I was listening to the radio and The Press Pool was on and the host, Julie Mason was interviewing a WH reporter from some paper (?) sorry, can't remember. Anyhow he was pretty funny. She asked if the mood was glum after the election results and he was like, no, they were excited that he made a difference in Mississippi (that was their "big win") and she was like... well it is just know to be so unheard of for a Republican to win an election in Mississippi" (yeah, she can be a little sarcastic) and he said that if Trump hadn't gone to Kentucky, the feeling was that Bevin wouldn't have gotten any votes. Then they went on about his hatred of cities and how that keeps his base nice and limited (or at least not expanding). He also drew the contrast of how Clinton dealt with the impeachment vs Trump and how Lonny Davis on TV every day speaking for a president is a whole different level of professionalism vs. Guiliani.. and they had a good laugh at that because really, the Guiliani + Trump is like a whole bizarro world once you have the feet of your mind firmly planted in the 90s. He has the worst impeachment game running. Trump also has new spokespeople he is going to pull the rug out from under while they are lying for him. One of them is Pam Bondi (can't stand her).
The whole Bevin thing is hilarious. Taking their best case scenario that Bevin gets 0 votes without Trump(hahaha but go with it), Trump is popular enough in KY to lose to Andy Beshear. Think about what that means to a presidential campaign. Assuming Bevin had at least a few votes without Trump, Trump carried 40ish percent of the vote, which is about his overall approval rating. If Trump and Bevin together cant beat a democrat when GOP voter turnout was pretty big last night, then he now has to question his ability to gain the EC votes from Kentucky now-something that was complete given 36 hours ago.
I have felt that for the past 6 months that whatever approval/poll numbers we've been hearing has been b.s. I think the orange nightmare's numbers are EVEN LOWER than the media tells us. That's my intuition and what I feel so wondering if anyone else gets that.
Youre right. Just look at his twitter replies. 2 years ago it was about 50-50 positive and negative. Today its 5-1 anti Trunp to pro Trump replies.....and that inclused the bots. While its by no means a true measure of voter turnout, it show a sharp decrease in support when compared to earlier ratios.
President Trump wanted Attorney General William P. Barr to hold a news conference declaring that the commander in chief had broken no laws during a phone call in which he pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate a political rival, though Barr ultimately declined to do so, people familiar with the matter said.
The request from Trump traveled from the president to other White House officials and eventually to the Justice Department. The president has mentioned Barr’s declination to associates in recent weeks, saying he wished Barr would have held the news conference, Trump advisers say.
Hey guys, sorry I'm a bit late to the party on this, but just had a thought about the orange toad's hasty move to Florida. Is he moving there to make it harder for the state of NY to investigate/indict him once he is out of office? Would NY depend on FL extraditing him to face justice? I can see FL refusing to do so in order to protect him.
found this:
Making Florida his residence will not save Trump from any tax civil lawsuits, criminal charges or from paying past taxes he owes in New York. So long as Trump has substantial income from New York he will have to file a non-resident state tax form. He likely will also have to file in Connecticut, New Jersey, Illinois and California, among other states where he has businesses.
That’s what makes his Oct, 31 tweets so intriguing. Making Florida his primary residence will have minor effects on lowering whatever taxes Trump may owe, so why bring it up?
I wonder if it may be that if he claims Mar-a-Lago as his primary residence (a place too fine for him to begin with, but he turned it to trash as is his tawdry talent), the government can’t seize it when they come collecting his unpaid taxes. He doesn’t pay taxes, so he probably felt safe from his tax hike on NYC when he and Ryan passed a draconian tax bill. I don’t know if you can claim a club business as a residence, but he might do better to keep a place a little further from the shore considering all the damage he is doing to our beautiful planet.
Speaking if taxes, we haven’t seen the taxes the Republicans put on the rest of us, yet. We will really notice it in the next couple of years. They thought it best to wait for our tax jump to start after the next election but long after the tax breaks for the obscenely rich have already made our bill astronomical.
Matt Gaetz Donald Jr. and the Russians have tweeted out a name as the whistleblower. Fox News anchors were told NOT to mention the name unless Trump or one of his cronies says it first. The other news stations will not acknowledge the tweets.
