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You know what is the most insane thing about Trump's criminal gambit?
None of the dirt he wanted exists!
It all comes from right wing conspiracy fantasies and has no basis in reality.
Biden's son was investigated years ago and it was determined that there was no irregular activity at all.
Crowdstrike, who discovered the DNC hack, has been monitoring Russian hackers for years.
He could never come up with any information that Crowdstrike and the DNC faked the Russian hack because they didn't.
The fool has destroyed himself running after an imaginary shadow.
Just like Obama's birth certificate and global warming, Trump believes all the stupidest conspiracy theories.
He's the president. If he thought there was a problem with anyone anywhere in the world he could just tell the CIA to find out about it and in a short time be handed a full, accurate report. The fact he ignores all the power he has at his fingertips and sends his idiot private lawyer to investigate is just insane.
But that's the way he swings.
He is truly a total moronic imbecile and should be institutionalized away from the general public.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212510544
Nixon set the crimes in motion with his insecurities and paranoia. Break-in of Ellsberg's office for example.
He had some competencies, as you pointed out. But that secret plan to end the war and his likely illegal communication with Thieu suggesting S. Vietnam not sign any deal until Nixon was president is right up there with Trump's Ukraine caper.
He put the country through some prolonged shit over a term and one half, including assuring that 25K more names would be on a wall and untold more disabled for life.
This one works best for me....
'This is your brain on Betsy DeVos.'
You don't even realize, do you, that everyone who just read your post thinks that it exactly describes you and what we wish for you.
You have to be a brain dead moral imbecile to think it's OK to show up at the site of a lethal fuck-up by the National Guard, with assault rifles.
It's beginning to feel like '73, '74.
https://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1974.htm
There was NEVER a day when Trump could accurately be described as smart. So drop the 'we', dickhead.
"You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart?"
Garmin DNI: The GPS For The Intelligence Official
Proposed Rooster Ban Removed As Cook County Amends Rules For Pets
However, rooster ban remains in effect on Tornado Alley Board.
Crowing from urban farmers and environmentalists led to withdrawal of proposed fowl restrictions, while commissioners set a three-pet limit.
By Jonah Meadows, Patch Staff
Sep 26, 2019 3:56 pm ET | Updated Sep 26, 2019 7:41 pm ET
The Cook County Board of Commissioners removed a proposed prohibition on roosters from amendments to zoning regulations for unincorporated portions of the county. (Shutterstock)
CHICAGO — The Cook County Board of Commissioners scrapped a proposed ban on roosters, simplified regulations on horses and added a cap on house pets as part of an amendment to zoning regulations for unincorporated portions of the county.
No more than three adult pets may be kept at any single residential unit, according to the amendment. It said pets are considered "adult" when they reach four months of age. Unless otherwise permitted to do so under applicable law, having four or more pets living in a single residential unit may be declared a nuisance.
As for horses, the new rules allow for one horse per acre in private stables. Previously, private stables needed to be at least 3 acres — owners could keep three horses at that size and one more per additional acre — and the keeping of horses was limited to lots of at least 0.5 acres.
The earlier version of the zoning change included a complete prohibition on keeping roosters and a limit of five fowl for lots of under 1 acre.
An amended version of the changes was approved unanimously at the board's zoning and building committee hearing Wednesday. The vote tally for Thursday's final vote on the changes was not immediately available.
In March, Commissioner Peter Silvestri, an Elmwood Park Republican, introduced a version of the amendment and referred it to the zoning committee he chairs.
"This provision formalizes some of the practices of the department but, more importantly, corrects some of the duplicative language in the ordinance dealing with horses, fowl, bees and variances," he said. "How about that for a mix?"
It had been set for a vote by the full board in May, but commissioners instead decided to defer a decision on the matter.
Commissioner Larry Suffredin, an Evanston Democrat, said concerns from urban farmers and local environmental groups led the board to delay the ban, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
"We have a lot of urban farmers, and I know some people who have roosters and chickens," Suffredin told the paper at the time. "I think what happened is that they weren't aware it was there."
The amended version of the zoning ordinance also increases the minimum lot size required to keep any non-fowl livestock from 0.5 acres to 5 acres.
The rules do not apply to farms, zoos, animal hospitals, kennels or animal shelters. Previously, there was no exemption for farms.
According to Cook County's code, pets are defined as animals who have "a special and close relationship with humans," depend on people for some extent and are able to live inside a home. Feral cats do not count as "pets," according to the code.
https://patch.com/illinois/evanston/proposed-rooster-ban-removed-cook-county-amends-rules-pets?utm_term=article-slot-1&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
Slow News Day, Almost Didn't Blog. I Guess We Could Talk About This "Impeachment" Thing. (Ferret)
http://showercapblog.com/slow-news-day-almost-didnt-blog-i-guess-we-could-talk-about-this-impeachment-thing-if-youre-bored/
I was thinking, instead of a blog tonight, maybe I could just stand in the middle of the street and scream "what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck” at the top of my lungs until I pass out. No? Well, since you're already here, I suppose I may as well document the madness, such is my charge and my curse.
