The 125th Week of the Loser

Dumpington said:

phrodeau writes: "What do you suppose is in the secret trade deal Trump made with Mexico? I’m thinking golf balls filled with cocaine."

I'm pretty sure that the modern Democratic Party wouldn't particularly mind seeing more cocaine entering the United States, phrodeau - so your guess isn't likely, as I don't know of ANY liberals applauding Trump's success.

My guess is that President Trump was simply sick & tired of the Mexican government allowing illegals to freely enter their country and march north to our border where they would then illegally try to enter our nation. And so he gave Mexico an ultimatum: FIX IT, or we're slapping your nation with additional tariffs!

Now, if President Obama had made such a threat, Mexico would have IGNORED it - as, remembering Syria's Bashar al-Assad openly ignoring Barack Obama's "red-line" threat, when the Syrians used chemical weapons on their own people and Obama did absolutely nothing in response. But when President Trump makes a threat, HE MEANS IT, and so the Mexican government responded!

China is learning this lesson, as well. The days when the U.S. gave away everything without getting anything in return (see President Obama's nuclear deal with the Iranians) are permanently OVER! We now have something in the American White House who understands how to make DEALS with foreign nations that actually benefit America!

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At a hearing on Monday, former Watergate witness John Dean schooled Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) about the rules of the Judiciary Committee.

While appearing before the committee, Jordan suggested Dean was biased against President Donald Trump by reading some of Dean’s tweets.

“When you said the president of the United States was incapable of doing anything, were you thinking about the embassy in Jerusalem?” Jordan demanded to know.

“I think that under the parliamentary rules of the house, I’m refrained from addressing a full answer to your question,” Dean replied, prompting the gallery to erupt in laughter.
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“You weren’t refrained in your tweets and your comments,” Jordan quipped.

“My tweets are not subject to parliamentary [rules],” Dean noted.

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What would Attorney General Bill Barr do to avoid being held in contempt of Congress? Would he brush the snowdrifts of dandruff off Mick Mulvaney's shoulders? Would he discuss his marriage with Kellyanne Conway, in the strictest of confidence, of course? Would he let Rudy Giuliani represent him in traffic court? Would he ... would he actually let the House Judiciary Committee see the underlying documents from the Mueller Report as they're entitled to do under the law?

YES. NO. NO. AND MAYBE.

For the second time, the Justice Department has decided hours before a scheduled contempt vote against Bill Barr that, hey, after giving it some thought, they actually can comply with a Judiciary demand for documents after all. And, you know what, turns out it's actually NBD if the entire committee gets to see the documents and even take notes on them, although they can't take copies with them because reasons. Sure it was just last month that Donald Trump was saying the entire Mueller Report was Top Secret Executive Privileged Keep Out This Means You. But, on further reflection, looks like it's actually cool you guys!

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So, no contempt vote?

Well, kinda! House Judiciary Chair Jerry Nadler has agreed to table the vote for criminal contempt, but will proceed with a civil contempt motion for Bill Barr. The current Justice Department, headed by Barr himself, was unlikely to bring criminal contempt charges against its own Attorney General -- although a future, Democratic AG might take a different view. Barr is thus spared the possibility of a criminal contempt charge after 2020.

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RubenR said:

Just read some of the threads around here to get proof that his loyal followers will lick it all up.-
Thoughts and prayers for America.

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Another corporate giant that benefited handsomely under President Donald Trump’s tax law is laying off workers.

IBM announced that it is laying off 1,700 employees despite its stock value increasing 16% this year.

Add in the fact that the company paid $0 in taxes last year thanks to the Trump tax cuts, and it becomes ever clearer that companies are hoarding their new wealth rather than having it “trickle down” to works.

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Measure grants clear authority to House Judiciary panel to seek court order enforcing its subpoenas related to Mueller.

Washington, DC - Escalating a battle with US President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives voted 229 to 191 on Tuesday to authorise civil lawsuits against Trump administration officials who refuse to comply with congressional subpoenas.

The resolution specifically targets Attorney General William Barr and former White House Counsel Don McGahn who have both defied congressional subpoenas related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's inquiry on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The measure gives House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler and the chairs of other House committees the ability to take swift legal action in federal court to enforce subpoenas without first obtaining full House votes.

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Trump-era grifting is unique in its shamelessness. McConnell and his wife harken back to a simpler (and more enduring) time.

