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Trump tries to recover from his unhinged meeting with Democratic leadership Looks like she owned you on #NationalBossDay. Been there. Don’t mess with mama! https://t.co/8unyy930Dj — Christine Pelosi (@sfpelosi) October 16, 2019 Go Nancy!#TrumpMeltdown https://t.co/Q0hnnyCJ0e — Pièce de Résistance (@PieceDeReSister) October 16, 2019 Per Dem aide:Schumer to Trump: "Is your plan to rely on the…
Call private health insurance costs “taxes in everything but name.” Analysis: Americans already pay a "gigantic" hidden health-care tax, economists say. The question of who will foot the bill for Medicare-for-all is almost beside the point. https://t.co/12fott4Bqf — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 16, 2019 To some economists, the question is moot: Americans already pay a massive…
Will Trump throw Mulvaney under the bus, as the rest of the ‘3 Amigos” — Gordon Sondland and Rick Perry come before the House committees, after Kurt Volker has already testified. Mick Mulvaney arranged meetings between Rudy and Don when Giuliani was bragging publicly about enlisting Ukranians to probe the Bidens. Mulvaney met frequently with Gordon Sondland, and hid…
After trying to orchestrate a reality-TV moment with grieving parents, more craziness in the White House. Daniel Dale has counted all of last week’s lies. The translator's face is all of us. https://t.co/HLVWV7juPr — Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) October 16, 2019 Trump just claimed that America’s relationship with Italy goes back “thousands of years.” Trump made…
If they’re innocent why are they not cooperating. Let's be clear: The President of the U.S. Senate – still a Congressional body – is rejecting a Congressional request for information. Pence is irredeemably conflicted. He either should resign as Senate President or follow the rules.https://t.co/wdywUvbTlA — Joel Rubin (@JoelMartinRubin) October 15, 2019 The counsel for…
x This week we’re 15 months old protest against corrupt Putin’s puppet! Welcome to week 66 of the #KremlinAnnex demonstrations in support of democracy, rule of law and freedoms in America! We started 457 days ago and we’ll be protesting tonight again! See y’all at 7:30 pm! ✌ï¸Â🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/o1Z6B90JiZ — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) October 15,…
Like David Brooks and Thomas Friedman, conservatives use (non-) fictional everymen in their writing. WH adviser Peter Navarro is no different: his is the thinly disguised Ron Vara, no different than David Dennison or John Barron. Today the Comical of Higher Education takes Peter Navarro to task for his sinophobia which only got attention from the WH…
Undoubtedly she was able to corroborate the event timeline for Don & Rudy’s “secret government” show. “As the first former White House aide to testify in the impeachment inquiry, Hill could be in a position to describe internal, and apparently heated, conversations among diplomats and security officials that led to (Ambassador) Yovanovitch’s departure.” The WH…
Newsweek reports that a new study finds that inversion elections where a popular vote winner loses, favor the GOP. 2020’s hope for Individual-1 lies in a repeat of marginally close outcomes in swing/battleground states. GOP candidates for president can expect to be victorious in 65 percent of future presidential elections and University of Texas at Austin researchers…
Trump has now made threats against Turkey, having tried to bluff Erdogan and failed, again, as Axios reports. Unfortunately, Trump cannot erase a crisis of his own making with initiatives that will take weeks to implement while people die. This raises more questions about conversations between Trump and Erdogan especially since Russia completed a new…
I was a liberal until the former host of Wheel of Fortune and Love Connection logged on and fucking owned me with a tweet about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Now I don't know what to believe. — Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) October 14, 2019 Even if they paid for the next date it seems all a…
Let us assume all the worse; Atatiana Jefferson came to her window, peered out with a gun in hand, ready to shoot, refused to comply with an order from an unidentified man to drop her weapon, and he fired in fear for his life. Now let us deal in reality and common sense. A neighbor…
Fiona Hill will appear before Congress today as the impeachment inquiry continues. The RWNJ troll-bots have been busily calling her a “George Soros mole”, even as one assumes that when she was appointed to the NSC in 2017 by Trump, any such association would have been disqualifying. But the current buzz by nutters is that…
Is sanctioning Turkey a kind of virtue signaling or is the Trump administration prepping the ground to lift Russian sanctions? In case you forgot that there was a monstrous steel imports tariff on Turkey that Trump promptly rescinded, because it’s virtuous to double a tariff then reduce it by 50% to appear like something happened. …
Apparently another primitive, yet violent video was reshown at a recent meeting of American Priorities at Trump’s Doral Resort. Sadly, Trump won’t be attending the WHCA dinner to show it, and some of us ignored it when it first was reported. Surprising is how it hasn’t really gone viral. In the spirit of their coverage of…
