TimB

Maybe they are just delivering probes to see which inane, deceptive talking points they can pass off or get away with.  They don’t need to convince everyone, but if they can pick up a new believer, here and there… then the liars can continue to rule.

Yes, I think you are right.  T rump purposely does not replace dept heads because the acting directors are more malleable and as you point out, he doesn’t have to get Senate approval.  And he has done other things to make the roles of Congress moot.

As far as the other branch of govt, the judicial, they are, so far, proving to be more p…[Read more]

There is enuf evidence now to show that T rump organized a secret group of men to get Ukraine to say they were investigating to find corrupt activities by Dems, and to let Ukraine know they weren’t getting military equipment (that they needed to have a chance to be safe from Russia), until they announced such an investigation.  T rump also asked…[Read more]

We create god in our image.

If I had a god, it would like Dutch Chocolate Ice Cream.

You honestly don’t see the checks and balances of our system of govt, being bulldozed out of the way by this administration?

Soon we will see whether T rump is going to abide by a Court’s decision that a congressional subpoena must be obeyed. If T rump doesn’t obey the Court ruling, what then?  (Just the fact that this is a legitimate question,…[Read more]

Since you are sure that the power of the media, to prevent or confront tyranny, is overexaggerated, do you also think that the autocratic leaders of the world, are just being over-exaggerated when they kill off members of the media?

There are a few solidly unbiased TV news networks.  Newsy is one.  BBC America is one.  Then there are networks (e.g., CNN and MSNBC) that are biased against T rump, but are not flat out liars like FOX.  Then there is OAN which is a majorly biased for the right station, but pretends to be pure in it dedication to the USA.

So impulsively giving over all of that northern territory of Syria, to the Turks to divide up with Assad and Putin and betraying (and thus losing forever) one of our few reliable and competent allies in the Mid East (the Kurds), and thereby showing that the US is not to be trusted by enemies or allies.  None of that is to Putin’s advantage?

The…[Read more]

I heard a rumor that T rump tweeted the “lynching” remark just before Bill B Taylor’s testimony to the special Congressional committee, supposedly to distract from what Bill (top diplomat to Ukraine) would be saying.

Things such as:

“In August and September of this year, I became increasingly concerned that our relationship with Ukraine was b…[Read more]

The T rump thralls (virtually any White House Staff who are still with him), have pretzel/surreal-logic legal rationalizations for how T rump can do anything he wants at any time just because he is POTUS (and because he is T rump).

And the MAGAheads out in the public?  They will support T rump doing anything he wants at any time.

So far, T rump…[Read more]

Don’t do it. If I thought for sure it would work, I would cheer your self-sacrifice on.  But if it didn’t work T rump would be a lot closer to being a lifelong dictator of the USA.  If he can get away with murdering you, he is unquestionably above the law.  And a POTUS like T rump who is at liberty to break any laws he wants, will become a dictator.

CC, thanks for the classic song of the strange fruit borne by the trees used by the lynch mobs.

This part of the Impeachment process is analogous to the grand jury phase of a criminal investigation.  The Mob doesn’t have a right to impede closed grand jury proceedings.  But it would be advantageous for them if they could do that and get away with it.

The current closed Impeachment Inquiry hearing is bi-partisan.  So that is already like th…[Read more]

Widdershins, I think you are going a little easy on him.  I can’t wait til CC gets a hold of him.

We are not in a post racist society, but we have become, politically and socially, more in tune with racial sensitivities, in the past 10 years.

It’s time to face the truth of the injustices against minorities that were more severe, in most ways, in the past, but many of which continue to this day.

Well, I don’t want T rump to shoot a baby.  That is a waste of a perfectly good baby.  But my top reason for wanting to save the baby from being publicly murdered by T rump, is that he might actually get away with it.

One guy said:  Trump does nothing to help Putin, unless not consistently bashing him equals “helping”.

TimB:  Really? You don’t want to rethink that assertion?  Trump just helped Putin establish a solid foothold in the Middle East, giving over control of Syria to Putin, among others…[Read more]

Seriously. Just with this administration, there are probably dozens of incidents that the press responded, getting the word out quickly enough, that social reactions could prevent T rump from bulldozing ahead with some of his most potentially destructive whims.

This is just another step (among many since his election) toward T rump becoming the 1st Dictator of the USA.

One of our most cherished assumptions was that No one is above the law.  But this is being blown away for T rump’s sake.