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One might hope that the FBI was targeting Trump, otherwise one might conclude that any and everyone might be targeted by the FBI in order to further prosecution. Changing emails does seem a bit unlawful. I was alive during the end of J. Edgar and hope we never endure that again. Best regards, RA1

And, it begins. What do you think will be the end result? Should be the end result? How will this effect his base? The Democratic base?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2019/12/03/impeachment-history-watergate-adam-schiff-074844

Justin Trudeau Is ‘Two-Faced,’ Trump Says of Comments Caught on Video Again, SAY WHAT? How much more painful, hurtful laughing can we take? Pot meet Kettle. Trump is SO oblivious to the asshole he is. Trump re-defines two-faced, but he's too lame to see his own idiocy. In the face of dealing with a character like Trump, what human being would succeed without having two or more faces? Please, can someone answer this question for me?

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bill-maher-no-tears-david-173431059.html

Harvard and Yale students disrupt football game for fossil fuel protest Students began campaigning in 2012 for both universities to stop investing in oil and gas companies that contribute to climate crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/23/harvard-yale-football-game-protest-fossil-fuels

I just had to post this. It is toward the end of a serious but uninteresting article about which Presidential candidates might in fact be running for Veep. When I got to the part about Beto, I just could not stop laughing my ass off. Sorry to all you Beto fans out there. But it is wicked funny. VEEPSTAKES 2020: WHICH DEMOCRATS ARE SECRETLY RUNNING FOR SECOND PLACE?

The Jay Treaty. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eOR9RfvdmbA

US budget deficit smashes $1 trillion mark, highest in 7 years Wow! That's harsh. We better get an update from Rush. I bet he's steaming that we are back to $1 trillion deficits - even though the economy under Trump is "perfect" and growing like never before in human history! What do you make of this Rush? Rush Limbaugh admits GOP's fiscal attacks on Obama were "bogus," defends Trump's deficit Death of the deficit hawks: "Nobody is a fiscal conservative anymore," says host who drove the Tea Party uprising

Idiot. Yet again. How Trump gabbed too much about the ISIS raid https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/27/trump-isis-raid-baghdadi-059333

Elizabeth Warren's rising popularity has been limited to Democrats These trend lines are pretty clear. What do other people think. Can Warren seal the deal? In the Democratic primary, the one huge problem she still faces is the Black vote. There's a brand new poll out on South Carolina. Biden is leading - no surprise. And Warren's Black support is still in the single digits. That said, if she hits home runs in the three states before South Carolina, history suggests it's likely to turn into a grand slam. (In South Carolina, Warren and Biden are now tied among Whites. So the Black vote pretty much is the last big domino that may or may not fall for her.…

'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics https://www.yahoo.com/news/threat-democracy-william-barrs-speech-060051908.html

The President of the United States called attention yesterday to a right-wing preacher's warnings that civil war would be at hand should the President be impeached. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-civil-war-impeachment-violence-removed-from-office_n_5d916a88e4b0019647aaa42d

There's some interesting and somewhat contradictory data just out from the US census. I'm actually not sure what to make of it. That said, it proves that the US economy is a complex thing. And also that if we want to really shift things, like income inequality, we really should be thinking about "big structural change". Let's start with the most common headline: Census: US inequality grew, including in heartland states That's the factoid that got the most coverage. Median incomes went up slightly less than one percent, from $61,423 per household in 2017 to $61,937 in 2018. The Gini Index went up from 0.482 to 0.485, meaning more income inequality. Th…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=llctqNJr2IU

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/01/greta-thunberg-teenage-girls-donald-trump-opinion

I just laughed my ass off when I read this article. What Is CrowdStrike and Why Is Donald Trump Blabbering About It to Ukraine

So what do people think about the idea that we are now definitely headed into an "impeachment inquiry"? Will it help the Democrats? Hurt the Democrats? Neither? Or is it too early to tell? A PLAN TO WIN THE IMPEACHMENT FIGHT That's the best article I have read about the political logic of impeachment. In fact, it might be more accurate to word it this way: of the dozens (if not hundreds) or articles I've read on impeachment, this is about the only article I've read that really makes sense to me. The article was written this May, and is now being republished in light of what just happened. So it does not include Ukraine. But that doesn't really m…

Oh those were the glory hole days! Remember David pecker? The long and exhaustive road we have all traveled have now, finally, brought us all to this: https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1177356942672613376?s=21

This is a really fascinating series of articles. (And it's also even more long-winded and detail-oriented than me!) Arguably, it solves the problem of what happens if we elect a Democratic President, and we end up with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The Day One Agenda This kind of policy and political strategy would be tailor made for a President Warren in particular. One of the reasons I like her is she has the biggest Rolodex in Washington. And it works two ways - up and down. She can and does go up to the ivory towers and talk to the legal eagles and policy experts and ask, "How does this work in theory?" And she can and does go down to t…

You must choose one person that is currently running as President but the running mate can be anyone realistic. I'll start it off.....My choice is Biden and Stacey Abrams.

I just have what I think is a pretty simple legal question for you legal eagle type guys out there. I'm about 90 % sure I will vote for Elizabeth Warren for President in the CA Democratic primary. Is there a way I can do that and still vote for Chasten Buttigieg for First Lady? Chasten Buttigieg goes from opening act to fundraising star

Why Are Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Scared to Talk About Sex Work? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/why-bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-183401874.html