…lest we forget [DOT 7/1/20]

7/1/20 SplinterRIP 10

I wouldn’t want to try to score exactly what out of all the crazy going around is the one true bit of crazy that the eyes of history will alight upon in years to come…not only is it something of a needle-in-a-haystack kind of a deal but the truth of it is that at the end of the day (or the beginning…which I guess is the other end…or the middle, which I guess is also an end if the other two meet up on account of being the point equidistant from two points that are sort of the same point the way the morning star is also the evening star which isn’t even really a star at all…) “just pick one” aren’t exactly the words I live by…

the point is I’m not good at picking one of anything more or less irrespective of the criteria…most likely on account of a great many grievous & manifest character flaws that no doubt are entirely absent where you good people are concerned…but sadly for all of us nobody else volunteered to produce a DOT for this morning so here we are once again & really you have only yourselves to blame when you think about it – these could look all slick & full of useful & edifying stuff that isn’t me thinking aloud…like more or less anything around here not tagged RIP…

which brings me – laboriously – to something vaguely resembling a point…albeit not necessarily a good one – namely that there’s a very good chance that I’m entirely unsuited for this gig for reasons too numerous to list exhaustively…but among the highlights (apart from the can’t-just-pick-one thing, which probably counts) you’d probably find a tendency to overthink more or less anything you can think of & a relationship with brevity that’s only slightly better than the alleged president’s batting average when it comes to abiding by his solemn oath to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States”…

which is to say nothing of his abject failure to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States”…although as might be expected given the habits of a lifetime I’m sure he considers the bit in between to be the loophole that allows president I-am-so-smrt to instead mulch the constitution to leaven out the firehose of bullshit his excuse for an administration foists upon an undeserving world…because of course the current state of affairs (& indeed all that shall ensue in the fullness of time) may very well be the results of him giving the nation he has inflicted himself upon “the best of my ability”…to (almost certainly inappropriately) quote the other Old Bill “this is an accident of hourly proof, which I mistrusted not”…

to whit (at least online) I kept my mouth shut the first time he took his rodeo clown show of atavistic and avaricious grift on the campaign trail precisely because I mistrusted not that since an accident as potentially calamitous as this fatuous lard-brained pompous posterior of a man took the form of a gluteus so astronomically maximus it could not possibly be mistaken for anything other than a font of copious excrement deposited every time anything issues forth from that sphincter-like orifice he uses to speak (or those tiny little fat-baby-fingers that are apparently evolved specifically for twitter) & thus the sheer unmistakable stench of those quantities of proof could not reasonably be mistaken…

& yet that proved not to be the case…& in large part it must be said that while the predictable minority (& make no mistake in terms of raw numbers they are very much a minority of the population of the US) got behind their token avatar of reality-denial & actively set out to insist that he with the most useful idiots wins the electoral college while that majority (the one that would have been so useful had it been in a position to exercise its will in the matter) was busy allowing its focus to be distracted by the novelty shit-show that seems to be all we have left of the once great game of politics…

& so here we find ourselves…with a putative leader of the free world who thinks he’s playing the angles & making real baller moves from his unassailable position at the top of the heap…but who is quite unmistakably in hock up to his eyeballs (despite his best grifting efforts) to the kind of russian financial interests that are themselves inextricably indebted to a well known devotee of the good old classical cold war KGB…

even if I’d suspended my disbelief to Tom Clancy levels of if-you-say-so I would not have taken seriously any narrative as utterly & conspicuously incompatible with the office from being (in many cases as a matter not only of public record but a record actively publicized by he-of-very-little-brain) compatible with a successful candidacy for the position of US President…

so, where the hell do I think I’m going with this…?

well, on the one hand the US cops a good deal of flack for a tendency to neglect the rest of the world in favor of obsessing over domestic concerns & the state of the Middle East is the stuff of nightmares…but if there were ever a time to not take any eyes off the prize that is the next term of office it is surely now…

& don’t think that just because it’s obvious the man is a second-rate con-artist surrounded by sycophants (& the worst kind of half-smart rabid ideologues replete with an unfounded sense of their own superiority compounded by a well-founded but psychologically-warped existential terror at the sheer hell that it must surely be to be, say, Steve(s) Bannon or Miller or whoever the reich-wing pseudo-intellectual asshole du jour might be today…) it means there isn’t a viable route by which he could once more ride the gamification of the electoral system into a wholly unmerited second term…

Elizabeth Warren, so the saying goes, has a plan for that…but the GOP (& quite possibly some even more foreign interests similarly not known for their fond disposition towards the majority of Americans) have had their plan under refinement for maybe even longer…& – just like the criminally misleading & woefully specious “summary” of the Mueller Report that Barr so helpfully engineered into the debate – the senate impeachment proceedings with their apparently mortal lock on a McConnell-giftwrapped faux-exoneration narrative have everything to do with it…

why else would a witness that would have been utterly damning if put before the House & it’s Committees & their Dem majority suddenly announce that he’d deign to actually turn up should the “friendly” Senate care to ask him him to recite some thoroughly-coached answers to a bunch of pre-scripted questions…?

John Bolton ‘Prepared to Testify’ in Senate Impeachment Trial if Subpoenaed

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[…not sure what’s up with the preview seeming to lie over the top of the text there but if it wasn’t on whatever you’re looking at this on that’s why the series of dots – it’s a low-fi “fix”…]

I mean it couldn’t be to distract from how utterly & entirely & in all other ways positively bat-shit insane it is that the man in the middle of this isn’t disqualified from so much as standing for a position for which he is so demonstrably ill-suited & whose entire legacy is almost exclusively illegitimate now, could it?

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/08/all-the-legal-trouble-in-trumpworld-scandals-trump/

& you know who won’t be forgetting to pay attention…Rooo is who…& thank fuck for that wonderfully lady or I might actually have to venture first-hand into the sinkhole of depravity that is the twitterverse for shit like this…

…in order to find it in places like this…

http://deepleftfield.info/congressman-accuses-trump-of-stock-market-fraud-and-opens-investigation/

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  1. “this fatuous lard-brained pompous posterior of a man took the form of a gluteus so astronomically maximus it could not possibly be mistaken for anything other than a font of copious excrement deposited every time anything issues forth from that sphincter-like orifice he uses to speak (or those tiny little fat-baby-fingers that are apparently evolved specifically for twitter)”

    If someone else had done the DOT we’d have miss out on this!

    I am not putting my faith in John Bolton to save us from Biff.

    • …oh, don’t get me wrong – that sentient mustache has been dying to bomb Iran & have his own little middle east escalatory bonfire of the vanities far too long to have faith he’d knowingly deter this race to perdition routine

      …if he were prepared to stand up & speak the truth in all its damning glory he’d have come when the House called his name & not waited for the home team to beckon him over to the senatorial clubhouse to “hash over exactly why we were right to have made up our minds before you got here is that the important thing – whatever might have been said or done by who – is that we get our talking points on the record so the online contingent can do that voodoo they do do”

      …the gamification of process in active opposition to the clear & obviously intended function to deny precisely that is one of the less edifying aspects of being a spectator to the gilded age of information, I guess?

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