Friday, October 11, 2019
Living the dream at 56! I worked from home today and cleaned up spots around the apartment in preparation for Kevin and Mike's arrival around 6 p.m. I didn't watch too much news today, even though it was another explosive day of revelations with the former Ukrainian ambassador testifying before congress about Trump's scheme to railroad her out of office in order to manipulate Ukrainian diplomacy to his whim. She testified for 9.5 hours. Later tonight, a few excerpts appeared calling the administration out on their rotten, corrupt ways.
Marie L. Yovanovitch's "opening remarks amounted to a scathing indictment to Congress of how the Trump administration’s foreign policy intersected with business and political considerations," (NY Times).
“Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives." The State Department as a whole as “attacked and hollowed out from within...Bad actors” in Ukraine and elsewhere will “see how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system. The only interests that will be served are those of our strategic adversaries, like Russia.”
Games of Thrones and the Sopranos. That's what US Foreign Policy has become.
And Trump is the new political Jim Jones. Cancerous. Kool-Aid creator in chief. He has his cult followers and he has his roadshow shtick. He sells hatred, insults, and disinformation. He's growing more cornered by the day. I hope the senators are forced to convict him. They will if Moscow Mitch develops an appropriate exit strategy.
After a day of work and cleaning, I picked up Kevin and Mike at the Oakland airport and we went out for Star Pizza and drinks. Very enjoyable evening.
When we came back, Kevin and I binge-watched MSNBC while playing cribbage. Fun fun fun!
Living the dream at 56! I worked from home today and cleaned up spots around the apartment in preparation for Kevin and Mike's arrival around 6 p.m. I didn't watch too much news today, even though it was another explosive day of revelations with the former Ukrainian ambassador testifying before congress about Trump's scheme to railroad her out of office in order to manipulate Ukrainian diplomacy to his whim. She testified for 9.5 hours. Later tonight, a few excerpts appeared calling the administration out on their rotten, corrupt ways.
Marie L. Yovanovitch's "opening remarks amounted to a scathing indictment to Congress of how the Trump administration’s foreign policy intersected with business and political considerations," (NY Times).
“Although I understand that I served at the pleasure of the president, I was nevertheless incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives." The State Department as a whole as “attacked and hollowed out from within...Bad actors” in Ukraine and elsewhere will “see how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system. The only interests that will be served are those of our strategic adversaries, like Russia.”
Games of Thrones and the Sopranos. That's what US Foreign Policy has become.
And Trump is the new political Jim Jones. Cancerous. Kool-Aid creator in chief. He has his cult followers and he has his roadshow shtick. He sells hatred, insults, and disinformation. He's growing more cornered by the day. I hope the senators are forced to convict him. They will if Moscow Mitch develops an appropriate exit strategy.
After a day of work and cleaning, I picked up Kevin and Mike at the Oakland airport and we went out for Star Pizza and drinks. Very enjoyable evening.
When we came back, Kevin and I binge-watched MSNBC while playing cribbage. Fun fun fun!
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