Oh no, closed doors! So I fear things,
It will be fought but won’t clear things
So Republicans say,
‘Til they got their way.
Now how dare you hold open hearings?
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Trump/GOP opening by Rep. Devin Nunes.
So, if imaginary cow, keep your head down.
Apple finally out with a new Macbook Pro that is something more than incremental tweaks over the last one.
Up to 64 GB RAM. Up to 8 TB flash storage.
16″ retina vision screen. It’s not the 17″ I want, but it’s better than the 15″ I have had to deal with.
This is the coolest part: 500 cd/m2 light output. Really makes it much more useful for looking at images and seeing all of the greyscale shades one needs.
$3,699 if I go for it.
I blame Olivia Jade.
9 student deaths have USC trying to quell rumors in a delicate balancing act
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-11-13/usc-responds-to-student-deaths-to-quell-rumors-misinformation
Either that or the realization that dropping that much dough into a XXXXXXXXX Studies major is an absolute waste.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit wants you to believe that when he sells stock from his pitifully small investment account, he’s dumping it onto a dumb Rethuglican investor.
The truth is he’s probable selling an undervalued asset at the worst possible time, and he’s contributing to wealth inequality and to worsening the gab between himself and the good side of it:
Research published by the French bank Societe Generale shows that S&P 500 companies have bought back the equivalent of 22% of the index’s market capitalization since 2010, with more than 80% of the companies having a program in place.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/stock-buybacks-of-570-billion-next-year-may-support-the-sp-500-even-if-theres-a-recession-report-says-2019-11-13?mod=mw_latestnews
Oh. And he held onto his GE stock far, far too long.
2,
Just like your brain, you’ll employ less than 2% of its capabilities choke-fapping to anime goat porn and forwarding gmail conspiracy theories.
While some filthy “leftist” in Cupertino gets a second Infinity Pool.
I approve.
@2 “$3,699 if I go for it.”
Of course you;ll go for it. You’re a well-heeled doctor who, after sucking the Medicare teat for decades, can afford a horse ranch, horse trailer, and F350 and brags you’re waaay richer than my measly $1.5 million net worth. Given that $3,699 is only pin money to you, why would you pass up all those delectable technological goodies? Certainly not because of any compulsion for thrift. You’re only thrifty with the wages of low-income workers.
Since you know more about my portfolio than I do, tell me, which stock should I dump next?
If my memory serves me, you didn’t “warn” me about GE until after the fact. Any dummy can do that. And as I also recall, I did suggest you short GE at $23, before the fact, which you didn’t do.
And now you purport to give me investment advice? No thanks.
@ 7
Your 3M is going nowhere. Same as your impeachment/conviction hopes.
Remember the Flight 93 Election?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/an-attack-on-founding-principles-at-the-claremont-institute/499094/
Ever since that resulted in its author being handed a seat on the NSC and a title of Deputy Assistant to The President, I’ve assumed that in the run up to the 2020 we’d see a lively competition for his potential successor.
Well, Player 4 has entered the game!
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/how-america-ends/600757/
It’s a longish read, so allow me to summarize:
The political professionals who authored the RNC 2012 Autopsy Report were 100% right on the facts. But they were 100% wrong on the solutions. Us white folks are doomed if we don’t gun up. WOOOLVERIIIINES!!!!!!!
6,
Sounds like a Bloomberg/Schultz/Steyer model of efficient redistribution, if you ask me.
Somewhere in all that a pool boy in Cupertino gets a spiral cut ham this Christmas.
So where’s the problem? /s
“There is no factual basis that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 elections.”
There was a second call the day after.
“Trump’s interest in Ukraine was an investigation of Biden.”
Your rebuttal, Devin Nunez “Schiff used Hyperbole instead of reading the transcript aloud! neener neener!”
Why do you mis state the action as a hope? It’s the duty of those lawmakers to trial the man for being a traitor, like yourself, whether successful at not.
OJ got away with murder to. Had the prosecution knew that that was going to be the end result do you think that they and the people would say forget about it.
That’s why people…not me….call you what you are, aside from being a partisan gutter dweller.
By the way I could buy three of those Macs and not even know I spent the money.
OJ got away with murder to.
Some are speculating that this will work out about as well for the GOP as that did for OJ. A dime behind walls followed by spending the rest of their lives walking around on public golf courses talking to themselves on Twitter.
JUICE!
