Friday, July 26, 2019

AFTER MUELLER'S DEVASTATING TESTIMONY, THE TRUTH IS BEYOND DENYING: CONGRESS IS FAILING US

Led through the narrative of Trump's unpatriotic corruption of American democracy by an adept Chairman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee, special counsel Robert Muller finally rose to the occasion, as one could see a glimmer of the United States Marine who had earned the Bronze Star for valor in Vietnam in December 1968.

Yes, Mueller agreed, all distracting legalisms finally left behind, it was a disgrace to the office he now holds that Trump and those around him had sought, welcomed, benefited from and remained potentially compromised by the Kremlin's criminal hacking into American computers and the campaign strategy formulated around the leaking of the hacked material. Yes, the danger such an invasion of our electoral sovereignty posed and continues to pose to our ability to govern ourselves is real and pressing. No, that danger has not been acknowledged, much less addressed, by Trump and his allies in Congress—lest they confess the unthinkable: that they are pretenders to the power they wield.

That Trump and his minions systematically lied and dangled the prospect of pardons and discouraged witnesses from coming forward and otherwise committed abuses of power to cover up that dangerous truth—something that the morning hearing tried without much success to dramatize—becomes almost an afterthought once the enormity of the underlying and ongoing crime is acknowledged. That anyone but a sitting president would have long since been indicted for what the special counsel uncovered Trump had done should be obvious to anyone with half a brain and a modicum of honesty but clearly isn't moving the system into high gear.

12 comments:

  1. Donald Trump has 2020 sewn up. What else should we talk about?

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  2. WHY SUCH AN INCOMPETENT MENUVAL SHOULD BE CONSIDERED PRESIDENTIAL MATERIAL BY ANYONE

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  3. “That anyone but a sitting president would have long since been indicted for what the special counsel uncovered Trump had done”
    No.
    What the special counsel uncovered Trump had done was nothing, thank God. You’re right Joseph Orlow: “Donald Trump has 2020 sewn up. What else should we talk about?”
    I’d like to talk about ORA and Agunah International with their bullets:
    https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2012-05-05-fl-postelnik-divorce-20120504-story.html
    "But Susan Aranoff, director of Agunah International, which supports Jewish women seeking divorces, said social media has little effect because many husbands still are resistant after "all the bullets have been fired."
    This week’s parsha מסעי “But if he pushed him without malice aforethought or hurled any object at him unintentionally, or inadvertently [lit. without seeing] dropped upon him any deadly object of stone, and death resulted—though he was not an enemy of his and did not seek his harm— (Numbers 35:22-23)
    במדבר פרק לה
    )כב) וְאִם בְּפֶתַע בְּלֹא אֵיבָה הֲדָפוֹ אוֹ הִשְׁלִיךְ עָלָיו כָּל כְּלִי בְּלֹא צְדִיָּה:
    )כג) אוֹ בְכָל אֶבֶן אֲשֶׁר יָמוּת בָּהּ בְּלֹא רְאוֹת וַיַּפֵּל עָלָיו וַיָּמֹת וְהוּא לֹא אוֹיֵב לוֹ וְלֹא מְבַקֵּשׁ רָעָתוֹ:
    Hertz Chumash p. 721
    Without enmity. An explanation of the phrase ‘killing a person through error.’ The main criterion is the absence of motive. The Rabbis distinguished three grades in unpremeditated homicide: (1) grave carelessness; (2) contributory negligence; (3) complete innocence. Only in the case of the second is exile to the Cities of Refuge prescribed. Complete innocence needs no atonement; and for grave carelessness, exile was not deemed a sufficient punishment.”
    See http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/24211
    “And here is one lesson for our own time—a lesson about the ugliness of petty partisanship trumping basic human decency. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had been Jabotinsky’s arch-rival in the 1930s. At the peak of the tension between them, Ben-Gurion had, incredibly, compared Jabotinsky to Adolf Hitler. There’s no comfort in realizing that there’s nothing in new about today’s phenomenon of politicians calling each other Nazis. Ben-Gurion refused to allow Jabotinsky to be reburied in Israel. No amount of pleading could move him. And so for 16 more years, his remains stayed in exile. The noted Jewish political scientist, Daniel J. Elazar, remarked: “The ruling Labor Party [headed by Ben-Gurion] made [Jabotinsky] a non-person for the same reasons that it portrayed Menachem Begin and his supporters as uncivilized fascists – it is easier to beat the opposition by painting it as irrelevant, intolerable and non-existent, until it is too strong to be dismissed.” ”
    Israel is a far safer country in terms of street crimes and the shootings such as in schools and in concerts we hear about down in America. Rarely, in Israel, angry feminists, go for punching the fellow in the face....

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  4. Some of us find Donald Trump to be a highly competent moral man.

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  5. yes he built the wall ,drained the swamp paid off porn stars, told people to lie to government agencies to protect him rejected the advice of his own advisers in favor of Russia and North Korean dictators

    was too busy playing golf and watching television to actually get work done - is definitely the most prolific liar in office today

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  6. Why don't you spend your energies considering: WHY YOU SPENT YOUR ENTIRE LIFE STANDING FOR THE LITERAL TRUTH AND HAVE SOLD IT ALL OUT BECAUSE YOU'RE UNHAPPY WITH WHO THE PRESIDENT IS

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  7. Yes, but not because lying is somehow tangential to being President of the United States of America. Lying is essential to getting into office and staying there. It's just the way the system is. There is no way to build coalitions without lying.

    Why don't we discuss that flaw in democracies?

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  8. And Hillary was not an incompetent menuvelet?

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  9. Obama also played ⛳ golf (more than any other resident), watched television, etc.
    President Trump gets up at 4 in the morning, goes to sleep late, not interested in trappings of office) state dinners, etc

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  10. not in trumps league - why is trump always defended by evil Hilary is worse instead of a simple acknowledgement that trump is a lazy incompetent menuval???

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