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During what is a House grand jury hearing, it is ILLEGAL to tamper with the grand jury's process!
MF45 just committed two crimes at once.
The count: TWO new Articles of Impeachment in real time.
Keep it up, lil Donnie!
EDIT: Clarifying my post below:
Republican lawyers right there cannot lie about what they and Schiff saw in real time.
Schiff either already has, or will enter the attempted intimidation tweet into the Congressional Record.
These two real time crimes -- intimidation of a witness, and obstructing a grand jury process ( to do the first is to do the second) -- cannot be denied, defended or exonerated by anyone IN that chamber, or by any Senator watching that process and the evidence of the @realDonaldTrump tweet that Schiff has presented.
If Senate Republicans are watching this "process," and still exonerate MF45 on these articles in their trial, they will have committed the crime of perjury and obstruction of justice themselves.
MF 45 Has Visited NO Country Yovanovitch Has Served In -- His Tweet Is WITNESS INTIMIDATION.
The map below proves he knows NOTHING about the countries Yovanovitch has represented him in.
AND YET in real time, DURING the House Impeachment Hearing #2, MF45 smears the highest rated ambassador in the US State Department. MF45's crime, Per Chuck Rosenberg, 18 U.S.C. § 1512
World sites MF45 has visited.
FOX vs MSNBC Coverage of the Impeachment Hearing -- Mother Jones
Thoughts?
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https://www.motherjones.com/impeachment/2019/11/how-fox-is-covering-the-impeachment-testimony-vs-how-msnbc-is-covering-the-impeachment-testimony/?fbclid=IwAR2CsHCx8yqknddNb1dJ9DcPwCLVPS4LdBIiJQj1QYnRQAoTdP0V528MiVg
LISTEN UP, AMERICA! THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT!
WHO: House Intelligence Committee
WHAT: Trump Public Impeachment Hearings
WHEN: Wednesday, 11/13, and Friday, 11/15,
10 AM, EST
WHERE: LIVE on
PBS,
C-SPAN3,
C-SPAN Radio,
CNN,
MSNBC,
Fox News,
NBC,
ABC,
CBS
YouTube.
And probably a bar near you. 
THIS impeachment goes beyond the last cheap, tawdry impeachment over a semen stain and one lie, doesn't it!
There has never been an impeachment of this magnitude!
May hearts and minds be uplifted and strengthened by justice in action! 
Harmonize Across Generations!
"One morning I woke up and I knew
You were really gone
A new day, a new way, I knew
I should see it along
Go your way, I'll go mine
And carry on
The sky is clearing and the night
Has gone out
The sun, he come, the world
Is all full of love
Rejoice, rejoice, we have no choice
But to carry on
The fortunes of fables are able
To sing the song
Now witness the quickness with which
We get along
To sing the blues you've got to live the dues
And carry on
Carry on
Love is coming
Love is coming to us all..."
The ERA is BACK! Woohoo! Thank you, Virginia!
NOTE: This post might be removed from the LBN threads, so I decided I'd post it here, too. Because ERA!
The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It's Only Been 96 Years.
Source: New York Times
First proposed almost a century ago and passed by Congress in 1972, the constitutional amendment — whose main clause reads, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex” ... In 2018, Illinois was the 37th. Now, Virginia’s incoming Democratic leaders have promised to take up the amendment immediately when the legislature convenes in January — and given that it failed in the Virginia Senate by only one vote when the body was under Republican control, passage is almost assured.
... nothing in Article V of the Constitution, which lays out the process for amendments, says ratification must happen within a certain period of time: After all, Congress approved the 27th Amendment in 1789, and the final state did not ratify it until 1992.
“We fully anticipate that there will be a Supreme Court decision involved in this,” said Krista Niles, outreach and civic engagement director at the Alice Paul Institute, one of the main organizations promoting the Equal Rights Amendment. “Both sides of the argument have lawyers waiting to file their amicus briefs at any moment that the 38th state does ratify.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/virginia-ratify-equal-rights-amendment.html
A lot of feedback's been lost, but I hope people will keep commenting on the ramifications of this latest news out of Virginia. For example, customerserviceguy posted:
"Under the Constitution both the President and the SCOTUS have no official role when it comes to amending the Constitution. That power is solely within the hands of the Congress and the state legislators."
