Facts about the campaign and the President personally
Next up is David Frum.
I feel that these two sentences from Volume II of the Mueller report have not gotten anything like the attention they deserve (My retyping; my highlighting) pic.twitter.com/DfXAlmiftS
— David Frum (@davidfrum) May 3, 2019
“But the evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover” – not might uncover, please note, but would uncover – “facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes…”
They were crimes outside the scope of his inquiry, but a thorough FBI probe would find them.
Interesting.
And the rest of this sorry farce of a Presidency will be like a tennis match played in pouring rain on a court of sloppy mud; and mixed into that a liberal quantity of several kinds of shit. There will be plenty of bullshit: but also cow shit, goat shit, pig shit, dog shit, cat shit and horse shit. And did I say Trumpshit? That too.
And the only way it can end is with impeachment. Otherwise it will be a 24/7 shitfest, with Trump like the Ancient Mariner, out there adrift and helpless on a vast ocean of shit of his own generating, and periodically asking ‘tennis, anyone?’
Mueller has a lot of naivete and fumbling to answer for.
I agree. Mueller is making something of a reluctant debut in this slugging match with Trump. Lucky it’s not a title fight on TV.
Two men enter, one man leaves. Right now, it’s looking depressingly like that man will be Trump.
Iknklast:
Which means perhaps that America starts to replay it frontier experience, as glamourised and romanticised in the western film genre. It was OK when the last man standing was an honourable and upright character played by an Alan Ladd (‘Shane’) or a Gary Cooper (‘High Noon.’)
But more likely, IMHO, it is going to be something out of the gangster movie genre, with Trump – sorry, Donald Bonespurs – being the seedy Godfather, but without the presence or intellect of a Marlon Brando.
Donald Bonespurs if left unchecked will do what he can to move the United States in the direction of becoming yet another banana republic, with himself as its tin-pot dictator.
Being north of the Equator will likely not be enough to preserve the US from such an undeserved fate.
The constitutional checks and balances are supposed to prevent such from happening: except right now they are neither checking nor balancing.
Omar, that has long been the American dream, to have the country be a large scale epic Western with brave bold men and shrinking violet women needing saved (except when they were sassy strong women who ran bars and brothels). Every problem is solved by a shoot out, and men drag their women home if they dare to misbehave. Every copy goes around saying “Do you feel lucky? Well, do you punk?” and no man ever apologizes. Women always say yes (except they’re never asked) to the good guy, and when the good guy rapes them, they enjoy it. They are always molested by the bad guy so the good guy gets to show his manliness by stringing the bad guy up from the nearest tree for ruining the good guy’s property. And no matter how far west a man lives, he always rides off into the sunset (even if that means riding into the Pacific Ocean).
That’s the America too many people imagine, believe once existed, and wish existed again. Oh, and of course, Chinese are the cooks and do the laundry, Mexicans are the bad guys (banditos), and black people, if they exist at all, shuffle and say “yessir” and act as servants.
iknklast, that’s it, in pretty well the traditional nutshell.
People go to movies and plays for many reasons. One is to be entertained (that’s me) and another is to have their outlook, assumptions and dare I say prejudices confirmed (that’s me again, except on those occasions when I am stuck up a mental blind alley and can do with a breath of fresh air.) People rarely go to movies deliberately in order to have their minds changed, though it can happen by accident. But from the movie maker’s point of view, given that one eye is always best kept on the box office, that reinforcement of prevailing opinion (return to reality after some absence for whatever reason) is best presented as a breath of fresh air after throwing a window wide open; often literally that.
It used to be the most popular novels that were the best guide to what was going on in the mind of the populace at large. Now it is more what is popular on Netflix and such; which is the answer to a marketer’s prayer.