{"id":177072,"date":"2020-01-06T20:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/06\/im-not-sure-that-this-is-good-news\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T20:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:09:00","slug":"im-not-sure-that-this-is-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/01\/06\/im-not-sure-that-this-is-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Not Sure That This Is Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"
A lot of people have been making hosannas over John Bolton’s announcement that he would testify if he were subpoenaed by the Senate for the impeachment trial<\/a>.<\/div>\n

I’m a pessimist about this.<\/p>\n

Given that John Bolton is probably still sporting an erection from our recent assassination of an Iranian general*<\/sup>, and the former National Security Advisor has been aggressively called for war with Iran for decades, I do not think that he will do ANYTHING<\/b> that would make it difficult for Trump to launch a war against Iran:<\/p>\n

Awfully mustachioed of you, John. It was nice visiting your website, too.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t trust this guy as far as the car threw me<\/a>. He\u2019s going to be the shot that brings down the elephant now that we\u2019re just inches away from the war for which he\u2019s been slavering his entire adult life? Please. At the very least, this is a bag job to give cover to whatever Mitch McConnell\u2019s plan to chloroform the impeachment trial is. They can refuse to call him, and he\u2019s covered. He can show up and refuse to answer\u2014executive privilege, state of war, in these perilous times, y\u2019know? But the idea that Bolton\u2019s going to cooperate in any meaningful way, and that his testimony will advance the case against the president* in any meaningful way, requires a suspension of disbelief that rivals that of the Brooklyn Bridge. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Even if Bolton is a vindictive SOB, and he is, and even if he is probably VERY<\/b> angry that Trump fired him, he will never, ever, do anything that might lead to peace with Iran.<\/p>\n

Bolton really wants to send poor young Americans overseas to fight and die.<\/p>\n

*<\/sup>Really sorry about that mental image.<\/span>\u2020<\/sup>
\u2020<\/sup>No really, I am SINCERELY <\/b>sorry about that mental image.<\/span>\u2021<\/sup>
\u2021<\/sup>You were aware that in the late 1970s, he was frequently seen at the infamous sex club Plato’s Retreat, so I figure that there are WAY<\/b> too many people who have seen his erection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lot of people have been making hosannas over John Bolton’s announcement that he would testify if he were subpoenaed by the Senate for the impeachment trial. I’m a pessimist about this. Given that John Bolton is probably still sporting an erection from our recent assassination of an Iranian general*, and the former National Security …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,364,560,411],"class_list":["post-177072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-evil","tag-impeach","tag-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}