Blindsided by the West Wing, Mitch McConnell recalibrates his impeachment tactics as Trumpworld (Bolton is a “bitter ex-employee”) and Bolton (Trump is “mentally unstable”) go to war.

"DUH!!! No shit!!!"

That Trump is mentally unstable should be news to no one (unless you're submerged in the Faux News kool-aid).

FUCK Bolton, they're ALL sick

Sorry Bolton, I hate all warmongers and neocons. My hate pretty much stops there.
These SOB neocons never volunteer to go in combat, but have no problem sending sons and daughters
of others to go fight wars in foreign countries and get killed or maimed.
I can't think of any other category of people I hate.
I am not a Christian, but I don't even hate the evangelists who flocked to Trump in 2016.

Bolton on video...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=MbVtROU9J_E&feature=emb_logo

The fucking moron has become too consumed by his own ego and he feels free to "act like a nut", not realizing that we can see the emperor has no clothes and no sound mind. His handlers realize this and have somehow been able to keep him on script at his rally in NJ tonight (for the most part).

Like Trump, Bolton is in it for himself first.

It's all publicity for his book.

Wait and see what his 'testimony' turns out to bee.

It’s almost like he hasn’t been the poster boy for drumming up fake justifications for unnecessary wars for more than 2 decades.

Neocon views, that we rightfully disdain, if he can be the one to take down Trump, I'm surely not going to step in the way.

No one HERE has forgotten who he is, hughee99.

Of the word of a guy who we know lies to advance his own agenda.

And yes, I think there are a number of newer people here who don’t really know (or remember) who he is.

Link to tweet

The cure, not so clear.

Dismissing someone as a "disgruntled former employee" begs the question as to WHY they are disgruntled. Sometimes the reasons for their disgruntlement are damning for the ex-employer.

I never could stand him, not before and not now either. I don't trust him for a second!

Let's see, who was around at the time of the call...

Dan Coats, former Director of National Intelligence, fired by tweet 3 days after the infamous call. Why was he fired? Does he know anything about the Ukraine scheme?

Kevin McAleenan, fired by tweet 2019-11-13, might know something, even though he was Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, get him in to testify about people he talked to

Richard Spencer, former Navy Secretary, 2019-11-24, could've been in on some hush-hush meetings since Security and Intelligence were involved.

Maybe the revolving door of this "administration" is the proverbial fan upon which that proverbial shit is about to hit.

Captain Obvious.
It's been a "duty to warn" situation for a few years now

Republicans may like the idea of using Pompeo as a character witness but he is wrapped up in the quid pro quo issue and would face serious questioning on that. Plus, his own character has significant tarnish. And what happens if Bolton asks John Kelly to be a character witness for Bolton. Things could spiral out of control in a hurry. Order more popcorn.

ReTHUGs are irresponsible scumbags

Sorry, but I couldn't resist repurposing that old Republican campaign slogan and firing it back at Club Pachyderm.

the time.

I think it was during the reviews of the Mueller Report there was a discussion about collusion that hinged on intent. What was tRumps intent?

Intent should be brought up again. tRump's intent in Ukraine needs to be talked about. The intent was for his personal benefit! The intent was not for democracy in Ukraine.

Trump is so bonkers these two things make sense.

Inquiring minds want to know. I also wonder if that's why he won't publicly release his medical records.

he is NOT a doctor or medical professional - he's basing what he says about Trump from seeing family and friends suffer through dementia. So, while he knows a good deal about dementia, I do think sometimes he reads too much into Trump's symptons.

I'm not registered on Twitter and a recent change in format has made it far more difficult to do so.

If you see, my first response was the VF article itself. I probably should have deleted the rawstory link but I couldn't find the direct VF link initially. That was the actual story I wanted to direct to DUers attention.

I agree with Bolton and the article and even Tom Jospeph that Trump is mentally unstable. I was just pointing out that Tom Joseph, while well meaning, seems to sometimes read too much into every little detail of Trump's arm, leg, etc movements and speech.

(I'm not an expert by any stretch, either, but I've seen some of his tweets over the past year or so and he may list out 5 or 6 signs of dementia in a tweet based on a video of Trump, but when I review the video, maybe 3-4 are definite and 1-2 signs are questionable in my view)