(And yes, if you want the post with all the nifty news links, it's a click away at: http://showercapblog.com/slow-news-day-almost-didnt-blog-i-guess-we-could-talk-about-this-impeachment-thing-if-youre-bored/)
Since we last spoke, my favorite new band, Nancy P and the Swing District Freshmen, finally announced their highly-anticipated Impeachment Inquiry Tour, and I will be camping out on the fucking sidewalk in order to procure front-row tickets. We'll get to that soon enough; let's plow through the opening acts real quick.
It's been suggested that the sole function of the Republican Party in 2019 is shielding the Trump crime family from accountability, but I just don't think that's fair; they're also really quite passionate about belching up the vilest imaginable hate at this climate activist child.
Watching some of these maniacs froth and screech, you'd think young Greta Thunberg's message was “mandatory left arm amputations for everyone!” rather than “hey, science is real please address climate change.”
Oddly enough, few of the voices calling for Greta's head on a pike expressed the slightest concern about the government opening concentration camps on American soil and then filling them with terrified, maltreated, children.
The Dopey Dotard with Diminutive Digits gave a rambling, distracted, creepy, low-energy, speech at the United Nations, and if this is his mental state at the start of the impeachment battle, I give it three weeks before he staggers out of the residence, wearing nothing but an overlong necktie, demanding that Jim Acosta be brought before him to be roasted on an open fire.
I'm living vicariously through British politics, as Boris Johnson's authoritarian losing streak rolls on. The Supreme Court told him precisely where to stick his attempt to shove Parliament under the bed until the Brexit deadline*, and honestly, has this doofus had one single success since assuming office?
You picture him walking into the kitchen, having announced the intention to make himself a ham sandwich, only to emerge, ten hours later, covered in mosquito bites and raw sewage, without having even managed to get the refrigerator door open. Anyway, his own sister's shitting on him now, too, so everything’s coming up Boris, I guess.
So yeah, House Dems decided it was finally time to launch that impeachment investigation, because a motherfucker isn't gonna impeach himself. Well, actually, this one's so fuckin’ dumb he just might, but we can probably expedite the process with hearings.
Tangerine Idi Amin helpfully pitched in, releasing a memo allegedly summarizing his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, but despite some generous editing, he somehow forgot to take out the part where he commits a very large crime, soliciting dirt on Smilin’ Joe Biden (and his less-smiley son) from a foreign government.
It's a bit like starting a game of Clue by telling the players “It was Colonel Mustard, in the library, with the framed fake Time Magazine cover,” but that's none of my business, I'm sure.
Not a single pair of pants in Trumpworld remained un-pissed-in that day, because total confessions tend to complicate legal defenses, or so I'm told.
William Barr is frantically trying to redact the door to his office so nobody can find him. Rudy Giuliani and Mike Pompeo are playing a special Under the Bus version of musical chairs, and in a perfect world, they'll both lose.
Totally unbidden, Fat Q*Bert himself offered to throw Mike Pants to any wolves who might have developed a taste for brainless theocrat. The loyalty is genuinely inspirational.
Speaking of Giuliani, America's least favorite cousin-fucker is...not taking the week's news particularly well, screeching at every passing reporter and stray cat that he deserves to be hailed as a hero for his noble work spreading long-ago debunked conspiracy theories on behalf of a lawless wannabe dictator.
Yeah, Rudes, I don't think Nick Fury's gonna be showing up with an invite any time soon. (Especially now that you seem to be dropping further evidence of your crimes on Twitter, you fucking moron.)
Now, the impeachment battle is gonna be one helluva fight, especially with a such a savvy foe; the Shart House was, in fact, so proud of the talking points they cooked up that they helpfully e-mailed them to Democratic House members.
Don't worry though, they quickly sent a follow-up e-mail asking Dems to please not read the talking points and certainly don't share them so everybody can laugh at our blistering incompetence. That second e-mail doesn't seem to have gone through.
(Somehow, despite the circulation of said talking points to every corner of Al Gore's information superhighway, the propaganda puppets on Fux Nooz still feigned great indignation upon being called out for what was, in fairness, truly professional-grade parroting.)
Hilariously, Shart Garfunkel and his GOP stooges are trying to pull some silly “Alas! And we were just about to pass sweeping bipartisan gun control legislation, ‘ere our dastardly Democrat colleagues poisoned the well with their cruel, wanton, law enforcement!” shit.
Yeah, I bet that totally works, kids. I bet Gabby Giffords and the whole Moms Demand Action crew are standing in line to get their MAGA caps right now.
And just to really show off those problem-solving skillz, Team Treasonweasel is allegedly looking into hiring Corey Lewandowski to help with the impeachment battle. I wasn't around for Nixon, does the defendant need a lot of female journalists assaulted in order to prevail?
