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Impeachment Countdown- What Just Happened, and What Comes Next.
It's official, folks. The whistleblower complaint regarding Donald Trump's misuse of his power, trying to pressure the president of Ukraine into investigating Hunter Biden, the son of 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner and former vice-president Joe Biden, has acted as a fuse, and the people of America are now making it clear that we have finally had enough. The House of Representatives has the 218 votes it will need to file impeachment proceedings and bring this thing home; the word is the actual vote will happen by Thanksgiving.
That means, in case you were wondering, that the very last moments of the 2010s will be spent with one of the world's most worthless people, Donald Trump, on everybody's mind. He's already won, for his own part, because all he ever wanted was to be the center of attention. And now he is.
What a way to say goodbye to a decade that started out so filled with Hope and Change. Republicans like Scott Walker in Wisconsin hadn't technically taken office yet; there was no way to know for most how bad it was going to be. One doesn't have to wonder very hard how Obama must feel when he reads the papers today. The man himself was black, and so is despised by many he turned his hair grey to help. On the right and far left alike, his legacy was shunned and cast aside.
If anyone should be reading this who did not vote for Hillary Clinton, if you voted for Stein or abstained for the sheer joy of screaming out 'Bernie or Bust!'- Know that this is on you, and resolve to change your ways.
Stand on the side of decency and moderation and compromise, and pitch in to help. We're glad to have you; God knows we cannot spare you. But know this to the core of your heart: What you did back then helped to cause this avalanche.
This country has been getting torn apart all along, but this will be beyond that altogether. Trump's base harbors many who want a war; things may really get ugly. Know who your friends are, be organized, and be ready. "There is no joy in this," said Nancy Pelosi, and she is right. We should never forget that. It is a sad thing, that we should have to struggle to not rejoice in the downfall of our own president. Even George W. Bush and all his administration gave citizens of this country to reconcile with a troubled conscience, never brought us to this. We are living through the Chinese curse about interesting times, but there can be no doubt at all they are historical. It's time now to talk about what has just happened, and what might be coming next.
Remember when the Mueller Report didn't end up putting Trump behind bars? That was the end of the beginning, I wrote. The two have taken place on the same timeline. Back then, I predicted that Trump would think himself utterly above the law, after that. I predicted he would become increasingly more reckless and brazen in his lawlessness until finally, sooner or later, he did something too big for even the Republicans to ignore, or at least big enough to unify the Democratic Party's many wild hearts. This incident actually took place in July, so this really is like a delayed effect drug.
"The facts drove the timing and the decision," Nancy Pelosi told POLITICO in a brief interview. "And that's what I've said all along — when we get the facts, we will be ready. And we're ready."
Pressuring another country's president to investigate the children of his chief political rival, Joe Biden, has proven to be it, folks, because make no mistake about it, folks. Those are the facts. That is why when the good news finally came that our national leadership was ready to proceed, we said impeach.
Back in May, the new Attorney General, William Barr had an announcement to make in the immediate aftermath of the Mueller Report. An investigation into the "origins" into the Russiagate investigation, he said, would soon be underway. He had already received a letter of complaint from Robert Mueller, who objected of Barr's misrepresentation of his work. But that didn't seem to bother him. Barr himself is now in it, up to his neck. His name is all over the anonymous whistleblower's complaint, as is Rudy Giuliani's and also Kurt Volker's, the Ukranian ambassador who just resigned this evening. The gist of the complaint is below, with thanks to FactCheck.org.
"In the course of my official duties, I have received information from multiple U.S. Government officials that the President of the United States is using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election," the whistleblower complaint reads. "This interference includes, among other things, pressuring a foreign country to investigate one of the President's main domestic political rivals. The President's personal lawyer, Mr. Rudolph Giuliani, is a central figure in this effort. Attorney General [William] Barr appears to be involved as well."
According to the anonymous whistleblower's complaint, the conversations that led to all this getting going were started for that reason. So their counter-investigation seems to have led them into this fix directly, which is the clearest indication we have that Mueller's work led Trump down the road from the probably impeachable to the one hundred percent impeachable.
A few days ago-before the whistleblower's complaint had been released- I wasn't so sure this was impeachable, because- well because it all seems impeachable to me, I guess. He's done so much already, why is this different? Is this really worse than having colluded with Russia in the first place? Collusion isn't a legal term, said Mueller- which to me was a great reason to keep using it. I never understood how welcoming foreign interference and having one's cronies help it along could be called anything else, but Mueller said no. Who am I to argue, I thought sadly.
Then Putin comes boasting onto the television about how the Mueller investigation was "A mountain giving birth to a mouse."
Even that mouse is taller than you, Vlad. I hope you're enjoying life as the butler of Xi Jinping. That's what happens when you stab America in the back. You end up sanctioned, desperate for influence and cash, selling your country's oil to China, and ending up a BUTLER.
Garcon! We're ready to order, you butler, you. Drive me a pizza over, all the way from Moscow. I could use a shoeshine, too. Now that Trump won't be able to launder money for you anymore, you're nobody. Pretty soon someone else will be in charge of Russia, and you will be nothing at all. Speaking of which, we now know Trump told Sergey Lavrov in June of 2017 that Russia's interference into our election didn't bother him. That too came out today.
Breaking news earlier tonight said that Trump has locked down conversations between two other world leaders as well. One of them was the new crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman. The second, of course, was Vladimir Putin. They've been putting it all in place for a Russiagate 2.0. Now, look at them.
Vladimir Putin is finding himself the recipient of bad karma, and so is Donald Trump. You cannot spit at God forever. Sooner or later, something will happen that reveals your human nature, and you'll be forced to remember what we all must, sooner or later. You are human, you have feet of clay, and if you persist too far in your imitation of Caligula, you're going to end up gutted on the palace steps as he was. Hillary Clinton popped up yesterday and said look, we're dealing with Trump- the 'Corrupt Human Tornado'. His day is coming.
So here's what we know so far. The anonymous whistleblower, Deep Throat 2.0, has had his complaint released and reviewed by Congress. It states clearly that Trump abused his executive power tried to get Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election ('soliciting'), that he pressured Ukraine's President Zelensky to do it for him, and that he tried to cover it up. After he saw what Trump had done, he blew the whistle. Enough is enough.
The document is seven pages long and details multiple efforts to force Zelensky to "Play Ball". The term they're throwing around is an old Latin phrase meaning "Something for something", quid pro quo (Which Fox News is revoltingly trying to say is not in this context illegal, frequent molesters of the law and truth that they are).
Zelensky badly wanted Trump to have a meeting with Trump, something Trump was trying to work him on, and the latter had already instructed our vice-president, dutiful Mike Penise, to cancel a similar meeting on him back in May. Military aid may have been on the table as well, which may have something to do with the recent Ukrainian military withdrawal from Donbas, a key outpost on the front of their war with Russia. Nothing would surprise us anymore. Trump withheld their money, the Ukrainians retreated from Donbas, and four days later they got their money. Putin hits a lick.
Quid pro quo.
A hearing was held on Capitol Hill Thursday morning wherein Joseph Maguire, the acting Director of National Intelligence testified before Congress. The hearing began moments after the whistleblower complaint was released. Maguire said the case that was discussed today is "unique and unprecedented" compared to other whistleblower cases he is aware of. He also said the whistleblower acted in good faith.
No doubt he did.
The Mueller Report proved not to be so much of a mouse, in the long run. It pointed the way to Deutsche Bank's money laundering problem with Russian oligarchs, which is going to be the foundation of our argument. Had Trump never gotten in bed with the Russians, had his campaign's blatant collusion really been a delusion, Mueller- the nation's top bloodhound-would have never had to write it in the first place, nor would he have discovered the true reason Trump was peddling Russian woo- the fact that he, for decades, has been laundering money for the Russians and was thus completely compromised long before the Russians decided to hack our election back then, in horrible 2016.
Trump's plump rump is in a slump. He is not getting out of this one. He has played with the law as if it were a game his whole life. He ran an illegal charity, an illegal university, and an illegal presidential campaign. He got away with the last one, or at least, that's how he felt post-Mueller, slouching along like a female warthog in rut and boasting. But as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, No lie can live forever. He's still blowing his mouth for now, but that won't last. Expect him to behave as a wounded animal does and expect the same from his followers.
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Fake Left Fallacies- Tangled Tulsi Gabbard Reviles Kamala Harris as "Not Qualified".
When I read that Tulsi Gabbard, of all people, had reviled her fellow 2020 presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) as someone "Not Qualified" to be President of the United States of America, I was disgusted so thoroughly that I was all but beside myself. I couldn't believe it. You have got to be kidding me. Who are you, Tulsi Gabbard, monstrous traitor and foreign cutout that you *allegedly* are, to use the term "Not Qualified" as regards a career prosecutor and elected Senator like Harris? This is completely unacceptable.
