Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

Watching the Trump Impeachment "trial" has shown us more than just the depths to which politicians will dive for their despotic leader if a nice wad of "campaign contributions" recently converted from rubles to dollars is in the offing. There are good people who are lawyers, really, but Donald Trump's "crack legal team" in this "trial" has also shown us perhaps the best example of why people often place lawyers in the same basket of deplorables as used car salesmen and street hustlers who run 3-Card Monte games and those who push drugs cut with things that are even worse than the drugs themselves. I know Rudy wishes he could be there.

As I watched Jay Sekulow and that excessive combover hair weave that engulfs his head, perv-meister Alan "I Kept My Underwear On" Dershowitz, Trump White House Counsel Pat Cipollone who claims that "impeachment would be the most massive interference in an election in American history," (Well, yeah, bozo. Isn't that the point? That remedy is exactly what's needed! It's in the Constitution!), the self-contradicting, blow job obsessed Ken Starr who has a history of looking the other way when it suits his wallet or his politics, and, of course former Florida Attorney General (say no more!) Pam Bondi who is best known for her very brief marriages and dropping her state's case against Trump University after Trump sent a nice check to her campaign, the number one question I kept going back to was "How do these people face any relatives they may have?" We can tell what kind of people they married just as we know what kind of people work in the Trump White House. We can see what they've taught their children. We can see that they're trying to teach all children in America that not only does crime pay but crime isn't really criminal, and, oh, lies mean nothing; the bigger the better.

To these true deplorables, absolutely nothing is impeachable; apparently not even, as the leader of their cult says, standing in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shooting someone. Dershowitz even pushes the idea that anything Trump "may" have done is not impeachable simply because Trump feels his reelection is in "the national interest." He babbles on and on and on like a classic village idiot or FOX "News" talking head preaching from a wall in your park, same nonsense over and over and over. Bondi knows two words Biden and Hunter, over and over again. Two words, that makes her electable in Florida. I won't even give further mention to Cipollone. He and his wife have 10, count 'em 10, kids. 10 kids who will probably each have 10 super-warped kids of their own who will each in turn have 10 and on and on into the future. This is just another example of Idiocracy (One of the most 'must see' movies of all time, by the way).

Get the fuckin' net! You watch these people and you wait and wait for the guys in the white coats to wrestle them to the floor, shoot them up with tranquilizers and put the straitjackets on them and cart them off. Yet, our society, being also as loonie as it is, tolerates being spoken to like this. FOX "News" is horrific enough, but this is FOX "News" being broadcast live from the United States $enate and no one does shit about it or ever will. These lawyers are the end result of Americans watching decade after decade of mindless reality television and gameshows. These lawyers couldn't even make it as gameshow hosts, yet, here they are, paid for and brought to you by an Idiocracy president.

Addendum:

Sekulow, has been especially pitiful as he displays the awkward vocal inflections of a person who doesn't believe what was coming out of his own mouth, but, hey, there's money and a book deal in it. Dershowitz? He would have us all believe that there's nothing suspicious or wrong about getting a massage in a house full of underaged girls as long as one (allegedly) keeps his underpants on. In fact, he seems to think we should think better of him for it.

Midnight Meme Of The Day!

by Noah

The words "Republican love of country" just don't go together anymore. People like Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Rudy Giuliani are the embodiment of that sad fact. Can you imagine going back to the 1950s and seeing Dwight Eisenhower have his lawyer go on national TV and say there's nothing wrong with working with the Russians on his campaigns? Both parties would have gotten together and impeached him in a single afternoon. Make that 2 hours. He would have been gone and put on a train to the nearest Federal penitentiary. Not even his war record would have saved him. But this is the Age Of Trump. We the people of this country are so far gone that we even tolerate TV personalities raising the level of their own disgracefulness by having Russia apologist Rudy Giuliani as a guest on their show. That's what NBC's Chuck Todd did on Sunday. That was the day Chuck Todd had Rudy on the once venerable Meet The Press. Even worse of course, we have 24 hours 'round the clock of FOX "News" which is nothing less than a TV network peopled by highly paid Russian assets who broadcast Tokyo Rose styled propaganda. We still have a government funded Voice Of America, which has never been perfect, to say the least, but, people like Rudy Giuliani and his fellow "Hacks For Trump" on FOX are determined to be the Voice Of Putin. And, they are proud of it. In Ike's time, Russian assets infiltrated and operated in secrecy, undercover. Now they seek and get the spotlights and national airtime. Hell, they even get elected to the highest offices in the land!

Meanwhile, no one echos the famous words of former Chief Counsel of The United States Army Joseph Nye Welch who, during the infamous 1954 Army/McCarthy hearings, asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, a slimy little worm of a man who saw Russians lurking in every dark corner whether they were there or not, "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Now, we have an America where Russian assets operate in the open and there's nothing imaginary about them. McCarthy could find tens and multiply it into imaginary tens of thousands in his frenzied mind. He self-immolated in doing so. Today, any of his targets that might have actually been working for Russia would have their own shows on FOX and elsewhere! This is how warped, twisted, and turned on its head our American society has become. At some point in the past, the patriotic part of the fabric of America was torn up into a million threads and randomly reassembled and re-twined into an alternate universe America, all with the approval of the people we are foolish enough to elect. Like I've always said, it's an Idiocracy thing.

It's worth noting that, back when Joseph Welch publicly confronted Joseph McCarthy on live television, McCarthy was working with the uber-corrupt prosecutor Roy Cohn who would become Donald Trump's mentor and lawyer before Cohn got himself disbarred. We are are a stranger brew than we care to acknowledge. Certainly, future historians will get it wrong due to a lack of path that makes sense. They won't see that a lack of sense and logic is the key.

If someone in a position of credible authority were to exist now, and that someone asked the decency question of Giuliani or any one of a multitude of politicians, the irony would be staggering, beyond staggering. Why would anyone need to ask? We're so far gone that if any writer pitched so-called Liberal Hollywood on a movie idea based on that premise, they would probably be blacklisted for life.