The impeachment process the Democrats are running now is going to backfire on them. The Democrats are going to,get Trump re-elected.
14,
All the objective signs agree with your assessment 100%.
Special elections. Off year elections. Mid-term elections. Polls. Registration numbers. Turnout numbers. These all indicate that Heartlandia© is raging, and poised to rise up and overthrow their overlords! /s
@8 “Same as your impeachment/conviction hopes.”
My impeachment/conviction hopes are that we all reserve final judgment until the evidence has been heard and the arguments have been made.
However, I don’t expect you or your tribe to do that. I expect you and your tribe to be deaf to the evidence, close-minded about the arguments, and adamant that this president shouldn’t be impeached or removed for office no matter what he’s done.
Because if there’s one thing we can count on from you and your tribe, it’s being lousy citizens of this country.
BREAKING NEWS ALERT!
NEW GOP/TRUMP DIPLOMATIC EXTORTION DEFENSE RELEASED:
During scandalous and highly damaging testimony before the HPSCI today the newly appointed Republican ranking member unloaded an entirely new defense of his president’s effort to exchange Congressionally mandated aide to Ukraine for a smear job against one of his political rivals.
IT WAS A STING!
-Adolescent Oil Wrestler Jim Jordan, (NAMBLA) Ohio
Laughter from the hearing room could be heard as far away as Alexandria.
This is their best litigator.
RBG could have resigned in time for Obama to replace her, with confirmation of his nominee from a Democrat-led US Senate.
Feel better, Madame Justice.
Casandra it’s great that you express your thoughts that Repukes will vote with their emotions instead of their fucking brains.
It’s what we all know – that Repukes have no standards, no values and no fucking brains.
If it backfires – all that that means is that Repukes vote for child molesting pussy grabbing cockroaches.
Backfire? This isn’t a political ploy, glad you think that some traitorous, lying con man can make a good president.
@ 19
will vote with their emotions instead of their fucking brains.
BernieBros, call your offices.
Donald today.
“If you want to know what’s happening today… this piece by Hannity.
My call was declared perfect by Mark Levin.
No more questions. We’re done.”
Schiff’s impeachment hearings are deadly serious.
Drag queen sashays into Trump impeachment hearings
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/drag-queen-sashays-trump-impeachment-hearings-n1081261
Stay tuned for Perez Hilton’s daily impeachment report, sponsored by Axe body spray.
From @theplumlineGS:
An important reminder that what’s on trial here isn’t Democrats’ ability to convince Republicans that Trump is bad, it’s to establish that Republicans believe they are entitled to destroy institutions and rig elections to stay in power.
>> yup sounds like everything the racist incel has been bleating.
Republicans: The only witnesses that count are people who spoke directly to the president.
Also Republicans: No one who spoke directly to the president will be allowed to testify.
Kent is amazing. “You can’t fight corruption without pissing off corrupt people.”
Referring to the whistleblower, Rep. Jim Jordan says Congress will never get a chance to question the one “who started it all.”
“I’d be glad to have the person who started it all to come in and testify,” Rep. Welch replies. “Pres. Trump is welcome to take a seat right there.”
Just a reminder for the racist incel who enjoys homophobic slurs: when Jim Jordan is talking about secret whistleblowers and imaginary Democrat secret conspiracies, that same Jim Jordan kept sexual abuse of young men a secret while assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State/OSU.
@18
A better argument for expansion to Justices could not be made than Donald and Mitch filling a seat now that the window for the tradition of waiting is open. They’ll do it given the chance because….no shame.
Venture to guess a couple GOP senate seats would swing if they did too.
I mean Collins is prob toast already but she wouldn’t want more attention on SCOTUS in 2020. Two seats to try and hold in GA. AZ, CO likely flips.
How bad does Mitch want it. 4 Senators? 5? 6?
8-4 or 9-3 SCOTUS upending Mitch’s judicial project at the end of President Warren’s 2nd term?
Carl, you should remember that Repbulicans, according to Bob, don’t do things unless there is a good reason to do something. That must be fake news that you are listening too, or have wax in your ears.
Well, surely. If Zales and Prada are campaign items.
The indictment read seven counts of wire fraud, including $761.74 on Zales Jewelry, $1,163.91 dollars on a Prada purse, roughly $1,213.82 on vacation airfare. They say she also spend $9,941.99 on school tuition, and $11,809 on her home mortgage.
