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[KeithD]

Republican senators confront Trump officials as stock market drops 1,900 points in two days



Why doesn't Trumpski go to China to show them how to deal with a pandemic?

Then he'd be a danger to Republicans and we would just not let him back into the country?

A WIn-WIn!

I suggest that he go to Wuhan for a week or so.

 

[YDB95]

Nor in most states.

We're not talking about "most states". We are primarily talking about states where less than two generations ago, people of color were second class citizens at best and most of them lived in third-world conditions. Among other things, that means many older black Southerners don't have birth certificates, which makes getting a photo ID extremely difficult. That's not an unfortunate side effect of the voter ID laws, it's the whole point.

 

[gunthernehmen]

We're not talking about "most states". We are primarily talking about states where less than two generations ago, people of color were second class citizens at best and most of them lived in third-world conditions. Among other things, that means many older black Southerners don't have birth certificates, which makes getting a photo ID extremely difficult. That's not an unfortunate side effect of the voter ID laws, it's the whole point.

So which states had Jim Crow laws? Count them up. You can do it. You won't even use all your fingers and toes.

 

[YDB95]

So which states had Jim Crow laws? Count them up. You can do it. You won't even use all your fingers and toes.

You either know the answer to that or you're just avoiding the crux of the issue as usual. Or both.

 

[KeithD]

When a Trumpette hasn't done his homework and that's been pointed out, his response is to challenge someone else to do his homework for him--and to use their time to show that he obviously has his head up his ass on the topic.

 

[gunthernehmen]

You either know the answer to that or you're just avoiding the crux of the issue as usual. Or both.

Did I not suggest you use fingers and toes? You won't even need all of them.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

Did I not suggest you use fingers and toes? You won't even need all of them.

Not all people have all their digits, chainsaws, circular saws, table saws n such....

Just saying...

 

[KeithD]

Trumpettes don't even have their brains.

 

[phrodeau]

Correct. Let's fix that by deporting them and keeping them out with a wall.

Meanwhile, ask yourself WHY illegals have so little trouble abusing the good will of this country.

Sometimes a person has to lie, cheat and steal to survive, like Donald Trump does.

 

[KeithD]

I highly doubt that there is any illegal immigrant who lies and abuses the good will of anyone as Grunternayman does on this discussion board.

 

[gunthernehmen]

Sometimes a person has to lie, cheat and steal to survive, like Donald Trump does.

Reading comprehension fail, yet again.

 

[gunthernehmen]

I highly doubt that there is any illegal immigrant who lies and abuses the good will of anyone as Grunternayman does on this discussion board.

You still haven't answered the question if you really were an SR71 pilot. I'm curious how that rumor came to be. Care to comment?

 

[JackLuis]

It's only proper to ask then. Are you an enthusiastic cock sucker?

 

[gunthernehmen]

It's only proper to ask then. Are you an enthusiastic cock sucker?

Actually, yes. But the thing is, if I have no respect for someone it isn't happening. I don't mean "respect" like over in the Bondage & Fetish side of the forum, although that's sometime interesting too, I mean respect as in, does the person at the other end of this penis have a brain? Are they a caring person that has values? Or are they a shallow, thoughtless, hack writer that happens to share one hobby with me?

 

[SecretSapphic]

The government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington announced Friday that after more than three years of monitoring President Donald Trump's conduct, the president has hit a milestone, amassing more than 3,000 conflicts of interest between his businesses and his position in office.

The findings come from a CREW report detailing improper relationships between Trump, his business empire, and those trying to influence public policy—including lobbyists, foreign governments, and members of Congress.

CREW Executive Director Noah Bookbinder called the milestone "disgraceful."

"Every one of the more than 3,000 conflicts of interest that President Trump has incurred through his businesses raises new questions about whether he is making decisions in the interest of the American people or his own bottom line," said Bookbinder in a statement. "Not only does he appear to be profiting from the presidency daily, but he is constantly facing new temptations to use his office for his own benefit."

Since Trump took office and refused to divest from his businesses, instead handing over control of the Trump Organization to his two eldest sons, hundreds of people and groups have interacted with the president and his business in ways that "showcase the president's willingness to blend his personal gain with his professional responsibilities," CREW said.

According to the report:

55 members of Congress have made 78 visits to Trump's resort properties.
Cabinet members have patronized Trump properties and attended events with special interests or wealthy political donors at least 30 times.

Foreign government-tied entities have held 13 events at Trump properties, and at least 134 foreign officials have visited one of Trump’s properties—violations of U.S. Constitution's Emoluments Clause.

Special interest groups have sponsored 117 events at Trump properties since he took office.


The report details several specific examples of favors given to officials and associates who visit Trump's properties. Patrons of the president's private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida have been offered chances to "shadow rule" government agencies, while a other members have been nominated to ambassadorships.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...amassed-3000-conflicts-interest-taking-office

 

[gunthernehmen]

Good. He's doing his job then.

 

[Ireadforpleasure]

As we have learned, the written Constitution is not self-executing. It relies on the good faith of each branch to uphold the integrity of the basic structure of the system. It requires the commitment of the individuals who operate within the constitutional system to preserve its republican structure, even if honoring the rules does not serve a short-term political or policy goal. Without that commitment, we are at grave risk.

The thugocracy in the current White House poses such risk, just as the Nixon presidency did. But under Nixon, the House and the Senate stood up for the basic structure of democracy and the rule of law, Republicans and Democrats alike. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Nixon was required to turn over all tapes and evidence, rejecting the proposition Nixon famously articulated that: “When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."


Nixon turned over the tapes and resigned. Gerald Ford, the accidental president, put a fitting coda on the Nixon scandal when he said: “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over ... Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men.”