Anyway, after a full day of treating Donald Trump like the world's ugliest piñata over just the transcript, we got to see the whistleblower's complaint, and thus President Crotchrot's Shittiest Week Ever got even worse, and I laughed so fucking hard that I rattled every bone in my body into powder; I'm just a lump of fleshy goo now, fuck knows how I'm even typing this.
The complaint is extra-damning-with-whipped-cream-and-chopped-nuts because it matches up with Weehands McNodick’s own transcript damn near perfectly, blowing a big fat fucking hole in the GOP plot to spin it as mere "hearsay,” essentially nothing but the bitchy gossip of a disgruntled deep state rat. Again, it's a whodunnit that tells you whodunnit on the fucking cover of the book.
Oh, and we also learned that President Liposuction Clinic Dumpster has been hiding his communications with Ukraine, and God only knows what else, on a Super Secret Special Server, and now I'm waiting for Trey Gowdy to call a press conference announcing he's joining the Democratic Party before personally breaking into the West Wing to seize that bad boy in the name of national security.
Now, it's probably too soon to judge, but I have to say, I was quite impressed with the pilot episode of The Impeachment Show. Adam Schiff is a compelling lead, and his “the rule of law should matter” argument, while controversial (it seems), intrigues me. Today's hearing with acting DNI Joseph Maguire left every fan in Washington covered in poo, and we're just getting warmed up.
Devin “Pigfucker” Nunes, who desperately wants to block for his Turd Emperor, but isn't very good at it, on account of being dumber than a pudding cup, suggested that what Democrats were really after wasn't the truth, but rather nude photos of Donnie Two-Scoops.
Now, this was a deceptively shrewd move, betting that by putting such an utterly revolting image in viewers’ minds, millions of Americans would instantly change the channel, and thus wouldn't hear about all the crimez and cover-ups and whatnot.
Now, the Velveeta Vulgarian is facing this existential threat to his crime spree, er, “presidency” with all the grace and dignity we've come to expect of him, suggesting to a crowd at a private event for the United States Mission to the United Nations that the whistleblower and his sources were essentially spies, and thus can join Joe Biden in the line for the electric chair.
Now, on one hand, this adds a few counts (witness tampering, anyone?) to the impeachment buffet (and no “hearsay” here, there are tapes, lordy), but on the other this is THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES CALLING FOR THE MURDER OF THOSE WHO REVEAL HIS CRIMES and honestly, forget the stooges like Lindsey Graham and the loons like Jim Jordan, you just want to ask, say, Lamar Alexander or Roy Blunt, “Hey, bro, you thinking about maybe drawing a line before he orders his hate mob to start assassinating people?”
(Side note: gosh it's just SO hard to believe this execution-happy thug would threaten to withhold aid from a foreign country if he didn't get his trick or treat bag filled with cold cheeseburgers and kompromat, isn't it?)
Anyway, no sooner had Government Cheese Goebbels announced his desire to kill his way out of this whole “impeachment” kerfuffle, than the New York Times helpfully popped up to publish a Pocket Guide to Everything We Know About the Whistleblower, possibly enough to help the dolt squad in the White House figure out his identity. Between the presidential death threats and the near-instantaneous doxxing, you really wonder why more folks haven't come forward.
And you know what's REALLY amazing? Wilbur Ross is sleeping through all this shit. Somebody give the ol’ fellah a nudge, he may have died.
Shit, Cap, what's the good news in the midst of this shitstorm? The good news, my dear friends, is that in November of last year, all our hard work paid off, and we flipped the House. If we hadn't, not only wouldn't these hearings be taking place, we'd almost certainly never have heard about this whistleblower in the first place; they'd have buried the complaint, and Diamond Joe would probably have been extradited to Kiev for a show trial by now. These stretches between voting opportunities are long as fuck, but we're making the most of ‘em, aren't we?
I almost hate to bring you back down after all the inspirational shit in that last paragraph, but it is my solemn duty to deliver unto you this super-sad article about the chaos and infighting tearing apart Fux Nooz in this, the Age of Impeachment. Trigger warning: fuckhead-on-fuckhead violence.
Ok, that's a wrap for now. At the rate things're moving, this news'll probably be stale and forgotten by the time you read it, but if I don't start drinking now, the beer'll go bad. See you soon, Resisters!
P.S. - Congrats, Shart-Shart! You made the cover of Time!
*Up his ass, is the joke. Or “arse,” I suppose.
Yeah, and if the people sitting on top of that fence have eggs in their pants they got scrambled or fried enogh to see them through to Tucson. Get back JoJo.
Ok, as in Harry Met Sally, I'll have what you're having. More wine in my case. :)
This is Peggy punching her conservative ticket....
A. Secret. Fucking. Server.
Irony too is sometimes a dish best served up cold. And Karma, Karma too. LOL!
