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Post by cliffs on Nov 7, 2019 11:32:56 GMT
Typical PAB...
1. There was no quid pro quo
2. Deny
3. Deny
4. Deny
5. Finally to... if there was quid pro quo, SO WHAT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 7, 2019 11:53:40 GMT
"The American people are fed up with Democrat lies, hoaxes, smears, slanders and scams. The Democrats' shameful conduct has created an angry majority. And that's what we are," Trump said. "We're a majority, and we're angry, that will vote the do-nothing Democrats out of office in 2020." news.yahoo.com/trump-turns-campaign-focus-louisiana-062100964.html |
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 8, 2019 20:50:28 GMT
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 8, 2019 22:22:13 GMT
Trumpie pulls his normal routine: suddenly, now that Sondland has testified there was a quid-pro-quo, Trump "barely knew" Sondland, his own EU Ambassador: TRump Changes Tune On His EU Ambassador
When only 2 months ago, Trumpie tweeted that Sondland was a "great guy, a great American."  |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 9, 2019 1:06:26 GMT
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, says that his Republican colleagues are increasingly nervous about President Trump’s conduct and privately describe him as “pretty crooked” and a liar — even if they are not yet ready to publicly break with him. “As more things come out … I see them sweating,” Brown said in an interview on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” “I hear Republican members of the Senate say things like, ‘We know he’s pretty crooked, he lies a lot, he’s a pretty bad guy.’ Some of them will say, ‘We know he’s a racist.’ But they are not saying it publicly.” news.yahoo.com/senate-republicans-are-sweating-over-impeachment-trial-ohios-sherrod-brown-says-140254116.html |
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 12, 2019 12:39:38 GMT
Trump Praises Veterans in NYC Amidst Massive Protests"On this supremely incongruous Veterans' Day, Cadet Bone Spurs crawled into New York City wearing a bulletproof vest to stand before a modest crowd in a bullet/sound/boo/chant/tomato/reality-proof booth - which some aptly likened to a hockey penalty box - to sniffle and garble his way through an empty, florid, boastful speech, written by a minion and dumbly read off a teleprompter, declaring “This nation is forever in your debt...You are the reason our hearts swell with pride, our foes tremble with fear, and our nation thrives in freedom” and extolling "the righteous might of the American military" from which he and his slimy daddy assiduously got him 5 - count 'em five - free passes in order to avoid his own particular ugly imperial war born of that alleged "righteous might." Shameless hypocrisy, thy name is. Even for Trump, it was a day of gob-smacking cognitive dissonance - this guy whose brothel-owning grandfather lost his German citizenship for evading the draft, whose KKK-belonging father paid some quack to invent bone spurs to keep his unvalorous offspring from Vietnam, whose party to date has blocked, thanks to Moscow Mitch's graveyard, 56 bills passed by the House aimed at helping veterans, including bills addressing homeless veteran families, economic opportunity, suicide prevention, health care transparency and counseling services. Trump himself, through his longstanding use-'em-and-toss-'em practice of exploiting veterans as political props, has sparked a massive Veterans Against Trump movement, likely starting with that time he stole almost three million dollars from a bogus veterans' charity event aimed at helping veterans "who have been treated so horribly by our all talk, no action politicians" just to avoid a GOP debate with Megyn Kelly, buy a smirking painting of himself, and cover more chairs in fake gold. He's also done this: purloined millions more from veterans benefits to build his racist wall and buy more super-cool missiles; trash-talked Gold Star families and renowned combat veterans hapless enough to get captured and tortured in the war he happily skipped; blocked on Twitter the 550,000 members of VoteVets because some disagree with him - and maybe because, as of Monday, they've started a campaign declaring him a national security threat; sucked up to war criminals and North Korean generals; spent over a decade harassing New York pols to ban street vendors including many disabled veterans from selling their "deplorable" wares near his 5th Avenue gold palace "on this most important and prestigious shopping street,” even putting planters out front to ward off unsightly vet vendors, homeless and other "horrors" ruining "the beautiful ambience of the space which everyone loves so much”; skipped Armistice and Arlington events because his hair; possibly just fired or maybe didn't a decorated, truth-telling veteran for naming his treasonous misdeeds; and once evicted a veteran for having a small therapy dog. So it was that, on Monday, he faced boos, whistle-blowing, protests by VetsVsHate, "chants of "Lock Him Up," "Traitor" and "New York Hates You," and huge signs in buildings facing him that read "IMPEACH" and "CONVICT." The bit of sweet justice facing our miscreant-in-chief was indeed welcome. But despite it, notes veteran, activist and former West Point prof Danny Sjursen, a new generation of young people continues to head off to America's hopeless, endless, illegal, obscenely-profitable-to-a-few-arms-makers global misadventures, still "carrying water for empire." He recalls facing his last class, realizing they, as he once did, believe they are "serving" their country, and breaking down. "My greatest fear, I said, was that their budding young lives might closely track my own journey of disillusionment, emotional trauma, divorce and moral injury. The thought that they would soon serve in the same pointless, horrifying wars, I told them, made me want to puke in a trash bin," he writes. And today, "My nightmare has come true."
