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October 27, 2019

ding! WINNER!

Why can't someone muzzle this idiot? How dare he tweet about an op while it is ongoing? I just can't even. Will someone in the media PLEASE nail him for not bothering to think about intelligence protocols and about the safety of his own troops? I long for the days when we had someone with enough sense to stay silent out of respect for the gravity of the situation, send out the appropriate representatives to give a proper statement to the press, and later step up to the microphone when the situation is stabilized to thank those responsible.

Instead of statesmanship and respect for the military trying to do their jobs, we have embarrassing little snotnosed Donny tweeting "I-know-something-you-don't-know!" to the entire world. *headdesk*

eta - sorry if I got a little het up, there.

October 26, 2019

The country is still under attack

from without and within. The redacted information in the Mueller report belongs to the people of this country, and if it's too sensitive for public release, at the very least our representatives should be able to see it. They need to, to assess the risks as well as the context of their current inquiries.

The House would like to see the entire Mueller report, all it's underlying evidence and grand jury testimony so that it can do it's duty to try to understand all that has gone on and to protect the country.

Emphasis mine, and I agree it's time the media stopped second guessing and playing spin games and just do their jobs: report the facts, so that people know what is going on.

October 26, 2019

I'm torn.

On the one hand, I agree with you. An open government should insist that the vote of our representatives is public, and any secret ballot sets bad precedent. On the other hand, for the sake of this country's survival, Trump has got to go.

October 26, 2019

Oh, great laughs!

Ernestine gets in on the act:

https://twitter.com/nay731/status/1187874217439576066

October 25, 2019

Making him an "opinion contributor" didn't even slow him down, did it?

Every time I see a link to a story from The Hill, all it takes is a quick web search to find the same information from several different reputable news outlets. They get my clicks, not The Hill.

“Nothing I did would have put The Hill’s reputation at risk,” Solomon said.

I beg to differ. See above.

“Everybody who approaches me has an angle,” he said. “My mother has an angle when she calls me.”

Wow, Solomon, way to throw your mother under the bus. Really speaks to your character.

Solomon says his personal attorneys, Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing...

And scene.

Holy shit, you have to read this article.

October 25, 2019

He just threatened the entire country with economic reprisal. Wow.

The coming economic storm will happen anyway, is his fault, and he knows it:

Federal Budget Deficit Swelled to Nearly $1 Trillion in 2019 - The New York Times

The deficit is expected to top $1 trillion in 2020 as a slowing global economy and festering trade tensions weigh on economic growth in the United States. Mr. Trump, who promised to eliminate deficits by cutting spending and growing the economy, has allowed them to swell under his watch by enacting sweeping tax cuts and boosting government spending.

Corporate tax revenues for the government’s 2018 and 2019 fiscal years have come in well below what the Congressional Budget Office forecast they would be before the 2017 tax cuts passed.[snip]

The deficit, which is the gap between what the government takes in through taxes and other sources of revenue and what it spends, now sits at 4.6 percent of gross domestic product.

October 25, 2019

Important Link Within:

Leading Civil Rights Lawyer Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies AUG 9 2109
The author, Burt Neuborne, is one of America’s top civil liberties lawyers, and questions whether federal government can contain Trump and GOP power grabs.

October 25, 2019

It bears repeating:

they implicitly discount the idea that Congress has a Constitutional role to play in holding presidents accountable — and that Democrats won elections of their own in order to carry out that responsibility.

October 24, 2019

Best list so far!

Alphabetized and conveniently coded to show just whose posterior is hanging farthest into the wind:

According to a press release released yesterday, here’s who was part of the Brooks Brothers The Farce. Those marked with asterisks are on committees conducting the inquiry, so they’re basically complaining about a process they’re a part of. Those marked with checks were around in 2017 and voted for a rule holding that such protests on the House floor (to say nothing of inside HPSCI’s SCIF) were a violation of House Rules.

Thank you!

October 24, 2019

Definitely extortion

The money which he was holding up was THEIRS, it was already allocated to them.

Yes. Withholding the funds until Ukraine performed an unrequired action in order to receive those funds was extortion. As usual with extortion, the action demanded was not above board. Whether Ukraine actually investigated or not, Trump just wanted them to say that they were doing so. Walking Ukraine into saying they found dirt on Biden was the presumable next step, though it didn't get that far before the whistle blew.

Even more damning:

https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/status/1180201437856448534

6. Black propaganda attempts to conceal the true source of information, so that the target cannot accurately assess the credibility of the message or the motives of the source behind it. Trump wanted to cloak his own role and motives behind a statement of a foreign country

7. The goal here is to manipulate the American public into to thinking that Ukraine had *independently* reached the same conclusions about the Russia investigation, and/or uncovered criminal leads about Biden. Trump could then use this to bolster his own views [snip]

10. Basically, you have the Trump admin attempting to conduct an illegal covert psyop on the American public, using officials from the State Department and his own attorney to do it. It's literally a version of what Russia did in 2016

Emphasis mine.

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