…
“Paying your mortgage payment is not a campaign activity, but I can imagine buying jewelry and cosmetics while she was on the campaign trail, might be,” Stein said.
He said, though, if a candidate misuses campaign funds, they usually get the opportunity to pay it back before charges are filed.
If tipped off in advance, I suppose that might be true.
Judge Alexandra Smoots-Thomas suspended following federal indictment
https://www.khou.com/article/news/crime/judge-alexandra-smoots-thomas-suspended-following-federal-indictment/285-26d927af-c393-41c9-8c17-de6f98eb3152
See, I always thought second chances come after you pay your debt to society, not instead of it.
@ 28
I mean Collins is prob toast already…
Based on what?
• The $7.1M she has in the bank as of September 30?
• Cook Political Report having the seat a toss-up?
• A month-old PPP poll with MOE 3.2 points showing Collins down by 3? Down to a generic Dem, not any specific candidate, BTW.
That makes her ‘prob toast’? Gee, you sound a lot less convinced than you did about Hillary’s ‘absolute lock’ on 252 EVs, CZ-252.
Run a moron against Trump and Collins is re-elected easily. Dems aren’t smart enough to have learned much from 2016. It’s why Deval Patrick is about to jump in – Team Obama has seen enough. Y’all gonna need some help.
@30,
What Mrs. Duncan Hunter wants to know:
Were any ball-gags, leather zipper masks, or ampules of amyl nitrate in those reports?
Cuz my boi FUCKS!
Hell Yes, he does!
MAGA!
Wow, another Pro Putin Hashtag there.
You mean to tell me you think The Hump is a better choice than a moron? You must really like this Hump dude. You didn’t have to vote for him or don’t have to vote for him in 2020, all you have to do is keep endorsing him. Soon afterwards you’ll be on your march to fascism and loving it……..wait…..that must make you a fascist.
@32 does Jim Jordan like to watch your boi?
Bob’s kind of people. Hopefully they rot in hell.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/pro-trump-conservatives-are-getting-trolled-real-life-far-right-n1080986
Run a moron guys.
The Defeat Collins Crowdfunding campaign has about $5 million sitting in the bank just waiting for a nominee.
In 2014 a 39 year old Peace Corp volunteer nobody ever heard of, with zero backing from either the state or national party, and with no date rape and no Trump, still raised and spent about $2.4 million. Finished with over 30% of the vote.
Being a Republican, Collins is undoubtedly a little math challenged. Still, she’s probably not as dumb as Teh Dumbfuck.
I suppose that explains why, even at this point, Collins remains in beta test mode for 2020.
28,
Nobody prays daily for the good health of Assoc. Justc. Ginsberg than Sens Collins, Gardiner, Tillis, McSally, and Ernst.
And unlike Teh Dumbfuck, they’re sincere.
@31
Going from 78% approval among Maine voters in 2016 to consistently polling in the mid 40s at present. Once people decide you suck, how much ad buy can make them like you?
And since you touched on it, a 12 year incumbent being behind in any poll against an unnamed opponent is abysmal.
The Jordan Rules
If someone asks or tells you of illegal behavior and you ignore it, it didn’t happen.
Right Ohio State Wrestling?
Other Athletes tell the same story of talking to now Rep. Jordan about their medical trainer
The Hump is irreversible damage. The examples of @35 can’t be undone. The Hump is a cancer spreading.
The only way for things to be undone is for the can to fix it by denouncing the kind of stuff written about in @35. Elect anyone, anyone, and nothing will correct itself. These people will not be happy with anyone but The Hump or someone worse than him. They will not listen to anyone. The only possible good outcome can be if The Hump himself will denounce these people, and call them out as wicked bad people, like he he likes to do to his “enemies”.
Teh Dumbfuck: “Run a moron.”
Groyper Base: “Don’t mind if I do!”
Um, uh, forgive me for saying so. But I think while you were pre-occupied with cankles and pant suits, something weird happened to your political party.
#youbuiltthat
DC Cir denied Trump petition for en banc rehearing of Mazars suit requiring the accounting company to turn over Trump taxes.
App to SCOTUS for stay due by next Wednesday.
This timeline continues to unfold badly for the GOP, especially now that they are all Ride-Or-Die Trump. SCOTUS declines is the endgame, which would come in the current term. Possibly early in the current term.
It’s actually possible that House Oversight will be receiving the Trump taxes while the impeachment is still underway.
