It's High Crimes and Misdemeanours Time! Trump thread no. 95

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I thought it was about time I started a thread so here it is! Mueller time tomorrow...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/21/mueller-report-trump-nadler-impeachment

Ouch.

I don't quite understand abut the voting machines.

According to Time in April 2016
time.com/4305508/paper-ballot-history/

"Only five states (Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, South Carolina) have paper-free voting and some states (Colorado, Oregon, and Washington) send all constituents a paper ballot in the mail."

Why are machines needed, if so many states don't use them or don't use them exclusively? Living in England I had got the impression that the USA used nothing but computerised voting, but that article says I was completely wrong.

It's not just the potential for hacking an electronic voting machine and changing someone's vote though. Where I live our paper ballots (ballots are the same if you vote in person or absentee) are 'fill in the bubble' ballots that are then counted by machine. So that would be where the potential hacking comes in, in the counting machine system. But at least with the paper ballots a hand recount could be done if there are suspicions about the electronic results.

And as far as I'm concerned McConnell's quash of the voting machine bills has nothing to do with them being 'partisan' or because he's butt-buddies with the machine lobby. It's purely because he knows that any hacking done will benefit Scrotus, and by extension the GOP. If he felt for one milli-second that hacking would benefit the Dems, he'd be fast-tracking those bills so fast your head would spin!

Yes, leave no traces.

edition.cnn.com/2019/07/26/politics/georgia-election-voting-evidence-destroyed/index.html

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-are-african-americans-we-are-patriots-and-we-refuse-to-sit-idly-by/2019/07/26/c02ade6c-af16-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html?utm_term=.f3039e44aa2f

Oh.

Just watching the embedded video...........

I've not seen this before.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/27/jeffrey-epstein-2008-documents-secret

35% think Trump was exonerated.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/26/francisco-galicia-us-mexico-immigration-border

'A mother and her American-born teenage son are suing two US government agencies and speaking out over the inhumane conditions they said he endured while taken into border custody for more than three weeks.

Francisco Galicia, 18, from Edinburg, Texas, was released from detention earlier this week after an ordeal in which he said he lost 26 pounds, was kept in a crowded space with 60 others and, for 23 days, wasn’t allowed to call his family or a lawyer, brush his teeth, or get access to a toilet, shower or bed.'

A snippet from the Baltimore Sun.

Thanks for that Lion, the Baltimore Sun is not available in Europe. And now the Washington Post won't work in private browsing!

I've just been watching a clip of the pro democracy protests in Russia (people are protesting against opposition candidates not being allowed to stand). 1,100 protestors arrested, the government is trying to assert control with repression and violence.by the Police. Similar in Hong Kong.
Scary times.

Meanwhile, they're stamping down on food stamp availability. It could affect 3 million people.
Little by little...

apnews.com/f6de66f4f4894fa688ef5919c646cb29

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/28/baltimore-sun-cnn-trump-cummings-racist-attack

For interest.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-white-working-class-women-are-starting-to-turn-on-trump

I'm not sure that I agree with the Beast's analysis. I reckon they're just bored by 45.

'Conventional wisdom would dictate that the president might have some issues attracting women voters he wasn’t related to.'

The Director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, has been fired by tweet.

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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I am pleased to announce that highly respected Congressman John Ratcliffe of Texas will be nominated by me to be the Director of National Intelligence. A former U.S. Attorney, John will lead and inspire greatness for the Country he loves. Dan Coats, the current Director,
will....

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
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....be leaving office on August 15th. I would like to thank Dan for his great service to our Country. The Acting Director will be named shortly.

I think and hope DC made preparations for just such a turn of events.

www.axios.com/john-ratcliffe-dan-coats-director-national-intelligence-d58052fb-09c1-4351-b64e-d784d53f4c28.html

www.politico.com/story/2019/07/28/democrats-trump-impeachment-1438519

'Four more rank-and-file Democrats called for opening an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Sunday, inching lawmakers closer to a significant symbolic milestone: a majority of all House Democrats.

Though the steadily climbing total may not move Speaker Nancy Pelosi off of her resistance to opening a formal impeachment inquiry, Sunday’s burst of support suggests momentum behind the effort is growing and accelerating. More than a dozen Democrats — including Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), a member of Pelosi’s leadership team — have newly signaled their support since former special counsel Robert Mueller testified to Congress on Wednesday.'

Another one bites the dust (Coats) and is replaced by an arse kisser who pressed on Mueller.

"He said he will nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, to the post and that he will name an acting official in the coming days. Ratcliffe is a frequent Trump defender who fiercely questioned former special counsel Robert Mueller last week during a House Judiciary Committee hearing."

apnews.com/6ad59c9104dc425bba166de4b9723612

He was so obviously there to audition for this role.

Speaking of security head, has anyone watched the last series of Berlin Station? I thought they did a great job of showing how unreliable this Administration is without making it too specific or naming El Presidente.

I didn't see that.