It sounds like eschereal’s question is insinuating or hinting at something, but, for the life of me, I can’t figure out what it could possibly be.
The administration of FPT*-- proudly turning the clock back to 1900.
**E.P.A. to Roll Back Rules to Control Toxic Ash from Coal Plants **
Given Trump’s penchant for projection, and for actually accusing others of doing what he does, I think the best advice for Ms. Trump is to avoid Fifth Avenue.
Trump is apparently still interested in pardoning Blagojevich. For those that don’t remember, Blago was a Democratic governor of Illinois who got stung by the Feds trying to sell Obama’s Senate seat and shaking down a children’s hospital. He is in year 7 of a 14-year sentence. I guess it’s no surprise that Trump is wanting to go easy on this guy, given his own guilty conscience. Fuck, the Democrats here are happy to see this asshole in the pokey. All the Republican congressman from Illinois have written against commuting his sentence. But, no, Trump is still testing the waters on this one. One asshole looking out for another.
Trump undermines Boris Johnson, and decides to start interfering in other countries’ elections.
BBC:
Trump is about as popular as diphtheria in the UK, so Corbyn should welcome the meddling.
Melania’s expression in that photo is a scarily accurate representation of The Donald’s “I am a serious person doing serious things” face. She’d be right at home behind a clean desk with a signing-pen and a totally blank piece of paper
Loser Donald has announced that he wants to give a “fireside chat” on national television so he can read the transcript of his Ukraine call and show everyone that it was a Perfect Call and that it was Very Legal, maybe even the most legal call there’s ever been.
In related news, Loser Donald has announced that he intends to learn how to read.
Don’t know if you intended this, but that works on at least two levels: E standing for Empty, and epsilon being used in mathematics for the smallest possible positive amount.
I did this with my kid. Sat back to back, she read Zelensky, I read Trump.
Doing this, there is no way one leaves thinking it was an ‘innocent’ call. Zero. Trump sounds like a f-in mobster at times.
I realize that Fox News isn’t technically part of the Trump Administration, but, given that he takes his cues from them, it might as well be.
Tucker Carlson delivered an interesting speech:
This immediately made me think of General Jack D. Ripper in Dr. Strangelove (as, I suspect, it was meant to)
The thing is, in my mind, I don't attach the crazy to Schiff, but to Carlson.Carlson has demonstrated perfectly how the rubber-glue principle works.
Actually, I intended it as a Brave New World reference.
Tucker Carlson is a punchline.
Yeah, he’s definitely sniffing it, but I think that they call it “rubber cement.”
Will he be reading the actual transcript or the revised version that he’s been falsely claiming is the transcript?
I don’t often do this, but I feel I have to bump my post #38397 above. I haven’t seen anything about this in the news, but it seems damned important, and it’s gotten kind of swamped with the previous discussion here.
to re-iterate:
Why didn’t Trump know that Alexander Vindman was his top expert on the Ukraine? The surprising answer:
Quote:
After Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration in May, Vindman was eager to brief Donald Trump on the implications of the change in leadership in Kyiv. Politico reported, however, on why that did not happen.
[H]e was instructed “at the last second” not to attend the debriefing, Vindman told lawmakers, because Trump’s advisers worried it might confuse the president: Trump believed at the time that Kashyap Patel, a longtime Nunes staffer who joined the White House in February and had no discernible Ukraine experience or expertise, was actually the NSC’s top Ukraine expert instead of Vindman.
Vindman testified that he was told this directly by his boss at the time, NSC senior director for European and Russian affairs Fiona Hill.
It’s an amazing dynamic, which helps shed new light on just how dysfunctional Trump’s West Wing is. If the National Security Council’s top Ukrainian expert briefed the president, Trump might have become “confused” – not by the information Vindman was sharing, but by the fact that the president was under the impression that an entirely different person was the White House’s top Ukrainian expert.
That other person, Kashyap Patel, is an acolyte of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes, and according to Vindman, Patel “misrepresented” himself to Trump in order to help guide the White House’s policy toward Ukraine.
No wonder the president has “never even heard of” Alexander Vindman. If he’d walked into the Oval Office and introduced himself as Trump’s top Ukrainian expert, the president would’ve wondered what happened to the other guy.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-s...resident#break
The middle portion is quoted from Politico, which also has this nugget:
Quote:
Vindman also testified that he was told Patel had been circumventing normal NSC process to get negative material about Ukraine in front of the president, feeding Trump’s belief that Ukraine was brimming with corruption and had interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Democrats.
That upset Vindman, along with Hill and Bolton, he testified, because they were constantly having to counter that narrative with the president.
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/1…-expert-061763 38397
Neither my wife nor my daughter – both of whom follow the news – had heard about this either. We knew that Trump’s advisors were steering his information, but actually displacing real advisors and lying about the guy who took his place, falsely claiming to be an expert – that’s a new level of deceptiveness.
Call it Cuckoo Advising.
Just another facet of our dysfunctional government.
Comment.
Meaning that people are getting in line to punch him?
What does impeachment look like? (Read that as Jules from Pulp Fiction, if you choose.)
Impeaches come from a can. They were put there by a man in a factory downtown.