Senator Harris, we are here for you. We're not endorsing you-or anybody else- yet, but we're here for you. You are a Democrat.
Here at Millennial Democrats, we haven't issued an endorsement yet, and we don't intend to, not for a while. The reason why is the wealth of riches we have in these candidates. All of them are so vastly superior to Trump or Bernie that even to compare them is facile. Our concern is making it unified through what promises to be a chaotic primary. Democratic
We have been there for all of them, too, not to mention every other Democrat. We've even stood up for Ilhan Omar and praised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when she's done something right, even though they're socialists. The only reason we ever have for going after another Democrat is being convinced that they're anything but. That's Tulsi for you. Back in 2017, we wrote that "Tulsi Gabbard has something for everyone, and all of it is dishonest".
Well, here's another lie she's told. Kamala Harris is completely qualified to hold the office of President, and much more qualified than some, like her or Bernie Sanders. I remember when Bernie said the same thing about Hillary Clinton. Way to display your internalized sexism; not a big surprise considering your father was anti-gay extremist Mike Gabbard.
Researching the tangled tale of Tulsi Gabbard was really somewhat disturbing. Her situation is one of the clearest links we have to the ongoing problem of the far left and the far right converging. Her family hijacked Hawaii's Democratic Party and runs it using Republican policies. Hardly any of her supporters have anything to do with us. According to one list of major contributors to the Tulsi Gabbard campaign, published by DailyKos in 2012, Democratic donors were actually exceptions on this list. Many of these people have not donated to campaigns other than Mike Gabbard's Congressional campaign, or Richard Reed's Senate campaign, both as Republicans. Reed's Senate campaign was allegedly connected to both the Gabbards' and to Butler's religious group.
This all happened because Hawaii's people and atmosphere are so liberal. It's a one-party state; no Republican has any hope at all to get elected there. A serious attempt has not been made in years. But the last time someone gave it the old college try, it was Tulsi's good old Dad.
The Democratic Party has had a long reign in Hawaii. Some of it comes from the popularity of the labor movement there in the 20th century, and the efforts of the Hawaii Democratic Party to push for greater inclusivity of the electoral base have traditionally been venerated. These factors have combined to earn Democrats near-complete control of the state legislature. But such an extended period of dominance has been resulting in increased voter apathy and increased factionalism within the Democratic Party of Hawaii.
This apathy is what led Mike Gabbard to try and challenge Democratic incumbent Ed Case in 2004. The elder Gabbard, known for his virulent anti-gay crusade in the 1990s, was attempting to overturn the status quo and win as a Republican the race to represent Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District. At that time, a reporter for Honolulu Magazine requested an interview on her ties to the Chris Butler cult, her family's religion, a bizarre offshoot of the Hare Krishnas.
Tulsi got nice and mad, and listen to what she said.
"I smell a skunk," she emailed back. "It's clear to me that you're acting as a conduit for … homosexual extremist supporters of Ed Case!"
We can see this vicious, right-wingesque swipe at Harris is no isolated incident, but part of a long-running pattern. She's carrying on the legacy of her father, like any dutiful daughter, and his values were utterly conservative, far enough to the right to border on libertarianism.
Libertarianism is a political philosophy that advocates for laissez-faire economic policies in a sense so extreme they believe government should be all but eliminated. It is an offshoot of the abominably racist John Birch Society, which was founded by a Ku Klux Klan member named Fred Koch. He was the father of the infamous Koch Brothers of Koch Industries, Charles and David-the founders of a third party, the Libertarian Party, which is basically a smooth-talking version of the rabid John Birch party line. David was to have been Vice-President if they pulled it off when they first ran in 1980. He spent two million dollars of his own money making the attempt but got crushed.
But they didn't give up. They've been corralling their resources patiently ever since.
The libertarian movement is an interesting case. They have some huge billionaires working with them, like Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News. It's supposed to be as far right as it gets. So why are so many figures from the radical left caught up with them?
On the Issues, a non-partisan informational website that rates and categorizes lawmakers and candidates describes Tulsi Gabbard as a "Libertarian-Leaning Progressive" based on her voting record.
A similar organization, Progressive Punch.org, provides a searchable database of Congressional voting records, from the perspective of the far left. They gave Bernie Sanders an A, for his lifetime support of progressive causes. Tulsi Gabbard got an F. Basic logic would suggest they would stand in diametric opposition to one another.
Why do they have all the same supporters, then?
One angry supporter of Bernie Sanders wrote the following nonsense on 7/23/17, on a thread discovered on Facebook. Note his dual enthusiasm for both Bernie and Tulsi. and his loathing for moderate Democrats.
"No REAL progressive is gonna vote for more of the Clinton style, corporate special interest, Big Bank donor loving, false progressive garbage. Yet…here are the Democrats showing us early on that they haven't changed. Ready for a repeat of 2016? Personally…I will work to expose and destroy the hopes of any candidate that the DNC tries to ram down our throats again by using Super Delegates and closed Primaries…and any candidate who remained silent against the DNC's attack on our Democracy by rigging the election against Bernie Sanders. #Sanders/Gabbard2020 #Gabbard/Turner2020
This same man later went on to beg and plead for unity among the former supporters of Sanders- so that they will have greater success in attacking not Republicans, but Democrats. Mentioned at the spearhead of this assault on their fellows in the left, is always one name- Tulsi Gabbard.
Her record shows again and again that is not a Democrat in anything but name, even though so-called progressives love her. She managed to hoodwink Bernie supporters into thinking she is one of them. By resigning from the DNC at the time Bernie or Bust rioted during HRC's nomination and since has come to embody misguided attacks by so-called progressives on the so-called liberal elite. In point of fact, however, the evidence indicates quite otherwise. Tulsi Gabbard does not vote like a progressive darling. She's a surfer, which seems to be more important than her voting record. What a mess. This person would be the biggest con in the world if she wasn't so incompetent. Ever heard her speak? Better than sleeping pills. Snore.
Her voting record, world view, and connections resemble much more closely a resume, tailor-made to be both barely acceptable to the leaders of the Democratic Party, and a perfect Libertarian plant.
Since the 2016 disaster, people worldwide have been paying more attention to world events- which have been pretty awful. Great Britain just got a far-right prime minister, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil is stomping up and down on human rights, and Marine Le Pen of France, who is blatantly Putin-financed, is leading Emmanuel Macron in the polls. Meanwhile, far-left figures like Sanders and parties like Germany's pro-Putin Die Linke vote on behalf of Russian interests all over Europe. All this has helped a public awareness begin growing toward a reoccurring trend, one reshaping the entire scale of the political spectrum.
The left and the right are becoming the same entity.
This is far from new. History has played this drama out a great many times. The two have often historically converged when a common friend or foe suits both of their needs, and have proven capable of working in effective concert even though they're involved for different reasons. Lenin's doctrines specifically advocated for Communists using this technique, and these days they've been doing it so long they've started to resemble each other. New anti-democracy hybrid systems of totalitarianism may call themselves what they like, of course, be it corporate socialism or state-run capitalism. But in terms of policy and temperament, they are exactly the same.
This is why the monopolists are trying so hard to combine the far-right and far-left. They're stirring up chaos until they see the ladder Petyr Baelish spoke of in Game of Thrones manifest, and then they use it. Nothing too complicated, but they've got a lot of ways to get it done. It's almost like a game of three-card monte; its complexity lies within its simplicity. The monopolists are going to try and use that ladder to guide us off the path of freedom and democracy so that guys like the Kochs can run everything without any governmental restraint at all. That was why libertarianism was conceived of, and although it didn't catch on right away, it's got a few heads full of steam now. We are in the middle of watching nothing less than a full-fledged attempt at a Libertarian revival, aimed at the destruction of the newer and more cultured America we enjoyed under Bill Clinton and Obama.
When Trump took office, one of the first things he did was to yank us out of the Paris Accord so big business could get back to work mucking up the lakes and rivers again. That item had been high on the Koch agenda for years. When Scott Pruitt, a former Oklahoma attorney general who had spent his whole career fighting the EPA, was chosen by Trump as the agency's new head, all concerned had no trouble with interpreting that move. He'd been brought in to gradually dismantle it. Let's return to the days of starting Lake Erie on fire, what a neat idea, dear boy have a cigar.
It seems clear that clean water for Flint, Michigan is about as likely as the same for Japan's nuclear power plant post-tsunami. It just isn't a priority to monopolists.
They want to bring things back to the old way, graft and corruption, and big bosses. Stuff we take for granted, like minimum wages and the eight-hour workday would be gone in a terrible flash. Ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? Great book, but don't read it on an empty stomach. Work-life was nightmarish for the American workingman back then. That's what it would be like with no government that could hold big business accountable. That's why Democrats have to dedicate their lives every single generation to fighting back this growing darkness.
