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  1. Or maybe those things would have happened anyway--but better? Like Art Briles never exists and growth isn't inhibited by wealth concentration and greed?
  2. So they're obstructing the impeachment inquiry by physically obstructing the impeachment inquiry? That right? My god.
  3. The cycle of Trump putting up a defense and the media knocking it down within hours is becoming comical. Unfortunately, many people will only see his defenses and have no reason to doubt them. Nevertheless, the tide is turning. That Quinnipac poll was before the Taylor testimony. Have to imagine support for removal is above 50% now.
  4. He got a bunch of money from his Daddy and then, when that ran out, from his Daddy Putin. It's amazing what you can accomplish when everything is handed to you.
  5. And one last thing this morning, that whistleblower is a true patriot. If he doesn't come forward I'm not sure if any of this comes to light. We could all be talking about Ukraine investigating Hunter Biden right now, none the wiser.
  6. Dude. Get out of here with that reading shit.
  7. Is it clear they didn't know about it? And besides that, the only reason the aid was released was that the story blew up. Had the whistleblower not come forward, the withheld money likely forces Zelenskyy to announce the investigation--that was the point. If you break into a bank and run off when the alarm goes off, you're still a bankrobber even if you didn't get the money. Fuck these lying traitors.
  8. Marc Thiessen, former GWB speechwriter, allowed to spew whatever Bullshit he wants in the Washington post. September 26 - Democrats Sprint Ahead of Evidence What about Biden? Multiple news reports suggested Trump “repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden’s son.” Turns out Trump only mentions Biden by name toward the end of the call. He tells Zelensky, “The other thing, there’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. … It sounds horrible to me.” Should Trump have done this? Absolutely not. But the reality of this call is a far cry from overheated charges that Trump used U.S. aid to repeatedly pressure Zelensky to investigate Hunter Biden. At a news conference with Trump at the United Nations, Zelensky said the call was “normal” and “nobody pushed me.” Career public integrity prosecutors at the Justice Department also reviewed the transcript of the Trump-Zelensky call and found there was no campaign finance crime to pursue. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/09/26/democrats-sprint-ahead-evidence/ Today, after testimony that Trump explictly tied up U.S. aid to pressure Zelensky to investigate Biden - There is Nothing Wrong with Quid Pro Quos But let’s say Trump had in fact withheld U.S. aid to get Ukraine to cooperate with the Durham probe. There would be absolutely nothing wrong with that. The president, as the country’s chief law enforcement officer, would be entirely within his rights to use aid as leverage to get Ukraine cooperate with an official Justice Department investigation. If it turns out that the quo was “investigate my 2020 opponent,” as acting ambassador William Taylor reportedly alleged during testimony on Capitol Hill Tuesday, then Trump is in big trouble; but if the quo is “cooperate with the Justice Department,” that’s perfectly fine. So, while Democrats may be insisting that Trump delenda est — “Trump must be destroyed” — they will need something more than this quid pro quo to do it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/22/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-quid-pro-quos-it-just-depends-what-quo-is/ This is what we're dealing with.
  9. I don't know why there aren't headlines every day on his mental decline.
  10. Vast Clinton conspiracy or is it because you're a shit candidate out of touch with Dem base?
  11. I think it's the second part driving the timing of this. They probably would have sat on them longer had the heart attack not happened.