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 12, 2019 16:17:03 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Nov 13, 2019 10:36:33 GMT
The president’s television defenders will continue to press the idea that the process has been unfair and argue that Democrats are focusing on impeachment at the expense of other legislative priorities, said an administration official. “I think it is kind of hard to say this is what you are pursuing instead of lowering my drug prices, instead of getting legislation done to help our infrastructure, instead of passing trade deals,” Marc Short, chief of staff to the vice president, said on Fox Business News Tuesday morning. A combative Trump and his White House brace for first public impeachment hearings
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Post by cliffs on Nov 13, 2019 12:13:42 GMT
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 13, 2019 14:31:46 GMT
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Post by ErixonStone on Nov 13, 2019 14:37:09 GMT
The president’s television defenders will continue to press the idea that the process has been unfair and argue that Democrats are focusing on impeachment at the expense of other legislative priorities, said an administration official. “I think it is kind of hard to say this is what you are pursuing instead of lowering my drug prices, instead of getting legislation done to help our infrastructure, instead of passing trade deals,” Marc Short, chief of staff to the vice president, said on Fox Business News Tuesday morning. A combative Trump and his White House brace for first public impeachment hearings
Let's ignore the fact that the House has passed over 200 bills since this session opened in January 2019, and they've almost all been sitting on McConnell's desk as he boasts that he's the "Grim Reaper" of legislation. |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 14, 2019 2:04:51 GMT
The impeachment hearings had an unexpected guest — drag queen Pissi Myles Pissi Myles, right, a special contributor with Happs News, goes through security, Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as she arrives for the first public impeachment hearings. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)  |
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Post by cliffs on Nov 14, 2019 11:28:14 GMT
This should be under the humor thread but it is about impeachment so enjoy.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) was dealt an obvious burn by Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) during the first public impeachment hearing when Jordan declared that Congress would “never get a chance” to question “the guy who started it all.”
The Republican congressman was referring to the anonymous whistleblower whose complaint prompted the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into President Donald Trump’s attempt to leverage millions in military aid to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden. But as Welch was quick to point out, Jordan had failed to acknowledge the real origin of the investigation.
“There is one witness, one witness, that they won’t bring in front of us, they won’t bring in front of the American people,” Jordan said on Wednesday. “That’s the guy who started it all, the whistleblower.”
“Thank you, I say to my colleague, I’d be glad to have the person who started it all come in and testify,” Welch swiftly replied. “President Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.”
Welch’s comment was met with laughter throughout the hearing room.
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Post by cliffs on Nov 14, 2019 11:42:26 GMT
Now this is scary - Could President Trump be impeached and removed from office — but still reelected?But there’s a little-known constitutional rule that would allow Trump to be reelected and essentially hold office again if he were impeached, convicted and removed from office. “If the president were convicted, but either the Senate decided not to hold a disqualification vote, or the disqualification vote failed, in theory the president could run again,” says Bowman. The specific section of the Constitution Bowman is referring to is Article I, Section 3, Clause 7, which states: “Judgment in Cases of Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States.” |
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Post by gregfordyce on Nov 14, 2019 21:53:52 GMT
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