In the Trump era, we’ve become accustomed to political grift looking a certain way: goofy, cartoonish, and almost entirely shameless. The president who swept into Washington full of promises to “drain the swamp” has instead helped a whole rogue’s gallery of boosters, fans, and hangers-on into the public eye: gormless Cabinet officials fibbing about their travel plans to take their wives on taxpayer-funded sightseeing jaunts through Europe, bungling wannabe shakers launching braindead scheme after braindead scheme to destroy the president’s foes, media sycophants battling one another to see who can praise Trump’s every move with the loudest and most breathless superlatives.

The misdeeds of the new corruption class are so over the top that it can be easy to forget that political grift is as old as political power itself.

A good reminder of this turned up Monday in Politico, in the form of a report about the office of Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao. According to Politico, Chao has designated a special liaison for greasing the wheels of transportation grant applications to the state of Kentucky—the very state of which her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, happens to be the senior senator.

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gingerotica said:

You only have 281 more weeks of Trump.

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phrodeau said:

Trump could live to be a hundred and two. He might even survive his sentence.

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Everywhere he looks, President Trump can see flashing warnings that his re-election is in serious peril, a week ahead of his official campaign launch next Tuesday in Orlando.

The state of play: His internal polls show it, national polls show it and even a poll in reliably conservative Texas shows it — all as Trump should be crushing it. Unemployment is at a near-historic low. The economy is growing. Peace and prosperity abound. But his numbers are sagging.

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National Journal's Josh Kraushaar writes that Trump is "in the weakest political shape of any sitting president since George H.W Bush": "Trump hits 50 percent disapproval ... in North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Iowa — all states he carried in 2016."
Pay little attention to national polls in a race where states are what matters. But as a sign of voter mood, six Democrats (Biden, Sanders, Harris, Warren, Buttigieg and Booker) each beat Trump in the first 2o2o Quinnipiac University National Poll, released yesterday.

But, but, but: Even the self-avowed socialists are beating him — Bernie Sanders is up 12 in Michigan.

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Overall economic confidence of the CEOs of some of the country's top companies has dipped another leg lower, according to the latest survey by the Business Roundtable of 127 chief executives. This barometer of CEO optimism hasn't seen a quarter-over-quarter increase since it hit a record high over a year ago.

Why it matters: The trade group that represents the biggest companies in the U.S. attributed the slump in confidence to "unease about the direction of U.S. trade policy and uncertain prospects for global growth." If the concerns reflected in the survey do result in reined in spending and hiring, it could be bad news for an economy that's already feared to have seen its best days.

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Conservative columnist George Will went on CNBC Wednesday to dig a grave for the Republican Party.

While talking about the rise of economic populism on both the left and right in the United States, Will lamented the decline of traditional conservative belief in the free market.

“Young people have made up their mind about the Republican Party, that it’s kind of the dumb party,” he said. “These are the same young people who say they have warm feelings about socialism, but all they mean by that is that socialism means everyone being socialable and being nice to one another. They haven’t thought it through.”

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The morning after ABC aired an interview with Donald Trump saying he would be willing to accept dirt on political opponents — which even has conservatives questioning the president’s judgment — Trump went on a Twitter rant about the 2016 investigation into his campaign.

In a series of tweets, the president lashed out at Democratic lawmakers with an all-cap accusation that his campaign had been spied upon.

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According to the report, ten city governments from across the country say they still haven’t received reimbursement from the Trump campaign for the costs they incurred when local police officers were used to provide security for Trump campaign events.

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needit700 said:

the only looser around here is your sorry ass. and the rest of you too. Tell your mother we'll see her tonight like usual!!

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needit700 said:

the only looser around here is your sorry ass. and the rest of you too. Tell your mother we'll see her tonight like usual!!

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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of being behind attacks on two tankers in the Gulf of Oman Thursday, and said it was taking the case to the UN Security Council.

“It is the assessment of the United States that the Islamic Republic of Iran is responsible for the attacks,” Pompeo told reporters.

“This is based on intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication,” Pompeo said.

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President Donald Trump shocked the world again when he admitted that he would take dirt on a campaign rival from a foreign operative.

During a Wednesday interview with Fox News Shep Smith, judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano ripped Trump and said he be committing a felony if he accepted the information.

“Is there any way to argue that dirt from a foreign entity on a political opponent would be something that you can receive legally?” Smith asked.

“There’s no wiggle room with respect to dirt. With respect to opposition research,” Napolitano responded.

“What the president said he would do to George Stephanopoulos would be felonious,” Smith said.

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In a bitterly harsh column for the Daily Beast, GOP campaign consultant Rick Wilson trashed what he called “Team Trump” for standing by and saying nothing as Donald Trump opened the door for foreign interference in U.S. elections.

Under the blunt headline of “Every Member of Team Trump Is Now Enabling Treason,” Wilson excoriated the president and all the president’s people after the bombshell ABC interview.

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