The current occupant of the White House is a criminal. Donald Trump’s unrestrained disregard for the rule of law and abuse of his elected authority poses a grave threat to the health of our Republic and the survival of our Constitutional system of checks and balances.
Vox‘s Alex Ward summarizes the case for impeaching and removing Donald Trump from office with this one sentence from the House Intelligence Committee’s report, released yesterday:
The House Intelligence Committee just released a 300-page report with the conclusions from its impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump’s actions involving Ukraine.
You can read the full report, and if you have the time and inclination, you should. Or you can read the much shorter executive summary.
But all you really need to read is this one sentence from the report, which encapsulates all of its major findings: “[T]he impeachment inquiry has found that President Trump, personally and acting through agents within and outside of the U.S. government, solicited the interference of a foreign government, Ukraine, to benefit his reelection.”
That’s it and that’s all [Alex Ward, “The Most Damning Sentence in the House Intelligence Committee’s Impeachment Report,” Vox, 2019.12.03].
Republicans cannot deny that Donald Trump solicited foreign interference in our elections to benefit his reëlection. Republicans cannot justify Donald Trump’s solicitation of foreign interference in our elections to benefit his reëlection. The only reasons for Congressman Dusty Johnson to vote against impeachment and for Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds to vote against conviction are party loyalty (and I’ll argue it would be better for the GOP’s immediate and long-term election prospects to remove Donald Trump), cult of personality… and a dark craving for something other than law, morality, and the more perfect Union our Founders trusted us to sustain through the ages.
Even the Republicans defending Trump in the ongoing Judiciary Hearing won’t say, “Trump did nothing wrong.” They’re saying that there’s not enough evidence, when Trump has withheld the evidence Republicans are asking for. That’s circular and that’s little but a classic stalling technique.
The crookedness never ends either.
“A construction company owned by a Republican donor has been given a $400m (£308.5m) contract to build sections of Donald Trump’s border wall.
“The Department of Defence has announced Fisher Sand and Gravel Co, from North Dakota, will build new barriers in Arizona following reports that Mr Trump repeatedly pushed for the company to be given the contract, despite concerns from engineering officials.
“In April, Mr Trump mentioned Mr Fisher on Fox News after the company offered to build 234 miles of the border wall for $1.4bn – a fraction of the $8bn cost projected for the project.
[Fisher Sand and Gravel] “also has a record of more than $1m in fines for environmental and tax violations, according to CNN, and its former co-owner pleaded guilty to tax fraud and was sentenced to 37 months in prison in 2009.”
Yahoo News
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We knew Nunes was part of the entire GOP/Pootie’s Puppet deal. It’s becoming clearer.
“A new report from the House Intelligence Committee details extensive communication between Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) around the same time that Giuliani and Trump were trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate Trump’s political rivals.”
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The article in National Memo is very brief and certainly worth your time. It includes a list of the date and time of each phone call. The GOP is rotten.
If you’re interested in any of the fantasies the GOP is spinning as “defense” of Maniacal Meathead, you’ll find several of them here:
National Memo
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“the House Intelligence Committee, according to ABC News, is in possession of audio and video recordings as well as photos that include both Giuliani and Trump and could be relevant to the House’s impeachment inquiry.”
The recordings are the result of a subpoena to Parnas and Fruman, the Russian operatives who are Jue-lee-ahh-kne’s pals. This could really hurt Insane Imbecile.
“Mr. Parnas has vociferously and publicly asserted his wish to comply with his previously issued subpoena and to provide the House Intelligence Committee with truthful and important information that is in furtherance of justice, not to obstruct it.”
Parnas IS NOT going to take one for the team.
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Devin Numbnuts told Fake Noize he doesn’t know Parnas. Stole that from drumpf, he did.
This from Grand Forks North Dakota, but applies to our state as well.
https://www.grandforksherald.com/opinion/letters/4776336-Letter-Delegates-hold-Trump-accountable
” It is so sad to see the three North Dakota members of Congress twist themselves into linguistic pretzels to try to justify their continued support of the person who may be the most corrupt and least productive president in our nation’s history. ”
SNIP
Indeed, Mr. H. grudznick believes muchly that Mr. Pence will be a far, far better president. Heck, the only person who could be worse would have been Mrs. Clinton.
I believe Cory’s headline for this post is fitting. That’s very frightening to me.
Fisher Sand and Gravel from NorthDaf*******gkota will build part of the wall on the southern border? I have no words.
I know, CIRD. And on the extra, double, super duper, express cheap. Smugglers won’t need $100 saws to cut through it. An energetic shove will topple whatever Fisher builds.
I think I saw a headline that indicated that the new ultra-super-conservative lady judge had been confirmed. I suppose we can thank tweeedledee and tweedledum for their part in that. I am so afraid for the US of A. I have never been afraid before. Sarah Pitlyk.
There is always something to fear, Robin. However, we know that god will take care of everything. After all, isn’t being in the presence of our lord the aim of our existence? We should exalt in the probability that we shall die soon.
Robin, “I have never been afraid before.”
Me too. Millions of Americans feel the same.
Here come da judge: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/a-new-federal-judge-appointed-by-trump-has-fought-against-abortion-fertility-treatments-and-surrogacy/?fbclid=IwAR0BcxECvqfdz-0vnl0PR2iWT514oGxwjhK9MgCW-3wyrAh7LpjY6Zyp7hA
Deb, I have been afraid, I have been disappointed, I have despaired. I have never been so freaking afraid for my country. And our people and our kids and their kids. Freaking stupid voters. And those who couldn’t be bothered to vote. I don’t think I share Cory’s optimism that DJT will be gone soon. I will be delighted out of my mind if I find I’m wrong. I have thought all along that we, as a whole, were smarter than that.
CIRD, I don’t even know if you’re joking or not. But it doesn’t matter. It’s not taking.
I am dead serious.
Thank you CIRD, but I have been a non-believer for many decades. And yes, I certainly don’t have many years left on this Earth. But I am not afraid for myself. And it doesn’t do my kids and grandkids any good if I say, oh, it’s ok because I won’t be here long, I’ll be ok. I don’t expect any Heaven to be there for me or anywhere else either, but I despair for my country and my kids. I’ll be ok, but I don’t have the same confidence for them.