It is also why the far left is getting to be such a tremendous problem. They fight us at every turn for no reason, but very rarely the Republicans. The Squad of freshmen Representatives like Ilhan Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is comprised of all socialists who voted against caged children getting soap in a bloc just a few short weeks ago. Likewise, Trump is gaining all sorts of mileage by attacking them. Their ability to repulse middle America, in particular, is all but a red flag in the eyes of frenzied bulls. Their radical views are his biggest asset in 2020.
The punk rock anarchist types are clueless about getting taken in. Their protests are undermining their entire value systems, not to mention their future right to stay healthy. They think it's going to all be dancing through Utopia- the Greek word for "nowhere". My guess is it would be more like that movie "The Purge". Without real Democrats to protect them, people too different to blend in would be little more than easy prey. To whose benefit does that end up working for? The monopolists, of course! They're like a hydra, striking at a million places at once. They've got all the money. That's why they're able to co-opt so many people in either party- like Tulsi Gabbard.
On the Issues, a non-partisan informational website that rates and categorizes lawmakers and candidates describes Gabbard as a "Libertarian-Leaning Progressive" based on her voting record.
Monopolist sects of the global elite are linking up transnationally and behind the scenes in a previously unheard-of level of cooperation and making their presences known through elected proxies like Tulsi Gabbard.
To pull it off, they've got to use a combination of theatrics and money to manipulate the national dialectic, hoping they can eventually fool the people into demanding a third party, likely to be similar to the Viktor Orban's Hungary "managed democracy" hybrid systems that are taking form everywhere across the world.
In this model minorities and LGBT persons and the poor bear the weight of society, civil rights and freedom are surrendered for illusory stability, and a bigger state than ever has autonomy enough to do anything they want, the way China randomly built huge camps in the desert and locked up a million Uighur Muslims last fall. Likewise, that LGBT activist, Yelena Grigoryva, just got stabbed and strangled in Russia. This is not a game. We have got to wake people up and splash awareness in their faces before it's too late.
Two-thirds of the world's states are now no longer democracies, including the United States. according to non-partisan organization the World Freedom Index, and that is very dangerous to everyone. The only thing still holding this neo-fascist tide from sweeping over the whole world like wildfire is the strength even of American democracy's memory. That's why they are trying to attack it. The only guardians of it are the centrists of the Democratic Party, which is why all this is happening. Their true enemies are not socialists. They are the liberals.
They are us, Democrats.
This is the likely explanation for why she thought it a good idea to savage one of her fellow Democrats, Kamala Harris, with such a mean and rude assault on her qualifications. It adds acrimony and stress to our already taxed body politic. She's always doing something to hurt our party. They've been talking about running her to hamstring us for years.
Our opinion is that it was more than a mean streak that caused her to resign as DNC junior chairman at the worst possible time for the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party in general. Many different factors were involved, most notably The Wikileaks dump of hacked data from the DNC's email servers had just happened, and the Bernie or Bust lunatics were rioting in the streets of Philadelphia, over illegally acquired and hacked emails proving that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz resented Bernie's inability to file out basic FEC forms correctly.
Tulsi said she was resigning in disgust, a double whammy for her. Not only did she get to damage her fellow Democrats, she gained millions of hardcore Bernie or Busters in the process. They think she's one of them, even though more reputable leftist publications like Jacobin Magazine have also tried convincing them repeatedly. One article of theirs I would was titled "Tulsi Gabbard Is Not Your Friend." They had no more success than we have.
It's not that often that the socialists and I can come together on anything, but so far as Tulsi goes we're riding in the same boxcar.
It could be that Tulsi's been indoctrinated by Chris Butler, the guy who runs that twisted mutation of Hare Krishnaism cult that you were raised in? The one who now goes by the name Jagad Guru Siddhaswarupananda Paramahamsa? The Butler cult has built a shadowy and global organization that according to some numbers in the tens of thousands, and the Gabbards are its most public and conspicuous members. The Cult Education Forum has more than a hundred pages worth of threads detailing their activities over the years.
We have got her back- just as we've got Joe Biden's, or Beto O'Rourke's, or Al Franken's. We'll stand for any of them other than Tulsi and the Bern, two disingenuous libertarians only in the race to sow dissent and chaos. That sort has always hated people like Kamala Harris because she's strong and black and female. They did the same thing to Joy Reid, whose defense we also took the torch for. Remember this, Bernie Bots?
We do. And we will never, ever forget it. Progressives, lol. If this is progress, give me the Stone Age back.
While doing the research for this article, we came across another interesting tidbit. Tulsi has just sued Google for taking down a paid ad of hers, launched close to the time she made the ugly remark about Harris.
According to the lawsuit, filed by lawyers representing Gabbard's campaign Tulsi Now Inc., Google suspended the Gabbard campaign's advertising account for several hours during the first Democratic debate. "On June 28, millions of Americans asked Google about Tulsi Gabbard," the mournful wording went, "and Tulsi sought to answer them. But Google silenced her."
In response, Google says "automated systems that flag unusual activity on all advertiser accounts — including large spending changes" were to blame for the suspension of Gabbard's account. Google says their automated systems aim to "prevent fraud and protect our customers."
"In this case, our system triggered a suspension and the account was reinstated shortly thereafter," said Google spokeswoman Riva Sciuto. "We are proud to offer ad products that help campaigns connect directly with voters, and we do so without bias toward any party or political ideology."
Now, who to believe? Analytical tools on Twitter have shown tens of thousands of fake accounts swarming on her handle. This is her M.O. Check out that picture. Every little dot represents another one. It looks like a grand fireworks finale.
"Thousands of inauthentic Twitter accounts emerge when exploring tweets where @TulsiGabbard's handle appears (large highlighted cluster includes ~20K accounts) cc: @yoyoel @delbius @vijaya" Thanks to @GeoffGoldberg!
This is all a result of the Citizens United ruling allowing the use of dark money in politics. Now private empires like the ones put together by the infamous Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries can spend nine-tenths of a billion dollars to hoodwink and influence us.
The thing about their strategy is, it's completely common sense. What would you do, if it was your billion dollars, and your goal is to control the nation's data flow- which is to say, its people? Would you really only support one side, and not try to influence the other? Did not Lenin say, The best way to control the opposition is to lead it yourself? It's a football strategy, really; pretty basic stuff. They're playing both the ends against the middle.
This is the libertarian way. Ask Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire owner of Fox News. Or his friend, Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart, and many others too. Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer. Richard Mellon Scaife, the mean alcoholic billionaire who funded the Arkansas Project to destroy Bill Clinton's life for some random reason, they all do this and they'll continue to as long as it works. It's a strategy.
That's what I'd do.
I've found myself thinking a lot about the Koch brothers recently, ever since I happened to read that David was unexpectedly, and after all these years, pushed out by his older brother, Charles, notorious eminence grise of the American political scene. It seemed surprising to me, not something I'd expected in any way. These guys should have it all right now. The Tea Party destabilized the Republican Party, and made it ripe for the capture of Trump. Now there's a radical faction in the Democratic Party, too, an insurgent campaign against the center.
A New Republic article from 2014 called "GOP Death Watch: The Final Days of the Republican Party" pointed out that the big advantage the Democrats had back then was that our radicals had no part in our power structure (radicals should never have any power), whereas the Republican Tea Party was making it too difficult for the old guard, the John McCain style Republicans, to keep any order or unity among themselves.
The Sanders wing of the Democratic Party helped Russia even the scales– at the cost of destabilizing the country even further and leaving us wide open to foreign interference like Russia's in 2016. Sanders ran a campaign even more infested with Russians than Trump's. The Sanders campaign was "central" to the Russian efforts, said the Mueller Report and more has come out since.
They were all the way up in Bernie, even his campaign manager Tad Devine. He was Paul Manafort's lead attache in Ukraine back during the Orange Revolution, and he was the first witness called at Paul Manafort's trial because he worked for Manafort in Ukraine, as did Rick Gates, the first witness to crack to Robert Mueller.
Catch that. Three of the top strategists opposing Hillary Clinton in 2016 had been doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in this capacity for longer than a decade.
It seems clear they will do the same thing in 2020. Trump said openly that he would take information from a foreign source again, he has refused to fund the cyber-defense force Congress authorized and laughed at the Russian efforts with Putin at this year's G-20 summit.
How much more obvious can you get? It goes without saying, of course, that Putin is the biggest libertarian of them all. He is the head, the rest are the tentacles. Julian Assange of Wikileaks, who dumped the DNC emails, is a libertarian, too. They're all in on it together! It's on the front page of every newspaper, every day. Most Americans know this stuff instinctively, deep down in their hearts, along with something else:
Somehow, somewhere, their plans went horribly astray.
The feeling I'm getting from the world right now is that of great and utter tension. It does not have the feeling of being scripted anymore. It's like it's taken on a life of its own like an avalanche. They've lost control, and only Putin's got the gambler's nerve to enjoy it. He knows full well how little of Russia truly takes place under his will or even say-so. They know to shut up and go about their business in that part of the world; no one can take that away from them. Their muteness speaks for all of humanity on this one.
