Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Treasonweasels in Trumpworld continue to lie and obfuscate and crime, and the GOP continues supporting it. The Freedumb caucus throws its support behind Trump, because that’s the bigot brigade base. They got elected on white power grievances - that their power was being diminished because everyone else was finally getting the rights that white guys had all along.

But something is indeed changing. Trump’s support is down to 38%, and that’s scraping the floor. If there’s a breakthrough in that level of support, Trump is going to see the GOP abandon him because they’ll put their own reelection efforts above being complicit in Trump’s protection from being impeached despite openly admitting to felony acts.

As it is, we’re on the cusp of a majority of Americans who not only want Trump impeached, but removed from office. Taylor’s testimony undercuts Trumpworld’s line, and when you have asshats like Hewitt trying to joke about quid pro quo, you know you’re sunk.

“I’ll take Quid Pro Quos for $1,000 Alex”
“U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of Mississippi river for $15 million.”
“What is Seward’s Folly?”
“Sorry @Steelers fans, it is ‘What is the Louisiana Purchase, the Louisiana Purchase.’” #QuidProQuoJeopardy

— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) October 23, 2019

Taylor’s testimony confirms what we’ve already heard Trump explicitly state (and what Mulvaney explicitly said) - that there was a quid pro quo to demand investigation into Democrats and Biden or else the US holds back military aid. And they were going to continue to hold back the aid unless Trump got what he wanted. It was all done outside the usual chain of command, with Trump running a rogue op via Rudy.

Pompeo is now eyeballs deep in the weeds, and if he takes Trump’s line in this, then career diplomats across the world know that they don’t have anyone having their back, and that Trump will undercut what they do on a daily basis if it means Trump can personally benefit.

Trump is sabotaging our foreign policy to enhance his own political power and enrich himself, just as surely as he’s damaging our military policy and undermining our long term strategic and tactical allies around the world. Who benefits from all these actions? It’s not the US. Russia certainly benefits from the chaos. Trump is their consensus pick. But Russia will continue to prop up others to sow as much chaos as possible to keep their rivals off balance.