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Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Monday, July 29, 2019
Profiles In Cowardice: Random Observations On The Mueller Hearings
Posted by Rude One
Yesterday's congressional hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed the profound cowardice at the heart of our nation's leaders right now in dealing with Donald Trump (himself a coward of the lowest order) and the crimes that he has so blatantly committed and continues to commit on a daily basis. Anyone who has actually read Mueller's report or paid attention during the hearing who doesn't believe that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and that Trump panicked and attempted to cover up any involvement would have to be a genuine fool or a willful idiot. The report says that Trump did so. It just doesn't say that he committed a crime, although it walks right up to that.
There was some hope that the hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees would produce a crystallizing moment, a "gotcha," an absolutely clear statement of Trump and his circle's complicity in obstruction of justice. Democrats called the hearing ostensibly to disseminate the information in the report, but you know that they wanted Mueller to say that Trump should have been indicted but was blocked by Attorney General and the man who put the "toad" in toady, William Barr.
If that had happened, no one would be talking about Mueller's really painful, halting, obviously impaired appearance. But the cowardly media was not entertained and thus declared the day a failure. Jesus, no one should care about the verve with which revelations of our compromised electoral system were delivered. No one should care if the person telling us that theresident induced people
to lie about their involvement in compromising our electoral system is
particularly charming. But we don't live in a country where plain facts
matter anymore, and we don't have a media that is capable of explaining
facts (yeah, yeah, there are exceptions).
That sky opening moment didn't happen. And, instead, we were treated to the display of Democrats trying to get as much of the report on record as possible, with Mueller agreeing that, yes, what he wrote in the report is what he wrote in the report, and that it is as enraging and worrisome as it ever was. There were a couple of important moments that may make fine ads, like Rep. Jerrold Nadler's direct, quick questioning that demonstrated just how much Trump is lying about the report. Adam Schiff's opening comments were brutal, as was his masterful dialogue with Mueller that was a distillation of just how much Russia helped Trump and how much Trump and his team welcomed that help and how really scary that all is.
Republicans on the committee were, with one, perhaps two, exceptions, a miserable bunch of cowardly bastards. Bowing down before their twin idols, Trump and the right-wing media machine, they regurgitated every rank conspiracy theory, vomiting up a litany of names and a series of lies about the origins of the investigation and the investigators themselves, all to create a viscous fog for their president's venality and immorality and criminality.
Yet as strong as the Democrats in the committees were with their questioning - there was blissfully little speechifying - the press conference after the hearings demonstrated the cowardice that has plagued the party's leaders since Trump was elected. When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi again squashed the idea that impeachment of Trump should move forward, she undid everything that the hearings might have done. Impeachment would force attention to be paid to what Trump has done and his failure to act on what was done to us. Now, they say, they want to wait until courts decide on whether or not Trump needs to give over documents or allow people to testify. C'mon. It's as if Pelosi and others in the Democratic caucus, ignoring a growing faction of members who want impeachment, believe that Trump won't be re-elected and things can go back to whatever illusion of normal they think it was before. This is the Merrick Garland fallacy: don't get in the mud to fight it out because we're obviously gonna win the presidency. How did that turn out in 2016? Democrats are stating that Trump committed crimes. Hell, Nadler used the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" the other day. If you say that and refuse to impeach, then Republicans have nothing to fear from you and will keep owning the story with their lies.
As he revealed in his ranting, frothing moment with the press yesterday, Donald Trump is a danger to the nation, and he believes he is empowered to do more and more. That neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to stand up to him in the firmest, most obvious way available is the kind of cowardice that will damn us, and we'll deserve it.
Yesterday's congressional hearings with former Special Counsel Robert Mueller revealed the profound cowardice at the heart of our nation's leaders right now in dealing with Donald Trump (himself a coward of the lowest order) and the crimes that he has so blatantly committed and continues to commit on a daily basis. Anyone who has actually read Mueller's report or paid attention during the hearing who doesn't believe that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and that Trump panicked and attempted to cover up any involvement would have to be a genuine fool or a willful idiot. The report says that Trump did so. It just doesn't say that he committed a crime, although it walks right up to that.
There was some hope that the hearings before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees would produce a crystallizing moment, a "gotcha," an absolutely clear statement of Trump and his circle's complicity in obstruction of justice. Democrats called the hearing ostensibly to disseminate the information in the report, but you know that they wanted Mueller to say that Trump should have been indicted but was blocked by Attorney General and the man who put the "toad" in toady, William Barr.
If that had happened, no one would be talking about Mueller's really painful, halting, obviously impaired appearance. But the cowardly media was not entertained and thus declared the day a failure. Jesus, no one should care about the verve with which revelations of our compromised electoral system were delivered. No one should care if the person telling us that the
That sky opening moment didn't happen. And, instead, we were treated to the display of Democrats trying to get as much of the report on record as possible, with Mueller agreeing that, yes, what he wrote in the report is what he wrote in the report, and that it is as enraging and worrisome as it ever was. There were a couple of important moments that may make fine ads, like Rep. Jerrold Nadler's direct, quick questioning that demonstrated just how much Trump is lying about the report. Adam Schiff's opening comments were brutal, as was his masterful dialogue with Mueller that was a distillation of just how much Russia helped Trump and how much Trump and his team welcomed that help and how really scary that all is.
