*Full disclosure I haven’t watched much of the Impeachment proceedings cause I’m not a huge reality TV guy and if I was I’d tune into the experts at E! or VH1 or Survivor before I turn on C-SPAN* But there are 2 main things that seem to be the focus right now. Calling Witnesses and John Bolton’s book. A story from the NYT claims that in Bolton’s book he says the President tied Ukrainian aid to a Biden investigation. Some on the left are treating Bolton as their new deity (move over Mueller) while some on the right are claiming he’s lying to sell books…..seems to me like there’s only one way to find out. Which segues perfectly into the next topic, calling witnesses. Regardless of what side you are on, you should want witnesses to be called….get Bolton, Pompeo, Guiliani, and whoever else on the stand under oath and figure out what happened. Is Bolton telling the truth? Is he lying to sell books? Did the President do something or did nothing happen? It’s unclear whether that will happen but if it does let’s hope some Senator has the balls to ask what every American really wonders with this John Bolton stuff…….what’s the deal with his mustache.
The other question regarding witnesses is whether either Joe or Hunter Biden will get called. In theory I don’t mind either one of them getting called because there was probably some shady stuff going on there and no one in the media really wants to talk about it for some reason. But in reality if they actually get called it will just become a shitshow and Republicans will shift the focus to them instead of Trump.
One thing that I’ve notice is how far Trump supporters have moved the goalposts during this Impeachment thing. It follows the same pattern with almost everything other controversy starting with “He did nothing wrong” then its “maybe he did but it’s not a big deal/doesn’t matter” then to “what about Clinton/Obama/Biden” culminating with “Yes we know he did it but [fill in the blank] (no one cares/Liberal Media/Obama/Hillary”. Yet although we’ve seen this playbook routinely, the media still treats each phase with good faith like the great stenographers journalists they are.
I think most people suspect the President will be acquitted, with or without witnesses, from the beginning. Do I think he held up aid to get a Biden investigation….probably yes. But do I also think he has done far worse things….also yes. This is why Impeachment just hasn’t done anything for me from the start. If Democrats wanted to impeach him they should’ve really gone after him…look at his corruption and the stuff from the Mueller Report (obstruction, Trump Tower Moscow). They should’ve finally got his taxes, look into the assassination of Soleimani and go after everything, not just some foreign aid that no one really gives a shit about. I know people are saying “but he’s trying to get foreign help in the election” yes but he already admitted he would in a ABC interview last June! This whole thing has been a clownshow from the beginning with the Democrats choosing to focus on this one dumb issue while the Republicans don’t have the guts to stand up to Trump or his base and vote against him. The bottom line is the Democrats should of approached the whole thing differently, and shouldn’t try to claim the moral high ground, while the Republicans just look like morons going from being “deeply concerned” and saying foreign interference or using the aid to get an investigation are both wrong to now trying to spinzone their way out of it by saying it’s not enough to impeach or just hoping that yelling Biden, Obama, or whistle-blower enough times will somehow get them out of it.
District of Clowns 