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Sunday, September 22, 2019 2:17 PM

THG


Schiff: Impeachment may be 'only remedy' to Trump keeping whistleblower complaint and Ukraine call private

"If the President is essentially withholding military aid at the same time that he is trying to browbeat a foreign leader into doing something illicit that is providing dirt on his opponent during a presidential campaign, then that may be the only remedy that is coequal to the evil that conduct represents," the California Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union," stopping short of calling on Congress to immediately launch proceedings.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-impeachment-may-be-only
-remedy-to-trump-keeping-whistleblower-complaint-and-ukraine-call-private/ar-AAHFQVu?ocid=spartandhp


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Sunday, September 22, 2019 2:33 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Good. Do it already.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Sunday, September 22, 2019 10:06 PM

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Trump confesses: "Sure, I Did It. So What?" If the GOP Senators say it is not a crime for me to commit that crime, what are you going to do about it?

President Trump acknowledged on Sunday that he discussed former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. with Ukraine’s president. While Mr. Trump defended his July phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine as perfectly appropriate, he confirmed that Mr. Biden came up during the discussion.

It’s pretty clear at this point that Trump realizes the truth of what happened is likely to come out. So he’s doing what he usually does: preemptively declaring that there’s nothing wrong with it and getting the entire conservative machine to publicly agree with him. I don’t know if it will work, but if Trump did what we all think he did, then he has to be impeached for one reason, only: Senators have to go on record either approving or disapproving of his conduct. Then the voters will decide if they approve of Republican Senators decriminalizing a crime when the criminal is Trump because Trump is so very loved and very special to the GOP Senators.

In case you can't recognize a crime, it is Trump using Federal money as a bribe for the President of Ukraine, who then takes down Joe Biden, Trump's rival.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/09/trump-sure-i-did-it-so-what/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Sunday, September 22, 2019 11:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Good. Do it already.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, September 23, 2019 8:21 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Good. Do it already.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Trump could speed the process by being his own defense lawyer. He asks Senators if an American President can talk to the Ukrainian President. The Senators will say "Yes". Trump's second question is about Foreign aid. Can an American President decide how much to give to the Ukrainian President? The answer is "Yes", again. Then Trump tells the American voters that two legal acts can never add up to one illegal act. Trump rests his case. No more questions. He declares himself innocent.

The GOP Senators will say Trump did not "intend" to bribe Ukraine. Since Trump's heart is pure, no crime was committed, despite appearances. The GOP Senators will not prove the purity of their own hearts, claiming the people already know they are pure and good.

It will be left to voters to decide whether bribery is a crime, or not, when Trump does it to get Ukraine to destroy Trump's political enemy, Joe Biden. If Biden does not get nominated, the voters will be told by the GOP and Trump that bribery doesn't matter. The Democrats will say bribery doesn't become legal just because Trump says it doesn't matter. Around and around we go, with nothing being solved until the election in 2020.

"Reporters Should Stop Helping Donald Trump Spread Lies About Joe Biden and Ukraine"
https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/reporters-stop-helping-donald-trum
p-spread-lies-joe-biden-ukraine
/
Quote:

Since the news broke that Trump repeatedly pressed his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, to open an investigation into Biden, while delaying $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, the president has urged reporters again and again to look instead at the viral conspiracy theory that the former vice president had admitted on camera that he blackmailed Ukraine’s former president. Put simply, there is no evidence to support the conspiracy theory that Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani want Ukraine to validate.


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Monday, September 23, 2019 10:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Fuck you. Talk to Biden about it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/01/us/politics/biden-son-ukraine.html

New York Times, the epitome of lefty trash journalism already covered it in the beginning of May.

Quote:

Biden Faces Conflict of Interest Questions That Are Being Promoted by Trump and Allies

WASHINGTON — It was a foreign policy role Joseph R. Biden Jr. enthusiastically embraced during his vice presidency: browbeating Ukraine’s notoriously corrupt government to clean up its act. And one of his most memorable performances came on a trip to Kiev in March 2016, when he threatened to withhold $1 billion in United States loan guarantees if Ukraine’s leaders did not dismiss the country’s top prosecutor, who had been accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his own office and among the political elite.

