Pelosi: Impeachment Is Moving Forward

[Jason Harvestdancer]

House, not president. House.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Randi Rhodes is reporting that all the ambassadors that purchased their position by donating to the Trump campaign are being instructed to fire all the career employees under them.

Bonespurs is cleaning house of all those who may report on his wrongdoing.

In 1985, they caught John Walker spying. In the investigation, they learned that there were all sorts of things he did that should have clued people in to his illicit activities.
Cameras in the classified work space, lots of cash, short trips... he also did his own security checks on himself.
Since 1986, security has gotten a lot stricter. Every year, handling classified gets more difficult.
And every day since 1987, my workspaces have included at least one poster saying, 'IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.' So if you see someone with one of these markers, have someone look into it. There may be an innocent explanation, or someone may need a stern talking to, or they nay be an actual security risk. Not for you to say, but there are people whose job it is.

Now?

Fuck it. Anyone who knows how to do the job, how to protect the nation and our interests, your job, and Natl. interests, are worth less than the Orange Shitgibbon's convenience.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

Despite the acquittal, I'm proud of the Democrats for going through with this. They did the right thing. Good for Romney too for a very historic act. Even if he's popular in Utah, it still showed integrity.

I wonder what impeachable crimes Trump is doing now.

He should surely be tried and impeached for masturbating in his shower!

Always the high road. Refreshing indeed.

 

[ZiprHead]

Randi Rhodes is reporting that all the ambassadors that purchased their position by donating to the Trump campaign are being instructed to fire all the career employees under them.

Bonespurs is cleaning house of all those who may report on his wrongdoing.

In 1985, they caught John Walker spying. In the investigation, they learned that there were all sorts of things he did that should have clued people in to his illicit activities.
Cameras in the classified work space, lots of cash, short trips... he also did his own security checks on himself.
Since 1986, security has gotten a lot stricter. Every year, handling classified gets more difficult.
And every day since 1987, my workspaces have included at least one poster saying, 'IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING.' So if you see someone with one of these markers, have someone look into it. There may be an innocent explanation, or someone may need a stern talking to, or they nay be an actual security risk. Not for you to say, but there are people whose job it is.

Now?

Fuck it. Anyone who knows how to do the job, how to protect the nation and our interests, your job, and Natl. interests, are worth less than the Orange Shitgibbon's convenience.

At Embassies Abroad, Trump Envoys Are Quietly Pushing Out Career Diplomats

Just to post a good source for the news.

Lana Marks is a successful fashion designer and member of U.S. President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Though she has no prior diplomatic experience, Marks is also Trump’s ambassador to South Africa, and last month she forced out her second in command, the veteran career foreign service officer David Young.

Multiple current and former officials familiar say issues at the embassy arose over disputed accounts of the ambassador pushing for her son to take on an elevated role with the embassy. A senior embassy official, speaking on condition of anonymity, vehemently denies these claims, calling them “totally inaccurate” and saying Young’s departure was a separate issue.

To some current officials, Young’s case illustrated a growing trend in the Trump administration. Already, several of Trump’s political allies-turned-ambassadors—he has appointed a higher percentage than most previous presidents—have sacked their deputies amid a culture of mistrust between politically appointed and career State Department officials.

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning has begun.

 

[Jarhyn]

Despite the acquittal, I'm proud of the Democrats for going through with this. They did the right thing. Good for Romney too for a very historic act. Even if he's popular in Utah, it still showed integrity.

I wonder what impeachable crimes Trump is doing now.

He should surely be tried and impeached for masturbating in his shower!

Always the high road. Refreshing indeed.

It was said quite well near the end of a Very Famous TV Netflix Show: there is no such thing as rock bottom; every time you start to think that, there's another lower, rockier bottom below that last one.

 

[Patooka]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning purge has begun.

Fixed it for you. I mean, for someone who rallies against communism and socialism so much it's interesting to see how much Trump emulates Stalin

 

[ZiprHead]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning purge has begun.

Fixed it for you. I mean, for someone who rallies against communism and socialism so much it's interesting to see how much Trump emulates Stalin

The rest of this year is going to be a pivotal moment in this nation's history.

 

[Patooka]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning purge has begun.

Fixed it for you. I mean, for someone who rallies against communism and socialism so much it's interesting to see how much Trump emulates Stalin

The rest of this year is going to be a pivotal moment in this nation's history.

Relax, I'm sure Trump has learned his lesson.

 

[ZiprHead]

The rest of this year is going to be a pivotal moment in this nation's history.

Relax, I'm sure Trump has learned his lesson.

I almost want to have him do something just to see the egg on these idiots faces.

[YOUTUBE]https://youtu.be/03jcrOSwYx4[/YOUTUBE]

 

[ZiprHead]

It's now being called the Friday Night Massacre.

 

[ZiprHead]

(e) Whoever knowingly, with the intent to retaliate, takes any action harmful to any person, including interference with the lawful employment or livelihood of any person, for providing to a law enforcement officer any truthful information relating to the commission or possible commission of any Federal offense, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.

(f) Whoever conspires to commit any offense under this section shall be subject to the same penalties as those prescribed for the offense the commission of which was the object of the conspiracy.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1513?#.Xj4Uo3DdrMc.facebook

Committing more crimes right out in the open.

 

[lpetrich]

Trump impeachment trial: What's not on TV, including sleeping senators

The official camera in the Senate has stayed locked on those speaking, leaving everything else happening in the chamber – and outside it – unseen by TV viewers.

Throughout the trial, senators have dozed off, passed notes, munched on snacks and sometimes laughed or shaken their heads in disapproval. Here's some of what else you couldn't see if you've watched the trial on TV.

