There is Russian interference in the 2020 election, likely not at the scale of 2016, since they’ve garnered numerous financial and political advantages from their many Congressional puppets. Remember when the NRA was a conduit for Russian election interference. Some senators have been suggesting that they might reveal classified information because they are shielded from…
Category: Senate
Nobody Voted for Bush Either?
When George W. Bush stood in the rubble of the World Trade Center in 2001, a plurality of Republicans and to be fair a large number of Democrats cheered him. George W. Bush rallied America in the midst of its 9/11 sorrow, in response to firefighter Rocco Chierichella yelling, “We can’t hear you!” Bush said,…
Trump is Giving the GOP Long-term Shpilkes
“Shpilkes” is a good old Yiddish word meaning “agita” — which is a good old Italian word meaning nerves, anxiety, agitation, butterflies in the stomach. In whatever language, it’s what the GOP (Grumpy Obstreperous Party) leadership is feeling these days. And not just about losing the White House, but about losing the House and Senate…
Jeff Sessions goes all lost cause on Doug Jones
Stealing valor is not like taking your taser, much like renaming military bases happens normally. Jeff Sessions is desperate for “his” voters x … whose courage & duty reached the highest levels, on both sides. Naming U.S. bases for those who fought for the South was seen as an act of respect and reconciliation towards…
“American Taliban” trends again because Ted Cruz thinks Columbus is a religious icon
We are in some strange space where to Ted Cruz, those people taking down monuments to genocidal explorers are like fundamentalist religious fanatics practicing iconoclasm. Ted doesn’t understand iconoclasm nor has he read kos’s book, but he went there on Twitter. x No, sweetie. THIS is the American Taliban. pic.twitter.com/VnoqlwiK5L— Adam Sank ðŸÂ³ï¸Ââ€Â🌈 (@AdamSank) June 11, 2020…
Pyrrhic-time battle for the 'wartime president' The Senate Relief bill is also a heist
This is a robbery in progress,” wrote David Dayen, executive editor at The American Prospect. “And it's not a bailout for the coronavirus. It's a bailout for 12 years of corp. irresponsibility that made these companies so fragile that a few weeks of disruption would destroy them” McConnell declaring a Senate recess is with the…
Smash & Grab: more corporate looting in the latest failed GOP Senate relief bill
Giving the GOP emergency powers is another scheme to loot the treasury, much like the attempts to defund social security and Medicare. So much cynicism in the GOP pimping a stimulus package that favors corporate income. x Sen. Jeff Merkley explains why Senate Democrats blocked Mitch McConnell's corrupt coronavirus stimulus bill, “This is absolutely the…
who knew? multiple violations of the STOCK Act (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge)
When Chris Collins, Trump’s first endorser, got caught making a stock dump while on the WH lawn, one assumed that other legislators would be chastened, but no, during the worst ever days of the stock market several Senators seem to have gotten caught. It was a small number but clearly about the market drop as the…
The stark injustice of Trump's 'acquittal,' in one map
This pretty much says it all: x As the Senate vote takes place, let's remember the same amount of people live in Los Angeles as these 7 rural, mostly white, Republican states. They have 14 Senators while LA shares 2 with the rest of California. Some Americans are more equal than others. pic.twitter.com/4dKcvkWJ9W — Waleed…
Trump campaign's official Twitter calls McConnell 'Cocaine Mitch'
It’s “Moscow Mitch,” idiots. Still, what the ever-living fuck? x Here's what Cocaine Mitch thinks of the Articles of Impeachment pic.twitter.com/WAgxwLKVjE— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) February 5, 2020 < p class=”is-empty-p”> Let’s leave aside the puerile nature of this. Uh, “Cocaine Mitch”? You’re really going to try to appropriate that nickname? Really?…
It's IMPOTUS* acquittal day, it's midnight in America
Got caught, evaded justice, and could get impeached again. x BREAKING: Remember America? We do.#ImpeachmentDay pic.twitter.com/tzGPwX7zBG — Eleven Films (@Eleven_Films) February 5, 2020 “[The Founders] gave you a remedy and they meant for you to use it. They gave you an oath and they meant for you to observe it. We have proven Donald Trump guilty,…
Hung Senate Jury and Senate Mistrial: “at least we could agree that we had a fair trial”
Trial without witnesses is no trial at all. The impeachment as indictment can never be withdrawn. The constant attempts to reduce the impeachment to a civil, rather than a criminal trial, since a bribe of $391 million was at stake for a personal use of public monies in the pursuit of “opposition research” (worth $391…
No Witnesses, No Peace: America Approaches Autocracy in the Arms for Dirt scandal
Nixonian reasons return, amplified by an argument massaged by Alan Dershowitz to legitimate efforts like the Watergate break-in. x “They compounded the dangerous argument they made that no quid pro quo is too much, and they compounded it by saying if what you want is targeting your rival, it's even more legitimate. And that way,…
Why has this not made news ? Protestors swarm DC regarding witnesses and GOP cover up.
I have not seen a word aout this on the media. Is this not news? x Almost every SQUARE foot of Senate Hart Building is taken by #SwarmTheCapitol to #RemoveTrump America has SPOKEN #WeWantWitnesses pic.twitter.com/o3XussSxjp — Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) January 29, 2020 x From yesterday's #SwarmTheCapitol action — thank you, @RedTRaccoon! We are gathering again…
Dersh gets it wrong
Not to be confused with Leeroy Jenkins, and with much arm-waving Alan Dershowitz affirmed that the House has charged IMPOTUS* with impeachable offenses, despite declarations to the contrary. He also tried to apply a critique that trashes the recently revealed Bolton book in his speech to the Senate. x Dershowitz asserts that nothing in Bolton's testimony…
could 53 members of the cover-up cabal be soon on a fence or a cliff … #BoltonMustTestify
The opening of the Senate trial at 1 pm ET will be more interesting if only because the WH defense team will try their hardest to avoid any mention of John Bolton. Television coverage that started at 10 am ET mentions the importance of the GOP Senator lunch prior to the trial as press speculation about…
Like a mustache cup, Bolton's story cannot stop his testimony in the Senate trial
Boom! Trump paying the price for his iniquity, malevolence, and base ineptitude. Congressional Democrats called for former national security adviser John Bolton to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial following a new report that the president told Bolton last August he wanted to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless it aided investigations into the Bidens….
Trump team warns GOP senators, 'Vote against the president and your head will be on a pike'
Mobster doing mobster shit: x In opening statements, House managers examined the debunked conspiracy theories invoked by Pres. Trump. A @POTUS confidant tells CBS News that GOP senators were warned: “vote against the president & your head will be on a pike.†Here's @nancycordes https://t.co/LV1Y6QveIh pic.twitter.com/tLB9EpoWr8 — CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 23, 2020 In…
Senators given flashcards with pithy, reporter-avoiding responses
Okay, “responses” may be overstating it. These are more like mantras a cult leader might give you. x Senators have been given a flashcard with suggested phrases to use to avoid reporters, per @caitlinconant and @Grace_Segers https://t.co/RVocWmrgq5 pic.twitter.com/1ANboUSVvB— Melissa Quinn (@MelissaQuinn97) January 16, 2020 In case you can’t read those, here they are, in all…
Bait & Switch: Bolton could get subpoenaed, then the Senate gets hit with Executive Privilege
It is looking like there only “might” be witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial as it looks like the Articles will get transferred to the Senate next week. Then Trump, in a shell game, will invoke executive privilege as John Bolton complies with a Senate subpoena. As many journalists have hoped, we may have reached the moment…
