THE RUDE PUNDIT: "hey, let's fuckin' dunk Trump and see if he floats."

[kpete]

THE RUDE PUNDIT
12/17/2019
Random Observations on Trump's Completely Bugnuts Insane "Letter" on Impeachment Eve

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3. I mean, c'mon: "[Y]ou are offending Americans of faith by continually saying 'I pray for the President,' when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense. It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!" Trump being insulted by Nancy Pelosi saying she prays for him is just...(chef's kiss)...beautiful. And all his nutzoid fundamentalist worshippers will agree with him that Pelosi's prayers are mean.

4. Trump so outright lies about Joe Biden and the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin that Biden ought to sue the fuck out of Trump for slander. The intentional malice is dripping off the assertions that Biden was trying to stop an investigation of his son, something that is objectively false. Sue his ass.

5. Trump declares his victory in 2016 "an Electoral College landslide." If that's true (and it's not), then what were Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012, which were by bigger Electoral College margins, along with over 50% of the popular vote each time? Somehow, that didn't stop Republicans from being abject dickholes to Obama. Also, fun fact, Richard Nixon was reelected in a legit landslide: he won 49 states and over 60% of the popular vote. Yet I seem to remember that didn't stop Congress from moving to impeach him.

6. Oh, I know what you're wondering. Did Trump bring up Rep. Adam Schiff parodying his phone call with Ukraine's president? After all, he has been obsessed with that September 26 opening statement by Schiff for months now. Well, shit, of course he did: "Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me." He will not let that mocking go. And Trump's started to lie about the timeline, saying that the "transcript" of the July 25 call was released after Schiff's statement. That's absolutely untrue. Schiff was making fun of the "transcript" (which isn't a transcript - it's a memo of the call).

7. After a yadda-yadda-yadda list of shit he claims as accomplishments (and just about anything to do with the economy still has more to do with him not fucking up Obama's economy), Trump uses the old "rubber-glue" gambit: "You are the ones interfering in America’s elections. You are the ones subverting America’s Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice." By the way, they're "Obstructing Justice" because, Trump says, "I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution." Except, well, see point 2 above. The Constitution gives the president zero rights when it comes to impeachment. He gets his rights at the trial in the Senate, but the Founders didn't want a president to be able to do jackshit about impeachment.

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the rest:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/12/random-observations-on-trumps.html

[5X]

1. During witch hunts...

didn't they decide a different way? Like with fire?

[brooklynite]

3. Don't be ridiculous...

The BURNING was the SENTENCE. The DROWNING was the legal inquiry.

[rickyhall]

6. All but one were hanged. No burnings.

[5X]

7. must have been wishfull thinking on my part. n/t

[rickyhall]

8. All but one were hanged. No burnings.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. As others have said, not during the Salem one, and maybe never in America

even for the sentence. There was a 'trial by fire' - usually 'red hot objects' - used for other things in the Middle Ages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_by_ordeal#By_fire . Burning the victims, dead or alive, was done in Europe in the Middle Ages, apparently because they thought it would prevent them being resurrected: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt . Joan of Arc was killed this way.

[FiveGoodMen]

16. I think that was in Europe

[CentralMass]

2. Then flush 10 or 15 times

[CaptYossarian]

5. And then call some Cuban plumbers.

(Look it up if you're under 50.)

[Martin Eden]

4. K&R for R.P.

Always a good read.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Slander litigation is the answer, but all that does at this point

is draw Biden into a distracting lawsuit where rumors are believed by MAGAts and give them something to scream about. That may be the intent of Trump's lies.

[B Stieg]

10. Yeah. tRump needs a little "Salem Justice."

I despise everything this pResident does and is.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. "an account of madness worthy of a ranting low-level comic book villain ...

... who has been thrown into a rubber room". The Rude Pundit hits the mark with his phrases.

[jeffreyi]

13. The only purpose of that letter

Is to stir up the obedient cultists.

[Mersky]

14. Pretty close to my inner monologue as I tried to read through,

the letter

And as has been the case reading RP - this piece in particular - can experience catharsis that comes with a blunt assessment ringing true. Along these lines, I am reminded of the unique sensation like that at the protest last night that comes with chanting, “This is what democracy looks like!”

[cp]

15. Whole blog post is (chef's kiss) Glorious!

Thank you, Rude Pundit and kpete.

[calimary]

17. Sweet Heaven Above do I LOVE the Rude One!

Once again, he speaks for me!