{"id":37038,"date":"2018-08-24T16:09:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37038"},"modified":"2018-08-24T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:09:26","slug":"the-dogs-of-vengeance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37038","title":{"rendered":"The Dogs of Vengeance"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Dogs of Vengeance<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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History has a velocity of its own, and its implacable forces will drag the good, the bad, the clueless, the clever, the guilty, the innocent, the avid, and the unwilling to a certain fate. One can easily see a convergence of vectors shoving the nation toward political criticality this autumn.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump is like some unfortunate dumb brute of the ancient Teutonic forests with a bulldog clamped to his nose, the rest of the pack close behind snapping at his hamstrings and soft, swaying underbelly. His desperate bellowing goes unanswered by the indifference of the trees in forest, the cold moon above, and all the other furnishings of his tragic reality.<\/p>\n

As these things tend to happen, it looks like the exertions of Robert Mueller have turned from the alleged grave offenses of a foreign enemy to the sequela of consort with a floozie. Down goes Mr. Trump\u2019s private attorney, Michael Cohen, in his personal swamp of incriminating files and audio recordings. Enter, stage left, one David Pecker, publisher of the venerable National Enquirer <\/em>\u2014 the newspaper of wreckage \u2014 on his slime-trail of induced testimony. And there is your impeachable offense: an illegal campaign contribution.<\/p>\n

One way or another<\/em>, as Blondie used to sing, I\u2019m gonna getcha, getcha, getcha<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some in this greatest of all possible republics may be asking themselves if this is quite fair play, given the hundreds of millions of dollars washed-and-rinsed through the laundromat known as the Clinton Foundation, and related suspicious doings in that camp of darkness. But remember, another president, Jimmy Carter, once declared to the shock of official Washington that \u201clife is unfair.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Dogs of Vengeance History has a velocity of its own, and its implacable forces will drag the good, the bad, the clueless, the clever, the guilty, the innocent, the avid, and the unwilling to a certain fate. One can easily see a convergence of vectors shoving the nation toward political criticality this autumn. Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[920,14964,7844,449,21406,17286,865],"class_list":["post-37038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-civil-war","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-donald-trump","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-michael-cohen","tag-robert-mueller","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37039,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038\/revisions\/37039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}