John Chuckman
EXPANSION OF A COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CBC NEWS
“Democrats have fallen into Trump's impeachment trap, his supporters say
“Impeachment inquiry could cost the Democrats support of swing voters in 2020”
There are no good guys here.
Trump couldn't be more wrong in calling a foreign leader and effectively asking him to interfere in an American election by investigating Trump's most likely political opponent.
It's also clear, even though there is no mention in the [redacted] transcript, that American foreign aid money was first delayed to make Ukraine's President more responsive to Trump's inappropriate request.
We known Biden did some sleazy things in Ukraine, but Trump's approach is not the way to investigate them. Biden is even to be found in some old video joking about his activities in that country.
In addition to Biden’s own activities, there was the mysterious appointment of his son, Hunter, as a board member for a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma Holdings. A man of no known expertise or experience or reputation was paid about fifteen times the amount board members for big companies receive typically. Clearly, it stinks.
Biden, in fact, has a long career of sleazy political behavior, always done with a smile which many people read as incorrectly as they do Obama’s smile. Obama was, of course, Biden’s direct boss for the unpleasant activities.
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It's interesting how these matters center on Ukraine. After all, Ukraine was the target of an American-inspired coup, one which toppled an elected government, which is about as corrupt a practice as you can have from a nation styling itself a democracy, as America is fond of doing. Talk about interference in elections!
The Washington establishment is corrupt. All of it. Both parties. Top to bottom.
But whoever thought that running a ruthless global empire called for ethical or principled people in charge?
And America’s money-drenched political system absolutely guarantees that the right kind of people are in charge, people who eagerly serve the interests of empire.
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Response to a comment saying “So absolutely disgusting to see just how brainwashed some people [modest Americas interviewed in the article] are”
It reflects the power over minds of ideology and cult-like beliefs.
America's football-game Patriotism is a religion, a very strange and powerful one.
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Response to a comment about Trump’s suggesting that Adam Schiff, U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chair, should be arrested for 'treason'
Hard to imagine a President making such a public remark.
Trump has absolutely no sense of the dignity and decorum of his own office.
And effectively, his words express the most outrageous narcissism and paranoia.
It really is too bad that such words themselves cannot be grounds for impeachment.
