Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reportedly commanded official at the State Department to come up with a rationale for his decision to declare an emergency last year that he used to bypass Congress in his billion-dollar arms sale to Saudi Arabia.
Does this mean Obama shouldnât be in jail? Iâm confused.
Pompeo, the 800-pound ill-tempered religious fundamentalist in the room.
Silly you, Obama should always be in jail. /s
Let me make sure I understand this. Pompeo provided written answers to the IGâs inquiry, but was unaware of the nature of the inquiry.
Alice is in Wonderland.
Ah, yes, straight from the Trump playbook.
The message was we need to move on.
Itâs their answer for everything from murder to pandemics. Nothing to see hereâŚmove along while we score money and power.
I am torn between the Biden Administration going after all of these fat fucks and prosecuting them and just moving on to rebuild our country. I suppose both can be done but I would want the messaging on the latter.
The official also stated that the administration seemed to be shrugging off the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was allegedly assassinated by the Saudi government.
Guess the men convicted of killing Khashoggi are going to be pardoned now. From the NYT:
Khashoggiâs Son Says Family Pardons His Fatherâs Killers
The pardon effectively ends the prospect that any of the men who killed Jamal Khashoggi will be executed.
I imagine the âforgivenessâ was the result of a lot of cash and threats against the rest of the family.
âthou shalt not killââŚI do believe the Holy Rolling Pompeo is familiar with those words. Biblical scholars believe that Commandment includes not facilitating or enabling others to kill as well. Makes sense.
Saudi Arabia wanted those weapons to kill people in Yemen. Most of their victims there are children, woman and men not in the military. 1000âs of them. The USA knew this was going on hence Congressâs resistance to the deal. But the good Christian Pompeo wanted to kill so bad he âbore false witnessâ on an institutional scale to get that done.
YepâŚit will be a huge task, but both must be tackled, with emphasis on what affects the average citizenâs lives so that they know they are being helped by Bidenâs federal government. Unfortunately, civics lessons have been so repressed that most Americans do not understand the dire consequences if we let trump get away with his dismantling of our governmentâs separation of powers and historic norms. That means we must make a bigger splash about saving the current economy while we save the countryâs democracy for future generations.
From some reports, the family was paid handsomely for its forgiveness.
Walk, chew gum.
I almost get the idea if Pompeo became President weâd look back in time and think Trump wasnât so bad.
Almost.
âInvent reasonâ = cover up = lie
Trump administration modus operandi.
To quote Mick Mulvaney [remember him?], âGet over it.â
Pompeo and Trump have torched the countryâs influence abroad to ashes.
He probably should go after them. This thing bears striking resemblance to Bushâs WMD scam. Grand scale fabricating and conniving to enable killing. The Sec. if State in that horrific wrong was Powell and we all remember the flood of lies he dumped on the UN. But no one did anything about it. The next GOPâer administration, Trumpâs, just fucking did it again. Something must be done.
Sounds like something from Chapter 1 in the book âAfter The Fact Justifications For Dummiesâ, by Wilbur Ross.
Seems folks donât mind spilling their guts. Thatâs what people do when they finally realize someone like Pompeo cannot be contained; itâs a what-the-fruk mindset.
Seems fair. We torched abroad to ashes first.
Oh. Like the clown did with Rosenberg, to come up with a justification for firing Comey.