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  1. I think this pretty much guarantees a recession. Trillion dollar deficit? Hold my beer.
  2. Here's the explanation of the omissions. The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter. The rough transcript also contains ellipses at three points where Mr. Trump is speaking. Colonel Vindman told investigators that at the point of the transcript where the third set of ellipses appear, Mr. Trump said there were tapes of Mr. Biden. The relevant part of the transcript with the third ellipses: 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.
  3. This seems like a bombshell. The transcript has been held out to be an accurate record of the call, some say "perfect," and those are usually precise readouts. Hasn't it been reported that these are usually created from a recording?
  4. Thank you for this. I had a similar experience growing up. My parents were straight working class, able to advance themselves and our family through hard work and dedication. My Dad had a Union job, with good pay and affordable health care. I attended good but not great public schools. My mother was able to afford going back to college when my brother and I started elementary school to get her degree and become a teacher. Prior to my parents generation, their families were mostly dirt poor going back as far as I can trace--which isn't that far because poor people don't create a lot of records. What bothers me every day is that opportunities like my family had, which set myself up to advance even further in society, are more and more being closed off to those at the bottom half of America. Hard work and self-reliance don't mean much when you don't have opportunities to do anything with them. Garry Kasparov had a nice op ed a year or so ago with a line that has really stuck with me: "Talent is universal, but opportunity is not, and talent cannot thrive in a vacuum." I'm optimistic that a Warren administration will renew opportunity like my parents had.
  5. There. Were. Republicans. In. The. Room. Who. Asked. Questions. Fuck this stopping with Trump. This whole party needs to go away.
  6. This will come down to a political calculation for Senate republicans. It's clear they don't give a shit about their country so it's just going to be what makes it more likely they can hold on to power--or limit the losses of power. I think we're getting close to a tipping point there. In addition to Romney and some other moderates, we should keep an eye on republicans up for election in 2020 in possibly competitive states. If those Senators start publicly hedging their support for Trump, we're edging closer to a forced resignation/removal situation. https://cookpolitical.com/ratings/senate-race-ratings
  7. President Pelosi would be a political disaster. Put Pence up there and he'll be tainted and a lame duck immediately. About 10 republicans will jump in immediately to challenge him, with Cruz, Kasich and Haley the early frontrunners. If Dems coalesce behind Warren who then leads with her anticorruption message in the general, you're looking at a historic landslide.
  8. So we're pretty soon going to be faced with a situation where there is overwhelming evidence of the very sort of abuse of power impeachable offense that the founders contemplated and created impeachment for. Trump and his enablers' only move is to attack to the process and ignore the Constitution. He will also see himself both invisible after this and more motivated to cover up all of his crimes and corruption. If Senate Republicans do not flip to pressure resignation/remove him, this is it. We have a Trump dictatorship. There's no going back. Don't minimize what's at stake here. If you're considering taking to the streets, now's probably the time.
  9. 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?
  10. So they're obstructing the impeachment inquiry by physically obstructing the impeachment inquiry? That right? My god.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Nevermind the damning evidence. Process!
  14. 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.
  15. Dude. Get out of here with that reading shit.
  16. 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.
  17. 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.
  18. I don't know why there aren't headlines every day on his mental decline.
  19. Vast Clinton conspiracy or is it because you're a shit candidate out of touch with Dem base?
  20. 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.
  21. 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?
  22. 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.
  23. Sadly--and this says nothing about wrestling stars-- most wrestling stars would be more fit and competent than our current President.
  24. 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.
  25. 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
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