Adam Parkhomenko
@AdamParkhomenko
A. Secret. Fucking. Server. https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1177207167503478785 …
Greg Miller
@gregpmiller
The complaint,citing multiple US officials, alleges that White House lawyers have been stuffing politically troubling records of presidential calls into highly classified storage to hide them from scrutiny throughout Trump’s presidency. This just got much bigger.
#WeNeedHer @kjoerwin
Adam, call @HillaryClinton tell her the band is getting back together!!
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212505465
I doubt if Trump can read the back of a cereal box for comprehension.
Stand by for a Shower Cap this evening, sometime well into the 2nd half of the football game.
I have 3 FF players in the game, so preoccupied I will be.
Explains why it is a one sided polemic that ignores the costs and environmental fallout from fossil fuel extraction.
Educated people look at pros AND cons of courses of action.
That’s One Take – Up Next ………..
– followed by another Position To consider
https://smallstepsgiantstrides.net/2019/08/11/if-you-want-renewable-energy-get-ready-to-dig/
Point made many, many times here by many, many posters.
I bet you $25 that articles of impeachment will be voted. I'll PM you my name and address when it happens.
You game?
THERE'S the 3 dimensional chess player.
The White House Tried to Bury Records of Trump’s Ukraine Call. Not Shady at All.
And apparently, it wasn't the first time they put Trump's communications with a foreign leader in a top-secret filing system because it was "politically sensitive."
'Sensitive' as in embarrassing, damaging and stupid.
By Jack Holmes
Sep 26, 2019
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a29244339/whistleblower-report-trump-white-house-buried-ukraine-call-records/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_esq&utm_medium=email&date=092619&utm_campaign=nl18160336&src=nl
The House Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of the whistleblower complaint into the dealings between Donald Trump, American president, and Ukraine. It is not good. "In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election," it says near the top. From there, it does not get better.
The whistleblower makes clear that the report is based on accounts from other officials—that it is secondhand, which Trumpists will use to attack it. In fact, they already have. The report appears to be an almost journalistic enterprise, where (in most cases) multiple sources have corroborated the individual claims. This is where we remind you that the inspector general for the office of the Director of National Intelligence, a Trump appointee, assessed the report to be urgent and credible.
The Transcript Is an Ad for the Emoluments Clause
It recounts some of what we already know: that Trump pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate a political opponent, Joe Biden, and to dig anything up that might muddy the waters around Russian interference in 2016. That Rudy Giuliani was at the center of these efforts, circumventing official State Department channels—and U.S. national security interests—for the president's political gain. That Attorney General William Barr appears to be intimately involved, too.
But there are a couple of new items as well. The first has to do with how White House officials responded to the now-infamous July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—namely, by immediately recognizing that some shady shit had gone down, and allegedly trying to shove it under the rug.
In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to "lock down" all records of the phone call, especially the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced—as is customary—by the White House Situation Room. This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of what had transpired in the call.
You don't say. And how did they go about this "lock down"?
White House officials told me they were "directed" by White House lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which such transcripts are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to Cabinet-level officials.
Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature. One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.
Right. The contents were sensitive because the president was selling out the national interest for his personal political gain. But the real gold is in the footnotes on this issue:
According to multiple White House officials I spoke with, the transcript of the President's call with President Zelenskyy was placed into a computer system managed directly by the National Security Council (NSC) Directorate for Intelligence Programs. This is a standalone computer system reserved for codeword-level intelligence information, such as covert action.
According to information I received from White House officials, some officials voiced concerns internally that this would be an abuse of the system and was not consistent with the responsibilities of the Directorate for Intelligence Programs. According to White House officials I spoke with, this was "not the first time" under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive—rather than national security sensitive—information.
"Not the first time." The president's staff have been stuffing some of his communications with foreign leaders into a top-secret digital filing cabinet because it's politically sensitive. What, pray tell, makes it so?
Based on what we know about this instance, it may well be that the president makes a habit of subjugating the national interest to his own when dealing with other heads of state. Shocker. Do we think his communications with Russian President Vladimir Putin are in there? After all, Trump once seized a translator's notes on his meeting with Putin, part of a pattern of obfuscation when it comes to their face-to-face meetings. So, how about their phone calls?
How much of this, like Zelensky's behavior on the other end, is indicative of wider patterns in this White House? Surely this is a line of inquiry for congressional committees, which should demand to see other communications with heads of state that were filed in the codeword-level system for political reasons.
There's also the context around the call. The whistleblower is clear that he or she cannot definitively draw a connection between Trump's order to withhold military aid to Ukraine and the request for an investigation into Biden, but that was just some of the background noise around the call.
I learned from U.S. officials that, on or around 14 May, the President instructed Vice President Pence to cancel his planned travel to Ukraine to attend President Zelenskyy's inauguration on 20 May; Secretary of Energy Rick Perry led the delegation instead. According to these officials, it was also "made clear" to them that the President did not want to meet with Mr. Zelenskyy until he saw how Zelenskyy "chose to act" in office.
