Quid pro quo

Quid pro quo

The fascinating saga of the impeachment continues in the American Congress and yesterday Sondland testified, specifically stating that yes, there was a quid pro quo, blowing the republican defense and terrifying them. At least until they caught on and came with their same silly cliché that the commander in chief has not said specifically ‘you get on to the Ukraine, force that damn comedian down to the floor and extract from him the promise that he would announce an investigation into the Bidens’, even if everything else, witnesses, documents, even the republican ambassador to the EU have all indicated that this bribery was in the works, although they were caught trying this extortion and eventually released the military aid.

Chairman Adam Schiff was splendid in leading the inquiry and summarized wondrously some of the facts, including the one about the bribery, which does not need to be completed in order to have the guilty party accused and eventually convicted if all the evidence is gathered and in the case of the Lying Narcissist, is making a clear case for the intention to press the new leader of the country which is fighting Russia – also an enemy of the US, albeit Putin is a role model of Trump, who looks like he has won the election with crucial meddling from the admired dictator – and force him to investigate Biden, an idea that came only once the latter has become the front runner in the Democratic race and thus the potential rival for the 2020 elections.

Trump is only interested in himself, as has been made clear by this process, but also by all his vicious history of bankruptcies, phony deals, scams that include a failed university, stealing from the charity which he used to buy huge portraits of himself, and in the case of the Ukraine scandal, the phone call demonstrates that he wanted to attack his political opponent – he had not raised corruption with any other country and even in calls with the Ukraine, he never says the word once(!), indeed, as comedians – was it Bill Maher? – have said, Trump is only upset by corruption only when he is not in on it.

This is not just about this incredibly incompetent, absurd, pathetic, sick individual, but it is about much more, for the office he now holds and incredibly looks like he may occupy for another five years(!) represents an immense authority and power – usually, for in this case it is to be analyzed what happened to the image, how much influence can still be associated with it – and the effect that a deranged lunatic could have on the geopolitics, the future of the world can be calamitous and we can already see Russia advance in Syria – where American allies have been betrayed by the idiot – Erdogan Act like a tyrant with impunity – no, that is wrong, he in reality encouraged and helped by the American leader who talks about the strongman with what looks like envy, for he would also like to be a monarch and an absolute one at that…

The story that unfolds in Washington is a battle between good and evil and Trump is the ultimate demon – for one who does not believe in angels, God or supernatural beings of any kind – a paradigm of selfishness, corruption, incompetence, stupidity, pathological lying – he debased himself to the point of saying his father was born in Germany, when the truth is different, modifying an official weather map and the list is surreal in its length and the outrageous, frequent acts of vileness he kept committing.

That such a creature exists is no extraordinary thing, but to find it raised to this level is mind blowing and raises questions about democracy – if one of the most advanced, if not the most glorified indeed, democracy in the world produces something like this, what can we expect elsewhere? – given that there are tens of millions of people that identify with this fool and furthermore, they are ready to accept anything he does, distorting values, merits, the meaning of good in the process…