Sunday, November 17, 2019

David Roberts on the impeachment

There's a lot of praise on Twitter for this David Roberts take on the impeachment in light of his 2017 excellent take on what he calls the epistemic crisis in American politics.  It is very good.

In Australia, you see the epistemic crisis writ large in the conservatives (and that is what 99% of them now are) at Catallaxy.  Sinclair Davidson has handed over the keys to CL, the Catholic stuck forever in pre-Vatican 2 Catholicism and society, who is posting at such a pace that it now reads pretty much as his personal blog.  He posted at 1.39am (?) the Australian conservative Right's take on the impeachment:
To recap: the impeachment hoax was designed to cover up the crimes of the Biden family … which came to prominent public attention during the Ukraine hoax … which was conceived to cover up the Russia hoax … which was orchestrated to cover up the illegal surveillance of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
The epistemic problem means it is essentially impossible to argue with these self-blinded twits.  

7 comments:

John said...

To recap: the impeachment hoax was designed to cover up the crimes of the Biden family … which came to prominent public attention during the Ukraine hoax … which was conceived to cover up the Russia hoax … which was orchestrated to cover up the illegal surveillance of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

That's crazy stuff. Can't argue with people descending into that level of stupid partisan thinking.

GMB said...

If they don't want to get Trump on real stuff they ought not get him at all. This is just the dominant set of gangsters sending out the warning that nobody is allowed to investigate their corruption. Both parties are corrupt but the Democrats bitch-slap the Republicans around, and the corruption is more widespread in that gang.

GMB said...

Something has gone wrong with you John? You just quoted something 100% true and you think by quoting it you can dismiss it. I thought you were sensible but its the second time I've caught you out saying stupid shit.

GMB said...

I know what it must be. You didn't bother to read the transcript right? So you imagine that the fuss that they are making must have some basis to it. No there is no basis to it at all. Its a reversalist smokescreen exactly as is implied. But its something to witch-hunt the Donald about. Trump is on the fringes of gangsterism and if any honest set of adversaries wanted to dig up the dirt on him they could do so. But the transcript shows ZERO I mean fucking zero percent wrongdoing with the specific matter to hand.

Nothing at all. Zero. Not even 1%. Its unfortunate to have to come in and proclaim no grey area here but thats just the facts of reality.

John said...

Wake up GMB. Despite years of attempts to get the Clintons no charges. Three years into the Trump reign and many have been charged, found guilty, and doing time. So now they have given up on the Clintons and go after the Bidens but they still haven't laid charges. So if we assume Clintons and Bidens as guilty we must accept that the Left is much more intelligent and cunning in avoiding capture than the clowns in the Trump administration. Trump has breached the constitution, no evidence sufficient to bring the Bidens to trial.

Your argument is hubris on stilts because you just insult me instead of facing the fact that the Trump administration staff is found wanting on many legal issues but the GOP are so inept despite multiple investigations into HRC not a single charge has been laid. They failed there and given the Biden purported crimes go back many years why is it now we're only hearing about these issues? Nothing to do with Biden's run for the presidency of course, just another coincidence I suppose?

There is a far bigger problem here that you ignore. It doesn't matter what the result of the 2020 election. Either way the USA is left without effective leadership for the next 5 years. HRC and Biden are useless old hacks who should be put out to pasture. Trump's administration has demonstrated so much malfeasance there should be demonstrations outside the White House every day.



GMB said...

You haven't fucking read the transcript have you. You are wrong about this. You are obviously wrong about this. You are being a complete fucking idiot about this. Wake up to yourself you fucking moron.

Start by reading the transcript.

GMB said...

Of course no charges get laid against Hillary. You think there is a reasonable legal system in this banana republic? Try and focus for fucksakes. What has that got to do with anything? Her father was organised crime and her husband was bastard Rockefeller. Their "made men" as it were. They can kill anyone, rape anyone, do anything, they are not going to get charged.