  12. This is really good interview and captures a lot of what I see as the fundamental problems in our economy and government. She understands the problem and appears to have the policy and political chops to fix it. There will be strong headwinds--as powerful interests are benefiting immensely under the current system--but she has a chance. And if she fails, we're basically resigning ourselves to a sort of corporatism/oligarchy for the forseeable future. Foer: But markets right now are doing a good job of producing wealth. Yes? Warren: Right. Foer: In your description, that’s markets working. Warren: The problem is that when the rules are not enforced, when the markets are not level playing fields, all that wealth is scraped in one direction. For example, leading up to the financial crash, there were a lot of mortgage brokers out there selling mortgages. Wow, did they get rich doing it. Families thought they were buying a product they could afford, whose payments they understood. Many of them lost everything. That’s a market that clearly was not working. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, after it passed, the first thing we did there at the bureau was to put new rules in place about mortgages. Not so that you could control the mortgage market, but so that the market would work. ... Foer: There are all these hints of Louis Brandeis in what you do. Brandeis had a vision of how the economy could be structured differently when the rules that he wanted were applied. He favored the small shopkeeper. In your vision, who gets favored? Are there forces in the market that you feel like are being unfairly shackled that you want to see unleashed? Warren: Yes. Perfect. Competition. I love competition. I want to see every start-up business, everybody who’s got a good idea, have a chance to get in the market and try. This is what's so interesting to me. There are so many people right now who argue against these reforms and other reforms, who claim they are pro-business. They’re not. They’re pro-monopoly. They’re pro–concentration of power, which crushes competition. This is where the political and the economic interact. Once a corporation climbs up the ladder so that it’s got hundreds of millions—no, so that it’s got billions of dollars in resources—today too many of them turn around and use those resources to influence government to cut off that ladder, so nobody else climbs it. To cut off that ladder so that the big guys don’t have to compete with the little guys anymore. ... When Big Pharma rolls into Washington and gets a law passed that says that the federal government cannot negotiate down the prices of drugs, then democracy is not working for families. When the big [coal] companies can get a new rule out of the EPA that will increase particulates in the air and trigger over 100,000 premature deaths, then democracy is not working for the American people. So you are exactly right. Everything I’m working on is about giving individuals the opportunity, the liberty to participate in this economy and in the governance of this country. I love this stuff. Isn’t this stuff fun?
  13. Now would be a good time for the full transcript to be released. I know he is just tweeting propaganda but what did the whistleblower even arguably get wrong? It was dead on and describes actions far beyond the call, also corroborated. This is 1984 level disinformation.
  14. Sadly--and this says nothing about wrestling stars-- most wrestling stars would be more fit and competent than our current President.
  15. Unless Pence is as guilty as Trump--and he may well be--I think Dems will be fine with Pence becoming an instant lame duck president. Would set up better for Elisabeth Warren winning in 2020.
  16. Don't worry guys. The administration is troubled by this. I'm sure Susan Collins and Mitt Romney will express their deep concern shortly. Thoughts and prayers coming too. Piece of shit traitors. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-security-turkey-usa-killing/u-s-says-reports-of-killing-of-kurdish-politician-in-northeast-syria-extremely-troubling-idUSKBN1WS0EX?feedType=RSS&feedName=newsOne
  17. I posted this on the Whistleblower thread but wanted to repeat it here. The Republican party and everyone of its members who failed to stand up to Trump and remove him is responsible for this. I don't know how many people frequent this board and give a damn what's said, on it but if you're seeing this and are outraged, we need to hold the republican party accountable for Trump--and for the party's own apparent rampant party over country corruption--for as long as they continue to exist. No one should get a pass. If we have a conservative or center-right party, it needs to be a new party. The GOP is corrupted beyond repair and should die when Trump administration implodes.
  18. Yeah. That opening statement-- as reported-- gives them a ton to work with. The idea that he didn't know Burisma/pressure to investigate "corruption" meant "investigate Biden" is a joke. I don't know how many people frequent this board and give a damn what's said, on it but if you're seeing this and are outraged, we need to hold the republican party accountable for Trump--and for the party's own apparent rampant party over country corruption--for as long as they continue to exist. No one should get a pass. If we have a conservative or center-right party, it needs to be a new party. The GOP is corrupted beyond repair and should die when Trump administration implodes.
