Wednesday Trump

[bowies]

Dworkin is a gullible dude who Republicans like to fuck with because he has a Twitter following.

[erbear]

I'm dying to show this in my class today. I showed the Kavanaugh hearing but this is different, I think, but I really want to

[miniroller]

In other news of Jerry Nadler kicking ass & taking names:
House Judiciary chairman says Whitaker will return to Capitol to clarify testimony
thehill.com/homenews/house/431745-house-judiciary-chair-says-whitaker-will-return-to-capitol-to-clarify?amp

Anybody else getting a perjury vibe..?🤞

[suburbanzookeeper]

I've been so so slammed lately but I'm petty enough to have rescheduled as much of my day as possible for maximum viewing/listening at my desk. Maddow is going to be lit AF tonight.

[glw]

Feb 27, 2019 9:26:21 GMT -5 robinsbff said:

bars in DC are opening early and serving drink specials all day. i kinda wish i had taken off to be a part of it all. lol.

Duffy's Irish Pub
:
"We have our special 'Flipper Cocktail' available only during the hearing. The ingredients are redacted but we can tell you that it is 100% PARDON FREE."

[pixy0stix]

Matt Gaetz half-heartedly tried to apologize, but couldn't quite get there (re: his tweet threatening Cohen) - www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/02/27/accused-witness-tampering-matt-gaetz-apologizes-deletes-tweet-insists-he-wasnt-threatening-cohen/

[BicycleBride]

Where is the best place to stream the testimony?

[heat40]

So the GOP are wanting to stop the hearing because Cohen sent his testimony late at night not 24 hours before.

A whole back and forth with moves to table the appeal then table again. They are now voting to table.

They are pissed and scared. Hahaha

[kdubs923]

Are we starting a new thread? Drama is starting already.

A republican rep, Meadows I think? Is moving to postpone because the written opening testimony was received late.

[dutchgirl678]

I'm watching WaPo stream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF0TO0yU834

Rs are currently trying to postpone the hearing because they didn't get the written testimony 24 hours in advance and they say it was deliberate.

[fuckyourcouch]

The GOP committee members sound desperate lol.
OH SUDDENLY YOU CARE ABOUT RULES?

[kdubs923]

I'm watching on CNN at the moment. go.cnn.com/?stream=cnn%3Fsr

I picked the wrong day to have a busy day. Sigh.

[rondonalddo]

Lawfare has the CSPAN livestream embedded, so that's what I have running it.

[pixy0stix]

NEW THREAD STARTED! pandce.proboards.com/thread/607507/cohen-testimony-thread

Pls repost the Rs theatrics there.

[aurora]

For any who can't stream video it looks like Daniel Dale will be love tweeting. He seems to have pretty fair reporting of 45's events in general.

I'm sure many news agencies will also live post.

[miniroller]

White House bans four journalists from covering Trump-Kim dinner because of shouted questions
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-bans-four-journalists-from-covering-trump-kim-dinner-because-of-shouted-questions/2019/02/27/36e1d26c-3a8d-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html
The White House abruptly banned four U.S. journalists from covering President Trump’s dinner here Wednesday with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un after some of them shouted questions at the leaders during their earlier meetings.

Reporters from the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, the Los Angeles Times and Reuters were excluded from covering the dinner because of what White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said were “sensitivities over shouted questions in the previous sprays.” Among the questions asked of Trump was one about the congressional testimony of his former lawyer Michael Cohen.

[cville]

Feb 27, 2019 8:56:45 GMT -5 miniroller said:

Feb 27, 2019 8:48:37 GMT -5 aurora said:

It's always smart to take it with a grain of salt. He's claiming to have hard evidence of some of it, so I suspect some is true.

I think the bigger issue is whether his enablers will do anything even if presented with hard evidence.

Absolutely agree. Just wanted to (hypothetically?) answer your last question IRT Matt Gaetz- NOPE. And I’m very fearful many (most?) will “loyally” follow suit.

Also wanted to share a snapshot from just a bit ago of #45 dining with his murderous dictator buddy, who’s elbow he’s fondly touching/ nudging while fondly beaming, as if they’re joking around. (When compared to body language with Trudeau, I feel squeamish)

OUR FLAG SHOULDN'T BE DISPLAYED EQUAL TO THEIRS. Ffs. That's a win for them. Isn't NO FUCKING FLAGS AN OPTION.

I hate him. He's destroying our credibility forever.

[bowies]

Has any enterprising reporter talked to the family of the young man who was tortured to death by KJU? They were alllll about Trump.

[StrawberryBlondie]

Feb 27, 2019 10:40:11 GMT -5 cville said:

Feb 27, 2019 8:56:45 GMT -5 miniroller said:

Absolutely agree. Just wanted to (hypothetically?) answer your last question IRT Matt Gaetz- NOPE. And I’m very fearful many (most?) will “loyally” follow suit.

Also wanted to share a snapshot from just a bit ago of #45 dining with his murderous dictator buddy, who’s elbow he’s fondly touching/ nudging while fondly beaming, as if they’re joking around. (When compared to body language with Trudeau, I feel squeamish)

OUR FLAG SHOULDN'T BE DISPLAYED EQUAL TO THEIRS. Ffs. That's a win for them. Isn't NO FUCKING FLAGS AN OPTION.

I hate him. He's destroying our credibility forever.