That would be… unfortunate for him.
#winning
@8 If 3M goes nowhere, it’ll be because it’s a manufacturing company, and Trump’s Miracle Economy (TM; pat. pend.) isn’t exactly creating a gusher of manufacturing jobs or a tsunami of business for manufacturers.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Brilliant Hoaxes Fartblower Blowback Update –
Favorite Demorat Fail #1, Demorat drone bureaucrats admit that testimony is based upon hearsay.
Favorite Demorat Fail #2, Demorat drone bureaucrat Taylor testifies that holdback of military aid to Ukraine endangers national security, subsequently admits that Obama held back military aid throughout his term in office.
Favorite Demorat Fail #3, Demorat pathological liar Schiff denies that he knows the identity of Fartblower after admitting that Fartblower met with his staff.
—————
You know it’s bad when CNN admits Schiff bombed today.
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin admitted Wednesday afternoon that the two star witnesses Schiff rolled out on day one of his impeachment show trials never even had direct contact with President Trump.
The two Trump-hating witnesses, George Kent, a deputy at the State Department and Bill Taylor, the charge d’affaires at the US Embassy in Kiev testified together on Wednesday.
The two anti-Trump witnesses admitted to Congressman Jim Jordan that they’ve never even spoken to President Trump — all of their information was based on second and third-hand chatter.
CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin said Wednesday that neither witness had direct contact with the president.
“The one criticism of these two witnesses, which I think is very much legitimate…Is that neither of them had contact with the President — EVER — and yeah, that’s a problem if you’re going to impeach the president,” Toobin said.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/even-cnn-agrees-schiff-bombed-today-neither-witness-had-direct-contact-with-president-trump-thats-a-problem-video/
@23 “An important reminder that what’s on trial here isn’t Democrats’ ability to convince Republicans that Trump is bad, it’s to establish that Republicans believe they are entitled to destroy institutions and rig elections to stay in power.”
Not to mention handing over our allies to their enemies, which Trump has done at least twice since July. If I was a U.S. ally, I’d be nervous right now.
@39 That’s what made him invaluable to the RCCC recruiters.
@2 “$3,699 if I go for it.”
Of course you will. Design a computer that an idiot can use and only an idiot will buy it.
47,
I really like Apple. I recommend them all the time.
To all the people who used to come to me for free IT support.
Now when they start having problems with their latest greatest Apple branded electronic jewelry I can honestly tell them without a hint of regret that I have absolutely no powers in that world. And they’ll just have to go into the Genius Bar and pull out their debit card.
It’s better this way. It really is.
47,
Also, and maybe I don’t understand some of the unique data storage challenges that accompany a serious anime goat porn hobby, but anybody who needs 8 terabytes of local storage is doing something fundamentally wrong.
Does Apple OS really carry that much overhead? Geezus.
Just for surfing and email. Motherfuck.
@44
It’s called building a case.
Background is bad, more background on Friday. GOP and Gateway play up “second hand”.
Sondland comes next week. First hand.
Then it’s on to contempt for other first hand witnesses asserting the right to ignore congressional subpoenas.
Bolton
Mulvaney
Pompeo (subpoenaed documents)
Barr if refused to enforce Contempt citations.
Then on to making Rudy squirm under oath.
Then two Russians currently in custody with first hand knowledge of Rudy dealings.
But No one calls a ‘Star Witness’ at the beginning. Y’all are falling all over yourself over ‘rape of wrestlers’ enabler’s characterization of the day. It’s HIGHlarious.
@50 Jim Jordan put on his usual clown show, and the rest of them tried to convince the world that Trump is a snow-white corruption fighter.
When SCOTUS rules on ‘sanctity of life’ cases in the near future keep in mind they refused a stay of execution today for Ray Cromartie though evidence exists someone else may have committed the crime and the victim’s family publicly supported DNA testing that didn’t exist during first trial and has never been performed. Cromartie was pronounced dead by GA corrections at 11:59 EDT.
Animal porn must take up more space than regular porn, especially animal porn with kids…..play on words…kids….goats.
