When it comes to catastrophic Trump devastation, the issues overlap.
Burn the evidence.
Pollute the environment.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Deny climate science. Support the billionaires who profit from coal and oil climate and environmental damage, have the internal memos to prove that they have known about this for more than 50 years, and cover up the political climate and environmental damage that will take decades, if ever, to recover from.
“The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” — President James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution
No “system” is going to protect us from the likes of Trump. The only realistic way for Americans to be free from tyranny and corruption is for them to vote for candidates who will represent them with integrity and honor.
While I’m no fan of Alan Dershowitz, he’s right that while the Democrats can’t kill Trump politically with impeachment, they can subject him to the death of a thousand cuts through subpoenas, investigations, etc.
GOP State Rep. Found Plotting Violent Attacks Against Democrats – April 22, 2019
Right-wing extremism is on the rise, despite Donald Trump’s assertion that white nationalism is not a real problem. Now a Republican State Representative has been caught plotting violent attacks against liberals with the help of other other right-wing extremists.
Rep. Matt Shea of Washington State has allegedly been found to be colluding with violent right-wingers to enact violence upon Democrats. Using Signal, an app that many people are generally pretty unfamiliar with, Rep. Shea communicated his plans to conduct so-called “psyops” on his liberal enemies to the extremists in his corner.
The Spokane Valley Representative communicated on the app under the alias “Verum Bellator.” Translated from Latin this name means “true warrior.” This warrior who happens to also allgedly be a Washington State Representative, was hanging out online with figures such as the host of the fringe right-wing radio show Radio Free Redoubt, Jack Robertson, and Anthony Bosworth, a gentleman who once was in trouble with the law for taking firearms to a courthouse.
The Guardian obtained chat logs from the conversations from another participant who is being kept anonymous so that he can be kept out of harm’s way.
The group decided that they would go after certain people with surveillance and violence. When caught, Rep. Shea tried to pretend that the chats and threats were just jokes. He said of the situation:
“A lot of people in private conversations say things tongue in cheek about what they would like to see happen to these people, but that is not setting a policy or establishing a protocol for people to carry things out.”
I’m just curious here; how did the Mueller Report turn from “TOTAL EXONERATION” to “an attempted coup?” Does anyone really listen to what is said, and how quickly the wind changes?
Law professor and former Trump transition team staffer J.W. Verret, in The Atlantic:“Let’s start at the end of this story. This weekend, I read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report twice, and realized that enough was enough—I needed to do something. I’ve worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years and recently served as counsel to the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee. My permanent job is as a law professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, which is not political, but where my colleagues have held many prime spots in Republican administrations. If you think calling for the impeachment of a sitting Republican president would constitute career suicide for someone like me, you may end up being right. But I did exactly that this weekend, tweeting that it’s time to begin impeachment proceedings……..The Mueller report was that tipping point for me, and it should be for Republican and independent voters, and for Republicans in Congress. In the face of a Department of Justice policy that prohibited him from indicting a sitting president, Mueller drafted what any reasonable reader would see as a referral to Congress to commence impeachment hearings. Depending on how you count, roughly a dozen separate instances of obstruction of justice are contained in the Mueller report. The president dangled pardons in front of witnesses to encourage them to lie to the special counsel, and directly ordered people to lie to throw the special counsel off the scent.This elaborate pattern of obstruction may have successfully impeded the Mueller investigation from uncovering a conspiracy to commit more serious crimes. At a minimum, there’s enough here to get the impeachment process started.”
IF Glorious Leader fails to honor a lawful subpoena, and nothing comes of it, the America I was fortunate enough to be born into is gone. I no longer think the question of removal from office is even on the table, but if the Democratic controlled House does not seek impeachment following the subpoena debacle, the America I was born into is just gone. Lots of people very happy to turn their minds over to Glorious Leader.Strange days indeed.
Conservative pundit Max Boot: "Having declared the Republican Party to be morally bankrupt last month — after 90 percent of GOP lawmakers voted to approve President Trump’s unconstitutional state of emergency — I am not remotely surprised by the party’s dishonorable and dishonest reaction to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. But I am nevertheless dismayed and disgusted that a once-great party — to which I belonged for most of my life — could become a handmaiden to foreign attacks on the United States and blatant lawbreaking by the president.The pattern was set by Attorney General William P. Barr, an establishment Republican who turned out to be a more unprincipled sycophant than his immediate predecessor, the erstwhile purveyor of toilets for “well-endowed” men. [note from Godfreydaniel: in addition to this fraud, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was involved in Bigfoot and time machine frauds.] Barr released his own summary of the Mueller report, which was highly favorable to the president — and highly misleading. He then held a news conference to claim that Trump had been cleared on both obstruction of justice and collusion with Russia.Anyone who has actually read the 448-page report knows that neither of those things is true. Mueller uncovered not only extensive connections between the Trump campaign and Russia but also extensive evidence of lying and obstruction of justice by the president. As former attorney general Eric Holder noted, “ANY competent public corruption prosecutor would bring obstruction charges against Trump and win.” Only the Justice Department position that a president can’t be indicted saved Trump — for now.