Republicans on the committee were, with one, perhaps two, exceptions, a miserable bunch of cowardly bastards. Bowing down before their twin idols, Trump and the right-wing media machine, they regurgitated every rank conspiracy theory, vomiting up a litany of names and a series of lies about the origins of the investigation and the investigators themselves, all to create a viscous fog for their president's venality and immorality and criminality.
From loathsome hick Louie Gohmert screeching like he got his penis stuck in the donkey he was fucking to bloated sack of farts James Sensenbrenner declaring Mueller's work a flaming sack of shit left on the government's porch to dimwitted Michael Turner bludgeoning the word "exonerate" to death. It was disgusting, watching asshole after asshole proclaim the innocence of Trump while trying, at least on some minor level, to pretend to give even a single fuck about Russia's interference in our elections. How low does a man or woman have to be to fear a nasty comment by Tucker Carlson? How quickly do they become traitors because they fear tweets that call for their ouster or deaths? What vermin they are and what worms are the people who elect them.
Despite all the tributes to his long career as GI Joe G-Man, Mueller came across as a coward, too. Simply put, there was no reason for him to hedge on what he believed. As Sarah Kendzior put it, "Throughout the hearings, Mr. Mueller acted as if outside forces constrained his ability to answer questions. But he is no longer an employee of the Department of Justice, and they can no longer tell him what to say." It made no sense, for instance, that he was so clearly incensed by the idea of Russia's attack on the 2016 election, yet he would not say, clearly, that Donald Trump is harming the country by dismissing that idea. That's pretty easy: Here is something that's broken. If you don't fix it, it will get worse. Therefore, if the person who is supposed to fix it doesn't, that person wants things to get worse. But he decided to limit himself and play the good Republican, the good conservative, one of the many useful idiots who think that the System still functions as it's supposed to. And just say, for chrissake, that anyone would have arrested Trump. All this coy implication was worthless. For someone who once stood up to rabid buffalo Dick Cheney, it was a dereliction of duty and a failure of nerve that will ultimately damage the nation.Yet as strong as the Democrats in the committees were with their questioning - there was blissfully little speechifying - the press conference after the hearings demonstrated the cowardice that has plagued the party's leaders since Trump was elected. When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi again squashed the idea that impeachment of Trump should move forward, she undid everything that the hearings might have done. Impeachment would force attention to be paid to what Trump has done and his failure to act on what was done to us. Now, they say, they want to wait until courts decide on whether or not Trump needs to give over documents or allow people to testify. C'mon. It's as if Pelosi and others in the Democratic caucus, ignoring a growing faction of members who want impeachment, believe that Trump won't be re-elected and things can go back to whatever illusion of normal they think it was before. This is the Merrick Garland fallacy: don't get in the mud to fight it out because we're obviously gonna win the presidency. How did that turn out in 2016? Democrats are stating that Trump committed crimes. Hell, Nadler used the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" the other day. If you say that and refuse to impeach, then Republicans have nothing to fear from you and will keep owning the story with their lies.
As he revealed in his ranting, frothing moment with the press yesterday, Donald Trump is a danger to the nation, and he believes he is empowered to do more and more. That neither Democrats nor Republicans are willing to stand up to him in the firmest, most obvious way available is the kind of cowardice that will damn us, and we'll deserve it.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Better To Have A Few Rats Than To Be One, Mr. Resident
It’s
not hard to see what’s going on here. The congressman has been a thorn
in this resident’s side, and Mr. Trump sees attacking African American
members of Congress as good politics, as it both warms the cockles of
the white supremacists who love him and causes so many of the thoughtful
people who don’t to scream. resident Trump bad-mouthed Baltimore in
order to make a point that the border camps are “clean, efficient &
well run," which, of course, they are not — unless you are fine with all
the overcrowding, squalor, cages and deprivation to be found in what
the Department of Homeland Security’s own inspector-general recently
called “a ticking time bomb."
In pointing to the 7th, the
This
is a resident who will happily debase himself at the slightest
provocation. And given Mr. Cummings’ criticisms of U.S. border policy,
the various investigations he has launched as chairman of the House
Oversight Committee, his willingness to call Mr. Trump a racist for his
recent attacks on the freshmen congresswomen, and the fact that “Fox
& Friends” had recently aired a segment critical of the city,
slamming Baltimore must have been irresistible in a Pavlovian way. Fox
News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across
his cell phone into action.
As heartening as it has been to witness public figures rise to Charm City’s defense on Saturday, from native daughter House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young, we would above all remind Mr. Trump that the 7th District, Baltimore included, is part of the United States that he is supposedly governing. The White House has far more power to effect change in this city, for good or ill, than any single member of Congress including Mr. Cummings. If there are problems here, rodents included, they are as much his responsibility as anyone’s, perhaps more because he holds the most powerful office in the land.
Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
We are African Americans, we are patriots, and we refuse to sit idly by
This op-ed is co-signed by 149 African Americans who served in the Obama administration.
This post has been updated.
We’ve heard this before. Go back where you came from. Go back to Africa. And now, “send her back.” Black and brown people in America don’t hear these chants in a vacuum; for many of us, we’ve felt their full force being shouted in our faces, whispered behind our backs, scrawled across lockers, or hurled at us online. They are part of a pattern in our country designed to denigrate us as well as keep us separate and afraid.
As 149 African Americans who served in the last administration, we witnessed first hand the relentless attacks on the legitimacy of President Barack Obama and his family from our front-row seats to America’s first black presidency. Witnessing racism surge in our country, both during and after Obama’s service and ours, has been a shattering reality, to say the least. But it has also provided jet-fuel for our activism, especially in moments such as these.
We stand with congresswomen Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib, as well as all those currently under attack by President Trump, along with his supporters and his enablers, who feel deputized to decide who belongs here — and who does not. There is truly nothing more un-American than calling on fellow citizens to leave our country — by citing their immigrant roots, or ancestry, or their unwillingness to sit in quiet obedience while democracy is being undermined.
We are proud descendants of immigrants, refugees and the enslaved Africans who built this country while enduring the horrors of its original sin. We stand on the soil they tilled, and march in the streets they helped to pave. We are red-blooded Americans, we are patriots, and we have plenty to say about the direction this country is headed. We decry voter suppression. We demand equitable access to health care, housing, quality schools and employment. We welcome new Americans with dignity and open arms. And we will never stop fighting for the overhaul of a criminal-justice system with racist foundations.
We come from Minnesota and Michigan. The Bronx and Baton Rouge. Florida and Philadelphia. Cleveland and the Carolinas. Atlanta and Nevada. Oak-town and the Chi. We understand our role in this democracy, and respect the promise of a nation built by, for and of immigrants. We are part of that tradition, and have the strength to both respect our ancestors from faraway lands and the country we all call home.
Our love of country lives in these demands, and our commitment to use our voices and our energy to build a more perfect union. We refuse to sit idly by as racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia are wielded by the president and any elected official complicit in the poisoning of our democracy. We call on local, state and congressional officials, as well as presidential candidates to articulate their policies and strategies for moving us forward as a strong democracy, through a racial-equity lens that prioritizes people over profit. We will continue to support candidates for local, state and federal office who add more diverse representation to the dialogue and those who understand the importance of such diversity when policymaking here in our country and around the world. We ask all Americans to be a good neighbor by demonstrating anti-racist, environmentally friendly, and inclusive behavior toward everyone in your everyday interactions.
The statesman Frederick Douglass warned, “The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous.” This nation has neither grappled with nor healed from the horrors of its origins. It is time to advance that healing process now through our justice, economic, health and political systems.
Expect to hear more from us. We plan to leave this country better than we found it. This is our home.
Saba Abebe, former special assistant, Office of Economic Impact and Diversity, Energy Department
Tsehaynesh Abebe, former adviser, U.S. Agency for International Development
David Adeleye, former policy specialist, White House
Bunmi Akinnusotu, former special assistant, Office of Land and Emergency Management, Environmental Protection Agency
Trista Allen, former senior adviser to the regional administrator, General Services Administration
Maria Anderson, former operations assistant, White House
Karen Andre, former White House liaison, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Caya Lewis Atkins, former counselor for science and public health, Department of Health and Human Services
Roy L. Austin Jr., former deputy assistant to the president, White House Domestic Policy Council
Kevin Bailey, former special assistant, White House; senior policy adviser, Treasury Department
Jumoke Balogun, former adviser to the secretary, Labor Department
Diana Banks, former deputy assistant secretary, Defense Department
Desiree N. Barnes, former adviser to the press secretary, White House
Kevin F. Beckford, former special adviser, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Alaina Beverly, former associate director, Office of Urban Affairs, White House
Saba Bireda, former senior counsel, Office for Civil Rights, Education Department
Vincent H. Bish Jr., former special assistant to the assistant secretary of strategic program management, Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Blake, former director for African American, minority and women business enterprises and county and statewide elected officials, White House
Tenicka Boyd, former special assistant, Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Education Department
Tanya Bradsher, former assistant secretary for public affairs, Department of Homeland Security
Stacey Brayboy, former chief of staff, Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Agriculture Department
Allyn Brooks-LaSure, former deputy associate administrator for external affairs, Environmental Protection Agency
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, former director of coverage policy, Office of Health Reform, Department of Health and Human Services
Quincy K. Brown, former senior policy adviser, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Taylor Campbell, former director of correspondence systems innovation, White House
Crystal Carson, former chief of staff to the director of communications, White House
Genger Charles, former general deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Housing, Federal Housing Administration, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Glorie Chiza, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Sarah Haile Coombs, special assistant, Department of Health and Human Services
Michael Cox, former special assistant to the assistant secretary for intergovernmental affairs, Commerce Department