Laurence Tribe just said “we can’t wait for the next election. We don’t have the time. It’s too dangerous to wait for the next election.”
I knew he was gonna be bad. But I never imagined how bad.
Robin, it’s okay. The lord will provide a haven for those who are sent to the ovens.
Whoa, good grief, CIRD. You’re either very kind (though not very convincing) or . . .well, at least you made me laugh. Not that there’s anything funny about ovens.
Robin, I didn’t think he’d be this bad either.
I too think about the generations following us Boomers. I feel like I don’t need to worry about myself because I’m 66 years old. I’m much closer to the end of my life than the beginning. I’ve had a pretty good life, mostly due to the generations that preceded me. I believe it’s my duty to do everything I can to do the same. I feel very guilty about what may be an abysmal failure.
What probably confounds me the most, is how the GOP leadership and Raving Ranter supporters can look their children in the eyes? By their deliberate actions they are condemning their progeny to a life of poverty on a minimally habitable planet. That is complete and true insanity.
Their only hope is us. We are not giving up.
I haven’t had a good night’s sleep since this idiot was elected.
He’s a liar, a scoundrel and yea, a poltroon.
The list goes on and on.
Our “representatives” know not neither the meaning of truth, fact or the sancticity of the oath they pretended to take when assuming their sacred office.
I’m not sure whether we deserve them or if they deserve us.
He’s horrible, but he’s a symptom so we’re better off looking at the dynamics. Congress has been failing for some time now. They don’t get to know each other, won’t sit with each other, they fly home, they’re worried about social media and the press. Van Drew thinks it’s his job to bring home the bacon rather than make good decisions for the whole country this is a problem that even the best President can’t solve. Trump is a reflection as much as being a problem in his own right.
I agree with happy camper. Congress is a failed institution, but that’s been true for decades. It’s probably why 35-45% of the population actually supports the dictator in the White House. The Germans had similar numbers support Hitler, mostly because the Weimar Republic was so dysfunctional. We have rarely seen a Congress that works like it’s supposed to. If Congress actually worked, Trump would be impeached and removed in a nanosecond long ago, and the nightmare would be over. Oversight of the Presidency is job one under the Constitution, and this President has simply refused to do what the Constitution requires. That shouldn’t be tolerated for one second. He should have been gone long ago.
Congress is made up largely of ciphers and cowards. The most cowardly are the Republicans, who genuflect to Dear Leader and pick up their paycheck. That’s all they do. They might as well be eunuchs in the Roman Empire down on their knees and bobbing their heads.
We have a mentally ill President, Guiliani in Ukraine yet again, a Cabinet that reminds me of the inmates in the play Marat/Sade, but we’ve got one party in one house of Congress trying to keep the country from descending into tyranny, and much of the judiciary holding the would-be tyrant from his most heinous acts. I’m hopeful they can succeed.
The Democrats seem to be conducting themselves fairly on impeachment but they were given a goal post a mile wide to win the Presidency and just might lose. It was a no brainer to bring forth a moderate candidate with mass appeal. I know wealthy Republicans who would have supported that person but recently said they will vote for Trump before Warren or anyone too far to the left. I had a cow cause Trump was given a chance but showed his true colors. Then again Warren, Sanders, and their supporters were and are selfish to pursue the election when they are out of touch with mainstream American values. The Constitution isn’t keeping up with modern times (maybe we need term limits or some other structural change) governing documents should be dynamic but Congress would have to an existential moment good luck with that. If this continues we seem just as likely to be heading down a path of breaking up the Republic. Who knows maybe that’s for the best.
And does our venerable grudznick also believe his preferred president is clean of the same high crimes and misdemeanors of President Trump? Remember, it’s the cover up that gets you.
Unlike the FBI coverup in the Kavernmouth investigation for the Senate, you know where they wouldn’t release the report, they just said he did stuff years ago they didn’t think would have any bearing on his justice work. I’m guessing he got s#$$ face drunk and assaulted women, but that is beside the point. Dems have left no report unreleased. All evidence is out there for everyone to read.
Wingnuts have said from the beginning there is no there there so having them ignore the reality and seriousness of drumpf’s criminal activities is not that far fetched. We also can tell one party takes their constitutional duties seriously while wingnuts would rather mock and impede the process. You call that obstruction of justice.
How can “conservatives” support Trump? look no further than to the “logic” presented above by Mr. grudznick. (Paraphrasing) “Trump is bad – very bad – but not as bad as my FANTASY about the unelected Mrs. Clinton.” Their support is really all about self-justifying their FANTASIES. They prefer to rely on FANTASY to reality as justification for their support of provably HORRIBLE “conservative” leadership and policies. (Trickle-down, small government BS).
Like the grudz – the happy camper exposes the degree to which PUNDITRY (and yes Mr./Ms. camper – in that statement above you are fully engaged in the rhetoric of the of political pundit class) also relies on FANTASIES to explain what works and what doesn’t in regard to policies and politics. It is all couched in “horse race” analysis – and not in what policies actually WORK for the people. It is all about “the race” to “leadership” and “victory”. What a HORRIBLE path to make decisions on how to GOVERN.
The moderates keep the Republic united. That ain’t Warren and that ain’t Pence. Trump stands for nothing but Pence is a wet dream for the far right. I’ve always supported moderate policies that basically unite. Boring moderate policies that work. Of course they don’t sell here, but they sell to voters if you want to win an election someday.
The view that Donald and happy are expressing about “Congress” is interesting and puzzling.
First, Congress is made up of 435 House seats and 100 Senate seats. It seems a stretch to think that Donald or happy would contend that all 535 of these individuals think or act in a uniform way. (see e.g., Donald’s qualifier that Congress is only “largely made up” of a particular type of person). Thus, the objections expressed by Donald and happy must be about the actual institution of Congress as set forth in Article I of the U.S. Constitution. This suggests Donald and happy don’t hold individual members of Congress and the voters who choose them accountable since the problem is with the institution of “Congress” rather than with any particular member or members.
I am not sure I understand, however, what Donald and happy contend to be the flaw or flaws in Article I. For example, the idea of adding “term limits” to Article I merely points the finger back at individual members of Congress. It seems to be premised on the theory that the lack of term limits induces bad decisions by individual members. Yet Donald and happy don’t explain how or why term limited members would change their philosophies, greed, or morals merely because they had less time to institute mischief.