One of the pussy grabbers friends
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-disabled-woman-sexually-assaulted-vernon-20191113-p3ofeetzabgfxoa7obt7cskxvy-story.html
When they aren’t grabbing pussy then they are serving minors alcohol…..you know, because it’s all part of the family values.
https://digitaledition.courant.com/html5/mobile/production/default.aspx?pubid=e1bdb9a0-d9e0-4569-842b-54331efd8091&edid=377476f1-5605-4172-8705-fbac5b177436
Dumbfucks…..Dumbfucks…..imagine these two being paid to play a sport. Nike, or any other Brand/Product take on risk having potential spokespeople like immature kids who are supposed to be focused on education.
https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-news-uconn-student-racial-slur-court-20191113-7ngvukaimndxdj5tad5rtgvauy-story.html
Another day, another school shooting, to be followed by another Trump/GOP/NRA standdown on keeping guns away from nutcases.
Born-in-USA citizen. Marine veteran. But also brown skin and Hispanic surname, so local police handed him over to ICE. That just cost the city employing those cops a $190,000 legal settlement.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/us/michigan-city-to-pay-detained-american/index.html
Not-serious non-candidate Michael Bloomberg is skipping the New Hampshire primary.
Not all doctors are dumbasses. (In fact, most aren’t; Doctor Dumbfuck is an aberration.) I predict that when this 9-year-old college graduate gets his medical degree a couple years from now, he won’t be shuffled off to a basement radiology lab to keep him away from the patients.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/university-graduate-child-genius-scli-intl/index.html
And here we have another batch of Trump supporters pretending to be “swing voters.”
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/14/undecided-wisconsin-voters-impeachment-hearing-reactions-tuchman-dnt-vpx.cnn
Roger Rabbit Commentary: When you see people hiding the fact they’re Republicans, you know even they think they’re dumbasses. After all, if they thought being Republican is something to be proud of, they wouldn’t hide it, would they?
Deval Patrick has thrown his hat into the race. It’s getting pretty crowded.
@56 “Karal and another student, Ryan Mucaj, of Granby, are charged with ridicule on account of creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race.”
I don’t see how that can stand. I could see charging them with disorderly conduct, maybe, but making “ridicule” a crime? Unconstitutional as fuck.
If ridiculing someone on account of their creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality, race, or disability is a crime then Trump ought to be behind bars.
@62 Popular presidents tend not to draw dozens of challengers.
64 – That explains why so many Republicans, four years ago, decided to run against Hillary. She was so unpopular that she even made it to the White House.
@65 She was an awful candidate, even Doctor Dumbfuck says so, yet Trump got 2.9 million fewer votes than she did — so what does that say about Trump? And that was before people realized Trump is a crook.
@63.
https://www.cga.ct.gov/PS94/rpt/olr/htm/94-R-0786.htm
Section 53-37. I guess they could take it to the SCOTUS, but looks like the one kid is taking the easier way out. Interesting to see what the other kid, and/or ACLU will do.
Must suck for Sondland, I’m sure. And Doctor Dumbfuck and his orange moron as well.
“AP source: 2nd US official heard Trump call with Sondland”
https://apnews.com/6d318542e50b45dc9e1d4d829ad36c96
By the way, nice choices by the GOP for impeachment TV time, Nunes and Jordan. Heh, quite purposely diverting the viewer from the serious matter at hand. To hear Nunes talk serves to cause viewers to think about how Nunes’ cow is way, way smarter than he is, and whenever Jordan talks, viewers can’t help but wonder if they’re also hearing an OSU wrestler whinnying.
@67 Any municipal court judge could, and should, throw that charge out. You don’t have to be a Supreme Court justice to decide something violates the First Amendment. If the prosecutor doesn’t like it, s/he can appeal the ruling to higher courts.
@68 They don’t have to change anyone’s mind, and they’re not trying to. All they have to do is hold onto the base. If they can keep public support for removal under two-thirds, mission accomplished.
Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin has conceded after a recanvass confirmed he lost the election by ~5,000 votes, and is moving on.
I wonder if Trump will concede and move on if he loses by millions of popular votes and dozens of electoral votes, or call the election a “fraud” and urge his followers to start a “cival war”?
House Intel Committee members aren’t the only people who’ve seen the transcripts:
“US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s cell phone call to President Donald Trump from a restaurant in Ukraine this summer appears to be a shocking security breach that raises significant counterintelligence concerns, according to several former officials, who told CNN there is a high probability that intelligence agencies from numerous foreign countries, including Russia, were listening in on the conversation.”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/14/politics/bill-taylor-gordon-sondland-call-trump-security-concerns/index.html
Roger Rabbit Commentary: Amateur diplomat calling amateur president, what the hell do you expect when you hire amateurs for work requiring professional experience?
