The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[Bi_3]

[wease]

Tom Petty top three ( in no particular order):

You Wreck Me
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Runnin' Down A Dream

[Wendy Carlos's Twin]

Trump was just joking about murdering the leakers. You guys have no sense of humor

He's made a similar comment dozens of times--about football, protestors, etc. It's quite clear he has a sense of the "old days" and macho violence. Which is unbearably funny because he's such a little petty bitch.

Trump is the classic fat kid in the back of the classroom.

He bullies everybody and throws spitballs all year long.

Then when someone finally turns around and clocks him in the face, he runs to the teacher crying hysterically.

[Simple Torture]

It's been a busy day, but let's talk about the apostrophe placement in this tweet:

[McParadigm]

Holy stupid shit

[wease]

Watch Laura at 10pm

[Simple Torture]

Holy stupid shit

[wease]

Trump is too stupid to even know what Rudy just did.

[Strat]

Okay the republican talking point is that what trump did is no different than what biden did.

So, someone smarter than me, lay it out for me please thanks.

[verb_to_trust]

Biden was cleared.

[bune]

[Strat]

Biden was cleared.

You're not smarter than me.

Right, but, why are republicans on tv talking about this. Why are they the way that they are

[Mickey]

If they'd like to retroactively impeach Biden that's a-ok with me.

[doug rr]

Biden was cleared.

You're not smarter than me.

Right, but, why are republicans on tv talking about this. Why are they the way that they are

brian

[Strat]

Biden was cleared.

You're not smarter than me.

Right, but, why are republicans on tv talking about this. Why are they the way that they are

brian

[verb_to_trust]

Biden was cleared.

You're not smarter than me.

Right, but, why are republicans on tv talking about this. Why are they the way that they are

From February 2015 to March 2016, Viktor Shokin was prosecutor general of Ukraine. His ouster was the result of pressure from a large consensus of Western nations, including the United States, that were concerned Shokin was at the center of a lot of the country’s corruption. Their concern peaked when, in February 2016, Shokin’s own deputy prosecutor, Vitaly Kasko, resigned, citing the corruption and cronyism within the office. “The General Prosecutor’s Office has become a dead institution, which nobody believes is independent,” Kasko said at the time.

Biden was one of the leaders of the effort to remove Shokin, and a month after Kasko’s resignation, he threatened to withhold American loan guarantees from Ukraine so long as Shokin was heading the prosecutor’s office. Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, also threatened to withdraw financial support for Ukraine unless it cleaned up its corruption problem. Pretty much everyone recognized Shokin had to go, and a month later Ukrainian Parliament voted to remove him from office.


Nothing to see here, right? Not quite, according to the Trump administration. While Shokin was still in power, his office investigated a Ukrainian natural gas company called Burisma Holdings. Biden’s son, Hunter, was on the company’s board, a role for which he received payments of up to $50,000 per month. But according to CNN, at least one official in the prosecutor’s office said the investigation had been suspended by the time Biden threatened to withhold financial aid until Shokin was removed. The former vice president also did not appear to do anything to thwart other efforts, including those of the Obama administration, to investigate Burisma.

There also doesn’t seem to have been much legitimacy to Shokin’s investigation in the first place. According to tweets from Russia’s Crony Capitalism author and Ukraine expert Anders Åslund, the inquiry was likely nothing more than an effort to extort Mykola Zlochevsky, the company’s owner. “A prosecutor in Ukraine is usually a person who uses state power to investigate crimes, but after having done so the prosecutor goes to the culprit & extorts him or her, after which the prosecutor closes the case,” he wrote before noting that Shokin’s case against Burisma was quickly closed.

The same may have been true of Shokin’s successor, Yuriy Lutsenko, who also investigated Burisma before closing the case 10 months later. “Lutsenko did not prosecute any serious criminal during his 3 years in office,” explained Åslund.



Despite having previously closed the case against Burisma, Lutsenko decided to reopen it this year for reasons that are unclear. It might have had something to do, however, with Rudy Giuliani inviting Lutsenko to New York last year and ultimately meeting with him in January. Nevertheless, nothing came of the second effort to go after Burisma, and Lutsenko is no longer in office after new Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky requested his removal.


It was a late-July call with Zelensky that reportedly prompted the whistleblower complaint that has ignited the scandal over Trump’s alleged extortion of Ukraine’s new government. On that call, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, Trump repeatedly pressured Zelensky to investigate Biden’s son. Meanwhile, Trump has been considering blocking U.S. military aid to Ukraine.

Trump has called the report “Fake News” while claiming there was nothing untoward about the call with Zelensky that reportedly prompted the whistleblower complaint. “What I said was so good,” the president told reporters on Sunday. “It was a great conversation. It was a really great conversation. Everybody will say that.”

[tragabigzanda]

So what they got planned for tomorrow?

[BurtReynolds]

I appreciate this post

[dimejinky99]

Is weed legal in New York?

[Simple Torture]

It's been a busy day, but let's talk about the apostrophe placement in this tweet:

Oh my God.