Tulsi Gabbard is not someone to trust, in our opinion. She's just in it to deal out some cheap shots, leave some permanent, rankling schisms behind her, and run away chortling to plan out her next Tuggle Snuggle, horrid black widow that she is. Truly, she is a worthy successor hamstringer to her master the Bern. Her trolls are uglier than his, and I never thought I'd say that about anyone.
Going forward, it's important for us to be especially mindful about who we support, and who we don't support. Real Democrats are loyal and they know how to work with a team. They stay in the sane center, they pay heed to reality and the requirements of the position, and they don't throw away their advantages by getting hasty. They corral resources, shore up trenches, dig their foxholes deeply and well- and above all, keep their own backyards clean of libertarian fakirs like the Tuggler. Gabbard, you are the one who is unqualified. If you want to throw reviles around, look in the mirror. You'll see trouble with a surfboard gazing back at you.
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Conservatives File To Impeach AG Rosenstein, Set Sights On Robert Mueller.
A handful of conservatives in Congress officially filed articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Wednesday, a move they have been threatening for months.
The introduction was made by Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who is the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio.
Meadows and Jordan have been critical of Rosenstein and the Justice Department for various reasons, all of which are completely insincere.
The real reason they are after Rosenstein is that he has overseen the special counsel Robert Mueller's probe since Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself.
A few months ago Steve Bannon was on TV for the first time since Breitbart let him go. He was on there to offer Trump some strategy tips as to how to end the investigation into Russian involvement with the Donald Trump campaign.
He suggested that to do this, the White House should stop cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, who is handling the probe.
And he suggested that he fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
That has been the simplest path out of this for them from the start.
As part of a broader inquiry into possible obstruction of justice, Mueller is examining Trump's conduct from the beginning of his presidency and before.
He is preparing to make a recommendation whether the actions add up to attempts to obstruct the investigation, specifically intimidating witnesses, and attempting to put the screws on senior law enforcement officials to tamp down the inquiry.
Trump is terrified of what may come. That is why they are after Rosenstein.
In related news, CBS News' Paula Reid has confirmed that Michael Cohen, Trump's former attorney, is willing to tell special counsel Robert Mueller that the president knew in advance of a June 2016 Trump Tower meeting involving Mr. Trump's son, top campaign officials and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
None of this will come as much of a surprise to the regular readers of this blog. Mueller is looking into Trump's old tweets attacking Sessions and former FBI director James Comey, who wants to act like a Resister now but who hamstrung Hillary Clinton two Novembers ago. As Michael Avenatti tweeted today, the evidence appears to be there.
Speaking of Avenatti, he'll be representing three more women Trump allegedly paid off in the months to come. Another piece of good news is that Trump's organization finance chief has been called before a federal grand jury.
The real question is, what comes next? At this point, it's still anybody's guess.
For Robert Mueller, a lot of work. He's hiring new prosecutors.
For us, getting ready.
A piece published Thursday afternoon by the Daily Beast shows that Russia is already trying to hack the 2018 midterm elections.
They got caught going after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), who is one of our best people, and up for reelection this year. Malware was sent as emails to a McCaskill aide from a server that likely belongs to Fancy Bear, the same Russian intelligence group that did many of the 2016 hacks.
We've been here before, and we know where this is going. We have seen the tactics of the enemy, and we know how to spot them. In the months to come, we're going to be focusing in more and more on the midterm elections and the cyber-education that will come with keeping them safe.
There's one other thought that comes to mind, also- It's all for nothing if we don't go vote. We've been resisting together all this time, down in the trenches. We have probably got this, so long as we do not let up. For a little while longer, at the very least, we have got to hold it together and get by as best we can. See you in the mix!
themillennialdemocrats	Culture, Politics and Current Events	Leave a comment July 27, 2018 3 Minutes
Oval Upheaval! The Flood of Firings Continues.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has just fired FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, two days before he was to retire and become eligible for full pension benefits. This is how Donald Trump says thank you to those who help him.
McCabe took the reins of the agency during the crazy days after the firing of James Comey and is about to be called as a witness in the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller.
McCabe has been attacked by President Donald Trump constantly, even though he's a Republican who stepped down as deputy director in late January. The firing places in jeopardy a federal pension the man has been earning for twenty years. That is so petty and ugly that no one but Donald Trump could have even come up with it.
Narcissists love firing people, and Trump is certainly no exception. But at least they usually fire people to their faces. Trump can't even do that. These people all found out via Twitter.
This is far from the only high-profile firing to take place recently. It's been like watching a flooding river. Rex Tillerson was also just fired from his post as secretary of state.
Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and White House chief of staff John Kelly is also rumored to be departing at some point, though the exact timing remains uncertain.
Kelly, who used to be the adult in the room around Trump's White House, has been going around boasting about how he fired Rex on the toilet.
It's like the Oval Office air itself is corrosive to the human brain. They're all going mad in there, at varying rates of degeneracy.
Meanwhile, at least one Republican is already planning to oppose the CIA director Mike Pompeo, Trump's nominee to succeed Tillerson as Secretary of State.
And Trump's new nominee to run the CIA, Gina Haspel, is giving agita to Senate Republicans because of her role in overseeing an interrogation and detention program.
H.R. McMaster, whose fate as national security adviser is in doubt, according to several sources.
In fact, the news story actually broke a few days ago that McMaster was already on his way out when all of a sudden the White House reversed itself on the matter.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who former Trump aide Sam Nunberg described as "unattractive" and a "fat slob" now claims Trump "likes" working with the three-star general.
The national security establishment is panicked about the potential of hardliner John Bolton replacing him in that capacity, and the rest of the world should be too.
Richard Painter, the former chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, blasted the prospect.
"John Bolton was by far the most dangerous man we had in the entire eight years of the Bush Administration," Painter tweeted on Friday. "Hiring him as the president's top national security advisor is an invitation to war, perhaps nuclear war."Painter ended his post with the apocalyptic words: "this must be stopped at all costs." One is reminded of Ramsay Bolton, the psychopath who skins people on Game of Thrones.
All of this has led to a tremendous consternation among Senators, who among everything else are becoming overburdened with too many nominations.
"With everything else we have to do around here, having the prospect of two additional confirmation fights perhaps is going to be a challenge," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the No. 2 Senate Republican.
This should have been over and done with a year ago.
In spite of those precautionary words, Trump is signaling he's eager for a shake-up. He said Tuesday he is "getting very close to having the Cabinet" he has envisioned and has privately vowed to purge the "deadweight", according to one administration official.
Millennial Democrats can't help wondering- Why didn't he pick the Cabinet he wanted in the first place? Choosing one's own Cabinet is a right that the president has.
At any rate, these plans for a broader shake-up has created even more of a cloud of chaos in the White House, where it's said that everyone is really on edge. Numerous White House sources reportedly told CNN they feel "left in the dark" and are said to be more than a little uneasy about who will be fired or forced into resignation next.
That uncertainty has contributed to low morale, which has plagued the White House since the day of its monstrous birth anyhow.
Low morale. That one, at least, seems like a no-brainer. We were writing articles about all these guys on their way in. Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Rex Tillerson, Reince "Fly-Killer" Priebus, etc. None of them made it eighteen months. And now that even retiring isn't enough to ensure that you- and your career's pension- will be peacefully allowed to go, one can only imagine. They must feel like they are being held hostage, which in fact they are.
Going forward, it's important to realize that a tumultuous tempest of a time is in store for us, no matter what manner of monster he tries filling these posts with. We cannot let it split the left. All of this is being cooked up, like one great big festering neon distraction.
Good thing millennials listen to Tool.
themillennialdemocrats	Culture, Politics and Current Events	Leave a comment March 17, 2018 4 Minutes
Trump Circle in Mueller Meltdown! Kushner's Clearance Cut, Hicks Quits
A slew of gigantic developments have stormed America this week in the Russiagate investigation. Even as these words were being written, a Belorussian sex worker being held in a Thai jail has offered to tie Trump to Russia, saying she's the only one who can complete the chain, and that she's in fear for her life from Putin.
Yesterday it was confirmed that Trump was thinking of firing the Special Counsel Robert Mueller last summer, and today, we were given an avalanche of reasons why.
CNN reported this morning that Mueller is asking witnesses about Trump's business connections in Russia from before the election. And this afternoon, NBC reports that Mueller has been asking members of the Trump inner circle whether he knew about Russian hacking of Democratic emails.
Earlier this week, Mike Rogers, our current CIA director, warned the nation that Trump has literally not given him permission to do anything to prevent the Russian efforts geared at hacking the new elections.
It was also confirmed recently that the Russians penetrated voter data in seven states at least and targeted at least 21. Still, though, Trump refuses to admit it's anything but a hoax. This is crazy. We need to start cleaning house before it's too late
Yet another White House Communications Director, Hope Hicks, has resigned, the day after she testified to the House Intelligence Committee that she "tells white lies" for Trump.