What is the best answer – a new Constitution? No formal government? – anarchy? Complaining about “Congress” without solutions sounds a bit like sour grapes because a majority of members of Congress, rather than Congress as an institution, or a majority of voters, have acted in a manner that Donald and happy find objectionable. While personally I tend to agree with these objections I am hard pressed to blame “Congress” or deficiencies in Article I for the dilemma. Instead, the problem seems to be a result of living in a democracy, which Winston Churchill once described as:
They would have less time BCB to become embedded like Graham, McConnell, and Pelosi. Granted too short a term allows the bureaucracy to become overly strong but in the early days legislators spent more time in Washington mixing socially, sitting beside one another, talking with one another. Yes, there was animous, but not like today for reasons of modernity (immediate communication, bla bla bla). So I did give a possible solution besides expressing the concern. I’m not sayin it’s the right or best answer but it would help keep power more evenly distributed. And by the way Congress approval ratings are at all-time historic lows so this is not just a couple of whiners on DFP. Long-time members say it’s the worst it’s ever been, they are leaving Congress, the ones most willing to run will be partisan as it happening right now.
Term limits seems more a restriction on voters than a restriction on members of Congrees. No member of Congress can become “embedded” absent voter support. And as I pointed out it seem unrealistic to think that an individual would change a moral stance or political viewpoint just because of term limits.
Complaints about members of Congress no longer mixing socially seems off in two ways. Factually, it seems more a supposition that reality based. I have seen some individual complaints by some members of Congress, but no evidence that all or other members do not mix socially. Thus, this criticism only seems valid if directed toward some particular individuals who might decline to mix socially with other members. And that leads to the second problem – “mixing socially” is more a personal preference rather than an institutional requirement. Hence complaints about a failure of any members to mix socially seems to have no connection to an Article I deficiency.
Like happy camper, I don’t know if term limits are a total solution. I’ve supported them as a prophylactic measure. They did work to get rid of the fossils in continual leadership in the South Dakota legislature, but they haven’t really improved that institution that much. One thing you can say is the worst of the legislature hangs around less time, but you also lose the best. I still think getting rid of fossilized leadership makes term limits a net plus, but barely. The negatives are you get some legislators with ambition and little to back it up, and a lot of legislators who are nothing but ciphers.
There is something about the institution of Congress that is broken, and I mean beside the gerrymandering. It is supposed to be hard to make big change in our system. There are checks and balances all over the Constitution, which is why someone like Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders would never get Medicare For All into law. But add to that all these fake “rules,” like the Hasstert rule and the filibuster, which are just excuses for not trying to make some deals on issues that would move things forward. All these fake rules need to go. Do the goddam work to make things better, or get the hell out of Dodge.
Also, I think the US Senate is an extremely undemocratic body. It’s a relic of what I call “the slave Constitution,” the undemocratic institutions in our Constitution that were there to protect the institution of slavery. Let’s cleanse the Constitution of that sin. I’d like to see a US Senate districted without respect to state lines, and based on one-person one vote.
“Honest Don” tipped his hand and gave us a tell into his psyche, yesterday. World leaders mocked him and talked behind his back (while he was in the same room) and Honest Don got mad and went home. There we have it. The way to get to the bully is to disrespect him. He hates that. He didn’t used to but apparently he’s become enamored with being treated special. That’s often the first cobblestone on the way down the path of dispair.
Once he’s impeached it will drive him over the top if America shuns and ignores his act and does the same to those who support him. Persona non grata. An unacceptable and unwelcome person. He’ll soon grow tired of those who fawn over him and have proclaimed him “Our Savior” and “God’s Chosen One”, as will those who mostly support him just to be contrary to our sensibilities.
It will be easy for me to not let his name cross my lips or keyboard. If you’ve noticed the far right has already begun to silence themselves and stop lying to defend the guilty cuss. Impeachment will sink his stink!
Some tension relieving, very witty snark on the G7 Summit from our best buds at the Guardian:
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BCB, long term legislators get the most powerful appointments, get the most connections over time, and if their constituency is getting the bacon they will keep getting elected, so in that way they do get imbedded. It won’t change them individually but they would be there a limited amount of time and then get some new blood. We have term limits on the Presidency which is a restriction on voters, but there is a downside as Donald points out. I can’t give you a specific link but I have read many times from various sources how Congress was once much more functional because they got to know one another. I have no direct understanding only from what I’ve read by historians and people leaving government which seems to explain what is happening right now. Trump has to go but we don’t simply want a different Trump over and over. In my opinion, the fourth check and balance should be a referendum. Possibly. As Donald said the system is not supposed to be too easy to change, but we now have a more educated population (loosely speaking) than when the Constitution was written. It’s allowed at the local and state level, so why not at a national level?
Rick Wilson is a self-described “old school Republican operative.” He’s been at it for years and he finds Dorky Dictator completely deplorable. Wilson believes he’s destroyed the GOP, with the willing participation of those now in Congress.
“I don’t think the party has any shot at recovering from Trump. I think someday there will again be a center-right economic and individual liberty conservative party again. But I don’t think it’ll have a Republican brand.”
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Wilsons recorded interview in the LA times link was a good one. This Atlantic article attempts to explain why dynamics have changed and things are so polarized because reforms of the last 40 years while well intentioned have removed the glue that pulled both parties toward the middle. Today superpacs have the power so party selection of candiates is less meaningful, and what he calls middlemen, or professional politicians have been sidelined. The private smoke-filled rooms that got things done can’t take place he quotes Daschle from City of Rivals “The lack of opportunities for honest dialogue and creative give-and-take lies at the root of today’s dysfunction.” Pork barrel spending he argues greased the wheels without earmarks extremists can now get elected without party support like sociopaths Cruz and Trump (this was written before the election was over). He also notes eliminating state legistatures electing the Senate and a functioning electoral college are two changes that also would have thwarted the extremists.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/how-american-politics-went-insane/485570/
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/HCM%20FINAL%20v.3.pdf
Impeachment staff report on grounds for impeachment released today 12/7/2019 by majority staff.
Let’s imagine a Democrat was president, and had committed the crimes that Trump has. Would Democrats vote to impeach and convict him? I believe most would.
