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What a sound bite. Jesus, she must be drinking lots of them beers she loves.

If you're an independant or undecided, I think that's the point. How can we re-elect someone who was nearly removed from office (in a highly partisan proceeding where the opposition sets the rules, and much of the dirty work is handled behind the curtain)? Fair question, and that seems to be the dems angle. I would hope that independent-minded people would look at the totality of the events of the past 4 years...realize this isn't politics as usual, it was an attempt to undo the election results. Team Trump will be aggressive in the messaging, there certainly is ample evidence for independents to at least consider that likely. In addition, the wild card is any declass-related info that might come out after the Durham review. Many are skeptical that anything will come of it, I'm hopeful that wrongdoing is revealed.

All great money laundering schemes require separate yet interconnected multiple laundromats. They follow the Amway model..

A grain of salt is measured to 64. 79198 milligrams. If you go to a salt store and ask them for a grain, they give you 64.79198 milligrams. Come back the next day, ask them for a HUGE grain of salt, they make you wait a bit, throw it in a larger bag and up charge you twice what they charged you the day before, but you get home with your same 64.79198 milligrams. It’s a huge problem with salt stores, pretty common knowledge they have their thumb on the scale.

You're asking a lot from an internet challenged geezer to read through some of my own thoughts to get to yours. Looks like a whole lot of hinky voodoo copy and paste business but here goes: 1. The House has it's rules and role. The Senate does as well. To the broader question of absolute immunity--I'm going to be the last honest mah-fahkurr on the internet. What the heck do I know? If President Trump was on the front lawn of the White House and stabbed a CNN reporter through the cranium, I"d think he would be removed. At the same time, let's not make this elaborate scheme something grander than it is. This isn't about a crime, it isn't about obstruction, this is about politics with a blunt hatchet. See if it were me, I'd think old Adam Schiff would be embarrassed to be caught lying as as spokesperson of the modern Dem party, but not only is he not embarrassed, the dem leadership makes him the Mac Daddy of Impeachment--he's the BuggEY'D-G of Impeachment. The House chose its path, defined it's role and moved forward as the enemy combatant to the sitting President and those who elected him. Why would the Senate not follow the same course of action? You ask too much. 2. The Russian narrative is dead, it actually died long before it knew it had expired, and it's embarrassing to continue to point to it. It was a wholesale victory by Team Trump, the issue should be buried and those who ran the grift on the American people exposed and jailed. There should be no further review of Trump in that regard, and the only reason to do so is purely for political gain. Folks who think as you do will buy whatever is sold in that regard, so there is that. As for OJ--(and seriously Bob---an OJ question here??), no, OJ should not be investigated by the House or Senate for murder, past or present. As for Ukraine--I already know what happened. So do you. I want it to end because in spite of the incredible legal/political gymnastics they ran with, the House Dems could not even carry their own party with the load of crap they backed up to our Nation's Capitol. This, in spite of unlimited time, money, resources and the ability to game the system as they saw fit. I want it to end as soon as reasonably possible, within the guidelines established for such things, using the power and strength of the majority party. 3. You know I like chatting with you, but the last part about cheating and Wikileaks is off the rails my friend. I see things differently, of course, but it has nothing to do with smearing Biden--Biden is knee deep in self-smearing (gross) based on his public commentary on the issue at hand. I'm not even sure that what Biden Inc did was illegal--at least the part about setting his crackhead son up for a sweetheart deal. I think he clearly strong-armed a foreign government for personal enrichment, heck I'd think even you agree with that, right? "Get rid of the guy who's looking into our affairs, or I cut off aid from the American taxpayers." Joe Biden ain't going to jail, and he'll drum up 10s of millions of votes, yet he's on tape sounding an awful lot like Paulie Walnuts of Sopranos. I think well-intentioned liberals think they somehow hold some moral high ground on these issues, and that's the part that makes me laugh. I know who Trump is as a human, I know the things that bother me about him, but I sit here today and say still---the guy is a national treasure and one day, books will be written about this crazy journey he took to the top in spite of the obstacles, entrenched politicos working against him 24x7, and with people filled with righteous indignation who claim their guy is the answer--be their guy a crazy old man who fondles everything he can get his hands on while propping up his drug-addicted-deceased-brother's-wife-banging son in the ^%$#ing Ukraine, or the crazy conman socialist and his criminal wife living the elitist life of a high ranking member of the politboro, or the self-aggrandizing Harvard prof who can't remember if she grew up oppressed in a house or a wigwam, or the obligatory gay mayor of a town who's sister city might well be Cheektowaga, NY. I say again. This is a political death match. If the republicans are going to cave and be bullied by the liberals, the fight is lost.