Adria Crutchfield, former director of external affairs, Federal Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Joiselle Cunningham, former special adviser, Office of the Secretary, Education Department
Charlotte Flemmings Curtis, former special adviser for White House initiatives, Corporation for National and Community Service
Kareem Dale, former special assistant to the president for disability policy, White House
Ashlee Davis, former White House liaison, Agriculture Department
Marco A. Davis, former deputy director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
Russella L. Davis-Rogers, former chief of staff, Office of Strategic Partnerships, Department of Education
Tequia Hicks Delgado, former senior adviser for congressional engagement and legislative relations, Office of Legislative Affairs, White House
Kalisha Dessources Figures, former policy adviser, White House Council on Women and Girls
Leek Deng, former special assistant, Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development
Tene Dolphin, former chief of staff, Economic Development Administration, Commerce Department
Monique Dorsainvil, former deputy chief of staff, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Joshua DuBois, former executive director, Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships; former special assistant to the president, White House
Dru Ealons, former director, Office of Public Engagement, Environmental Protection Agency
Rosemary Enobakhare, former deputy associate administrator for public engagement and environmental education, Environmental Protection Agency
Karen Evans, former assistant director and policy adviser, Office of Cabinet Affairs, White House
Clarence J. Fluker, former deputy associate director for national parks and youth engagement, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Heather Foster, former public engagement adviser and director of African American affairs, White House
Kalina Francis, former special adviser, Office of Public Affairs, Treasury Department
Matthew “Van” Buren Freeman, former senior adviser, Minority Business Development Agency, Commerce Department
Cameron French, former deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Jocelyn Frye, former deputy assistant to the president and director of policy and special projects for the first lady, White House
Bernard Fulton, former deputy assistant secretary for congressional relations, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Stephanie Gaither, former confidential assistant to the deputy director, Office of Management and Budget, White House
Demetria A. Gallagher, former senior adviser for policy and inclusive innovation, Commerce Department
Lateisha Garrett, former White House liaison, National Endowment for the Humanities
W. Cyrus Garrett, former special adviser to the director of counternarcotics enforcement, Department of Homeland Security
Bishop M. Garrison, former science and technology directorate adviser, Department of Homeland Security
Lisa Gelobter, former chief digital service officer, Education Department
A’shanti F. Gholar, former special assistant to the secretary, Labor Department
Jay R. Gilliam, former special assistant, U.S. Agency for International Development
Artealia Gilliard, former deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy, Transportation Department
Brenda Girton-Mitchell, former director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Education Department
Jason Green, former associate counsel and special assistant to the president, White House
Corey Arnez Griffin, former associate director, Peace Corps
Kyla F. Griffith, former special adviser to the secretary, Commerce Department
Simone L. Hardeman-Jones, former deputy assistant secretary, Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs, Education Department
Thamar Harrigan, former senior intergovernmental relations adviser, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Dalen Harris, former director, Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison, Office of National Drug Control Policy, White House
Khalilah M. Harris, former deputy director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans; former senior adviser, Office of Personnel Management
Adam Hodge, former deputy assistant secretary for public affairs, Treasury Department
Valerie Jarrett, former senior adviser, White House
Will Yemi Jawando, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Karine Jean-Pierre, former northeast political director, Office of Political Affairs, White House
A. Jenkins, former director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Commerce Department
Adora Jenkins, former press secretary, Justice Department; former deputy associate administrator for external affairs, Environmental Protection Agency
W. Nate Jenkins, former chief of staff and senior adviser to the budget director, Office of Management and Budget, White House
David J. Johns, former executive director, White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans
Brent Johnson, former special adviser to the secretary, Commerce Department
Broderick Johnson, former White House assistant to the president and Cabinet secretary for My Brother’s Keeper Task Force
Carmen Daniels Jones, former director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, Agriculture Department
Gregory K. Joseph II, former special assistant, Office of the Executive Secretariat, Energy Department
Jamia Jowers, former special assistant, National Security Council
Charmion N. Kinder, former associate, Press Office of the First Lady, White House; former assistant press secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Elise Nelson Leary, former international affairs adviser, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Kimberlyn Leary, former adviser, White House Council on Women and Girls
Daniella Gibbs Léger, former special assistant to the president and director of message events, White House
Georgette Lewis, former policy adviser, Department of Health and Human Services
Kevin Lewis, former director of African American media, White House; former principal deputy director of public affairs, Justice Department
Catherine E. Lhamon, former assistant secretary for civil rights, Education Department
Tiffani Long, former special adviser, Economic Development Administration
Latifa Lyles, former director, Women’s Bureau, Labor Department
Brenda Mallory, former general counsel, White House Council on Environmental Quality
Dominique Mann, former media affairs manager, White House
Shelly Marc, former policy adviser, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, White House
Tyra A. Mariani, former chief of staff to the deputy secretary, Education Department
Lawrence Mason III, former domestic policy analyst, Office of Presidential Correspondence, White House
Dexter L. McCoy, former special assistant, Office of the Secretary, Education Department
Matthew McGuire, former U.S. executive director, The World Bank Group
Tyrik McKeiver, former senior adviser, State Department
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, former assistant to the administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Solianna Meaza, former special assistant to associate administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development
Mahlet Mesfin, former assistant director for international science and technology, Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House
Ricardo Michel, former director, Center for Transformational Partnerships, U.S. Agency for International Development Global Development Lab
Paul Monteiro, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Jesse Moore, former associate director, Office of Public Engagement, White House
Shannon Myricks, former specialist, Office of Management and Administration Information Services, White House
Melanie Newman, former director of public affairs, Justice Department
Fatima Noor, former policy assistant, Domestic Policy Council
Bianca Oden, former deputy chief of staff, Agriculture Department
Funmi Olorunnipa, former ethics counsel, White House Counsel’s Office
Elizabeth Ogunwo, former White House liaison, Peace Corps
Stephanie Sprow Owens, former deputy director, Reach Higher, Education Department
Denise L. Pease, former regional administrator of the northeast and Caribbean region, General Services Administration
Danielle Perry, former special adviser to the assistant secretary, Agriculture Department
Allison C. Pulliam, former special assistant, Office of Presidential Personnel, White House
Colby Redmond, former advance specialist, Office of the Secretary, Commerce Department
Derrick Robinson, former researcher, Office of Communications, White House
Lynn M. Ross, former deputy assistant secretary for policy development, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Sarah Rutherford, former press and media operations assistant, White House
Alexander Sewell, former special assistant, Export-Import Bank
Michael Smith, former special assistant to the president and senior director of Cabinet affairs for My Brother’s Keeper, White House
Russell F. Smith, former deputy assistant secretary for international fisheries, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Commerce Department
Jackeline Stewart, former press secretary, General Services Administration
Angela Tennison, former leadership development director, Education Department
Kenny Thompson Jr., former special assistant to the president and director of message events to the vice president, White House
Ivory A. Toldson, former executive director, White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Fred Tombar, former senior adviser to the secretary for disaster recovery, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Christopher R. Upperman, former assistant administrator for public engagement, Small Business Administration
Malik Walker, former senior adviser for congressional and legislative affairs, Office of Personnel Management
Jason R.L. Wallace, former director of scheduling and advance, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Myesha Ward, former assistant U.S. trade representative for intergovernmental affairs and public engagement
Clarence Wardell III, former presidential innovation fellow
Benjamin E. Webb, former executive director of policy and planning, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security
C’Reda J. Weeden, former executive secretary, Department of Health and Human Services
Tonia Wellons, former associate director, Office of Strategic Partnerships, Peace Corps
Antonio White, former senior adviser, Treasury Department
Monae White, former special projects manager, Education Department
Aketa Marie Williams, former director of strategic communications, Office of the Undersecretary, Education Department
Jonta Williams, former adviser to the assistant administrator for Africa, U.S. Agency for International Development
Jessica Wilson, former special assistant, Office of Policy, Department of Homeland Security
Taj Wilson, former deputy associate counsel, White House
Candace Wint, former director of advance, Department of Housing and Urban Development
Brent C. Woolfork, former managing director, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Tarrah Cooper Wright, former special assistant to the secretary, Department of Homeland Security
Ursula Wright, former associate assistant deputy secretary, Education Department
Carl Young, former adviser and assistant, Office of Management and Budget, White House
Stephanie Young, former senior adviser, Office of Public Engagement, White House
David N. Zikusoka, former senior adviser for weapons of mass destruction and nonproliferation, Office of the Vice President, White House
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Friday, July 26, 2019
Mueller's Testimony RE-established That Donald Trump Is A Serial Felon Who Should Be IMPEACHED!
There were several important takeaways from Robert Mueller's hours long
testimony yesterday before the House Judiciary and Intelligence
Committees. What are your thoughts about what took place?
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
What I Would Ask Robert Mueller By James Comey
Longworth House Office Building (Architect of the U.S. Capitol)
If I were a member of Congress with five minutes to question Robert Mueller, I would ask short questions drawn from the report’s executive summaries.
Volume One: Russia
Did you find that there were a series of contacts between the Trump campaign and individuals with ties to the Russian government? (p. 5)
In particular, did you find that a Trump foreign policy adviser learned that the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails? (pp. 5-6)
Did you find that the Trump foreign policy adviser said the Trump campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to candidate Clinton? (p. 6)
Did you find that senior members of the Trump campaign met with Russian representatives at Trump Tower after being told in an email that the meeting was part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump? (p. 6)
Did you find that, despite the fact that candidate Trump said he had "nothing to do with Russia," his organization had been pursuing a major Moscow project into the middle of the election year and that candidate Trump was regularly updated on developments? (vol 1, p. 5: vol 2, p. 19)
Did the Trump campaign report any of its Russian contacts to the FBI?
Not even the indications from the Russian government that it could assist the campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to candidate Clinton?
Volume Two: Obstruction
Did you find substantial evidence that the president had committed obstruction of justice crimes?
For example, did you find that the president directed the White House counsel to call the acting attorney general and tell him the special counsel must be removed? (p. 4)
Did you find that the White House counsel decided he would rather resign than carry out that order? (p. 4)
Did you find that the president later directed the White House counsel to say he had not been ordered to have the special counsel removed? (p. 6)
Did you find that the president wanted the White House counsel to write a false memo saying he had not been ordered to have the special counsel removed? (p. 6)
Did you find that the White House counsel refused to do that because it was not true? (p. 6)
Did you find that the president repeatedly asked a private citizen—his former campaign manager—to deliver a message to the attorney general to restrict the special counsel to investigating only future campaign interference? (p. 5)
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Here's The THREE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS To Ask Robert Mueller During His Wednesday Testimony!
Here's the THREE MOST CRITICAL QUESTIONS to Ask Robert Mueller During His Wednesday Testimony!
Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday, July 24th. There are sure to be a litany of probing questions that will be asked of him. Jesse Dollemore believes these will be three of the most important!
Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees on Wednesday, July 24th. There are sure to be a litany of probing questions that will be asked of him. Jesse Dollemore believes these will be three of the most important!
Monday, July 22, 2019
We Won’t Win Over Deplorable Trump Supporters, So Stop Playing Nice
After watching what unfolded at Donald Trump’s North Carolina rally this
week, along with his nonstop calls for people to “get out” of our
country, it has become clear that there are certain voters that we
simply can’t reach.
And while some people think we have to maintain a certain level of “civility”, the truth is that these people would gladly stomp on your head if the opportunity arose.
Stop fucking around with them, and start fighting back. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
And while some people think we have to maintain a certain level of “civility”, the truth is that these people would gladly stomp on your head if the opportunity arose.
Stop fucking around with them, and start fighting back. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
My filter is broken so I’m likely to lose a lot of followers and friends who are used to the kinder, gentler Ben. But all things considered, we don’t have time to worry about being nice.— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) July 18, 2019
Look man, those rednecks in that audience last night won’t be won over with any policy. They would gladly give up health insurance and die of diabetes-driven gangrene than to abandon a president who lets them be their full racist selves.— Benjamin Dixon (@BenjaminPDixon) July 18, 2019
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Trump Supporters LOVE The Resident’s Hate Filled Tirades
While most of America is still angry about Trump’s disgusting comments
from this past Sunday, his hardcore supporters are loving every minute
of it. They seem to enjoy watching the resident make his xenophobic
comments, and some even admitted to CBS News that this is why they voted
for him!
This is what we’re up against in 2020, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tweets-supporters-stand-by-president-amid-racist-tweets/
This is what we’re up against in 2020, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-tweets-supporters-stand-by-president-amid-racist-tweets/
Trump Won’t Listen To Courts Anymore, Spokesperson Claims
According to a spokesperson for the Trump administration (Hogan Gidley),
Donald Trump will no longer “be beholden to the courts.”
This is an instance of saying the quiet part out loud, because theresident, like
the rest of the country, is bound by the laws of this country.
Is Congress going to take action now? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-spokesperson-boasts-the-president-isnt-going-to-be-beholden-to-courts-anymore/
This is an instance of saying the quiet part out loud, because the
Is Congress going to take action now? Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-spokesperson-boasts-the-president-isnt-going-to-be-beholden-to-courts-anymore/
Friday, July 19, 2019
Donald Trump’s Demagoguery Boils Over With “SEND HER BACK” Chants! #IStandWithIlhan
Last night at one of Donald Trump’s venom fueled MAGA rallies, he
launched into an attack on Freshman Congresswoman from Minnesota – Ilhan
Omar… A scripted attack filled with garbage and lies.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Let's Have This Goddamn Political Race War Already
Posted by Rude One
At least now Democrats can stop fucking pretending that there is any reasoning with Republicans or anyone on the right at this point. By refusing to condemnresident Donald Trump's blatantly racist statements
as "racist," by continuing and expanding on Trump's attacks on four
non-white Democratic congresswomen in saying that they should leave the
United States, by getting outraged that racism is being called racism,
the GOP has ripped its mask off in the clearest way possible and gone
all in on attacks on non-whites.
At this point, Donald Trump could yell, "Nigger!" on Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose any voters. And Republicans would blame whichever black person it was directed at.
Conservatives like to decry what they say is "identity politics;" that is, making policies and running candidates to appeal to a certain racial, ethnic, religious, or other background. But the GOP's appeal to white nationalists and to the idiot hordes that comprise its base is more clearly identity politics than anything Democrats have done. 'Cause, see, Trump and those who suckle at Trump's orange man teats get their votes almost exclusively from white people. By contrast, Ilhan Omar was elected with 78% of the vote in a district that is two-thirds white. I fucking guarantee you that Republican Representative Steve Scalise didn't get shit for non-white votes. But we're supposed to pretend that Omar is dividing Americans. Fuck that.
The right has been aching for a political race war. With their explicit support of Trump's "Go back to your country," now supposedly not racist "If you're not happy here, you can leave," as well as rallying around demonizing Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashid Tlaib, Republicans have tied their 2020 strategy to this racist fuckery. The four progressives are the new welfare queen, the new Willie Horton, the new Mexican rapists. And they are folding that into the oldest fucking act in the conservative book: calling Democrats socialist or "commies," as a sweaty Lindsey Graham did. There's the campaign: commies and coloreds. They really did make it 1960 again.
Hell, yesterday, Trump went back to his political origin of saying that other countries send their criminals here to seek asylum. In a cabinet meeting, while doing the supposedly official business of the supposed United States, Trump said, "Why would Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, why would they keep their criminals when you can put them into the caravan, lose them in a caravan, and send them up to the United States. We take everybody because the Democrats don’t allow immigration laws that mean anything. It’s horrible. It’s horrible."
As a counterpoint, here's how a mother from Honduras described the circumstances that forced them to leave their home: "The family fled Honduras after Tania witnessed her mother get killed. Her sister-in-law also was a witness and was later kidnapped, tortured and slain to keep her from testifying. The gang MS-13 then posted a note on the family's door telling them they had 45 minutes to leave, Tania said. That's when the family left to seek asylum in the U.S." Yeah, it is horrible. Just not in the way our simpering racist prick of aresident
says it is. And his very approach, his very words are more anti-American
than a million socialist candidates demanding that this nation take
care of its people like nearly every other nation on earth.
Let me personalize this: I fucking love my neighborhood. I love the black women artists who live downstairs from me who. I love the Latino kids who ride their bikes up and down the street with rap music on old school boomboxes playing. I love the Indian family across the street who have a disabled son whose Chinese bus driver is always overjoyed to see. I love the Dominican family behind me who have parties that always end up with musicians playing amazing tunes. I love the young Puerto Rican parents who have a car with a license frame that says, "My other car is the Tardis." I love the white people who showed up to offer comfort to the Pakistani owner of the corner bodega when his father died. It ain't perfect. We've had crime and fights and everything (although that's changed since the neighborhood has become even more diverse). But I fucking love this America. I don't know who is here legally or illegally. And I don't give a shit. I just care that we all treat each other with respect. If you don't love this, too, then you don't love this country.
That's worth fighting for. That's worth pissing off the mythical "White Working Class" (which doesn't seem to contain all those working class voters who think Trump's full of shit). That's worth having the political race war the GOP has been aching to have and has been having since 1980. Let's have this throw down the nation has needed since the civil rights era. Let's define who we are and try to finally be absolutely fucking clear about it.
Call it like many of us have been saying for years now: If you support Donald Trump, you're racist. And fuck you. Double fuck you if you think calling you "racist" is racist, you dumb motherfuckers. And triple fuck you if you think anyone who doesn't want to get face-fucked by Donald Trump hates this country and should leave. You assholes aren't leaving over the Affordable Care Act, which is the law of the land. You assholes didn't leave over same-sex marriage. You put on your asshole hats and tried to change it. Which is the exact same thing that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib are trying to do (minus the asshole hats and with smarter tweets).
Make this election explicitly about the meaning of America, Democrats. This is our chance to take the plot of this story back from Republicans, who have controlled the narrative for most of the last three generations. Do we stand with diversity as our strength or do we stand with white nationalism? Do we stand with the right to dissent or obeisance to a leader? Jesus, we already have to get over the bar of our current racism. If it turns out that most of the country wants to be more racist and more in the thrall of a fucking moron and his moronic policies and the moronic, racist party that props up his saggy orange ass, then we'll at least be able to be fucking honest about it.
And then we can decide if fighting on is worth it or if we want to leave.
(Note: This was supposed to be part 2 of something I started last week, but, well, then this shit started. It's coming.)
At least now Democrats can stop fucking pretending that there is any reasoning with Republicans or anyone on the right at this point. By refusing to condemn
At this point, Donald Trump could yell, "Nigger!" on Fifth Avenue and wouldn't lose any voters. And Republicans would blame whichever black person it was directed at.
Conservatives like to decry what they say is "identity politics;" that is, making policies and running candidates to appeal to a certain racial, ethnic, religious, or other background. But the GOP's appeal to white nationalists and to the idiot hordes that comprise its base is more clearly identity politics than anything Democrats have done. 'Cause, see, Trump and those who suckle at Trump's orange man teats get their votes almost exclusively from white people. By contrast, Ilhan Omar was elected with 78% of the vote in a district that is two-thirds white. I fucking guarantee you that Republican Representative Steve Scalise didn't get shit for non-white votes. But we're supposed to pretend that Omar is dividing Americans. Fuck that.
The right has been aching for a political race war. With their explicit support of Trump's "Go back to your country," now supposedly not racist "If you're not happy here, you can leave," as well as rallying around demonizing Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashid Tlaib, Republicans have tied their 2020 strategy to this racist fuckery. The four progressives are the new welfare queen, the new Willie Horton, the new Mexican rapists. And they are folding that into the oldest fucking act in the conservative book: calling Democrats socialist or "commies," as a sweaty Lindsey Graham did. There's the campaign: commies and coloreds. They really did make it 1960 again.
