The Bidens

Joe and Jill ran up Capitol Hill

To fetch a pail of pelf.

Joe came down and broke a frown

Then Jill slinked down herself.



STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

The Mole

Vladamir Putin cut his teeth in the KGB, the sinister and very effective Russian spy agency. And so Putin is very effective in the black arts of intelligence operations — espionage, moles, election meddling, counter spying, sewing division in a hostile government, fulminating insurrections, even killing dissidents, etc.

Russia has been very persistent in these spook activities. It runs circles around most Western governments who seem to spend most of their intelligence efforts on domestic political intrigue. The United States in particular has allowed Russian interests to supersede many of its own self interests ... particularly when it comes to weapons systems. For years, under Democrat administrations, the US under-funded anti-missile defense systems, deferred upgrading our nuclear arsenal, ignored Russian and Chinese territorial expansion and stopped safeguarding our uranium supplies.

How come? The answer is simple: sellouts for personal benefit. The Clintons, Bidens and even likely the Obamas have gotten enormously wealthy by trading off US national security for dirty Russian and Chinese money. And who is pushing back against this corruption? Answer: our current president, Donald J. Trump.

So why in God’s name would the Russians help the Orangeman get elected and then re-elected? It is clearly against its national interests. And one can rationally assume that, if the Russians had a mole in the US, that it would activate it to help defeat this foe. They might even, in a classic case of double switch, accuse Trump of colluding with the Russians! He would then be defeated at the polls ... and this would neuter this enemy and return the US to a more accommodating posture.

Therefore, my candidate for this perfect Russian mole (other than the above-ground Clintons, Bidens and even Obamas), would be a deep-cover Adam Schiff. It could be ... he certainly is shifty enough.

Afterward: I realize that some of you, kind readers, may think this post a bridge too far. But, this is no more radical than Hillary Clinton saying that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset ... or a three year witch-hunt claiming that Trump colluded with Putin to get elected  ... which, if you remember, came up empty.

Moral Equivalence

I know that I am generally against drawing moral equivalences. However, I fear I am now forced to reverse this stance in the following specific instance:

President Trump’s supposed quid pro quo (aka, bribery) was that the new Ukraine president needed to clean up his country’s rife corruption ... including the Burisma/Biden miasma ... before Trump would be releasing the next round of military aid.

Now, the fact that the Bidens were included in this transaction meant, according to Schiff and the Democrats, that Trump was trying to besmirch Joe Biden, a potential political adversary. Now, kind reader, key question — how could Joe Biden be disadvantaged after such an investigation unless he was shown to have acted illegally or immorally?

Ah, so pilgrim! According to the Deep State Department, the mere fact that such an investigation itself took place, or was taking place, would disadvantage Joe Biden in any future election.

Now, here comes the curve ball!

Isn’t the fact that Adam Schiff is conducting a much more public investigation into Trump’s supposed corruption ... the requested Ukrainian quid pro quo (aka, bribery) ... the moral equivalence of what Trump was supposedly asking from the new Ukrainian administration? And cannot this be said to be an attempt to damage Trump next year in his re-election bid?

So who is legit? Both are right or both are wrong! Should Schiff be impeached along with Trump? Or, if Schiff is within the yard markers, then so was Trump!