Monday, September 23, 2019

Trump's Hold on Military Aid Blindsided Top Ukrainian Officials

Trump's Hold on Military Aid Blindsided Top Ukrainian Officials
Senior Ukrainian officials said they were blindsided over the summer when they heard the United States would withhold security assistance to the country.
“It was a total surprise,” said Pavlo A. Klimkin, who was Ukraine’s foreign minister in August when he learned of the Trump administration’s suspension of military aid by reading a news article.


Trump is in New York and there seems to be no major protests planned against him. We suck. - Roland Scahill




The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

A passenger boarding the United plane I’m on just stopped in front of me, punched my shoulder, and said “you all better get your act together and impeach him.” - Rep. Eric Swalwell






Former President Who Normalized Torture Thinks He "Looks Pretty Good" Compared To Trump
Former President George W. Bush often jokes that President Trump's administration makes his own former White House team look "pretty good," according to a Republican source.
The former Republican president regularly knocks the current administration, a source close to the Trump administration told National Journal, unable to understand why the White House often seems to be in chaos. 





Has Trump hired The Secretary of The Fence yet? - Jesse Lifson






Republican Shenanigans

The GOP would have impeached President Email Lady for using the wrong fork. - Jeff Tiedrich





I'm old enough to remember when a conversation between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch on a tarmac made Republicans scream bloody murder. - Julia Ioffe


Keep the Pressure On Pelosi!
Moderate Dems eye impeachment as Ukraine furor builds. If the vulnerable lawmakers shift course, it will put real pressure on Speaker Nancy Pelosi to embrace Trump's ouster.





2018 GM profits: $10,800,000,000
2018 GM CEO salary: $22,000,000
Amount GM wants to increase workers’ healthcare costs: 500%
This country does not suffer from scarcity. We suffer from corporate greed. - Rep. Ilhan Omar


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Imagine how different things would be if Dems had as much courage to do what’s right as Republicans have to do what’s wrong. - The Hoarse Whisperer


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You know, the argument has been, “Why impeach Trump if the Senate won’t vote to remove him from office?”
But the Dems in the House have passed huge numbers of bills that they KNOW the Senate won’t act on. Still, they do their job. So that argument doesn’t really hold up for me. - George Takei



I Yearn For The Day Not To Hear His Whining
President Donald Trump on Monday revived his beef with the selection committee that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that the process is rigged against him.
Speaking to reporters before a bilateral meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, Trump asserted that “I would get a Nobel prize for a lot of things, if they give it out fairly, which they don't.”







If Liz Warren tweets a selfie in front of Air Force One with the caption “I Have A Plane For That” she should automatically become president. - OhNoSheTwint


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Trump Encouraged By Poll Showing His Supporters Do Not Know What a Ukraine Is - And Borowitz


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Naturally Trump had to do something drastic about vaping, since lunatics keep mowing down dozens of innocent people with e-cigarettes. I guess the vaping lobby doesn't have the kind of money the NRA has. - John Leguizamo


Good Job, FBI!
The FBI has arrested a U.S. soldier who allegedly discussed plans to bomb a major American news network, planned to travel to Ukraine to fight with violent far-right group Azov Battalion and allegedly distributed information online on how to build bombs. He also allegedly suggested targeting Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke.





The same folks who don’t believe in climate change believe in Noah’s Ark. - Justin Horowitz




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Is that a Cottonwood tree?

Peace.


Friday, September 20, 2019

Senior Adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister: Trump Is ‘Looking for Kompromat’ to Discredit Biden and Avenge Manafort

Senior Adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Minister: Trump Is ‘Looking for Kompromat’ to Discredit Biden and Avenge Manafort
The last couple of days in the news have focused, in no small part, on a whistleblower complaint that reportedly concerned a troubling  “promise” that President Donald Trump made to a foreign leader. The Washington Post was the first to the story on Wednesday, and they advanced it on Thursday by saying that the complaint involves Ukraine. Now, on the heels of a Rudy Giuliani roller coaster to remember, the Daily Beast is reporting on Friday that a “senior adviser to [Ukraine’s] interior minister” said Ukraine is ready to investigate Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden if the Trump Administration makes an “official request.”


No one could have predicted that the guy who literally asked Russia to interfere in 2016 and GOT AWAY WITH IT would literally ask Ukraine to interfere in 2020 BECAUSE FOR F-CK'S SAKE WHY WOULDN'T HE SINCE HE WASN'T HELD ACCOUNTABLE THE FIRST TIME, I mean this isn't rocket science. - Jeff Tiedrich







The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

The president asked a foreign power to help him win an election.

Again. - Hillary Clinton 







Thank You All!
Hundreds of thousands of protesters — from Australia to Thailand to London — joined Global Climate Strike marches and rallies worldwide Friday to express their concern about climate change.
While supporters of all ages are turning out, the day was billed as a walkout by high school students to call on world leaders to step up their efforts against carbon emissions and other environmental issues. 






I'd Rather Know What Dan Coats Knows and When He Knew It
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) called on acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire on Friday to release the contents of a whistleblower complaint centering on President Trump's contact with a foreign leader to Congress.







It’s f-cking amazing that trump sat there talking about the importance of military restraint and not a single person thought to ask about the 30 Afghan civilians we killed in a drone strike this week. - Adam Parkhomenko


Republican Shenanigans






Australian journalist turns to me after Oval Office press avail: “Is it always like this?” - Vivian Salama, Wall Street Journal



Trump Threatens Universities' Funding Over Religion. Wait? What?
The Trump administration is pressuring the University of North Carolina and Duke University to revise their joint Middle East studies program or risk federal funding.
The Education Department wrote in an Aug. 29 letter to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies that the program disproportionately portrays "the positive aspects of Islam."