Maybe the biggest news, however, is that chief of staff John Kelly has downgraded the top secret security clearance for Jared Kushner. Reports have recently emerged that Kelly has grown frustrated with Ivanka's role in the Oval Office as well. But the most surprising thing is that Trump just sat there and took it.
It would seem that a pivotal moment is at hand.
The whole reason Kelly was brought in, to begin with, is that Trump hired a whole Cabinet full of freaks.
He had his zaniest Apprentice Omarosa Manigault– who had to be dragged out, kicking and screaming, but now seems happy to be gone- just wandering around the halls of the White House.
Sean "Spicey" Spicer, the favorite target of Saturday Night Live, was the most ridiculous person in the world. It is the opinion of Millennial Democrats that there has never been a man so frequently mocked.
His successor, Anthony Scaramucci, lasted only days, in the meantime adding to American history a blistering torrent of obscenity, including the choice phrase, "I'm not Steve Bannon! I'm not trying to s*** my own c***!"
Speaking of Steve Bannon, Trump himself called him "Sloppy Steve". The National Security Council was not the right place for him. Based on his choice of a sobriquet, Trump knew it. But even still, that's where he put him.
It is the recommendation of Millennial Democrats that you DO NOT Google the term, "Sloppy Steve". Don't ask.
Trump even tried to give the chairmanship of the National Endowments for the Arts to Sylvester Stallone. To his credit, Stallone refused the job, although retrospectively he was more qualified by far than the average Trump flunky. It's a wonder Scott Baio wasn't given the job instead. Charles In Charge, man. You don't know whether to laugh or to cry.
Trump makes his decisions according to who he likes. Who his family is, who his buddies are. It's called nepotism, and it used to be a crime.
At any rate, the next thing to come out was that at least four countries have been licking their chops at Kushner for a long time, actively planning how to profit from manipulating him. Current and former U.S. administrative representatives spoke based on intelligence reports about the matter.
Officials in the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico privately discussed how their nations could benefit from Kushner's international business dealings and lack of government experience, unnamed sources told the Washington Post.
Before becoming a White House senior adviser, Kushner ran his family real-estate firm Kushner Companies. In that capacity, Kushner went all over the place to court foreign financing.
Apparently, the naive and thirsty conduct he exhibited while hunting around for investors made him appear "particularly manipulable" in the eyes of U.A.E. officials, for instance, said the Post.
There are concerns in the halls of government that Kushner was "naive and being tricked" in his conversations with foreign officials.
Remember how Kushner offered a secret backdoor channel of communications to Sergey Lavrov, the Russian ambassador? It is said that Lavrov was visibly shocked at the sheer naivete.
It all goes to show why Russia worked so hard on this. The whole world is eating lunch off us right now.
In the rest of the world, everyone knew what Democrats were trying so hard to tell American citizens, namely, that Trump is a slob and a fool, dangerously incompetent, and as unfit to hold office as a sewer rat.
They knew if he were elected, he would constantly bungle, and that America would be weakened horribly because of it. They knew that if people were stupid enough to fall for Trump over here, it's because we have become dangerously weak and indolent. And even though that isn't true of most of us, as evidenced by the three million more votes Hillary Clinton got than Donald Trump did, it is nevertheless how we are being perceived.
When you're perceived as weak, you'll be constantly tested to see to what extent you'll give up and give in. That is what Russia is doing now, and they are not alone. Many other countries are joining right in, and why wouldn't they? America has got all the money.
This is the world market. Of course others would like to be in our shoes. But national interest isn't even being considered.
It's all a very, very big and huge sign that things are very wrong, in Donald Trump's America. Very.
This concerns us all. It's a slippery slope leading right to the end of our position of world leadership if we're not careful. We're in trouble on many different levels right now, and all of them are based on a steady attack on our nation's institutions by its own president.
National interest demands the removal of these people before things get any worse.
themillennialdemocrats	Culture, Politics and Current Events	Leave a comment March 1, 2018 4 Minutes
Bannon Calls Trump Treasonous- President Sick With Rage.
Donald Trump is rumored to be in a New Year's fury. Anger at his legal team for offering shifting timelines about when the Russia investigation would end seems to have gotten the best of him. And his divorce with Steve Bannon is said to have placed him near a state of apoplexy.
Many predicted that we were in for an interesting afternoon. We were not to be disappointed.
According to two sources familiar with the President's mindset, the anger has continued.
It is said to have begun worsening around afternoon Wednesday. At the time, Trump was helping to draft his blistering break-up letter to former chief strategist Steve Bannon.
His recent interviews with author Michael Wolff delivered a brutal flaying of Trump, and his family.
Bannon's characterization of Ivanka Trump as dumb as a brick is said to have enraged the president in particular. But what can you do? Divorce is always hard on the kids.
All of this has followed the criticism and ridicule his taunting tweet Tuesday evening directed at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has brought him. My button's bigger than your button. Has it really come to this?
The rest of the White House was said to have been caught badly off guard by the whole situation, as was everyone else. It renewed worry worldwide about whether the President fully comprehends the risks he's taking in adversarially provoking an insane dictator with childish taunts.
After Trump's North Korea broadside, aides inside the White House reached out to some of Trump's allies seen as having influence over the President to talk to him about his tweets and the risks they carry. Millennial Democrats would like to wish these aides the best of luck.
In the meantime, we found out today that in April, Kim Jong Un ordered the launch of a Hwasong-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile that failed shortly after launch and ended up hitting the city of Tokchon, roughly two hours from the capital.
Since it's North Korea, it's hard to get much information, but it is probable that casualties were taken. Another key integer not reported was that the missile fell on an urban area.
They've been firing off missiles over Japan.
All it's going to take is one stupid miscalculation and millions could die overnight, wiped out forever in one single blundering instant. But Trump does not seem to understand that and continues to risk nuclear war by pointlessly antagonizing Kim.
His recent out-of-the-blue decision to recognize Jerusalem is another potentially explosive example of this. Trump appeared to slur his words during the speech.
It is for this reason that yet another precedent has been broken by this president.
For the first time in history, members of the Congress have had to be briefed on the mental health of their president, and asked to keep it in mind when crafting laws.
In America, it's an old lawmaker's trick, proposing some ridiculously extreme or idealistic notion that could never possibly get passed, by way of making some point or another. But this trick is no longer safe to use. If some random crazy bill were ever to make it to Trump's desk, it might actually get passed. This president is different.
Politico reported Wednesday that more than a dozen lawmakers last month met with a Yale University psychiatry professor for two days to discuss President Trump's fitness for office, raising questions once again about the 25th Amendment, by which an unfit President can be voted out of the job by a majority of Cabinet members and the Vice President.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee reportedly met with the group of lawmakers on Dec. 5 and Dec. 6 and warned them the president is "going to unravel."
Trump will sign anything. He will do anything. He is desperate to avoid boredom. Whims and caprice are all that govern his decision-making process. He has proven time and again that he will lash out at random when he's angry. And right now he is very angry indeed.
He's realizing now that his lawyers have been sugarcoating some very unpleasant truths, one of which was summed up by Steve Bannon quite succinctly.
Bannon referred to Donald Trump, Jr's June 2016 meeting with a group of Russians as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic". No doubt.
Breitbart News was a cornerstone of Trump's alt-right base. and propaganda machine. When Trump fired him, it sent all of them a message loud and clear. I don't need you anymore.
Trump also sent Bannon a cease-and-desist order today from making speeches about his time in the Trump machine, which is laughable.
Trump's presidency is the biggest failure in modern American politics. It's a lumbering, out of control golem that has risen to consume its makers. One way or the other, this thing has got to end. When even the likes of Steve Bannon come to realize it, it's clear most of America is now on the same page. People are waking up.
The reality of the situation dictates that anyone with a sound and stable mind use it, to concentrate on finding a way of bringing this nightmare to an end.
But, yeah. Hillary's emails.
themillennialdemocrats	Politics and Current Events, World	4 Comments January 4, 2018 January 4, 2018 3 Minutes
Dignity and Respect- Victory for Jones, Clear Path for a Democratic Senate!
As the last precincts closed in the Moore-Jones race, it seemed logical to take note of some last minute reflections.
As of 7:11 P.M., Jones was being given a 73% chance to win, according to the New York Times. Moore was up in the count all night- to no avail. The big city precincts don't get counted until late in the evening. It must have been humiliating.
Reportedly, the man had already planned his victory celebration. "You smell that?", said Moore's campaign manager earlier today. "That's the smell of victory." One wonders how they're liking the smell around now.
As the last precincts are closing, the papers will be readying themselves to declare that the first Democrat to hold office in Alabama in decades has been elected and that his name is Doug Jones.
This is historic. And shocking.
