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Up is down. Black is white. Left is right.
If you try to live your life using even some small percentage of the gray matter in your brain, then recent events in Washington must have your head spinning. It’s hard to tell east from west, or north from south if you haven’t a standard compass, although ironically, it’s been easier to make sense of this whole impeachment thing if you’re lacking a moral compass.
The bribe/threat involving President Zelensky was perfect, or maybe it was a bit troubling, or maybe it was wrong but not impeachable. Or maybe it was all justified somehow because Hunter Biden is Joe Biden’s son and there’s too much corruption in Ukraine. Or maybe it was okay because Trump says it was, according to that idiot with a Harvard pedigree, Alan Dershowitz.
Thinking about the good Professor Dershowitz, I’m tempted to use that baseball adage about pitchers who are past their prime. No longer able to get opposing batters out, we sometimes say, ”He’s lost a few miles per hour off his fastball.” But that’s hardly relevant to dear old Alan who no longer has a single clue as to the direction of home plate.
According to Dershowitz, a presidential act becomes legal and acceptable if the leader can justify doing it based on a personal belief that it is in the country’s best interests. Yes, I know that it’s not quite fair to equate Trump with Hitler, but it’s the ludicrous principle Dershowitz has stated that invites comparisons. If Dershowitz is correct, could Adolf not justify his actions by stating his belief that deporting and murdering millions of Jews was done in the national interest of Germany.
Modifying the United Negro College Fund’s motto, “A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” in the case of Professor Dershowitz “A mind is a terrible thing to lose.”
As if things weren’t truly stupid or silly or ridiculous enough, let me make a prediction almost certain to come true in the next two weeks or so: John Bolton’s new book will hit the shelves and become an instant best seller. It will reveal numerous instances of terrible, illegal behavior on the part of Donald Trump. It will contain numerous details about actions taken by Trump that bear witness to impeachment.
And you know what the Donald and his enablers will says: Lies! All lies!! Bolton can say all this in a book, but he would never dare to say this under oath.
Ah, but isn’t that the point. You wouldn’t allow him to speak under oath.
Catch 22. Infinite regress. 1984.
Sad times. Depressing times. Dangerous times. (And, OMG, the Dems can’t even find a person they can trust to defeat Il Duce.)
