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horncyclist

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  1. 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.
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    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:
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Such dumb. Can we add confusing an apostrophe with a hyphen to the articles of impeachment?
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Schiff is pretty good.
  9. Nixon: also elected. Also a criminal. Nunes is 100% a traitor
  10. If they were so reckless with this, you have to wonder what else Trump has been doing on a regular basis. Biden probably isn't even going to be the nominee for christ sakes. Why risk this shit?
  11. The thought of Trump being finished just....just like that...is wild. I don't know if we're there yet but with the signals coming from republicans it's going to be really hard to bury this and a shit ton more will come out now as the dam breaks. In other news, I stand to make $400 on predictit if Trump doesn't make it to the end of the year.
  12. I wouldn't be surprised if republicans right now are trying to figure out if they can get rid of Trump and blame the democrats. Get him to resign and pin on the Dems. Win win.
  13. Other fascinating thing about that call is Zelensky makes a point to 1) tell Trump how great he is and 2) casually mention he's stayed at a Trump hotel. Probably typical of these calls.
  14. Nice. Biden collapse likely imminent. Where do status quo Dems go? Harris? Buttigie? Beto?
  15. Can't wait for Bill Barr to come out at 10 AM today with his summary of principal conclusions of the Whistleblower complaint.
  16. These ads are Awesome. Fuck yeah. Let's make it happen.
  17. Did this thread just spend a day talking about the Native American thing? Come on guys. Meanwhile, Liz is quickly approaching frontrunner status: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/24/elizabeth-warren-new-hampshire-poll-1509486 New polling conducted since the last Democratic presidential primary debate shows Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden separating from the pack — and notably, from Bernie Sanders — in three key early-voting states. A Monmouth University poll conducted in New Hampshire and released Tuesday gives Warren a 2-point lead over Biden, 27 percent to 25 percent, well within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
  18. He "faltered" in the Senate race because the GOP spent an unprecedented amount to defeat him and sent in the President at the last minute to turn out their base. He's been persuasive on the gun issue...and on immigration at times, though he had that deer in the headlights look in the first debate. Its his passion that makes him persuasive. And he's struggled in the primary because 1) crowded and impressive field, 2) bad strategy out of the gate and 3) intense scrutiny from left and right when he launched, both saw him as a threat.
  19. Exactly. Chuck Schumer should resign his leadership position. Bunch of cowards.
  20. Going to a fundraiser here in northern Virginia for state house delegates on Monday. First fundraiser like this I've been too. Going to do a bunch of blockwalkongnfor the four delegates too. 2020, I'm all in for Liz. Will help Beto too if he gets a bit more competitive where I think he has a shot at getting on the ticket.
  21. I suppose Putin could see the writing on the wall with his agent and is calling in his chips before the election year. I just don't see any reason to believe this considering what's already out there on the contents of the WB complaint.
  22. Hasn't bit been eatablished that the wb complaint is about conversations with Ukraine's Pres?
  23. Michael Moore can be divisive but I see this as significant for Beto, just the recognition of leadership. I liked this one from the comments: Beto may yet gain some steam. I think he'll be uniquely positioned to pick up a lot of Biden support when he collapses having progressive bonafides with a demonstrated willingness to take action but still somehow being able to preach unity. After his early stumbles people started writing him off, attributing his success more to: "maybe it was just standing next to Ted Cruz", which I think is wrong. Would be great to see him pick up a significant number of delegates to help with a legit run to get on the ticket. Warren-Beto all the way.
  24. This is really blowing up on Twitter. As usual, she's right. Nov 2020 can't get here soon enough. https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1175192494734266369?s=19
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