It may seem like this is fishing for dirt on Trump, but the myriad mistakes made in the run-up to this (not to mention the rank criminality) tells me that this promises to make Ukraine look like jaywalking in Beaver Cleaver’s neighborhood.
And the more they hide, the worse it will look.
Schiff is not a Drama King.
Btw, Schiff is not only doing his oversight duty but showing us just how to teach a dog, in case that’s useful to you. You give the dog a, let us say, firm correction every time it misbehaves. It will learn sooner or later, depending on the dog, except for certain dogs that are hopeless.
It’s worth asking how secure is the golf course against a rifle some terrorist could buy anywhere in the US.
Pompeo is a Dominionist who would be willing to blow up the planet so that he can meet his invisible cloud being.
Mr. Pompeo talks about the rapture. “We will continue to fight these battles,” he said at a “God and Country Rally” in 2015, because there is a “never-ending struggle” until “the rapture.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/politics/pompeo-christian-policy.html
Or to use the short version (h/t Larry Wilmore) he cray.
Pretty sure we’re dealing with a dog that chases the skunk every time here…
I’m not sure I could take it, but it makes sense. Everything we see initially with tRump is always just the tip, and news comes out and it becomes an avalanche. Avalanches often overtake and kill people.
And also, one hopes, Pompeo’s Benghazi. What comes around, goes around (sound of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chuckling in the background.)
Here we go. With his order to assassinate Soleimani?
Trump thought he could scrape the stink of impeachment off his shoe.
Instead he stomps on a flaming bag of impeachment Dems left on his doorstep.
jw1
I had friends who had a dog like that. They brought it to a week-long group vacay on Cape Cod and at least twice the damn thing came running up excitedly and broke up the after-dinner chatter and we had to leap up and go on tomato-juice runs and scrub the damn thing in the estuary. The dog died before it could become president but obviously the potential was there.
That whole 35 years-old rule is discrimination against canines (and felines).
Yes. Pompeo is the man behind the curtain on this one. It all fits with his Christer dominionist belief that a war in the middle east will bring the end times and he and Bill Barr and all the rest of their Christo fascist ilk will be taken to heaven leaving the rest of us behind to suffer for eternity. Yeah, they really believe this. I always wonder why they think the rapture is yet to come. It may have already happened and they and all the rest of us are already suffering in “left behind” eternal damnation. That seems more likely, especially these days. Why are they so sure they haven’t already been left behind?:
As bad as the assassination was, the run-up to it has mountains of incompetence, mixed with cunning on a barbaric scale, nearly all against established laws, norms and procedures.
He will Obstruct, of course. And we all remember what happened the last time.
If the mental image of a fat idiot golfing and cheating while his armed forces carry out a public assassination of a foreign leader doesn’t scream dangerous loose cannon dictator to the rest of the world, I am not sure what does. Even Putin has the discretion to poison his enemies instead of dropping a bomb on them and then bragging about it.
The only thing that is sure at this point is that Trump will take this ill-conceived blunder and somehow make it much worse.
Not in dog/cat years!
I was having dinner last Sunday at the home of friends who let their “cute” spaniel jump up on the couches, scratch and nip at the hands of sitting guests - some of them petrified - as he tried to worm his way onto their laps. When I sat down he did the same to me, but I lifted him down to the floor. He was back up in a flash (thought it was a game, no doubt) and tried again. This time I put a finger in his face, said “NO!” in a firm voice, and put him down again. He cowered and slunk away. The gentleman of the house said: “Winston is allowed on the furniture in this house” and I replied “But not on my lap when I am sitting here. Shall I leave?” The dog was relegated to a bedroom, much to the relief of other guests, and we had a lovely evening. It may be my last at Winston’s place.
Schiff said “the intelligence he has seen”. As far as I know, Benedict Donald and the IC have been freezing Schiff out. Maybe that can be another Impeachment Article.
Maybe he had to come up with something extreme or he risked being fired from his position. Oh, well, now they’re joined at the hip, partners in crime.
Then somebody should take out Bush and Cheney, if that’s the international standard.
Old Fart One in Golf Cart One unifies Iran behind Ayatollah Ali Khamenei by the premeditated assassination of an envoy on a diplomatic mission. No Mulligan on this one.
I seem to remember some humor writer brought this up, theorizing that some little old lady named Susan (I’m making up the name because I don’t remember the details) disappeared one day and that clearly was the sum total of the Rapture. It seems like a [Douglas] Adamsian thing, but it could be from any number of writers.
But the whole thing is ludicrous on its face. It’s not based on any “biblical” precept. There’s nothing in the Bible that says there will be a “rapture.” It’s all based on certain Protestant sects’ interpretations of Revelation and other prophesies. But it’s purely an interpretation since Revelation reads more like the results from a bad batch of shrooms, than it actually provides a clear blueprint of how the world will end.
It’s especially ironic that it comes from Protestant beliefs since going back and “reading the Bible” was one of their big things for splitting from Roman Catholicism. The Catholics were having the priests interpret the words for the rank-and-file believers, so Martin Luther and John Calvin (with the aid of the printing press) said the people should be able to read and understand it themselves.
But other than denying the divinity of the Pope, most of the Protestant sects have fallen back on the same basic flaws that they attacked the Catholics for. The preachers and deacons (or whatever they choose to call themselves) tell the followers what the Bible means and the followers accept it (whether it be the Rapture or who will be/is saved). Heavens forfend if people were to actually critically examine the words they purport to base their worldviews on (and possibly realized that they just a contradictory collection of bronze-age stories, most of which lack any archaeological evidence to support them as fact).