Month: May 2018

(Editorial Note. This is tough, you. may give up, I wouldn’t blame you because it has no structure, no sense, no sensible punctuation. It is like the mind it represents and that mind’s means and ways of expressing itself and the chaotic, um-moored government it presides over. But there’s no point editing an unedited mind or that mind’s madness and its expression, so…)

“So Rudy says he hasn’t talked to me for 2, 3 weeks but he’s been talking to everyone else publicly about this, that, the other thing, that thing, this thing, whatever thing, some kind of thing another thing or two or three or maybe 92 or 167 or… But you know, but you know, but you know, we’ll find out, we’ll find out, we’ll find out, a lot of bad things have happened, this is terrible, there’s never been anything like it, it is something like that has never happened if it happened and it was just terrible, no collusion, and never until now has it been so terrible but we are going to make it all perfect and good and cut taxes and bring back my father’s world and that is what it is and it is that and it is terrible and you just have to wait and you’ll see how terrible it is because it’s really terrible and we have to throw out all the bad people, all the gang members,all the people at the Justice Department who belong to the gangs and we’ll make peace with North Korea, or we won’t, and if we don’t well it’ll be fire and fury and fury and fire and then I’ll fire, well I’ll fire somebody because you know, you do know, you should know that I used to fire them all on TV, we had good ratings, it’s all about ratings, the county is a show and our ratings are good and that’s what we want, we want good ratings so we can have a good meeting with the guy in Korea, not our guy in Korea, what’s his name Sun, oh, no, it’s like Mars or uh uh oh ya oh ya it’s Moon and that means June is almost here and we’ll be meeting with the other guy Kim Un Jung, Jung Un Kim, oh right Kim Jung Un and we have to get through all this, no collusion, and lock her lock her up, right lock her up and then we can get through this and you wait to see the tariffs we’ll put on Jyna, rhymes with vagina, it’s how I say China, you know that place where my friend President Zeeeeee is from…No collusion lock her up, lock her up, lock me up, lock me up,crooked Hillary, no collusion, get me back to Moscow, I want to get peed on, it’s warm, it makes me feel good oh but you think, no, no way my buddy, is my buddy you think my buddy Vlad has tapes of that, you think you really think he does, well he’s a good guy, no collusions he’s not like that guy Rosenstein, he’s a bad guy, really stupid, worked for the government all his life, what kind of money is there in that unless you’re president and can get a lot of people to pay up which is why Jared isn’t making anything on this deal because he doesn’t get they’re not buying him, they’re buying me because I’m for sale same as always, I’m for sale and then there’s Jeff, Jeff should never have recused and he should lock her up and Charlie, Charlie Kushner, he gets it, know how to sell me, but no collusion except Obama, well you know where he was born, what you don’t, well no one does right and that’s why, that’s why, that’s why this is an incredible conspiracy and you’ll see, you’ll see how it ends – lock me up lock me up lock me up lock me up…but I don’t want to say anything more because my lawyers said I should shut up but I don’t listen to them and I haven’t got a clue what Rudy is talking about but then that’s not surprising because Rudy doesn’t even know what Rudy’s talking about so lock you up, lock you up, lock Rudy up, lock her up maybe we should lock you all up except my black guy, remember my black guy, don’t lock him up, sell him a MAGA hat for 25 bucks, how much do I get per hat, oh right and you’ll see, you’ll see, we’ll all see beause but I gotta go, gotta watch TV, Hanity’s one, gotta watch him, he’s my friend, knows a lotta stuff, tells me what to say but we’ll see, we’ll see, you’ll see, you just gotta wait and …”

Are we witnessing, in some American form, fashion and version, Germany in 1933/1934, which culminated on June 30, 1934 in a chain of events called “the Night of the Long Knives” — a night that ended any semblance of law and legal rule in Germany — witnessing it in very, very slow motion.

Is all that stands between us and the end of America our fundamental belief in the law, with the special prosecutor as the final, most essentially American expression of us as a nation of law-abiding people?

And too is the American military’s oath of allegiance and duty to serve the United States so vital an ingredient in our nation of laws that it serves now to separate us from an autocracy that would have the potential to be one of the worst in history? Among the worst because an American autocrat would in this moment command  the greatest military and economic power in history.

This is what — and this is all — the U.S. Constitution says about what constitutes an impeachable offense. It is Article II, Section 4.

Article I of course lays out the powers and duties of the legislative branch. The national legislature, the Congress, composed of the House of Representatives and the Senate, got Article I because in the world of the “founding fathers” (there were  founding mothers by the way,  like Abigail Adams): Ok back to the point: