- Lawyers acting for the WikiLeaks founder said Dana Rohrabacher, a former Republican congressman, had brought the message to London from Trump.
lol @ me, in the above post, 142 days ago. We've entered into a new era in my perception of Trump, one in which I'm certain that Trump will never be held accountable for any of his actions. Trump himself has always felt this way, I just didn't want to believe that he was right. He has made it so.
Everyone wants to carry on like this is something political, but it's the fucking rule of law. We have politicized integrity and justice, which, to Donald Trump, are just two things he considers as weaknesses in his opponents. History sez that countries don't typically recover from this process.
Also, who in the fuck gives two shits what Stephanie Grisham says?? That bitch is either more evil or aloof than Huckabee-Sanders, and that's really saying somethin'.
Now I'm conflicted. Dana and Donald are absolutely shit-weasels who are dicking ever American they ever met. But... Assange is a misanthrope of epic proportions, who keeps just enough of the libertarian ideal about him to keep his genital covered (mostly)... but is definitely someone who knows the power of information and how to manipulate the public with it. Definitely a lot of assholes in this soup...
You know that whole aphorism about frogs sitting happily in boiling water because it was heated slowly enough? The impeachment acquittal was a roiling boil. This feels like the pot boiling over. The thing about that aphorism is that it's 100% fucking false. The frogs leave the water when it gets hotter than they can stomach. Are we dumber than frogs?
I largely agree with am_Unition. Until it affects people personally, they will be content to do nothing. "Rule of law" is an abstraction that won't fit well on a bumper sticker, so it doesn't really have a place in the discourse. Plus the Republicans managed to make "idealism" a dirty word some time ago, which was as accurate a predictor of our current situation as we could ask for.
I've gathered that you're either a lawyer or that you work in the judiciary. Are your colleagues voicing misgivings about Barr or other Trump-DOJ entanglements?
I'm a federal (executive branch) employee, so we have to be careful about what we talk about at work (thanks to the Hatch Act). So it generally doesn't come up. To the extent that it has outside of work, any misgivings are usually the same as those I see here on hubski.
My salary is also more or less straight from the federal teat. I just wanted to keep him/her/them/gov't accountable. Turns out I blew it. The Hatch Act is fine by me. I wish some of the public-facing, vocal members of the executive felt the same. And that's no dig at you, I very much enjoy your content here, j5.
Accountability is an excellent thing, pity it's not more in vogue right now. And thanks for the kind words!
Well but the economy inside of the pot was pretty good, so I died.