Makes you wonder if the average Trump voter would hire a plumber to perform brain surgery on them, doesn’t it?
Of course they cry. They always cry when they’re confronted with the reality of what they’ve done.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/11/14/impeachment-inquiry-testimony-voters-response-lah-pkg-vpx.cnn
61,
What CNN is doing is remains quite opaque. But we can assume it’s about the same as they’ve been doing since at least 2012. And what that has consisted of are self-curated panels of self-identified “undecideds” from a handful of “swing” states interviewed longitudinally from month to month during a single election.
The producers select from among the respondents according to “identity profiles” to give a “mix” according to CNN. These “identity profiles” have included “The Millennial”, “The Catholic”, “The Single Woman”, “The Evangelical”, well, I think you can see where this goes.
Coverage like this is more likely intended to build audience rather than actually measure voter response. It isn’t truly longitudinal in any sense that a political scientist could use. And it suffers from a ton of major flaws, not the least of which is that rather than identifying voters based on behavior, it identifies them by how they choose to describe themselves to a television audience. It’s like loge(Ken Bone) = Trump played out in a studio in front of a camera.
It’s well worth remembering that Jeff Zucker’s stated intention is to draw audience away from FOX News. To do that he has to appeal to FOX News viewers interested in an alternative. But it hardly follows that such viewers would map easily to Trump voters interested in an alternative. Or if such a thing really even exists.
Strike two.
“Michael Bloomberg … acknowledged that he’s made ‘disrespectful’ comments about women ….”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-bloomberg-apologizes-women-comments_n_5dcd6881e4b0d43931d0a490
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Donald has officially petitioned SCOTUS to keep his taxes from New York prosecutors.
Either way it’s a loss. Either SCOTUS rules that legally subpoenaed records are off limits to law enforcement in a corruption case (eds. note Fine paid rather than risk trial for embezzling funds from your personal charity. Was that income declared?) with Moscow Mitch’s justices doing his bidding (12 justices! Do it!) or Donald has to release taxes or he can violate SCOTUS ruling against and slam dunk obstruction of justice charge.
Either way, the Sitting President is going to the Supreme Court to keep secret personal details that have been voluntarily disclosed by every presidential nominee in my lifetime.
Optics.
I’m sure The Hump is already, or has been, making deals with Repuke Senators to not remove him from office. Here’s some money for you, and you, and you, and you. I promise you this and this and you can go home and be heroes to you constituents.
@76 today, with Repukes and The Hump, all logic is defied.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Brilliant Hoaxes Fartblower Blowback Update – Demorats In Turmoil After Fartblower Clown Show Debacle
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Democrats have been scrambling following Wednesday’s lackluster public impeachment hearing, changing the focus of their impeachment narrative to “attempted” crimes after Republican lawmakers largely decimated their weak impeachment case.
Wednesday’s public impeachment hearing, which featured testimonies from acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and senior State Department official George Kent, was deemed a bust by many, including Democrats.
“It was a total disaster for us,” one senior House Democrat aide told Breitbart News.
“It’s hearsay,” Rep. Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ) said of Taylor’s testimony. “It’s really difficult dealing with this because it’s he said-she said.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/sad-democrats-scramble-switch-impeachment-narrative-attempted-crimes-after-lackluster-hearing/
76,
I don’t think the Court will grant cert.
On the facts, laws, and arguments at issue the case does not merit further review. I doubt very much that any four members will somehow discover in these issues a compelling purpose for taking it up in light of the proceedings and rulings thus far. Trump’s DOJ does a very poor job of arguing that this kind of oversight either burdens or deprives the President’s A2 powers or upsets the balance of powers between and among co-equal branches.
It’s his motherfucking taxes, FFS. It just isn’t reasonable to aver that oversight would imperil the office unless the documents contain lies/crimes. I’m not inclined to believe that even this court sees itself in the role of covering up the private indiscretions of billionaires (??) so long as Congress has a valid purpose. And the Court has heretofore defined Congressional purpose fairly broadly.
He’s Fucked.
https://youtu.be/2c6lf4P0Vtw?t=78
79,
Van Drew voted against the inquiry.
Swing and a miss. Big time.
I realize that prior to reading this you didn’t know that. But it ought to make you think… assuming of course that you are capable.
