirty inches of re-bar upside Mr. Schiff’s skull, while Amy Klobuchar pops her third Xanax of the evening. You have no idea what mental tribulation the House impeachment manager supreme is visiting on his colleagues.
The impeachment case against Mr. Trump might mercifully spell the end of the Master Narrative the Democrats have been confabulating since 2016: that Donald Trump invited the wicked Vlad Putin to checkmate Hillary Clinton and thereby crushed the hopes and dreams of those wishing to make Ukraine the 51st state… or something like that. Because according to Mr. Schiff, there is no nation on this planet as dear to the interests of America than darling Ukraine, with its radioactive forests, decrepitating Soviet infrastructure, and dedication to liberty.
Those who were only puzzling over Nancy Pelosi’s motives in bringing this case, and assigning it to the two sketchiest characters in her charge, Schiff & Nadler, must finally be convinced that she is no longer sound of mind. What was she thinking? Did she really want to set up the voters to lose faith in the basic electoral process by preemptively delegitimizing the 2020 election? (“Trump can only win if he cheats!”) Is she that desperate to flip the Senate to prevent anymore judicial appointments? Could be. Or is the impeachment spectacle a different kind of set-up: to make the forthcoming raft of indictments against RussiaGate coupsters look like a mere act of revenge rather than long-delayed justice for a three-year campaign of perfidious sedition by some of the highest officials in the land?
Anyway, after another day of this boresome torment, the Senate will get to hear Mr. Trump’s defense in a full-throated way — really for the first time since the whole nasty business began, and in a conspicuous venue where it can’t be ignored anymore. If nothing else, it will probably be more interesting and certainly more dignified than the idiotic vaudeville put on by Schiff & Nadler. Even if the President’s managers move to dismiss the case out-of-hand for its utter lack of merit and the legal errors in its construction by two House committees, I doubt they will miss the opportunity to use the time allotted to lay out the story of what actually happened the past three years — a crime spree of government against itself.
The temptation to call witnesses must be anguishing, though; from a legal standpoint the House’s case deserves to be thrown out summarily just to reestablish the principle that impeachment is not a frivolity. But the nation would miss the chance for Mr. Schiff to have to explain exactly what happened around the “whistleblower” episode and, of course, there would be no more possible excuses for producing the “whistleblower” him-or-herself in the witness dock. I think we would discover what an absolutely shady operation that was.
In the meantime, an interesting development flew in under the radar as the impeachment spectacle hogged the news: The Department of Justice yesterday declared two of four FISA warrants against Carter Page invalid. The warrants were signed by James Comey, Andrew McCabe, and Rod Rosenstein. The move has deep repercussions in everything connected to the RussiaGate investigation, including especially the prosecutions mounted by Robert Mueller’s lawyers. It implies what has already been demonstrated by other evidence: That the FBI and the DOJ knew by January of 2017 at the latest that all the information they used to start the case against the President was garbage, and yet they continued it anyway — including the appointment of Mr. Mueller and his commission. The DOJ’s statement about the two FISA warrants doesn’t negate the possibility that the other two will also be declared invalid. It’s time for the figures involved in all this to become very afraid.
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poor dems
Poor coral snake.
I hope these creeps stall around long enough for the King of Debt to give me a tax cut before they throw him out.
Only one thing the red team and blue team agree on : MORE DEBT !!
Long live the King !!
Like sitting in the hen-house and watching the wolves fight over who gets to eat first.
+1! That’s a keeper.
‘Wouldn’t be as much debt if OBAMA hadn’t decimated the military, necessitating Trump’s rebuilding of it, hadn’t worked to put more people on the public dole than ever before, and hadn’t pissed away money on all those cute “DACA kids” while telling the Border Patrol to sit on its hands. OBAMA, in two words “acted stupidly.” Oh; and what’s the current tab for this shitshow so far?…
Don’t forget the $150 Billion (cash) to Iran.
Obama decimated the military? Wow! I must have been fucking asleep during that. You a fucking cuck for the establishment. Trump is doing the same as Obama/Bush/Clinton/Bush. Trumptards are falling for the same dog and pony show that Obamatards did 12 years ago. Oh he is our guy and can do no wrong. Guess what. They are all bought and paid for hacks. Playing the lead role in this WWE wanna be after school special called a “Democratic Republic”. The system as it exists now should sicken most rational people. I’ll never vote in another election. It simply encourages the fucking criminals.
As far as the show goes, what a dud. AOC and the squad would have done far better, although there is a small comic value to these Managers insofar as patheticism is funny.
Let’s seem some unsealing and some handcuffs, eyes are glossing over. We are near the point where the only people who will not cheer are those that will never cheer.
Whether you hate Trump or loathe him, you have to admit – it’s a JEW COUP !
Whenever I see another picture of Jerome’s face I am reminded of images of a toilet bowl all fouled by diarrhea.
You are consistently on top of the meme’s, thank you!
