Thursday, December 19, 2019

Stuff behind the headlines

I am not reading much about impeachment because it's all partisan: Dilbert (Scott Adams) says it's like each side is watching a different movie. 


Scott Adams' podcast: He is not impressed with impeachment. 


  • Senate Impeachment Trial: Opening statements and then a vote
    • Do we need more witnesses?
  • Adam Schiff says impeachment is because…
    • President Trump MIGHT commit a crime in the future?
  • Hugh Hewitt notes we are at Peak TDS today
  • Mitch McConnell says Senate’s job is to JUDGE the case
    • …as presented by the House’s TRIAL
    • Senate’s job is NOT to RETRY the House’s case

Heh. 

in a previous podcast he made fun of the "Q" conspiracy as being fake.

Yup. probably. But when I scan the discussion of Q on Free Republic I come to another conclusion: It is a way to calm down the gun happy good old boys who are ready to start a revolution: by keeping them busy trying to decode Q reports, and by assuring them that there are people in the government who will actually go after corruption so stick with the system. Of course on the actual site it might be different: FR is partisan, but JimRob keeps the bigots and violent type off the forum.

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John Bachelor has a series of podcasts on Russiagate.


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AnnAlthouse links to the news reports of Trumpieboy's letter:

I wanted to list some of the ephemeral writings diminishing Trump's contribution to the annals of American history.
The headlines all push the same talking point:  (they must coordinate the headlines; all of them say it is "bizarre" or use an equivalent word) so why bother reading the details.

but she summarizes the letter thus

1. It's not just one more statement in the voluminous back and forth about impeachment. It's a written compendium of everything the President of the United States wants to say on the subject of this important historical event. It is long in that it's 6 pages. (Anti-Trumpers have enough to be able to disparage it as rambling.) But it's also short. (The Mueller Report is 448 pages.) It will surely be preserved and read and studied and reflected upon far into the future. It is clearly a historical document, unlike virtually all the other statements bandied about in — to use Trump's term — "this impeachment fantasy."
she then goes on to comment on his use of language: syntax is one of her interests.

I found the letter posted on a tradCath site LINK.

Why are the trad Catholics backing trumpieboy? The same reason they oppose Pope Francis: abortion and socialism.

me, I'm just interested in government corruption, why people in congress get so rich on their modest salary, and to why all these politicians' sons/daughters/lovers/spouses are getting lucrative deals when they are not especially qualified. From what I understand, there is no law against this. Hmm... wonder why?

and didn't anyone notice the FISA courts were lied to so they could spy on Trumpieboy? Is that fake news, or is it the tip of the iceberg? How many more innocent people were spied on for political purposes?

Is this connected to FBI "mistakes" that Comey just admitted to?

But then I'm old enough to remember the Church committee when the CIA abuses of power were curbed.

Back then, such things were Democratic issues.

as I said, I have a life and am not wasting much time on it.

But since the BBC and most American sites just follow the same meme, I just have to wonder: don't they recognize the harm they are doing to the USA with this? But of course, that's the idea: They want to destroy Trumpieboy's policies by either removing him or making him weak, and the headlines are part of this.

But impeaching a president for trying to get bribery investigated (not to mention all that money given to the Ukraine that has disappeared) is absurd.

It's the same reason I am skeptical about global warming types insisting the rich countries give money to poor countries where corruption is rampant and everyone knows it will disappear into the pockets (and Malaysian bank accounts) of their politicians.

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