The pressure campaign worked. The prosecutor general, long a target of criticism from other Western nations and international lenders, was soon voted out by the Ukrainian Parliament.

Among those who had a stake in the outcome was Hunter Biden, Mr. Biden’s younger son, who at the time was on the board of an energy company owned by a Ukrainian oligarch who had been in the sights of the fired prosecutor general.

Hunter Biden was a Yale-educated lawyer who had served on the boards of Amtrak and a number of nonprofit organizations and think tanks, but lacked any experience in Ukraine and just months earlier had been discharged from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine. He would be paid as much as $50,000 per month in some months for his work for the company, Burisma Holdings.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, September 23, 2019 10:38 AM

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The Wall Street Journal reports President Trump asked Ukraine's president "about eight times" to investigate Joe Biden's son.




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Monday, September 23, 2019 10:48 AM

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The Wall Street Journal reports that in a July phone call, President Trump repeatedly pressured the president of Ukraine to work with Rudy Giuliani and investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son


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Monday, September 23, 2019 10:54 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Please. On behalf of President Trump, keep talking about impeachment. Keep talking about Ukraine. Keep letting AOC talk out of turn.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_app
roval-6179.html


RCP average has Trump at 44.7% now.

Obama's approval rating on September 23rd, 2011 was 43.3%.


Once again, this is the aggregate of all polls. Not just the singular Rasmussen poll.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Monday, September 23, 2019 11:19 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Please. On behalf of President Trump, keep talking about impeachment. Keep talking about Ukraine. Keep letting AOC talk out of turn.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_trump_job_app
roval-6179.html


RCP average has Trump at 44.7% now.

Obama's approval rating on September 23rd, 2011 was 43.3%.


Once again, this is the aggregate of all polls. Not just the singular Rasmussen poll.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

All you have proved, 6ix, is that 44.7% of Americans deserve to be in the lower 50% of wealth. They are in the bottom half because they make bad decisions all the time and their approval of Trump is just another one of those decisions. As far as I'm concerned, Trump can stay around long enough to become the next Herbert Hoover, who crashed the American economy so badly that the Democrats took control away from the Republicans for the next 30 years. If Trump manages to crash the economy, I will buy foreclosure real estate and the S&P 500 at a HUGE discount and wait for the markets to recover. If there is no crash, that is good for me, too.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, September 23, 2019 11:27 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


lol

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Monday, September 23, 2019 12:54 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I like this quote because I think Republicans are evolving themselves out of existence with their choices:

Jerry Rose, a dental anthropologist and professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas, warned that a whole generation could be impacted if we don’t change course. “In evolution, there are winners and losers,” Rose said. We have to adapt, and adapt quickly, to our changing physiology — or risk the consequences.

“There are groups of people who simply went the wrong way,” Rose said. “And then they’re gone.” In my opinion, it can't happen soon enough with the Trump lovers I know. They are killing themselves faster and faster, but I wish they would hurry it even more.

"Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us"
A motley crew of scientists argue that our ever-shrinking skulls are wreaking havoc on our well-being
https://onezero.medium.com/our-skulls-are-out-evolving-us-and-that-cou
ld-mean-a-public-health-crisis-f950faed696d


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Monday, September 23, 2019 1:45 PM

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Giuliani: Yeah, Maybe Trump Threatened Aid to Ukraine

To no one’s surprise, yet another shoe dropped today in Ukrainegate.

Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani didn’t rule out the possibility that the president threatened to cut off aid to Ukraine over calls for an investigation into largely discredited allegations against former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Giuliani first said in response to a question on Fox Business Monday that Trump didn’t threaten Ukraine aid, but then added he “can’t say for 100%.”

So here’s where we are:

Phase 1: Nothing happened.

Phase 2: It doesn’t matter what I said.

Phase 3: I may have mentioned Biden.

