Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Impeachment Farce


The impeachment hearings are predicated on the same faulty logic as Russiagate- the assertion that Dems will refuse to vote for a candidate who is corrupt or has a corrupt family member.
This is clearly nonsense. Dems showed us in 2016 that they will vote for a corrupt candidate, even a war mongering corrupt candidate.
Therefore, Joe Biden having a corrupt son, and Joe Biden interfering in another country's judicial system to protect that son, are not a deal breaker for Dems, and it is absurd to pretend otherwise.
So even if the Dems can manage to twist Trump's words enough to convince people that he was trying to dig up proof that Biden is corrupt, it is impossible to get from that to the assertion that Dems would refuse to vote for Biden because of his corruption. We already know they don't care.
Lyndon Johnson had a corrupt associate, Bobby Baker. (Back in those days, it was considered quite a scandal, unlike today. He even went to prison, which no one does anymore). Democrats voted for him anyway.
Jimmy Carter had Billy and Bill Clinton had Roger. Hillary has two corrupt brothers, Hugh and Tony.
None of this makes any difference to Americans. (Reps have their own corrupt candidates, and it also makes no difference to them).
Therefore, the entire premise of the impeachment hearings are laughably ludicrous.
It seems that the actual point of the hearings is to throw out more disinformation about Russia and to beat the war drums more loudly.
Same as Russiagate.