Thursday, November 21, 2019

This might be the Hill the GOP dies on

Fiona Hill says Sondland was sent on "domestic political errand" in Ukraine
The former top Russia adviser in the White House said she came to realize the U.S. Ambassador to the EU was sent on a "domestic political errand" to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Trump's political adversaries.


The sober precision of these people v the giggly, wing-it slovenliness of Sondland is so striking. You can see why Trump bonded with Sondland. - Emily Nussbaum





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What Hill is really asserting this morning is that current GOP Members of Congress are being successfully used by the Russians. - David Jolly






Nunes Met With Giuliani's Indicted Associate
Lev Parnas, an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani, helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Rep. Devin Nunes in 2018, Parnas’  lawyer Ed MacMahon told The Daily Beast.
Nunes aide Derek Harvey participated in the meetings, the lawyer said, which were arranged to help Nunes’ investigative work...


What Zen meditation does Schiff practice to resist throttling Nunes? - Jennifer Rubin



Republican Shenanigans

In a world full of Elise Stefaniks be a Dr.Fiona Hill. - irishrygirl






GOP Female Misogynist
Tensions over a long-stalled Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization spilled into public view on the Senate floor on Wednesday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) tried to get consent to vote on the House-passed VAWA bill by the end of the year, including allowing both sides to offer two amendments...Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), who is introducing her own VAWA reauthorization, objected to setting up the vote on the bill, arguing that the House legislation could not pass the GOP-controlled Senate.




Nunes really captures that old movie trope of the guy treating his wife like she's the crazy one when she finds panties in his car and accuses him of having an affair. - Schooley tweet







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Imagine being Russia, wanting to buy a Democrat, and only being able to afford Tulsi Gabbard. - Middle Age Riot






Trump Says He's an Expert in Watching People Make Phone Calls
In perhaps his most desperate impeachment defense yet, President Donald Trump insisted on Thursday that he is an expert in “watching people make phone calls” but still has never been able to effectively overhear calls not on speakerphone — an apparent push back to a story by David Holmes, the counselor for political affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, who recounted overhearing Trump’s bizarre July 26 phone call with U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.


If you think a woman can't beat Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi does it every single day. - Senator Amy Klobuchar




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The impeachment inquiry is the biggest whodunnit since OJ. - Andy Borowitz


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You know what scares the hell out of me?The 122K people that liked Trump's tweet on opening an Apple factory that has been in operation for 6 years.- Woman in the Moon tweet



Zuckerberg and Trump Meet Secretly. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
President Trump hosted an undisclosed meeting at the White House with Mark Zuckerberg during the Facebook CEO’s most recent trip to Washington, according to NBC News. 
The October meeting, which Facebook confirmed to The Hill, came during the same trip during which Zuckerberg testified before Congress about the platform's new cryptocurrency, Libra. Peter Thiel, a billionaire venture capitalist and Facebook board member, was also in attendance at the White House dinner, NBC News reported.






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Wallace's flying frog or the Abah River flying frog is a moss frog found at least from the Malay Peninsula into western Indonesia, and is present in Borneo and Sumatra. It is named for the biologist, Alfred R. Wallace, who collected the first specimen to be formally identified. I wonder if the plain old frogs consider him a magical super hero like SpiderFrog.

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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Trump dismisses Sondland's testimony: 'I don't know him very well'

Trump dismisses Sondland's testimony: 'I don't know him very well'
President Donald Trump sought to downplay bombshell testimony Gordon Sondland delivered to impeachment investigators that tied the president ever closer to a quid pro quo involving Ukraine.
"I don’t know him very well. I have not spoken to him much," Trump told reporters. "This is not a man I know well. He seems like a nice guy though."



Yowsa. Where are they going to imprison Trump & all his henchmen and women? Alcatraz is empty.

Pence is measuring the Oval Office drapes this morning. - Roland Scahill




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Walter Reed standing by for phase two of the physical. - Schooley


They Just Can't Help Themselves, Racism Oozes Out Of Them
Japanese American groups are slamming Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., for comments he made last week comparing the ongoing impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump to the shameful, discriminatory incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.








Trump administration: “We don’t know Gordon Sondland and the $1 million donation he made to the president’s inaugural committee came in Soros Bucks that we immediately burned. He is also Hillary Clinton wearing a mask.” - Rex Huppke






Republican Shenanigans

One of the many lessons of the last few days is that working for Trump is an incredibly dumb idea. - Dan Pfeiffer







Pompeo May Run For Senator (Right After He Serves His Prison Sentence)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has told three prominent Republicans in recent weeks that he plans to resign from the Trump Administration to run for the U.S. Senate from Kansas in next year’s elections. The problem: how to get out in one piece.








