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kpete's JournalGeorge Takei: "On this Impeachment Day - Please save us all"
God, arrest ye scary gentlemen
The people you dismay
Remember oaths of office
On this Impeachment Day
Please save us all
From Donald's lies,
Abuses everyday
O Congress impeach the
Orange menace today
O Congress impeach
His ass today!
https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1207320036039385089
The evidence is overwhelming and indeed includes the Presidents own words.
The impeachment fight boils down to four simple questions:
1. Did the president of the United States ask another country to interfere in the upcoming 2020 election?
(The answer sure appears to be a yes from the partial transcript of the July 25 call.)
2. Did Trump and his administration withhold military aid and a White House visit to compel Ukraine to start this investigation into Joe Biden and his son?
(Again, the answer sure seems to be a yes. Here's the testimony from EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland...)
3. Were those actions -- first the ask of interference, then the temporary withholding of military aid -- an abuse of the president's powers?
Here's the oath of office a president takes...
4. Do those actions amount to impeachable offenses?
The Constitution says the following offenses are impeachable: "treason, bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors"
https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1207302676242993158
https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1207304217091805185
https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1207305344541745152
https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/1207306110799097856
Amen to this!
Rob Reiner
There are not alternative facts. There are only facts. The sky is blue. The world is round. Water is wet. And the most Criminally Corrupt President in our Nation’s history has committed High Crimes & Misdemeanors & will be Impeached by The United States House Of Representatives.
https://twitter.com/DearAuntCrabby/status/1207294315749351425
...the reason Dear Leader is particularly losing his shit right now has a name: Firtash.
Please bear in mind through all of this that the reason Dear Leader is particularly losing his shit right now has a name: Firtash.
If reporters stop acting as aggregating stenographers, get over their fear of dioxin, and follow the Firtash rabbit hole where it leads, they might deserve the name journalists.
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY BOYS!
--Big Dan Teague
The motherlode, way back before the trip down the escalator, was Russian money-laundering through anonymous shell accounts and high-end real estate.
As it was then, so it remains. Nothing has changed, it's just that the stakes are much higher now.
So get yourselves some top-flight security, and chase that gold ring of journalising you dreamed about at Columbia.
To repeat: the two things that gives Trump night sweats are Russians laundering money through high-end real estate, and the anonymous shell accounts they (and he) use to do it. Tax returns a close second.
Teapot Dome Scandal?
Watergate?
Tammany Hall?
Hold my beer.
So let's think this through. Let's say heretofore stenographic stringers decide to follow up on reporting done before Trump became Dear Leader, about his properties serving as money-laundering conduits for Russian mobsters and their ilk. Let's say they use FBI agents...
...on that beat, not in particular to Trump, but as general background. You know, the guys who were tasked with playing catch-up on OC and were pissing up a rope to get anyone to pay attention.
So what happens? Obvious. They are Deep State. They are "out to get 'Trump'."
Mind you, that's merely background stuff. You think Trump hates the FBI just because? Ha.
And the funniest part is that Trump's hero is Cohn. But Cohn played both ends of the spectrum. Suffice it to say that the Cohn that Trump new was not Hoover's bud.
But why am I even bothering. 99.9% of Americans don't know Trump was cozy with the Gambinos. And when confronted with the evidence, Trump supporters would say it's the cost of doing business in NY and NJ. But they can't quite explain away Roy Cohn, so they ignore Trump's hero.
Concrete high rise. Heh. That's more than buying no labor stoppage, that's some serious protection money and then some.
Thread:
https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1207142183662489600
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THE RUDE PUNDIT: "hey, let's fuckin' dunk Trump and see if he floats."
THE RUDE PUNDIT
12/17/2019
Random Observations on Trump's Completely Bugnuts Insane "Letter" on Impeachment Eve
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3. I mean, c'mon: "[Y]ou are offending Americans of faith by continually saying 'I pray for the President,' when you know this statement is not true, unless it is meant in a negative sense. It is a terrible thing you are doing, but you will have to live with it, not I!" Trump being insulted by Nancy Pelosi saying she prays for him is just...(chef's kiss)...beautiful. And all his nutzoid fundamentalist worshippers will agree with him that Pelosi's prayers are mean.
4. Trump so outright lies about Joe Biden and the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin that Biden ought to sue the fuck out of Trump for slander. The intentional malice is dripping off the assertions that Biden was trying to stop an investigation of his son, something that is objectively false. Sue his ass.
5. Trump declares his victory in 2016 "an Electoral College landslide." If that's true (and it's not), then what were Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012, which were by bigger Electoral College margins, along with over 50% of the popular vote each time? Somehow, that didn't stop Republicans from being abject dickholes to Obama. Also, fun fact, Richard Nixon was reelected in a legit landslide: he won 49 states and over 60% of the popular vote. Yet I seem to remember that didn't stop Congress from moving to impeach him.
6. Oh, I know what you're wondering. Did Trump bring up Rep. Adam Schiff parodying his phone call with Ukraine's president? After all, he has been obsessed with that September 26 opening statement by Schiff for months now. Well, shit, of course he did: "Congressman Adam Schiff cheated and lied all the way up to the present day, even going so far as to fraudulently make up, out of thin air, my conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine and read this fantasy language to Congress as though it were said by me." He will not let that mocking go. And Trump's started to lie about the timeline, saying that the "transcript" of the July 25 call was released after Schiff's statement. That's absolutely untrue. Schiff was making fun of the "transcript" (which isn't a transcript - it's a memo of the call).
7. After a yadda-yadda-yadda list of shit he claims as accomplishments (and just about anything to do with the economy still has more to do with him not fucking up Obama's economy), Trump uses the old "rubber-glue" gambit: "You are the ones interfering in America’s elections. You are the ones subverting America’s Democracy. You are the ones Obstructing Justice." By the way, they're "Obstructing Justice" because, Trump says, "I have been denied the most fundamental rights afforded by the Constitution." Except, well, see point 2 above. The Constitution gives the president zero rights when it comes to impeachment. He gets his rights at the trial in the Senate, but the Founders didn't want a president to be able to do jackshit about impeachment.
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the rest:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2019/12/random-observations-on-trumps.html
Colbert to Van Drew-Why are you switching to Repub Party & Why is there a Klan rally in your pocket?
https://twitter.com/StephenAtHome/status/1206749655465447426
https://twitter.com/RickBear2327/status/1206750845464981511
Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was-
Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was--he stuck the knife in the heart of the American dream, launched us toward our polarized society, was racist, corrupt, fiscally irresponsible, bad at the job.
https://twitter.com/djrothkopf/status/1206935996308361216
SWALWELL!!!
Impeachable and "destructive to the republic," but she might vote for him anyway.https://twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1206624136165904389
The House signals in court filing that its Mueller-focused "impeachment investigation" will continue
House vows to continue impeachment probes regardless of Senate outcomeLawyers for the House told a federal court on Monday that lawmakers will continue their impeachment investigation even after the House votes later this week to impeach President Donald Trump.
In a filing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, House General Counsel Douglas Letter argued that the House’s demands for grand jury materials connected to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation were still urgent because such evidence might become relevant to the Senate’s expected impeachment trial next month.
But Letter went further to note that even apart from the Senate trial, the House Judiciary Committee intends to continue its impeachment investigation arising from the Mueller probe on its own merit. That investigation began earlier this year.
“The committee has continued and will continue [its impeachment] investigations consistent with its own prior statements respecting their importance and purposes,” Letter wrote in a filing Monday as part of the House’s bid to obtain Mueller’s grand-jury evidence.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/16/house-impeachment-mueller-086251
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1206668893126877184
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