Earlier today, Steve Bannon angrily yelled that there's a special place in hell for any Republican who refused to vote for Roy Moore. That's more along the lines of the expectable.
When the RNC gave in at last and got back in touch with Moore's campaign, even after all that huffing and puffing Mitch McConnell did, that was more like par for the course. And Trump's ringing endorsement for an even bigger sex offender than himself was like a dingleberry cherry on a steaming sundae.
This, combined with the inexplicable hurling to the jackals of Al Franken by certain members of our own party leadership. It was horrible. It was starting to seem like the unstoppable #BlueWave we were building in November wasn't going to amount to much.
Then the A.P. called it for Jones.
It is the opinion of Millennial Democrats that we have been gifted a miracle here, and we have got an opportunity to get people back on track. This small Senatorial race may go down in history as a pivotal moment in the history of this country.
It is unreal, how much was riding on this upset. The basis of DNC strategy lately seems to have paid off. It was a very risky gamble, but it paid off. The party has a plausible path to taking control of the Senate next year for the first time.
It is key to remember this, however. Who gambles and loses is a fool; who gambles and wins is a genius. There have been decisions made recently that we did not agree with, but it would appear that Franken did not fall on his sword for nothing after all.
Going forward, we're going to be focusing on the 2018 elections for all that we are worth. There's going to be a whole new crop of candidates, coming out of the woodwork. It will be our job to get to know them, to learn who they are working for, and to examine where their true loyalties lie.
The first step is going to be to get our house in order. We have got to find out who the fakers are. There are going to be libertarians masquerading as progressives, again, and they are going to try and attack us in elections all over the country. We know them as the Justice Democrats, Our Revolution, Brand New Congress, and a grocery list of other organizations that might seem like they're cool but are not.
Both Al Franken and the superdelegate process have been consumed by the need to eliminate the foundation upon which they've been building their complaints. We bent over backwards for them. Let's hope it's enough, this time around.
Tonight the Republicans, who are the true enemy, have just been placed heavily on the defensive. They are the desperate party now, and desperation always causes blunder. Trump's endorsements have proven toxic to everyone he's offered. It's as if that orange color really is radioactivity.
At the state of the cycle, the math for Democrats winning the Senate majority in 2018 was just brutal. There's no other word.
But between tonight and the races we won in November, we now have the numbers we need to at least put the Senate in-play. Takeovers in Arizona and Nevada, in particular, look increasingly promising.
Last week the retirement of Bob Corker opened up a seat in Tennessee, where they landed the popular former governor Phil Bredesen as a candidate.
And now we have the first of the three pickup seats we needed a year early, tonight in Alabama.
The math is clearly within the realm of possibility now. Democrats are also claiming a double-digit lead on the generic ballot. Things are very much looking up. All we have to do is hold it together.
Moore is screaming, furious, demanding a recount. We're sorry, Judge Roy. Tough break. You didn't get to smell victory, after all. How do you like the smell of justice?
themillennialdemocrats	Culture, Politics and Current Events	1 Comment December 13, 2017 December 13, 2017 3 Minutes
The Penalties of Perjury- Mueller Closes In on Trump's Inner Circle
It is getting toward the end of a dizzying week in American history.
We started out with the indictments that christened the name #MuellerMonday. For Paul Manafort and his henchman Rick Gates, the inevitable had happened. But the bigger news was 29 year old Trump campaign official George Papadopoulos, an unlikely piker who may soon bring down a president.
Young George, who reportedly was considering a run for office himself, has already accepted a guilty plea. Looks like he told on everybody.
Papadopoulos communicated with several senior campaign officials about his outreach to the Russian government over a period of months. His emails were favorably noticed by senior staffers such as Paul Manafort and Trump's nominee for head scientist of the Department of Agriculture Sam Clovis,
Trump is actually on the record in an interview with The Washington Post in March 2016, calling Papadopoulos an "excellent guy." This is because Clovis handed him a piece of paper with Papadopoulos' name on it.
This is why, earlier today, Clovis withdrew his name from consideration to the post.
Later on Monday, an act of savage and cowardly terrorism was carried out in New York City's Lower Manhattan district on Tuesday. The suspect was an Uzbekistan national. He conducted a truck attack "to inflict maximum damage against civilians" in Manhattan, near the World Trade Center. It was the deadliest terrorist attack New York has seen since 9/11.
A note found in the truck claimed the attack was for ISIS.
We differ with Trump's personality and policies in nearly every regard, but the fact remains that he is the one who's got to manage this situation. We are hoping for the best, but expecting the worst. Since Trump has chosen already to try and cash it in for an illusory political conquest, though, it isn't looking good.
The Editorial Board of the Washington Post characterized this reaction as downright dispiriting. Millennial Democrats are inclined to agree.
On Wednesday Trump tweeted "The terrorist came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based." He adds in a subsequent tweet: "We are fighting hard for Merit Based immigration, no more Democrat Lottery Systems."
But earlier in the month, on October 1, multimillionaire Stephen Paddock shot and killed 58 people at an outdoor concert in Las Vegas, while wounding more than six hundred others. It was the largest mass murder in modern American history.
It happened because someone with money can buy enough ordnance to level half the country if they're left to reign unchecked. The outrage we're seeing from Trump these last few days was completely lacking then. Nothing to gain from talking up a white terrorist.
Trump was repeatedly asked about the impact of the shooting on his administration's legislative opening the door for possible future gun control measures. "We're not going to talk about that today," he responded. "We won't talk about that."
It's popular to kick immigrants around. It's hard to stand up to the NRA lobbyists who stuck him in office.
Chuck Schumer responded from the floor of the Senate, noting that after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush brought Mr. Schumer and Hillary Clinton, then the other Democratic senator from New York, to the White House to demonstrate national unity. Nobody cared about what party they were from after 9/11. We were united in our sorrow by the sacrifice of four thousand of our people.
"President Trump, where is your leadership?" Mr. Schumer asked. "President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be bringing us together and focusing on the real solution — antiterrorism funding — which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget."
A different kind of distraction was offered up Thursday as well, a very sad one. It's always sad, to see someone turn on their own with vicious lies and slander.
We would like to thank Donna Brazile for the years of service that she gave to the Democratic Party. We are saddened and shocked beyond words at her slanders, and at her betrayal. And yet, she will be missed.
The Brazile bone was thrown to get Democrats squabbling over last year, rather than focus on what's going on today. This is a continuation of the Uranium One strategy from last week. It was done in order to divert attention from a number of other events taking place today, events with actual significance.
This is what they do when they need to deflect attention. They manage, in one way or the next, to push a button they know will cause internal strife among the left.
It's like when they made a big show out of announcing that Jane Sanders was being investigated by the FBI for fraud relating to her tenure as president of Vermont's Burlington College. It was unfair, and it was not new. It had been an ongoing story for months.
But they brought it back up when they found it convenient, and threw it at us like a bone among dogs in the hopes that we'd start in on each other. That's what's going on today. It's an attempt at distraction, and today, they have got a lot to distract us from.
For one thing, Jeff Sessions changed his tune again on what he knew about the campaign and Russians. Our Attorney General- the highest law enforcement officer in the country- is once again under scrutiny on Capitol Hill.
It appears his candor was lacking, on the subject of Russia and the Trump campaign. During his previous testimony, he swore up and down that he knew nothing about any attempts on the part of Trump campaign officials to meet with the Russians or to set up meetings with the Russians.
The revelation that he rejected a suggestion to convene a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last year comes in direct contravention of that statement and opens the door on charges of perjury.
Senator Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat who sits on the Senate intelligence committee, said that despite Sessions' testimony before the panel earlier this year, "it turns out he was at this meeting with George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos proposed meeting with Putin and Trump. He didn't disclose that to the committee." That's pretty cut and dry.
Trump's son in law Jared Kushner has seen his fortunes falling as of late. A call on Tuesday with former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon heard Trump laying blame for the expanding scandal surrounding special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election interference squarely on Kushner's shoulders, former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg told Vanity Fair.
"Here's what Manafort's indictment tells me: Mueller is going to go over every financial dealing of Jared Kushner and the Trump Organization," said Nunberg. "Trump is at 33 percent in Gallup. You can't go any lower. He's f—ed."
"Jared is the worst political adviser in the White House in modern history," Nunberg added.
Yet another of today's torrential events involved billionaire Robert Mercer stepping down from his hedge fund and giving up his interest in Breitbart News, who he's been bankrolling all this time. The ostensible reason for this, and maybe even the actual one, is that he doesn't want to be called a racist anymore. It's hurting him in his pockets. He is also cutting all ties with the repugnant Milo Yiannoupoulis.
There have been terrible things happening in America of every shape and size this past year. But Trump only cares about some of them. When the California wildfires ravaged wine country and ruined the lives of thousands, he gave a big smile, and offered us his "warmest respects".