Phase 4: It’s possible the president threatened to cut off aid to Ukraine.

The goal here is to admit to an impeachable act, but to do it slowly enough that each revelation isn’t quite enough to cause Trump’s supporters to bolt. Then, by the time the whole story is out, they’ve already defended pretty much every detail and have no choice but to stay on his side. And with that, Trump has successfully shot someone on Fifth Avenue and gotten away with it.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/09/giuliani-yeah-maybe-trump-threa
tened-aid-to-ukraine
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Monday, September 23, 2019 3:18 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Please put my post in the 'predictions' thread
http://www.fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=62972&p=1
PREDICTIONS THREAD (v.2)

I predict that this teapot-tempest will be quietly swept away by the m$m because of non-conforming evidence, and because pursuing it too vigorously will rip the scab off of the Biden rot, exposing it for all to see.


... the Washington Post quietly reported on Friday evening that a July 25 phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did not contain an explicit quid pro quo if Ukraine launched an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son as initially reported.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-pressed-ukraini
an-leader-to-investigate-bidens-son-according-to-people-familiar-with-the-matter/2019/09/20/7fa39b20-dbdc-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html


“And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?

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Monday, September 23, 2019 4:24 PM

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Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich got heated over allegations that President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to help him win an election, noting the GOP would freak out if Barack Obama did the same.

“If in fact the president of the United States pressured a leader of another country to investigate his political opponent, if in fact military aid was withheld, now we’ll have to decide where we go from there, but we have to gather all these facts and information,” Kasich told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on At This Hour. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I am very, very, very concerned about what is happening here. If we don’t deal with this, we become like a banana republic. ”

“Where are the Republicans? Are they hiding? If I were you at CNN, I’d be in the hallway asking all of them what are you going to say?” he continued.
Bolduan noted Republicans have been invited on CNN to talk about it and many have declined.

“I guess the Republicans are dismissing it in the House but you got to think about this from a precedent standpoint. Let me ask this question, not ask you but ask our viewers,” Kasich said. “If Barack Obama had made calls like this, people would be going crazy. Now, if the Democrats had done things in the past that were wrong, OK fine, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this. This has to do with where we are today and things are slipping and sliding and I am worried about our country.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-kasich-is-livid-about-ukr
aine-if-obama-had-made-calls-like-this-people-would-be-going-crazy/ar-AAHJd2U?ocid=spartandhp


Unfortunately all the Trump supports here are trolls and could care less. After the 2020 elections and Trump is gone, if the democratic president so much as sneezes, they'll be yelling from the rooftops. The rest of us will be laughing at their hypocrisy of course. Even then best we don't acknowledge them but instead do as I do now. Continue to post around them instead of with them.

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Monday, September 23, 2019 4:39 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What was the Resolution number which started this Impeachment Investigation?

The House Resolution number, or the Judiciary Committee Resolution number?



It must have been 26 July or sooner, since this thread announced it on that day.

???
Crickets??

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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:00 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Ukraine Minister Denies Trump Put Pressure on Zelinskiy During Call. Reuters. Look it up



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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:00 PM

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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:01 PM

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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:01 PM

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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:01 PM

SIGNYM

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Monday, September 23, 2019 5:02 PM

SIGNYM

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Wow talk about key bounce!

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Monday, September 23, 2019 6:20 PM

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Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich got heated over allegations that President Donald Trump is pressuring Ukraine to help him win an election, noting the GOP would freak out if Barack Obama did the same.

“If in fact the president of the United States pressured a leader of another country to investigate his political opponent, if in fact military aid was withheld, now we’ll have to decide where we go from there, but we have to gather all these facts and information,” Kasich told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan on At This Hour. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself but I am very, very, very concerned about what is happening here. If we don’t deal with this, we become like a banana republic. ”

“Where are the Republicans? Are they hiding? If I were you at CNN, I’d be in the hallway asking all of them what are you going to say?” he continued.
Bolduan noted Republicans have been invited on CNN to talk about it and many have declined.

