- b.c.,
And thank YOU, Julie, for your typically incredible insight and wisdom.
Of swine, saboteurs, and sycophants - enemies of the state
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Former Bush Ethics Chief: Rep. Matt Gaetz 'Should Be Arrested Tonight' For Tampering | HuffPostLooks like sycophant Republican “Congressman” Matt Gaetz pulled his head out of Trump’s ass long enough to do his master’s bidding and threaten Michael Cohen. Witness tampering? Just like Trump.
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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz Issues Mob-Style Threat Ahead Of Michael Cohen Testimony | HuffPost
- b.c.,
Swine, saboteurs, and sycophants. Undermining democracy, separation of powers, jurisprudence, and rule of law... ALL beholden to their lord, master, and "savior," Donald Trump.
Trump and Republicans parallel Maduro’s tactics in Venezuela.
Each country has a president who seizes power, and a party that’s blocking the legislature from stopping him.
"On Tuesday, House Republicans voted to support ... Trump’s assertion of unchecked executive power.
Trump has invoked a law passed 43 years ago —which was designed to facilitate presidential action in times of desperate haste, such as war or disaster—to seize power from Congress and override its explicit instructions. And Trump’s party is standing behind this assault on the Constitution, ensuring that Congress won’t be able to block him.
The GOP’s complicity is bitterly ironic because at the same time, Republicans are decrying a presidential coup against the national legislature of Venezuela.
Unlike the United States, Venezuela is awash in economic chaos and political repression. But the behavior of Trump and his party since the November midterms bears an uncanny resemblance to the behavior of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his party after they lost that country’s 2015 legislative elections.
Trump says Venezuela illustrates the perils of socialism. But it also illustrates the perils of authoritarianism, which the Republican Party of the United States now supports."
MEANWHILE:
House Republicans Unite in Asking Michael Cohen Nothing About Donald Trump – Mother Jones
"... as Republicans hammered Cohen throughout the first four hours of the hearing—repeatedly asking him about his prospects for a future book deal and whether he would renounce such an endeavor under oath—they left out a key subject: ... Donald Trump, whose administration and family business are engulfed in federal investigations and who may face potential impeachment.
At one point, Cohen himself noted the glaring absence of questions from Republican lawmakers regarding his former boss. “I find it interesting, sir, that between yourself and your colleagues that not one question so far since I’m here has been asked about ... Trump.”
What a SORRY bunch of b-------------ds.
Trump and Republicans parallel Maduro’s tactics in Venezuela.
Each country has a president who seizes power, and a party that’s blocking the legislature from stopping him.
"On Tuesday, House Republicans voted to support ... Trump’s assertion of unchecked executive power.
Trump has invoked a law passed 43 years ago —which was designed to facilitate presidential action in times of desperate haste, such as war or disaster—to seize power from Congress and override its explicit instructions. And Trump’s party is standing behind this assault on the Constitution, ensuring that Congress won’t be able to block him.
The GOP’s complicity is bitterly ironic because at the same time, Republicans are decrying a presidential coup against the national legislature of Venezuela.
Unlike the United States, Venezuela is awash in economic chaos and political repression. But the behavior of Trump and his party since the November midterms bears an uncanny resemblance to the behavior of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his party after they lost that country’s 2015 legislative elections.
Trump says Venezuela illustrates the perils of socialism. But it also illustrates the perils of authoritarianism, which the Republican Party of the United States now supports."
MEANWHILE:
House Republicans Unite in Asking Michael Cohen Nothing About Donald Trump – Mother Jones
"... as Republicans hammered Cohen throughout the first four hours of the hearing—repeatedly asking him about his prospects for a future book deal and whether he would renounce such an endeavor under oath—they left out a key subject: ... Donald Trump, whose administration and family business are engulfed in federal investigations and who may face potential impeachment.
At one point, Cohen himself noted the glaring absence of questions from Republican lawmakers regarding his former boss. “I find it interesting, sir, that between yourself and your colleagues that not one question so far since I’m here has been asked about ... Trump.”
What a SORRY bunch of b-------------ds.
It's sorta like the Japanese saying "opps" after Pearl Harbor.
