Wyden is one to watch. IIRC, Wyden asked very pointed questions about spying on Americans that Clapper flat out lied about. He knew he was being lied to at the time and, in hindsight, it was obvious from his follow up questions. So he has experience using an open session to ask questions he already knows the answer to in order to break stories the administration is trying to hide.
If heâs asking questions out of left field Iâm inclined to trust that he knows thereâs a big issue thatâs worth digging into
concerns that the Trump administration is finding ways to soft-pedal its enforcement of Russian sanctions to avoid alienating Putin
Well, we seem to have stumbled upon the one thing this administration is doing effectively.
One can only admire Wydenâs doggedness!
Gee, why would the maladministration classify so much of this report? Obviously a mistake that we can now expect to be remedied in short order.
Woof! Woof!
Moochinâ Mnuchin copied and pasted the list out of a Forbes magazine article- how âclassifiedâ could it be? And Mnuchin DID have to employ a couple of bold mouse clicks to get it done. Then he took a selfie and sent it to Mrs. Bond Villain.
Run for office- and run FOR something! Donât just run against Trump. Youâll either be preaching to the choir or confirming, in some peopleâs minds, that âthe elitesâ are out to get their man.
Get REAL specific, too. You want to run on jobs or healthcare reform or the new landfill? You must have a plan. THEN you can point out the difference between having a plan and promising to work on a plan sometime in the future.
This site, https://www.runforoffice.org/, allows you to enter your ZIP code and see what offices are available to you and the filing window for that office. They also have a few video short-courses on running a campaign. In my state you file for office during a 1-week period in May, just three months from now.
Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes itâs a Ward officer. Meet your neighbors and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.
Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump, and half of all voters stayed home last November. Todayâs 10-year olds will be voting for President in 8 years.
Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly. And get on your Planning Commission.
Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020 when weâll redraw Congressional Districts. Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census- talk about âvoter fraudâ!
Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led Voter run around help them do that. This site, https://www.aauw.org/resource/organize-a-voter-registration-drive/, has a how-to on organizing a voter registration drive. Or even sitting outside Wal Mart with a folding chair and a card table.
Civics, civility and civilization all share the same roots. Get crackinâ!
âA day before the January 30 deadline to produce the report, Treasury issued a bare list of Russian billionaires that it acknowledged had been taken from Forbes magazine.â
âAn inspector general report later identified the list as the closing credits from the 1965 film âDoctor Zhivagoâ.â
Socked, I say. Trump protecting Ruskie oligarchs in the White House? So shocking!
Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin said there was a classified annex to the report that Treasury would use to punish oligarchs closely aligned with Putin, per the billâs mandate. Mnuchin said that could happen as soon as February.
Hmmm given how donnie doesnât actually want to punish big daddy vlad and his buddies, this annex is probably a blank sheet of paper that was classified in an attempt to hide the fact that no Russians are actually being sanctioned. No names, no one to punish.
Did anyone see the original list ? They are probably the real bad boys - and how many had relations to âthat manâ ?
The Forbes thing is just a trick to conceal the baddies.
They classified a LIST of the Oligarchs in Russia? What am I missing?
I like it!
Couldnât just âlikeâ thisâŚthat earned a literal LOL so must be acknowledged. That is, after all, my âLOL Ruleâ
Thanks, âDadâ!!!
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