"Origami-like hair arranging!" OMG that one gave me such a good, out-loud laugh. I may have to steal it from you cdeanne!
You guys are the best. I just finished reading all the posts from last night and this morning and they're so full of insights and hope. I seriously love this forum so much.
I want to be wide awake here, not in a bubble. Then I want to infuse what we see with heart strength. That's what Martin Luther King, Jr. did in his life time. That's what Fiona Hill, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and all the people who work their heads off night and day in the Congress to prepare for these hearings have been doing.
Yes, I read it and fully understand this is where we are now. It’s sobering, scary as hell and yet I’m still hopeful. Can’t explain it. IQ45 will either resign or be defeated in the next election because all his crimes were exposed by Mueller and the impeachment hearings. Plus, I strongly feel more crimes will be exposed. Like Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Fiona Hill, Alex Vindman, William Taylor and others, we must persevere through this time, too, to do the right thing no matter how overwhelming the odds seem.
I haven't been watching the hearings, and most of my info on the impeachment process has come from skimming through the New York Times, the Guardian, and this website. So I'm somewhat removed from what's going on in Washington. But I was still in a pissy mood for most of the past two days. I thought that was because of some personal issues of mine, but reading through the comments posted here, it seems like I haven't been alone. Is there something astrological going on? Or are we just picking up on the ambient collective energy?
Many may not remember when IQ45 first came to the Whitehouse, a news camera caught him screaming near one of the windows. He has no self control, so screaming may be one of the more benign things he does. I can easily see him throwing things , I only hope it isn’t something historically valuable.
Surprise! Surprise!
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden.
www.cnn.com/2019/11/22/politics/nunes-vienna-trip-ukrainian-prosecutor-biden/index.html
That would be a Nunes thing to do—get involved in rooting around with foreign nationals to get dirt on Trump rivals. One wonders about his Kremlin connections too. I’ve always felt he was Kremlin compromised but there’s never been anything out there about that.
It just seems that the most vicious protectors of Trump, Nunes and Jordan, have something to hide.
The @lawrence Trump tsunami continues. Www.americanoversight.org used FOIA to get Pompeos phone records, that they wouldnt release to congress and just published them. Site is crashing right now because they were just posted, but supposed to show direct phone record trail from Rudy to Pompeo via the WH
Do any of you follow Heather Cox Richardson? She is a presidential historian from Boston College, and she's been posting daily updates that offer good context and insight into what's happening. Last night's post echoes many sentiments and predictions here (and the theme of this very thread):
"Today began with evidence that impeachment is getting to Trump. He launched an epic 53-minute tirade this morning on a phone call to Fox and Friends, in which he ranted against Marie Yovanovitch for not hanging up his portrait in the embassy (her lawyers promptly said this was untrue), and said that he fired FBI Director James Comey to protect himself (a crime, by the way). The hosts were clearly uncomfortable, but they couldn’t get a word in edgewise."
And she lays out the cascade of bombshells, culminating with "But it gets worse. Parnas alleges that he and Nunes, or Nunes’s proxy, met several times a week in the Trump Hotel, along with Giuliani, and John Solomon, former reporter for The Hill, who pushed anti-Yovanovitch stories and whose reporting is now under review. Also included were married attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, the Trump defenders who are often on Fox News Channel programs. They represent Firtash, who needs American lawyers because he is wanted in America for bribery and racketeering. He is currently in Vienna, Austria—where an awful lot of things seem to happen-- challenging his extradition... Also at those meetings was Derek Harvey, who works for Nunes on the House Intelligence Committee, and who, according to Parnas, was understood to be Nunes’s agent."
Next ti this site, her daily posts keep me going through this mess. You can find her on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson/posts/2071356896341699?__tn__=K-R