I do not know how this guidance was communicated, or by whom. I also do not know whether this action was connected with the broader understanding, described in the unclassified letter, that a meeting or phone call between the President and President Zelenskyy would depend on whether Zelenskyy showed willingness to "play ball" on the issues that had been publicly aired by Mr. Lutsenko and Mr. Giuliani.
Giuliani and Lutsenko, the former prosecutor general in Ukraine, had been publicly airing allegations about, among other things, Biden's supposed activities in Ukraine. (There is no evidence Biden did anything improper.) The whistleblower could not link these things definitively, but this raises the possibility that Trump made it clear he would not deal with the Ukrainian president—including, possibly, providing military aid already appropriated by Congress—until Zelensky ginned up an investigation into Biden.
That would be nailed-on quid pro quo of the variety Trump and his pet toads have been saying are not there in this case, not that it is needed to justify impeachment.
Trump has already admitted he pressured a foreign head of state to investigate a U.S. citizen—an invitation to a foreign power to interfere in a U.S. election for Trump's personal political gain. It is a betrayal of the national interest and a violation of his oath of office, and not his first. He should be removed.
That Trump/Zelensky Call Was Fucked Up for Even More Reasons Than Biden
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
It's pretty goddamn clear that the motherfuckin' quid has a motherfuckin' pro quo in the weird pseudo-transcript of the July 25 phone call between Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine. And a great deal of it all comes down to the word "though."
Zelensky says, "I would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. We are ready to continue to cooperate for the next steps. Specifically we are almost ready to buy more Javelins from the United States for defense purposes."
The very next thing is Trump saying, "I would like you to do us a favor though" before going into some conspiracy theories involving Ukraine and, no shit, Hillary Clinton's email server, with Attorney General William Barr tossed into the mix. And that's before he brought up Joe and Hunter Biden by name, which he totally did, unprompted.
Now, I have a PhD in this shit so that gives me superpowers to interpret texts of various sorts. But a freshman would know that "I would like you to do us a favor though" is a conditional sentence, taking what was said before and applying demands before any action is taken on the previous sentence.
In other words, it is obvious unless you're a fucking moron or a Republican or both that Trump was saying, "Hey, Voldemort, you gotta do something for me if I'm gonna do something for you." In otherer words, it's the fucking dictionary definition of quid pro quo. And no matter how many times "No quid pro quo" is repeated like "No collusion," there was quid pro quo here. And, by the way, there was an attempt at collusion. The Ukrainians knew the deal.
But, really, the transcript is also fucked up because it reveals the way that foreign leaders have to abase themselves before Trump's massive ass...I mean, "ego," his massive ego. Zelensky has to tickle Trump's taint with a feather, probably because it's the only way to get the dumb pile of rotting tangerine rinds to pretend to listen.
Right at the outset, Zelensky praises Trump for showing him how to win an election: "I would like to confess to you that I had an opportunity to learn from you. We used quite a few of your skills and knowledge and were able to use it as an example for our elections." Then he kisses Trump's ring even more, repeating his overused phrases to him: "[W]e are trying to work hard because we wanted to drain the swamp here in our country...we want to have a new format and a new type of government. You are a great teacher for us and in that."
That's the kind of flattery that would have made a French monarch in the Restoration say, "Sacre bleu, stop fingering my asshole." Not Trump, though. He revels in how world leaders are compelled to fondle his enlarged prostate.
It gets worse because of course it does. "Actually last time I traveled to the United States, I stayed in New York near Central Park," Zelensky probes, "and I stayed at the Trump Tower." No, really. And that right there should be another obvious emoluments violation. The head of a foreign country is trying to curry favor with the president by telling him that his country spent money at one of Trump's terrible properties. It's what the Constitution specifically says is not allowed.
Trump is such an intimidating dickhole throughout the conversation. He praises Zelensky for winning and then immediately starts to strongarm him. Seriously, this is rank mobster shit right here: "I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping you more than they are. Germany does almost nothing for you. All they do is talk and I think it’s something that you should really ask them about."
I mean, come the fuck on. Hell, twice, Trump informs Zelensky, "The United States has been very very good to Ukraine." Replace countries with names like "the Lasagna Family" or "Fat Cavatelli" and it's right out of a terrible Godfather ripoff.
The discomfort that Zelensky is obviously feeling comes across as he tries to appease this fucking asshole who sounds like an overwritten villain character in a Ukrainian soap opera. He agrees to whatever Trump is saying, even as he's trying to figure out what the fuck Trump is saying.
He talks about how great it'll be to visit with him while Trump goes on about the fired prosecutor (the one at the center of Biden bullshit), praising the prosecutor who most of the European Union and President Obama wanted fired because he wasn't going after corruption, including not investigating Burisma, the company that put Hunter Biden on its board. So Zelensky had to listen to Trump just fucking blather about shit he doesn't know, which, as we all understand, is the only way Trump speaks.
