Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Satyricon America: The Stinking Scum That Rises To The Top

That the Republicans demanded yesterday afternoon's two witnesses, Kurt Volker and Tim Morris proves that they got nothin'.   Volker walking back his earlier testimony and attesting to the sterling charcter of Joe Biden, both of them making some absurd comments,  Morris claiming he found nothing wrong with the infamous Trump bribery shake down call - even as he went straight to the lawyers about it and a long line of clearly dishonest testimony artfully skirting clear lies.  The best assessment of those two came from Ned Price on Lawrence O'Donnell's show, 

It's these things that really don't square that I think paint a really unflattering portrait of people like these who are in polite society in DC and want to stay there regardless of the cost.

They could have been a greater contrast to the two morning witnesses,  Lt. Col Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams but the quality of the morning patriots and the cocktail hour courtiers was enough of one to underline Price's statement.   
The attacks on Lt. Col Vindman by the clown car of Republicans from Devin Nunes and Jim "singlet sniffer" Jordan to the boob of a lawyer they have doing their expert questioning were disgusting, shameful and a clear attempt to benefit from the Republicans anti-semites.  To raise the old canard of dual loyalty to a decorated American war veteran who is Jewish is so obviously disgusting and shameful that it's clear they decided to do it to take advantage of those Trump called "good people" on his side after the Nazi rally at Charlottsville.   I'd like to say that is as low as they can go but I doubt there is a bottom to that.   

I have to wonder what Sondland will do today, after that use of antisemitic smears yesterday.   It will be curious to see what he does, especially since he's had to change what he said under oath before.  I have read that he was on again off again on again during the 2016 campaign over some of Trump's more offensive smears.  So I'm not expecting any kind of morality from him, he doesn't have the kind of moral fiber that's made of.  I'm open to being surprised but I doubt I will.   Maybe trying to keep his ass out of jail will do it, I doubt he's terribly concerned about his position in polite society, the stink of corruption is always overcome by money among the elites.  


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