wapo: Mueller’s statement, annotated: ‘If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’
[go to link to see Mueller’s comments and according to wapo “Here is a transcript of his remarks, with The Fix’s annotations. Click on the yellow highlighted text to read them.”]
Maybe it is time for Ms Pelosi and Mr Schumer to meet with pence to discuss A25.
Or, maybe it’s time they spoke with him about the congressional ball game, and then tell the media that it was all really code for A25.
The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said Wednesday.
Although Navy officials insisted they did not hide the ship, the John S. McCain, they did give all of the sailors aboard the day off on Tuesday as Mr. Trump visited Yokosuka Naval Base.
Two Navy sailors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the McCain sailors were not invited to hear Mr. Trump speak that day aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, while sailors from other American warships at the base were.
A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said.
Alexandra petri:It is increasingly clear that none of you read my report
My fellow Americans, it is not Mueller Time. It will never be Mueller Time. I wish you would remove my likeness from your T-shirts and steins. I, Robert Mueller, will not be fired. I quit.
First off, it is obvious that none of you has actually read the report, or you would all sound like Justin Amash. Pete Buttigieg read “Ulysses,” but you will notice how quiet he is on the subject of my report findings.
I guess I should not be surprised that people hate to read so much that they will let folks just go around willy-nilly obstructing justice. Donald Trump’s rise is general proof that people hate to read. I kind of thought that maybe one or two people would want to see if the Wikipedia plot summary matched the book, but no.
Everyone who said things about the report said things like, “I liked the big page that was just black” and “It was very good how the redactions were color-coded” and “I liked that it said ‘The Mueller Report’ on every page” and nobody talked at all about the actual contents. The sheer lack of discussion of the election interference, which, again, we did find had majorly happened — there is no hope for you.
Someone spoke to me at length about how they loved the report and the green things that were cut out and the red things and the yellow things, and it slowly dawned on me that he had mixed up my report and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
Anyway, this press conference is for those of you who did not read the book, which, I assume, is all of you. Please put on your listening ears.
On the obstruction of justice question, just so we are clear, let me try this one more time:
If the president had NOT obstructed justice, I would have SAID that he did not obstruct justice. The fact that I didn’t say he did NOT obstruct justice — oh, no, your eyes are glazing over. Let me try this again.
So let’s say I am a lifeguard and I have a whistle. You are not supposed to run next to the pool, and if you do, I am supposed to blow the whistle. But pool policy (which assuredly only I, the lifeguard, have read!) states that from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., it is quiet time and no whistles are to be blown. So, if I do not blow my whistle at 2:30 p.m., that does NOT mean that nobody was running next to the pool. Right? No, this is needlessly convoluted, and I sense I am losing you, you short-attention-spanned monsters who cannot even sit down briefly with a gently redacted 400-page report that I, personally, considered to be a riveting read.
Let’s say I am the guy who tastes the king’s food to see whether it is poisoned. Let us also say I am allergic to peanuts. I cannot vouch that any of the substances that contain peanuts are not poisoned, because I don’t taste those. So if I bring you a tray of peanut butter sandwiches, you cannot say, “Oh, well, the royal food taster brought these! They are definitely safe to eat!” You know my thing with peanuts! Not mine, personally. The food taster in this analogy. No. Hang on, I’m going to come up with a good one.
Uh. Let’s say that I am a fireman. I drive a big red truck. Weee-ooo, weeee-ooo. That is my siren! I have a hose full of water, which is not useful for putting out gas fires. Suppose that I come from a building with my eyebrows singed off and say, “My hose full of water would have served no purpose there!” Does that mean there was not a fire there? Or could it mean that there was a gas fire there, about which I could do nothing?
What I am saying is there are, historically, remedies other than bringing criminal charges for when a president does something wrong. There are to this effect a great many books, even front pages of newspapers with very large type, just waiting for you to read!
Of course most people haven’t read the report. I bought it… and haven’t cracked it open yet… too many other books calling my name at the moment. It’s a pretty thick book… I imagine if most people even see it they say… “whoa… I’m gonna need a lot of nachos and margaritas to finish that thing”.
I’m such a good boy–completely through cutting the grass, blow-drying the sidewalk and driveway, cleaning the equipment, all before the temperature reached 90-deg (just now).
