Lucian Truscott IV calls his article Profiles in Poltroonery.
Poltroonery, the Google tells one, simply means cowardice.
Truscott is well qualified to identify cowardice as his Grandfather, Lucian Jr. commanded the Fifth Army in Italy in WWII and his father Lucian III served in Korea and Vietnam — retiring as a full bird Colonel.
It obviously pains Truscott, then, to see grown ass men, men who draw their weal from the Republic’s coffers and are sworn to it’s protection and well being, trembling like beaten curs before the puffed up bravado of a known fool, liar and an existential threat to the nation that placed its trust in them.
And it’s not just the two pathetic examples of public service pictured above who provoke his ire, but the whole God damned shit-show that was Wednesday and Thursdays Senate Hearings, from the milk in their veins witnesses offering silence and demurrals to the questions that might save our democracy from further desecration and violations, to the craven Senators who accepted their spineless drivel:
“That was quite literally the big news out of two days of strutting egos and bad hair. Trump is a liar. Oh, I almost forgot. Donald Trump is a liar, and now that we’ve heard this important news flash, we’re going back to raising money and begging for votes and leave the whole damn thing on the shoulders of Special Counsel Robert Mueller. That’s what Comey was saying on Thursday every time he answered with “I can’t talk about that in open session.”
Truscott excoriates Rogers, Coats and Comey for refusing to answer the questions of import put to them, and the Senators, excepting Angus King, who were willing to put off on tomorrow, tomorrow, and Mueller the crucial task of stopping the ever Maddening Menace from Burning the Reichstag and burying our democracy.
He saves a special disdain for Jim Comey:
“I read an article comparing the position Comey found himself in with Trump to how a woman feels when she’s being sexually harassed by her boss. The writer recounted Comey just sitting there and not moving even a muscle on his face, basically hoping that this would stop, to how it often goes when a powerful boss is sexually harassing a female employee. Trump might be an asshole boss, but Comey wasn’t trapped in an office with him with no way to fight back. Comey is six feet eight inches tall. He could have stood up at any time and looked Trump in the eye and said fuck you and walked out of the room. Sure, it would have gotten him fired. But he got fired anyway, without ever standing up to the asshole boss and calling his bluff. Comey may have sat still and not moved his facial muscles, but he was supine in the face of illegality, ignorance and impudence. Each and every time Comey spoke to Trump, he failed in his duty to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. If that’s the way he was running the FBI, he deserved to be fired, and we’re better off without him.”
And the Senators fare little better.
“Comey whined about Trump being mean to him. They thanked him for his courage and service. Comey whined that Trump had lied about him. They thanked him for coming before them and having the fortitude to tell the truth in the face of such character assassination. Comey whined about being fired and not being able to serve alongside all of the other courageous public servants at the FBI. They thanked him, in effect, for whining like a little baby. They asked Comey about the Russian state VEB bank, and he whined and said he couldn’t answer the question in an open hearing.”
It’s a long article so I’m going to permit myself to quote one last ‘graph, one that beautifully sums up what everyone except drumpf’s “special” 35% knows to be true, but was precisely the steaming cow biscuit the cowards in the Senate Chamber couldn’t bring themselves to kick over:
”There’s something out there having to do with Russians and money and Russians and sex. Money laundering? Illegal loans? Offshore payments on which he hasn’t paid tax? Hot and cold running hookers? Peepee parties? Whatever it is, Trump is afraid of it coming out not only because it will cost him the presidency, it will cost him his identity, his manhood. It will cost him who he is.”
Thank you, Mr. Truscott, for bravely enunciating the truth that cowards shy from.