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Who's Laughing Now?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212490798

We’ve been hearing from Trump & Co that the whistle-blower’s complaint is such a nothing-burger, those who have seen it have laughed at it.

Of course, the obvious question has been that if it’s so devoid of substance, so easily dismissed as trivial, so downright laughable on its face, why are the Republicans so blatantly flauting the law in order to keep it under wraps?

Surely the GOP knows that we Democrats have a sense of humour – we couldn’t have survived the past three years without it. So why not let us in on the joke?

Needless to say, the lengths to which the GOP have gone to protect their “pResident” – including lying, covering for him, perjuring themselves, and breaking the law – have been, in and of themselves, staggering in their depth of depravity and breath-taking in their breadth of corruption. And yes, at times laughable in their incredulity.

But given Trump’s stupidity, his inability to keep his lies straight, and his arrogant belief that he is untouchable, all of the lies, the cover-ups, and law-breaking on the part of his party have now gone for naught.

While the GOP spokes-whores are busy on the TV machine insisting that Trump didn’t do what the Democrats are accusing him of – i.e. soliciting the leader of a foreign nation to ‘dig up dirt’ on a political rival – The Dotard has been busy running his mouth admitting that he did exactly that, while trying to couch it as being his right because he is above the law.

We’ve seen this comedy act before – and while it’s not funny for the country, it is certainly laugh-inducing on so many levels: the outraged denials of things that proved to be true, the insistence that what we never saw and heard what we have clearly seen and heard, the court jesters like Guiliani publicly melting down while trying to deny facts that were already as evident as they are damning.

Watching the inept spokes-whores on TV tonight, it seems the tack the Republicans are now taking is that the current revelations will simply “go away” if they wait out another news cycle or two.

Scott Jennings said as much on CNN tonight, insisting that this has been the pattern, that the outrage over Mueller’s revelations, Kavanaugh’s appointment, the Stormy Daniels fiasco, etc., have all faded away, and this latest story will be no different. (Of course, none of those issues have actually gone away – but Jennings, like other Trump-humpers, have their heads so far up their “pResident’s” ass, they’re not really up on current affairs.)

He who laughs last laughs best – and despite putting a happy-face on this latest disaster, the Republicans are oh-so-apparently shitting their collective underwear.

In fact, they’re looking like toddlers who, despite sitting on a pile of crap, keep smiling through their own self-induced stink, in hopes the stench isn’t as noticeable as it actually is.

I’m not saying that the Fat Lady has sung. But she’s bellowing from backstage right now, and even the most devoted GOPers can’t help but hear the song she’s about to sing.