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fwiw, I’m left incredulous and sick at heart by the White House’s and DoD’s towering disrespect of the McCain family and those of us who are humbled by the McCains’ achievements supporting the true essence of America.
Flatus, I’m betting never in your life did you think you would see your commander-in-chief with such utter contempt for someone like John McCain. Am I have disagreed with him on policies, but I never dismissed his service or the sacrifice that he gave during his service.
I would love to know who the order to turn the sailors from the McCain away came from. Follow that thread and I bet it leads back to the White House.
Pogo… I’m with you… I had policy disagreements with McCain, but I always respected his service and what he went through. Throughout the years of being on this blog we’ve given many a politician nicknames… but I’ve never used one for McCain… and I’ve never used lower case letters on his name.
…an email to Navy and Air Force officials, obtained by CNBC, had a number of directives, including: “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight,” and asking officials to “please confirm” that directive “will be satisfied.” A source with knowledge of the matter confirmed to CNBC the existence of that email.
The Journal said a tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of Trump’s trip and that sailors were directed to remove coverings from the destroyer that bore the McCain name. The newspaper also said sailors assigned to the ship, who generally wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Trump’s visit to the nearby USS Wasp.
Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan later told reporters, “I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Sen. John McCain” by asking that the ship be kept out of sight.
“I’d never disrespect the young men and women that crew that ship. I’ve asked my chief of staff to look into the matter … and as soon as I find out more about this I’ll let you know,” he added.
“There was a lower level effort to comply with the request but when leadership became aware they ordered the tarp be taken down,” a U.S. Navy official acknowledged to ABC News. “Navy leadership decided the name should not be obscured.”
Another U.S. official said there had been “an initial discussion about veiling the ship’s name, but senior Navy leadership directed all ships to be in the normal configuration.” The Wall Street Journal reported that the message to cover the ship’s name originated with the White House Military Office.
The Navy’s top spokesman, Adm. Charlie Brown, tweeted that the ship’s name had not been obscured.
“The name of USS John S. McCain was not obscured during the POTUS visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day,” Brown tweeted. “The Navy is proud of that ship, its crew, its namesake and its heritage.”
That shows the WHMO talking directly with the Commander of the 7th Fleet in Japan bypassing DoD, the Chief of Naval Operations, CinCPac, and the head of Pacific Naval Forces. Major faux pas. If I was the head E-9 of any of those commands, I’d be talking with my admiral, retirement papers in hand.
In a nod to how Redbone sought to exist outside of time, much less current musical styles, his death announcement gave his age as 127.
[…]
Ironically, one of Redbone’s most popular concert pieces was “Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone” — a number that incorporated whistling solos that further ensured Redbone would be talked about in his absence. That song title, which dates back to 1930, was adapted as the name of a documentary about Redbone that premiered at festivals in 2018 but has not yet been widely released.
Top Washington lawyer George Conway lashed out at President Donald Trump again Wednesday night after news broke that the Department of Defense was “ordered” to move the USS John McCain out of the president’s view.
Conway, who is famously married to senior Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, said that he was downright “appalled.”
“Every time you think that you couldn’t possibly be any more appalled … there’s always something new,” Conway tweeted. “This story leaves me virtually speechless. It’s as though the entire executive branch, including the Department of Defense, has been co-opted to serve the pathological narcissism of one man.”
Host and reporter Soledad O’Brien tweeted Conway’s tweet asking why he continues to be surprised by such actions. Indeed, stories like this have become part of the norm in the Trump White House.
If I was a Navy E-9 sitting on the John McCain I would have called back the WH and made sure they understood that disguising and moving vessels is not something they can do. And, OBTW, Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo Yankee Oscar Uniform. No need to go higher in rank to end the nonsense.
I might not want to go so far as to actually impeach, but I would enjoy an old-fashioned impeachment investigation and hearings. The hearings make a nice break from beach reading.
Ya gotta admire Mueller, he managed to pull a Mitch and not smell like shit. That takes talent, to completely cave and look like the hero. Who did he catch small fry and Russians that we will never see.
Jack
Democrats need to shut up with the impeachment crap and start talking about the will of the people. After all the election is less than 18 months away. Make the case against Trump and all Republicans who are too cowardly to speak up.
