Grownups v clown
Reading The Letter again. Much of it is reworked by the grownups in an attempt to disguise quite how infantile and incapable Trumpbaby is, but he pops up like a jack in the box despite them. Like here:
President Zelensky has repeatedly declared that I did nothing wrong, and that there was No Pressure.
The grownups would not have said No Pressure. The grownups know that we don’t use capital letters for emphasis in formal writing.
You are unwilling and unable to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box during the great Election of 2016.
The great Election of 2016? What was so great about it? Given the whole Russian interference problem, and the discrepancy between the popular vote and the electoral college vote problem, and the Comey’s last minute intervention problem, and the vote suppression in the wake of Shelby problem? Oh yes, of course: Trump calls it that because he won. Narcissism guides the hand that holds the sharpie.
House Democrats introduced the first impeachment resolution against me within months of my inauguration, for what will be regarded as one of our country’s best decisions, the firing of James Comey (see Inspector General Reports)—who the world now knows is one of the dirtiest cops our Nation has ever seen.
The grownups lost that round. Grownups wouldn’t make such a ludicrously exaggerated absolutist claim, nor would they say “dirtiest cops” in a formal letter to Congress.
A ranting and raving Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib, declared…
Lost that round, too – to the ranting and raving “president.”
As you know very well, this impeachment drive has nothing to do with Ukraine, or the totally appropriate conversation I had with its new president.
Another eruption. The grownups wouldn’t say “As you know very well,” nor would they say “the totally appropriate conversation.” It’s not appropriate to rant and rave about a totally appropriate conversation.
Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me. His shameless lies and deceptions, dating all the way back to the Russia Hoax, is one of the main reasons we are here today.
All Trump, that bit, except a grownup must have done “as though it were.”
You are the ones interfering in America’s elections. You are the ones subverting America’s Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice. You are the ones bringing pain and suffering to our Republic for your own selfish personal, political, and partisan gain.
No YOU are! No grownups on that one.
O what an ignoble mind is here o’erthrown.
I am more than willing and able to accept the verdict issued at the ballot box. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that. We got the verdict issued by the Electoral College, which is itself a subversion of democracy, installing someone who handily lost the popular vote as the president of all the people who voted for the other person (someone who’s name I can almost remember…something like…Hillary, was it?). Don lost the ballot box by 3 million votes; he won the presidency on an archaic technicality that is designed to make sure city people have less of a say in the laws that govern them than the rural people who always scream about their voice not being heard.
It’s sort of like TRAs – you have a smaller number of people shouting a lot louder, carrying weapons, and whining about how badly treated they are, and they outshout and outgun the bulk of the people, and force those people to bow to their will. And the result is not pretty.
I wish more pundits would remember who actually won the ballot box. It was not Trump. It was Clinton. Trump won the part of the election designed by rich white men to guarantee that rich white men were always in control. Well, at the time, it was mostly the rich part – wealthy landowners were the people they trusted to vote ‘right’ – but since women and minorities have become enfranchised, it also supports the white and male part. In short, it worked like it was intended, but not like the founders expected. They thought it would protect against an unqualified Trump, because they assumed such people would come by allowing the non-agrarian, not-farmer sorts to vote.
That letter is so weird. Whistleblower expressed concerns about the conditioning of aid on favors, referring Zelensky to Barr and Giuliani. Then he issues a summary of the call that depicts EXACTLY THAT: yeah, aid, yeah, but do us a favor. Everything issued by the White House is exactly as described: favors involving Giuliani/Barr foreign policy objectives, which are solely about getting dirt on the Bidens. There was never any justification given for holding up the aid appropriation. At all. None. Other than Giuliani’s independent shenanigans, that is. What Schiff read was no different. It wasn’t made up. It was the same thing, not different. ALL the accounts are the same, even DJT’s. The only thing that’s different is him saying that what he said doesn’t mean what he said. Even though that’s what he wanted and that’s what he meant, and it’s totally okay and perfect. I really don’t understand how his brain works.
Well, for one thing, he’s had a lifetime of shameless lying – of saying up is down and day is night in just this way. For another thing he knows a lot of people will believe him no matter how obviously a lie the lie is. For a third thing his brain is probably degenerating, so it probably doesn’t “work” in the usual sense of “working.”
maddog1129 & O–
When considering Trump and people like him, I like to remember Harry Frankfurt’s useful philosophical distinction between “lies” and “bullshit.”
Trump certainly lies, but he is also a lifelong bullshitter.
http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf