Everybody knows the origin. An anonymous whistleblower, relying on the protection of the law, made a complaint addressed to the chairs of House and Senate intelligence committees and submitted it correctly to the ICIG, who agreed that it was serious and important...— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 31, 2020
We should all be glad that the rule of law obtained against Maguire and whoever was giving him orders to block this urgent complaint. Bringing it to light saved President Zelenskyy from the need to accept President Trump's extortion attempt and got Ukraine its funding. Period.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 31, 2020
If the whistleblower violated some article of White House protocol to get the document to the place IG Atkinson agreed it needed, urgently, to go, that's a good thing! If he hadn't done it, Zelenskyy would have gone on CNN on schedule, humiliated himself and disheartened his voters (and the rest of the world) by announcing his imaginary investigations of an imaginary crime (and Trump might have gone on holding the aid, as I suppose Putin asked him to do in the secret 31 July phone call, but you don't have to pay any attention to that). It was a win for the rule of law!The only relevant thing is that the complaint arrived, after some illegal stonewalling attempts, at its destination and the American people have been informed and one of President Trump's illegal dealings has been stopped. It's all good.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 31, 2020
Or is somebody claiming that IG Atkinson was wrong about whether or not the complaint was credible and urgent? I don't hear Trump and his lawyers doing that. I hear Trump and his lawyers making fitful attempts to stop us from thinking about it altogether, kicking up the identity of the whistleblower like sand in our eyes. Which is kind of their only alternative, but please don't let yourself be affected by it.
While I'm up, a weird and distasteful thread on Biden and his press problems, beginning with the great Elizabeth Drew weighing in with her opinion:
— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
You don't know Joe, or how Democrats used to talk when they knew how to do this job. The idea you're having is all Trumpified, too, and gross. Caring about your family doesn't mean getting sinecures for the members. It means hoping they achieve autonomy and emotional fulfillment.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
Oh, I agree VP Biden's actions were 100% above board. You'd have a hard time finding anybody c.2016 who said the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's office was doing good work. Numerous Republican senators were even on the record saying the office needed reform https://t.co/nicjnXFuH0— takethepith (@takethepith) January 30, 2020
Because he can wring an audience's heart and make it cry and we know for ten minutes that he would never lie to us. Logical argumentation alone hasn't been doing the job.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
If you love your son you don't want him taking a fake job. You want him to feel he's as good as Beau. You're really not understanding what I'm trying to say. It's not about making an argument, it's about creating an empathy.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
He said "I hope you know what you're doing" and Hunter said "I do". That's what's reported. Joe wasn't paying enough attention, Beau was announcing his run for governor.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
It's all about Beau, the saintly heroic public-spirited brother, who should have been president but was cut off in the flower of his youth, leaving Joe with this terrible burden of running himself. This is the beating heart of the Biden campaign. Embarrassing, but crowds get it.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
I'm not saying Biden actually will work this thing, and this is only one way he could do it. But nobody could do it better.By contrast, Hunter is the NEGLECTED brother, allowed to run wild and go wrong. You think Joe doesn't feel that, the guilt of that, now that he's only got one son? You think he can't communicate it? You think he can't get an audience to join in his prayer for redemption? He can.— Good With Rockets (@Yastreblyansky) January 30, 2020
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