Jack
The Guardian reports that gut microbes may have something to do with autism. ‘Faecal transplants’ in mice alter their social contacts.
Well, it would alter mine, too !
The rippers’ll have to be under dire pain and threat to turn on trump. But, as they are a buncha squishy soft chickeshit moonbeams, the required dire pain and threat doesn’t really have to be all that harsh : job loss, parking privilege loss, lunchroom privilege loss, franking privilege loss, sell porsche and buy a used Ford, sell the fancy house and go back to trailer living, lose office staff, lose stylish bimbo, and lose health insurance. No big deal for most of us, but that’s all most ripuplicanines have to face to turn on trump.
So we took LP & his gramma to Lincoln Center to see My Fair Lady tonight before LP graduates from college tomorrow. Good evening and night – even if it required basically forcing some culture from the past on LP.
Luckily tonight’s storms give way to sun and warmer weather for the outdoor graduation ceremony in the morning. Looking forward to it.
On on a different note, I don’t get the meme that Mueller’s statement is dividing democrats. To me he was clear and it sounds pretty compelling.
Dems are divided on whether or not it is appropriate to impeach, when there are other items to get done, and it appears (at least so far) that the russians in the US Senate won’t convict.
I think it’s a false division. We can get all the work done on National Health Access, Global Warming, National Defense, Background Checks, Voting Rights, Industrial/Chemical Abortions and Banking Regs. No sweat, we can do all that in the next 100 days. At the same time we can start a couple of House Committee hearings into the trump campaign, transition and admin; the trump banking, insurance, and real estate shenanigans and falsely sworn affidavits (and possibly paying for secret families and abortions, [maybe, I hope] ); the trump trafficking, hiding, and employment of ‘illegal Hispanics’ & his own ‘chain migration’; the trump WH abuse of the armed services; trump’s violation of the emoluments/foreign pay clause and possibly bribery; AND trump’s obstructions of justice. These can be helpful in displaying the actual trump to confused fux newz addicts. trump impeachment isn’t necessary for Dems, revealing the trump corruption is.
The House Dems have hundreds of Reps, scores of committees, thousands of aides, plenty of precedent, and 17 months. This is eminently do-able.
Apparently king kim ate another cousin, one of his diplomatic slaves.
I wonder if kim’s family members are more tasty than other human varietals. Mine is merely an academic curiosity. Anywho, it’s no wonder that trump eyes king kim with jealous wonder and admiration. For a man who can barely force himself to shake hands with another human being, the act of putting one into one’s mouth and swallowing must seem the height of daring.
wapo: Mueller’s statement, annotated: ‘If we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so’
[go to link to see Mueller’s comments and according to wapo “Here is a transcript of his remarks, with The Fix’s annotations. Click on the yellow highlighted text to read them.”]
…but, none of the President’s wives would sign-on to such a fabrication.
Mr Flatus slams it out of the park.
Maybe it is time for Ms Pelosi and Mr Schumer to meet with pence to discuss A25.
Or, maybe it’s time they spoke with him about the congressional ball game, and then tell the media that it was all really code for A25.
ny times;
The White House asked the Navy to hide a destroyer named after Senator John McCain in order to avoid having the ship appear in photographs taken while President Trump was visiting Japan this week, White House and military officials said Wednesday.
Although Navy officials insisted they did not hide the ship, the John S. McCain, they did give all of the sailors aboard the day off on Tuesday as Mr. Trump visited Yokosuka Naval Base.
Two Navy sailors, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, said that the McCain sailors were not invited to hear Mr. Trump speak that day aboard the amphibious assault ship Wasp, while sailors from other American warships at the base were.
A Navy service member based on Yokosuka said that all of the American warships in the harbor were invited to send 60 to 70 sailors to hear Mr. Trump’s address, with the exception of the McCain. When several sailors from the McCain showed up anyway, wearing their uniforms with the ship’s insignia, they were turned away, the service member said.
[continues]
The special counsel leaves the ball in the Democrats’ court.
Alexandra petri: It is increasingly clear that none of you read my report
My fellow Americans, it is not Mueller Time. It will never be Mueller Time. I wish you would remove my likeness from your T-shirts and steins. I, Robert Mueller, will not be fired. I quit.
