the articles have landed

The Articles have landed.

All in Moscow's hands now.  Seems to me that the odds are he will run a tight ship from beginning to end.  There will be no witnesses allowed at the beginning of the ceremonies.  The excuse for that is that there will be time to discuss that during the process, but the truth is that time will be never.

There's still a slim chance four members of the party of Trump will raise a ruckus.  More likely it will be Trump Hisself, backed by the Trumpiest of the senators who will want to bring Hunter, the whistle blower, maybe Schiff, into the docket, because what the fuck.

Actually I don't see much harm in that except for the whistleblower.  The whole idea of a whistleblower is that you can speak up about evildoing without getting your head knocked off, and now they are trying to knock his head off.  And everything he has said has been corroborated so what does he have new to say?

I think if there was any real dirt on Hunter we would have seen it by now, and Schiff has done everything out in the open, so go ahead, put him in the docket.

But it will look kind of bad if just the reps get to call witnesses, might be enough to get four reps to allow the dems to call some witnesses.  I still think Bolton could be a trap.  Man of principle or man out to sell a book?  Only four weak kneed reps or time will tell.


It's now apparent that that Quds guy was killed just because Trump was in a mood.  There have been three of four different reasons for it given, and no real proof of any of them, and right now the administration is refusing to say anything at all about it.  Normally Trump prefers bluster to any concrete action and my guess is that somehow his latest group of cohorts talked him into it and now he is backing off, and most people are glad that there is no war (at the moment) and maybe Trump is getting some credit as showing restraint over this,