“I guess the Republicans are dismissing it in the House but you got to think about this from a precedent standpoint. Let me ask this question, not ask you but ask our viewers,” Kasich said. “If Barack Obama had made calls like this, people would be going crazy. Now, if the Democrats had done things in the past that were wrong, OK fine, but that doesn’t have anything to do with this. This has to do with where we are today and things are slipping and sliding and I am worried about our country.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-kasich-is-livid-about-ukr
aine-if-obama-had-made-calls-like-this-people-would-be-going-crazy/ar-AAHJd2U?ocid=spartandhp


Unfortunately all the Trump supports here are trolls and could care less. After the 2020 elections and Trump is gone, if the democratic president so much as sneezes, they'll be yelling from the rooftops. The rest of us will be laughing at their hypocrisy of course. Even then best we don't acknowledge them but instead do as I do now. Continue to post around them instead of with them.



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Monday, September 23, 2019 6:47 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:

allegations



tic tac

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Monday, September 23, 2019 7:13 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Meanwhile
Quote:

Joe Biden Brags about getting Ukranian Prosecutor Fired

If the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting the money"






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Monday, September 23, 2019 7:19 PM

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Giuliani can't say 100 percent Trump didn't threaten Ukraine aid

Rudy Giuliani on Monday said that he can't say for certain that Trump didn't threaten Ukraine aid when he spoke to that country's president about an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden's son.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-cant-say-100-percent-
trump-didnt-threaten-ukraine-aid/ar-AAHIRPw?ocid=spartanntp


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Monday, September 23, 2019 7:26 PM

THG


Mr. Biden, as vice president, did call for the ouster of the former Ukrainian prosecutor general as part of a broader effort by anticorruption investigators, European diplomats, U.S. allies and the U.S. State Department to overhaul a prosecutor’s office widely viewed as corrupt. A Ukrainian official said this year that he had no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-says-he-discussed-biden-in-call-wit
h-ukraines-president-11569177685


In other words folks we and the rest of the world were insisting corrupt officials that Putin put in place had to go and Biden said so. Everybody wanted the prosecutor out.

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Monday, September 23, 2019 10:06 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Meanwhile
Quote:

Joe Biden Brags about getting Ukranian Prosecutor Fired

If the prosecutor's not fired you're not getting the money"


To make Signym's short story long and to remind us that Signym is full of shit:

It has become an article of faith among Trump supporters that Biden got the chief prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, dismissed to derail a corruption investigation of a Ukrainian firm his son was paid to advise.

But journalists at leading American news organizations — including CNN, the New York Times, Politico, ABC News, and MSNBC — have helped weaponize this disinformation by repeating the baseless smear over and over, without promptly and accurately conveying that Trump and Giuliani are lying about what the former vice president did in Ukraine. So lies and misinformation have been broadcast nationwide, reaching millions of people who will never read subsequent fact checks debunking them.

This began in May, when Giuliani’s embrace of the conspiracy theory was reported on the front page of the Times, in an article that forced readers to wait until the 19th paragraph to find out that “No evidence has surfaced that the former vice president intentionally tried to help his son by pressing for the prosecutor general’s dismissal.” Even so, the Times politics reporter who interviewed Giuliani, Ken Vogel, claimed on Twitter that this meant “The BIDENS are entangled in a Ukrainian corruption scandal.”

As I reported at the time, the truth is not that hard to determine. There is little doubt that Biden’s son Hunter did benefit from his father’s position by securing a spot on the board of a Ukrainian natural gas company in 2014, a legal but ethically dubious move. But when Joe Biden subsequently conveyed a threat from the Obama administration to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees to Ukraine unless the chief prosecutor was dismissed, his intervention made it more rather than less likely that the oligarch who paid his son would be subject to prosecution for corruption.