First off, it is obvious that none of you has actually read the report, or you would all sound like Justin Amash. Pete Buttigieg read “Ulysses,” but you will notice how quiet he is on the subject of my report findings.
I guess I should not be surprised that people hate to read so much that they will let folks just go around willy-nilly obstructing justice. Donald Trump’s rise is general proof that people hate to read. I kind of thought that maybe one or two people would want to see if the Wikipedia plot summary matched the book, but no.
Everyone who said things about the report said things like, “I liked the big page that was just black” and “It was very good how the redactions were color-coded” and “I liked that it said ‘The Mueller Report’ on every page” and nobody talked at all about the actual contents. The sheer lack of discussion of the election interference, which, again, we did find had majorly happened — there is no hope for you.
Someone spoke to me at length about how they loved the report and the green things that were cut out and the red things and the yellow things, and it slowly dawned on me that he had mixed up my report and “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.”
Anyway, this press conference is for those of you who did not read the book, which, I assume, is all of you. Please put on your listening ears.
On the obstruction of justice question, just so we are clear, let me try this one more time:
If the president had NOT obstructed justice, I would have SAID that he did not obstruct justice. The fact that I didn’t say he did NOT obstruct justice — oh, no, your eyes are glazing over. Let me try this again.
So let’s say I am a lifeguard and I have a whistle. You are not supposed to run next to the pool, and if you do, I am supposed to blow the whistle. But pool policy (which assuredly only I, the lifeguard, have read!) states that from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., it is quiet time and no whistles are to be blown. So, if I do not blow my whistle at 2:30 p.m., that does NOT mean that nobody was running next to the pool. Right? No, this is needlessly convoluted, and I sense I am losing you, you short-attention-spanned monsters who cannot even sit down briefly with a gently redacted 400-page report that I, personally, considered to be a riveting read.
Let’s say I am the guy who tastes the king’s food to see whether it is poisoned. Let us also say I am allergic to peanuts. I cannot vouch that any of the substances that contain peanuts are not poisoned, because I don’t taste those. So if I bring you a tray of peanut butter sandwiches, you cannot say, “Oh, well, the royal food taster brought these! They are definitely safe to eat!” You know my thing with peanuts! Not mine, personally. The food taster in this analogy. No. Hang on, I’m going to come up with a good one.
Uh. Let’s say that I am a fireman. I drive a big red truck. Weee-ooo, weeee-ooo. That is my siren! I have a hose full of water, which is not useful for putting out gas fires. Suppose that I come from a building with my eyebrows singed off and say, “My hose full of water would have served no purpose there!” Does that mean there was not a fire there? Or could it mean that there was a gas fire there, about which I could do nothing?
What I am saying is there are, historically, remedies other than bringing criminal charges for when a president does something wrong. There are to this effect a great many books, even front pages of newspapers with very large type, just waiting for you to read!
Oh, who am I kidding?
patd… really great cartoon.
Of course most people haven’t read the report. I bought it… and haven’t cracked it open yet… too many other books calling my name at the moment. It’s a pretty thick book… I imagine if most people even see it they say… “whoa… I’m gonna need a lot of nachos and margaritas to finish that thing”.
Mueller plays the role, but not the role he should be doing.
There might be a connection to this coincidence:
States Passing Abortion Bans 1. Alabama 2. Arkansas 3. Georgia 4. Kentucky 5. Louisiana 6. Mississippi 7. Missouri 8. Ohio 9. Utah States with Highest Infant Mortality Rates 1. Mississippi 2. Arkansas 5. Alabama 8. Georgia 9. Ohio 10. Louisiana 15. Kentucky 18. Missouri 26. Utah
I’m such a good boy–completely through cutting the grass, blow-drying the sidewalk and driveway, cleaning the equipment, all before the temperature reached 90-deg (just now).
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fwiw, I’m left incredulous and sick at heart by the White House’s and DoD’s towering disrespect of the McCain family and those of us who are humbled by the McCains’ achievements supporting the true essence of America.
Melonoma would say anything what a worthless piece of porn
Flatus, I’m betting never in your life did you think you would see your commander-in-chief with such utter contempt for someone like John McCain. Am I have disagreed with him on policies, but I never dismissed his service or the sacrifice that he gave during his service.
I would love to know who the order to turn the sailors from the McCain away came from. Follow that thread and I bet it leads back to the White House.