A wide smile spread across South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott's face last Tuesday as he read the note passed to him by his deskmate, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. The two shared a quiet giggle as they passed messages back and forth, something that has become common at the all-day proceedings.

They were told that they must remain quiet, but that did not preclude sending notes to each other.

They did crossword puzzles, fidgeted with fidget spinners, napped, yawned, wandered about the floor, ate snacks, shook their heads, rolled their eyes, and laughed.

However, just about everyone was quiet for Rep. Adam Schiff's closing statement.

"Whether we can say it publicly, we all know what we're dealing with here with this president. Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies. ... That makes him dangerous. ... Why would anyone in their right mind believe Giuliani over Christopher Wray?" Schiff asked the senators, mentioning the president's attorney and the FBI director.

In response, McConnell stared straight ahead while Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer peeked at his GOP colleagues. Many sat motionless, watching Schiff.

A member of the public sitting in a balcony overlooking the chamber wiped his eyes with a handkerchief. The rest of the gallery appeared intrigued, leaning into Schiff’s testimony as he became more impassioned.

“Because right matters. And the truth matters. Otherwise, we are lost,” Schiff concluded to a silent chamber.

As he walked out of the room after the Senate adjourned, many of his Democratic colleagues expressed to him that he had done his job well. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., shouted “Adam!” and gave him a thumbs up.

 

[Trausti]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning purge has begun.

Fixed it for you. I mean, for someone who rallies against communism and socialism so much it's interesting to see how much Trump emulates Stalin

A president is entitled to have the cabinet and advisors he trusts. Obama sweeped out all the ambassadors when he came in. He fired a NSC advisor caught tweeting crticism of his policy in 2013. No outcry then.

 

[lpetrich]

President Trump impeachment trial: Read senators' handwritten notes

Jon Tester wrote about the need to call witnesses “NOW.” Tina Smith scribbled “protecting the election” – and underlined it. With a blue pen, Tim Scott declared “What a hot mess!”

They weren't allowed phones or computers, so they had to record their thoughts the old-fashioned way. Two of them:

Jon Tester, D-MT

He penned a quote from lead House impeachment manager Adam Schiff, D-Calif. on the need for more information, including from top Trump aides: “Senate needs to subpoena evidence and witnesses NOW to further get info on the president’s actions further explaining the president’s actions, including Mulvaney, Duffy, Blair, Pompeo, Perry, Bolton.”

“President claims no testimony because it violates National Security – the very National Security that Trump violated," (Trump's lawyers) “Impeachment is an abuse of power." (what the House did) “Held onto impeachment articles 33 days.”

Tim Scott, R-SC

“Impeachment is a weapon of last resort,” Scott wrote.

He also put down three Fs: fairness, fiction and fabrication: For fairness, he asserted that the trial had a "fundamental lack" of it; for fiction, he noted the proceeding “hangs on Schiff’s acting skills, not the facts;" and for fabrications, he wrote the proceedings equaled “100% deception.”

At the end of the page, a final thought was underlined, “What a hot mess!”

 

[Keith&Co.]

Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman

The housecleaning purge has begun.

Fixed it for you. I mean, for someone who rallies against communism and socialism so much it's interesting to see how much Trump emulates Stalin

A president is entitled to have the cabinet and advisors he trusts. Obama sweeped out all the ambassadors when he came in. He fired a NSC advisor caught tweeting crticism of his policy in 2013. No outcry then.

Right, because people who tell the truth, under oath, cannot be trusted by this assclown.

Interestingly, though, if he says he doesn't know them, never spoke to them, do they really qualify as cabinet or advisor?

 

[angelo]

A president is entitled to have the cabinet and advisors he trusts. Obama sweeped out all the ambassadors when he came in. He fired a NSC advisor caught tweeting crticism of his policy in 2013. No outcry then.

Right, because people who tell the truth, under oath, cannot be trusted by this assclown.

Interestingly, though, if he says he doesn't know them, never spoke to them, do they really qualify as cabinet or advisor?

You failed to address the question! Why wasn't there an uproar whem Obuma sweeped out the WH of unwanted diplomats and advisers?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

A president is entitled to have the cabinet and advisors he trusts. Obama sweeped out all the ambassadors when he came in. He fired a NSC advisor caught tweeting crticism of his policy in 2013. No outcry then.

Right, because people who tell the truth, under oath, cannot be trusted by this assclown.

Interestingly, though, if he says he doesn't know them, never spoke to them, do they really qualify as cabinet or advisor?

You failed to address the question! Why wasn't there an uproar whem Obuma sweeped out the WH of unwanted diplomats and advisers?

Because that is typical. Which is kind of the madness with the Ukrainian Ambassador. That Giuliani and Parnas were harassing her to the point she needed higher security... when Trump could have simply reassigned her with little to no notice.

And now what Trump just did with Sondland and Vindman isn’t common at all. I guess we should be happy a real dictator or mob boss would have off’d them. Low bars in the US.

 

[Elixir]

I guess we should be happy a real dictator or mob boss would have off’d them. Low bars in the US.

Yeah, that's what we have to settle for with the thieving bastard in the White House.
I don't recall Obama going on TV or standing on the WH lawn screaming like a crazy person about the people he "let go".
I also don't recall Obama saying he was going to hire "the best people" then all of them ending up in jail, and Obama warning them not to be "flippers" and rats. I also don't recall Obama firing every single person who told the truth about him.

 

[Keith&Co.]

You failed to address the question!

maybe because there was no question asked in the post you quoted me as quoting. There was a claim. The claim makes no sense as a defense of the Orange Shitgibbon's leadership. He cannot trust people who are literally more trustworthy than his own family?