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It's Saturday, you should be out, enjoying the day. As a special service, I will let you know know when and if the Trump defense team offers one substantive point that is not founded in a distortion, a lie, ignoring a key fact, suspending common sense or misrepresenting the law.
So far...nothing.

And...still...nothing...
...nope, nothing yet...

...sorry...still waiting...

...look, just have a nice day. Looks like this isn't going to happen.
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There's something weird about this tape. Why is Trump discussing getting rid of the ambassador in 2018? They were, for example, talking about natural gas beforehand. Was there a percolating deal for someone close to Trump? Was there a Russian agenda fed through someone?
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There is a reason so many in the GOP are touting that they aren't paying attention to the House managers' case, that they have tuned it out. There is a reason they promote the idea that it is boring and repetitive and not worth listening to.
It is because that leads people to turn away from the facts. It is because not their entire defense of Trump but the impetus for all Trumpism is founded in and dependent on the ignorance of their supporters. They deny facts because facts are their enemy...
...and because when you have disposed of facts, you can offer up fantasies that are appealing to the supporters and much easier to conjure than results or real change. Only ignorance of the facts can protect someone as clearly guilty as Trump.
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The mystifying difference between people of clarity and conscience and the GOP reminds us of the meaning behind the word "values." They have prioritized other things ahead of morality, ethics, respect for the law and patriotism--party perhaps or self-interest.
They value the approval of their community or keeping their jobs more than they do undeniable truths. They value their fictions over those truths. It is a reminder that all values do not have the same value--not all perspectives are of equal merit. Some are misevaluations.
It is wrong to suggest these are just different value systems. Right and wrong exist. Not everything is relative. Dressing up bad values in the language usually associated with widely held values like religion or patriotism is a way to make them acceptable, to market them.
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