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Yeah, this is right. If this goes by without consequences where is the line? Why not just cancel the 2016 election?

You can't look at one poll. Even if he's popular, it doesn't change the fact that he's a moron criminal shredding our constitution on a daily basis. Hitler was popular too.

The decision allowed for the imposition of tarriffs on $7.5 billion of goods. There was no award. He mostly just spews complete nonsense these days.

Obama apparently got it in April 2007. There's a way to prioritize it and honestly all of the top 5 dems--and probably Beto too--should have it.

People shouldn't get that close to her at this stage. I'm terrified about political violence and thought she already had secret service protection.

She needs Secret Service protection. Wtf.

Most bizzare thing in the article: Mifsud met Papadopoulos when he and his Italian wife, Simona Mangiante, a lawyer and part-time lingerie model who had hoped to launch her acting career with a role playing French actress Brigitte Bardot in a British film, both worked for a company Mifsud ran. Mangiante told The Daily Beast that she met Mifsud while doing some legal consulting for the European Parliament. His ties to Russia seemed potentially useful to her husband, who was then an integral part of the Trump campaign’s foreign-policy advisory panel at the time.

Please let this be the end. The thing is when the house of cards come down, I'm not so sure who escapes. You have to think Pence is compromised. President Pelosi? How does she navigate that?

You wonder if this outcome--one way or another-- is inevitable at this point. Whether Trump wins or loses--whether there's interference or fraud or not. If Putin wanted to divide America it seems Project Trump is succeeding beyond his wildest expectations. I'm hopeful a leader like Warren could emerge and unite enough the country that we can move on somehow but at the same time I've never been so pessimistic.

I said this a day or two ago but it bears repeating that if he's not removed in the next 3-4 months, I don't know if he will be--absent dying in office. He'll rig the election--one way or another--and that will be it. Think about how much damage he could then.

Unbelievable that the party that spent the last 20 years or so screaming about the Constitution is ripping it up. Lincoln, also a Republican, did it to save the Union. Today's republicans are doing it to save....Trump.

I think she has. No point in continuing to talk about it. There has been nothing new since the DNA test. By elevating it to an issue that she had to address repeatedly, you're doing exactly what Trump wants.

In addition to there be nothing wrong or dishonest about Schiff's summation, Trump lies to the American people on a daily basis.

BT, I don't have time to go through everything in your post this morning and don't want to engage a baseless and bad faith attack in line with Birtherism and emails. I just wanted to add that one other consideration is that she came from a working class background to enter the elitest circles in the US. As someone who has done it, the imposter syndrome and other insecurities make you do stupid things to try to relate to people.I lied about stupid stuff like playing football when I didn't for reasons I still can't explain today.

This is wrong. If it wasn't calling Schiff's dentified paraphrase a lie and"Treason", it would have been something else. He is committed to manipulating the public through falsehoods.

That ad being out there is not new. It's covered in the Politifact summary on this. Her story has consistently been that she relied on family stories of Native American ancestry. Over time, she has come to recognize that it is wrong to rely on family lore -- even if genuinely held -- considering the history of Native Americans in our country and has apologized. That doesn't change that she had a genuinely held and important belief that her family had native ancestors. Warren’s ultimate explanation was she was drawing on family stories. "As a kid, I never asked my mom about documentation when she talked about our Native American heritage," Warren said in a 2012 campaign ad. "What kid would? But I knew my father’s family didn’t like that she was part Cherokee and part Delaware. So my parents had to elope." Warren’s extended family offered a mixed take on those stories to Boston Globe reporters. Gloria Wysong, a cousin, said that her mother told her that the family's heritage "was Delaware, but the Delaware and Cherokee merged together." And David Herring, Warren’s brother, said he grew up hearing, "Your grandfather is part Delaware, a little bitty bit, way back, and your grandmother is part Cherokee." But other cousins had no such memories. The main takeaway from the Globe’s reporting was that many who had Native American ties hid them, and documentation at the turn of the last century was spotty. In any event, any ties were so distant that they would not qualify her as minority by any official yardstick. Warren herself didn’t trumpet this side of her family story. When applying to college and law school, records show that she either identified as white or declined to apply based on minority status. https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/dec/01/facts-behind-elizabeth-warren-and-her-native-ameri/ My Dad's family is from Oklahoma and my grandmother told me similar stories growing up. She also told me--without evidence-- that we were "probably related to the Wright Brothers" because we had Wrights in our family. All of this is probably false, but that they were part of my families identity is true--and the same goes for Elisabeth Warren. This is "Hillary's emails" attack against Warren and every democrat should be careful how they use it.

Live look-in on Trump:

Where's all the surly republicans to defend this shit? He needs to resign tomorrow. If he doesn't, remove him. Every Senator who votes no is complicit in this shit.

Unveiled Starship Mk1 yesterday. https://arstechnica.com/features/2019/09/after-starship-unveiling-mars-seems-a-little-closer/. The vision and speed of execution is just incredible. SLS is going to be several years obsolete by the time it gets off the ground. Full video of the unveiling:

Democrats need to go all in on putting Trump's corruption before the American people. They need to ratchet up whatever messaging apparatus they have and put his shit on blast. The media will do it's reporting but it can be ignored if you wish. If this doesn't bring down Trump, then we've gone off Brisket's ledge. The only thing that gives me some comfort is that he's old but then what if someone younger--and more capable--carries on Trumpism after Trump? These are very dark times and the next few weeks--and then maybe 2020--if it can somehow be a fair election-- are probably the last chance to save our democracy.

Right after he fired the man responsible for investigating it, which by the way he told the same Russians relieved a "great pressure" on him. Oh, and then he appointed an attorney general that limited and then buried the special counsel investigation that firing triggered. The corruption and criminality in this administration is insane. What's even more terrifying is that as a result of internet and other media filter bubbles (see Fox News/Limbaugh), you can just ignore these facts, buy into an alternate reality, or just be distracted by nonsense (Hillary's emails, Uranium one, etc.) .When Watergate happened, the presentation and filtering of facts was much more concentrated in a few influential news sources. That media was also driven by journalistic integrity and not a profit motive--as many outlets are today. The result was that the facts--and the wrongdoing-- could be made readily apparent to the public and Nixon had to resign. Today, at least 40% (probably most) of the country is isolated from the truth. What's truly terrifying, though, is Trump--while putting out a model for taking advantage of the modern media and ability to engage in sophisticated and widespread domestic psychological warefare-- is mildly incompetent at pulling it off. Imagine what would happen if you had someone more savvy decide to use Trump's tools to impose tyranny. That's the greater danger, and i don't know you address it. New regulation of new and social media would be a good place to start, but it's going to raise a bunch of 1A issues that I'm not sure we're prepared to sort through. The bottom line , though is that where we're heading is much worse than where we are. Chew on that for a while.

Such dumb. Can we add confusing an apostrophe with a hyphen to the articles of impeachment?

More whistleblowers coming forward would be real cool. Like from the Barr Justice department. This guy is guilty as Fuck. No matter what alternative facts they spin.

He's retained a whistleblower lawyer. Not sure if he could have done that before submitting the complaint? I would if I were him/her.

Schiff is pretty good.