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Cory Gardner HAS said something about the Korean peninsula. According to KBS World Radio (which has "programs help you explore the multiple facets of Korean culture, politics and society."), there was a meeting of Korean parliamentary leaders and US Congress members.
Another Korean source, Korea JoongAng Daily("a leading English newspaper of Korea), described the meeting as including a different statement from Gardner:
So, nothing direct to the media, nothing pushed out to US media, but we do have second hand accounts of Gardner's thinking.
Gardner vowed . . .
Ttump’s attracting attention . . .
Korea’s lost.
AKA "Hearsay"?
After being removed from the Duke University golf team this smug little punk
is pulling down $90k+ in the Whitest House Public Liaison Office. His mother may or may not be his father’s cousin. Just kidding. He actually looks like more of a brother to Eric than Donnie the junior.
What does Rudy Giuliano’s Son Do?
And, the RNC just bought $100K worth of Genius, Jr’s “best seller” . . .
. . . GOPer Dianetics
. . . and, I’m guessing that, as another qualified
scamdelusionreligion, it’ll all be tax exempt . . . like it wasn’t gonna’ be anyway, huh?Let me fix that…
Reminds me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLGrXGEMOSo
At this point, without taxpayer dollars the Trump and Giuliani empires would implode. I look forward to the day . . .
Bear in mind, Realist, that the Trump empire is actually propped up by Russian loans. You will recall Eric Trump publicly stating, in 2013, "we get all the money we need from Russia."
Why else would Trump continually grovel and bow before Putin; and be looking to advance Putin's causes instead of our country's interests?
Agree, but can Trump actually pay back the Russian "loans" without US taxpayer dollars?
Realist: I think we both know there is no way to know anything for sure until Trump's financial records are revealed, at least in part. And Trump is trying feverishly to keep those records concealed.
Considering what is already known about his business history, Trump reminds me of the saying from down Texas way: "big hat, no cattle."
Eventually something will break on his finances. He can't legally stop every attempt to garner information.
I look forward to the day we get it all back, with interest!
His mother is actually Rudy’s second wife, Donna Hanover, the one he unceremoniously dumped at a press conference for mistress who went on to be wife number 3.
Ah, the party of Family Values….
The article I embedded states that *rump has always been like a father figure to him. This looks more like a classic ‘same Milkman’ situation: (Eric on the right)
The Atlantic also claims:
No word about how he developed an awareness of the opioid crisis, the governmental response, or if he has a personal agenda in the area. But somebody has to do it, and Jared seems to have too many other responsibilities to cover an opioid crisis.
Scott Farkus?
This stinks:
On May 18, 2010, Norton supporter Charles Grice, Jr. filed a complaint with the FEC against Buck, his campaign, Buck’s wife, AJS, two other outside groups, Morgensen, and Hensel Phelps, alleging illegal coordination between Buck’s campaign and the outside groups, as well as excessive contributions and illegal corporate contributions. The complaint also raised the possibility that Hensel Phelps could have violated the ban on government contractors making political contributions.
The urgent need for real campaign finance reform is like climate change . . .
. . . a undeniable fact that every person with even half a brain now acknowledges is a huge, intractable problem that threatens, and if left unchecked will eventually destroy, everything we hold dear . . .
. . . which also seems to be grudgingly tolerated, or kicked down the road, under some kind of pretense it can always be dealt with by some mysterious future magic????
The Atlantic is reporting that Joe Biden has struggled with stuttering his whole life. That helps explain some of his stumbles when he closes his eyes and seems to be having problems finding the right word. So, many of his "moments" are not the feared "senior moments" and makes me feel a little better. But, it doesn't explain three of his gaffes at Wednesday's debates when he misidentified becoming the Dem nominee rather than the Dem president, when he claimed there was only one black woman senator in US history, and when he used "punch, punch, punch" to describe how to reduce violence on women.
Just made another contribution to Pete and to Amy after being reminded by V the other day.
I saw only a snippet of the Wednesday debates. What I saw was Biden successfully hammering on Bernie over the fact that a majority of Democrats do not support Medicare for All.
WOTD from Josh Marshall at TPM: "Remember that Chief Justice Roberts Presides over the Impeachment Trial in the Senate"
A reason why the House Democrats are not filing subpoenas on Bolton, Mulvaney and Giuliani may be because they can get those subpoenas later, during the trial in the Senate. Chief Justice Roberts has the role of deciding on any procedures and evidence during the Impeachment trial in the Senate. If the subpoenas make their way slowly up the appeals process, Roberts would probably be the 5th vote anyways, so it is more expeditious to just have him approve subpoenas for material witnesses in the trial. The Senate could vote to over-ride him… how many Republican Senators would choose to override the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
How many Republican Senators would vote to override Chief Justice Roberts? All of them, if it means protecting Dear Leader.
Fiona Hill just killed it.
She split the impeachment inquiry into two parts: (1) Official US policy and (2) Trump's informal.
The other thing I got from these hearings is to observe Trump's negotiating style in detail. First you hold up the military aid. Nobody knows why. Then people start trying to guess what would restart the aid. Then a suggestion comes in. Trump's opponent tries to meet the suggestion. Then the goalposts are moved, and a different suggestion comes.
JUST BEFORE the deal is settles, a whole other requirement shows up.
Then AFTER you sign the deal, and AFTER you deliver 200 plumbing jobs to 200 condos, Trump refuses to pay and when you take him to Court his $900/hour lawyers claim your work was sub-par, and the Court case drags out for weeks while you are paying your $200/hour lawyers.
It's an aggressive, power-hungry, sociopathic way of negotiating.
It doesn't recognize that a good deal is a good deal for both sides, and it assumes that you don't have to work with the same negotiating partner in the future.
Ruh roh . . .
. . . looks like somebody’s lil’ milkdud got some splainin’ to do:
. . . can you say, “co-conspitator”??? I’ll bet you can!