Axios reports that the twin pillars on which the impeachment inquiry will center is Ukraine and obstruction of justice. The advantage of the latter is that it also folds in as a structure the Mueller report when the bill of impeachment gets constructed. It also indicates where the cover-up will be focused by the WH and…
This debacle continues as Trump claims he’s in favor of world peace, likely because he “lost” the Nobel prize to someone who brokered actual peace. Even more likely is that Trump’s holdings in Turkey were threatened and he was given a signal that this withdrawal would be favorable to Putin. This is shaping up as most chaotic US…
x There should be a massive protest outside the course, as close as you can legally get, making as much noise as possible to fuck up the one thing he truly cares about: his golf game 🤬#OccupyTrumpCourses #ImpeachmentTaskForce https://t.co/Iaar0pf8Az — Tara Dublin Rockstober (@taradublinrocks) October 13, 2019 x Over 60 cities across the country are…
x Saturday night protest at the #KremlinAnnex. 305 protests65 consecutive weeks 15 months standing against the corrupt Putin’s puppet occupying our WH! #resist pic.twitter.com/xfS6XUDUuB — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) October 13, 2019 x Or #kremlinAnnex tonight! https://t.co/lqZE02vH19 pic.twitter.com/9xhFbNlH8m — Impeach45 ðŸÂ‘ (@DonaDickinson) October 12, 2019 x Have you read about our team yet? ✌ï¸Â🇺🇸 Kremlin Annex:…
The predicted bloodbath unfolds. Wapo does an excellent summary of the current situation. x Turkish state-backed media hails a “successful operation†to “neutralize†an unarmed 35-year old woman working to unite Arabs, Christians, and Kurds in NE Syria. Ms. Hevrin Khalef was reportedly dragged from a vehicle and shot to death. That’s a war crime….
Such a wack letter refusing to cooperate did allow for the possibility that Trump reviewed it but the Daily Beast reports that Trump had a much deeper role, which explains the rhetorical craziness. The simplistic Trumpian lexicon did reveal itself in the use of adjectives like “powerfully” and phrases like “making it all up”. Pat…
Mike Pompeo was being lobbied to remove Ambassador Yovanovich by the two men arrested this week trying to flee the country. The recall of Ambassador Yovanovich included one route to Mike Pompeo through Pete Sessions (R-TX). It was an extensive, coordinated effort culminating in the Arms for Dirt threat. Anne Applebaum writes a related column today. x Just stunning….
Trump will make the nation go blue, if only because of his shtick, doing his insult-comic bit at the campaign rallies. The problem is that he truly believes that these rallies constitute his presidency, entertaining a cult following. Because he’s a star, the WH gig is a cover of some Sasha Baron Cohen performance. Each speech…
Rand Paul went on The View to explain the RWNJ critique of “socialism”, hoping he wouldn’t see his neighbor, but didn’t win any support for the notion that rich people have it bad. x Rand Paul gets laughed at by The View audience after saying that the 1% has it worse than the working class…
Report of an explosion aboard a National Iranian Oil Company Tanker Sinopa carrying 1 million barrels, sailing in the Red Sea near Jiddah. Block TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s state-run news agency and other media say an explosion has struck an Iranian oil tanker off the coast of Saudi Arabia. There was no immediate acknowledgement…
Bret Stephens pulls out of a public discussion because it was going to be … public. Makes one wonder what his TED talk could be like …. features everywhere! One hopes that the NY Times has resolved its multi-floor insect infestation. New York Times columnist and vigorously selective defender of free speech Bret Stephens abruptly backed out…
Trump is at the Minneapolis Target Center tonight for yet another campaign rally. Below is the Daniel Dale tweet thread in anticipation of another even more stupid Trump statement. It is unbearable to put up with such repetition of falsehoods, but there’s always that hope of some ad-libbed idiocy “><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>And this evening This…
More information now: the Arms for Dirt cover-up made many more previously unidentified officials “alarmed”. This was before the whistleblower complaint was made. x “When people were listening to this in real time there were significant concerns about what was going on — alarm bells were kind of ringing,” said one person familiar with the…
x #KremlinAnnex pic.twitter.com/OWBqJhA3ph — Melissa Barlow (@LiteraryMouse) October 8, 2019 x Have you read about our team yet? ✌ï¸Â🇺🇸 Kremlin Annex: Five women have been protesting outside the White House for over a year – The Washington Post https://t.co/NhHHZV420V — Kremlin Annex (@KremlinAnnex) August 17, 2019 “Hasta la victoria, siempre!” x We are still looking…
Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were nabbed at Dulles airport (perhaps) “trying to flee the country” and have been indicted for financial violations but more importantly in connection to Rudy Giuliani’s role in the Arms for Dirt scandal. Former Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) is mentioned as ‘Congressman-1’, one of their targets in the indictment. x…