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What do you expect on Wednesday?

Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.
- 5 (45.5%)
A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.
- 5 (45.5%)
A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.
- 0 (0%)
More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.
- 0 (0%)
A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.
- 1 (9.1%)
More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.
- 0 (0%)
DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.
- 0 (0%)
Huge disruption to the day.
- 0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM


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« Reply #21390 on: October 07, 2019, 09:18:21 PM »

A true low point in the history of our international alliances.

Finally matching the domestic treaties we have signed over the centuries.

(Now we wait until Ward appears to tell us that's absurd.)

Hmmm.
Is Turkey in NATO?
Are the Kurds?
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josh

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« Reply #21391 on: October 07, 2019, 09:56:44 PM »

A true low point in the history of our international alliances.

Finally matching the domestic treaties we have signed over the centuries.

(Now we wait until Ward appears to tell us that's absurd.)

Hmmm.
Is Turkey in NATO?
Are the Kurds?

He has nothing to say, but he can almost rhyme!
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« Reply #21392 on: October 07, 2019, 10:01:15 PM »

It seems that Red slipped on his dildo and accidentally typed something

This is offset by Kiid asserting that trump does nothing productive in his stolen office. He further assures us that impeaching the ever-loving shit out of him will in no way hurt his non-performance.

Trump sells out his family. Of course he sold out the Kurds. 
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Will the Supreme Court grant trump work release to attend the republican national convention?

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« Reply #21393 on: October 07, 2019, 11:00:41 PM »

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Poll: Black and Latino Americans think Donald Trump's actions have made life worse for people of color
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« Reply #21394 on: October 08, 2019, 09:00:27 AM »

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« Reply #21398 on: October 08, 2019, 09:50:31 AM »

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  "Early this morning, the U.S. Department of State directed Ambassador Gordon Sondland not to appear today for his scheduled transcribed interview before the U.S. House of Representatives Joint Committee," the law firm representing Sondland said in a statement. "Ambassador Sondland had previously agreed to appear voluntarily today, without the need for a subpoena, in order to answer the Committee's questions on an expedited basis. As the sitting U.S. Ambassador to the EU and employee of the State Department, Ambassador Sondland is required to follow the Department's direction."
 

Is he required to do so when the DoS is engaged in obstruction of justice?
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« Reply #21399 on: October 08, 2019, 10:00:23 AM »

Shouldn't Pompeo recuse himself from issuing any directives, given his involvement?
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« Reply #21400 on: October 08, 2019, 10:01:19 AM »

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo returned Monday morning from a European trip to a State Department workforce that is increasingly demoralized and resentful under his leadership, amid a growing belief that he has subordinated its mission and abandoned colleagues in the service of President Trump’s political aims.

The “prevailing mood is low and getting lower, if it can,” said Thomas R. Pickering, a diplomatic dean who served in high-ranking department positions and held seven ambassadorships, including to Russia and the United Nations, under six presidents of both parties.

State Department officials strongly supported $141 million in department funds that Congress appropriated this year for Ukraine — in addition to $250 million in aid from the Defense Department. But there is no indication that Pompeo objected when Trump withheld all of the assistance while Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani — and the president himself — pressed the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son....   

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/demoralized-state-department-personnel-question-pompeos-role-in-ukraine-crisis/2019/10/07/85536c3c-e93b-11e9-9306-47cb0324fd44_story.html

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« Reply #21401 on: October 08, 2019, 10:03:45 AM »

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Most worrisome to the department is concern that Pompeo did not intervene to protect U.S. diplomats either enlisted by Giuliani to assist his efforts or punished for being insufficiently committed to the cause, according to more than a dozen current and former officials, most of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter...   
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« Reply #21402 on: October 08, 2019, 01:24:01 PM »

Volcker, Sondland and Taylor used WhatsApp on their private cellphones to conduct State Department business, making it impossible for their communications to comply with federal record-keeping requirements.

We just had a national Presidential election where this was supposedly the most important issue, and yet I have yet to see a single media mention re: the House subpoenas that focuses on this.
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"When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that's a pretty good job we've done."  -  The impeached "president" on Feb 27, 2020

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« Reply #21403 on: October 08, 2019, 01:27:32 PM »

Kid. you were busy defending the president's Syria decision.

This piece touches on many of the reasons that it was dumb, dumb, dumb.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/07/opinions/trump-syria-us-troops-withdrawal-bergen/index.html
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« Reply #21404 on: October 08, 2019, 01:30:54 PM »

Volcker, Sondland and Taylor used WhatsApp on their private cellphones to conduct State Department business, making it impossible for their communications to comply with federal record-keeping requirements.

We just had a national Presidential election where this was supposedly the most important issue, and yet I have yet to see a single media mention re: the House subpoenas that focuses on this.

It's that liberal media again.

And as ever, "do what I say, not what I do" and"I just said whatever I needed to to gain an advantage" are the watchwords for the GOP. Secure communications, record keeping, deficit, small government, state's rights, individual rights, freedom of speech...

It doesn't matter what talking point you want to look at --> the national politiics of the GOP are all like reading Red State Ward and Kid.
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