Bemoan Congress?! Come on, this thing went south because Republicans have always sought to win rather than mutually govern. Republican leadership. Beohner, then McConnell. Gingrich. It goes way back. Goldwater 1964 days. Wealth. Think tanks. The Koch Bros power. Rupert Murdoch. Roger Ailes. Light weights like Bush II/Cheney. Palin. Bush I’s VP. “Limited government” is code for billionaires. Union killers. Monopolizing corporations. Bob Mercer. Sinclair communications soon to out fox Faux news. Look at tiny SD. We are legislating world crisis style tax havens fer christsakes. They nominated and elected an idiot “billionaire” renowed for his gold festooned toilets. Our governor learned to fly twin engines on the taxpayers time, was so stupid and greedy after 2 terms directly dealing with USACOE that he built his home on the river’s edge, and obstructed law enforcement EB5 investigations which churned thru $600M. Republicans shielded him and elected him senator. They could give a sheit about our constitutional democratic republic. They just get personally rich from self dealing while in power. At our expense. We pay for EVERY abuse of power. Lawrence Tribe should be listened to!
Pelosi today showed that she is playing the political game at a level President Trump is not. Along with the two articles of impeachment came that announcement of a House agreement on the North American Trade pact. This dismisses the President’s (and his backers’) contention that impeachment action chokes off other action. It also places focus again on “Grim Reaper” McConnell’s Seante — where progress goes to die. Last week, after quipping that impeachment doesn’t feed hungry kids, it was pointed out to the GOP that cutting SNAP benefits does not feed kids.
I would expect this tactic to continue: House impeachment progress hand-in-hand with legislative progress.
Sorry GOP, you are running out of (rhetorical) places to hide. Time to talk issues.
Marlboro Barbie and other sinators are concerned the potus allowed the new trade agreement to get moved too far to the left to suit wingnuts tastes. They are now in the position of accepting a deal they don’t like or being accused of stalling it to hurt farmers moar.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/473762-gop-senators-worry-trump-made-problematic-concessions-in-trade-deal
Them dang ole do nothing Dems have passed over 400 bills and wingnuts in the sinate are holding most of them hostage.
ps drumpf is still sitting on Puerto Rico hurricane relief a couple years after the fact. I guess he wants PR to investigate the Bidens, too.
It is official, Moscow Mitch says sinate won’t take up up new Nafta deal until after the New Year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/12/11/usmca-trade-deal-mexico-canada-strikingly-similar-nafta/2635063001/
New NAFTA looks similar to old one drumpf declared was worst trade deal ever.
Let’s see what Conservatives say about Chubby’s impeachment. I’m sure they will be like our fakey conservatives here in South Dakota… Let’s see.
“The president’s abuse of power is not in dispute. It is clear that he used the powers of his office in an attempt to extract a corrupt favor for his personal benefit, and this is precisely the sort of offense that impeachment was designed to keep in check. It doesn’t matter if the attempt succeeded. All that matters is that the attempt was made. It is also undeniable that he has sought to impede the investigation into his misconduct. The president has committed the offenses he is accused of committing, and the House should approve both articles of impeachment.” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/the-case-for-impeachment-is-overwhelming/?fbclid=IwAR1TNwVHzepUzAUODRMxyGXvAdLsEVJrEXTtX0sKJHGs7A58Qn1XrNMXDzI
Whoops, dang it. Real conservatives are for Democracy and not for a monarchy, who would’ve thunk it. Chubby is a criminal and those who aid and abet him are just as guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.
but Marlboro Barbie hopes the vote to impeach fails so he won’t be forced to vote one way or another on record. One moar example of wingnuts not wanting to due their duty to the constitution of these hear divided states.
Moscow Mitch McCTurtleface does not want to have to call any witnesses for either side because that would prolong the process.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/bill-barrs-lies-are-treasonous/
Editorial from Raw Story speaks truth to power and back again.
drumpf family knew and hired Christopher Steele years before he got hired by Fusiion GPS.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/ivanka-trump-met-christopher-steele-to-find-appropriate-business-partners-in-russia-and-china-report/
Marlboro Barbie’s quid pro quo. Impeach him!
But Republicans are ready to get tough: Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), McConnell’s top deputy, says if Democrats agree to confirm the judges quickly, they’ll get their judicial picks in blue states like Connecticut, Illinois and New York, the home state of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. But if Democrats resist, all bets are off.
“It depends on whether or not the Democrats want to play ball,” Thune said. “Their judges, we can get them all done if they’re willing to do a package. If they aren’t, we’ll kind of try to do them the old-fashioned way.” That would mean a marathon series of votes on GOP nominees with judges backed by Democrats sidelined.
EB5 Rounds, Fly Speck Johnny, along with Dirty Johnson, got their quid pro quo in the Defense Bill. These boys know how to take a bribe when they see it. Not much for the state itself, but boy, those special interest thingys got their back scratched.
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/12/republicans-admit-it-senate-impeachment-trial-of-trump-will-be-a-total-sham/
This process is and has been rigged to save drumpf’s ass from the very beginning. Wingnuts should pay a heavy, heavy price at the polls next year for dissing their constitutional duty to hold a serious and formal impeachment trial based on charges delivered by congress.
Pelosi was rushed into impeachment by the people demanding the House hurry up with it. She wanted to do it differently. She wanted to indict, try and convict him in criminal court of the crimes he’s committed and see him behind bars. She wanted to hold out until she (and we) had the evidence all wrapped up in a ball. She said this herself. But for her purposes, the Mueller report was a dud. Then Trump blundered into the Ukraine scandal and put the capper on it. Sadly, the demand from the people and the media has forced her to surrender to the will of the people. And it’s not going to work in our favor this time because it will not rid us of Trump.
I believe drumpf can still be indicted once he leaves the kremlin annex, if he leaves it. You didn’t figure wingnuts would play fair during this impeachment mess?
Moscow Mitch McCTurtlefartface is bragging how he has successfully filled all circuit courts with 50 right wing ideologues and is set to start stuffing the district courts with lifetime appointee, unqualified ideologues in the next year.
Moscow Mitch needs to be removed from congress.
mfi, there is one factor that might make life difficult for Senate Republican Trump syncophants. Our Constitution places Chief Justice John Roberts in charge of the impeachment trial.
U.S. Constitution, Art. I, section 3.
