It just struck me a little while ago, quite suddenly, what’s gonna happen here.
It’ll look *exactly* like Kavanaugh. There, too, there was an overwhelming pile of evidence, it kept growing bigger and worse, and it was obvious to all decent and reasonable people that the Republicans would have no choice but to cut him loose and try someone else.
Then the miracle happened. They simply said We don’t care. We’ll just pretend nothing happened, ignore all the evidence, throw up our hands and claim no one knows what happened, and jam him on the court anyway.
Incredibly, it worked. They got away with it.
Now, with Khashoggi, and MBS, we’re pretty much right back in the same place.
It’s obvious they did it. Everyone knows they did it. All the Republislime know they did it, and are so horrifically embarrassed by its exposure, they’re uncharacteristically saying things that are half-way reasonable and responsible. Even Little Lindsay’s out there saying There’s gonna be hell to pay, etc., etc.
There’s apparently tape of the whole thing. It’s a slam-dunk, right?
Nope. Not even close.
WE don’t have the evidence, and it hasn’t been publicly released, right? Turkish Intelligence has it, but they haven’t officially confirmed it, either.
Trump and his team of scum are already retreating to their classic line of cowardice and fraud, with their standard, They denied it; what can we do? Even the (mock) angriest Congressional Republislime have been careful to couch their statements with the horse-shit disclaimer: IF it’s true.
Here’s what’s about to happen: (The first part may have already happened.)
Erdogan and MBS are on the phone. Erdogan doesn’t give a flying fart in the wind about a murdered journalist on his own soil, or anywhere else. He couldn’t care less about ‘doing the right thing,’ or protecting the rights of his people.
He’s a fraudulent, brutal, fully-Fascist thug, just like his counterpart and rival, MBS.
The only thing he cares about here is an opportunity for some heavy-duty extortion.
He’s got MBS and the Saudis over a very big barrel, and he’ll work that for every penny it’s worth.
He’ll extract a gigantic bribe, of one form or another, from House of Saud. MBS will pay pretty nearly whatever he’s asked, because he won’t have a whole lot of choice.
Trump/Kushner, et al., have already been bribed, and will continue being bribed for years to come. (Ending, God willing, when they go to jail,… if any of us live that long.)
MBS knows the last thing any of the Trumpies want here is for the truth to come out and be proven. They’re already bought and paid-for.
MBS and Erdogan will formally announce a ‘high-level joint investigation’ into the disappearance of Khashoggi.
They’ll cooperate in a major effort at horse-shit theatrics, and in the meantime top thugs in both of their governments will be desperately seizing, destroying, and vaporizing any trace or memory of any tapes, or any other kind of evidence there is.
Numerous folks in intelligence services of both places will suddenly ‘disappear’ --just as they’ve been doing so regularly in Russia lately. (Don’t be surprised if there’s a sudden outbreak of mysterious helicopter crashes in the desert.)
They’ll announce the ‘results’ of their ‘investigation,’ and tell the world that they all tried really, really hard, but just can’t find any trace of Jamal. It’s terribly strange and sad.
Perhaps they’ll announce their ‘findings’ that Khashoggi, as it turns out, had a serious drinking or drug problem, and had talked of suicide.
Maybe they’ll say he got cold feet about his impending marriage, and took his visit to the consulate as an opportunity to flee.
If they’d been smarter, they might’ve frozen his body, and produced it later on, with some carefully-contrived cover-story. Since they immediately chose to cut him up into tiny pieces, however, that part’s not gonna happen.
Trump will claim, There it is, folks. They investigated, and it’s clear the Saudis didn’t do it. Even the Turks say so. Nothin’ to see here. Move along.
The Republislime will wryly smile to themselves, as they realize, once again, We’re covered.
We don’t have to say or do anything.
Then we’ll ignore it and move on. When the Dems and the press whine about it, we’ll just call it all lies, and throw a couple of fake tantrums here and there.
End of story. They’ll get away with it ALL. AGAIN.
What would prevent it? The only thing I can think of is if some conscience-ridden civil servants in Turkish Intelligence decide to fully blow the whistle, and release the audio or video.
There clearly are some such guys, because that’s who chose to leak the stories about it thus far.
But unless they have the actual tapes in their personal possession, and there are a number of really gutsy guys, willing to risk their own lives, the torture of their wives and kids, etc., etc.,… or to pass on bribes that would change their lives forever,… there’s a pretty good chance this whole story will just die.
The Fascist Scum will go along whistling, all the way to their Islamo-Nazi banks.
I told all my friends and family (and anyone else who would listen) two and a half years ago that if we let Trump and his cabal of quasi-Nazis and Fascist Mafiosi take power, it would very likely be not only the end of America, but ultimately of the whole fucking world.
That’s where we’re heading now, at break-neck speed.
Even if we win this election in three weeks, there’s a fairly good chance that’ll all come to pass anyway.
If we LOSE it, we can pretty much kiss planet Earth goodbye.
That is all. Have a good week.