Red Mosquito

Chris_H_2 wrote:serious question: who do you fine more repugnant and dangerous, donald trump or mitch mcconnell?

Strat wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:I think even the most squirrel brained of them can go ahead and admit that is/was/has always been about Clinton and not secure data.

*a woman

Hatfield wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:substantial speculation on twitter that everyone who stormed the SCIF yesterday won't ever pass clearance for higher levels of security access

13 of those dumb motherfuckers already had access to the proceedings, and I'd be shocked if they don't remain on committee. This was a pizza party with no consequences.

Can you elaborate on "they already had access"?

knee tunes wrote:

96583UP wrote:

knee tunes wrote:

fuck yes

verb_to_trust wrote:McP can probably explain it better than me

“This is the first time in our history that we are seeing a boom in the economy at the same time deficits are rapidly rising. It’s alarming,” said Marc Goldwein, senior policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which supports reducing the deficit.

tragabigzanda wrote:no biggie

BREAKING: The U.S. deficit hit $984 billion in 2019, soaring during Trump era

knee tunes wrote:

“And the Ukraine, they’re investigating him and they blocked it twice. So what the president was [unintelligible word], ‘You can’t keep doing this. You have to investigate this.’ And they say it will affect the 2020 election.”

WASHINGTON — Grilled under oath for dozens of hours on Capitol Hill, at least three current and former U.S. officials have all made the same startling admission: a coveted White House visit for the new Ukrainian leader had been explicitly conditioned on his agreeing to investigations that could have helped President Donald Trump’s re-election.

And when Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, was asked point blank, under oath, whether that constituted a "quid pro quo," he did not dispute it, people with knowledge of his testimony said.

A portrait is emerging of a quid pro quo that evolved over time, with the president progressively upping the ante when his demands were not met.

What started as a bid to leverage Zelenskiy’s hopes for a White House meeting took on added dimensions as the Ukrainian leader mentioned his desire to buy Javelin missiles from the United States and Trump, in a separate move, put $391 million in military aid on hold.

Both acting U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor and former White House official Fiona Hill testified that by early July, the Ukrainians had learned from Trump’s emissaries that Zelenskiy wouldn’t get a White House visit unless he agreed to Giuliani’s demand that he publicly commit to investigate supposed Ukrainian interference in the 2016 election and Burisma, the natural gas company tied to former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.

Zelenskiy never did commit to the investigations, and wasn’t granted his White House visit.

doug rr wrote:" we're building a wall in colorado.."
he said that today...