Whether Roberts will allow himself to become a McConnell manipulated Trump tool or fulfill this constitutional duty in good faith is an important question that will reflect not only on his personal legacy but the legacy of the SCOTUS under his leadership. My suspicious is that he will take the duty seriously and try to fulfill it relatively fairly and with as little obvious bias as possible, despite the danger of being the subject of a few derogatory tweets from Trump.
I may be wrong, but I have far more respect for Roberts than I do for McConnell. I know Roberts is conservative, but McConnell is an out-and-out crook. I am hoping Roberts will turn out to be our swing vote, at least once in a while. Yeah, could be wishful thinking.
Roberts? Maybe, but, I am not holding what little breath I got. From what I have been reading from all over, wingnuts appear to believe Roberts won’t be a hindrance. I hope they are wrong. Some right winger somewhere has to take their constitutional duties seriously, for once.
drumpf’s kremlin annex and Moscow Mitch are apparently colluding on impeachment.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/trump-white-house-already-scripting-how-impeachment-trial-will-play-out-wh-counsel-just-walked-into-mcconnells-office/
Moscow Mitch has made this deministration and the US Senate a sham from the beginning. I hold him more responsible for this entire debacle most of all because he’s been setting this up for years and because he is sane, just hideously cruel, greedy and sociopathic. Demented Donny and his dimwitted progeny could have never pulled this destruction off by themselves. Moscow Mitch was actually the operative piece.
(I need a new name that …. senator.) 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
So he is, Debbo….. https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/experts-stunned-as-mitch-mcconnell-brags-hes-handing-control-of-impeachment-trial-to-trump/
Still no mention of John Roberts in impeachment trial. It is as if wingnuts have sidelined him and have no fear of what he might say or do.
House Judiciary just approved two counts for impeachment. Goes to floor of the House next week. Read last night where Trump and McConnell were strategizing head-to-head as to how they might carry the whole thing off in the Senate without calling any witnesses–ZERO witnesses. McConnell himself proudly said the Senate side would be a “sham”.
And in case that’s not bad enough news, Gov. Huckabee is noting his being a guest on some show tonight, topic being the case for Trump’s THIRD term. Huckabee (and others) claim Trump is entitled to extra terms as desired because the Dems tried so assiduously to terminate his time in the Oval Office.
I’m not so sure we will have an election in 2020, Robin, or any thereafter. I can see Trump maneuvering some way to be “President for Life.” Then we get either DJTJ or Ivanka as our tyrant.
If Trump can’t figure out a way to cheat to a win, he will find some reason to declare martial law and “postpone,” the election. I don’t think he has any intent to follow any part of the Constitution, or any laws or norms, especially not to give up power.
Yikes. I sincerely hope that’s just a bad dream, a nightmare hallucination on your part, Donald. I’ll have to hallucinate the opposite to stay on top of it in my own head, the opposite being that they all get indicted, charged, tried, convicted, imprisoned and forever ruined for money crimes or crimes against humanity.
Oh goodness, Trump can easily be voted out by a moderate. He gave that speech to the Israeli American Council and joked they were killers and that he didn’t like some of them very much, and also how people say he won’t respect Presidential law of two terms. He was criticized as using anti-Semitic tropes (around 26:30 of the full speech) at the end of the hour they were chanting 12 more years as a mock of the media but also to show how much they support him. The left better get a grip soon and get behind a candidate that can win simple as that.
You want your free college, your wealth tax, your universal health care look in the mirror you’re the enemy of getting Trump out of office. You could learn something from Britain but you won’t everybody will suffer so you can have your integrity entirely intact.
happy camper,
I think Trump can be voted out in a fair election. Off-year elections, as well as 2018 elections shows Trumpism is not popular. The problem is we are likely not going to get a free and fair election in 2020. Republicans see nothing wrong with Trump cheating with help from Russia, Ukraine and China, so he’s going to do it again, and the result is going to be similar to 2016, unless Trump cancels the election altogether, and declares himself Dear Leader.
I agree with you that someone more moderate may be the best route to getting rid of Trump, but Hillary was moderate and she lost. I don’t think it is all that clear. In Wisconsin, the latest poll shows the election is very tight no matter which Democrat faces off against Trump. It is mostly a referendum on Trump at this point, and it is not clear whether a leftist or a moderate would be better.
At Philadelphia rally, drumpf supporters were threatening to kill drumpf’s enemies. At least three wingnut senators have been named as targets for elimination if they vote to impach drumpf. Three more are on another list.
Wingnuts can’t run on drumpf’s record. He has accomplished nothing except run up massive amounts of debt and jacked up the deficits again and lie about it all.. The only people gaining are the wealthy.
So all wingnuts can do is demonize every Dem for every criminal act drumpf has committed. If Americans were sane, drumpf wouldn’t have a ghost of a chance of keeping his office, let alone getting re-putinized in 2020. If you have noticed it was Idaho wingnut sinator that blocked latest bill to protect elections from Russian interference. Aniother gift to Putin by trasitorous wingnuts.
MFI, when a leader says he could kill someone on Fifth Avenue and still be elected, it is a small step for the followers to think they have the same magical protection.
Contrary Camper has it all figured out. It’s not the racist, homophobe, Republican Trump supporters. It’ll be we moderate, compassionate Democrats at fault if he’s re-elected. That’s self loathing and most Dem’s don’t think that way.
Porter is right. The problem is not the Democrats or progressive positions. Bernie Sanders, a socialist, showed he could run a small city. Milwaukee was run by succession of socialist mayors during its heyday. Only when that string of socialist leaders ran out did Milwaukee start its decline. Today, a progressive mayor is in charge, and Milwaukee is on the rise again.
Still, I think happy camper has something of value to impart to Democrats. There are a good number of moderates and suburban Republicans (particularly women) who can’t stand Trump’s behavior, his corruption, his racism, many of his policies, his lack of morality and his feckless foreign policy. They want, most of all, to go back to normalcy. They want people to have health care, but they don’t want to give up their own good employer based coverage. They want more federal assistance for college, but not a huge new entitlement. They want tax reform, but not confiscation. So, no matter that I would prefer more radical positions, this is not the election that I’m going to insist on ideological purity. It’s way too important for that.
