Saturday, October 21, 2017

Lyin' Johnnie, hypocrite extraordinaire



I won't dignify Trump apologist John Kelly with his military title because his shameful smear of Congresswoman Frederica Wilson offended the hell out me. As far as I'm concerned, his disgusting performance erases any previous honors he earned. Henceforward, I'll call that lying bastard "Johnnie" or "Jonnikins."

First: Johnnie's charactization of Frederica Wilson's speech in 2015 was a complete fabrication, as the video evidence proves. Jonnikins said that Wilson spent her time congratulating herself for something she did not actually do, and that she immediately sat down and left everyone appalled. The video proves -- conclusively, without any room for interpretation -- that Johnnie told a deliberate lie.

Did Jonnikins feel free to lie about Wilson because she is female? Becase she is black? Or because she is a Democrat?

Perhaps he has simply become part of the Trumpist culture of lying. Perhaps he inhabits an Alt Right fantasy world in which the past you prefer becomes the past you remember. (That sort of thing is precisely what the Nazis meant by the phrase triumph of the Will.)

I don't know Johnnie's motive for lying. All I know is that he did in fact lie, and that nothing he says henceforward will ever be trustworthy.

Second: Jonnikins maintains that Congresswoman Wilson committed some sort of affront when she listened in to Trump's speakerphone "condolence call" to the family of Sgt. La David Johnson. The call came in while they were en route to a memorial service. The family had a right to invite whomever they pleased to ride with them, and it's not as though they could have asked the president to call back later. Congresswoman Wilson is a longtime friend of the family (the friendship began well before she entered politics) and there is no earthly reason why she should not have been invited along.

The family is not saying that Wilson did anything wrong. They agree with her.

Third: Jonnikins himself was listening in (on Trump's end) without the family's knowledge. Johnnie, you're a damned hypocrite.

Fourth: Johnnie made a plea for the country to show respect for Gold Star families. Really? Tell me, Jonnikins: Why didn't you say one word against Trump's pal Roger Stone when Stone was spreading vicious falsehoods and conspiracy theories about Khizr Khan, the father of slain hero Humayun Khan?

When are you going to lambaste Roger, Jonnikins? Answer that, you damned hypocrite.

Fifth: Johnnie said that the sacredness of the Gold Star families ended during "the convention over the summer." Whose fault was that? Note that Johnnie's smarmy wording was cleverly designed to re-arrange the truth and to replace the actual past with a fantasized past. (The "triumph of the Will" theme reappears.) In reality, the Democrats treated the Khan family with respect bordering on reverence. It was Trump and his partners in paranoia who responded with lies, smears, character assassination and absurd conspiracy theories.

Johnnikins, you no longer have any honor. History will hate you. You cannot escape history.

Do you want to regain your honor, Johnnikins? Do you want historians to speak well of you? Do you want to regain a moral (not just legal) right to the title of General Kelly? Here's what you have to do:

1. Apologize.

2. Quit.

3. Tell everything you know about the Trump White House -- all the damning details.

4. If the Russians have something on you, take your lumps like a man.

Do those four things and you will once again be hailed as a hero. Until then, you're just Lyin' Johnnie, hypocrite extraordinaire.

PS: Yes, I'll go there: Johnnie, your son would be ashamed of you. If I were a member of your family, I'd spit in your lying face. You're a liar and a hypocrite, and your stars cannot protect you from the truth.

PPS: Sarah Hucakbee Sanders said that one must never criticize a general. Didn't Trump say that he "knew better" than the generals? Hasn't he often issued tweets critical of generals?

8 comments:

Unknown said...

I'm actually wondering if Kelly didn't hear Wilson's speech the way he said he did. I wonder if these psychos actually believe themselves. If you're a bigot - there is no end to the rationalization for your point of view and your eagerness to feel the hate toward (especially) a woman of color. Kelly may actually believe Democrats are responsible for politicizing the Khan affair last year. I think they may really be that unbalanced.

Prowlerzee said...

I can't even, with the sacredness crap. He apparently said "Women used to be sacred." I think it was Wonkette who said he "fucked himself with Trump's sword and the internet is agreeing. Again, glad you have the energy to wield your pen-sword. Those of us with less fortitude are grateful.

Tom said...

He appears to be a fascist playing the old favorite "stab in the back" card. Facts and truth have no value for the fascist because they get in the way of the rhetoric.

Joseph Cannon said...

"He apparently said "Women used to be sacred."" This, from the Chief of Staff to DONALD TRUMP, a man who admitted on the air that he is a sexual predator.

Anonymous said...

Ultimately this "sacredness-of-women" idea implies a condemnation of all women who seek independent success in politics, media, entertainment, art or business, or indeed in the military. “Women used to be sacred” = They didn’t use to compete with men. It expresses just banal old-fashioned sexism. It’s quite revealing that a general is touting this as a moral position.

My assessment of the "caretakers" such as Kelly, McMaster, Mattis or Tillerson has changed a lot. I now believe it's an illusion to see them as voices of reason who sacrifice their "reputation" (what is Tillerson's "reputation", pray tell) allegedly to prevent the worst. They are just (either astute or naive) enablers.
-Brumel

Joseph Cannon said...

My guess is, if asked to choose between being viewed as "sacred" and being able to secure a mortgage, most women will probably choose the latter. I'm old enough to remember 50 years ago, and let me tell you: There was a LOT of disrespect shown toward women.

Anonymous said...

I am dreading next month. I am afraid of another melt down, another horrible wave of depression is coming.

Prowlerzee said...

I have been trying to find that term "empty barrel" used as a racist term, with no success. I'm kind of sorry Congresswoman Wilson did not recognise the term's blatant sexist undertones, twice leveled at her. Compare that also with Puny Paw's original statement, which was outrage that a "woman" (repeated twice) would listen in. As a child of the South, I vividly remember a joke in which "double barrel" explicitly referred to a woman's nether region: meaning PP's pawn Kelly was essentially calling the congresswoman a cvnt.

Alas, Anon 1151 I fear the same in Nov. An anniversary of a traumatic event inevitably dredges up those feelings again.