It took him three years… after a House of Representatives impeachment - revelations about timing and authorization of withholding congressionally authorized funds to a foreign country in exchange for political favors - but what pushed him over the edge was evidently his collapsed legal challenge to subpoenas of DeutscheBank’s loan records he received to fix multiple bankruptcies and suspicious real estate transactions on the east coast… all apparently backed by- (cough — SURPRISE!) Russian money. Wow. Just… wow. As if this was all just “business as usual”. I’d sure as hell hate to see what their idea of “unusual” business looks like. And maybe this could be it.
It would seem that the only remaining thing that has yet to turn up is the celebrated Yellow Showers Video with the Russian hookers in the Moscow hotel room - and given all these recent revelations, that tidbit from the Steele Dossier is now looking less and less like “fake news” and more and more like legitimate “kompromat”. I wonder where that woman who claimed she had a copy of that video is these days? Or, more to the point, what has become of her remains…
Yes, America, we now have a good, old fashioned Yankee Doodle Armageddon knocking at our doorstep, thanks to those wunnerful, wunnerful (with a nod to Lawrence Welk midwestern culture morality) friends we keep reaching across the aisle to compromise with as they offer their hands in friendship spiked with Ricin pins. After waiting for over 2,000 years for their Lord and Saviour to come for them, they’ve become impatient, so they’ve elected a psychopath to speed up the process a bit to help them come to HIM. (See, they haven’t figured out that the Father cancelled His son’s encore performance because the place hasn’t changed one bit since they nailed him to that cross the last time…)
So the prospect of yet another 10 thousand - 20 thousand - 50… 100… 500 thousand more headstones in veteran cemeteries throughout the country are forcing the people in charge of such matters to rethink operations - such as dig the graves deeper to stack the coffins and double — maybe triple them up. After all, don’t combat personnel think of themselves as “brothers”? And maybe here in the 21st century, customary earthen graves are archaic now: between that “friendly relationship” with North Korea now producing long range ballistic missiles and their resumption of nuclear warhead development and the decades of Middle East political animosity that almost certainly either has developed its own nuclear arsenal or has stolen or purchased old Soviet nuclear weapons, perhaps someone should try cornering the market on those brass urns they sell at Pier One Imports from India before they go out of business.
Perhaps it’s silly of me or anyone else who presumes to think that after all of the examples throughout human history where entire populations who became so ignorant and undisciplined let their governments fly off the rails could actually open their eyes, wake up and shake off their intellectual stupor long enough and fix the damage they’ve done not only to themselves and their country but to their world… but time and again, that has been shown to never happen. It took 1000 years after Rome fell before even the slightest inkling of reason began to trickle into mainstream thought, and even then it met with religious - sometimes even violent resistance. And right now this very minute as a people we’re no closer to a unified sense of reason than were the feudal lords of EurAsia in the 1100s.
It has been observed that Pelosi has called for a congressional investigation into whether Trump has violated the War Powers Act by assassinating an official of a foreign government without congressional authorization. We all had better hope that something definitive and concrete will come of that very quickly, and that every redneck fundie neocon wakes up and realizes what the true consequences of not putting a stop to this madness will produce.