Right?

I'm not one that thinks the US is the best country ever by a long shot, but that makes me feel ill.

[ESF]

Feb 27, 2019 10:55:32 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Feb 27, 2019 10:40:11 GMT -5 cville said:

OUR FLAG SHOULDN'T BE DISPLAYED EQUAL TO THEIRS. Ffs. That's a win for them. Isn't NO FUCKING FLAGS AN OPTION.

I hate him. He's destroying our credibility forever.

Right?

I'm not one that thinks the US is the best country ever by a long shot, but that makes me feel ill.

Seriously. Kim Jong Il is responsible for the worst human rights abuses in our life time.

This picture is reprehensible.

It is no different than if FDR and Hitler went out for ice cream in 1944.

[dirtyred]

Feb 27, 2019 11:37:05 GMT -5 ESF said:

Feb 27, 2019 10:55:32 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Right?

I'm not one that thinks the US is the best country ever by a long shot, but that makes me feel ill.

Seriously. Kim Jong Il is responsible for the worst human rights abuses in our life time.

This picture is reprehensible.

It is no different than if FDR and Hitler went out for ice cream in 1944.

I'm using this quote.

[downtoearth]

Feb 27, 2019 11:37:05 GMT -5 ESF said:

Feb 27, 2019 10:55:32 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Right?

I'm not one that thinks the US is the best country ever by a long shot, but that makes me feel ill.

Seriously. Kim Jong Il is responsible for the worst human rights abuses in our life time.

This picture is reprehensible.

It is no different than if FDR and Hitler went out for ice cream in 1944.

The contrast to how Trump is dealing with N. Korea and how Trump (and Pence by extension) are dealing with Venezuela is amazing. We can't get humanitarian aid into the Venezuela and Pence hits them with sanctions (www.apnews.com/b99288d40899488480f5f8c67eb87036) and encourages other countries to do the same,

In a speech, Pence urged regional partners to freeze oil assets controlled by Maduro, transfer the proceeds to Guaido and restrict visas for Maduro’s inner circle. He said the U.S. was imposing more sanctions on four pro-government governors, including a close Maduro ally who negotiated the release of an American jailed for more than two years.

“It’s time to do more,” Pence said. “The day is coming soon when Venezuela’s long nightmare will end, when Venezuela will once more be free, when her people will see a new birth of freedom, in a nation reborn to libertad.”

Hours later, Venezuela’s government issued a statement accusing the U.S. and the Lima Group countries of conducting “a ferocious campaign to oust” Maduro by trampling on basic international human rights.

The statement also rejected Pence’s announcements, accusing him of attempting “to give orders so that other countries join the vulgar plundering” that Washington is pursuing against Venezuela’s assets.

But N. Korea ignores sanctions, keeps innovating for nuclear weapons, is committing human rights violations that are measurable, and yet the US is planning to lift sanctions - eventhough allies, like Japan, and are not going to do the same. www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2187919/japan-has-no-intention-lifting-its-sanctions-north-korea-no

What is Trump's foreign policy other than "wants to be a bully with the other bullies in the schoolyard of the World"?

[bowies]

Gaetz under investigation by Florida Bar. 😂

ETA: The one that allows him to be a lawyer, not the one from which he gets his DUIs.

[Pom]

“The one that allows him to be a lawyer, not the one from which he gets his DUIs.”

You win.

[sparrowsong]

Up on my Netflix queue today is a documentary called “Born Rich” that was made in 2003 about heir/ess children. And according to the description the Trump kids are discussed. Should be interesting from the perspective of 2019.

[miniroller]

Feb 27, 2019 15:27:20 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Up on my Netflix queue today is a documentary called “Born Rich” that was made in 2003 about heir/ess children. And according to the description the Trump kids are discussed. Should be interesting from the perspective of 2019.

Ohhh- please update if you do catch! I’m adding to my list, but would love to get an actually-watched recommendation 👍

[bronxgirl]

Feb 27, 2019 15:27:20 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Up on my Netflix queue today is a documentary called “Born Rich” that was made in 2003 about heir/ess children. And according to the description the Trump kids are discussed. Should be interesting from the perspective of 2019.

Only Ivanka is in it and she comes off looking more normal than a lot of the others.  

[sparrowsong]

Feb 27, 2019 16:34:24 GMT -5 bronxgirl said:

Feb 27, 2019 15:27:20 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Up on my Netflix queue today is a documentary called “Born Rich” that was made in 2003 about heir/ess children. And according to the description the Trump kids are discussed. Should be interesting from the perspective of 2019.

Only Ivanka is in it and she comes off looking more normal than a lot of the others.  

Yeah I’m about halfway through it and that’s my exact feeling so far.

[miniroller]

Way to go, best dealmaker EVER:

NBC News: JUST IN: Exclusive: US negotiators no longer demanding North Korea agree to disclose full accounting of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs as part of talks between President Trump and Kim Jong Un, according to current and former US officials.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/u-s-drops-demand-full-accounting-n-korea-nuclear-program-n977251
The country's refusal to disclose all of its nuclear materials is the issue over which talks fell apart a decade ago.

[bowies]

It’s fairly obvious that Trump thinks of KJU as a personal ally and he’s just there to get some “deal” he can tout on the campaign trail and then rail against his successor when KJU starts being aggressive again. Everyone is getting played, most especially South Korea.