Predisent Donald J. Skroob: Episode X: Purple Raining to Impeachment

[mallister]

Rick Perry resigning.

[mallister]

...we may have known this already. Sorry if already posted. I cant fucking keep up.

[djzombie]

What a fucking asshole, says genocide is "tough love that was needed at the beginning." thanks Turkey and calls this an "incredible outcome".

[Eurell]

Holy shit opening with a ty. Jesus fuck.

[Tyrath]

What a little bitch.

[AoE]

It's sad that we must have plenty of troops who worked with the Kurds, and yet the average military people are still keeping quiet about all this.

There is no limit to how far they will go to protect Trump

To be fair we were discouraged from discussing political issues publicly. Also a lot of dudes who join are either too young or too left in the dark to properly understand what's going on. The people who are in the know will let you know how they feel about it and I guarantee they agree with you but they won't do it it publicly.

[Tyche]

Just a schoolyard fight, ya know, with rapes and beheadings!

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And with napalm and other banned weapons Iiterally burning small children. From a fucking NATO country. But hey, our president bends to him like a bitch and calls him a friend and a great leader.

I wouldn't recommend clicking that link. Just a heads up.

[Salodin]

I hope the media picks up on it. I feel like they're gonna get distracted by the next Doral or something

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[archibaldcrane]

https://twitter.com/jakesNYT/status/...909550593?s=19

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[Gabai]

I found the Puerto Rican corruption guartz was referencing, it was 2 government officials and 2 accomplices who helped friends get government construction contracts totaling about $15M.

I'm not saying that isn't corruption but I'm working on a case right now involving over $60M in fraud related to government contracts from a single company and it's not the largest one I've been a part of in the last year alone so maybe it's just that our definitions of "massive" are different.

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As someone who has a fairly good idea of what’s going on in PR:

1. PR gvt is extremely corrupt and has been for as long as I have been alive.

2. The most recent case of corruption that I can think of was perpetrated by an mainland FEMA director and a mainland CEO, not by the govt (not that this doesn’t exist)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...erto-rico.html

3. The recent protests and dismissal of the governor had very little to do with any of this. The protests mostly centered around a string of homophobic and shitty telegram messages featuring the governor and his buddies.

4. The video posted above is fucking stupid.

[Gredival]

You guys really need to stop having fake news interpret reality for you.

"One instrument of Republican efforts to distract from this difficult question involves Hunter Biden, the son of the former vice president and, more to the point, current Democratic presidential candidate. It is possible to believe both that Hunter Biden’s up-to-$50,000-a-month deal with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma traded inappropriately on family connections and to understand that the pressure campaign mounted on Ukraine by Trump and his minions to investigate the Bidens was an impeachable offense.

Another is the assertion, peddled Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Beat With Ari Melber” by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, that the president’s conduct did not violate any “rule, law or statute” and therefore does not constitute an impeachable offense. This is doubly wrong. First, it is clear that conduct can be a “high crime or misdemeanor” without meeting the precise elements of a criminal offense. Second, even if not necessary, it would be entirely possible to fit Trump’s conduct within the framework of criminal law — for example, soliciting something of value to his campaign from a foreign government.

Other diversions are now underway: Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s Deep State sputtering over Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, as if the former FBI officials had anything to do with Trump’s handling of Ukraine; faux legalistic hand-wringing over relying on hearsay and confronting accusers, as if such protections were relevant at the evidence-gathering stage. Meanwhile, the White House has weighed in with a belligerent eight-page letter refusing to cooperate with what it claims is a “constitutionally invalid” impeachment inquiry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...31d_story.html

[Cail]

No info yet, and I dont feel like searching but WaPo just put out that G7 summit will no longer be at Doral

[Salodin]

Between Mulvaney walking his "we do quid pro quo all the time" and now trump walking the g7 back, that whole press conference was a waste yet somehow added to the impeachment inquiry lmao

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[6souls]

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2019/1...or-rally-texts

The Trump campaign is being sued, again, for sending unsolicited mass texts to non-donors/supporters in MN. They did this before in IL during the 2016 campaign.

Dan Pederson, Connor Olsen and Shell Wheeler, all registered Democrats, filed the lawsuit in federal court on Friday. They said they’ve never donated to Trump or consented to being sent text messages. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act bans auto-dialing text messages without user consent.

“The transmission of an unsolicited text message to a cellular device is distracting and aggravating to the recipient; intrudes upon the recipient’s seclusion; wastes a quantifiable amount of available data on the recipient’s cellular device, thereby reducing its data storage capacity,” the lawsuit reads.

The plaintiffs are seeking class action status, a jury trial and $1,500 in damages for each text message sent out without the individual’s consent.

[6souls]

Where did this come from? Because Trump moved Troops from Syria to Saudi Arabia = Bringing home the troops?

*Iraq & Syria

https://news.yahoo.com/defense-chief...024248227.html

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says that under the current plan all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the military will continue to conduct operations against the Islamic State group to prevent its resurgence.

Speaking to reporters traveling with him to the Middle East, Esper did not rule out the idea that U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria.

His comments were the first to specifically lay out where American troops will go as they leave Syria and what the counter-IS fight could look like. Esper said he has spoken to his Iraqi counterpart about the plan to shift the more than 700 troops leaving Syria into western Iraq.

The developments made clear that one of President Donald Trump's rationales for withdrawing troops from Syria was not going to come to pass any time soon. "It's time to bring our soldiers back home," he said Wednesday. But they are not coming home.

Between 200 and 300 U.S. troops will remain at the southern Syrian outpost of Al-Tanf.

[Dimmauk]

*Iraq & Syria

https://news.yahoo.com/defense-chief...024248227.html

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriff...eet-syria.html

[guartz]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...31d_story.html

ok let me point out some things to you right from the place you quoted:

"One instrument of Republican efforts to distract from this difficult question involves Hunter Biden, the son of the former vice president and, more to the point, current Democratic presidential candidate. It is possible to believe both that Hunter Biden’s up-to-$50,000-a-month deal with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma traded inappropriately on family connections and to understand that the pressure campaign mounted on Ukraine by Trump and his minions to investigate the Bidens was an impeachable offense.

Another is the assertion,peddled Monday night on MSNBC’s “The Beat With Ari Melber” by Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, that the president’s conduct did not violate any “rule, law or statute” and therefore does not constitute an impeachable offense. This is doubly wrong. First, it is clear that conduct can be a “high crime or misdemeanor” without meeting the precise elements of a criminal offense. Second, even if not necessary, it would be entirely possible to fit Trump’s conduct within the framework of criminal law — for example, soliciting something of value to his campaign from a foreign government.

Other diversions are now underway: Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s Deep State sputtering over Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, as if the former FBI officials had anything to do with Trump’s handling of Ukraine; faux legalistic hand-wringing over relying on hearsay and confronting accusers, as if such protections were relevant at the evidence-gathering stage. Meanwhile, the White House has weighed in with a belligerent eight-page letter refusing to cooperate with what it claims is a “constitutionally invalid” impeachment inquiry.

This is rhetoric of persuasion. This article is not written to inform you, but to persuade you.

Substance wise, it's clearly opinion.

[Byrthnoth]

Did /opinions/ in the URL not give it away?

Opinion pieces are distinguished from reporting in that they argue for an interpretation of the facts, not because they don't contain facts.

[Dimmauk]

Trump off his rocker yet again.

[Zealot]

How this time?

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