Puerto Rico was thrown under the bus completely. About the only help those Americans received, were the rolls of paper towels Trump threw to people lacking running water.
Florida and Texas, on the other hand, received all the help the federal government had to offer- from Obama-era FEMA holdovers, who did in fact largely save the day. Trump had not gotten around to firing them yet before the Congressional recess, and so the lives of many thousands were saved.
Not a day has gone by since Trump's original travel ban, that hasn't seen pandemonium breaking out somewhere. His pettiness and sloven has made this last year a time of great crisis, everywhere. The election was a year and three days ago. It feels like an eternity.
Trump has made it clear long ago where his priorities are. But somehow, knowing that never completely lessens the blow. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the current President of your country, or whether you voted for him, you expect to see him observe a certain decency. Good taste and kindness are not merely decorum. They bring honor to the highest office in the land. Trump doesn't have any.
It's a sad thought, to consider the impression he's made on our children, the children of the millennial generation. When we were kids, we looked up to our presidents. What will our children have? All we can do is point to him as an abject example of everything we don't want them to be.
Going forward, we've got our work cut out for us.
The APA has been conducting its Stress in America poll every year since 2007. The most recent provided an upsetting commentary on our collective state of mind. It found that 63 percent of Americans currently feel that the future of the country is a very significant source of stress in their lives.
59 percent of us said this is the "lowest point in our nation's history that they can remember."
People are in pain. They see confusion all around them. Economic challenges are getting worse. Disinformation and frustration have both taken a toll. We are going through it with everybody else because we are everybody else. However, it is precisely this shared sorrow that will allow us to make our voices heard.
We have a plan. We have specifics. We have continued to provide a sane and decent alternative to an increasingly messy ordeal. We will keep our noses to the grind and refuse to give in. And eventually, we will succeed.
Enough has happened today to keep analysts busy for years. What will happen next is at this point anyone's guess. In the meantime, we stay tuned and stay focused. Things will come out all right, in the end. We're all going to see to it.
themillennialdemocrats	Culture, Politics and Current Events	Leave a comment November 2, 2017 November 5, 2017 7 Minutes
A Case Study in Fake News- Uranium One, The Scandal That Wasn't.
The Uranium One story is a prime example of fake news. It is a GOP talking point known to be false. That knowledge, however, is not very important to the Republicans, who have gone to great length to keep America talking about it this week. The opposition has spent an awful lot of money to kick off the conversation.
The whole thing is a cheap attempt to shift the Russiagate narrative by blaming it all on Hillary Clinton.
As this was being written, the first news came back that Paul Manafort and his sidekick Rick Gates were indicted on money crimes going back to their Ukraine days. A jubilant Trump tweeted out a statement distancing himself from these activities.
But Mueller wasn't finished. The true bombshell was yet to come.
It turns out that former foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, had admitted lying to the FBI about contacts with foreign officials close to the Russian government who discussed "dirt" relating to emails linked to Clinton. He was quietly arrested on July 27. He's been fully cooperating with the government ever since.
This is why we've spent the week hearing about the Uranium One deal.
The relation of truth to a given subject is not a considered factor when we're talking about the Trump administration. This story was manufactured conservative disinformation from beginning to end. It has been threaded back into the national narrative as a political countersuit against Democrats.
It's just Trump's old Manhattan real estate strategy in his new role as president. This is the political equivalent of a countersuit. The ghost of Roy Cohn has got to be gnashing its teeth in glee, down there in hell.
Joy Reid recently summed up the Trump strategy by quoting from the presidential debate last summer. "I'm no puppet. You're a puppet".
The idea is that to relieve the pressure on him, Trump will attempt to shift the nation's attention and anger toward Hillary Clinton. Accuse your enemy, of that which you are guilty of. The concept is called swiftboating. Its purpose is to scare Democrats into shutting up and going home. To make us tap out due to fear for the safety of our leader. "You leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone. If not, there will be trouble."
This is the face of fascism. Manufactured excuses. Rampant what-aboutism. Legitimate science is either discarded or adapted. It all becomes part of the new authoritarian ideology. It is then gradually dripped into the heads of the people by the likes of Boris Epshteyn and Sebastian Gorka.
This concept is not abstract, or something that only happens elsewhere. Companies like the Sinclair Broadcasting Company, which is said to be in talks with conservative TV show host Bill O'Reilly, will be threading pro- Trump messaging into every aspect of television. Their virulent brand of right-wing commentary and so-called "classic propaganda" may soon reach three-quarters of US households.
Insofar as Democratic involvement is concerned in the U1 deal, there's nothing controversial at all. It's an attempt to shift the national narrative back against Trump's enemies and give his supporters some new and soothing lie to hold on to.
The important issue here is why this ordinary transaction was cooked up into a scandal in the first place; and the troubling implications that it has for the future of American democracy.
As to the details of the controversy surrounding Uranium One, they are not very controversial.
The company is a subsidiary of Rosatom, Russia's state-owned nuclear technology corporation. In 2010, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of State, Rosatom wished to acquire a majority share of Uranium One. In order for it to share in the control of uranium mines in the United States, the sale had to be approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment In the United States (CFIUS).
Because the deal would ultimately place Uranium One in control of 20% of U.S. uranium production capacity, the transaction required federal approval. During the 2016 election campaign, Trump asserted that Clinton "gave 20% of our uranium — gave Russia for a big payment." This is untrue on every level.
The mining licenses remained with U.S. subsidiaries controlled by U.S. persons. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviewed the transaction and gave its approval. All nine members of the CFIUS board voted for it with a clear conscience and say today they'd do the same again.
Uranium One does not hold the proper export license, so none of its uranium can be exported. It can never be taken to Russia and turned into nukes.
All the committee members have told everyone Clinton was not involved in the decision.
This "scandal" consisted of a Canadian company, the Northern Uranium Corporation, selling a Russian company some stock in uranium.
The nuclear recycling angle, specifically the Koch Industries interest in the valuable uranium that comes out of them, is likely of tantamount importance here. The educated guess of one expert who spoke with Millennial Democrats under the conditions of anonymity is that the Kochs did not want the competition from recycled uranium.
Most likely, this was why they needed a reason to keep recycled uranium politically unpopular. They also needed a reason to keep Hillary Clinton unpopular. It would seem they put two and two together.
These two things have nothing to do with one another, but it proved easy to make it seem otherwise. This is where the slanderous spin on Uranium One came from.
This libel has no basis in any historical record. It comes out of a wingnut book called Clinton Cash. Its production was financed by an organization called the Government Accountability Institute. This is a conservative nonprofit founded by the book's author, Peter Schweitzer. They teamed up with Breitbart's Steve Bannon to conduct the research for the book. Billionaire Robert Mercer, the same guy who is still paying the bills for Breitbart News, signed the check on this one, too.
Needless to say, it has been thoroughly dismantled by experts.
The story was ridiculous and crooked back then, but its revival in the national dialogue at this particular time is troubling in the extreme. It means the RNC is willing to drag a private citizen into government affairs, for no reason other than to deflect attention from the truth. You don't prosecute your political opponents using show trials and Congress in order to attack anything but the fabric of our democracy.
Going forward, the Uranium One slander serves as an excellent case study for the examining and reverse-engineering of Republican propaganda. There will be more of this to come than we can imagine; Russian ads alone reached over 120 million on Facebook this year.
By thinking critically and staying alert, however, we can spot these things as they come. We can dismantle them, dissect them, and lay bare their innards to the light. In this manner, we will come to see how they work.
Then we hold them up as examples of the disingenuity of our opponents. Our job is to expose lies and bear witness.
There's still a lot we can do. We still have everything it takes to fight the attempts of Trump and Putin at tyranny. The time-honored power of the vote can still save us. Make a specific plan for voting, and do what you can to get others to do the same. Once we take back the Congress, we can rid ourselves of Trump. In short, #RiseAndOrganize.
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Modern Indulgences- Trump and the Religious Right.
At the Family Research Council's recent Values Voter Summit, the religious right declared itself for Trump, with great enthusiasm and thunderous applause. Trump went on one of his rants about saying Merry Christmas, and the crowd went wild.
This is a travesty, and a hard to understand one. This president is the antithesis of every religion's value systems, all of which emphasize right living and a connection with a higher power. Trump is a sack of walking debauchery. Christmas will not be merry at all, until he's been shown the White House door. Neither will Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other holiday.
The Values Voter Summit is an annual political conference, held in Washington, D.C. for ultra- conservative operatives and elected officials from across the United States.The president was received there as a conquering hero, especially after declaring that there's been a War on Christmas going on all this time, and that it has just been won.
It is the opinion of Millennial Democrats that if the president wanted to win an imaginary war, he might have invested some of his billions into an X-Box.
Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka, who both were fired from the White House due to their virulent extremism, were both present, and both out for blood. "There is a time and season for everything," said Bannon. "And right now, it's a season for war against a GOP establishment." The whole event was a fraud. That's a room full of people at war with itself.