I am wondering…what redress does the House have, regarding ignoring a subpoena? Could we send the Praetorian Guard to drag the scoundrel before committee?
DD Wiz Premium Member about 5 years ago
When it comes to catastrophic Trump devastation, the issues overlap.
Burn the evidence.
Pollute the environment.
FOLLOW THE MONEY.
Deny climate science. Support the billionaires who profit from coal and oil climate and environmental damage, have the internal memos to prove that they have known about this for more than 50 years, and cover up the political climate and environmental damage that will take decades, if ever, to recover from.
• Thomas about 5 years ago
“The conclusion which I am warranted in drawing from these observations is, that a mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments, is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” — President James Madison, author of the U.S. Constitution
No “system” is going to protect us from the likes of Trump. The only realistic way for Americans to be free from tyranny and corruption is for them to vote for candidates who will represent them with integrity and honor.
GreggW Premium Member about 5 years ago
While I’m no fan of Alan Dershowitz, he’s right that while the Democrats can’t kill Trump politically with impeachment, they can subject him to the death of a thousand cuts through subpoenas, investigations, etc.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member about 5 years ago
Dictators usually ignore subpoenas. We are moving closer to it every day.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
CO2 continues to grow past the danger level of 350 ppm, republicans do not care.
Mauna Loa Observatory | Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations
April 22, 2019
414.14 ppm
NOAA-ESRL
April 22, 2018
411.61 ppm
NOAA-ESRL
daily mean concentrations | ppm = parts per million
Motivemagus about 5 years ago
Any doubt here, folks? The man is a crook.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Republicans declared that Dems were the enemy because they elected Obama.
Republicans have been waging vicious warfare on the Dems for the last 10 years.
Dems need to wake up or they will find themselves in a Republican Concentration Camp with the brown children.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Crooked liar Trump has denied two legal requests for his taxes.
Pelosi needs to call out the House Guard and march over to the IRS and seize the taxes and put Mulvaney in jail if he resists.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
GOP State Rep. Found Plotting Violent Attacks Against Democrats – April 22, 2019
Right-wing extremism is on the rise, despite Donald Trump’s assertion that white nationalism is not a real problem. Now a Republican State Representative has been caught plotting violent attacks against liberals with the help of other other right-wing extremists.
Rep. Matt Shea of Washington State has allegedly been found to be colluding with violent right-wingers to enact violence upon Democrats. Using Signal, an app that many people are generally pretty unfamiliar with, Rep. Shea communicated his plans to conduct so-called “psyops” on his liberal enemies to the extremists in his corner.
The Spokane Valley Representative communicated on the app under the alias “Verum Bellator.” Translated from Latin this name means “true warrior.” This warrior who happens to also allgedly be a Washington State Representative, was hanging out online with figures such as the host of the fringe right-wing radio show Radio Free Redoubt, Jack Robertson, and Anthony Bosworth, a gentleman who once was in trouble with the law for taking firearms to a courthouse.
The Guardian obtained chat logs from the conversations from another participant who is being kept anonymous so that he can be kept out of harm’s way.
The group decided that they would go after certain people with surveillance and violence. When caught, Rep. Shea tried to pretend that the chats and threats were just jokes. He said of the situation:
“A lot of people in private conversations say things tongue in cheek about what they would like to see happen to these people, but that is not setting a policy or establishing a protocol for people to carry things out.”
https://hillreporter.com/gop-congressman-found-plotting-violent-attacks-against-democrats-32267
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
The big winner from Trump’s Iran oil boycott: Vladimir Putin
April 23, 2019https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/opinions/big-winner-from-trumps-iran-oil-boycott-russia-andelman/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-04-23T23%3A31%3A34&utm_source=fbCNN&fbclid=IwAR3XF-Zi0P1u3lGda-sMpy8QXgDYQpWipMQ5GPjDfA3ujlGuyHd7SvenmnA&fbclid=IwAR2kTD4fhTb6AzwW-ZGM2weex7K0xfnlbIg1aG2G0KbB5Of5eG8DhJYSAOg
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Oilsands CO2 emissions may be far higher than companies report, scientists say
Air samples taken over northern Alberta operations suggest previous figures could be way off
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/oilsands-carbon-emissions-study-1.5106809
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Since the first Earth Day, the planet’s CO2 levels have gone off the rails.