That’s because one of the most prominent cases of official corruption that Shokin had failed to pursue was against a former environment and natural resources minister, Mykola Zlochevsky, who had oversight of all Ukrainian energy firms, including the largest independent gas company, Burisma, which he secretly controlled through shell companies in Cyprus. After Zlochevsky was forced from office in 2014 — in the popular uprising that toppled a pro-Russian president, Viktor Yanukovych, and forced his political adviser, Paul Manafort, to look elsewhere for work — Burisma appointed Hunter Biden to its board.

Shokin’s reluctance to pursue Zlochevsky was loudly condemned by the Obama administration shortly before Biden traveled to Ukraine at the end of 2015. In a speech to the Odessa Financial Forum that September, U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt complained that the chief prosecutor’s office had “undermined prosecutors working on legitimate corruption cases,” like, for example, “the case of former Ecology Minister Mykola Zlochevsky.”

“Shokin was fired,” the executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, Daria Kaleniuk, told me in May, “because he failed to do investigations of corruption and economic crimes of President Yanukovych and his close associates, including Zlochevsky, and basically it was the big demand within society in Ukraine, including our organization and many other organizations, to get rid of this guy.”

Despite the debunking of this conspiracy theory by The Intercept and other news outlets when Giuliani first raised it in May, the president’s lawyer was invited on CNN this week and allowed, over the course of 20 minutes on national television, to make a series of false claims about Biden and Ukraine, uncorrected by the host, Chris Cuomo, who admitted that he had almost no knowledge of the facts of the case.

https://theintercept.com/2019/09/22/reporters-stop-helping-donald-trum
p-spread-lies-joe-biden-ukraine
/

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, September 23, 2019 11:56 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?

Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:11 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


How's that impeachment investigation going folks?

I see you're just trying to throw everything against the wall and see if something finally sticks.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:12 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?

Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached.

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To be fair to Biden, "We came. We saw. He was fired." is a tad more sane than the last broad that ran for the Democrats.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 12:35 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?

Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached.

Nobody believes that, Signym, except babies. But many people believe that politicians who are crooks, idiots, and rapists should be impeached. Trump is all three.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:44 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?

Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached. SIGNY

Nobody believes that, Signym, except babies. But many people believe that politicians who are crooks, idiots, and rapists should be impeached. Trump is all three.- SECOND

So you say.
I'm with SIX on this- so impeach already.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:58 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


SECOND just can't take yes for an answer.

The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 5:46 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So Biden bragging that he got the prosecutor fired was just ... a Trumpian tall tale?
Empty words?
Lies?

Hmmm... either way, that's a problem, especially for people who believe that politicians who lie should be impeached. SIGNY

Nobody believes that, Signym, except babies. But many people believe that politicians who are crooks, idiots, and rapists should be impeached. Trump is all three.- SECOND

So you say.
I'm with SIX on this- so impeach already.

It does not work that way. All the GOP Senators have insisted that they won't convict Trump. They are family. If you were a prosecutor, you would not go to trial if the defendant's relatives were on the jury and also the judge, the bailiff, and most of the witnesses. I'll give you an example how that "family" relationship works between Trump and Mitch McConnell, who has already revealed his vote on Trump's innocence :

President Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.

Administration officials were instructed to tell lawmakers that the delays were part of an “interagency process” but to give them no additional information — a pattern that continued for nearly two months, until the White House released the funds on the night of Sept. 11.

In short: as part of an attempt to extort a foreign country, Trump withheld military aid from them and then lied to Congress about why he was doing it.

Mitch McConnell, naturally, was saddened that Democrats were trying to “politicize” the matter. That is just McConnell sending a message to the voters in Kentucky about how innocent Trump is.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/09/the-timeline-tightens-around-tr
ump
/

A trial is foolish unless every single GOP Senator takes a public oath that they would convict Trump and that they have not prejudged him as innocent and unimpeachable. Every Senator needs to swear it AND make it well known to their voters back in their home states. But there will be NO Republican Senator who will swear that oath, because their voters have already decided Trump is perfectly innocent.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 6:34 AM

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We see again second that sig twists what you've said into another lie. It's what trolls do.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 6:44 AM

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Trump ordered hold on military aid days before calling Ukrainian president, officials say

Trump told his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, to hold back almost $400 million in military aid for Ukraine at least a week before a phone call in which Trump is said to have pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate the son of former vice president Joe Biden, according to three senior administration officials.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-ordered-hold-on-military
-aid-days-before-calling-ukrainian-president-officials-say/ar-AAHJWJb?ocid=spartandhp


tick tock

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 7:13 AM

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Second: "We need to impeach Trump!"