I-976 will be thrown out by March, so nobody should be particularly concerned about it.
79,
Also, and NFN, Van Drew not a lawyer.
He’s a dentist. You know. Just like Hermey the Elf.
So you go right ahead and do your thing. But I’ll keep right on relying on Rule 803 and it’s 23 different, broadly defined, and sweeping in scope exceptions to rule against hearsay.
I know you and all the other dentists get all your legal training from television. But you’re more than welcome to google rule 803 and see for yourself. It’s fair to say that hearsay is more commonly admitted than excluded. But even if you did get all your legal training from television, what the hell do you think all those cops and detectives are doing up there on the stand?
That’s hearsay too. Hmmmmmm. Maybe that’s why Van Drew is the only one mentioning it, including the Trumpublicans.
Demorat Pornstar Party Of Hate America & Brilliant Hoaxes News – New Demorat Star Witness Certain To Erase Stain Of Prior Hearing Fiasco, Will Cry Over Mistreatment By Trump.
Demorat beauty Marie Yovanovitch (https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/11/Marie-Yovanovitch-2-640×480.jpg)
explains; “I should have won Miss Demorat America but Trump and Putin stole my votes and gave them to this ugly hag,
(https://cdn01.dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Kangaroo-e1555444509795.jpg)
now she gets to lay on the beach and smoke dope, it’s so unfair.”
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Democrats are hoping the former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch’s testimony on Friday will draw sympathy from Americans watching the impeachment inquiry hearings, according to reports.
Yovanovitch is going to “tug at America’s heartstrings,” a Democrat aide told NBC News earlier this week.
A Democrat aide also told Axios earlier this week, “Yovanovitch was the first victim of the president’s scheme with Giuliani. [That draws the] sympathy of the audience.”
Yovanovitch, who was removed from her posting earlier this year around May, choked up during her closed-door deposition last month when she was describing her firing, prompting lawmakers to give her a short break. The moment came during questioning from the Democrat counsel Daniel Goldman.
Democrats may try to recreate that scene during the hearing’s first hour, which Democrats are designing to be as impactful as possible, according to reports.
“If the American people only watch the first hour, they’ll hear plenty,” a Democrat source told NBC News. “The first hour of each hearing is designed to be a blockbuster.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/11/14/democrats-hope-marie-yovanovitchs-testimony-will-draw-sympathy-from-americans/
@81 @83 Why bother? You’re talking to a fencepost.
When I want to know the pulse of America I turn to Breitbart!
Meanwhile in actual happening America, Donald in Louisiana tonight:
Beg Pardon?
With super majorities in both State houses by GOP…
Closing argument is solid.
How to be completely full of shit in only 6 minutes.
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/rep-reed-trump-actions-don-t-rise-to-level-of-impeachment-73494085558
https://mobile.twitter.com/jordansteffy1/status/1193002314879184898
Getting bitch slapped. Teacher at the end of the video should be fired. And the rest of the students suspended too.
You built that!
So if a student answers a Physics question that only GOD can keep a body at rest at rest they can’t be wrong.
Or if a Biology exam comes back saying DNA is not in the Koran therefore the genes are not responsible for the ability to roll the tongue and Allah must have picked each individual who can tongue roll or can’t…You Pass!
Literature, I cannot read anything except the New Testament according to my pastor so instead of my thoughts on “A Seperate Peace” here’s a few paragraphs on how all my classmates who read fiction are going to hell.
Here’s where a conservative would equate forcing medically accurate sex education in school is no different from letting students be factually wrong but religiously dogmatic.
How other media see the United States
Times of India
So how come the Kim/Donald Bromance is off Fox News. It was a Nobel winning partnership way back last month…
Well, this is interesting — when Trump finally released military aid to Ukraine (two days after the Politico story about his extortion efforts broke), the javelin anti-tank missiles were supplied on condition they not be used.
https://www.msnbc.com/11th-hour/watch/amid-trump-impeachment-ukraine-struggles-to-fight-back-russian-aggression-73506373665
So much for Republican bragging that Trump gave the Ukrainians lethal weapons. I wonder where that directive came from? Betcha it originated in an office in Moscow.
89,
I don’t think you read the bill’s text and neither did Charlie Pierce.
