'You're Here to be Smeared Today."

     “I don’t know him very well, I have not spoken to him much. This is not a man I know well. Seems like a nice guy, though. But I don’t know him well. He was with other candidates. He actually supported other candidates, not me. Came in late." - Donnie Dumbo today during Gordon Sondland's testimony.
     There's an old saying in politics- "If your opponent is falling, don't get in their way." That's a lesson that appears to have been well-learned by Chairman Adam Schiff who day after day of these impeachment proceedings stoically displays the superhuman ability to restrain himself from punching Devin Nunes in the face every time he speaks.
     Or maybe it's not stoicism that keeps the Chairman's hands to himself but his forbearance instead comes from his unwillingness to not miss out on a good laugh when Congressman Nunes (R-Moo) declaims about Democrat conspiracy theories. Especially when, after an ostensibly statesmanlike speech lasting for eight and a half minutes is immediately deflated when Sondland then proved virtually every one of those Democrat "conspiracy theories" correct. Nunes then warned Sondland, "Mr. Ambassador, you're here to be smeared today." What he didn't yet know was that the Republicans, not the Democrats were going to be the ones smearing Sondand.
     Yes, in nearly perfect and total contravention of his disingenuous testimony last month behind closed doors, Gordon Sondland officially turned in his credentials to the Three Amigos consisting of him, Rick Perry and Kurt Volker (who said yesterday in his testimony that he "cringe(d)" whenever he heard it). Sondland giddily smirked and jiggled his way to the table, wearing his best, "I'm not going to jail but I don't know about the rest of you" smile despite essentially incriminating himself for lying to Congress the first time. Indeed, Sondland's newest story is eerily like the infamous Nuremberg Defense, especially when he said at one point, "We followed the president's orders."
     In direct contravention to Laura Williams' and Lt. Col. Vindman's testimony yesterday, in which they'd faithfully done the right thing and reaffirmed their closed door testimony last month, Gordon Sondland, like Kurt Volker, showed himself to be a lying, duplicitous scumbag who was right in the middle of the shadow Ukrainian policy mess that inspired a massive impeachment inquiry and who is now doing the right thing only because his wife nagged him into doing so and he wants to keep his fat, pasty ass out of prison.
     But this isn't about Sondland. Sondland, the European Union Ambassador who had no business even setting foot in Ukraine on account of Europe's largest country not even being in the European Union, is now serving as a useful idiot in throwing the fat men and many of his other little fat men under the bus in a smirking act of self-preservation. Sondland's testimony, which was brilliantly-timed by the Democrats, is essentially the coup de grace blow, the testimony that not only confirms these "Democrats' conspiracy theories" but names names, with many of those names, including Trump's, being in his inner circle. Jared Kushner. John Bolton. Mick Mulvaney, Mike Pompeo  and so forth. They all knew about the strong-arming of the vulnerable new Ukrainian government and they were all in on it.
     Yes, Trump made a crucial White House visit and even more crucial military aid to fend off Russian separatist forces in that nation's east, conditional on announcing an investigation into Buirisma (ie the Bidens) as well as an investigation into themselves for their so-called interference in our 2016 election. The Deep State? Look no further than Giuliani, Sondland, Perry, Pompeo, Mulvaney, and Volker. There's your fucking Deep State.
     Looking as if he was a criminal fleeing the scene of the crime (which he is), Donnie Dumbo walked out to the South Lawn and blew more hot air than the waiting Marine One with talking points written by himself and a thick laundry marker Sharpie with which he'd written in all caps, Sgt. Schultz style, "I WANT NOTHING I WANT NOTHING" talking points that Sondland had already long since discredited but which Trump convinced himself was the end of the impeachment inquiry.
     Not yet but soon enough.