https://mashable.com/article/earth-day-2019-climate-change-carbon-dioxide/
Bookworm about 5 years ago
I’m just curious here; how did the Mueller Report turn from “TOTAL EXONERATION” to “an attempted coup?” Does anyone really listen to what is said, and how quickly the wind changes?
robnvon Premium Member about 5 years ago
And like your other efforts, you’ll only make things worse.
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Top EPA advisers challenge long-standing air pollution science, threatening Americans’ health.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/top-epa-advisers-challenge-long-standing-air-pollution-science-threatening-americans-health?fbclid=IwAR1v7L3lYR7MrazF_tG3iC719hOyOu-nmj85caCxc7JpG3BlQlSJ8q76Mdw
Godfreydaniel about 5 years ago
Law professor and former Trump transition team staffer J.W. Verret, in The Atlantic:“Let’s start at the end of this story. This weekend, I read Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report twice, and realized that enough was enough—I needed to do something. I’ve worked on every Republican presidential transition team for the past 10 years and recently served as counsel to the Republican-led House Financial Services Committee. My permanent job is as a law professor at the George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, which is not political, but where my colleagues have held many prime spots in Republican administrations. If you think calling for the impeachment of a sitting Republican president would constitute career suicide for someone like me, you may end up being right. But I did exactly that this weekend, tweeting that it’s time to begin impeachment proceedings……..The Mueller report was that tipping point for me, and it should be for Republican and independent voters, and for Republicans in Congress. In the face of a Department of Justice policy that prohibited him from indicting a sitting president, Mueller drafted what any reasonable reader would see as a referral to Congress to commence impeachment hearings. Depending on how you count, roughly a dozen separate instances of obstruction of justice are contained in the Mueller report. The president dangled pardons in front of witnesses to encourage them to lie to the special counsel, and directly ordered people to lie to throw the special counsel off the scent.This elaborate pattern of obstruction may have successfully impeded the Mueller investigation from uncovering a conspiracy to commit more serious crimes. At a minimum, there’s enough here to get the impeachment process started.”
DBrannonWriter Premium Member about 5 years ago
IF Glorious Leader fails to honor a lawful subpoena, and nothing comes of it, the America I was fortunate enough to be born into is gone. I no longer think the question of removal from office is even on the table, but if the Democratic controlled House does not seek impeachment following the subpoena debacle, the America I was born into is just gone. Lots of people very happy to turn their minds over to Glorious Leader.Strange days indeed.
Godfreydaniel about 5 years ago
Conservative pundit Max Boot: "Having declared the Republican Party to be morally bankrupt last month — after 90 percent of GOP lawmakers voted to approve President Trump’s unconstitutional state of emergency — I am not remotely surprised by the party’s dishonorable and dishonest reaction to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s report. But I am nevertheless dismayed and disgusted that a once-great party — to which I belonged for most of my life — could become a handmaiden to foreign attacks on the United States and blatant lawbreaking by the president.The pattern was set by Attorney General William P. Barr, an establishment Republican who turned out to be a more unprincipled sycophant than his immediate predecessor, the erstwhile purveyor of toilets for “well-endowed” men. [note from Godfreydaniel: in addition to this fraud, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker was involved in Bigfoot and time machine frauds.] Barr released his own summary of the Mueller report, which was highly favorable to the president — and highly misleading. He then held a news conference to claim that Trump had been cleared on both obstruction of justice and collusion with Russia.Anyone who has actually read the 448-page report knows that neither of those things is true. Mueller uncovered not only extensive connections between the Trump campaign and Russia but also extensive evidence of lying and obstruction of justice by the president. As former attorney general Eric Holder noted, “ANY competent public corruption prosecutor would bring obstruction charges against Trump and win.” Only the Justice Department position that a president can’t be indicted saved Trump — for now.
Redd Panda about 5 years ago
I am wondering…what redress does the House have, regarding ignoring a subpoena? Could we send the Praetorian Guard to drag the scoundrel before committee?
Radish the wordsmith about 5 years ago
Mulvaney is protecting the president from reality because Trump gets his feelings hurt by reality.