- b.c.,
Favors to donors and special interests no longer matter to the GOP... seeing as how THEY and Trump are the ones CASHING IN:
Republicans Laugh Off Concerns About Corporations Putting Money In Trump’s Pocket | HuffPost
"Republicans on the House antitrust panel laughed off Democrats’ questions over T-Mobile’s spending at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. immediately after the company announced a mega-merger with Sprint.
Trump is the first... in the modern era to refuse to divest from his business holdings while in office. As the owner of multiple commercial properties, this has created a situation in which corporations, lobbyists and foreign governments can directly pay the president as they seek his support for a variety of policies.
The Trump hotel in D.C., which opened in 2016, is one of the key hotspots for this type of influence to take place. Visitors seeking action from the Trump administration routinely post photos on social media showing how happy they are to spend money at the president’s property ― as Legere and T-Mobile executives did."
MEANWHILE:
With Democrats in control, the Koch Brothers and their stooges are hopping mad in Colorado
"Prior to 2018, the Republicans enjoyed a majority in the Colorado state senate, a position which enabled them to effectively block any legislative attempts to rein in the oil and gas industry. In performing their work, these Republicans had, like their counterparts throughout the country, sold themselves completely to ALEC, which is the legislative-stenography arm of fossil-fuel energy moguls such as Charles and David Koch.
But a result of the 2018 elections, Democrats now command a majority in both the Colorado state house and senate. Colorado’s newly-elected Democratic governor Jared Polis has urged passage of the energy legislation, and it will likely be enacted into law.
... what’s in this Colorado energy bill that has the Kochs pulling out all stops to avoid it? Quite a bit, actually. Described as the “most sweeping oil and gas reforms” the state has ever seen, the, the bill reads like a laundry list of everything the Kochs hate."
Republicans Laugh Off Concerns About Corporations Putting Money In Trump’s Pocket | HuffPost
"Republicans on the House antitrust panel laughed off Democrats’ questions over T-Mobile’s spending at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. immediately after the company announced a mega-merger with Sprint.
Trump is the first... in the modern era to refuse to divest from his business holdings while in office. As the owner of multiple commercial properties, this has created a situation in which corporations, lobbyists and foreign governments can directly pay the president as they seek his support for a variety of policies.
The Trump hotel in D.C., which opened in 2016, is one of the key hotspots for this type of influence to take place. Visitors seeking action from the Trump administration routinely post photos on social media showing how happy they are to spend money at the president’s property ― as Legere and T-Mobile executives did."
MEANWHILE:
With Democrats in control, the Koch Brothers and their stooges are hopping mad in Colorado
"Prior to 2018, the Republicans enjoyed a majority in the Colorado state senate, a position which enabled them to effectively block any legislative attempts to rein in the oil and gas industry. In performing their work, these Republicans had, like their counterparts throughout the country, sold themselves completely to ALEC, which is the legislative-stenography arm of fossil-fuel energy moguls such as Charles and David Koch.
But a result of the 2018 elections, Democrats now command a majority in both the Colorado state house and senate. Colorado’s newly-elected Democratic governor Jared Polis has urged passage of the energy legislation, and it will likely be enacted into law.
... what’s in this Colorado energy bill that has the Kochs pulling out all stops to avoid it? Quite a bit, actually. Described as the “most sweeping oil and gas reforms” the state has ever seen, the, the bill reads like a laundry list of everything the Kochs hate."
- b.c.,
Truth - "Trump and his gang betrayed the United States in the greatest scandal in American history"
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MEANWHILE:
Alaska Governor Announces Koch Funded Americans for Prosperity Orchestrated Public Meetings
"If you haven’t been paying attention to Alaska politics...you don’t know that we have a governor whose brother bought his election and is now, apparently, under the control of the Koch owned Americans for Prosperity (AFP). In fact, just after the election in November, Jeremy Price was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff. According to Must Read Alaska, a blog written by the former communications director of the Republican party in Alaska,
“In 2014, Price was tapped to begin a branch of Americans for Prosperity in Alaska and has since grown the organization to a well-known voice for economic freedom. The group is supported locally and receives organizational support from its national parent, Americans for Prosperity, which is back [sic] by the Koch Brothers.”"
MEANWHILE:
Alaska Governor Announces Koch Funded Americans for Prosperity Orchestrated Public Meetings
"If you haven’t been paying attention to Alaska politics...you don’t know that we have a governor whose brother bought his election and is now, apparently, under the control of the Koch owned Americans for Prosperity (AFP). In fact, just after the election in November, Jeremy Price was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff. According to Must Read Alaska, a blog written by the former communications director of the Republican party in Alaska,
“In 2014, Price was tapped to begin a branch of Americans for Prosperity in Alaska and has since grown the organization to a well-known voice for economic freedom. The group is supported locally and receives organizational support from its national parent, Americans for Prosperity, which is back [sic] by the Koch Brothers.”"
- b.c.,
Saboteurs, sycophants, and yes... SWINE.... circling the wagons:
Schumer Accuses McConnell of “Aiding and Abetting” the Russians – Mother Jones
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of “aiding and abetting” Russian interference in US elections by failing to address election security concerns, despite warnings from the intelligence community that Russia may once again attempt to interfere in the 2020 campaign."
Durbin: McConnell ignored election security because GOP benefited from Russians - POLITICO
Schumer: McConnell 'wants to cover up' Russian sabotage, 'sweep' his own actions 'under the rug'
meanwhile:
McConnell Tried to Slam the Door on the Mueller Report. Warren Called to Impeach Trump Instead. – Mother Jones
"In a blistering speech that included direct readings from the Mueller report, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called to initiate impeachment proceedings against ... Donald Trump, arguing that the events described in the special counsel’s findings amounted to a crime.
“There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution,” Warren said from the Senate floor. “If any other human being in this country had done what’s documented in the Mueller report, they’d be arrested and put in jail.”
Schumer Accuses McConnell of “Aiding and Abetting” the Russians – Mother Jones
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) accused Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of “aiding and abetting” Russian interference in US elections by failing to address election security concerns, despite warnings from the intelligence community that Russia may once again attempt to interfere in the 2020 campaign."
Durbin: McConnell ignored election security because GOP benefited from Russians - POLITICO
Schumer: McConnell 'wants to cover up' Russian sabotage, 'sweep' his own actions 'under the rug'
meanwhile:
McConnell Tried to Slam the Door on the Mueller Report. Warren Called to Impeach Trump Instead. – Mother Jones
"In a blistering speech that included direct readings from the Mueller report, Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday called to initiate impeachment proceedings against ... Donald Trump, arguing that the events described in the special counsel’s findings amounted to a crime.
“There is no political inconvenience exception to the United States Constitution,” Warren said from the Senate floor. “If any other human being in this country had done what’s documented in the Mueller report, they’d be arrested and put in jail.”
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Is there any other monster like Mitch McConnell that has done more to end democracy in America?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is a master troll, whose limitless hypocrisy and bad faith are guaranteed to make his opponents want to tear their hair out.
But what really matters here is that McConnell, like the president and the rest of the party, is desperate to shut down any further investigation of the Russia scandal. Which is itself proof that they’re extremely nervous about what such an investigation might find. After all, it’s not as if McConnell has a bulging legislative agenda he needs to get to, and hearings in the House might somehow hamper it. In fact, he has no legislative agenda at all; just about all the Senate does these days is confirm President Trump’s judges.
But what really matters here is that McConnell, like the president and the rest of the party, is desperate to shut down any further investigation of the Russia scandal. Which is itself proof that they’re extremely nervous about what such an investigation might find. After all, it’s not as if McConnell has a bulging legislative agenda he needs to get to, and hearings in the House might somehow hamper it. In fact, he has no legislative agenda at all; just about all the Senate does these days is confirm President Trump’s judges.
Screwing The Country With One Extremist Judge At A Time
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Mitch McConnell Broke From Precedent Again To Confirm A Trump Judge | HuffPost
Mitch McConnell Broke From Precedent Again To Confirm A Trump Judge | HuffPost
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- b.c.,
FURTHER PROOF of GOP collusion, cooperation, and complicity with foreign interference in our elections:
The Senate Will Not Vote on Any Election Security Bills, GOP Senator Says – Mother Jones
"The Senate will not vote on any legislation to protect US elections from foreign interference, a Republican committee chair said, despite the consensus of the intelligence community that Russia will once again seek to hack election systems and manipulate American voters in 2020.
The reason, said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday, is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has decided not to bring any election security bills to the floor for a vote.
When Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Blunt, the chairman, whether he was planning mark-ups of any of the several election security bills pending before the committee, Blunt responded that it would be fruitless to advance legislation that McConnell would not allow to come up for a vote."
FURTHER PROOF OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE:
even more WH (and GOP) obstruction reported from new Mueller unsealed documents
"Flynn told Mueller "of multiple instances, both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communication from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could have affected ... his willingness to cooperate."
MUELLER team unseals evidence that Flynn aided the obstruction invsetigation -- including providing testimony and a *voice mail* that "could have affected" his testimony.
In the November 2017 voicemail, which was detailed in the Mueller report, a lawyer for Trump urged Flynn’s lawyer to provide “some kind of heads up” if Flynn was preparing to provide “information that implicates the president.”"
Notice-Other.pdf
MEANWHILE:
If You Liked John Bolton's Iraq WMD Hoaxes, You'll Love John Bolton's Iranian Missile Dhow Nonsense
The Senate Will Not Vote on Any Election Security Bills, GOP Senator Says – Mother Jones
"The Senate will not vote on any legislation to protect US elections from foreign interference, a Republican committee chair said, despite the consensus of the intelligence community that Russia will once again seek to hack election systems and manipulate American voters in 2020.
The reason, said Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Wednesday, is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has decided not to bring any election security bills to the floor for a vote.
When Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) asked Blunt, the chairman, whether he was planning mark-ups of any of the several election security bills pending before the committee, Blunt responded that it would be fruitless to advance legislation that McConnell would not allow to come up for a vote."
FURTHER PROOF OF OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE:
even more WH (and GOP) obstruction reported from new Mueller unsealed documents
"Flynn told Mueller "of multiple instances, both before and after his guilty plea, where either he or his attorneys received communication from persons connected to the Administration or Congress that could have affected ... his willingness to cooperate."
MUELLER team unseals evidence that Flynn aided the obstruction invsetigation -- including providing testimony and a *voice mail* that "could have affected" his testimony.
In the November 2017 voicemail, which was detailed in the Mueller report, a lawyer for Trump urged Flynn’s lawyer to provide “some kind of heads up” if Flynn was preparing to provide “information that implicates the president.”"
Notice-Other.pdf
MEANWHILE:
If You Liked John Bolton's Iraq WMD Hoaxes, You'll Love John Bolton's Iranian Missile Dhow Nonsense
- b.c.,
Letting Brett Kavanaugh off the hook sets a bad precedent for Supreme Court nominees
Ethics rules don’t apply to Supreme Court nominees as long as they get confirmed, a panel of judges concluded.
"The televised scene last September was indelible. A federal judge, scrapping for a seat on the Supreme Court, plays the victim card perfectly. In sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he unleashes a premeditated, bitter condemnation charging certain senators with mounting a secret, well-financed conspiracy to ruin him as revenge on behalf of their party’s defeated presidential candidate.
Some... saw in that moment an egregious violation of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges’ rule against “inappropriately partisan statements” and filed official complaints. Now, it appears, congratulations are in order: Justice Brett Kavanaugh is home free. And so too is any future Supreme Court nominee accused of misconduct.
Last week, the federal court system’s highest arbiter of misconduct complaints, a nine-judge panel—all Republican appointees answerable to Chief Justice John Roberts—washed its hands of the Kavanaugh affair
[or perhaps more accurately, white washed]
by rejecting nine final appeals.
The judges ruled that because Supreme Court justices aren’t subject to any code of ethics, the entire body of judicial misconduct law, rules, and precedent for lower-court judges “unequivocally preclude review of the merits” of the issue."
Got that? Supreme Court justices aren't subject to ANY CODE OF ETHICS... in Trump's America.
MEANWHILE:
House Dems Finally Ask For Millions Of Brett Kavanaugh’s Hidden Documents | HuffPost
Ethics rules don’t apply to Supreme Court nominees as long as they get confirmed, a panel of judges concluded.