Trump ends the phone call by shitting on Zelensky's election win by making sure the Ukrainian president knows his win wasn't as awesome as Trump's. Our goddamn president says, "I’m not sure it was so much of an upset but congratulations." Why the fuck say that? Who does that except the biggest asshole in the world?
Yes, it's not really a transcript, but this is what the White House released, so it's the only thing we have to go on. But even this reveals criminality and pettiness and intimidation, conduct and actions so worthy of impeachment that it might as well be written on dildos and sent to all Republicans with the message, "Go fuck yourselves with this."
And that's without the whistleblower's report, which looks like is gonna fuck shit up even worse.
Player social justice committee on 1936 uniforms
Sometimes, professional sports does things right.
In Sunday's NFC North showdown at Soldier Field, the Bears will wear their 1936 classic jerseys. Here’s an important message from our players and Chairman, looking ahead to Sunday.
https://www.chicagobears.com/video/player-social-justice-committee-on-1936-uniforms
Pic Of The Moment: Well Wouldya Look At That
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017553974
But the IG followed up and determined that the allegations were both credible and of an urgent nature.
Anyone who listened to yesterday's news knew it was a parody and that Trump repeatedly made clear the favor he expected and the people he wanted involved in securing that favor.
Schiff was guilty of underestimating the stupidity of the minority members on his committee, despite numerous demonstrations of such over many hearings.
The fuck it isn't. Trump equivocated his ass off. Do you remember when he claimed he didn't know who David Duke was. No sentient adult of Trump's age doesn't know who he was and what he is.
Duke is on the record as supporting Trump. Why TF would he do so?
As always, Trump's initial response was his authentic response. The clean up from his staff doesn't count for shit and it is unpersuasive to all but Trump cult members.
You're trying to apply lipstick to a pig and doing a very bad job of it.
Trump’s new defense of his Charlottesville comments is incredibly false
The 2017 “Unite the Right” rally was organized by and intended for white supremacists and white nationalists.
By Jane Coastonjane.coaston@vox.com Apr 26, 2019, 2:30pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2019/4/26/18517980/trump-unite-the-right-racism-defense-charlottesville
President Donald Trump is still defending his infamous remarks in the wake of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017, when he said, “You also had some very fine people on both sides.”
The latest attempt came Friday: “I was talking about people that went because they felt very strongly about the monument to Robert E. Lee,” Trump told reporters. “People there were protesting the taking down of the monument to Robert E. Lee. Everybody knows that.”
Trump isn’t alone in attempting to recast his “both sides” Charlottesville remarks; his supporters are, too. Within the past few months, Dilbert creator Scott Adams, Morton Klein, head of Zionists of America, and writers for Breitbart and the Federalist have done the same, as the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer reported a few weeks ago.
These writers argue that Trump’s “very fine people on both sides” comments were meant to refer to the protesters in attendance who were attempting to stop the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee from a public square in Charlottesville, not the neo-Nazis and white nationalists who made up the bulk of the event’s attendees.
As RealClearPolitics’ Steve Cortes argued, “Despite the clear evidence of Trump’s statements regarding Charlottesville, major media figures insist on spreading the calumny that Trump called neo-Nazis ‘fine people.’”
But here’s the thing: He did.
None of this was very subtle.
In Discord chats and discussions revealed by legal proceedings that have taken place since Unite the Right, attendees and organizers stated again and again what the point of the event was: “If you want to defend the South and Western civilization from the Jew and his dark-skinned allies, be at Charlottesville on 12 August.”
How Trump responded
On August 15, 2017, Trump made his third statement on the events of Charlottesville. (On August 12, Trump said, “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides.” National Review called his remarks “vague and equivocal,” while Anglin hailed them.)
Those wishing to defend Trump on this issue have focused on this part of his remarks:
Racism is evil, and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.
His supporters have taken that as the totality of his comments on Charlottesville. As Morton Klein said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this month, “In that statement, he condemned neo-Nazis and white nationalists. He did not mean that they are fine people.”
But Trump said a lot more, which his defenders seem strangely unwilling to reckon with. Here is how Trump described what took place at Unite the Right:
TRUMP: I am not putting anybody on a moral plane, what I’m saying is this: you had a group on one side and a group on the other, and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch, but there is another side. There was a group on this side, you can call them the left. You’ve just called them the left, that came violently attacking the other group. So you can say what you want, but that’s the way it is.
REPORTER: You said there was hatred and violence on both sides?
TRUMP: I do think there is blame – yes, I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there’s blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it, and you don’t have any doubt about it either. And, and, and, and if you reported it accurately, you would say.
REPORTER: The neo-Nazis started this thing. They showed up in Charlottesville.
TRUMP: Excuse me, they didn’t put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group – excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down, of to them, a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from Robert E. Lee to another name.