At least JHK is paying attention to this circus and providing some of us with a cynic’s keen optique on this whole fuktard spectacle.
But don’t you fret: the USSA is still “Bringing Them Democracy” to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria. Somalia, Niger, Yemen….
and sending lots and lots of taxpayer dough to nations that hate us…
and buying lots of new costumes for the U.S.Space Force while giving Elon Musk’s company lots of payload business…
and not fixing America’s infrastructure…
plus Jeffery Epstein did not kill himself.
This time next decade, Kuntsler will still be waiting on the indictments and perp walks.
You always have to consider the possibility that Nancy Pelosi was never the crafty strategist she is always made out to be, and that her luck has just run out this time. Of all the bad ideas the Democrats have come up with lately, starting with the anointing of Hillary, an un-charismatic stiff if there ever was one, as their presidential candidate, this was their worst. Her glee at the mere fact that Trump is impeached “forever” shows her to be a shallow thinker who doesn’t realize that wounding the King without killing him is a recipe for disaster. If her party continues down the path of irrelevance, the responsibility can largely be put at her doorstep.
Are you implying the puppets have ever done the “thinking”?
Everything going on is for naught unless the Mulatto is dragged up before a court to face his crimes. I don’t and won’t pay much attention to the latest charades until I’m driving down the road and hear the words “Obama” and “indictment” used in the some announcement coming out of an AM tuned radio.
No man has ever been gifted with such a rare and perfect opportunity unite black and white, to bring harmony out of racial hatred. Yet, not once did Obonepolisher bless his good fortune to have a white mother, a woman of amazing intellect, whose decency and humanity was an example for all people of any color.
No, Barry dismissed and disparaged his white DNA as the only source of black oppression, claiming he shared the suffering that only slaves could know. He never mentioned his mother because his black, drunken, abusive, philandering, white-oppressed Kenyan father was the man he admired…
… while bombing Libya, Africa’s most progressive country, into an open-air slave market. His hypocrisy burned all of us.
He was a coward who defied the truth, that his mother’s DNA (2/3rds; not 1/2 – mitochondrial DNA is only from our mothers) was the source of every slave’s liberty. White Europeans were the first to end slavery in their countries and colonies long before Africa and Asia did – some still haven’t.
Instead of claiming his mother’s gifts as our last hope for real change, he foisted even more undeserved hatred upon all whites. His only legacy is making everything worse for everybody.
When the Civil War began, the largest slave owner in the state with the most slaves (Virginia) was a black tobacco farmer – Thomas Sowell, ‘Black Rednecks and White Liberals’.
There is a special place in hell for grifters like Obama who bring this world ever closer to hell, but he will never face his mirror of truth in this world.
Barry’s white mother was a part timer at best, and became almost as absent as his Kenyan father. The grandmother had more to do with his formative years and she was a liberal kook. America is still being punished by the Black Bastard.
Right you are about his grandmother, but we’ve all made stoopid mistakes, as did his mother, to her and our lasting regret.
How long should anyone remain present after making a terrible mistake with a genuine Kenyan nigga?
Stanley Ann Dunham’s interest and expertise in anthropology (during a time when it wasn’t a household term) took her all over the world, and she took her young wardtard with her when she could. Niggadad was never present.
1,000+
I lubs dis nigga!
Agenda for the 2020’s. First hang all the Democrats for treason………
I think the main reason TPTB are allowing the impeachment to continue is to distract the Right from the fact that Trump has broken every campaign promise he ever made. The impeachment causes the Right to rally around Trump and excuse him for all of his failures. This serves the Deep State, and Trump, because if the impeachment wasn’t happening the Right might be pressuring Trump to keep his campaign promises, which neither the Deep State nor Trump wants. I don’t think the impeachment will be successful because the Deep State wants Trump to remain in power at least for now because he is serving their agenda perfectly. They might want to replace him in November, and they could remove him with impeachment now if they wanted to by threatening enough senators, many of whom are susceptible to blackmail (as is Justice Roberts).
Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!! Once you look at it for what it is; an oligarchy, it all makes sense. They want Trump again, they have pulled the biggest BS job on people on making them believe he is different. They did it on non-whites with Obama, damned if they didn’t run the same play against white people.
Shame on you white America for not seeing through this BS. Not one foot of the wall built, more drone strikes, more war, Hillary still roams the streets, more welfare for Wall Street, more pain for Main Street. You want healthcare fuck you. I’ll build another aircraft carrier. Now he wants to cut the Social Security and Medicare we have been paying into for 40 years.
Trump is a big fat criminal with horrible business sense. A true sociopath of the highest order. A man with so much dirt in his closet and sooooo easy to control. Fuck it, Lets make Pee Wee Herman the next fucking President. At least his crimes are well documented.
Jerking off in a dark theater is criminal?
I’ve seen a list, maybe it was on TBP that showed how Trump delivered on almost every single thing he campaigned on. An amazing thing nowadays.