Tag Archives: Politics
Title Change
Over the last few days, it’s become clear that William Barr isn’t the Attorney General. The Attorney General of the United States is the chief federal lawyer, head of the Justice Department, and tasked with ensuring that the federal government is diligently pursuing the course of justice. He is not, as some might think, the lawyer tasked with defending the President. There are other lawyers tasked with that job. There is a whole office dedicated to giving the President legal council. With that in mind, William Barr has gone out of his way to more or less disregard the evidence of an investigation that probed, amongst other things, whether or not Donald Trump obstructed justice to keep himself out of trouble. Beyond that, it appears he, at best, misled Congress and the people of the United States in regards to what fruit the investigation bore. At worst, he’s a big fat, pants of fire liar, all for the sake of keeping the President out of trouble. With the news breaking that Robert Mueller, Special Council in said investigation, actively getting in touch with Barr to let him know that he mischaracterized the report he submitted, Barr has no valid argument to suggest he was just going by the book. So no. He’s not the Attorney General. He’s the President’s Lapdog.
Important Business
I’m glad to know that after a day of Tweeting over 50 times, ranting about how unfair he’s being treated, Trump cleared the very next afternoon to have an important meeting about the important issue facing his presidency: the loss of Twitter subscribers. No joke, he had a closed door meeting with Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, where instead of focusing on Twitter’s efforts to tackle the very real, very prescient issue of Opioid abuse, he spent the bulk of his time complaining about his subscriber count. I mean, I guess considering how he’s been acting since the release of the Mueller Report, I shouldn’t have expected too much, but you’d think considering how much work he hasn’t been getting done over the last several days, he’d take his one big meeting to talk about actual policy. I mean, hell, he talked about prison reform with Kim Kardashian. Yet somehow, Jack Dorsey has to deal with Trump petulantly whining about being targeted by Twitter, even though Twitter has announced publicly, several times, that the reason for fluctuating numbers is the removal of bots and fake accounts. Did he really need to call in the CEO for something that has already been explained to him?
Anti-Report
Bottom of the Barrel
Health Expert
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I keep expecting to at some point stop being surprised by the stupid, obviously fake crazy lies that Donald Trump tells. I also keep hoping that at some point, his supporters will hear this insanity and realize he’s braindamaged. Then he says like “windmills cause cancer” and his base just jumps on board and I lose a little bit of hope for humanity. I mean, he seriously suggested that the sounds of windmill cause cancer. Can we just let that digest for a moment? No study or evidence of any kind to back it up. Just a fun generic “they say” to preface it. I mean, who is “they”?! I don’t know what else to say.
Clever Accounting
Drawing Conclusions
So, Mueller’s investigation has finally concluded, and it felt like it happened with less of a bang and more of a whimper. Not because of his conclusions, but because we don’t know what they are or if we’ll ever really see them. Because that was always going to be the thing. Everyone was all super curious about how this was going to shake out, and not enough people were thinking about whether or not anyone would actually KNOW how it shook out when it happened. The AG and ardent Trump defender is keeping everything pretty close to the chest, and now Congress is going to probably head out on a fishing expedition to find out what is actually inside the damn report. Did Trump obstruct Justice? Did Mueller come to that conclusion? Will we ever have a clear idea of what Mueller actually turned up? I dunno. Life is just anticlimactic sometimes.
Devin Nunes vs. His Cow
Devin Nunes, Republican Senator from California and all around lunatic blowhard has decided to sue Twitter and certain Twitter users because he thinks people are just too mean to him. I mean, sure, it’s not problem for him to spearhead harassment campaigns to obstruct investigations and keep people from looking too hard at his fellow politicians, but as soon as someone who self identifies as Devin Nunes’s Cow starts pointing out his verbal garbage, that’s just a step too far! The whole thing feels like a sham, and frankly, I think it’s all going to blow back in his face, but the man’s lack of grasp on hypocrisy is frankly alarming. But given the administration he’s serving, I guess it’s not all that surprising.
Complex Planes
When is the nation going to collectively decide that Donald Trump just isn’t nearly as smart as he says he is. Beyond calling his own administration’s climate findings “fake science” based on literally nothing, Donald Trump has now decided he’s an expert on airplanes and piloting. He’s now suggesting that planes are becoming too complex for trained pilots to fly. This notion is based on…what exactly? No one is exactly sure, but make no mistake, that’s what he expects you to believe. I mean, this is just lunacy. Absolute lunacy.
Mind the Exit 