"The televised scene last September was indelible. A federal judge, scrapping for a seat on the Supreme Court, plays the victim card perfectly. In sworn testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, he unleashes a premeditated, bitter condemnation charging certain senators with mounting a secret, well-financed conspiracy to ruin him as revenge on behalf of their party’s defeated presidential candidate.
Some... saw in that moment an egregious violation of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges’ rule against “inappropriately partisan statements” and filed official complaints. Now, it appears, congratulations are in order: Justice Brett Kavanaugh is home free. And so too is any future Supreme Court nominee accused of misconduct.
Last week, the federal court system’s highest arbiter of misconduct complaints, a nine-judge panel—all Republican appointees answerable to Chief Justice John Roberts—washed its hands of the Kavanaugh affair
[or perhaps more accurately, white washed]
by rejecting nine final appeals.
The judges ruled that because Supreme Court justices aren’t subject to any code of ethics, the entire body of judicial misconduct law, rules, and precedent for lower-court judges “unequivocally preclude review of the merits” of the issue."
Got that? Supreme Court justices aren't subject to ANY CODE OF ETHICS... in Trump's America.
MEANWHILE:
House Dems Finally Ask For Millions Of Brett Kavanaugh’s Hidden Documents | HuffPost
- b.c.,
Students for Trump founder pleaded guilty to fraud after posing as a lawyer, taking $46,654 in fees
,https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...for-Trump-Founder-Pleads-Guilty-to-Wire-Fraud
Chip Off the Old Block. "Students for Trump" Founder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud.
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"Scamming other students into voting for Trump didn’t have enough of a payoff, so he stole $45,000…
.
NY Daily News
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“The founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to running a $46,000 scam in which he posed as a lawyer and gave legal advice.
John Lambert, 23, created a website for a fake law firm called Pope & Dunn and claimed to be Eric Pope, a graduate of NYU Law School with a finance degree from the University of Pennsylvania and 15 years of experience in corporate and patent law, prosecutors said….
But Lambert’s de facto career was one of a grifter: he had never been to law school and certainly wasn’t an attorney.
He pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. Under his plea deal with prosecutors, he will not appeal a sentence that is 21 months or less. He also agreed to forfeit $46,654.”
Your mistake, as I see it, John, is that, unlike your role model Trump, you did not have your daddy give you $400,000,000 before you embarked on your life of crime.
That way you could have hired yourself some real lawyers to grease the skids and keep you out of jams like this.
Live and learn…"
,https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...for-Trump-Founder-Pleads-Guilty-to-Wire-Fraud
Chip Off the Old Block. "Students for Trump" Founder Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud.
.
"Scamming other students into voting for Trump didn’t have enough of a payoff, so he stole $45,000…
.
NY Daily News
.
“The founder of Students for Trump pleaded guilty Tuesday to running a $46,000 scam in which he posed as a lawyer and gave legal advice.
John Lambert, 23, created a website for a fake law firm called Pope & Dunn and claimed to be Eric Pope, a graduate of NYU Law School with a finance degree from the University of Pennsylvania and 15 years of experience in corporate and patent law, prosecutors said….
But Lambert’s de facto career was one of a grifter: he had never been to law school and certainly wasn’t an attorney.
He pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy. Under his plea deal with prosecutors, he will not appeal a sentence that is 21 months or less. He also agreed to forfeit $46,654.”
Your mistake, as I see it, John, is that, unlike your role model Trump, you did not have your daddy give you $400,000,000 before you embarked on your life of crime.
That way you could have hired yourself some real lawyers to grease the skids and keep you out of jams like this.
Live and learn…"
- b.c.,
Republicans (a.k.a. the REAL deep state) are increasingly using various UNDERHANDED methods to support their Fuhrer and silence all opposition to him, the GOP, right winged ideology, and THEIR CORPORATE BACKED LOBBYISTS.
A Republican Firm Is Targeting EPA Staff Who Have Donated to Democrats – Mother Jones
America Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
Oil lobbyist brags about criminalizing gas and oil pipeline protests in leaked audio recordingOil lobbyist brags about criminalizing gas and oil pipeline protests in leaked audio recording
"Derrick Morgan, senior vice president for federal and regulatory affairs for oil lobby group American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFRM), bragged about how successful the industry has been in pushing anti-protest legislation, as heard in leaked audio obtained by The Intercept.