I’m sending light to those who are doing the right thing to protect the country and the rule of law - especially the whistle blowers, those who are testifying and the jurors in the Roger Stone trial (who I saw are at risk of being named by Alex Jones and his ilk according to the Daily Beast).
On another note, I was reading a book and suddenly had a mental picture of Steve Bannon and heard a jail door slamming shut. I got the feeling that something is going to come out about what he was up to during the election or his time in government that will put him in legal jeopardy - not today or tomorrow, but it’s coming. I heard earlier today that he is a witness for the prosecution in the Stone trial. Maybe it will have something to do with that?
- Maybe this is a sign of things to come:
On Wednesday night, as President Trump was speaking at a rally in Monroe, Louisiana, people started walking out.
Maybe the crowd had had enough of Trump’s ramblings?
I guess 2 hrs was enough or they only got paid for 2 hrs? No overtime
I’m sending light to those who are doing the right thing to protect the country and the rule of law - especially the whistle blowers, those who are testifying and the jurors in the Roger Stone trial (who I saw are at risk of being named by Alex Jones and his ilk according to the Daily Beast.
I want to second your thought and your actions and send light to all those heroes as well as those working hard to bring progressive people into the Senate and House.
Lawyer for Ukraine whistleblower sends White House cease and desist letter to stop Trump's attacks
there are now more than 10,000 children in cages in America. 10,000 children who have been separated from their families. We may just have to go, en masse, to the concentration camps, and forcibly release them ourselves. If we allow this to continue, then i am afraid we, ourselves, are not worth saving. This cannot stand!
Latest news from NYT today's Impeachment Inquiry update:
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- John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security adviser, did not show up for scheduled testimony. Mr. Bolton’s lawyer told the House Intelligence Committee that he would file a lawsuit in federal court if he were subpoenaed, a challenge that could take months to resolve. Democrats have instead decided to use his refusal as evidence that Mr. Trump is obstructing Congress.
- Democrats leading the inquiry released another transcript, this one of testimony from George Kent, a State Department official in charge of Ukraine policy. Mr. Kent told investigators that he and other experienced diplomats were all but cut out of making the foreign policy they were supposed to be involved with.
- One witness did appear on Capitol Hill today: Jennifer Williams, a national security aide to Vice President Mike Pence. Ms. Williams, who listened in on the July 25 conversation between President Trump and the Ukrainian president, was expected to answer questions about that phone call, as well as Mr. Pence’s involvement in efforts to pressure Ukraine.....
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What I don't understand is can someone explain how it is that not showing up or answering a subpoena doesn't land these folks in Jail? Why are dems not playing hardball?
Part of the problem is that there is no Sergeant of Arms to arrest these cowards. Trump got rid of him. I heard this on CNN. Second, if you stick by t**** he will just pardon you, and the democrats know this. My belief is that all these cowards will pay the piper once Trump is gone.
Not sure what CNN is reporting. Did this just happen? The Sergeant at Arms, Michael Stenger, is still actively listed under the government website: https://www.senate.gov/reference/common/person/stenger_michael_c.htm
This is part of what it says on the U.S. Senate official site:
"The title is now “sergeant at arms and doorkeeper,” and the sergeant at arms now serves the Senate as its chief law enforcement officer, protocol officer, and executive officer.
Elected by the senators, each sergeant at arms serves from Congress to Congress until a successor is chosen. Since this is an elected position, the majority party in the Senate selects the sergeant at arms, but once elected, sergeants at arms serve all members of the Senate."
The justification the Dems are offering for NOT prosecuting subpoena violations is that they are adding each no-show or refusal to the list of acts of obstruction of justice by Trumpito. They are trying to avoid the optics of jailing people because they know it will further alienate "the base".
Thanks for the info but my opinion is that doesn't make sense. It just gives them all more ammunition to keep not showing up for subpoenas and a lack of rule of law. Mango's base is in his court whether they jail folks or not. It's like a kid who you threaten to punish but you never do...the child becomes a nightmare.