debunked

When I went to Barnes and Noble I had a hard time finding a book on the constitution or the impeachment of Slick Willie. There are like five bookshelves of American History but it is not separated into Colonial, Pre Civil War, Twentieth Century and like that.  The whole thing is just ordered by Author.  I mean WTF.

So without reading each and every spine I could not find what I was looking for.and then a book by the author of that article on impeachment, Jill Lapore, These Truths, caught my eye.  It's a brick of a book telling the story of the US from 1492 to Donald Trump.  So far the colonists from England are just beginning to drop anchor.  A lot of the history of the US especially the early years is the white man fucking over the unwhite man.  I know this, I think most people know this, and yet writers, especially of my ilk make a point of pointing this out with alarm, like this is the first time anybody was made aware of this. It gets tiresome.  Maybe I'll have to skip ahead to get to the story of the constitution and Bill's impeachment.

Adam Clayton Powell was from New York.  He got back in by being reelected.  I don't know if Trump could run again if he is convicted by the senate, and for that to happen his popularity would have to be so low that he could never be reelected anyway.

Debunked is not a technical or legal term.  It should probably just be bunked, but I guess it's one of those words like inflammable.  It roughly means verified to be false.  For instance one of Trump's thing is the Crowdstrike computer which his conspiracy theory says is in the Ukraine, but everybody knows it is in the US, you can look it up and find it out.  It is a theory that has been debunked.  Another is that Biden's son was involved in some kind of nefarious business in Ukraine.  When you ask the purveyors of this nonsense what the nefarious business is they have no answer.  It is just something dreamed up out of whole cloth by some conspiracist on a slow day and passed around among them because they like the sound of it, but again there is no proof for it of any kind.  It has been debunked.. 

In pre-Trump days once something was debunked its purveyors dropped it because who wants to be seen to be a liar.  These days there is no shame in telling lies so they just keep on saying it, and people have to call out that it has been debunked, and that's why you hear the word so often lately.