As should be clear by now, there were no “very fine people” who were part of the organizing or promotion of Unite the Right. Unite the Right was an event planned not by traditional conservatives, but by groups and individuals that despise traditional conservatives, like Peinovich, who helped coin the term “cuckservative” to refer to traditional conservatives who spoke out against racism and anti-Semitism.
And during that same press conference, Trump added this:
No, no. There were people in that rally, and I looked the night before. If you look, they were people protesting very quietly, the taking down the statue of Robert E. Lee. I’m sure in that group there were some bad ones. The following day, it looked like they had some rough, bad people, neo-Nazis, white nationalists, whatever you want to call ’em.
But you had a lot of people in that group that were there to innocently protest and very legally protest, because you know, I don’t know if you know, but they had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit. So I only tell you this: there are two sides to a story.
I thought what took place was a horrible moment for our country, a horrible moment. But there are two sides to the country. Does anybody have a final – does anybody have a final question? You have an infrastructure question.
“The night before” is referring to the Friday night torchlit rally of August 11, where more than 200 attendees held tiki torches on the campus of the University of Virginia and chanted “Jews will not replace us” and “Blood and soil.” Whatever this event may have been, it was certainly not “people protesting very quietly.”
NO, it is a reasonable inference that 'many fine people on both sides' encompasses the white supremacists who CLEARLY made up the most visible portion of one side.
See Tiki Torch marchers and their chant of the 'Jews will not replace us'.
See a chiropractor and untwist yourself from that amazing contortion displayed in your post.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Invites Stephen Colbert To Visit Her Country
Pointedly, 2 days before the most recent revelations and 3 days before tomorrow's. Really think the next polls won't show movement toward more support for impeachment?
What Powers Does a Formal Impeachment Inquiry Give the House?
By Molly E. Reynolds, Margaret Taylor
Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 1:57 PM
https://www.lawfareblog.com/what-powers-does-formal-impeachment-inquiry-give-house
Several experts have argued that the House might have a stronger legal position in disputes with the executive branch over information and witness appearances if it were undertaking impeachment proceedings rather than investigations.
Michael Conway, who served as counsel on the House judiciary committee during the Watergate investigation, has advanced a similar argument. In particular, he points to a staff memo written in April 1974, which argues that “the Supreme Court has contrasted the broad scope of the inquiry power of the House in impeachment proceedings with its more confined scope in legislative investigations.
From the beginning of the Federal Government, presidents have stated that in an impeachment inquiry the Executive Branch could be required to produce papers that it might with-hold in a legislative investigation.”
Let's. Where are Trump's tax returns? Why wouldn't he sit to be interviewed by Mueller? Where are the notes from his meetings with Putin? Why doesn't his press secretary hold press conferences?
Trump is a transparent liar, that's all that's transparent about him.
Uh yeah, the WAPO and the NYT over the whispers.
I'm able to distinguish between journalism that errs and willful misstatements of fact.
So the DNI is denying the story? What would you expect from a guy who is deep shit for violating the law?
Your words? I say infrequently if at all.
And somehow all of that has escaped the attention of actual reporters. No wonder they whisper.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/dc-whispers/
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Notes: DC Whispers is a news and opinion website with a right wing bias in reporting. Headlines are somewhat sensationalized, but not extreme in comparison to many we have reviewed. Articles tend to be sourced fairly well, but sometimes to questionable information. For example, in this article they source a preacher, who claims he heard from a congressman that Donald Trump would be “taken out suddenly.”
The Preacher implies this would be through assassination, which simply is not verifiable. Based on using questionable sources we rate DC Whispers questionable for factual reporting and strongly right biased in reporting. This is a borderline questionable source. (D. Van Zandt 7/21/2017)
Let's Do This Impeachment Thing
From yesterday, so take that into account.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
9/24/2019
Probably the transcript will show that Trump never said, "Hey, Voldemort, dick over Biden or no bomb money for you."
Let's get straight what the straw that broke Nancy Pelosi's back on impeachment was. It wasn't the phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where he said he wanted that country to go after Joe Biden and his son (or at least make it look like they were going after them). It wasn't the implication of the president of the United States using our country's relationship with a foreign country to go after a political opponent, to, really, collude with that country.
While surely that call and Trump's admitted actions played a role in Pelosi finally giving in to her increasingly restive and vocal caucus, it was really more cut-and-dried: the law says that if a whistleblower gives information to the inspector general of the intelligence community that the IG deems "urgent" and legitimate, it must be given to the proper congressional committees.
It's that fucking simple. And even though Pelosi has let some things slide (like Trump refusing to turn over his taxes to the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, as required by law), this one could not only be couched in terms of "national security" since it involves, you know, intelligence. But the motherfucking IG who found it urgent is a Trump appointee.