Camper may have a small point but he doesn’t have an audience. There’s zero reason for a South Dakota Democrat to be anything other that totally honest and above board in their political speech. There’s no reward for being Democrat, so why be manipulative and change your platform to win votes? The honor in being a Democrat in South Dakota is that incredible feeling of self worth and the self esteem that comes from voting the right way, no matter that it has no national or statewide impact. It’s the reward of not being like a nasty grudznick, Dan Lederman or Pat Powers and casting your vote to the idea of benefiting all the people. If you think a wealth tax, subsidized higher education, and national healthcare is what’s best for America shout it out loud and long. Let Republicans be sneaky and dishonest because outside this small pond state they mean nothing.
Even if we by some miracle, elected the most progressive person on the slate (I’m not sure if that’s Warren or Sanders), it would still be years, if ever, before any truly progressive legislation would be passed and put into effect by Congress. I don’t think we need to be afraid of a wealth tax or any sort of genuine, if moderate, wealth redistribution even with the most “progressive” (or “socialist” if you prefer) of administrations. Alarmism at its most spectacular.
People need a sense of stability that’s probably why so many Brits voted Conservative to get Brexit uncertainty settled (return to normalcy). People can’t keep pace with so much change it’s hard on everybody especially those down the ladder. Our discussions may seem only theoretical because the state is so Republican but Sutton almost won. Stay too far to the left and you’ll never win. It’s better when everyone compromises sadly Trump will be emboldened after the Senate dismisses his impeachment so maybe it was a mistake then again you never know if his behavior worsens he may become more vulnerable (to an electable candidate).
“House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Val Demings, a Florida Democrat, is demanding that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recuse himself from the Senate’s impeachment trial.
She accused McConnell of promising the White House to “sabotage” the trial. “No court in the country would allow a member of the jury to also serve as the accused’s defense attorney. The moment Senator McConnell takes the oath of impartiality required by the Constitution, he will be in violation of that oath,” she said in a statement. That’s in response to McConnell’s admission on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Thursday night that he would act on Trump’s behalf. “Everything I do during this, I’m coordinating with White House counsel,” he said. “There will be no difference between the president’s position and our position as to how to handle this.”
He would be in violation of his oath, as Demings pointed out, referencing Article 1, Section 3 of the Constitution which delineates “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation.” That oath, or affirmation, every senator will take says “that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of [President Trump], now pending, I will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: So help me God.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/13/1905474/-House-Democrat-starts-what-should-be-groundswell-demands-McConnell-recuse-himself-from-impeachment?detail=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0mBQKkxHvjJKYP6RCxnLTy76hl1l974bhYBlER3YP1g5lqCxl909XnzA0
But McConnell says he will absolutely “coordinate with the White House” on Trump’s impeachment. He indicated that there would be “no space” between what the president wants and what he, McConnell, brings forth. In other words, he intends to repudiate his entire oath. He should be removed as a jurist, let alone jury foreman, which is what he is supposed to be. He’s supposed to TRY the case, not dismiss it from the get-go.
Wingnuts are going further right and it doesn’t seem to hurt them in the polls. We don’t have to become them to beat them. If we become them, then winning isn’t important.
No chance of that from this front, Mike, and I am usually able and willing to keep my cool, but when Mitch announces that he intends to subvert the Constitution and dismiss his own duties to side with the president against all reason and all obligations to the co-equal branches of democratic government, I call that treason.
I CALL THAT TREASON. So sue me.
I’m taking some meager consolation from the fact that Kentucky (barely) elected a Democrat governor. Could it be? Could it possibly be that some are seeing the light?
Outgoing Kentucky guv pardoned a murderer whose family held a fund raiser for blathering Blevins. Party of family values, indeed.
Mike is right, “We don’t have to become them to beat them. If we become them, then winning isn’t important.”
So is Robin. TREASON, indeed.
I am so grateful for you DFPers who believe this nation is worth saving from the GOP. You are one of my reality/sanity checks and supports. We can’t give up because ensuing generations deserve a chance at a democratic republic too. Americans who love our country and our constitution will never give up.
Much appreciated, Debbo. I know many people don’t like the fighting, and don’t want to participate. That’s ok. I don’t like fighting either. But my motto continues running a track in my head that says “Some Things Are Worth Fighting For”. Our country is one of them. If we don’t, who will?
From November 1st: “The poll showing that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the president’s most stolid defender, is down to a 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky. Only 37 percent in the Public Policy Poll said they would vote for him again next year.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/kentuckians-have-finally-had-about-enough-of-mitch-mcconnell
Other polls: Favorable Unfavorable
RCP Average 11/27 – 12/10 — 26.0 46.3
Economist/YouGov 12/7 – 12/10 32 51
Politico/Morning Consult 12/6 – 12/8 19 45
Harvard-Harris 11/27 – 11/29 27 43
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/mitch_mcconnell_favorableunfavorable-6672.html
Here is another wingnut that should be impeached immediately and removed from office for breaking the laws, of decency and comity, if nothing else.
https://the-immoral-minority.com/here-is-mitch-mcconnell-bragging-about-blocking-president-obama-from-filling-judicial-vacancies-for-two-years-so-that-trump-could-fill-them-when-he-took-office/
Good olde Moscow Mitch bragging about not doing his job.
Republican Conservatives, as opposed to the Russian GOP that holds sway in DC, have financed an ad campaign calling on Pootie’s Puppet to honor Congressional subpoenas. Huffington Post has the story:
The president doesn’t own the government and he’s not above the law,” Republicans for the Rule of Law spokesperson Chris Truax said in a statement to HuffPost. “He’s merely a caretaker acting on our behalf and when Congress demands an accounting, it’s the President’s duty to comply.”
“President Trump has been given every opportunity to answer the charges against him,” the statement continued. “He demands friendly witnesses, yet refuses to allow his most loyal supporters to testify. He complains the proceedings are unfair, yet refuses to allow his lawyers to participate in the hearings.”
“If President Trump really could prove he is innocent of the impeachment charges against him, he would have made some effort to do so by now,” Truax concluded. “If the President really does think the facts will exonerate him, why won’t he let those facts come out?”
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The Group is called Republicans for the Rule of Law.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/14/judge-trump-border-wall-obama-084540
Wingnuts passed a bill in 2013/14 to prohibit Obama from using funds from one area for a project in another area. A nefarious plan to stop Obama’s agenda.
