Several newsworthy things in a row happened in the States over the past couple of days.
1. Hunter Biden's "sweetheart" plea deal seems to have fallen through, possibly because his lawyers pulled that fraudulent stunt in which they tried to impersonate opposing counsel. I honestly hope those lawyers are disbarred and/or jailed, but I suspect nothing at all is going to happen to them. Because we live in the stupidest timeline.
2. Mitch McConnell, the RINO coward who did what he could to thwart Trump and push the old neocon agenda, may have suffered a stroke-like episode while he was standing in front of a microphone. He suddenly stopped speaking and was silent for almost 20 seconds before being led away by staffers. He did apparently come back and take questions, though. I can say from my own stroke experience that it's possible to hold rational conversations even while you're stroking out, so just because McConnell came back to answer questions after his episode doesn't mean that the episode was over. (If it was indeed a stroke.)
3. It seems likely, now, that Congress is going to impeach Joe Biden. This will, of course, go nowhere: the House can bring articles of impeachment, but the whole effort is going to die in the Democrat-dominated Senate. At best, this is an empty gesture, and I don't take it as a sign that the GOP suddenly grew a backbone. It's precisely because the gesture is doomed that the GOP-led House is doing this. It's just a way for the GOP to say, "Well, we tried." Thing is, the general public isn't stupid enough to buy that.
So: a flurry of events to provoke some squawking and flapping, but nothing that will result in any seismic changes to our corrupt political system.
"Thing is, the general public isn't stupid enough to buy that."
ReplyDeleteOh, I don't know. I haven't seen much evidence to the contrary.