Also Second: "We can't impeach Trump!"

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 8:48 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second: "We need to impeach Trump!"

Also Second: "We can't impeach Trump!"

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I will tell you an ugly secret of mine: I don't think Trump has, yet, been a bad enough employee to fire. Bad in the way Nixon bombed Cambodia and Laos, secretly. But if Trump keeps believing he can't be fired because he is family for most of the Senate, since most Senators keep telling him they would never fire him, he will never stop being a fat, lazy, rude employee. I'd love to see the Senate scare Trump into losing 50 pounds and actually working a 40 hour week, even if the Senate does not replace Trump with Pence.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:09 AM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm with SIX on this- so impeach already.



I'm with Sicks and Smegma - Impeach the POS already! I don't care about senators and "It won't work - the math is against it." Expose all of his crap publicly AGAIN, take your time, "paid off hookers, lied about Russia, campaign finance, fraud, abuse of power, 32,000 lies... on and on" it will be good for Dems to look like they are in a position of dominance over that fwad. Make him sit in a chair, all alone, in front of a camera, and try and defend himself. He will hang himself with his own words. And not being complete pussies for a change will be good for the Dems.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:18 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Second: "We need to impeach Trump!"

Also Second: "We can't impeach Trump!"

Do Right, Be Right. :)

I will tell you an ugly secret of mine: I don't think Trump has, yet, been a bad enough employee to fire. Bad in the way Nixon bombed Cambodia and Laos, secretly. But if Trump keeps believing he can't be fired because he is family for most of the Senate, since most Senators keep telling him they would never fire him, he will never stop being a fat, lazy, rude employee. I'd love to see the Senate scare Trump into losing 50 pounds and actually working a 40 hour week, even if the Senate does not replace Trump with Pence.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



He hasn't been a bad enough employee to fire?

The MSM has been telling us for 3 years that he has committed treason.

They've also told us he's a racist that grabs pussy.

You've told us yourself you've fired half of your people because they're not Democrat.

Or have you already forgotten all of that?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:44 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

He hasn't been a bad enough employee to fire?

The MSM has been telling us for 3 years that he has committed treason.

They've also told us he's a racist that grabs pussy.

You've told us yourself you've fired half of your people because they're not Democrat.

Or have you already forgotten all of that?

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Very clearly, a majority of voters do not care about those three points, therefore GOP Senators don't care, either. To care would get themselves voted out of office. But one thing GOP Senators should care about is that tax cheating increases the National Debt by $500 billion per year. You might not be aware, but the upper income brackets can cheat all they feel they can get away with. Trump is showing the rich how easy the system is to cheat. The Senate should make an example of Trump, and change how other rich men feel about cheating, by showing that either Trump is a very conscientious tax payer who does not cheat (ha-ha-ha!), or forcing a tax cheating Trump to pay all his taxes. The Senate has to force Trump to reveal his tax returns.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:04 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Oh right. How could I forget. He cheated on his taxes too.


I'm down with going after Trump for his taxes.

So long as we go after every current and prior politician for their taxes as well.

Let the chips fall where they may.

My guess is there wouldn't be anybody left to govern.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 11:05 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


And they don't care about those THREE points?

One of those "points" is how you're an asshole and a terrible boss.



Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:29 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
And they don't care about those THREE points?

One of those "points" is how you're an asshole and a terrible boss.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Those Trump lovers I fired? One was stealing diesel. One was stealing power tools. One was embezzling. All three claimed moral superiority to any Democrat. Catching them was expensive for me. I could have saved money by simply firing them without all the investigation, since only crooks would loudly defend and praise a crook like Trump. Once they were gone, business runs so much smoother. Trump lovers think they are the salt of the earth, but they are really the sand in the gears.