Hey Bob--good to hear from you. What it seems to me that you're in support of is the R senators ceding the control given to them by the voting public to their political enemies. I don't know why anyone with half a conscience would do so, but I've long believed there really is just one mushy political party that pretends to act as two, with an eye toward maintaining the status quo. My suggestion would be to move forward to dismiss the case as quickly as reasonably possible, to paint the dems as obstructionist and socialists willing to steal the presidency that was rightly won by President Trump. If they lose at the ballot box over this issue, well, what can you really do? We have 3+ years of Russian fiction that some people still cling to in spite of a failure best described as spectacular, we have the public dismemberment of Brett Kavanaugh, along with people screaming that the Senate needs to do something it simply does not need to do----all in the backdrop of a of one of the most high-profiled public figures bullying foreign power into doing his bidding while his son is enriched beyond most people's wildest dreams. As we look forward to the ballot box, there is plenty of ammunition to use against the democrats. At this point, it's really boiled down to 'us v. them'. Might as well get to it.

I’m not with you on this one. My assumption is she erroneously started to say “Los Angeles Nicks”, realized she was screwing up big time and attempted a correction that ended horribly.

Please elaborate. If your perspective is that acquiescence to the demands of your enemy equates to creating a “clearer picture”, you haven’t paid attention to the political history of our country. The only information that needs to be provided is that which leads to the successful resolution of the senate trial, and that which results in the quickest verdict in favor of the President.

Coronavirus???

You b#stard!!

Well, to be fair, the votes of people who didn’t do the right thing are plentiful, and easier to buy. . I figure I’ll be pushing $350k on student debt for my children when all is said and done. My children had the opportunity to go to most schools, had good grades and worked to help the cause. We collectively made choices, some of which were heavily influenced by the voting bloc with the deep pockets over the outraged voices of the attending bloc, but which were based on some level of sense once referred to as “common”. I give this man credit for his controlled rage, and his refusal to shake the hand of this phony who doesn’t even bother try and hide her disdain and contempt for his asking a pretty reasonable question. As a member of the class of the educational elites, Warren drank deeply from the well of student debt, just part of the crowd that &$#@ed students over for personal enrichment. I wonder if she took to the street while lining her pockets, or if she just saddled up knowing that down the road she could pretend she didn’t, knowing that many people who stood to gain from her scheme would back her up regardless. One of the most amazing parts to me is that in spite of the cost of education, and in spite of NYs grand giveaway of education for those at certain income levels, I still get solicitation to send more money to help the school(s) out. It’s simply amazing how these people think.

chuck has been a sitting US Senator since 1998. I would assume the number of articles written on the trajectory of the Social Security program sine that time number in the hundreds of thousands. I would bet 98% of those articles skew negative. Yet this rich, entitled, sanctimonious, hypocritical boated piece of human politics can say without shame or irony that Trump is the problem. f u, chuck.

Good God man, such imagery. ?

We’re this far down the road, may have well have the storm hit late enough to impact 2020 election.

Ground and pound, ground and pound, ground and pound. Keep tearing the guy down, throw constant allegations against him, when disproven or they fade from the public view, start all over again. In our little cross section of the world here on PP, we have some lovable dipsh#ts who crowed about (Among other things) Herr Mueller and his gang of sturmabteiliung acolytes taking down DJT for years, only to end up with egg on their faces, only to start it all up again. They have no shame, they are incapable of introspection, and thus they move on to the next scandal their overlords toss out. On the other hand, there are the rest of us who suggest, as you did, that this would unacceptable if the shoe was on the other foot, despite their feelings about Obama and those before him.