No school district board of education,governing authority of a community school established under Chapter 3314. of the Revised Code, governing body of a STEM school established under Chapter 3326. of the Revised Code, or board of trustees of a college-preparatory boarding school established under Chapter 3328. of the Revised Code shall prohibit a student from engaging in religious expression in the completion of homework, artwork, or other written or oral assignments. Assignment grades and scores shall be calculated using ordinary academic standards of substance and relevance,including any legitimate pedagogical concerns, and shall not penalize or reward a student based on the religious content of a student’s work.
I don’t think it says what Pierce says it says.
Not that I would mind it if henceforth and forevermore not a single Evangelical student was able to gain admission to a good college or university, and thus were barred from most career paths that don’t involve either a shovel, a stripper pole, or the wearing of a very flattering and colorful uniform.
@ 93
I don’t think you read the bill’s text…
That’s Cz-252. He’s YLB, but with a Y chromosome and 30 additional IQ points.
I think the defense of Trump extortion/bribery that will emerge will essentially boil down to this: “It’s business-as-usual, from a tough business negotiator who always demands a quid pro quo.”
Given the corp media predilection for “balance” and those journalists fetish for appearing “savvy” about these things, it could be surprisingly successful.
Of course, the flaw at the heart of all this is that the “tough negotiation” was in pursuit of an illegal purpose. But I’m afraid that since the White House has thus far been able to withhold many of the key witnesses and documents about that illegal purpose, and since House Democrats appear to be steering around the issue to avoid breathing life into these crazy Area 51 theories, the public won’t hear much at all about that. And the reporting will focus mostly on the conduct rather than the intent of Rudy’s adventure.
That will leave the door open for Republicans and the corp media whores to portray the whole Ukraine Missiles-for-Political-Smear effort as just another example of Trump’s unconventional approach. A parade of career diplomats, and even decorated war heroes, all complaining about being “cut-out”, deceived, and abused by Giuliani and his team of Russian bag-men may not be enough to alter that narrative.
House Dems need a better political perspective from outside the beltway to fully understand this. The day to day commerce in status, dignity, and power that fuels Washington DC and that innervates their professional lives is somewhat irrelevant to most Americans. They will not share the committee’s outrage at the described conduct. And of course, Trump’s supporters will revel in it.
The point here is that the Constitutional norm that public office and public authority, whether they are employed carefully and with respect or wielded like a cudgel, must be used exclusively for public interest is being lost in this. And it’s frankly sad, but perhaps not surprising, that the House leadership fail to recognize this. We see a media preoccupied with the palace intrigue, counting coup, score keeping, and a focus on the violation of behavioral norms. But still mostly ignoring the underlying, and largely unrefuted malign and corrupt purpose of the whole scheme. Which was to benefit Trump the private man, not the office, and not the people he is sworn to serve.
This is consistent with a theme. Evidence has been clear and plentiful that Trump has conducted himself in office for his own personal, private financial benefit since day one. Whether it’s the use of Trump properties by government agencies, mounting into the tens of millions of dollars going directly into his pockets, or the bullying of foreign interests into doing likewise, or into more favorable negotiations for his next resort deal, or his family members acting as government employees traveling abroad to negotiate on behalf of his private companies, the obvious truth of all that has become “boring” to the savvy media, all eager stay ahead of the curve in adopting the new political norm.
But when political norms stand in for Constitutional norms we lose the republic. And where Americans, politicians, media, and voters alike, are in error is in assuming that you can make even a single such substitution, however briefly, without imperiling all the other underpinnings of a constitutional republic.
Trump’s MAGA base supporters voted for him precisely because he is a crude, rash, persistent bully. And probably a great many other people held their noses and voted for him recognizing that, and holding out hope that it could be put to good use. All the strong evidence says that Trump mostly puts his native talent to malign use. Overlooking that is how we get 4 more years of Trump.
94,
I see a bill like that, and particularly that passage within the bill, as nothing more than political bait, inviting push back in order to draw attention for no legitimate purpose other than to distract.
Somehow I sincerely doubt that any Ohio public school students have suffered from grading discrimination because they quote a Bible passage in their essay on The Tempest. Although in this age of PIZZABABYCANNIBALYAWP I have absolutely no doubt that tales of such horrors enjoy a vigorous life in the social media accounts of every Ohio Church Lady. Still, it’s probably useful to hysterical thumpers and snake handlers to get defenders of quality public education and true religious freedom distracted from the other passages in the bill that would grant students the right to hold prayer circles or speak in tongues in the middle of math class.