What kind of protests are we talking about? In this case, pipeline protests. And as more states are passing laws to criminalize these protests, this boasting is nothing to brush off."
A Republican Firm Is Targeting EPA Staff Who Have Donated to Democrats – Mother Jones
America Rising has been filing records requests for the emails of agency officials who have supported Rep. Ilhan Omar, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and others.
Oil lobbyist brags about criminalizing gas and oil pipeline protests in leaked audio recordingOil lobbyist brags about criminalizing gas and oil pipeline protests in leaked audio recording
"Derrick Morgan, senior vice president for federal and regulatory affairs for oil lobby group American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFRM), bragged about how successful the industry has been in pushing anti-protest legislation, as heard in leaked audio obtained by The Intercept.
What kind of protests are we talking about? In this case, pipeline protests. And as more states are passing laws to criminalize these protests, this boasting is nothing to brush off."
- b.c.,
Victory! We stopped a Republican National Committee trojan malware op dead in its tracks
excerpt:
"Monday, at EQV Analytics, we published (and reprinted later here at Daily Kos) an exposé of the malware-riddled trojan horse website paid for and operated by the Republican National Committee: Vote.GOP.
The site pretended to offer ‘voter assistance’ nationwide (online help with registering to vote or applying for an absentee-by-mail ballot), while in fact hoovering up site visitors’ personal data for psychographic profiling purposes.
The RNC remained predictably silent as interest in the story grew throughout the day. But [that] night it responded in the best way possible: by turning off all of the site’s malicious ‘voter services’ — every last one of them — and disappearing every trace of them from the site.
We’ll never know how many people Vote.GOP managed to disenfranchise. If someone you know might have used its ‘service,’ urge him or her to check their voter registration now. Then turn that into a teachable moment, with love."
excerpt:
"Monday, at EQV Analytics, we published (and reprinted later here at Daily Kos) an exposé of the malware-riddled trojan horse website paid for and operated by the Republican National Committee: Vote.GOP.
The site pretended to offer ‘voter assistance’ nationwide (online help with registering to vote or applying for an absentee-by-mail ballot), while in fact hoovering up site visitors’ personal data for psychographic profiling purposes.
The RNC remained predictably silent as interest in the story grew throughout the day. But [that] night it responded in the best way possible: by turning off all of the site’s malicious ‘voter services’ — every last one of them — and disappearing every trace of them from the site.
We’ll never know how many people Vote.GOP managed to disenfranchise. If someone you know might have used its ‘service,’ urge him or her to check their voter registration now. Then turn that into a teachable moment, with love."
- b.c.,
The title of this thread has to do with the extent to which right winged pigs, saboteurs, and Trump/GOP sycophants have used their public office, money, power, influence, and even the media to undermine the proper balance/separation of powers intended by the crafters of our system of government, defying even the rule of law, jurisprudence, and propriety in their determination to exert THEIR will and have THEIR way.
And nothing better exemplifies the corrupt and malicious NATURE of these b------------ds than the continuing revelations as to HOW FAR some were willing to go, over something as mundanely SIMPLE (and overtly STUPID) as Trump's determined insistence that he was absolutely correct in his blatantly misinformed statement as to the alleged "threat" Hurricane Dorian posed to the people of Alabama.
First, with the ridiculous statement from the (now forever maligned) NOAA supporting this buffoon's gaffe, and now the stories alleging that yet another Trump sycophant, Wilbur Ross, goose-stepped in tempo to Trump's temper tantrum by actually threatening to fire top NOAA employees if they didn't back up der Fuhrer.
Mind boggling silly shit of a level heretofore UNPRECEDENTED. The Ross goon squad of course denies the report.