Remember when John Bolton said he would have his say ‘in due course’? Right about now would be good...- Susan Glasser


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Instead of abandoning a sinking ship, the rats of the Republican Party are putting on little sailor hats and convincing themselves that their mentally unstable captain can keep it afloat. - Middle Age Riot


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“If the President has done what has been alleged, then he is stepping into a dangerous minefield with serious repercussions for his Administration and our democracy.” - Speaker Pelosi



Walmart Stops Selling E-Cigarettes, But Guns Are Still Readily Available!
Walmart, America's largest retailer, said Friday it will stop selling e-cigarettes as the number of deaths tied to vaping grows.
"Given the growing federal, state and local regulatory complexity and uncertainty regarding e-cigarettes, we plan to discontinue the sale of electronic nicotine delivery products at all Walmart and Sam's Club U.S. locations...






We’re going to ban military-style assault rifles in Canada. - Justin Trudeau


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The president is a mob boss. He’s always been a mob boss. Did anyone think extortion was going to be somehow off limits now that he’s president? - Claude Taylor





Attorneys General: Start Your Engines!
A coalition of state attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over the federal government's decision to revoke California's authority to set vehicle emission standards, granted under the Obama administration.
In a press release announcing the lawsuit on Friday, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) announced that the 24 states involved would challenge the joint decision from the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency to revoke California's waiver, under which the state adopted tighter emissions standards than the federal government.


The latest charge against Mrs. Clinton was reported by Fox host Sean Hannity, who said that the evidence of her role in the Lincoln assassination came mainly in the form of e-mails. - Andy  Borowitz




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Time To Deflate Photo

This is the road that leads to my casa and that is Chachi my "grandson" using my birthday gift, a chain saw, to cut some firewood. Oh, and to the right is a patch of zucchini. That is Wini, Luna's best friend since they were puppies.


Peace.


Thursday, September 19, 2019

Trump defends his handling of talks with foreign leaders amid whistleblower complaint

Trump defends his handling of talks with foreign leaders amid whistleblower complaint
President Trump on Thursday defended his conduct while on calls with foreign leaders following a report that one of those interactions is at the center of a complaint from a whistleblower in the intelligence community.
Trump dismissed the report as "another Fake News story" in a series of tweets and called the ensuing furor over his reported action "presidential harassment."


Okay but seriously, "President Trump Denies Saying Anything Inappropriate" is the funniest headline I've ever seen. - Randi Mayhem Singer


Pompadour, gold accents, and money falling out of his pockets.
 The 16th Century Aristocracy called and they'd like their tragic comedy back. - Chat Clussman



The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

Jared Kushner Marks Second Anniversary of Bringing Peace to Middle East. - Andy Borowitz


Trump Is a Billionaire. He Should Let Our Military Stay For Free!
Since Donald Trump took office, the U.S. military has spent nearly $200,000 at the president’s luxury Scotland resort, according to figures and documents the Pentagon provided to the House Oversight Committee.






Has anyone tried throwing holy water on trump? - Ashlie Weeks


Republican Shenanigans




Dear Donnie,                               
Yesterday you attacked the homeless for living on "our best highways, our best streets, our best entrances to buildings." Why don’t you put them up in your hotels & rentals? I hear you’ve got plenty of room these days! - Bette Midler


A Supreme Court Justice Asked Reporters to Lie
New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly said that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed to let them interview him for their upcoming book ― as long as they would publicly lie about it.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington on Wednesday, Kelly and Pogrebin said that Kavanaugh said he would talk to the reporters to provide them with background information as long as they falsely noted in the book that he declined to be interviewed.






Trump is going to have to do something really insane to seize the news cycle back. - Molly Jong-Fast


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Article 3 of Nixon’s impeachment was obstruction of Congress, refusing to obey defined congressional subpoenas, pleading imaginary privileges. And obviously that’s what the president has been doing. - Jerry Nadler





The Hillary Haunting Of Trump
A document Hillary Clinton helped write nearly a half century ago has returned from the dead to threaten the man she couldn’t vanquish in 2016.






Who else has made it through today without once even remotely needing an assault weapon? - Bryce Tache

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A third of Trump’s former employees write books about him.
A third get jobs at Fox News.
A third go to jail. - Windsor Mann


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California Overwhelmingly Favors Limiting Trump's Emissions.  - Andy Borowitz


When All Else Fails, SUE!
President Donald Trump on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and his longtime accounting firm, days after news broke that the prosecutor had subpoenaed years of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns.
Vance’s office had issued a subpoena last month to accounting firm Mazars. The firm said in a statement issued Monday that it “will respect the legal process and fully comply with its legal obligations.”


The Manhattan DA’s office has subpoenaed 8 years of Don’s tax returns. We may be about to discover something he cheated on more than his wives! - BetteMidler





There was a time when journalists understood the goal was to inform the public. And if a guest intentionally and consistently lied to you, they’d no longer be invited back on tv. - Soledad O'Brien




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Update: I've found no solution to my laptop problems. I've even tried prayers!
To make matters worse (hey, why not!) the cable TV and Internet went out yesterday. Someone stole the cable transformer box and knocked out our whole neighborhood. My neighbor is letting me use her sat dish Internet.

I'm exhausted!

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Time To Deflate Photo
A bamboo forest in Japan. I need to escape there right now.

Peace.