Sounds like something the Condom would do
I was thinking Miller.
Pogo… I’m with you… I had policy disagreements with McCain, but I always respected his service and what he went through. Throughout the years of being on this blog we’ve given many a politician nicknames… but I’ve never used one for McCain… and I’ve never used lower case letters on his name.
Or the cretinous Mulvaney
Somebody must have the ‘nads to ignore orders that are morally wrong. It’s as easy as, “Gee, I missed that.”
I had great disrespect for McCain. I was wrong. So, okay, piss on me.
Well, I was right about his trumpish sex life, anyway.
It’s time for an impeachment inquiry about pence. First things first, y’know.
CNBC:
…an email to Navy and Air Force officials, obtained by CNBC, had a number of directives, including: “USS John McCain needs to be out of sight,” and asking officials to “please confirm” that directive “will be satisfied.” A source with knowledge of the matter confirmed to CNBC the existence of that email.
The Journal said a tarp was hung over the ship’s name ahead of Trump’s trip and that sailors were directed to remove coverings from the destroyer that bore the McCain name. The newspaper also said sailors assigned to the ship, who generally wear caps bearing its name, were given the day off during Trump’s visit to the nearby USS Wasp.
Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan later told reporters, “I would never dishonor the memory of a great American patriot like Sen. John McCain” by asking that the ship be kept out of sight.
“I’d never disrespect the young men and women that crew that ship. I’ve asked my chief of staff to look into the matter … and as soon as I find out more about this I’ll let you know,” he added.
[continues]
Rest in peace, Leon Redbone.
abc:
[…]
“There was a lower level effort to comply with the request but when leadership became aware they ordered the tarp be taken down,” a U.S. Navy official acknowledged to ABC News. “Navy leadership decided the name should not be obscured.”
Another U.S. official said there had been “an initial discussion about veiling the ship’s name, but senior Navy leadership directed all ships to be in the normal configuration.” The Wall Street Journal reported that the message to cover the ship’s name originated with the White House Military Office.
The Navy’s top spokesman, Adm. Charlie Brown, tweeted that the ship’s name had not been obscured.
“The name of USS John S. McCain was not obscured during the POTUS visit to Yokosuka on Memorial Day,” Brown tweeted. “The Navy is proud of that ship, its crew, its namesake and its heritage.”
That shows the WHMO talking directly with the Commander of the 7th Fleet in Japan bypassing DoD, the Chief of Naval Operations, CinCPac, and the head of Pacific Naval Forces. Major faux pas. If I was the head E-9 of any of those commands, I’d be talking with my admiral, retirement papers in hand.
There won’t be a USS donald trump. But, maybe there’ll be a russian ship with his name on it.
variety:
Singer Leon Redbone Dies at 69
In a nod to how Redbone sought to exist outside of time, much less current musical styles, his death announcement gave his age as 127.
[…]
Ironically, one of Redbone’s most popular concert pieces was “Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone” — a number that incorporated whistling solos that further ensured Redbone would be talked about in his absence. That song title, which dates back to 1930, was adapted as the name of a documentary about Redbone that premiered at festivals in 2018 but has not yet been widely released.
[continues]
Sure there will be one of the ships that take our garbage to China
Mr Flatus,
The Navy works for kellyanne conjob now. Naval operations are just a small cog in the trumpco propaganda effort machinery, nothing more.
i want some of what you people are smoking.
by George, from raw story:
Top Washington lawyer George Conway lashed out at President Donald Trump again Wednesday night after news broke that the Department of Defense was “ordered” to move the USS John McCain out of the president’s view.
Conway, who is famously married to senior Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, said that he was downright “appalled.”
“Every time you think that you couldn’t possibly be any more appalled … there’s always something new,” Conway tweeted. “This story leaves me virtually speechless. It’s as though the entire executive branch, including the Department of Defense, has been co-opted to serve the pathological narcissism of one man.”
Host and reporter Soledad O’Brien tweeted Conway’s tweet asking why he continues to be surprised by such actions. Indeed, stories like this have become part of the norm in the Trump White House.
Komrad trump hiding the USN McCain was like komrad stalin airbrushing trotsky out of pictures of himself with komrad lenin.
Please pass Mr Bink some of this grapewood brisket.
I love the smell of nebbiolo in the morning.