NYT: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top NOAA employees - CNNPolitics
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Wilbur Ross Reportedly Called NOAA Chief, 'Threatened Firings' After NWS Tweet Contradicting Trump
Wilbur Ross Threatens Jobs Of NOAA Employees Who Contradicted Trump | Crooks and Liars
And nothing better exemplifies the corrupt and malicious NATURE of these b------------ds than the continuing revelations as to HOW FAR some were willing to go, over something as mundanely SIMPLE (and overtly STUPID) as Trump's determined insistence that he was absolutely correct in his blatantly misinformed statement as to the alleged "threat" Hurricane Dorian posed to the people of Alabama.
First, with the ridiculous statement from the (now forever maligned) NOAA supporting this buffoon's gaffe, and now the stories alleging that yet another Trump sycophant, Wilbur Ross, goose-stepped in tempo to Trump's temper tantrum by actually threatening to fire top NOAA employees if they didn't back up der Fuhrer.
Mind boggling silly shit of a level heretofore UNPRECEDENTED. The Ross goon squad of course denies the report.
NYT: Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top NOAA employees - CNNPolitics
"Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross threatened to fire top National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees if the agency didn't disavow a tweet from a regional office that contradicted ... Donald Trump's false claim that Hurricane Dorian was likely to hit Alabama, according to a report by The New York Times.
According to three people cited in the Times report on Monday, Ross called acting NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs and told him to fix the National Weather Service's contradiction of Trump's claim. When Jacobs opposed the demand, Ross told him NOAA's political staff would be fired, the Times reported.
The report also says Ross' threat to fire the employees is what caused NOAA on Friday to disavow a tweet from the NWS' Birmingham, Alabama, office that had contradicted Trump's claim.
A Commerce Department spokesperson denied the story."
According to three people cited in the Times report on Monday, Ross called acting NOAA Administrator Neil Jacobs and told him to fix the National Weather Service's contradiction of Trump's claim. When Jacobs opposed the demand, Ross told him NOAA's political staff would be fired, the Times reported.
The report also says Ross' threat to fire the employees is what caused NOAA on Friday to disavow a tweet from the NWS' Birmingham, Alabama, office that had contradicted Trump's claim.
A Commerce Department spokesperson denied the story."
Wilbur Ross Reportedly Called NOAA Chief, 'Threatened Firings' After NWS Tweet Contradicting Trump
Wilbur Ross Threatens Jobs Of NOAA Employees Who Contradicted Trump | Crooks and Liars
- b.c.,
Trump, Republicans, state t.v. like Fox, and other conservative propagandists would have us believe that there is some liberal deep state secretly at work trying to undermine the conservative cause.
Nevermind their OWN conspiracy to obstruct Barack Obama's presidency, or the fact that conservatives like the Kochs, the Mercers, et al, have not only been buying and financing influence in Washington since Ronnie Reagan,
but have LONG been the architects of right winged ideology and policymaking, doing everything from writing manuals of proposed law FOR the GOP, to providing lists of pre-approved right winged candidates for government positions and appointments. FLUNKIES who'd be sure to take their marching orders from the new reich and see them through.
However, even with the full knowledge of all of THAT, if anyone had asked ME, just three years ago, if the kind of CRIMINALITY, CORRUPTION, COLLUSION, and COVERUP that we see occurring by and on behalf of Trump & Co., in PLAIN SIGHT and on a DAILY basis, would be so SEDATELY received in this country, I would have said surely not.
Yet here we are, at the point where Trump is ordering people not to co-operate with legal and formal impeachment inquiries, where Trump's henchmen, cohorts, saboteurs, and sycophants have become party to coverup's, and obstruction of justice.
A so-called "democracy"... whose checks and balances are being systematically MURDERED in our SLUMBER:
Is the Trump administration squelching a whistleblower — and a major scandal? | Salon.com
Whistleblower complaint found to be both 'urgent' and 'credible'—but the White House is hiding it
did [Trump] conspire to commit criminal espionage ... again?
MEANWHILE:
The FBI, the DOJ, SCOTUS—Trump controls it all.The new Kavanaugh reporting shows how far Trump’s control goes
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-impeachment-probe-subpoenas_n_5d801b60e4b077dcbd62fc5a
Trump Directs His Former Aides Not To Testify In Impeachment Probe | HuffPost
Donald Trump is attempting to limit which members of his inner circle can testify Tuesday in the House impeachment probe, according to letters ABC News obtained Monday.
