The Impeachment Hearings , House Vote and Eventual Trial ..All Updates ...AS EXPECTED... TRUMP SKATES
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Funny thing about this, I didn't even read your post above me and I just happened to run across this tweet and posted it in here immediately after you.
They couldn't release this shit months ago?
They've been in court for months. Mind you these are documents that were refused to Congress. There have been several FOIA requests from citizen groups and the NYT. I've posted links in the past. That is what house managers have been arguing about documents and redactions. The documents they do have were either from witnesses that defied the WH or FOIA requests with redactions.
The WH has claimed absolute immunity and executive privilege, but citizens wouldn't be able to get documents if this were the case. There are more that are supposed to be released over the next month.
Ah I see
Somebody said "Jesus Christ, quit trying to overturn "inaudible inaudible inaudible"."
That's all I could gather.
I'm running errands listening to the radio. I was just about to turn off the motor when thay happened.
After Schumer said testimony from Hunter Biden is a non-starter
Ted Cruz: Testimony from Hunter Biden is now critical
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Ted Cruz: Testimony from Hunter Biden is now critical
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After Schumer said tstimony from Hunter Biden is a non-starter
Ted Cruz: Testimony from Hunter Biden is now critical
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And not one person from their base will question this.
I wish all these far reich religious fascist nuts cared as much about the babies AFTER they were born just as much as they do in the womb.
After Schumer said tstimony from Hunter Biden is a non-starter
Ted Cruz: Testimony from Hunter Biden is now critical
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Real talk why not let them call hunter so Dems can call trumps people?!?And not one person from their base will question this.
If hunter didn't do shit besides take a job that looks suspect but was not breaking any laws, let the repugs ask a bunch of dumb ass questions that are irrelevant to the case at hand.
Using the chess not checkers analogy wouldn't it be better to sacrifice a useless pawn like Biden to get Trump?
They are just trying to get the Democrats to say "no" so they have the cover they need to do what they were always going to do and not have witnesses.
If the Democrats agreed to have Hunter Biden testify, then they would say they need joe Biden too. Then they would say they need someone else random and equally as irrelevant. It would be funny as hell to see the Democrats say "yes" though just to see the bullshit reasons Cruz et al. come up with for not actually doing it.
Prime example of the aboveJust sharing for relevance
What is something that needs to be said?
Elizabeth Grey, Writes About Politics (2016-present)
We have got to stop celebrating ignorance.
I used to study acting with the late, great William Hickey.
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You might have seen him in Prizzi’s Honor as Don Corrado (he was nominated for an Academy Award).
Or as Uncle Lewis in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
When Bill would critique a scene in class, he’d tell a story, or parable, about a situation in life to bring the actor closer to what was really going on in the scene.
He was full of fascinating stories.
He told one once that has stuck with me since. I don’t remember the scene, but I’ve never forgotten the story. It’s definitely hearsay; whether it happened word for word I can’t know. But I do love the point.
When Bella Abzug was campaigning for Congress, she went down to Little Italy in NYC to give a stump speech.
While she was speaking, she started to get heckled. Some men in the neighborhood were yelling at her that she should shut up, and she was a “fat Jew”.
She finally stopped and said this:
You know what, you’re right. I am fat and I am a Jew. But when I get to Congress I’m going to take care of you. Because you are too dumb to do it yourselves.
And then, the men started cheering her.
My favorite part of this is that she got them on her side. They cheered her for telling the truth.
They also were smart enough to know that Bella knew more about how to take care of them than they did.
There’s no way for all of us to know everything about everything. But somehow, we live in a society where all opinion is treated equally.
I find that nuts.
I don’t know the exact moment we turned a corner in our country, but through the years we’ve gone from that story, to somehow believing that equality means all opinions are equal.
They are not.
And instead of doing what Bella did—telling her constituents the truth—politicians placate the ignorant. They try to trick us into thinking our idiotic opinions, with absolutely no basis in fact, matter as much as well researched, evidence based ones.
In a country of this size, we are never all going to agree. What politicians have capitalized on is turning us against each other.
In the past, the other side meant another country; an enemy of democracy. Now, those words refer to opposing political parties in the United States.
Politicians aren’t taking care of us; they are taking care of themselves. Because the more divided its citizens, the more political capital our leaders have.
Many people believe that the free press—organizations that employ educated journalists who adhere to standard practices—is fake news. And, that people with uninformed opinions, or opinions poisoned by organizations with no journalistic standards, are just as valid as well researched ones.
They are not.
And while we are busy fighting amongst ourselves, some politicians are pushing agendas that keep themselves rich and powerful, at the ignorants’ expense.
We have got to start respecting education and ethical journalism again.
There are people who might be experts in their field. It doesn’t mean they’ve got enough expertise to lead the city, or the state, or the federal government.
The best example I can think of is the climate crisis. Global warming is affected by how we humans treat the environment. That is a fact. Here’s what NASA says about it.
Climate Change Evidence: How Do We Know?
The current warming trend is extremely likely human-induced and proceeding at an unprecedented rate in the past ...
Yet there are politicians who’d like you to believe that it’s the brainchild of “the elite”.
People need to start asking themselves why they are being placated by politicians. What’s in it for them, to tell you climate change isn’t real?
Now. Of course there are people who haven’t graduated high school that are more informed than someone with a college degree. Why? Because they read. Because they take responsibility for their own breadth of knowledge.
There are people with doctorates who refuse to educate themselves; who only read from one or two sources, and choose those based on their own opinion.
And there are people who are experts in their field.
I am not a scientist. What I think might be causing global warming is irrelevant.
My point is this: opinion is not fact. If someone is telling you something, it’s important to get their source. From where does their statement originate?
The most important work I did on this issue started in 2016. I was hearing info about my preferred candidate that was alarming. I wanted to find the truth.
I started reading about the issue. And then I took the time to investigate the sources. If I read an article, I’d research whether or not the organization had a partisan slant. I used a variety of sources, and I knew which ones were trying to convince me for their own reasons.
It was painstaking work.
However, because I took the time, I could establish that what I had heard—repeatedly—was a lie. My candidate was getting smeared by organizations with their own agendas.
I could then make an informed decision.
Ignorance isn’t something to celebrate. I wish we would take greater responsibility for our opinions.
Because compromising based on facts is hard enough.
Compromising when facts and innuendo and bad journalism and uninformed opinion are at play is impossible.
EDIT: Huge oops. I left out our lived experience.
I can never tell you what it’s like to be a person of color living in this country. My opinion? Who cares. I get educated by listening, not opining.
Likewise: Men cannot tell me how I should live and breathe as a woman in this nation. They’d be advised to listen to the women in their lives for that information.
This is something that needs its own essay, but didn’t want to leave it out. EG
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