Hell, yesterday, Trump went back to his political origin of saying that other countries send their criminals here to seek asylum. In a cabinet meeting, while doing the supposedly official business of the supposed United States, Trump said, "Why would Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador, why would they keep their criminals when you can put them into the caravan, lose them in a caravan, and send them up to the United States. We take everybody because the Democrats don’t allow immigration laws that mean anything. It’s horrible. It’s horrible."
As a counterpoint, here's how a mother from Honduras described the circumstances that forced them to leave their home: "The family fled Honduras after Tania witnessed her mother get killed. Her sister-in-law also was a witness and was later kidnapped, tortured and slain to keep her from testifying. The gang MS-13 then posted a note on the family's door telling them they had 45 minutes to leave, Tania said. That's when the family left to seek asylum in the U.S." Yeah, it is horrible. Just not in the way our simpering racist prick of a
Let me personalize this: I fucking love my neighborhood. I love the black women artists who live downstairs from me who. I love the Latino kids who ride their bikes up and down the street with rap music on old school boomboxes playing. I love the Indian family across the street who have a disabled son whose Chinese bus driver is always overjoyed to see. I love the Dominican family behind me who have parties that always end up with musicians playing amazing tunes. I love the young Puerto Rican parents who have a car with a license frame that says, "My other car is the Tardis." I love the white people who showed up to offer comfort to the Pakistani owner of the corner bodega when his father died. It ain't perfect. We've had crime and fights and everything (although that's changed since the neighborhood has become even more diverse). But I fucking love this America. I don't know who is here legally or illegally. And I don't give a shit. I just care that we all treat each other with respect. If you don't love this, too, then you don't love this country.
That's worth fighting for. That's worth pissing off the mythical "White Working Class" (which doesn't seem to contain all those working class voters who think Trump's full of shit). That's worth having the political race war the GOP has been aching to have and has been having since 1980. Let's have this throw down the nation has needed since the civil rights era. Let's define who we are and try to finally be absolutely fucking clear about it.
Call it like many of us have been saying for years now: If you support Donald Trump, you're racist. And fuck you. Double fuck you if you think calling you "racist" is racist, you dumb motherfuckers. And triple fuck you if you think anyone who doesn't want to get face-fucked by Donald Trump hates this country and should leave. You assholes aren't leaving over the Affordable Care Act, which is the law of the land. You assholes didn't leave over same-sex marriage. You put on your asshole hats and tried to change it. Which is the exact same thing that Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Pressley, and Tlaib are trying to do (minus the asshole hats and with smarter tweets).
Make this election explicitly about the meaning of America, Democrats. This is our chance to take the plot of this story back from Republicans, who have controlled the narrative for most of the last three generations. Do we stand with diversity as our strength or do we stand with white nationalism? Do we stand with the right to dissent or obeisance to a leader? Jesus, we already have to get over the bar of our current racism. If it turns out that most of the country wants to be more racist and more in the thrall of a fucking moron and his moronic policies and the moronic, racist party that props up his saggy orange ass, then we'll at least be able to be fucking honest about it.
And then we can decide if fighting on is worth it or if we want to leave.
(Note: This was supposed to be part 2 of something I started last week, but, well, then this shit started. It's coming.)
Trump Is Afraid Of Her
After Trump continued his attack on four freshmen Congresswomen, the
crowd at Trump’s rally launched into a chant of “send her back!”
Lawrence O’Donnell discusses with Leonard Pitts, Jr., Yamiche Alcindor,
and Rep. Eric Swalwell.
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
DOES HE EVEN HIDE IT? Donald Trump WAS, IS, And WILL ALWAYS BE That Which His Supporters Deny!
Since Donald Trump's tweet about Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib there have been a lot of people
denying the obvious about the tweet. Here are examples of what should be
obvious to every single clear-eyed observer!
Republicans Are The Ones Who Hate America
Donald Trump believes that those who “hate” America should pack up and
leave, but that would mean that the entire Republican Party would have
to get out of the country. When you drill down to it, Republicans are
the ones who hate this country, and that is obvious through their
policies.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how Republicans disguise their hatred of this country as patriotism, and why we shouldn’t buy into their lies ever again.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how Republicans disguise their hatred of this country as patriotism, and why we shouldn’t buy into their lies ever again.
Trump’s Deranged Speech Shows He Must Be Impeached NOW
During a speech on Monday, Donald Trump doubled down on his xenophobic
comments about “The Squad,” going even further in his attacks on Ilhan
Omar. He linked the Congresswoman to extremist groups and claimed that
she hates members of certain religions, which isn’t rooted in reality at
all.
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how this latest speech proves that theresident is not mentally stable and must be removed
from office now.
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-goes-off-on-socialist-communist-rant-saying-democrats-are-pro-al-qaeda/
Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains how this latest speech proves that the
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-goes-off-on-socialist-communist-rant-saying-democrats-are-pro-al-qaeda/
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
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