Prickly City by Scott Stantis for January 23, 2020

Not to worry.

The Stable Genius will take care of everything.

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#TraitorTrump

That can’t be stressed enough!

That’s what happens when the government run schools indoctrinate our children with world ending global warming hoaxes. It is whathappens to kids and adults when their teachers and the legacy media spread constant propaganda pushing phiny racism and dictator narratives. Blame the left and their poltiical agenda and dangerous tactics for harming our children and their parents in this way.

Whether as purely calculating politicians or for reasons of idealism and integrity, plenty of Republican senators ought to defy Majority Leader Mitch McConnell by insisting on a thorough, unabbreviated impeachment trial, with all relevant witnesses called to testify.

The calculating, even cynical, reason is that, as Shakespeare wrote, eventually the “truth will out.”

One way or another, whether in the trial or later, national security adviser John Bolton and others will tell the public what they witnessed in the Trump White House.

If senators follow McConnell’s lead by quashing their testimony during the trial, they will look terrible, as if they deliberately abetted a tawdry cover-up, if a month before November’s election, Bolton testifies before a House committee and says something that makes President Trump appear venal or otherwise guilty.

Such testimony from Bolton, or even a media interview by him to the same effect, would absolutely torpedo their chances of reelection.

It would be far better for them to hear the truth now, whatever it is, and respond accordingly.

That is the only way they can control the fallout from Bolton’s observations and do it with plenty of time before the election, rather than put themselves at the mercy of events too close before the election for them to recover.

Setting political calculations aside, though, the more important considerations involve fealty to the constitutional design and transparency for the public weal.

Those two concepts together, along with the basic common sense that a trial can’t find truth if first-hand witnesses are excluded, combine to make the question of witnesses and evidence a matter of bedrock integrity.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/civic-duty-demands-that-gop-senators-buck-mitch-mcconnell-on-impeachment-rules

Sen. Blunt echoed other Republicans in complaining that nothing was new.

“Well, we’ve just come out of 6 hours of testimony so far today,” said Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY). “I didn’t hear anything new at all.”

Indeed, Barrasso has not only lacked an opportunity to hear anything new in the case – he’s assisted in making sure that such an opportunity would never present itself.

Senate Republicans voted late into the night on Tuesday to prevent subpoenas for documents and testimony from being issued in the impeachment inquiry.

Even amid widespread suggestions that there remain reams of still-hidden evidence, like that uncovered from the iPhone of Giuliani associate Lev Parnas, Republicans prevented the upper chamber from pushing for additional information.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/after-banning-evidence-gop-senators-have-a-complaint-dems-talk-too-much

To one Senate Republican, the firehose of evidence was an education in itself, for him and his colleagues.

“Nine out of 10 senators will tell you they haven’t read a full transcript of the proceedings in the House,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) quipped. “And the 10th senator who says he has is lying.”

Some Republicans even sounded envious of the Democrats’ use of multimedia during the trial and wished Trump’s defense team would follow suit. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of Trump’s top defenders, said Democrats have been presenting their case to the public like it’s “cable news” — but lamented that the defense team’s case presented more like “an 8th grade book report.”

“Actually, no, I take that back,” he added, because an 8th grader would actually know how to use PowerPoint and iPads.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/22/democrats-trump-impeachment-case-102504

It’s a great big stupid world

And we’re feeling kinda queasy as it turns around

Great big stupid world

And we’re never really sure if we’re up or down

We’re on a dirt clod out in space

Where it stops nobody knows

If Jesus came back today

They’d put him back on trial on Judge Judy’s show

‘Cuz it’s a great big stupid world

Yes a Great big stupid world

Randy Stonehill

Bread Pudding’s cranial septic tank has sprung a leak. Call in the EPA! Wait the White House Toad has gutted it. I know. Call the NRA! They’ll riddle the tank with bullets. Problem solved. /s