In written notices to the House Judiciary Committee, White House counsel Pat Cipollone said that former Trump aides Rob Porter and Rick Dearborn cannot be called to testify in the House probe, which is investigating whether Trump can be impeached.
Trump’s White House regularly intervenes with subpoenas in investigations related to his presidency. In May, it ordered former counsel Don McGahn not to comply with the House subpoena for several documents. It did the same with former staffer Hope Hicks,
Nevermind their OWN conspiracy to obstruct Barack Obama's presidency, or the fact that conservatives like the Kochs, the Mercers, et al, have not only been buying and financing influence in Washington since Ronnie Reagan,
but have LONG been the architects of right winged ideology and policymaking, doing everything from writing manuals of proposed law FOR the GOP, to providing lists of pre-approved right winged candidates for government positions and appointments. FLUNKIES who'd be sure to take their marching orders from the new reich and see them through.
However, even with the full knowledge of all of THAT, if anyone had asked ME, just three years ago, if the kind of CRIMINALITY, CORRUPTION, COLLUSION, and COVERUP that we see occurring by and on behalf of Trump & Co., in PLAIN SIGHT and on a DAILY basis, would be so SEDATELY received in this country, I would have said surely not.
Yet here we are, at the point where Trump is ordering people not to co-operate with legal and formal impeachment inquiries, where Trump's henchmen, cohorts, saboteurs, and sycophants have become party to coverup's, and obstruction of justice.
A so-called "democracy"... whose checks and balances are being systematically MURDERED in our SLUMBER:
Is the Trump administration squelching a whistleblower — and a major scandal? | Salon.com
"America's system of government has always worked on the honor system. With so few Senate-confirmed Cabinet and federal agency heads, and so many “acting” officials working in the Trump administration, people who are constantly forced to audition for permanent positions are now under tremendous pressure to protect [someone] hellbent on breaking every norm of good governance.
Now a new possible political scandal could be brewing in the Trump administration that tests the loyalty of these “acting” officials — pitting their allegiance to the nation against their desire to impress their boss.
According to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a whistleblower who lodged an urgent complaint about wrongdoing within the intelligence community has gone ignored and left unprotected.
In a letter released on Friday, Schiff accused a “top intel official of illegally withholding” a “whistleblower” complaint described as “urgent” by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) — and one that could implicate the White House.
In what may be the clearest example yet of obstruction in the Trump administration, acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, in direct contradiction to an unambiguous rule worked out in the wake of Watergate, is refusing to hand over the whistleblower’s complaint to Congress."
Now a new possible political scandal could be brewing in the Trump administration that tests the loyalty of these “acting” officials — pitting their allegiance to the nation against their desire to impress their boss.
According to Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a whistleblower who lodged an urgent complaint about wrongdoing within the intelligence community has gone ignored and left unprotected.
In a letter released on Friday, Schiff accused a “top intel official of illegally withholding” a “whistleblower” complaint described as “urgent” by the Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) — and one that could implicate the White House.
In what may be the clearest example yet of obstruction in the Trump administration, acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, in direct contradiction to an unambiguous rule worked out in the wake of Watergate, is refusing to hand over the whistleblower’s complaint to Congress."
Whistleblower complaint found to be both 'urgent' and 'credible'—but the White House is hiding it
did [Trump] conspire to commit criminal espionage ... again?
MEANWHILE:
The FBI, the DOJ, SCOTUS—Trump controls it all.The new Kavanaugh reporting shows how far Trump’s control goes
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-impeachment-probe-subpoenas_n_5d801b60e4b077dcbd62fc5a
Trump Directs His Former Aides Not To Testify In Impeachment Probe | HuffPost
Donald Trump is attempting to limit which members of his inner circle can testify Tuesday in the House impeachment probe, according to letters ABC News obtained Monday.
In written notices to the House Judiciary Committee, White House counsel Pat Cipollone said that former Trump aides Rob Porter and Rick Dearborn cannot be called to testify in the House probe, which is investigating whether Trump can be impeached.
Trump’s White House regularly intervenes with subpoenas in investigations related to his presidency. In May, it ordered former counsel Don McGahn not to comply with the House subpoena for several documents. It did the same with former staffer Hope Hicks,