Now a Texas judge, is using that same law and its words to prevent drumpf from shifting funds from defense and other areas to build a stoopid wall no one wants. I will bet wingnuts are howling in outrage. Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
A Salon article by Keith Spencer urges the Democratic Party to nominate a candidate on the Left, like Warren or Sanders, because evidence he cites gives them a better chance of winning. It’s pretty compelling.
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Sounds like AG partisan as heck Barr is threatening DOJ officials not loyal to drumpf with losing their jobs. Wingnuts are not even pretending to be impartial in impeachment proceedings. Upstate N US attorney hand picked by partisan Barr to run a partisan inquisition against any findings in IG report they decided beforehand were wrong.
Not only are none of the alleged impartial wingnut senators not impartial, they are openly lying about findings of IG report, just like drumpf and Fake Noize. How do sane, normal people combat the bulloney dished everyday all day at them?
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/12/support-impeachment-hits-54-percent-fox
According to Fake Noize poll today, 54% approve of impeachment.
From RawStory….. Screwdy Rudy can’t keep his pucking mouth shut.
Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has undermined President Donald Trump’s defense in the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry — again.
In an interview with The New Yorker, Giuliani admitted that he got former American ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch fired so that he could more easily pursue his efforts to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I believed that I needed Yovanovitch out of the way,” he said. “She was going to make the investigations difficult for everybody.”
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Giuliani also admitted that he recruited former Hill columnist John Solomon to help him spread negative information about Yovanovitch.
So I think Solomon has lied to investigators now, as well.
Chubby, EB5 Rounds and Fly Speck Johnny do not believe in laws. Here is the latest flaunting of protection laws…our meat. Now the packers will inspect it on their own, without federal inspectors. Kind of like Boeing saying their 737 Max was air worthy..until they crashed and killed.https://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2019/12/sure-lets-have-meat-packers-inspect
Ranchers are gonna take a hit on this as people don’t want to get the salmonella any worse than is already out there. Why not eat fake meat, it will be safer…and inspected.
According to Lawrence Tribe, Dems have a way to at least force the Senate into some semblance of a fair trial and outlines it here….
https://www.salon.com/2019/12/16/mitch-mcconnell-wants-a-show-trial-but-democrats-dont-have-to-give-him-one/
That was very interesting and important Mike. Lawrence Tribe is a very smart person and loyal American. It will be interesting to see if Madam Speaker Pelosi follows his suggestion.
Still can’t get to Baumeister’s post. 404
The Russian GOP doesn’t have any reason for existence beyond hatred of Democrats. Their policies, such as they are, are consistently unpopular or flops. Trickle down doesn’t. The electorate votes down anti-choice laws. They can’t manage a budget. Start pointless and horrible wars. Don’t know how to manage trade.
The Russian GOP really only has one thing keeping their nostrils just barely, barely above water–
“Right-wing policy ideas have been so thoroughly discredited—does anyone even argue anymore that trickle-down economics will ensure mass prosperity?—that the only apparent reason for conservatism’s existence is to fight back against evil liberals. This is, of course, not the sign of a healthy political movement. The right’s support for McCarthy has been a long-standing embarrassment for American conservatism. Its embrace of Trump may be history repeating itself.”
That comes from David A. Walsh in the Washington Monthly. He traces the history of this complete breakdown in what was once the USA’s conservative party to Joseph McCarthy’s red scare. It’s a very good read well worth your time.
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Al Franken nails McCTurtlefartface as only a comedian could…..
Al Franken mocks McConnell: ‘Like listening to Jeffrey Dahmer complain about the decline of dinner party etiquette’
Not sure how this is classified, irony or what, but, Maria Butina scolded drumpf for his callous remarks about the late John Dingell of Michigan. Looking for the link.
Here i a funny….. Harvard Law School is practically begging students to clerk for four of drumpf’s unqualified lifetime appointees and can’t get any takers. The students don’t want to be associated with anti-LGBTQ, right wing ideologues.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/harvard-law-begs-students-to-work-for-trumps-judges-but-there-are-no-takers-report/
Whatever Trump is, he is a phenomenon. Therefore, it will take a phenomenon to beat him. Sorry to say, Uncle Joe is dear, but he is not a phenomenon. It will take a wave.
drumpf’s troubles in a nutshell. Must watch short video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOjYsKqaSVM&feature=youtu.be
Good video, Mike. That President who shall remain nameless, has racked up a string of crimes.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Thanks Mike!
What has drumpf done for race relations? In iowa, apparently plenty….. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/a-woman-who-allegedly-ran-over-a-teenager-because-she-was-a
white woman ran over a 14 yer old girl because she was Mexican and earlier she ran over a 12 year old Black boy. Later she was arrested for racial slurs at a gas station.
Both accidents were hit and run. I can’t say for sure, but this witch sounds like a magat hat wearing drumpfian of the first order and probably expects a pardon.
It’s getting worse and worse for Impeached Impotus. From National Memo:
The daily tracking poll from Microsoft News published Wednesday asked respondents if they “support or oppose the Senate voting to remove President from office?” It found that while 55 percent of people support only 40 percent oppose—a dramatic surge for those backing Trump’s ouster and a record for the poll that has been asking that same question since late September of this year.
“Notable in the responses was the dramatic swing since the poll was taken just one week ago, when 48 percent were in favor and 47 percent opposed.
“A HuffPost-YouGov poll taken just prior to the Christmas holiday (Dec. 20-22), showed 47 percent in favor of the Senate voting to convict Trump compared to 42 percent who opposed. Just days earlier, a Morning Consult-Politico poll showed slightly higher numbers in favor of removing Trump, with 51 percent supporting and 42 percent opposed.”
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Glub, glub. Picking up speed as he circles the drain. His particular sewer pipe empties into prison.
John Solomon is one of the leading right wing snakes lying to USA citizens. He’s also now employed by Faux Noize and beloved of Hannity, as well as being Jue-lee-ahh-kne’s pal. Solomon is in the middle of Impeached Impotus’ crimes. National Memo has the down and dirty and Solomon is very, very dirty.
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This gentleman has some encouraging thoughts on preserving the republic:
Groundwork for a Constitutional revision
Jack Rakove is a professor of history and political science, emeritus, at Stanford University.