Also, "... Mitch McConnell has to do with the ERA at this point. It passed the Senate nearly fifty years ago, so it's a done deal there."
Also, from discntnt_irny_srcsm :
" For anyone interested the Alice Paul Institute is near Philly in South Jersey.
Open for visits:
Public hours- Tuesday-Friday 12:00-4:00 pm
Second Saturdays (March-November) 12:00-2:00 pm
Price: $10/person for self-guided tours
Call 856-231-1885 for guided tour appointments and pricing.
https://www.alicepaul.org/
This amendment's passage could quash all current cases from states fighting against Roe v Wade.
Roe v Wade probably won't even have to exist anymore if this amendment is passed.
Finally, women will have fundamental constitutional rights that men have about their bodily autonomy.
VA as the 38th state to ratify the ERA is a Big F'n Deal!
The Equal Rights Amendment May Pass Now. It's Only Been 96 Years.
Source: New York Times
Of all the things that Virginia may pass now that Democrats have won control of the state legislature, none have been so long in the making as the Equal Rights Amendment.
First proposed almost a century ago and passed by Congress in 1972, the constitutional amendment -- whose main clause reads, "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex" ... In 2018, Illinois was the 37th. Now, Virginia's incoming Democratic leaders have promised to take up the amendment immediately when the legislature convenes in January -- and given that it failed in the Virginia Senate by only one vote when the body was under Republican control, passage is almost assured.
... nothing in Article V of the Constitution, which lays out the process for amendments, says ratification must happen within a certain period of time: After all, Congress approved the 27th Amendment in 1789, and the final state did not ratify it until 1992.
"We fully anticipate that there will be a Supreme Court decision involved in this," said Krista Niles, outreach and civic engagement director at the Alice Paul Institute, one of the main organizations promoting the Equal Rights Amendment. "Both sides of the argument have lawyers waiting to file their amicus briefs at any moment that the 38th state does ratify."
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/politics/virginia-ratify-equal-rights-amendment.html
The ERA is back! Thank you, Virginia!
NOTE: I've moved this OP over to General Discussion. Since it appeared from NYT online today, with a time stamp and byline, I took it to be news, though hosts might decide otherwise.
Please follow comments in GD if you see this get "locked." Thanks, all.
My Hope
Given last night's election results, we might actually be seeing momentum toward a functioning, take-charge Democratic federal government. Not just to get us clear of current mafia and nazi insurgencies in our domestic government and foreign relationships.
Most important to me is to win in 2020 so that the U.S. will actually, automatically, stay IN the Paris Climate Accords. That's one step.
Here's the hope part. All ideas are welcome. 
The next step, as I see it, is bigger and more necessary -- to budget and man large scale leadership on climate projects.
The best standing scalable projects exist in Gov Jay Inslee's Green New Future and Global Climate Projects. He's already made 1/3 of them work at his state's level. He's got a core team who've thought about and worked on these projects for years.
To avoid most (not all) of the cascading catastrophes scientists predict, the next president has to create a new Cabinet department within the Executive Branch. It needs an important name to match its goals. I can't think of one at the moment.
This Cabinet Head will have coordination power over
-- Homeland Security (climate refugee and FEMA disaster relief)
-- Dept of the Interior (monitoring vulnerable regions) and
-- Dept of Commerce (Big Data) and
-- Dept of Energy.
Gov. Jay Inslee's state level experience, along with tech and climate scientist expertise, can plan and implement large scale domestic and global cooperative projects through that level of government. Any other solutions within our current framework will hit self-interest walls, bureaucratic inertia and dead ends.
Without the status of an Executive Branch Cabinet Department, nothing will happen, except some random tech or for-profit innovation. Nothing will happen on the scale of mitigations that need to be done.
It all comes down to next year's voter turnout.
A government that can work to stop climate catastrophe is one issue that can get Millennials to GOTV.
My hope is for large scale action. Obama's core value.
Humor IS Outreach
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