Today, it appears that our long national nightmare will continue and our Constitution has become just another political football. To a significant degree that is a function of having a president who floridly embraces the values of the mob rather than of the Framers. But Trump’s actions could not have had nearly the same impact without the Constitution being hollowed out from below by the Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell. McConnell tried to cultivate a reputation as an institutionalist, but he emerges instead as an anarchist of the radical right, perhaps the greatest enemy to Constitutional democracy since the Civil War.

Four years ago, McConnell showed his willingness to tear down the institutions of the United States for partisan gain when he refused to hold a hearing on President Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.


The Constitution specifies that the Senate has the power and the duty of “advice and consent” on the appointment of federal judges. That includes the power to give negative advice and to withhold consent. McConnell had a majority; he could have held hearings, rounded up votes and defeated the nomination. He didn’t want to take the risk, because Garland was a mainstream nominee with a long record; McConnell himself had pointed to Garland years before as the kind of nominee that deserved bipartisan support.

So McConnell simply chose to ignore the Constitution and abdicate the Senate’s institutional duty. He invented a new principle — that there should be no confirmations during an election year; the new president should have that prerogative. He pointed to a newly minted “longstanding tradition” that suspends the Constitutional rights and duties in an election year. The right to nominate and the correlative duty to advise and consent was only operative three-quarters of the time, he said. Yet asked last May what he would do if there was a vacancy in the last year of Trump’s presidency, he answered, “Oh, we’ll fill it.”


Indeed, the Senate has done little else during Trump’s presidency other than confirm an unprecedented number of marginally qualified Trumpites to lifetime appointments on the federal courts. McConnell has not only used his power to defeat the Constitutional obligations of the Senate — he has been trying to turn the federal judiciary into just another vote-counting, completely politicized body.

Then we come to the squalid saga of impeachment, where the Constitution prescribes a role for the House of Representatives to decide whether there is probable cause for concluding that the president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors; if so, the Constitution is then required to try these charges. Mirroring our grand jury and trial system, the House considers whether there is a sufficient basis to charge and the Senate considers whether there is a basis to convict. The standards are quite different and as with trials, there is nearly always more and different evidence. That is especially the case here, when the endlessly litigious president tried to block the evidence
and run out the clock. John Bolton wants to testify about Giuliani's "drug deal" in Ukraine, as do Giuliani's henchmen.

But once again, McConnell is reading the room, not the Constitution. The Senate, like the president, is afraid of John Bolton and others and so rather than have a trial, he simply rewrites the rules and articulates newly minted principles to support the outcome. Had McConnell been the majority leader in 1974, I assume he would have stood by while Nixon burned the tapes and said there is nothing to see here.

Obstruction is not a crime; cover-ups are just politics as usual. Under McConnell, impeachment trials can occur without firsthand witnesses or documents; presidents can extort foreign leaders to hurt their political enemies and it is all just so tedious and irrelevant. McConnell and Trump may declare victory, but it is a pyrrhic victory indeed for the republic. A written Constitution is not much value when it is just a piece of paper to those who decline to administer it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/voice...al-mitch-mcconnell-constitution-a9311596.html

 

[gunthernehmen]

TLDR

Didn't someone else get yelled at for repeating the same stuff in different threads?

 

[JackLuis]

Susan Collins is baffled why Maine’s voters have turned on her: report

With Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) facing the very likely fact that she may lose her Senate seat in the 2020 election, the Los Angeles Times reports that the embattled senator can’t seem to wrap her head around the fact that voters in her state don’t see her as an independent voice representing their interests.

Maybe her "concern" wasn't enough to have her vote Not-Trumpian?

Feckless Cunt!

 

[KeithD]

Susan Collins is baffled why Maine’s voters have turned on her: report



Maybe her "concern" wasn't enough to have her vote Not-Trumpian?

Feckless Cunt!

Susan Collins has shown herself to be easily baffled when folks don't fall for her "I'm concerned" performances.

Help her find the exit.

 

[YDB95]

Susan Collins is baffled why Maine’s voters have turned on her: report



Maybe her "concern" wasn't enough to have her vote Not-Trumpian?

Feckless Cunt!

Honestly, I think I'd probably be baffled too if I were her. She's been playing this part since 1996 and routinely getting away with it (not to mention breaking her term limits pledge for the third time this year) and it's only now that she's suffering any consequences. It's about time, though!

 

[JackLuis]

Republican Joni Ernst poll numbers plunge after voting against Trump’s impeachment

Sen. Joni Ernst’s poll numbers have sunk after she voted against convicting President Donald Trump following his impeachment trial.

“According to a new Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa Poll, Ernst’s approval rating has slipped from a high point of 57% in February 2019 to 47% today,” the newspaper reported Saturday.

The poll found only 41% of Iowa voters definitely planning to re-elect Ernst.

Oops!

 

[JackLuis]

Mike Pompeo ridiculed as the ‘Secretary of White Male Fragility’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) received widespread praise during her 2020 presidential bid for how she worked to convince young girls that it was natural for a female to run for president.

Warren would tell the young girl that she is running for president “because that’s what girls do” — and would then ask for a pinky-swear that the lesson had been learned.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — who works for the 45th man to serve as president — on Saturday appeared to be mocking Warren’s lesson.

Pompeo is such a dick!

 

[phrodeau]

The release date for John Bolton’s book, “The Room Where It Happened,” (Simon and Schuster) has been postponed, from March 17th to May 12th.

“The new date reflects the fact that the government review of the work is ongoing,” S&S said earlier this week.

Is everyone in the White House a slow reader?

 

[needit700]

Thank God for every one of them

the dems are going to destroy this nation with their liberal give aways