The decade of the 2010s placed the American constitutional system under the greatest stress it had known since the New Deal crisis of the 1930s. President Donald Trump demonstrated that he felt none of the “veneration” (to quote James Madison’s 49th Federalist paper) required to sustain the norms of constitutional governance. Worse still, however, was the behavior of the Senate and the Supreme Court. Under Republican control, the Senate blithely ignored the well-documented charges under which the House of Representatives had impeached Trump. For its part, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court fulfilled its long-frustrated agenda: In two leading decisions in June 2020, it gutted the Affordable Care Act and authorized individual states to impose severe limits on the right to choice secured in the 1974 decision in Roe v. Wade.
The events of the 2010s thus set the stage for the Great Constitutional Revision of 2024. Although Joe Biden defeated Trump in the 2020 election, Republicans held on to the Senate and the Supreme Court retained its conservative majority. With the national government in a state of near paralysis, a coalition of blue states coalesced to demand a constitutional convention. A phalanx of 18 solidly red states, representing less than a fifth of the nation’s population, quickly rejected this proposal, keeping it two states shy of the two-thirds margin that Article V of the Constitution required. Invoking the precedent set in 1787, when the first Constitutional Convention threw out the amendment rules laid down in the Articles of Confederation, the blue states insisted that the meeting must be held. Rather than side with the smaller bloc of solidly red states, the now hotly contested states of Texas and Florida sent delegations to the Chicago convention. The dominant theme of the Convention was to make constitutional decision-making directly responsive to the one person, one vote standard. That was also how votes were allocated in the Convention itself. The resulting deliberations led to a radically revised Constitution. Among other changes, the president would now be elected by a single nation-wide popular vote. The House of Representatives was enlarged to 600 members, with all its districts designed by an AI process to be as competitive as possible. The Senate became an advisory body that could no longer vote down legislation enacted by the House, and senators were now elected on a regional basis, rather than by individual states. The Supreme Court was enlarged to 15 justices, who would serve 18-year terms on a staggered basis. When the bloc of small red states balked at ratifying the results, they were told they could form their own separate confederacy. A few months of considering how costly it would be to sustain their states government without the financial support of the far more economically productive blue states quickly led them to abandon their position.
Trump’s one inadvertent contribution to American history was to make these changes possible.
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Politico has an article entitled “How Will History Books Remember the 2010s?” 23 historians wrote essays to answer that question and it’s quite interesting.
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Fascinating scenario, Debbo. Especially … “a radically revised Constitution”.
This isn’t court level evidence, but it’s an interesting “translation” of Inept Impotus’ ranting letter to Madam Speaker Pelosi.
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This is interesting, also from noted psychiatric expert, Dr. Bandy of Yale.
“Shared psychosis” is a phenomenon which happens in households or in nations when a sick person goes untreated and healthy members are in close contact. Rather than the sick person getting better, the otherwise healthy people take on symptoms of the sick person, as if they had the sickness themselves. It is a very dramatic phenomenon that equally dramatically disappears when you remove the sick person from contact or media exposure.
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That would explain some people who were thought to be reasonable, but quickly became trumpophants in DC. Hmmm. 🤔🤔
Bandy thinks Insane Impotus is at an extremely dangerous point. She says, “I am beginning to believe that a mental health hold, which we have tried to avoid, will become inevitable.”
Wow. The men in white coats with big nets are gonna come after him!
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The hits just keep on coming today.
“Tim O’Brien—who penned a 2005 biography about Donald Trump—said Sunday that the emerging raft of legal documents reveal that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was likely a ‘criminal conspiracy’ that commited ‘criminal acts.'”
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Whoa! Girls and boys, gather round and listen! Auntie Maxine is getting the goods on Insane Impotus:
According to The Hill, one of Trump’s biggest lenders, Deutsche Bank, has begun handing over records of its financial dealings with Trump and the Trump Organization to the House Financial Services Committee, which Waters chairs.
“When asked Tuesday at the Capitol if Deutsche Bank had started to hand over records of it financial relationship with Trump, Waters replied, ‘Yes.’
“The chairwoman also said she was satisfied with Deutsche Bank’s cooperation with the probe and that the Financial Services panel is looking into ‘everything’ regarding Trump’s dealings with the bank.”
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Bwahahahahaha!!!
Fantabulous undercover detecting, Debbo. Please feel free to take another aspersion, at your convenience. You know where to find it. :)
ps it be raining.
Solomon earns his just rewards….. https://www.mediamatters.org/john-solomon/fox-contributor-and-giuliani-collaborator-john-solomon-2019-misinformer-year
Just named Misinformer of the Year.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/27/21039138/liberia-green-card-path-citizenship-ndaa
Already signed into law before the koyote kerfluffle from Fake Noize gets to whine about moar Dem voters.
Debbo, your Senator Smith is a co-responsible for this legislation. Kiss her for me, please.
Will do Mike. Lots of Liberians in Minnesota and Sen. Smith includes them in her very big tent.
These misfits have become domestic terrorists, in part due to Grimy Groper:
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It’s frightening to me.
Murderous Mongrel deliberately and intentionally abandoned the Kurds to Erdogan’s slaughter for his own $ gain.
In a “speech Bolton gave last month at a Morgan Stanley client conference where he admitted that Trump made national security decisions simply to benefit himself, especially in Turkey where he walked away from the Kurds to protect his hotels in Istanbul from Erdogan’s retaliation.”
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Just as an aside … If you want to know who voted in that President, who will remain nameless, just examine the advertisers on the Country Music Awards on AXStv. My, my. What a group of crooked, con artist, scamming flim flammers. You’ve got reverse mortgages, Life Lock VPN, personal injury shylocks, Up-Walkers, B-grade pro wrestlers, annuity structured settlement payoffs, and term life insurance peddlers. WOW!
It’s a great show with superb country music but the audience demographics are a telling story of that “other” 40% of voters. Not real sharp cookies but they be all over that God and ‘Merica. They don’t “know” much but they “believe” that we libs embody the devil and we’re out to steal their freedom.
*The impeached con man is probably going to be re-elected so I’m taking all the cheap shots I can, while I still have the chance. ツ
Ps … I made a concerted effort to post less on DFP and am glad to see I moved down to the third level of frequency. I can still do less and that’s my goal. ツ