It's why I think, if the material implicating Schiff in any way, shape or form will help put this issue to bed, it should be revealed. I hate to say that even in light of the sh6theel that he is, but so be it.

Don't be disingenuous. The entire spectacle is political, and witnesses are blocked and trotted out to serve the master with the allotted time on the clock. For every "there's a reason a bunch of witnesses" will not testify, there is a reason other witnesses were called to testify. It's not the Rs job to "help their case", anymore than it was Kavanaughs obligation to prove he wasn't lead engineer on a rape train.

Initially I always feel badly when I read these reports. “Accused of having sexual relationships with several students and providing them with alcohol” makes them sound easy and irresponsible. After that though, my mind wanders,

I don’t disagree. My issue at time like these is that the politics of personal destruction is big business and alive and well. Watching Brett Kavanaugh and his hearing disgusted me. I wish that on no one, and if there is justice in the world, the main architects of that attempted destruction will rot in hell. That said, I’m not so sure I’d draw this line anymore, or if the republicans can afford to do it any more. Guess we’ll have to see.

Would you support the release of embarrassing, though not illegal, information if it made a difference in the 2020 election cycle? Is it all fair in politics if the desired outcome is achieved? Just wondering how you see that.

In fairness, The Fugitive guy had one arm, he wasn’t armless. You probably weren’t intentionally limb shaming him, but these movie characters are real people with real feelings. So many people call them armless, but is it so hard to refer to them as bi-laterally challenged? And the jokes, always with the jokes. “Hey, look, here comes Slots!” or “I saw a one-armed guy about to het hanged, so I started yelling out letters” or “When a one armed guy does Sign Language, is it fair to say he has a speech impediment?”. Sorry, I went on a rant, but armless? No.

Seriously Foxxy, come clean and tell me you made this and it’s a deep fake. Let’s even agree Joe paid her the $2 for the babysitting and an extra $1 an hour to violate her personal space and smell her hair for an hour. All very doable on $40k+ at that time.

It seems far too often the tail wags the dog. I think a sensible response is to help those who cannot help themselves. In some case ls that surely will result in forced compliance. While unfortunate, the other side of the coin--homeless people of all sorts wandering the streets, streets becoming the repository of drug paraphernalia, excrement, and of course the predators that flow to any crisis of this magnitude--- presents a risk to everyone involved, and that risk exceeds a reasonable standard. Part of the problem is the heavy-handedness of government in implementing programs. We have a group home for the developmentally disabled in our neighborhood. Been there 20 years, and the concern amongst many of the neighbors prior to occupancy was the potential impact on property values. I wasn't really all that concerned, I was raised by a mother who preached compassion and mainstreaming people as, well people. The problem is, proper values have been impacted. The property is at times unkempt, they enlarged the driveway beyond a reasonable size and apparently gave no aesthetic consideration to it, the garbage cans are overflowing more often than not and there really is no rhyme of reason to any of it. It's a difficult challenge and I think you're correct it is extremely difficult to solve. Status quo is a very bad option.

In a world suddenly populated but officials in black shirts rushing the field with neuralyzers to make officials forget the calls they made and flags they might have thrown, this is not entirely crazy. I. Am. In. Let’s hope the next step in JAs development is recognizing consistently that small bites of the apple extend drives. Great post all in all.

I read the “comprehensive reform measures”. Starts with capping increases on rent at 5%, strengthening protection against eviction, throws massive amounts of money at the problem, loosens burdensome and nonsensical regulations they put in place, and eliminates the need for referendums in localities that require such things, and mentions something about taking advantage of the prime real estate under freeways. So...tax the balls off people, f ‘em over when the tenant can’t/won’t pay the rent, regulate the $#@& out of building projects, add layers of additional government workers to the payroll, suspend the burdensome regulations that squeeze the $#@& out of people, and warehouse the homeless under the freeway. I agree with you, Jim, it’s a complicated problem and it sure looks like they’ve done a great job of $#@&ing up the solution.