"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
reagansghost (09-19-2019)
And I am not for Dinos period. They do not belong in a party that is the legacy of FDR. If their constituency is too stupid or corporate connected to vote them out so be it but Shmuckie Chuckie Schumer's office has certainly heard from me on his incessant weak-assed responses to Republic-cons. And the Democratic establishment has been horrible to the new young and vibrant Progressive wing as they are threatened by them as well.
If Donald Trump didn't have anything to hide- he would not be hiding anything!
That says all you need to know about Donald Trump!
Whistleblower complaint about President Trump involves Ukraine
Source: Washington Post
A whistleblower complaint about President Trump made by an intelligence official centers on Ukraine, according to two people familiar with the matter, which has set off a struggle between Congress and the executive branch.
The complaint involved communications with a foreign leader and a “promise” that Trump made, which was so alarming that a U.S. intelligence official who had worked at the White House went to the inspector general of the intelligence community, two former U.S. officials said.
Two and a half weeks before the complaint was filed, Trump spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedian and political newcomer who was elected in a landslide in May.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...476_story.html
Jack (09-20-2019)
Pierce: Donald Trump's 'Promise' to a Foreign Leader Is More Than Just Troubling
I never thought I'd see the day when a serious concern for national security would be allayed in my mind by the fact that the President* of the United States never has made a promise he couldn't break.
Yes, it has well and truly hit the fan. ...
Sooner or later, we'll find out to whom El Caudillo del Mar-a-Lago made one of his customarily worthless promises. If we're all very lucky, it will be to some bush-league satrap like the ruler of Qatar. If we're not lucky, it will be to somebody who won't take the president*'s usual modus operandi as helplessly as various New Jersey glaziers once had to, and the president* will be forced to start eating his KFC with a geiger counter. What we do know is that the communication involving the promise was sufficiently alarming that some conscientious spook blew the whistle on it. What we also know is that our acting Director of National Intelligence has fought like a rabid badger to keep that information a way from the responsible congressional committees....
One hesitates to say enough is enough but, this time, seriously, enough is truly enough. The president*, who knows nothing about anything and whose word is worthless, is promising god alone knows what to god alone knows who, but whatever it happened to be was scary enough to spook the spooks, and damaging enough to risk corrupting the usual oversight process. How much of this perilous nonsense are we willing to tolerate? When corruption and incompetence collide, there's a lot that hits the fan.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politic...c=socialflowTW
Cinnabar (09-19-2019), Tranquillus in Exile (09-20-2019)
What Trump said about or to Ukraine leaders was so wrong and offensive that someone in his admin thought congress should know about it. His admin, not Dems. The mechanism allows them to do it. If he asks the IG to transfer the info to congress the law says he SHALL do it. Shall used to mean something before this admin. Now Trump's personal justice department is blocking that right. Trump is above the law and the whistleblower protections are void until he leaves office.
It appears Trump was using US aid money as a cudgel to force the Ukraine to investigate Biden's dead son's activities. Trump has no bottom. Biden did nothing wrong. But Trump will use his powers to his political advantage, even if it breaks the law.
Jack (09-20-2019)
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