Trump Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

These last few posts could be shunted to their own thread on UK rearmament.

This impeachment effort is ghastly to watch or listen to. But at least I can get to vote against him come November.

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

These last few posts could be shunted to their own thread on UK rearmament.

This impeachment effort is ghastly to watch or listen to. But at least I can get to vote against him come November.

Sorry.

I'd start that thread but it would be me writing a long speel about how we should rearm, what that should look like, how a large but not super-power level country should conduct itself on the World Stage etc.

That all the Americans would slap me on the back for having a backbone and all the Brits would decry me for taking money form the NHS/disrupting the flow of trade.

Where are we impeachment now?

Has he been formally impeached or have they put it off?

[Seamus Fermanagh]

The HoR has voted two articles of impeachment. Yesterday they voted to forward those to the Senate for trial. They will be formally accepted today (Thursday 16 Jan). The Senate is currently set to begin votes on trial proceedings and particulars early next week.

No pundit is suggesting that the vote at the conclusion of the trial will remove Trump from office. All the discussion is centering on:

Who if anyone will break party ranks to vote against their "party's stance" on impeachment?

Will their be witnesses in addition to the evidence for removal proffered by the House Managers?

Will the whole thing run up to or past the Iowa Caucuses and, if so, what impact will that have on Dem candidates (since two of the top four will be sitting in the Senate trial and not out campaigning 6 days of each trial week)?

How will voters in the early states react to the information brought forward in the trial?

[Montmorency]

A Very Stable Genius. Book.

Trump, unsurprisingly for those who knew what impoundment is, violated impoundment law in his corrupt extortion of Ukraine.

Brazil's culture minister fired for espousing Nazi ideology as the future of - what's Portuguese for Volksgemeinschaft?

Monty calls CSPAN about impeachment: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1197573672313200640

[Beskar]

Monty calls CSPAN about impeachment: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1197573672313200640

Trust you.

[Montmorency]

Trust you.

Different Monty!


An even cooler story of an even Realer American, Daniel Burke.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

TUALATIN, Ore. — Daniel Edward Burke, of Tualatin, Ore., passed away peacefully on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at age 73, following an extended illness.
Dan was born June 17, 1936, in Lawrence. He went to school in Lawrence through his first years of college, received a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii, and an master's degree in political science from the University of Oregon.
Dan married Suzanne Dillard-Burke in 1986. He was preceded in death by his parents, Daniel and Theresa Burke, and his brother, David. Dan is survived by his loving wife Suzanne; his brother, Robert (Mona); his sister, Anne; his son, Erik (Jessyca); his grandson, Finnian, and nieces, nephews, and brothers and sisters-in-law. Dan was a generous and caring person who will be deeply missed by his family and friends.
Dan served in the U.S. Army, attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif., and then served as a Korean interpreter. Dan worked for four years with the Multnomah County Sheriff's office, and ran his own closeout specialist business, KIRE Distributors, for the next 28 years until his illness.
Dan had a large appetite for life and gift for languages. He spoke Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Polish, and Yiddish and was conversational in several other languages. He loved to sing and enjoyed the original Latin Mass. Dan liked to work on math problems and logic puzzles, and was a voracious reader. He loved to spend time with his wife and family and enjoyed several trips to Europe and China with his wife Suzanne. Throughout his life, Dan closely followed political and social causes, and was always an advocate for the underdog.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

[Montmorency]

Wow, remember a couple years back when we used to joke about Trump's Stalinist impulses around presenting his in-group vs. out-group?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...1a4_story.html

The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women’s suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women’s March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Trump’s inauguration.

The 49-by-69-inch photograph is a powerful display. Viewed from one perspective, it shows the 2017 march. Viewed from another angle, it shifts to show a 1913 black-and-white image of a women’s suffrage march also on Pennsylvania Avenue. The display links momentous demonstrations for women’s rights more than a century apart on the same stretch of pavement.

But a closer look reveals a different story.

The Archives acknowledged in a statement this week that it made multiple alterations to the photo of the 2017 Women’s March showcased at the museum, blurring signs held by marchers that were critical of Trump. Words on signs that referenced women’s anatomy were also blurred.

A placard that proclaims “God Hates Trump” has “Trump” blotted out so that it reads “God Hates.” A sign that reads “Trump & GOP — Hands Off Women” has the word Trump blurred out.

“As a non-partisan, non-political federal agency, we blurred references to the President’s name on some posters, so as not to engage in current political controversy,” Archives spokeswoman Miriam Kleiman said in an emailed statement.

Holy maloney, but it does track with his hollowing out of the bureaucracy and its replacement with personal whim and conditioned obsequiousness. Recall the similar but more dangerous (?) manipulation of official weather projections that did not comport with Trump's proclamations this past September.


(Just to be clear, National Archives have apologized and promised to replace the image.)