The Blue Pill.

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The circus known as the Impeachment Enquiry finally folded up its tent on Thursday as those who talked
long and seriously about a Ukrainian business being corrupt, the President's concern of the connection
between a prominent US citizen on its board of Directors and possible influence in the 2106 election, left
DC in order to celebrate Thanksgiving.

So it can't be that serious.


But the dying media need some shite to report on that doesn't ruin the Democrat's narrative. So with relish, they
jumped back on the 'all-men-are-rapey' wagon and celebrated another kind of turkey-carver-up, that of having
a brave lady giving her testimony.

Fiona Hill was a former official at the National Security Council specialising in Russian and European affairs.
Being a Bishop Auckland-born English lass - a town very close to where Boy In A Dress has his shed, he and
I were fascinated by Fiona's North-East English accent leaking out as she explained her role in the bureaucratic
wrangle that is supposed to reveal some-sort of US invasive shenanigans.

Many times, semi-posh English tones in an American political location can seem to add meat to the bones of a
debate as it tends to imply sobriety and mature introspection to the interactions. Maybe it's a subconscious belief
of wisdom from an older country that may have already endured the same problems in its past and discovered the
answers along the way, I don't know.

But what I do know is that Fiona was not only lending a feel of cultivated introspection to the proceedings, from the
fact that I have the same accent as her, I also know she was merely 'filler' for the Hearing! 

Just like many others who had testified before her, she and David Holmes went into detail in explaining it wasn't
their fault that the new Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky couldn't have his Trump-meeting and the supposed
delayed military aid, it was Trump himself.

With Chairman Adam Schiff steering the Hearing back towards questions about Zelensky being asked to snoop
for President Trump into Presidential-hopeful Joe Biden's son being on the board of a dodgy gas company, Fiona
and her rubber-faced cohort attempted to answer the queries that they really had no idea about.

But again, the lilt of her voice told me far more than the detached features of the female former official.
In my opinion, Fiona really didn't have anything to encourage the impeachment of the US President and mainly spent
her time at the Hearing with interruptions of abstract elocution that held nothing except to tell a fellow-kinsman from
the Land of Prince Bishops that:  'T'wasn't me-like'!!

However, USA Today fell back on the trope that all women are temerarious and intransigent, and men should show
some goddam respect!

Fierce, focused and fearless': Fiona Hill emerges as a principled voice in impeachment inquiry.



'As another long day of public impeachment inquiry testimony on Thursday wore on, attention turned to one
figure who expounded on the greater importance of the subject matter at hand: protecting American democracy.

Dr. Fiona Hill, a former National Security Council official, delivered punchy lines of testimony and asserted her
position as a witness in the inquiry who would present facts exactly as she knew them to be, persistent in the
face of accusations of partisanship.

Hill rebutted the Republican theory that Ukraine meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and answered questions about
the pressure campaign President Donald Trump is accused of levying against the nation. Testifying alongside David
Holmes, a State Department official in the U.S. embassy in Ukraine, Hill at times used her platform to explain he
 ideals of U.S. foreign policy and democracy...'

Filler, see?!

She stated that it is in the best interest of both political parties to protect that democracy from the threats of Russian
interference. "Right now Russian security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the
2020 election," Hill said. "We are running out of time to stop them."

She expressed the frustration of her role as a nonpartisan State Department official who had observed an unusual process
of diplomacy unfold between U.S. officials and Ukraine. "There was, let's just say, a different channel in operation in relations
to Ukraine, one that was domestic and political in nature...," Hill said.

It goes on, but what made me smile was the pig-tail story.

'...As in her previous closed-door testimony, Hill's wit and humour were on full display Thursday. And her display of resilience
did not go unmissed by viewers.

A profile published about Hill in The New York Times and shared widely Thursday recounted the story of when Hill was 11 years
old and a boy set fire to her hair in the middle of a test. She confirmed at the hearing that she put the fire out with her hands an
 resumed her test.

"It had some very unfortunate consequences. Afterwards, my mother gave me a bowl haircut," Hill said to laughter in the room. 
"I think it underscores the fact that you speak truth, that you are steely, and I truly respect that," said Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif...'

I'll tell you, if you had pig-tails in Bishop Auckland back during the mid-seventies, you were in the snobby class and eleven year-old
snobs didn't carry matches into a classroom. That was for the subjacent classes who ignored the teacher and thought about doing
things after school. You could've had a pony-tail, but not pig-tails... this isn't a yarn from Johanna Spyri!!!

Christ, I doubt that any of them would've even smoked at eleven...! I did, but I couldn't afford cigarettes (fags) back then and
I'd suggest that neither could many other eleven year-old kids in the North-East of England.

No, Mrs. Hill (Keen) -in my opinion, was at the Hearings to just offer gender neutrality and a British accent.