  19. That WaPo article on Sonland's testimony is really bad for Trump. It's worth reading the whole thing. Some other excerpts: The Sept. 9 exchange between Sondland and the top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine has become central to the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into whether the president abused his office in pressuring Ukraine to open an investigation into his political rival Joe Biden and his son, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian energy company. The White House and its defenders have held up Sondland’s text, which included “no quid pro quo’s of any kind,” as proof that none was ever considered. Sondland is expected to say that for months before the Sept. 9 message, he worked at the direction of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal attorney, to secure what he would call in another text message the “deliverable” sought by Trump: a public statement from Ukraine that it would investigate corruption, including mentioning Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, by name. In exchange for the statement, the president would grant Ukraine’s new president a coveted White House audience. [...] Sondland’s testimony will raise the possibility that Trump wasn’t truthful in his denial of a quid pro quo as well as an alternative scenario in which the president’s interest in the scheme soured at a time when his administration faced mounting scrutiny over why it was withholding about $400 million in security assistance to Ukraine and delaying a leader-level visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Whether he’s deciding it’s getting too hot to handle and he backs off whatever his position really was a month earlier, I don’t know,” the person said of Sondland’s understanding. [...] “It was a quid pro quo, but not a corrupt one,” the person familiar with Sondland’s testimony said. Sondland appears poised to say that he and other diplomats did not know that the request to mention Burisma was really an effort to impugn the reputations of Biden and his son Hunter, who had served as a Burisma board member. Sondland contends that he didn’t know about the Biden connection until a whistleblower complaint and transcript surfaced in late September. To trust Sondland’s testimony, members of Congress will have to believe Sondland had not seen televised appearances by Giuliani over the spring and summer, or numerous newspaper and magazine articles questioning whether Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma could prove to be a drag on his father’s presidential campaign. “If people find that incredulous, it strikes me that the incredulity is hindsight bias,” said the person familiar with Sondland’s testimony. “The things that seem so clear to people now didn’t seem so clear in real time.” The testimony by Sondland, a Portland hotelier who gave $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee through four of his limited liability companies, could prove damaging to Giuliani and the president. For months, Sondland’s deep involvement in issues related to Ukraine struck diplomats in Brussels and Washington as highly unusual, given his role as envoy to the European Union, a large trade bloc that does not include Ukraine. Former U.S. officials have said Sondland viewed the Ukraine assignment as critical to winning Trump’s favor and auditioning for a more senior job in the administration.
  20. After the text message comes out, the Sondland "no quid pro quo" was given by republicans as a talking point that there wasn't a quid pro quo. The media even qualified some of the reporting by saying the text messages were mixed, with Sondland saying there was no quid pro quo. Remember, there was about 5 hours in between, and apparently in that time, Trump was crafting his response which Sodland delivered. Holy shit. It's the crime AND the coverup. Impeach and remove him already. 9/9/19, 12:47:11 AM] Bill Taylor: As I said on the phone, I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign. [9/9/19, 5:19:35 AM] Gordon Sondland: Bill, I believe you are incorrect about President Trump’s intentions. The President has been crystal clear no quid pro quo’s of any kind. The President is trying to evaluate whether Ukraine is truly going to adopt the transparency and reforms that President Zelensky promised during his campaign I suggest we stop the back and forth by text If you still have concerns I recommend you give Lisa Kenna or S a call to discuss them directly. Thanks.]
  21. This Ukrainian money to McCarthy reminded me of this. They are 100% aware of the flow of foreign money into elections. It's systemic, and some dems are probably guilty too, though nowhere near the scale of republicans. McCarthy was just trying to keep up and hadn't earned the honor of getting Russian money yet. I hope the full scale of the treason of the GOP is exposed for all to see. It infuriates me beyond belief. I https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html KIEV, Ukraine — A month before Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination, one of his closest allies in Congress — House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy — made a politically explosive assertion in a private conversation on Capitol Hill with his fellow GOP leaders: that Trump could be the beneficiary of payments from Russian President Vladimir Putin. “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, according to a recording of the June 15, 2016, exchange, which was listened to and verified by The Washington Post. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher is a Californian Republican known in Congress as a fervent defender of Putin and Russia. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) immediately interjected, stopping the conversation from further exploring McCarthy’s assertion, and swore the Republicans present to secrecy. Before the conversation, McCarthy and Ryan had emerged from separate talks at the Capitol with Ukrainian Prime Minister Vladi­mir Groysman, who had described a Kremlin tactic of financing populist politicians to undercut Eastern European democratic institutions. News had just broken the day before in The Washington Post that Russian government hackers had penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee, prompting McCarthy to shift the conversation from Russian meddling in Europe to events closer to home. Some of the lawmakers laughed at McCarthy’s comment. Then McCarthy quickly added: “Swear to God.” Ryan instructed his Republican lieutenants to keep the conversation private, saying: “No leaks. . . . This is how we know we’re a real family here.” The remarks remained secret for nearly a year.
  22. horncyclist

    SpaceX

    You wonder at what point SLS should be abandoned and the money just given in a massive contract to SpaceX for interplanetary travel. Wed get to Mars 10 times faster that way, imo.
  23. horncyclist

    SpaceX

    It's probably much further off. The rockets will have the capability for quick hops but making the preparation for space travel routine will be a long way off. And making it economical when there are othe, albeit slower forms of intercontinental travel.
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