I believe his official role is to be one of 100 ‘jurors’.
However, you can bet Yertle will be as obstructionist as possible, even in that role.
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Not depressed, just alarmed at the vileness of the corruption. And there’s more to be revealed, and it will be worse. We are seeing the full shittiness of the sewer that is Trump, Putin and their enablers in the Republican party.
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I’ve spent a portion of my morning on social media telling Trumpsters who are flinging the crybaby and snowflake names around that we’ll see how the crybabies and snowflakes are when the orange jumpsuits are issued. That’ll show who exactly the whiners are.
And the biggest one will go to this guy.
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Well, if one isn’t going to abandon ship, the remaining rats will cling to whomever is still aboard.
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Donald Trump defended his decision to withdraw US troops from Syria and enable a Turkish offensive against US-backed Kurdish fighters in the region by noting the Kurds didn’t fight alongside the US in the second world war.
The US president told reporters that the Kurds “didn’t help us in the second world war, they didn’t help us with Normandy as an example – they mention the names of different battles, they weren’t there”, in a staggering comment following the signing of executive orders on federal regulation at the White House on Wednesday.
There are no words.
@ncsteve @cervantes
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You just don’t appreciate his sense of humor.
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We probably need to be more concerned with Roberts at that point.
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Yeah I know and that’s exactly what needed to happen. We can’t clean it up if we can’t see it.
I knew it was everywhere but Pete Sessions? Hahahahahahahahahahahaha
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I wish that on both Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham. This story also explains Graham’s weird and inappropriate attempt to get all the GOP Senators to condemn the Ukraine matter as grounds for impeachment. Trump has to be calling him several times a day as well, and Graham isn’t as tough-minded as McConnell.
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That was my thought as well, especially with the planned withdrawal from the Open Skies treaty (I still don’t understand how a treaty has to be approved by 2/3 of the Senate but can be revoked unilaterally by a president). There’s no reason for it except as a gift to Russia. Trying to cram every betrayal in ASAP in case he actually is removed.
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No president can withdraw unilaterally from any treaty ratified by the Senate. Such treaties are, according to the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, and as such require that both houses of Congress repeal them.
Congress, however—especially under GOP control—has abdicated a lot of its responsibility to the office of the president.
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I think he’s been throwing everything he can at Putin’s wall hoping something sticks and Putin rescues him
Putin ain’t rescuing anybody. hahahaha
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“This story denial, based on a single anonymous immeasurably biased source, is categorically false,” he told CNN didn’t mention.
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Or the day he does take the call to say, “Dude, you’re toast. Pack it in and resign already, 'cause we’re not going down with with.” (Yes, they are, actually).
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Several things:
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McConnell has made some relevant statements. I’d disregard them, not only because he lies through his teeth but also because …
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The Senate can change its rules at any time, and it takes only a simple majority to do so. For example, here’s a potential new rule: “A majority of the Senate has to vote to begin a trial.”
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Changes in Senate trial rules are not reviewable by anyone else, not even the Supreme Court.
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Under current rules, Senators do not actually take part in the trial, and this includes the Majority Leader. In the trial, they do not ask questions, they do not speak, they do not offer arguments – they have one active role only: to vote at the end. Obviously, they (and this includes McConnell) can use the media, privately lobby other Senators, privately engage in strong-arming, privately make deals, and so on.
There’s more, but I have to stop.
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This reminds me of the Underpants Gnomes business model on South Park.
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This is from a website called www.abovetopsecret.com:
"The Kurds comprised a significant part of the Iraq Levies that sought to overthrow the pro-Nazi regime there. They were later absorbed by the RAF and deployed to Albania, Italy, and Greece.
"There was also a large number of Kurds in the Red Army, including a number of very highly decorated soldiers.
"Then there was the Soviet backed Kurdish Republic of Mahabad in Iran. While the Republic only officially existed in 1946, they held territory in northern Iran starting in 1941.
“The Kurds definitely supported the Allies throughout WWII and distinguished themselves in a number of theatres. Anyone that tries to assert anything else is clearly ignorant of history.”
But, definitely not at Normandy.
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Moron’s taking his show on the road today, this time to Minneapolis where he’s already engaged in a kerfuffle with the MSP mayor about costs surrounding the rally. The rally rubes will get the truth as only the moron can deliver it, and it will involve lawless Democrats being unfair and Kurds not storming the beaches at Normandy.
He denounced Jacob Frey as a “Radical Left” lightweight and blasted the Democrat for a police policy banning officers from wearing their uniforms in support of political candidates. He sprinkled in a reference to his favorite foil — the city’s Rep. Ilhan Omar — just for good measure.
“Yawn,” Frey tweeted back. “Welcome to Minneapolis where we pay our bills, we govern with integrity, and we love all of our neighbors.”
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up 11 points among Democrats, 5 points among Republicans and 3 among independents. Support also went up among some of Trump’s key constituencies, including white evangelical Christians (+5 points), white men without a college degree (+8), and rural whites (+10).
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CNN reports that Spankee is barely sleeping these days. Good – he has given most of us anxiety and many sleepness nights, especially during the period right after the 2016 election,
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