On President Trump's Conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine

I just read the whole telephone transcript. The Democrats are screaming that there is more that incriminates Trump that was kept out. It is clear to me that they are lying. It is possible that after the Javelins were mentioned there may have been a paragraph where Putin was mentioned and the civil war/invasion by Russia. That would be classified and should be redacted. Merkel was mentioned, which must have made Foggy Bottom very unhappy to see released.

It is impossible for me to see where any redacted passage would have referenced a quid pro quo for reopening the Biden investigation. The Ukrainian President makes clear that he wants to do this because the prior investigation was stopped by his political enemies, that he wants to expose them for his own reasons and without needing Trump to prompt him. In fact the Ukrainian asks Trump to supply evidence to build a case against the former ambassador and the former Ukrainian administration.

What we have here is a foreign President volunteering that he is under pressure from his own corrupt deep state and Russia and asking the American President for help with weapons, energy, and evidence of corruption. All of this cooperation is in accord with our treaty relations with his country.

It is also clear that Merkel is acting as a Russian agent to keep the EU opposed to America and dependent on Russian energy while blocking support for Ukraine. The same hysterics who have spent the last three years screaming that Trump is a Russian agent and championing the EU over the US and the UK are either gullible fools or deliberate seditious traitors.

Hong Kong Protests

About 36 years ago I was assigned Shore Patrol officer duty when my ship stopped in Hong Kong. The British police took me out drinking to the Bottoms Up club. They loved HK with it's culture of a light hand and general law abiding citizens, although the triads were certainly for real. One toasted, "May we all live in Hong Kong and own a business in Singapore."

The long term cost will be the breakdown in trust between the people and the police, and the Law in general. That will erode the basic fabric which the prosperity of Hong Kong is based on.