Getting back to Mister Sand-In-the-Gears: President Trump said Tuesday that he held up American aid to Ukraine because European countries have not paid their fair share to support the Ukraine, and pointed to the fact that the American money was eventually released as evidence that he had done nothing wrong.

Trump is full of shit about "fair share". For the record, the European Union paid more than €15 billion in grants and loans to support the reform process in Ukraine since 2014. This includes €500 million disbursed late last year for 2019. This compares to US aid of about $1.2 billion over the same period plus about $1 billion in military aid. In other words, the EU has already provided Ukraine with about eight times as much aid as the US over the past five years and will provide more than the US in 2019 as well.

Trump has now fessed up to everything: he did hold up the aid to Ukraine and he did ask Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son. But he had reasons! He held up the aid because of the cheapskate Europeans (who are actually very generous) and he asked for the investigation because he was very worried about political corruption in the US (Sure, nothing to do with Trump reelecting Trump).

All the pieces are in place. All we need now is the whistleblower complaint, a transcipt of the phone call, and all the evidence underlying them. Should be a piece of cake since Trump obviously has nothing to hide.

www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2019/09/trump-admits-to-holding-up-ukra
ine-aid
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:38 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by second:

Trump has now fessed up to everything: he did hold up the aid to Ukraine and he did ask Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son. But he had reasons! He held up the aid because of the cheapskate Europeans (who are actually very generous) and he asked for the investigation because he was very worried about political corruption in the US (Sure, nothing to do with Trump reelecting Trump).

All the pieces are in place. All we need now is the whistleblower complaint, a transcipt of the phone call, and all the evidence underlying them. Should be a piece of cake since Trump obviously has nothing to hide.




I think the GOP approach to Trump is pretty smart: they are essentially ignoring him and what he says and even does. Even they can't find good things to say about him. Instead, they focus their efforts on vilifying Democrats. AOC, Clinton, Obama, the usual tropes and bs. And judging from this place, it's working just great.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 2:56 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Originally posted by SECOND:
I will tell you an ugly secret of mine: I don't think Trump has, yet, been a bad enough employee to fire.

Poor SECOND. NOBODY listens to his little gems of wisdom.
Quote:

Pelosi to announce formal impeachment inquiry of Trump
The announcement later today from Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) comes amid reports that President Trump may have pressured a foreign leader to investigate former vice president and potential 2020 campaign rival Joe Biden and his family.

By Rachael Bade and Mike DeBonis1 hour ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/pelosi-top-democrats-privatel
y-discuss-creation-of-select-committee-for-impeachment/2019/09/24/af6f735a-dedf-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html




The insane never-Trumpers will be driven even more insane in the wash/rinse/spin/repeat/ cycle they mistake for reality.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:10 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by CAPTAINCRUNCH:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I'm with SIX on this- so impeach already.



I'm with Sicks and Smegma - Impeach the POS already! I don't care about senators and "It won't work - the math is against it." Expose all of his crap publicly AGAIN, take your time, "paid off hookers, lied about Russia, campaign finance, fraud, abuse of power, 32,000 lies... on and on" it will be good for Dems to look like they are in a position of dominance over that fwad. Make him sit in a chair, all alone, in front of a camera, and try and defend himself. He will hang himself with his own words. And not being complete pussies for a change will be good for the Dems.



Don't blink G. I'm pretty sure the impeachment inquiry becomes official today.

tick tock

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:20 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


And despite THUGGER's premature ejaculation of HALLELUJAH! "Impeachment Investigation Is Underway, Judiciary Committee Says" Friday, July 26, 2019 5:52 PM, it will not REALLY start until the House votes on it (and in this case, the dems will carry it).

tic tac

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Tuesday, September 24, 2019 3:23 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


I'm guessing this will be timed to not implode until after the elections.

tic tac

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