This is the bill being presented to the likes of Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell. The alt-right is a golem, called forth to do the bidding of a small and shrinking group of men. And like any golem worth its salt, it has risen to consume its masters.
These are the fruits of the policies that the Conservative Coalition started. This term refers to an unofficial, Tea-Party like outfit in the U.S. Congress that existed between the 1960's and 1990's. Its goal was to bring together the Northern Republicans and the minority of Southern Democrats who were incapable of changing with the times.
The term became obsolete once there weren't any Democrats left; we showed the door to the reactionary and bigoted elements of the Democratic Party long ago. The philosophy and approach lived on, however, and seems to be making an unfortunate comeback.
Many people think this way of doing business came largely to an end with Jerry Falwell's declaration to end the Moral Majority in 1989, declaring under George H.W. Bush that their goals had been achieved. It didn't. It just shifted gears and chose a new name.
Since then, America has continued watching the process of one of its political parties drained utterly of mercy and benevolence. This has never been so clear as since Trump took office.
Over this last year, the Republicans have proposed legislation to destroy unions, the healthcare system, and the education system. The Environmental Protection Agency was placed in the charge of Oklahoma's former attorney general, Scott Pruitt, a man who has spent his entire life opposing it.
They want to defund Planned Parenthood, they want to restrict abortion. Legislature has been proposed in sixteen states to stifle public protest. Increased risk of violence against transgender persons and other at-risk groups are the inevitable result of a roll back of anti-discrimination laws, but they do not seem to hold this important.
What they do hold important is to funnel wealth from the poorest to the richest. Their desire seems to be to roll back the clock arbitrarily, to a time that most of us are very glad is past. All of this is being done with the full support and sanction of the religious right, who are making big bank too.
This is why they were so happy to see the election of Donald Trump. They knew he would be good for their finances. Franklin Graham at the time said that he was convinced it was the "hand of God that got Donald Trump elected. Not Wiki-leaky, or anything else. The hand of God".
The finances of the people who make up their congregations were not considered. Even the ability of those people to receive basic health care and keep breathing was ignored, as none of them were heard protesting Trump's decision to gore Obamacare. The disgraceful examples set by Trump, i.e. greed, profligacy, nepotism, corruption, etc. were shown a blind eye also. Even the infamous "Grab em" tape in which he blatantly proves himself a sex offender didn't do the trick. All of it was ignored.
One thing only was taken into account- their plan to lay waste the First Amendment, with its insistence on enforcing the separation of church and state.
Leaders of the religious right recently started demanding federal benefits for churches hit by Hurricane Harvey, even as the cleanup started. It seems innocuous, but actually it represents a highly significant milestone in their plan to lay waste the First Amendment. They have preparing groundwork to lay claim to public funds for a long time.
If they can gain a toehold by getting legal recognition collecting federal money, they can slowly worm their way into positions of influence in a government they are legally forbidden to enter.
This is why they'll forgive Trump anything. It's why Franklin Graham attributed his victory to the Hand of God, and not "Wiki-leaky, or anything else".
The way the whole thing works out is markedly similar to the historical sale of indulgences, where corrupt priests caused an entire Reformation, selling God's permission to live licentiously to the rich. Wow. In the meantime, we're to start saying Merry Christmas again, but one wonders what Christ might think.
It's all being made possible by Donald Trump, which is why they'll forgive him anything. Martin Luther must be turning over in his grave, to see Protestants selling indulgences. The whole operation drags the spirit of the church through the mud like nothing since the Spanish Inquisition.
"I pledged that, in a Trump administration, our nation's religious heritage would be cherished, protected, and defended like you have never seen before," President Donald Trump said on Friday. "That's what's happening. We are stopping cold the attacks on Judeo-Christian values."
It is the very definition of irony, that the people who've been screaming about the End of Times and the Antichrist all these years, would end up lining up with the guy who best fits the description. For Democrats, this all provides a pleasant reminder of the reasons we can look at ourselves in the mirror and sleep at night.
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Women are hitting the weight room in record numbers, and a new study found that weight-training injuries among women have jumped a whopping 75 percent. Here are the most common mistakes and how to fix them, so you leave the gym strutting and not limping.
You probably wouldn't launch into an all-out sprint the second you stepped onto a treadmill, so you shouldn't jump right into deadlifts the instant you hit the weight room. Working cold, stiff muscles can lead to sprains and tears. Warming up increases circulation and improves range of motion, which preps your muscles and joints for action.
The fix: While opinions about static stretching may differ, a dynamic warm-up can decrease your risk for injury. After 5 to 10 minutes of walking or jogging, do 10 to 12 lunges and pushups (the bent-knee version is fine) before starting your routine.
The fix: Before you begin any exercise, think S.E.A.K: Stand straight (head over shoulders; shoulders over hips; hips over feet), eyes on the horizon (looking down encourages your shoulders to round and your chest to lean forward), abs tight (as if you were about to be punched in the gut, but without holding your breath; this helps stabilize your pelvis), and knees over your second toe (women's knees have a tendency to turn in because of the angle created by wider hips.
As crazy as it sounds, women who lift weights tend to have less-stable shoulder joints than women who don't lift at all, found a recent study. The reason: Doing too many exercises in which your elbows are pulled behind your body (think chest flies and rows) can overstretch the connective tissue in the front of the joints. If the backs of your shoulders are tight, you're even more likely to overstretch the front, increasing the imbalance at the joint.
Many women have strength imbalances, which can make them more prone to injury. Sometimes they're the result of your lifestyle (hovering over a desk all day, for example, tightens and weakens your hip flexors while your glutes become overstretched and inactive). Other times they're caused by not working both sides of the body equally (say, focusing on moves that rely on your quads but not your hamstrings).
A lot of people think that more is better—more reps, more sets, more weight. But if you increase any of these things too quickly, your body may not be able to handle the extra workload. Gradual conditioning prevents injuries such as torn ligaments and tendinitis, because your muscles and connective tissues have time to adapt.
The fix: Practice a three-step progression. First, learn to do a move using only your body weight. When you can do 15 reps with proper form, add weight. Second, stick to one set with light weights for two weeks or until you feel comfortable with the move. And finally, when you can complete nearly all of your reps with proper form, add another set or more weight (increase weight by roughly 10 percent each time).


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Canadian CEO blasts "narcissist in Washington" over deaths in Iran plane crash
By Aimee Picchi
Updated on: January 13, 2020 / 11:34 AM / MoneyWatch
Protesters in Iran angry over downed plane
The CEO of Canada's largest food processor is blasting President Donald Trump and other U.S. political leaders for the downing of a Ukrainian International Airlines passenger jet in Iran that killed 176 people, including dozens of Canadians.
Maple Leaf Foods chief executive Michael McCain said in a tweet on Sunday that the wife and family of a colleague at the company were among those killed in the attack. In a scathing series of tweets, he also said the U.S. "concocted an ill-conceived plan to divert focus from political woes."
"A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart; destabilizes region. US now unwelcomed everywhere in the area including Iraq; tensions escalated to feverish pitch," McCain added.
I'm Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, and these are personal reflections. I am very angry, and time isn't making me less angry. A MLF colleague of mine lost his wife and family this week to a needless, irresponsible series of events in Iran...
— Maple Leaf Foods (@MapleLeafFoods) January 13, 2020
The jetliner crashed early Wednesday in the hours after Iran launched missile attacks on two Iraqi military bases housing American troops. Iran's Revolutionary Guard admitted it accidentally shot down the Ukrainian jet. The attacks were a response to the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani days earlier.
Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain speaks during an annual shareholders meeting in Toronto April 28, 2011. Mike Cassese / REUTERS
Numerous Canadians were on the downed jet, partly because the country is home to a large community of people of Iranian descent as well as Iranian graduate and postdoctoral students, according to the BBC.
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"63 Canadians needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire, including the family of one of my MLF colleagues (his wife + 11 year old son)! We are mourning and I am livid," McCain wrote.
…The collateral damage of this irresponsible, dangerous, ill-conceived behavior? 63 Canadians needlessly lost their lives in the crossfire, including the family of one of my MLF colleagues (his wife + 11 year old son)! We are mourning and I am livid. Michael McCain.
..A narcissist in Washington tears world accomplishments apart; destabilizes region. US now unwelcomed everywhere in the area including Iraq; tensions escalated to feverish pitch. Taking out despicable military leader terrorist? There are a hundred like him, standing next in line
McCain's tweets went viral on social media, with more than 42,000 likes and almost 13,000 retreats as of Monday morning. Some respondents on social media vowed to avoid purchasing products made by Maple Leaf Foods, while others said they would support the company.
Maple Leaf Foods employs more than 12,000 workers and produces bacon, sausage and other meat products under the Maple Leaf brand.
First published on January 13, 2020 / 10:02 AM
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