So the order came from the military office in the Whitehouse hmmmmmmm
Tol’ ja the thread would lead to the WH.
Sorry to hear of Redbone’s passing. His music might have been a tad quirky but it was enjoyable.
If I was a Navy E-9 sitting on the John McCain I would have called back the WH and made sure they understood that disguising and moving vessels is not something they can do. And, OBTW, Foxtrot Uniform Charlie Kilo Yankee Oscar Uniform. No need to go higher in rank to end the nonsense.
Bink… we don’t smoke anything in this house… but I do have some nice hickory smoked bacon in my refrigerator if you want some…
BlueB… and I bet there wouldn’t be anyone in the WH that would understand that message.
“Game of Thrones” fan-fiction is less fanciful than Dems’ impeachment dreams.
I might not want to go so far as to actually impeach, but I would enjoy an old-fashioned impeachment investigation and hearings. The hearings make a nice break from beach reading.
Ya gotta admire Mueller, he managed to pull a Mitch and not smell like shit. That takes talent, to completely cave and look like the hero. Who did he catch small fry and Russians that we will never see.
Jack
RR – thank you for the laugh! I never even thought of that.
Democrats need to shut up with the impeachment crap and start talking about the will of the people. After all the election is less than 18 months away. Make the case against Trump and all Republicans who are too cowardly to speak up.
Jack
But it ain’t gonna happen so 4 more years.
Jack
I wouldn’t mind seeing some chips fall where they may, and maybe some spilt milk and crumbling cookies.
The Guardian reports that gut microbes may have something to do with autism. ‘Faecal transplants’ in mice alter their social contacts.
Well, it would alter mine, too !
The rippers’ll have to be under dire pain and threat to turn on trump. But, as they are a buncha squishy soft chickeshit moonbeams, the required dire pain and threat doesn’t really have to be all that harsh : job loss, parking privilege loss, lunchroom privilege loss, franking privilege loss, sell porsche and buy a used Ford, sell the fancy house and go back to trailer living, lose office staff, lose stylish bimbo, and lose health insurance. No big deal for most of us, but that’s all most ripuplicanines have to face to turn on trump.
Be for health care and against russia’s rich saboteurs. That’s the ticket.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/may/30/autism-symptoms-replicated-mice-after-faecal-transplants
So we took LP & his gramma to Lincoln Center to see My Fair Lady tonight before LP graduates from college tomorrow. Good evening and night – even if it required basically forcing some culture from the past on LP.
Luckily tonight’s storms give way to sun and warmer weather for the outdoor graduation ceremony in the morning. Looking forward to it.
On on a different note, I don’t get the meme that Mueller’s statement is dividing democrats. To me he was clear and it sounds pretty compelling.
Congrats on your son’s graduation, pogo.
Tempus fugit.
Dems are divided on whether or not it is appropriate to impeach, when there are other items to get done, and it appears (at least so far) that the russians in the US Senate won’t convict.
I think it’s a false division. We can get all the work done on National Health Access, Global Warming, National Defense, Background Checks, Voting Rights, Industrial/Chemical Abortions and Banking Regs. No sweat, we can do all that in the next 100 days. At the same time we can start a couple of House Committee hearings into the trump campaign, transition and admin; the trump banking, insurance, and real estate shenanigans and falsely sworn affidavits (and possibly paying for secret families and abortions, [maybe, I hope] ); the trump trafficking, hiding, and employment of ‘illegal Hispanics’ & his own ‘chain migration’; the trump WH abuse of the armed services; trump’s violation of the emoluments/foreign pay clause and possibly bribery; AND trump’s obstructions of justice. These can be helpful in displaying the actual trump to confused fux newz addicts. trump impeachment isn’t necessary for Dems, revealing the trump corruption is.
The House Dems have hundreds of Reps, scores of committees, thousands of aides, plenty of precedent, and 17 months. This is eminently do-able.
Apparently king kim ate another cousin, one of his diplomatic slaves.
I wonder if kim’s family members are more tasty than other human varietals. Mine is merely an academic curiosity. Anywho, it’s no wonder that trump eyes king kim with jealous wonder and admiration. For a man who can barely force himself to shake hands with another human being, the act of putting one into one’s mouth and swallowing must seem the height of daring.
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