You know how this is gonna play out over the next few days: Trump has already said he's going to release the "transcript" of his July 25 call with Zelensky. And let's be clear: it ain't gonna be a transcript, unless they record the calls in the Oval Office, which would be peak Trump stupidity, and even then there's no way to trust it.
Probably the transcript will show that Trump never said, "Hey, Voldemort, dick over Biden or no bomb money for you."
[But, as Jeffrey Toobin and others have said today, if Trump even mentions Biden's name, it's abuse of power. I'm betting that, if you're really concerned about corruption in Ukraine, there are lots of people not named Biden involved. (Besides, Hunter Biden was already completely cleared of any involvement in anything. He was never even formally accused of anything.)
This fuckin' dance will go something like the Mueller Report. Because it's not absolutely obvious to the dumbest dumbass what's going on in the phone call, most Republicans and Fox "news" and Twitter fucknuts will proclaim it a "witch hunt" and try to discredit the whole impeachment effort.
But we don't even know if that's all that the whistleblower was talking about. As I write this, the New York Times is reporting that the White House is figuring out how much to allow the whistleblower to speak to Congress, which, again, is not what the law says.
It's a distraction strategy so that that array of leperous whores who run interference for Trump can say to his idiot hordes of voters, "See? Look how transparent your orange god is."
While I'm still leaning agnostic on the whole "this is finally what brings this motherfucker down" early celebration because we've been burned so many times before, I gotta say that there is something different going on here.
First off, today, Mitch McConnell, that infected sore on the scrotum of politics, went along with a nonbinding resolution calling for the whistleblower's complaint to be given to the intelligence committees, and it passed with unanimous consent.
Say what you will about it, but it gives Democrats some pretty potent ammunition to say that Trump, Barr, and the Acting Director of National Intelligence are being fucking criminals by holding it back.
If I were an optimistic person, I'd say that we might see some Republicans start to peel off as people wake up and see that, at last, in a game of chicken with the White House, Democrats in the House did not swerve at the last minute.
It's a whole lot more fun to root for a fighter, and if polls start to show growing support for impeachment, I'd say some GOP House members, at the very least, are gonna start to get a little nervous about keeping their lips superglued to Trump's voluminous ass.
And I've seen a few conservatives in the media agreeing that Trump admitted to impeachable offenses when he bragged that he talked about the Bidens with Zelensky. Maybe we'll get more who give a shit about the rule of law, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
The one thing I would say to any Republicans who might be reading: "Fuck you." And then the next thing I'd say is "You knew it was gonna come to this. You knew Trump was just that vile and depraved and greedy and dumb and narcissistic. How else was this gonna go?" Perhaps I'd add: "Did you see him at the United Nations today? Sweet Jesus, I thought he was gonna collapse into himself like a deflating yoga ball. He ain't right. You wanna stand by that?"
We are at the beginning now. I don't think this will be like the oddly fast Clinton impeachment, which took a little over two months (with the trial and acquittal in the Senate over two months after that). That came in the wake of the Starr Report, so it was a response to a full, ludicrous, shameful sham of an investigation. We're starting from scratch here. Let's have some hearings on the TV, please. Drag Trump's ass for as long as it's necessary.
What Nancy Pelosi finally did was to stop allowing Democrats to be so goddamned feckless and seemingly random in their attempts to investigate Trump and his administration. An effective Democratic caucus would have already gone after Trump for profiting off his position or for what was revealed in the Mueller Report, which essentially said, "You gotta impeach this crooked cock."
Now Democrats can have a crystal clear, simple message that can tie together the threads of all the various committees' work: Trump is a criminal, and here are all the ways he has violated the law, his oath of office, and the public trust. Now let's impeach the motherfucker.
Gird yer loins, oh, good Trump-haters of America, for things are gonna get intense and weird and possibly (even more) violent, if his yahoo-brigade starts to think their racist president is going down.
We've finally, really joined the battle. It's about goddamn time.
(One last note: Rudy Giuliani is fucked. He better cut some deals fast because Trump is selling him out in a heartbeat.)
No, she's just a more rigorous thinker than you. And not dumb enough to fall for the same conspiracy theories that you fall so easily for.
Nah, you could sign up for the same course with me, we could hang out in a bar for the entire term, read the board from our phones, show up for the final, and ace it.
Horseshit, it was an assertion that something happened that you had no evidence to support as having happened. it wasn't even a reasonable inference because of, you know, the stupidity.
And you flatter yourself by claiming that what you pull out of your ass rises to the level of an opinion.
Anyway, what about this?
"And of course if it were Clinton or Obama doing the same thing your view of the conversation would completely flip to impeach, lock him/her up, electrocute. And you would be right to hold that view."
That you are unable to subject your posts to the simple exercise of looking at them from 2 sides, before posting, guarantees that they reek of double standards and hypocrisy.
Reading the righty posts here IS my deep dive.
I could blow off the course......understanding the narcissistic sociopath, psychopath, and other anti-social personalities.....and still ace the test.