Nancy is playing 3D chess, donnie is playing Chutes and Ladders and he ate all of the game pieces. - Azia Gunn tweet



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I'm guessing that Rudy Giuliani is checking right now to find out which countries don't have extradition treaties with the United States. - Jon Cooper

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I wouldn't say Sondland is throwing people under the bus.
I'd say he's driving the bus, running them over, then backing up and running them over again. - Nick Jack Pappas


But But Her Emails!
North Korea had just tested an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of hitting Alaska, and the Trump administration was scrambling to react. But it seems Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations, had lost her password for classified communications. 
That’s why on that fraught July 4, 2017, she was typing away on her BlackBerry 10 smartphone, sending “confidential” information over a system meant only for unclassified material.





Can’t wait for the “Sondland is a Never Trumper” tweet. - George Conway


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Schiff may have banged the gavel but Sondland straight up dropped the mic. - OhNoSheTwint




Sondland Gets Bad Reviews on Yelp. The Trolls are Busy!
Gordon Sondland keeps getting bad reviews...Reviewers on Yelp are taking out their anger with Sondland by leaving one-star ratings for the hotels to which he is linked.
“If you're looking for a hotel owned by a Trump supporter who gave the campaign a million dollars in exchange for an ambassadorship that he's unqualified for so he can extort foreign leaders into attacking fellow Americans, look no further,” Zee L., a Yelp user from West Hollywood, CA, wrote for his assessment of The Revolution Hotel in Boston.


I suspect all the TVs in the White House residence are currently splattered with Arby's Horsey Sauce and dripping Diet Coke. - Mrs. Betty Bowers




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World's Tallest Outdoor Elevator on the side of a huge cliff in the Wulingyuan area of Zhangjiajie, China. I'd ride that!

Peace.


Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Well, of course Republicans tried to trash Lieutenant Colonel Vindman

“It’s Lieutenant Colonel Vindman”: Nunes’s effort to out whistleblower is met with an epic clap-back
Nunes’s line of questioning illustrated how Republicans wanted to talk about anything but Trump’s conduct.


Hillary was right when she called Republicans the Party of Personal Destruction.


You watch Vindman, you see the American dream. An immigrant who gave back a thousandfold, who dedicated his life to making America a better place for all, who is willing sacrifice his career and safety for truth and honor and justice. 

Republicans see a commie traitor. - Stonekettle tweet




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I'm totes sure that Republicans would have been super chill if Russia had occupied American military bases on Obama's watch. - Jeff Tiedrich


Following the Republican Money
A family trust that lent money to an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani is trying to recover more than $500,000 from the defendant and a political action committee tied to President Donald Trump to which he contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Lev Parnas, who is accused of using donations to push for Marie Yovanovitch to be recalled as U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, owes the Pues Family Trust $510,000, court records show.





Remember the patriots who like to quote “the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots” generally don’t mean their own patriotic blood. - John Fugelsang


Republican Shenanigans




I guess Trump and his crew would love Lt Col Vindman if he had slaughtered people in cold blood like the military personnel Trump pardoned on Friday.  - Roland Scahill


More Eye Rolling Lies From the White House
White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham claimed on Tuesday that departing former aides to President Barack Obama left notes saying "you will fail" and "you aren't going to make it" for the incoming staff of Donald Trump.




Trump Declares He’s Healthier Than Ever While Addressing Rally Crowd From Iron Lung
- TheOnion

The president's broad concern about corruption in Ukraine is that there should be more of it and that he should benefit from it. - David Frum

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If Jesus Christ was a witness in the impeachment trial, the GOP would try to question his credibility to protect Trump. - Tony Posnanski


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Buttigieg Campaign Appeals To Moderate Republicans By Touting Low Approval Among Black Voters. - The Onion


Dead Jeffrey Epstein Is Staying In The News
Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself were charged Tuesday with falsifying prison records.






Fox News will insist that Trump should be given a Purple Heart for having the courage not to tweet an attack on the witnesses during the hearings this morning. - Roland Scahill

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British Media Harshly Condemns Meghan Markle For Prince Andrew’s Defense Of Jeffrey Epstein. - The Onion






Maybe If Trump Lied About an Affair as Clinton Did, Republicans Would Impeach Him
A Manhattan judge has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to be deposed in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former "Apprentice" contestant who has accused Trump of sexual assault.
Trump's legal team had argued that a stay is necessary "given the novel and important Constitutional issues involved," the "special considerations due" their previous requests to dismiss the case, and to prevent "irreparable harm."






If weed is a “gateway drug” then beer is the wide, well-lit, legal, taxable, regulated, socially acceptable,  easily accessible walkway that leads directly to the gate. - John Fugelsang





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Three children at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory, ca. 1898. Is that Greta Thunberg's doppelganger?

Peace.